skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to play devils advocate... if the NSA released what information they collect on me seeing that information might show more details on the manner that they collect the data. If more details on the manner that they collect data were to become public then the people the NSA should be targeting such as Al Queda and foreign countries might develop techniques to stop us from monitoring them.

The argument about we know it exists so tell us more because we already know its there really does not add up. I know that Obama's limo has some really cool protective measures, but you know very well that they won't tell me what they are or what they are not. Theres a reason for it.
It is? Does the flash based experience differ from the version I'm seeing on my iPad?
I've found open source so liberating that I couldn't even consider closing down my source ever! For a while, for me, it's been morally wrong to close source code or rely on sources that's not within your reach.

"why should I compromise my own ability to license this and make some money from it?"
It's the same reasons you don't do slaves anymore. This guy needs to figure out better business models because the ones she's trying to do are obsoleted.

Also it's not wonder that her Kickstarter failed, it sucked very hard. Big TL;DR with no marketting material that would motivate people to pick on it. Most of people who saw that thing probably had no idea what they could do with her project.
Epic movie reference. :)
As others have said, you can look through the normal menus - the HUD is an addition, not a replacement. You can also guess: e.g. in GIMP, if I want to crop an image, I can just hit Alt, 'crop' to see what's available.

In most applications, I don't use the HUD very often, but for editor applications with complex menus - like GIMP or Scribus, it's very useful, and it works well.
That seems needlessly snarky in response to some thoughts that are very clearly labeled as speculation.
It's not wrong though. Most people don't care about politics. They don't research economics or anything like that, at best they hear the news sometimes and discuss stuff with their friends.

That doesn't make them sub-human. There is no real incentive to care a lot about politics or do all the research and thinking necessary to come to correct conclusions. It's not like your vote is going to change the outcome of the election.

But no it's not terribly self-aggrandizing to assume that most people don't have a lot of interest or education in politics. It's true.
> This seems to largely be a non-story, actually.

Personally, I'm beginning to understand why Edward Snowden was ready to be tortured and die.
Help MiniGit: need opinion on syntax
How many people are doing this at once?

• We have a three person team.

Farming 100 leads by identifying possible companies and finding a good contact is about 10 hours of work for one person in my experience, if you are not working off of some sort of minimally qualified list.

• Yep! We are working off an extensive minimally qualified list.

Do you have 3+ people cranking on it?

• Correct again :)

Also, getting 23 answers out of a 100 calls sounds like a pipe dream unless you are calling very low into your target organizations. At a Director / VP Marketing level you'll be doing good to get 10 conversations in 100 calls.

• We haven't hit the hundred mark yet (as we just started this), but that looks like the number we are expecting. Maybe this is the "luck" part of startups? Over time, I see your point and it will make sense that the number evens out to a lower #
I downvoted you - it is not the self-promotion, but rather the fact that except for mentioning "Fred", this whole comment reads like an auto-generated message. For example, an ancedote about a similar open source project that failed on kickstarter and found success on IgnitionDeck would probably be better received.
Obese humans are nothing like a cow internally. Cows going to slaughter have between 19 and 26% body fat. Obesity in humans starts around 26% for men and the people-of-walmart you're imaging are 40-50% body fat. Cows are also herbivores and process food in a different way than humans.

This kind of bad logic is why people have such a hard time tracking calories to lose weight.
Just like the comment that Michael Hastings' car crash 'sounded like a bomb' resulted in all sorts of assumptions that the car exploded.
Yes there is a risk but it is very small, particularly for the sort of products that web developers build. This is why you should not do all singing all dancing PR launches too early, releases are different.

If you do a big PR launch too early at the very least you'll close down a channel (e.g. TechCrunch readers) at worst everyone in the web startup industry will have heard about you.

The most successful products have people that both love them and hate them, you can't make everyone happy and you will loose some customers to unfortunate experiences. Fortunately the if you've chosen a good market there are probably more customers than you can ever hope to find out about you.
shitheads?
I saw another image online, which compared the descent profiles of the past week of landings for the same flight. It showed that the July 6th landing was very close to the normal descent profile, and the July 5th landing was actually the outlier -- it had an unusually shallow glide slope.

Unfortunately I can't find the image right now, but perhaps someone else knows where it is and can provide it?
Sure, we can't, but if you open source it, you'll make strictly less money than if you hadn't (because if nobody was going to buy it, they aren't going to pay you money if you open source it anyway).

