skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have, but the fundamental limitation of sequential req/rep on a connection with HTTP pushed me to find alternatives.

Do you have any recommendations for decent HTTP clients?
I'd have no trouble taking money from friends who have been around the startup block a couple times. These people don't need me to protect them from themselves. Asking directly seems tacky, but they'd know I was looking (some I'd be going to for help finding investors!), and if they expressed interest, that'd be fine.

Family I'm more iffy on, but that may only be because I don't really have a bunch of relatives who are both financially secure enough and sophisticated enough to understand what they're doing. In fact, I can only think of an aunt and uncle who I might consider taking money from, but even that I'm not so sure about.

It's really about whether they fundamentally grasp business, investment, and risk. And if they can't distinguish business and personal relationships, I don't think they're sophisticated enough to be investing in a startup to begin with.
Pre-computer, pre-plastic industrial interfaces generally look beautiful. You can see actual graphic design that went in.

See for example
http://www.tema.ru/travel/dubna.2009/
near the bottom of page.
You are right, the stapler survived.
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I'm also not quite as optimistic as the parent. However, I do wonder if legislators will step in at some point. Both the gambling and weapon industries, to which this has been compared below, are being regulated. Well, in Europe at least. Just anecdotal evidence, but there seem to be very few weapon owners or people with gambling problems here in Germany.

Edit: Just noticed this comment below, it's already being regulated in Germany: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088903
Sorry, I thought my answer was more self-explicit than it is. I just thought a lot of people would simulate a high number of "likes" on their articles for added credibility or whatever ("hey 3000 likes on this little button, a lot of people must think this guy is important")
Oh, I could tell you stories... We once had an entire PALLET full of brand-new iPads delivered to our department. Only we never ordered them, they were meant for a different department. Only the other department never claimed them, and procurement never picked them up. Not even after numerous phone calls. If it weren't for a coworker who hand-delivered them to the other deparment (they were kind of sitting in the way), they'd probably still sitting there...

What bothers me is that this was a large hospital. The amount of moneywasting I've seen is mindboggling. Nurses get laid off due to budget cuts, the quality of health care declines, but you still see this kind of shit happening.
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Thank you. That was pretty much my thinking too.

I understand the technology (just can't create it myself) and I've been balancing Business Requirements and User Needs for years so have that covered.

And while our idea/implementation might be easy to copy (in fact it's already been done by others in different markets) our data is proprietary and unique. And that is our real value differentiator.

The tech directors role as I saw it was to oversee the product from a technical perspective. Choose the technology, hire and manage the development team etc.
This implies that there is a startup idea the person could be working on instead which would be within their reach.

There always is. If you think there isn't, you need to learn to hustle. Not every business idea has to involve 18 months of dev time before you see any revenues. I'd argue that if you can't cover your cost of living yourself, then you definitely shouldn't be doing the kind of startup that doesn't generate revenues from day one.
I heard of an example where an employee was paid for 6+ years without them showing up. The employee was forgotten or something during some restructuring. The only reason this was discovered is because the employee complained towards HR about not receiving a salary increase. HR then tried to contact the manager, couldn't find one, etc.
> The aim went from something fairly specific, like lets bring Goldman Sachs to justice for starters, the other major investment banks and the Federal Reserve ... to "let's get those one percenters!". Yeah, let's bring the dentists of the world to justice for their role in the housing crisis.

Don't attribute to malice, stupidity. Dissolution of purpose is just what tends to happen when a movement gets popular as a fad for people to join--people who are there just to be cool, and to maybe be told what to do and help a tiny little bit--but with no particular greater goals in mind. You can't get people on-board with a specific purpose they don't care for, but maybe if you tell them some vague agreeable bullshit, they'll join. Guess what? Now all your movement is there for is vague agreeable bullshit.

It was particularly bad with Occupy because the core members had a weird fetish for allowing the movement to be steered democratically--and so they basically asked what all the people who didn't care all that much wanted to do, took an average, and did nothing.
Seeing that the 'Like' action is triggered with 'LikeBtn.vote(1, 0)', Python and Splinter/Mechanize/Selenium will get you a working 'Like' script in a minute or two. But hey, that's just a trade-off with anonymous features like this.
Nice idea, but who is behind this? What company, team or person?
SEO is dead. Long live social media optimisation
This kind of thing does indeed happen with alarming frequency. I used to work for a transport consultancy and we had a lot of jetsam left over from when that particular transport industry was government-owned, and those guys... well, we never really knew what they did. They'd been with the company (and before then, the gov't) for decades but few knew what they did all day. They worked 9-5 and seemingly had their fingers in lots of pies, but nobody could quite tell what it was they did; occasionally they'd chime in in meetings or get drafted by managers to do stuff as they were "Subject Matter Experts" but ultimately they reported to nobody in particular, and had no real clout or job function beyond looking busy and massaging excel spreadsheets.

