skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, by why are they speculating about the crimes that Snowden and Greenwald may have committed rather than the crimes that members of the Establishment may have committed? They could just as well fill that time with wild speculation about what people with access to the data could be doing with it. In fact, that would be even more entertaining and given the bipartisan disdain for these secrete laws among the proletariat, it would likely improve ratings even more.

In fact, normally that is what they fill their time with. MSNBC speculates wildly about members of the GOP while Fox speculates wildly about members of the Democratic party. Why is this case different? What should that difference tell us?
JS1k floats around March-April.
> It will change your workflow for the better.

...and the only detail you'll be missing is a good editor. But XDebug works with vim, too. :)
This reminds me of the Streetlight Effect, also known as observational bias. [1]

I just find the whole situation quite disappointing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
I think the dual license model would have some revenue, because businesses are willing to pay money to make money.

I say this as someone who paid for an open source developer to enhance a project.
Canto: An RSS/Atom newsreader that sucks less.
Unfortunately, that's the necessary hack, as far as I know, if you want to have an ajax submission.
Meet BananaBread, an in-browser 3D FPS in ASM.js
As a Clojure noob I can see 'map' and quite a few other functional things seeming seeming like magic to programmers who aren't used to the paradigm. Until you get used to thinking that way and using the tools, they seem a lot less intuitive.
Not entirely true. Growth can be exponential, but the growing phase might be very long. Meaning that some business need money, grow steadily for several years and then go stratospheric.
This would in many ways seem to suggest a less urgent need to upgrade from 3 to 4 than there was from 2 to 3 though. It seems like a major focus of 4 was speeding up client/server interactions. If that's not a major concern, I don't necessarily think it's something to lose sleep over in the near term.

I'm in the same boat (having been building on Rails 3 for a good while) and for now I'm going to stay put. People who are more knowledgeable about the specific updates please correct me if my assumptions are off-base.
Do you have any HAPPY customers? Talk to them. DAILY.

Why are they happy with you? ASK them and then shut up and write down why.

Take a step back. What do you need to achieve break even NOW and next month? Who do you need to let go? Who do you need to keep?
You and the grandparent apparently still haven't fully grasped what being a backer means: it means you gave those people a gift of $XX to spend on the project, because you think it is cool and hope that they manage to finish it.

You should fully expect to be worse off than the people buying the finished product.
An organization with government weight to throw around can get access to a lot of things. That does not imply competence. Both very competent and very incompetent organizations are capable of making a database 'accessible via desktop' and are capable of working without oversight. Your comment makes no sense.
I click these links with a "what can I hate today" attitude (I know I know, but there's so many bad implementations of bad ideas), but I'm surprisingly fond of this. I could actually see myself using it. If not just because it feels very modern and looks great.

I do agree with the hover comment made by RossH though. I found myself having to put my cursor in a "crack" while I scrolled down. Perhaps put the votes on the bottom half of the tile instead of over the image?
I think it is an acceptable question. The size of the file is irrelevant and in my opinion a logical thinker should be able to decipher what is useful and irrelevant information in a given scenario.
It's extremely common for us builders to spend all our time building something cool and then thinking, hrm, I wonder if anyone would pay for this? That's why I like the advice to do a business analysis first: think out the monetary plan, validate whether people would buy, etc, before writing the code - I totally learned this the hard way.

That said, it's never a bad time to start looking at marketing.

For metrics, you may want to look at web stats, such as traffic levels and sources, to help with your marketing/funnel, and customer stats: which features are used, which are not used, which are started but not completed, etc. This can guide development focus.

One fun metrics idea is, find which feature seems most correlated with whether a user becomes a long-term subscriber. Then tweak your tutorial/tour/FAQ/etc with the goal of getting every user to successfully complete that task.
Putin: Russia can't turn over Snowden
The Rails 3 Way was the book that cracked it for me. Hartl's tutorial is a great start, but Obie's was the book that actually hit the 'why' on the head.
It's in the border. In theory can be terraformed.
Why would you need a lot of funds?

(Honest question, I want to know).
Supreme Court strikes down the heart of the voting rights act
So, if you're a death-dealing junta, you can always soften criticism by advancing a completely contrary lie?

Actually, probably yes. Almost always.

But again, Kylekramer was suggesting it seemed odd for these two contradictory portrayals of the NSA to exist. I was just suggesting that there was no real contradiction, because people can tend to resort to extremes to advance their point.
Well, even phone calls are weird.

The Supreme Court said that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy while using the phone, and that therefore the 4th Amendment applied. Part of the reason people had that expectation was that Congress had introduced much stronger regulation of telephone circuits in 1934 so it wasn't like just anybody was allowed to tap into utility lines.