This is too simplified, as you can have other monetization models, but usually you don't open-source things if you want to charge for them.
What are Code Smells?
Last time I used it, I think it was Revision 11, it had issues with relationships and deletions, how is it holding up now? I'd love to give it another go!
Sorry to go offtopic here, but the images seem to be used without any credits. The first one was taken by David Eun (https://path.com/p/1lwrZb)
> Isn't there a risk that releasing a product too early
> could cause a negative first impression and by the time
> you have gotten around to improving it, everyone has
> lost interest?

Let's say that the per customer cost of your sales cycle doubles each time you engage that customer. This may not be a problem if:

* you have a large market, and there are plenty of new
potential customers.
* the cost of your sales cycle is really cheap, i.e.
low-touch, online sales.

So if you have a small market that's expensive to sell to, make sure you've got all the details worked out in advance.
This type of thing is well studied in e.g. the Stanford Prison Experiment. People's behavior is far more influenced by the environment and circumstances they are in than by their beliefs or opinions.
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No, of course it's not the America we want. It's the America we get though due to our longstanding apathy and inability to curb special interest groups and corporate control of politics. I think things will change though. Things have been pretty nice in the US for a while. We're now seeing the dark side of apathy and people are starting to care again (in my opinion). It had been pretty easy to shrug off politics as corrupt and not care when we still had relative normalcy. But a lot of Americans have awoken in recent weeks to find themselves living in a sci-fi dystopia that we were warned about in the classics of literature, the kind that had always been eerily similar to our lives but never quite reached. We're now in full on 1984 and Americans won't accept that, I guarantee it (we're the country that ended slavery and celebrate our roots as rebels: we shall overcome).
rdio works just fine in my part of Europe ;)
How is storing an API secret key in plaintext (in a database) secure?
A Bad Dream
I don't get pulled over often, but the last time that I got pulled over I told the officer that I believed I was going the speed limit. It's a subtle distinction, but it seemed to work as he had no other reason to pull me over and didn't write me a ticket.
Might also have something to do with having a large number of people with strongly held opinions.
We're posting and upvoting links to dailykos.com on HN now?

Flagged for linking to blogspam on a site filled with nonsense.

Is it that hard to click the "Originally published at" link? http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/07/06/nsa-rejecting-e...
Another user already posted this link. Here's tons of evidence and someone wondering why we've ignored that evidence for so long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4
I think a more relevant question is, "Do you have a realistic plan for how you're going to generate revenue from this software in the next year or two?" If the answer isn't, "yes", then your prospect of ever making money out of the software is probably just wishful thinking.

Even if the software represents a significant investment, it's frequently easier to create wealth than it is to capture the value of that wealth. One big realization of the open source movement was that even if you can't capture the value of your software by selling it under proprietary terms, you can still derive value from it via indirect reciprocity by releasing it under a FOSS license.
"The final bit of information is interesting. It shows a positive rate of climb – 120 feet per minute to be exact, which for a jet airliner, is very slow. For reference, at takeoff the vertical speed is most often +1500 feet per minute. Another interesting bit of information is the aircraft’s airspeed; 85 kts – for a Boeing 777 that is (and I’m guessing here) probably way below stall speed."

That is actually expected. It is called the flare just before touchdown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_flare
With the new technology (fingerprints, retina scans), it's very hard to pull that off I think.

Even spies today have problems with that; it's not enough to just put on fake moustache when you are easily identified by your fingerprints.
We get the government we deserve. If we haven't been doing our jobs and keeping the State in check by asserting our rights whenever the State tries to impose upon them, then this is what we get.

And we'll deserve it.
Pathogen is mentioned in the README
The Glomar Response is getting a little tiresome given that nearly everyone is now aware of the surveillance program.

WRT China, the NSA has had a listening post inside China, in cooperation with the Chinese, ever since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. While the missions are different, it should leave no doubts in the minds of the Chinese intelligence people as to the technical capabilities of the NSA. Between that and the fact that the Chinese are no slouches themselves in communications (their public communications infrastructure is vastly larger than in the US), or in spying on their citizens. I doubt the Chinese have much to learn from these press releases.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+hidden+wiki
What BigData can learn from Mobile Data
I'm curious as to why you would ask such a question. It reminds me of this book that I haven't read but might answer some of your interrogations : http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/11678
That's fair enough, I appreciate the feedback.

Ironically, I avoided a lengthier comment because I worried it would seem fake.
Not even Gary Taubes denies thermodynamics, and a link to a youtube video does not justify vitriol.
Has anybody had a difficult relationship with her parents? This, essentially, is what the dynamic is. Except the government is not actually parents and thus the guilt of hurting their children under the rationale of protecting them, though it exists, doesn't last very long. But the good thing is, their children will eventually forgive them too.
Why is Harlan called Harlan?
I think the conclusion of the article nails what's at the heart of the issue. Most of the country is either left or right, and is perfectly comfortable with paramilitarized police forces being used against 'the other side'.
I've been working on a an Angular app recently and have found your videos quite helpful. Thank you!
Use your own number on local rates when traveling with Roamer app
Don't want to show off, but it seemed quite readable to me, once you notice that the arrows have numbers..

