skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I know a company that would be interested, but I noticed something on the page: "Please consider giving a little extra if you are also requesting additional features." -> Does this mean you get to be a part of deciding features if you donate?
Thanks for posting this, I did post a link a bit earlier where a few people have been asking questions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058275
EC2 Origins
Woohoo, I out RethinkDB'd RethinkDB! :-D

Aside from that detail, this is a cool post. I like seeing the power of ReQL.
So your hypothesis is that accredited investors will throw around $10,000 with a a few mouse clicks? From what I've seen though, getting people who know what they're doing to invest in properties is a relationship business. There's a lot of trust that an investor has to put in a developer to execute right and with integrity when they invest with them and a flashy website might not be enough to get people to invest serious money.
Researching Science-Based Medicine Online
You would be surprised how many people in the field have never heard of Kaggle.
> Hooper says this is less than the fees an investor would pay to participate in a REIT, or real estate investment trust, where 15 percent might go toward fees before investing in the property.

It should be noted that he is almost certainly referring to non-traded REITs, which are very different beasts than publicly-traded REITs.

RealCrowd's FAQ states:

RealCrowd is fundamentally different from a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in that you are owning units of an LLC whose sole purpose is to own and operate one asset. Ownership of REIT shares are not physical ownership of real estate, more like a derivative of a real estate, since what you own is a piece of the company that owns real estate. Not only are you subject to the whims of that company, their strategy and the properties they choose to purchase, you are subject to the tremendous volatility of the stock market. By investing on RealCrowd, you are able to control your own portfolio, which assets you choose to invest in and ultimately own the real estate itself, not a financially engineered product that can be wiped out if the stock market goes into a tailspin.

This is somewhat confusing:

1. I fail to see how ownership of units of an LLC differs substantially from ownership of shares of stock of a REIT.

2. Each LLC will have a RealCrowd-controlled managing member which "will have the sole and exclusive right to manage, control and conduct the affairs of the LLC" so I fail to see how investors in a RealCrowd vehicle are any less subjected to the "whims" of a third party than investors in a REIT.

3. An investment in a single property may or may not be a good idea.

4. Non-traded REITs are not subject to the volatility of the stock market.

5. Referring to shares of stock in a traded REIT a "financially engineered product" seems a bit over the top. They're no more a "financially engineered product" than units of an LLC.

RealCrowd's approach is interesting, but I'm not sure it's drastically different from real estate investment vehicles already out there except in how it's being branded ("just add crowd!").
What caught my eye was

In the Amazon style of “starting from the customer and
working backwards”, we produced a “press release” and a
FAQ to further detail the how and why of what would
become EC2.

I love that - write the press release first - PRDD?
I'm sliding down the other side of that distribution myself.

One evening I was having dinner with my wife and her nearly 70 year old parents. Her mom made a comment that has stuck with me:

"You know, we still think and feel the same way we did when we were your age."
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>Encrypt the data on the device. Backup encrypted version in the cloud. Download encrypted backup to new device. Unencrypt on new device. Merge versions on the device.

Have you even thought, for half a second, about how many thousands of man hours it would take to build that? Let alone trying to build it on top of Android that already has an architecture that doesn't lend itself to that model.
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As a commercial appraiser and developer/founder, I've always found the crowdfunding CRE idea very interesting, but quite difficult. Also checkout cre-apps.com - the leading CRE tech blog. Not the same end user, but interesting non-the-less.

Good luck, guys!
This can be done with native osx tools as well. Here's a snippet I created once:

# First add a rule for all local traffic to port 80 to go into pipe 1
# 100 is the rule number which will be used for referencing the rule later
sudo ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 dst-port http

# To display the rule use
# sudo ipfw show 100

# configure the settings of the pipe as you please
# 50kbit/s bandwidth
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50Kbit
# 200ms lag
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config delay 200ms
# 20% random packet loss
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config plr 0.2

# To display the current connections on the pipe use:
# sudo ipfw pipe 1 show

# when finished testing don't forget to delete rule and pipe
sudo ipfw delete 100
sudo ipfw pipe 1 delete
Wow, FoundationDB is getting major traction since TechCrunch Disrupt last year
They may have been hoping that the economies of scale could work but they were arguing with people who knew they wouldn't. There may have been a language gap though I don't think that was all of the problem.
Heroku has been able to charge a premium for ease of use. It's hard to imagine, though, that ease of use will be a competitive advantage much longer. Much of their creativity (and it's substantial) has been in showing the way and it's only a matter of time, it seems to me, before that will be imitated (in a flattering way) by open source projects.

Ultimately, it seems, heroku will need to find an additional axis (besides ease of use) to differentiate on. Maybe I'm wrong, though. Apple sure has been able to turn ease of use into a sustainable competitive advantage. In heroku's case, though, there are fewer UI decisions and its audience is super-technical, so I'd be surprised if ease of use alone is sustainable in this domain.