However the only protection is the expectation of privacy, which Congress can take away by saying "you should not expect communications to be private in these situations". And that's exactly what they did in 1968 in response to those Supreme Court decisions.

One important provision of that law were that the President was allowed to take "such measures as he deems necessary:"

to protect the nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power, to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States or to protect national security information against foreign intelligence activities.

EMails have less expectation of privacy, though Congress did try with ECPA (which was passed when POP was the way to obtain email, not IMAP). But even ECPA gives broad exceptions for FISA surveillance.
Cool stuff, but this is a repost.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=neverw...
I wanted a laptop sticker of the go mascot. Since I couldn't find any on the web, I made this.
Clojure is already successful. Not Java or C++ successful, but successful enough that there's a decent eco-system around it.

As for the reasons I use it, it has great development tools, a good amount of libraries, Java interop (a big one), and it's just a well designed language.
What ways have you tried to find a co-founder?

Not trying to be snarky, I honestly want to know.
Sinatra Best Practices: Part One
How is it not obvious that Snowden has committed several serious Federal crimes? I mean, he's more or less admitted to them on camera. Is there no classified information on the laptops he took with him to Hong Kong?
Most of us only had BBS, if we were lucky, so hype levels were kept very low.
I'm not sure the business rates. According to what I can find, as an individual, I could buy one of these from the US and only be liable for the 20% VAT I've already accounted for, as the electronics->consoles category seems to be exempt from any duty.

I'm not sure if this is true for businesses, finding that info seems to be non-trivial.

--edit-- So far as I can tell (from gov.uk)

"The commodity code for importing is 9504500000.

Importing from outside the EU is subject to a third country duty of 0.00 %."
Looks like it depends how you define "habitable zone" - it seems that if you are conservative about it (i.e. Earth sized planets remaining habitable) then Mars is actually outside of that zone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone
Thanks for the heads-up :)

If it still doesn't work then email me at info@howtofindsaasideas.com
Might be hard to do in JS; http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emu... apparently uses OpenGL to get its phosphor effects.
Ideally, encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random.

I agree, this may not be true in practice.

[Presumably, NSA is not collecting all sources of random data?]
Alternative parties are disregarded because two major parties is the only stable state for the way our votes are counted. Without runoff elections or other ways of allowing people to express more complicated opinions, third parties simply cannot get traction. Many of us have complex political views but end up voting for a major party because that's what the system pretty much requires.

Certainly there's a lot of binary thinking in the US, but I don't think we're unique this way. An inability to handle subtlety is endemic to humanity as a whole.
It's also on GitHub:

https://github.com/themoken/canto-next
https://github.com/themoken/canto-curses
It sounds like you waited a little too long before trying to arrange a soft landing, so now you're probably going to have a hard landing.

In this situation, I would tell your investors immediately that their investment is going to zero if you can't manage to sell the company for the value of the team - and that in order to even try to sell the company for the value of the team you're going to need a bridge loan, because otherwise the team is going to evaporate.

If you can get a month's worth of bridge, get all your investors to start looking for a home for the team and concentrate solely on that. If you can't, tell the employees to start job hunting and use the small amount of money you've got left to wind things down gracefully and sanely. Winding things down on your own without the help of a lawyer is a pain in the ass, and lawyers cost money.
So you'd be interested in various tactics for testing if an idea is potentially profitable before you start developing?
As noted, this is a false dichotomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma. Human actions are a complex and spectral subject and cannot be binarized. We are completely eating out of the hands of media on this issue (not commenting on the integrity of the New Yorker - just in general).

Though I agree that Snowden's affairs are an issue warranting discussion, media outlets are rapidly (and perhaps vapidly) distancing themselves from the core issue of the huge fucking datacenter in Utah SLURPING UP EVERY BIT OF DATA IT CAN TOUCH. There are so many other facets of this conversation that can generate pageviews for journalists that don't have to do with following some dude's plane flights across the planet and obvious bureaucratic troubles.

Where is the discourse on the history of similar surveillance states? Where are the people working to decipher the architecture of PRISM, the datacenter, and its complete capabilities (I'm assuming they're waiting on Snowden to tell them)? Where are the journalists that went to the ends of the earth to speculate on the political connections and underpinnings of our previous, numerous, dubious national actions?

I hope this doesn't become another oil spill and drop out of peoples' minds. It's too important. I'm afraid most people don't care though, and will eat up the latest gossip rather than meaningful commentary. We should aspire to more.

[PHOTOS] Snowden orders ungarnished tuna sandwich, Gordon Ramsay comments
Yup! I'm in charge these days.

I've updated the first half of the book, though the forums say there's still a few typos and such that made it through so far. I'm working on the second half now.
I understand map.

Here's the code I was trying to understand.

https://github.com/nakkaya/net-eval/blob/master/src/net_eval...

