skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree, I have extensive experience with both and I would never recommend .net to anyone. Unfortunately many of the larger companies I do work for will only use it. In general the SOE of an organisation is usually defined by non-tech people and "no one ever got fired for recommending microsoft". So I find that these larger organisations are hobbled by using sub-par tools, hopefully this will change in the next 10 years or so though.
Say you failed, but what you learned for the experience.. Recruiters don't really care what you did, but how you did and what you learned for it.
Google Saved An Estimated $887 Million By Paying Adblock To Show Its Ads
This line of reasoning is inane, and comes up every time gold or Bitcoin is mentioned.

Gold and Bitcoin are merely stores of value. Just like your paper bills with dead presidents on them. Or stocks or bonds. Which has next to nothing to do with how you pay for something. You can easily barter for an item, or pay with credit cards. Some places still do not accept American Express. Some places don't accept any credit cards. That doesn't take away from the fact that they are convenient. Likewise, I can see that Bitcoin could eventually become very convenient for micropayments, since credit cards charge merchants a fee. AFAIK, Bitcoin transfers are cheap or entirely free, thus making micropayments possible.
Disable the grouping?

Properties, Taskbar buttons, Never combine.
England and Wales. While the CPS has moved towards having more permanently employed barristers, it still regularly hires barristers in private practice to represent the Crown in the lower courts as so-called "agents" that are "instructed" by the CPS [1].

This has largely historical reasons; until not so long ago, England did not have designated prosecutors (in fact, well into the 19th century it often fell to private citizens to initiate prosecution, until the police started to take over that role).

That said, the CPS will likely still have more resources at its disposal than public defenders.

[1] http://www.euro-justice.com/member_states/england_wales/coun...
I work at Automated Insights (automatedinsights.com) and ever since I've been there, we've had this policy. The idea is to just not abuse it. Use it when you need it and don't go on last-minute 3 day weekend vacations. Most people go on a week-long vacation once a year (usually during the Summer) and people are able to take days off for personal reasons as long as it doesn't become a habit. Everyone does a good job I think.
Love how folks here love to discuss the merits/demerits of a language (not the version of the language) EVERY TIME a new version is announced. This works for every language.
Texture upload is a great choice because it means your particle update routine can be a pixel shader that you run the current 'state' texture through to produce a new 'state' texture. Then you're literally running the whole thing on-GPU. Not aware of ways to do that at present with DX9-class hardware or with the WebGL feature set. Modern desktop GL and DirectX let you write to and read from basically anything, as I understand it.
Fare well old <blink> friend. My high school memories of webrings would not be the same without you.
Sounds like you're not in the target market, then, because you're attached to the concept of a meal. Don't assume that anyone who is in the target market has something wrong with them and needs to "rethink [their] choices in life".

The issue isn't "so busy", it's "better things to do with that time". Total up the amount of time you spend shopping for food, preparing food, storing food, and eating food. Are you saying you can't think of any better uses for that time?

Also note that making meal consumption optional doesn't prevent you from partaking in it as a social occasion whenever you want.

But in general, the target market for this considers the need to consume food, much like the need to sleep, an annoying biological requirement rather than a feature. Patches welcome.
Or maybe comp.compression
Rovio comes immediately to mind!
For those of you considering Soylent, please read this first: http://www.priceplow.com/blog/soylent-subterfuge

Corresponding HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6115114
A Tmux Crash Course (2011)
Could the same concept (DIY, education) be applied to many other regularly used gadgets at a similar pricepoint?

Bit like the Galileoscope: http://galileoscope.org/
How many eyeballs do you think will come across your site?

I've recently been featured on beta list and thinking about applying on erlibird although erlibird requires payment.
Nope. It's pretty basic bro code: 'Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself' - B.F.
Apple and sir Jobs
My first impression after reading it was it's a FAKE.
Only one week-long vacation a year? What about a 3-week-long vacation? Would that be frowned upon?
This might be news, but what the heck does this have to do with Hacker News?
there are two ruby gems for Gmail, which did you use?
Any webapp that allows "Client-side SSL certificates" for authentication can do something similar. I really wish more apps took advantage of that.
This is a really cool project from my former PhD lab. It's a camera kit that teaches kids how cameras work by letting them assemble one themselves. The website [1] includes a lot of educational material describing how and why each component works, along with interactive animations.