We'll see. I want to see them win, to be honest, because I feel like they've done so much good in a providing such an accessible and (at first at least) cheap way for a developer to get his or her stuff out there.
I feel like I learn new tech faster now, though it's probably just because I've seen similar things before. I feel like I'm doing my best work now.
Someone else at Cal summarized C succinctly when he wrote "C is the machete of programming languages. It's great for clearing a quick path through the jungle of programming problems, but be alert as there are no safety mechanisms to protect the wielder of this wonderful weapon."
-David Patterson
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I submitted it to HN minutes ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057968

It seems to be a new scandal brewing. Surprises me how long it took. I recall in 2009 in Clearwater Florida when a Sherrif car had a gun-type looking devices pointing all 4 sides of the car. I asked what it was and he told me when he drives this thing picks up license plates and raises two alerts (if any): 1) if the tag is expired, OR if the owner of the car has a DL suspended/etc. If #2 then the picture of driver pops up and he visually checks if gender/look matches... if not, then he ignores the alert.
Super Mario Zips Through A Loophole In Apple's App Restrictions
Yes, I forgot. Her "other mother" - thank you. Including the cool escape from abusive home section.

What a great book.
My old supervisor's son was just accepted to Zipfian. $14k sounds a lot better than $60k (I have no idea if he's paying sticker).
Obviously you'd pick a better phrase than "cipher mode".

But you make a good point. I think this approach can still work though.

- Rotate the cipher based on the current day/time, or rotate it based on the previous use.

- You could prime the next password each time you successfully login. So e.g. every time you login, you offer 3 additional letters in "clear mode", but then have to give them back in cipher mode.

I think I'd go with the last one.

The worst part about all this is that it requires custom programming.
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/feedfinder.py

Helps!
I'm curious what type of deployment APIs people want. It is the docker rest API + git push for your own code? Should we be using heroku APIs? Are we going to invent something new like OpenStack did?
Flynn will be designed so Heroku buildpack support is optional.
Well I can say that the closest alternative to this would be Cloud Foundry. Their Warden system is what manages the containers: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/master/warden

They actually don't use LXC though and implement resource control with Cgroups. That said, Cloud Foundry is extremely difficult to get setup and running in my experience (even with the v2.0 recently released). It sounds like one big differentiating factor is that Flynn would have fewer moving pieces (Cloud Foundry is at least: BOSH, Warden, VCAP?, CF itself, etc.).
58, writing more code, having more fun, reaching more people, & making more $ than ever, all of which still seem limitless:

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I know why you're asking. :D
This is economics 101... Monopolies are bad, especially when they're protected by the government. It's absolutely sickening that you can't get rid of this debt even in bankruptcy, and these loans are given our to practically everyone. It's encouraged, in fact. This influx of guaranteed money inflates prices as well of course, to absurd levels.
People aged 1-20: How did you find HN? HN isn't easily found on search engines (except for the exact keywords "hacker" and "news"). I can't imagine how a 15 year old is stumbling upon Hacker News, other than a mentor or parent referring them.
Well, it doesn't have any more of a conservation of energy issue than the current theory already does. Loosely speaking, cosmology currently states that the acceleration of the galaxies away from each other comes from dark energy. However, if we don't use that dark energy for pushing the galaxies around, we should have enough left over to increase the rest mass of every particle in the universe. Neither theory has a good explanation as to what this dark energy is, but both theories have it.
Universities charge students what they do because the students get loans to pay for them and the true cost is hidden.
We are selling a similar hoodie with the same fabric, but different style treatments in boutique retail stores. These are stores that sell brands such as Cucinelli, Zegna, Brioni, Kiton. They have polo shirts that retail for upwards $450. Not for everyone, but it reflects the quality of fabrics, craftsmanship and design that we are able to obtain with our supply chain and mfr capabilities.
>Making 5% profit on "obscene"ly risky loans isn't the cause of the US's student debt problem. This just sounds like populism and pandering.

Student loans are federally guaranteed (i.e. if the student cannot repay the loan, the federal government will), so they aren't risky at all; the bank is getting its money either way. If you're going to shill for the banking industry, you're going to need to try harder than that.
A little creative writing can easily fix this. "John Smith wanted to make your day, so now you have this gift card." "John Smith sent you this gift card to make your day." "You got this gift card, because John Smith wanted to make your day."