It shows many interesting details (the only API command seems to be Patch. There are two sync phases on the client, one to determine what to send to the server, one to determine what to merge upon server response). I quite like diagrams :))
time.time() is a specific case, but let's say I had very_expensive_function_to_call() as a default value. I would want that function to be called once at parse time, and the value to be kept going forward, instead of calling the function each time.

Both ways have their advantages, python (and the python implementations) just fell one way instead of another.
> However, a tarball of shit is better than NOTHING.

bzzzt! Wrong!

Releasing stuff that is "close enough" as a product and have it succeed is wasting other people's lives as they struggle to fix your ball of mud and make it work better over time.

Better to wait and not waste other people's time.
I think hacker culture and freedom have always gone hand in hand. In bygone days hackers could claim apoliticalness in already "free" places which is also generally where they flourished. Now when they are realizing they are much less free than they thought they are seen/see themselves as "politicizing". But being a hacker always was a political statement, it used to just mesh more with the popular culture so they mistook themselves for being like everyone else, and having no agenda.
I always feel that the most difficult part of any project is its design, the implementation is rarely difficult. By design I mean both the conceptual design (data model, user flow), and user interface design. It takes a lot of time to come up with ideas how to tackle a problem. Then you implement them, realise it doesn't work, and start over with a different approach.

All this design work isn't necessary when you copy something. Someone else has already done the design work for you. You can lean back and say: "The solution is obvious." Then you only need to implement it. In my experience, the implementation always seems trivial in comparison to the design process.

But you are right, people who copy stuff often make poor copies. I think the problem is that they probably don't fully understand your design. They see how you solved something, but they don't understand why you solved it that way.

Finally, I don't think a rebuild is the same as a copy, because you generally only rebuild when something doesn't work. And then you actually need to put a lot of design work into the rebuild process -- that's why it's hard.
Judging by the chart on the site, it looks like each client polls the original model on the server, and infers changes by diffing it against the client's current copy.
Software is written scratch, while the products like the GameBoy are made from dozens of closed source components. Sharp owns the IP on the CPU. What could they open source in a GameBoy?
Yeah thankfully I never got that far with Marvell. We had their eval platform while also looking at the iMX (well, we just bought a Nitrogen from Boundary. Much easier).

The Marvell platform was just a trainwreck. Even simple questions were met with blank stares.
Got any links to expound on some of your notes?
Or would non-mathematicians just be better off starting from the beginning..
The classic way is:

def print_now(now=None):
now = now or time.time()
print now
Despite the sensationalist headline, the author knew exactly what he was doing. He basically did a paleo diet, and references a bunch of books that are popular in the community. Mark's Daily Apple features a success story like this every Friday: http://www.marksdailyapple.com.
indeed, which will take ~2 years
Anyone interested in this would immensely enjoy Meta Math! by Gregory Chaitin. Basically, he demonstrates that there are theorems which are randomly true: they're true for no particular reason. It's, of course, deeply connected with Gödel's work.

If anyone's working in this space, I'd love to chat with people familiar this stuff.

Edit: arXiv PDF preprint is at http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0404335.pdf
I had a quick scan, seems pretty readable, you can skip the maths if you can't follow it and still get a sense of the work from the written material.
EDIT: improve phrasing in a couple of places; link to a better blog post to make my point

I'll try to be less confrontational in this reply.

It seems to me that you're setting up this false dichotomy: either developers working on MVPs can ignore accessibility because 90% of people have no significant disability, or they can try in vain to make an MVP for 100% of people. Of course it makes sense that one can't do the latter; when developing software in general, but an MVP in particular, one has to pick and choose which categories of users to target. One has to choose which features to implement and which to leave out or save for later. But it still seems wrong to suggest that one can ignore a set of potential users who might be a good fit for the application in every way, but happen to have a disability through no choice of their own. To get an idea of the consequences when accessibility is ignored, check out this blog post:

http://blindaccessjournal.com/2005/02/opportunity-lost-to-te...

Maybe I'm just too close to this particular issue. after all, I'm visually impaired myself, and my boss and most of my coworkers are totally blind. Nonetheless, I believe that accessibility shouldn't be a nice-to-have feature, but something one just expects to be there, like security. A commenter on another sub-thread pointed out the absurdity of suggesting that a developer can ignore security even for a prototype. I think the same holds for accessibility. Browsers, toolkits, and frameworks can do a lot to make it more likely that an application will be accessible by default, but I think that as with security, some level of consideration from the application developer will always be necessary.