The camera itself is also interesting in that it contains a few different "computational imaging" lens-systems within: normal, wide-angle, and stereo, "all-in-one". See [2] for a description of what computational imaging means in general. I'm happy to try to answer any questions (this wasn't my project, but I did play around with one).

[1] http://www.bigshotcamera.com/experience

[2] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/what_is/
You absolutely have 4 backwards. Deflation is good for those rich enough to have money sitting around, and who can make money just by sitting on it and not investing it. Inflation is bad for the rich because suddenly they have to DO something with the money, or it disappears.
You have a finished product that you released to the public. That's further than most ever get and shouldn't be considered a "failed" startup. Display it proudly.
How namedtuple works in Python 2.7
Instagram sold for $1b.

Twitter is valued at $10b.

Square is valued at $3b.

There are probably others, but those are the first that come to mind.
What really blows my mind is that elsewhere on HN today there was an article about asset forfeiture and police forcing a couple to turn over about $6k that was found in their car without ever even arresting or charging them. So why exactly doesn't this judge have to forfeit the assets he acquired through these kickbacks?! It's an illustration of just how unfair and ineffective our legal system really is, especially in terms of its treatment of the poor and/or uneducated.
That's how the Kore web server works ( https://kore.io/ ); it makes you generate a static.h file at compile time that contains all of you your static content.

But like you say, I have to wonder if it actually makes a difference performance-wise. The kernel will cache the static file data anyways. The only improvement I can see is maybe to avoid having to look up file metadata (length and mtime)? Or to avoid a syscall?
Hi. Thanks for checking it out :)
In short, I have no idea how many eyeballs it's gonna get, but I have google analytics open and I've gotten 300+ visit since I linked it here already :D

I would love to feature your product though. I'm really glad you took the time to check it out. It'd be extra helpful to know back from you about how many eyeballs you got from kickoffboost.

You can submit your product on the site, or I can even put a posting up for you if you just give me your link :)

Cheers!
Does anyone have experience with using TypeScript with existing libraries like Angular.js?

I know that there are definition files for it [1] (and many other popular libraries), but unfortunately I haven't had the time to check out their quality.

[1] https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/a...
Ask HN: My cofounders and I broke up. What do I say to inquiring minds?
In June my cofounders and I split up. They went on to an accelerator and I'm looking for other opportunities in similar spaces.

People have asked why we split during both interviews and casual conversations, and I'm never quite sure what to say. So far I've erred on the conservative side of offering an explanation: "not the right partners", "different visions", etc. This seems intuitively like the right thing to do. My intuition is often wrong, of course, and I've been asked for more details on a few occasions.

What's a fellow to do?

Many thanks.
HBase doesn't claim to be some NoSQL database or equivalent to a relational database, anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't actually read into HBase.

Just look at HBase's website which describe it exactly as

> Apache HBase is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.
At least the traditional food industry continues to be in the business of producing stuff that is mostly food. This is a radically different concept, as it is synthesized from the raw nutritional components.

Whether it is safe or not, this is a great case study for nutritionists. But I don't want to be a guinea pig.
Can't seem to access the page, a cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:techie...
Most transactions now do not involve cash, and credit card transactions are in fact far more energy-efficient than bitcoin transactions. And it is not just using energy to "create something of value"--it is an artificial waste of energy barrier.

Furthermore, there will be an energy cost to transactions even after no substantial number of bitcoins are mined, since just verifying transactions requires wasteful hashing.

The solar energy part is totally irrelevant--if you happen to have a solar panel sitting around, you could just as easily use it for actual work (and offset coal burning) rather than computing hashes.
[1] Explanation of the research in question behind this article, as well as a demonstration of the bike they based the research on.