One guy in particular had a "birthday cake club" that he managed with ruthless efficiency; if you were a new starter you had to tell him your birthdate and he would allocate you a date where you'd bring in cake for everyone else in the office. He had a spreadsheet and everything. When it was somebody's turn to give away cake he'd go into each wing of our office and announce that cakes were ready, then bolt back to the kitchen to have first dips. Very strange guy - nobody knew what he really did beside that.

One day he was gone -- early retirement -- and the cake club, and spreadsheet, left with him.
For something as simple as a like button, surely they could just include a unique image url wrapped in a link, and generate the image on demand to update numbers?

I do find this trend of including third party js on websites worrying. At present I've got twitter js for feeds on a few websites, and even that worries me, but it seems every website now wants me to include their js for a like button or any other service. It's simple for them to update, track users etc, and I see the attraction, but it's also incredibly dangerous if this practice proliferates. Soon we'll be including js for tens of sites, not all of which are perfectly secure, and if any one of them is hacked, it means you're serving malignant code on your domain to every user.

While js is sandboxed, it has full access to any data displayed or entered on a page, and can trigger silent transmission of that data to other servers. So by including the js you're trusting that website never to be hacked, and never to misuse your users' data. I'm waiting in trepidation for the big scandal when a large site with js served all over the web is hacked, and that js is used to silently record millions of logins and details over a few hours/days before it is discovered.
What exactly is misleading given there are several common algorithms used (cubic by Linux and compound by windows) and the gains are at least an aggregate 2x improvement on key performance metrics.

One thing I do see is that it hasn't yet been tested on real networks, only synthetic networks. It will be interesting to see if it provides real gains across the range of conditions, particularly in hyper optimized data centers.
I'd have no trouble taking money from friends who have been around the startup block a couple times. These people don't need me to protect them from themselves. Asking directly seems tacky, but they'd know I was looking (some I'd be going to for help finding investors!), and if they expressed interest, that'd be fine.

Those definitely fall into my latter category of "successful entrepreneurs". I agree that you can take investment from them - because they know what it's like to run a business!
"Changing the direction of composition makes no sense."

I also can't stand all these operators of the lens package.
It feels like reading Perl code.

The only annoying thing about all the other lens packages is
the need for hiding '.' from Prelude.
Idea to play with,

Hire random candidates, they may or may not have potential as the interview/hiring process is broken/exploited anyway, then do this to them, break their spirits, make them believe corporate world is like this, they are serfs at the mercy of their company, stiffle their learning and desire to improve by not letting them to anything, not even browse randomly, give them donkey work to do.

Result is that potential competitors are denied a great candidate, they too get broken spirits and a weak workforce. But then, you take new hires and treat them good.

Evil but could work on local markets.
why? Google account is so universal. Who has a Mozilla persona?
So large companies should occasionally do a mark and sweep collection to account for bugs in the standard reference counting implementation. Particularly useful if the org chart allows cycles.
If you can't already cover your own living expenses for a while, go work for a decent salary for a year or two. You're probably early in your career, so you'll get valuable experience, and if you're single and frugal, should have more than enough in a savings account at the end to live for 3-6 months. And you can spend some nights and weekends developing your idea while you're at it[1].

[1] Well, assuming California. Other places there may be issues with moonlighting. Make sure you know local laws and read what you signed when you were hired.
+1 for Office Space. Or Dilbert, for that matter. I always thought they took a situation and exaggerate it to the absurd. Now I know that they were actually being conservative. Truth really is stranger than fiction...
Definitely using this - super helpful for quick prototypes, thanks.
Thanks for this. I'll check these out
Smartphones, ipads, web and apps for everyone!

Consume minglings!
That's a good point, and I'm sure Canonical will do that in the future, too, but then they'll only be able to tout Ubuntu Touch's features and apps, not of the "full Ubuntu". The full Ubuntu needs the kind of hardware the Edge will have to get decent performance when used in PC mode. If they made it low-end, they could only use Ubuntu Touch in there, and that suffers from the same problem as FF OS - no native apps, just web apps.

After they build this "halo" device, they will be able to get some apps for Ubuntu Touch, and then build low-end phones. Ubuntu Edge is for people who want both a smartphone and a "PC", all in one (if you already have an extra monitor).
Thanks so much for the words of encouragement!