It's not rocket surgery.
The Moto X Is The First True Google Phone
Open source means you provide the source. It doesn't mean you're under any obligation to support the hardware, software, packaging, testing and distribution needs of anyone other than yourself. The OLPC project doesn't need to support different hardware designs, packaging and distribution forms that would be nice for other people or projects to have, and don't have the resources to do so, so they don't.
Yeah; but those thoughts are now 50 years out of date. That's why old people feel different; they are from another time.
RGP - Getting Started With Genetic Programming in R
What Developers Can Learn From Prince Fielder and the Home Run Derby (2011)
You can edit my response and change the 'why' to 'how.' Doesn't matter. The author still posits no mechanism for why the distribution that Hubble observed holds for every galaxy in the sky nor does he ever address this point at all. He doesn't say it isn't relevant or can be explained in a simpler way he just ignores the evidence.

So given a proposed explanation that explains observed phenomena the author claims nothing at all except that it would be consistent (if you get rid of the observed phenomena) to not have the theory. That is a nonsensical argument that begs the question.

I.e. if gravity didn't exist apples would still be red Q.E.D. gravity is unnecessary

> Where was the opposite claimed? I don't see it.

He wants to say that because galaxies don't break apart but the universe does somehow there is an arbitrary limit on the size of objects that 'break apart.'(Do you think some other object other than the universe if being referred to here? What is breaking apart that is larger than galaxies and would remotely make sense here?)

This is rather strange because gravity(and the atomic forces) are far stronger than cosmological expansion so his 'point' doesn't make sense.
I do have some skin in this game, so do take this with a pinch of salt

patio11 "followed the dream" - and turns out dreamland is not so perfect after all. Yet enough people are interested in following, and willingly pay for travel guides for the journey.

Yes, it was nicer when he had a day job, did a little bit of bingo cards and blogging in the evenings.

But even if he does not write it down, or even admit it to himself, at a certain point on the journey even nice people say "I want some of that for myself". I do.

And he is taking his path to achieve that. If he succeeds or if he fails, I will learn something from watching.

And I will learn something from what he says.

What I do with that information is my problem. Sadly I know that it will not be getting paid a lot of money to do fun and interesting coding all day. But that's the journey.
Ring the Freaking Cash Register
Make C look Good
I've been working with startups since I was about 17 (20 now). At first I felt like a bit of a novelty, but now I feel like just a regular dude.
r/atheism and r/politics removed as default subreddits
I feel like we are early enough into all of this that we might have a chance at standardization... vs the IaaS APIs which have all diverged at this point.
Oddly, we don't deal the same with people who abuse animals.
There are compounds that specifically inhibit sweetness perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactisole
> It was 50€ cheaper to buy it this way than to pay full retail price.

What's the reasoning behind that for the phone vendor? That seems odd.
Yes, I would guess the same. However, I think people see it as a very big leap to jump over or the percentages would be different. Gaming, drivers (not as big a problem these days) and other specialized software also factor into this.

The way I see it is that if you're working with code, especially open languages and platforms, Linux is a great fit and you should make the leap :).
This is incredibly true.

But I'd add/caveat that I've seen (and, unfortunately, worked for) plenty of startups that write up a "cultural code" -- typically, a big-ass document that gets posted on a wall somewhere -- and then completely ignore or violate its tenets.

Culture is a living, breathing thing. It's not just a mission statement. It needs to be carried out, and if it's not, then all the mission statements and codes in the world won't force culture into existence. If anything, they'll be revealed for the farce that they are.

And it really does flow from the top down. As the founder, or as a founding exec, you have to eat your own dogfood. You are not above the culture. You are not above the laws of your own land. If you set cultural guidelines and expectations, you are the first person people look to to see if those guidelines are being put into practice.
They should replace the lawnmower blades with an inverted fan blade.
>the chaparral 2j would literally suck itself onto the track, like a vacuum, giving itself unparalleled traction. (was later banned from racing)

http://antholonet.com/EngineersCars/Chaparral2J/Chaparral2J....
Most Overrated Cities in the US
"X-8" an 8 Bit RISC CPU in Minecraft
That looks a hell of a lot like underscore.js templates (http://underscorejs.org/#template) to me. What would be the advantage if I was to make the swap?
We'll definitely take feature requests from sponsors seriously. The biggest limiting factor is how much time we can afford to spend on development. Anyone who substantially helps out with that gets a bigger voice in prioritizing the order we develop the reach features.
Seven candles ought to do it for most people for a while.
I don't know that you can pin this solely on universities. Simple supply and demand states that they'll keep raising rates until the market stops following them.