I'm not sure I do even now. I mean, I kinda know what different symbols and functions do, but I couldn't write it myself.
I see your point about growth, but I disagree over the term bootstrap. I interpret bootstrap to be about external investment. Its possible to have a high-growth company (a "startup"), that receives no investment, or receives investment by the founders.

Mailchimp is a fantastic example. Bootstrapped with 9 figure revenues and crazy profits. http://www.quora.com/MailChimp/How-much-revenue-is-MailChimp...
Trying to download the latest Agile Web Dev w/Rails from PragProg and just get the error, "File is not ready yet". On two separate accounts.

Also, this post describes today's book release as the "final" version, but the PragProg changelog calls it Beta 4.0.
> You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority.

24-36m people is a vocal minority?
That's rather my point. I don't think they have done 'flat' right. Plus, what exactly is Apple-esque about the flat design in iOS7?
Any code we write today will be garbage in 10 years looking back. Depending on what you're measuring, you'll look back on did you build something useful, interesting or problem solving?
Not a valid test.

Two of the test cases destructively modify the list, while the first does not. Of course they will be slower.
A Million Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? A THOUSAND Dollars.
What's your financial goal? Lifestyle business?
The intention is for 4.0 to be as close to drop-in as reasonably possible, obviously, if you use some of the removed features, you'll need to add some gems to your gemfile. As is now normal with big Rails releases, 4.0 mostly deprecates, 4.1 will remove.

Nobody wanted a 2 -> 3 transition again.
Don't agree with 1&4, but 2&3 are subsets of a feature of the Clojure landscape: the guys behind Clojure aren't laser focused on driving adoption like, for instance, Scala is.
Indeed, some of them don't really like the idea of a "Clojure Community".
http://stuartsierra.com/2013/01/16/the-reluctant-dictator

On the other hand, there's an amazing focus on doing the right thing rather than throwing features at a wall, which I like immensely. Sadly, long lists of new features seems to drive adoption. :(
HN article that links to the original source, i.e. the eso.org website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5938824
maybe the public key should be called a lock.. lock and key makes sense to me
NSA and the Pandora’s box of surveillance
Many VC's may very well be primarily lucky, but that does not mean that the companies they put their money on are not more often than not in a position to grow faster with their investment. It's just that they are still also at high, and often substantially increased, risk of failing fast. Not least because an investment is often used to execute strategies that substantially increase the burn rate.
It addresses some of the issues with the php.net site though. The site which hosts all of the official docs. It must help a little bit.
This is an excuse.

The thing that made me think this way is that they claim everything's in order on their end, but they still only sent me the bare package, without the extra controler I've ordered. In a customer service ticket reply, they, however, claim they had to send the console without the extra controler in order to send at least something, and that I'll get the controler in a future shipment.

Bottom line - they can be pissed all they want. They still didn't deliver on their promises.
Scare tactics. They know they can't break encryption so they are threatening you with this. Encrypt away, it's better than not. They are going to keep the data forever anyway.
I've started one business and had options in two. In the end, one of those businesses (not the one I started) wound up paying me some lump sum. Presently I distrust futures of any kind; to put it simply, I am more interested in present-day pragmatism than greed.

I think the author comes from a similar line of thinking, as his tone seems to suggest. I'm not rich but I do fine. I'd recommend: do what you love; money comes and goes, someone with more flexible morals or risk affinity will certainly make more of it, but in the end you won't regret it.
> We learned a lesson that you can't rely on free services like Reader because they likely will eventually be shut down.

All Google services are likely to be shut down. Being paid or not doesn't seem to make nearly as big a difference as you seem to think; see my analysis of the topic: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
Thanks for your constructive input :)
What if we all start attaching files with random content to our e-mails? An extension could do this automatically. Can the output of "dd if=/dev/urandom of=unicorns.pgp bs=1 count=1024" be easily distinguished from a real pgp file? No one could ever decrypt these files.
Where can he go? The NSA leaker Edward Snowden can take refuge in many places
I know a couple of 3 person startups where one person was pretty much full-time dealing with the funding side. When you're small that's a huge cut away from people focusing on delivering product.

Both went under and said in retrospect the extra person would have been better applied building the product/marketing.
I think Rails 4.1 is when all current deprecations are being removed, which is going to be a bit hairy for people accustom to <= Rail 3.x finder syntax and ancient plugins that somehow manage to still work.

To the OP, I suggest you launch with 3.x and upgrade immediately after to 4 and start taking note of deprecations.
Hopefully with the option of showing the full article content from the feed.
Finding a (good) idea is challenging, but I feel there's lots of good advice (especially from some of HN's more prolific posters) on how to vet good ideas with some rigor.