Agreed about "people with disabilities" being too broad a market to focus on. Too many different disabilities. Where I work, we focus on making our software maximally usable for blind people.
"weeks" ??
Damn... I remember when I had to choose between angularJs and other JS frameworks a few months ago. Reading your comment makes me feel really good with my choice.
Affordable Desalination
You can find the original via railsconf. The video is of Zach Briggs. Webapplog is merely linkjacking the content to try to sell stuff.
The bar for time tracking/project management and website construction applications is very high. Many are launched but most fall into obscurity. Why would I want to buy a rushed out the door project management app when I can use basecamp?

Web products is not really a homogeneous category either and spans everything from social networks to specialized applications for industry.
According to an interview with the CEO of Atlantis, a competitor to Silk Road, they have many vendors who sell fake identity documents.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fwi48/im_the_ceo_of_a...
I've never flown a B777 or any heavy aircraft so I can't comment on their typical flares, but in a Cessna 172 the flare doesn't induce a positive rate of climb, it simply slows the vertical descent speed to something manageable for touch down, a positive vertical speed seems counterintuitive to me as a good flare. What I want to know is what his IAS (indicated air-speed) at the decision altitude.

Again the only thing I've flown are parachutes and some hours in a C172 and a C182.
Good job Azer!
After reading the article, I got the impression that getting it ready for release would be a non-trivial amount of work, and it is that work she wants to be paid for, not the work done so far.
A goodbye letter to living alone
Very good work, well done.

Not as good as Guass though :)

Gauss' breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he was 19. He showed that any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime [p = 2^(2^n) + 1] (and, consequently, those polygons with any number of sides which is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2) can be constructed by compass and straightedge.
I certainly can't speak for the whole crowd but I would approach it like this:

"Rachel - if you'd still like to pursue crowdfunding for open sourcing Fred, email me at nathan@ignitiondeck.com - we'd love to feature you in a new series we are doing called Kickstarter Redemptions"
I don't think airframes have quite the strength to flip end over end from contact with the ground, even at landing speeds. I can grab this pen rom my desk and throw it on the carpet so it flips vertically end over end. A 777 airframe might do something halfway between that and crumbling as it bounces.
I have seen numerous instances of such products, but whether and why I personally did or did not copy them will only tell you about my nature and my temporary circumstances - it is not a proof of whether good products are more often copied.
Shifting Baselines Syndrome
I just don't think that there are enough developers yearning for yet-another-feed-reader, and one written in C++ of all things, to really support an open source project for it.

Much less one that is being held hostage by it's author.
If they are so easy to copy, why are well all using Instagram and Twitter and not one of the many copies?

There's more to a business than the code of its products.
KAPI: PHP  Silex based simple helper to generate RESTful APIs and applications.
Foreign America, coming to Homeland America.
UI Dojo
I just took a look at stringer and having recently set up tiny tiny rss wish I knew about this at the time, as fever support was something I really wanted. I'll take a look into it when I get a moment, but your post inspired me to create a /r/repos subreddit to post open source repositories worth checking out.
Your project doesn't have to be perfect or complete when you open source it. You just have to set your version number correctly somewhere between v0.0.0 - v1.0. Developers will still find it useful while they know it's not yet 1.0.
America's polarization is likely deliberately promoted by the elites. When a society is occupied by infighting over wedge issues it's not looking at the big picture and power can be more easily consolidated. In Rwanda, the colonialists arbitrarily split the population into Hutus and Tutsi "ethnicities" then showed favoritism to one group. They eventually got infighting which diverted energy from possible insurgence.
I'm actually working right now to try to put some kind of overlay over the images for credit situations. My blog is still a WIP. Sorry!
RSpec-Situations gem : Create and combine situations for cleaner specs.
The xkcd presents a straw man. Occasionally but rarely I have seen "false consciousness" and "you are not awake" type claims as presented in the comic being made on this board. However, these types of claims are rare in comparison to complaints about specific majority viewpoints that reveal a complete breakdown of abstract thinking or simply absurd thinking.

One of the strongest times I've ever been sympathetic to the "people are peasants" viewpoints was during my college years in Alabama. During that time Alabama finally voted on removing anti-miscegenation laws from its books. 3/4 of whites voted to keep them (the removal passing due only to a few whites like myself and the large voting block of blacks). The people were particularly vocal and they lacked critical thought.

If it's "ugly and self-aggrandizing" to assume that, for example, my post-doc advisor's parents should have been allowed to marry (and by extension him to exist) then I hope my ugliness runs straight to the bone and my arrogance knows no end.
Dirac went to FSU? Wha???