Each group has a hand in this mess, including the students themselves. Pointing to only one group suggests that we can find a solution there. I really don't think that's the case with this problem.
That is the price range that you can find on aliexpress.com right now, and you can buy them in large lots. However, I have no idea whether they would work when they arrived or not.
The Vergecast (http://www.theverge.com/label/the-vergecast)

This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/)

The Critical Path (http://5by5.tv/criticalpath)

Startups for the Rest of Us (http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/)
NPR - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

NPR - Car Talk

HBR Ideacast

Soocer Morning

Zencast
I am serious and please don't call me Shirley.
I think it's safe to say that the primary reason people complain about the lack of BT Sync source code is because it is currently difficult (if not nearly impossible) to audit its security.
Anyone else instantly thinking of that Archer episode?
So many classic lines....
Considering LXC support will soon be a module to Docker and not core, I'm not sure you understand what value Docker adds. Just as there is value added all the way up the stack.

Regarding the product funding remark, that's not the intention, though with the license anybody could build a product with this project. I'm not convinced that's a bad thing.
I know you are well respected around here, but your ability to sound like a douche seems limitless too.
Not sure I completely agree with this. I don't know what your internal discussions were, but at least one of your competitors has an 'enterprise' option in which they give you your own version of the toolkit. Sadly among this was that they stopped with their open-source contributions to the Cloud Foundry community (Their last update appears to have been over two years ago https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap/pull/105).

I'm not complaining that an alternative to Cloud Foundry is going to exist, but I'm still a bit surprised.
I would not have thought that

return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;});

was valid C. GCC 4.4.7 chokes on it, using -std=gnu99. Is this a C11 thing?
Supporting Heroku APIs somehow would be really great.
That might be true on the continent, but not in the UK. We've been profitable since month one, grown out revenue and profits by >100% YoY, and VC cash just ain't worth it, as on this side of the pond the best earnings to value multiplier you'll get is about 1.5. Not 15, not 150, 1.5. We net about £.6m/yr, ergo our value is about £.9m, tops.

If you have no revenue - you'll get a 50x multiplier on your theoretical revenue, no problem.

VCs are NOT INTERESTED in profit-making businesses. They just want a white elephant to pump and dump.
The receding threat from 'peak oil'
Yep, Cygwin is good if you have no other options, but it's like running Wine on Linux, i.e. some things might work but it's not surprising if they don't work (or work the way they should).
Likewise. I'm working at a small company, and the tech's interesting, but it's really not a "start-up" in the sense used here for a host of reasons.
When should marketers send e-mails? And why?
Thank you very interesting, I´ll check it. Some times I get the feeling that somehow in cosmology there is some kind of advanced modern day epicycle squeme that is giving correct predictions but is not really what is out there.
I just love to follow the advances in cosmology.
This might help - section 4.4 has formal details on the Bind server selection algorithms:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-996-topics-in-theo...
I don't think they were being serious. :)
Vizalizer: Infographics Done Right
We use Sendy [1], because it makes using Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) easy and it's much cheaper than competing services. There are a few free software alternatives to Sendy to use Amazon SES, but it's inexpensive enough not to worry about it.

[1] http://sendy.co/
It seems like the terminology has shifted a bit or something.

Exactly. There basically isn't anybody doing seed stage investment out here (where "here" is North Carolina for me)... the angels are basically doing what used to be an "A round" and the "early stage" VC's are either "A" round or later.

Now I understand the desire to minimize risk... we'd all like to minimize risk, surely? But for angel investors and venture capitalists to be this risk averse just seems counter-intuitive. Seed stage investing and venture investing are inherently risky, hence the term "high risk, high reward". But these folks seem to want all the reward and none of the risk.

About the best shot you have here at early funding out here is "friends, fools and family", or hope you get lucky and get into Triangle Startup Factory or get an NC IDEA grant. Otherwise, you just have to self-fund everything, or pursue some sort of "alternative" strategy (customer funding, crowd-funding, or whatever you can think of).

Of course, the flip side is that if you do self-fund and you can get some serious traction going, then you have much more leverage with investors at that stage. When you can honestly say "Hey, we don't really even need your money" then you don't have to accept absurdly unbalanced terms from would-be investors. shrug
You don't think the ACLU might have sent out a press release?
You forgot Blippy, though I'm sure pud himself is trying to forget that :)
Let us build a police state and we promise not to bomb you again. I've heard that before.
LightTable's trajectory is a bit different than what you're going to get with a monolthic IDE and the Clojure plugin that does its best to wrestle with the IDE.

I also don't think LightTable's core offering is a huge boost in raw productivity unless your workflow right now is notepad.exe and manual repl reloads. - Just to point out two features from the post: "watchers" (live runtime feedback) and one big extensible datastructure.
The one I have always used on Mac is SpeedLimit: http://mschrag.github.io/
> aggressive attacking dog and a playful bouncing dog

Hard to tell that until it's too late.
I was 15 when I stumbled on HN (turning 18 today). Learned about it through YC and its startups (Heroku in particular).

Google "startups" and you tend to end up on a YC page pretty fast, and on HN soon after.
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Troglodyte! Stop living in the past!

/I have a $30 late fee I owe to the milbrea library :(