I feel the bottleneck is in the validation phase. You can be brainstorming dozens of ideas, but to go anywhere with them, I feel you should research, talk to people, look at stats/trends, maybe build a brochure site/MVP and capture some leads, etc. These all take time, effort, (some) cost, and of course require the dreaded act of communicating with other human beings.

Idea work comes naturally to hackers, but communication doesn't. Plus, once you're considering communicate an idea to others, subconsciously you acknowledge that it might not be well-received or fail to take off. I believe that (in my case at least) this causes a big bottleneck. I'm always happy to ponder ideas, but seem to have less enthusiasm to do the legwork to validate them!
"It seems like Americans like to black-and-white every decision, binarize every election"

Probably more likely that people who hold a strong opinion either way tend to be the most vocal. People who haven't decided or don't have a strong opinion stay silent.

Then, as a result even those who don't voice an opinion or haven't formed one are likely to read the perhaps lopsided information presented and takes a side based on that.
How does Java compare to C or Fortran? And how much does it matter?

Ruby and Python are incredibly popular despite being incredibly slow. Clojure has decent enough performance, plus easy parallelism/concurrency...
I forget who first said this, but...

"I used to wonder when the cyberpunk future was going to get here. Then I realized we're living in it"
Have you looked at any existing find-an-idea courses like Dane Maxwell's The Foundation, Amy Hoy's 30x500, Ramit Sethi's Earn1k, etc?
This is just no way to live. If you find yourself doing this, you're either needlessly paranoid and worrying yourself into an early grave, or you're justifiably paranoid, and you should reconsider the choices you're making regarding employment.

Obviously we don't all have the option to bail at any time and find other work, but if this is the kind of culture you're seeing as normal, I feel very sorry for you.

Anyone in this position should -- for their own good -- at least attempt to take a longer view and see if they have options that don't involve constantly sleuthing to narrow down your job's expiration date. Unless you actually like living like this... in which case, hey, it takes all kinds. ;)
Bullshit. Literally everything you wrote is wrong (with the exception of Kickstarter != Amazon). And also judgemental in an extremely assholey condescending way.
Venus is right on the edge too. We don't have to be wrong by much for it to be habitable, in theory. One can imagine a world covered in clouds, but with a habitable surface, or some set of geological structures that go high enough to be cool enough to live on. Earth life might not like it there, but we've got extremophiles already here on Earth living in similar conditions.

Mars and Venus provide instructive examples on why being in the zone is merely one small prerequisite. We talk about it because it's just about the only characteristic of these planets we can see, not because it's the only important characteristic. Mars has too little atmosphere, among other problems, and Venus has way the hell (word chosen advisedly) too much.
If I have, say, a jinja2 template that only contains logic and outputs nothing, is it a template? I would say it is. By which reasoning, yes that php file is also a template. Even if you've got used to pretending it isn't.

Having said which, I'm confused by the lack of a closing ?>. Maybe PHP's parser lets you get away with that though.
Snowden in transit area in Russia.
If the weather currently there is similar to the last days in Düsseldorf, it will not be that much different from April. :)
This unfairly generalizes and vilifies early stage investors. There are plenty of proper, professional VC's who are sufficiently patient and not focused on faux success. Remember, a typical VC fund has a life of 7-10 years. That's plenty of time to develop a company properly and focus on the things which build REAL value.

Perhaps the devil is in the details here, but OP implies that he took accelerator/angel money -- that's potentially a very different thing than a professionally managed institutional investment.
NSA Rejection of Digital FOIA
> Apparently, the Reader users aren't worth that much.

How would Google know when it never tried to monetize them? (See above threads discussing this with quotes from people on the Reader team.)
"Maybe my indirect reading is biased by the most prominent cultural exports of the US, or their the most vocal representatives"...

Most of the cultural exports of the US are driven by economics, i.e. what can sell to worldwide audience.

Having lived in the US and traveled extensively throughout the world, it is my opinion that the average people in most countries are much more similar than different. People are people. The people in power may have slightly different agendas and by pushing slightly different things, but that doesn't fundamentally affect the citizenry.
Why should anyone choose to use Apptimize over a free open-source alternative?
What really blows me away is the people who say that Snowden's motivations must be selfish, because he hasn't turned himself in the way a whistleblower ought to. He's not looking out for the American public, they say, he's just looking out for himself.

It makes no sense. If he was looking out for himself, why would he do anything but keep his high-paid contract with the NSA and go to work like the rest of us? It's a much better life than hopping the world trying to stay one step ahead of the US Government, where the best possible outcome involves accepting political asylum and eventual obscurity in a foreign country.

Yet this is an actual thing that real people getting lots of media time have said in a serious manner.

It's obvious that there is simply no thought involved in this whole business, not at the top, not at the bottom, not anywhere in between. The reactions are purely emotional.
Maybe post them on Firespotting.com then, clear out the gunk from your psychic RAM :)