On the JSON/GA point - thanks for the feedback. We are slowly but surely evolving from our GA-style API, e.g. with our tracker support for new Mixpanel-style unstructured events (though they are not - yet - supported in our ETL/storage):

https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/2-Specific-event-t...

We are moving our event model to be Avro-based later this year and then yes we may look at completing our existing tracker protocol with something more JSON-centric. So lots on the horizon!
> are more equal than others.

Was there ever any claim that "we are all equal" here or something like that?
this stuff is not hidden... and this 'leaked report' is a distraction from the even worse truth. its not hard to find figures from reputable sources if one goes looking, and in a large part of the world its common knowledge that this sort of thing is perpetrated by the US... :/
SSDs still seem to have a bunch of nasty failure cases. Right now, for production use I'm not sure I'd trust the things for reliable storage. As a fast cache for spinning rust? Definitely. As my only live copy, even duplicated in a RAID? Hmm.

Not even Intel SSDs are immune: One of the Debian developers has reported that the SSDs shipped in the latest Thinkpads die if you try and construct an encrypted filesystem on them. Somehow they corrupt themselves during the initial write of random data to the disk.

(Interesting that these SSDs died whilst under high write load too: is this a particular weak point for some reason?)
+1 for "The numbers are correct."

See, among numerous other places: http://www.gungho.co.jp/ir/uploads/irk20130509_2.pdf

If you don't understand what an audited financial statement written in Japanese says, that's cool, you can default to "Trust Patrick that Puzzle Dragons is a cultural phenomenon right now and that it is one of the first Japanese companies which has truly absorbed the spirit of Zynga with respect to monetization."
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YES! It's been a while, but you suddenly reminded me of a similar arrangement we had for fetching coffee. We also used an elaborate Excel spreadsheet that took into account how much coffee you drank, the percentage of part-time (old geezers get to work less hours for the same pay, so it's only fair that they get to fetch less coffee, right?), off-days, holidays, etcetera. I'm pretty sure it was the most used spreadsheet of the entire department.
I use upstart, but am not happy with it for a number of reasons. Two important ones: "restart" does not reread the configuration file and the DSL is poorly done (the "respawn" stanza and others).

I haven't looked recently at alternatives, but I'm open to it.
It not doors - its lots of corridors and corners that everyone somehow takes the same track on somehow. When you look around it there is nothing strange seeming. When you work there its a series of near misses, which is funny until there are 2 knocked out colleagues on the floor and blood all over the place. One became quite combative as well.
I have implemented Piwik widgets in my latest project for tracking visitors to personal pages. When you visit this page
http://reminderof.me/ruggero I see the insight on my dasbhboard.

IMHO Piwik is a valid open-source alternative to Google Analytics and will erode its application marketplace.
This is Jay. Arc macros are like define-syntax-rule macros in Racket. dsr is great for lots of things, but sometimes you need more power.

In any case, this post is really about what's going on in the pattern matching and macro template underbelly, and not really a recommendation for how to program macros.
Like ZFS, Btrfs will scrub the filesystem on request too. Worth considering.
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Problem is, the USA is geared towards those sorts of aggressive methods because of the huge military infrastructure. The solution is to constantly cut the budget and make that aspect less influential.
NVidia not playing well with others, trying to make it difficult for other vendors to implement supposedly standardised features. News at 11 ;)
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Points are a pretty bad approximation of 'value' though. My shortest and most mundane comments are always the ones that get the most upvotes, meanwhile my lengthier ones that actually lead to insightful discussions hardly get any. And I've seen that same complaint around here from other users for a while now. The only real 'solution' I could think of would be to use slashdot's odd voting system, but meh...
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I don't get why you need to complete at least one year of higher education. You need to prove that you are a college dropout?
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It's worth noting that those free certificates are for non-commercial use.

Their commercial certs are pretty good value if you need one.
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So how would one take advantage of these extra cores?
Are there any pre-compiled programs that do this already?
This is misleading. There is 2 types of OAuth2 "flow", sometimes called server-flow and client-flow. Server-flow is the mechanism where a callback is registered with the auth server, but all comms and the initial auth have to go through some other server, which is just being setup for you in this case.

Client-flow is the far more interesting flow, for me, anyway. There the browser client gets the token directly from the auth server, that really is serverless. The key advantages of client-flow are you don't need the immediate server (less cost for you) and you don't have to see the data if you're using a third-party storage (better security and privacy).

You do need to be careful with security issues around the auth token itself, in server-flow you store the token on the server and have the session bind you to that token. Stealing a session is harder than stealing a token.

I know of two implementations to date:

Google's Official JavaScript Client library [0]

Dropbox's Unofficial JavaScript library [1]

[0] https://code.google.com/p/google-api-javascript-client/

[1]https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js
I will explain why lisper's explanation of light speed is wrong. The fundamental problem is that it violates the premise of relativity and is a classic example of appealing to an absolute frame.

Velocities are only measured relative to other objects. The explanation given by lisper requires an absolute reference frame. Otherwise, you have no way to figure out how much you're actually moving through space, and thus, through time because you can never figure out your "true" speed.

Relativity tells me that no matter what speed I travel at, I will experience time at the same rate. From my frame of reference, I will perceive things to happen in other reference frames at different rates. When we calculate time dilation and length contraction, we're determining that if something took time "t_a" in Frame A, it will appear to have taken time "t_b" to an observer in Frame B.

Furthermore, it's impossible under relativity to have a frame of reference that moves at the speed of light in any other frame.
I really miss the days where I'd buy a complete game on release, rather than only getting half the experience.

Having just played through Mass Effect 2 and 3, I couldn't agree more with you. The singleplayer `DLCs' felt like bits of the game they'd deliberately chopped out so they could sell them to me later. Nothing in those add-ons was essential, but it all felt like stuff that would have been included in the game proper ten years ago.
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I tried to use android by buying a galaxy note before ICS and OpenGL rendering - it was awful. The same internals as the S2 with three times the pixels! I should have waited for the S3 for my experiment.
Everything you said could be applied to pay upfront games as well.

i.e:

"I don't believe this kind of "pay before you play" style games will last much longer. It's the kind of thing someone new to games will pay for, but after paying for a bit, those same people seem to 'wise up' eventually.

I think you'll see these kind of games slowly decreasing in profitability over the next 5 years. It's similar to many other forms of short term profit in which the value provided does not equal the amount paid - eventually the market will dry up as it becomes common knowledge."
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mindmapping is a good way to start planning. Try freemind or xmind
I'm using htop. Very easy but maybe not enough features for what you are looking for ?
Are all of these bootstrapped, or are some of them self-funded? If I start a company, and invest $300k of my own cash, is this bootstrapped or self-funded?
> Supported container types: [...] rand, which downloads a random image from Wikimedia;

I honestly don't see the point of that container type. How much useful is steganography if the original JPEG is publicly available for comparison? How could anyone ever plausibly deny that?

"You were emailing this image from Wikimedia, but made subtle modifications to the file. Can you explain this?" - "Umm ... I guess I downloaded it via a noisy internet connection." ?!
It is referenced here every so often: http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Interesting. Launched a new app recently, and it's been 15%. Guess it varies greatly depending on the demographics for your app, this app is mostly targeting US.
So, we do know this is fiction, yes? He was about to lose his job and happened to catch a VP having a five knuckle shuffle that same night. Interesting read, but untrue.
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Just as all hardware and all software RAID solutions as well.

Although, unlike btrfs, ZFS and a lot of other RAID solutions are considered safe for production use.

(while I'm a huge fan of btrfs I've already been waiting many years for it to become stable and the wait is far from over...)
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>When all your engines stop, the flight is over

Pedantic and off-topic as it is, this is incorrect. At least for airplanes.

When all your engines stop you continue to glide, and you can even manage to land succesfully with a little skill and luck.
I'd call that a characteristic of TCP, not an 'issue'.
This article is pretty awful, they are assuming that Monsanto is the buyer, they have no evidence.
It seems like the plot for a FPS, an evil transnational macrocorp is doing secret experiments on Genetic Engineering and unleashes a (zombi?) infection. Our hero has to fight not only the private army of the company but the horrid abominations created on their labs... oh, wait!
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>SSDs still seem to have a bunch of nasty failure cases. Right now, for production use I'm not sure I'd trust the things for reliable storage.

You should not trust anything for "reliable storage". That's what backups and redundant drives are for.
Been there. I think it's a pretty good indicator that it's time to leave...
Yeah, this isn't actually substantiated. Blackwater/Xe/Academi has been sold, but it's not clear to whom: http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/01/04/did-monstanto-finally-... . I'm not sure I find it more reassuring that we don't know who ultimately owns the company.
Ask HN: I am going to write a Django tutorial about ...
Hello. Django community is amazing and I really want to give back, because of all the help I received both online and offline, when I was younger. I would like to write a beginners tutorial on Django, but I can't think of any app idea, that won't be too complex for beginners. I don't want to write a tutorial about blog, todo list or poll applications as those are covered. I would be really happy if anyone can give me something to write about and of course you will get credit in the tutorial :).
Thanks in advance!
Although the fail characteristics and sizes of SSDs are not the same as conventional harddrives so you can't really make much out of that article in an SSD context.
nice read! I cannot understand, why the guy is happy with doing nothing...
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