They very clearly describe (at the end of the video) that even with gyroscopic and tracking forces removed, the two most important factors are where the center of gravity is, and the tendency to turn into a fall (arguably just the second, but it is caused by the location of the center of gravity with regards to the pivot).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtE3aIUhbU

Edit: more info on the TMS (two-mass skate) bike at its wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-mass-skate_bicycle
getting a 404 on this story now.

here's a readability-google-cache version I preserved: https://www.readability.com/articles/zdsdagi (click readability)

edit: oops, looks like someone beat me to this by a couple hours.
Revenues from Desktop ISV - desktop software is alive and doing well
I actually wrote a piece on this in response to a brainstorm on business models: http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/03/06/startup-business-models-ad...

I work in advertising, and I think that is a pretty good guide.

Here are the numbers in case you can't be arsed to click on the link:

Assuming you managed to secure a $0.50 CPM deal. And you're running 1 Dyno and 1 Worker on Heroku. To break even you need about 70k ad imps (~ 25k page views) per month.

BUT the underlying assumption that you can get $0.50 is wrong. It's actually really less than that, don't be seduced by publisher networks that say they can give you more. Always look at the small prints.

Also bear in mind that a lot of publisher networks (that pay relatively well) do have a minimum imps per month requirement - most start about 500k. Adsense of course has no minimum
3D Printing Brings Classic Patents Back to Life
Off topic but it was awesome to see a link with "perl-bin" in it.
I nice insight into what really does the important work in these big shiny corporations. :-)
I'd guess that it has something to do with a walled garden or two.

In more concise seriousness, in the same sense some joe schmoe made billions, no not really. In a different sense sure it has and will continue to for the manufacturers/telecoms/google/apple.

The mobile markets were already far too entrenched in big corp, most of the money is funneled to the manufacturer's of the yearly upgraded hardware and telecoms which service them. As for the app side of things the distribution of said apps was heavily guarded by the operating system creators (google/apple.) You could say that google doesn't operate a walled garden to the same extent of closure that apple does but you'd have a hard time keeping a straight face saying that competition at the distribution level isn't locked down by lockin & implementation of their system.

I should perhaps note after spending a large chunk of the text above talking about apple/google that they still get sweet fuck all of the pie most of the money is going to the oligopoly of telcos who collude and backroom deal away our net neutrality.
Even better, use oauth2 tokens instead of your username/password.

Here's a script to generate them: https://google-mail-oauth2-tools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/py...
They'll have another layoff ("Resource Action" in IBM-speak) later this year. No later than mid-December, so they don't have to pay the 401(k) match (if you leave before the end of the year, they take back their match for the whole year).
I wrote a followup blog post on this:

http://problemflow.com/blog/2013/08/07/linkedin-recommendati...
Just install Tortoise SVN. Create a repository on your shared server, and then add a folder on your local machine to the repository. When you commit a file, you'll have a diff option, as well as locks and everything else you get.
There is no longer parole in the federal system. Even with good behavior, a 28 year sentence can be no shorter 24 years and change.
Thanks so much :D
I'm trying to gather how many eyeballs each listing can gather, and I'm trying to optimize getting the traffic to the listings.
I'll post the updates in this thread.

Thanks again :)
Terminal multiplexer - tmux vs. GNU Screen
The fork I'm just about to patch is FuTTY - https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY which includes save-settings-to-file. The screen resizing behaviour (as a result of Screen's +flow command) might drive you crazy though.
Even $0.50 is pretty high ask.
Thanks for the feedback.

http://screencast.com/t/4dRnEZuw
Linux Mint 14 Nadia (upgrading to Mint 15 in the near future) on an Asus laptop with nvidia GPU and external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. I use the pre-installed Windows for games that don't play nicely with Wine.
Best part about the "Low Battery" part is that it spends a lot of time on the site talking about the Power Generator - Not just at a "Turn Crank" level, but down to the gears, gearbox, dynamo, electromagnetism level.
just signed in, going to play with it around a little. Thanks for the invite!
Cool. Just signed up.

My signups from betalist have dropped off, so I'll let you know how we go with you guys if we get approved.
Your Code should look Lego
Google Glassed my Wedding
What's neocities.org going to use now?
You're absolutely right. In fact, our application has a pretty severely hierarchical nature. Initially, we just pulled out the top-level things and let Hibernate handle it, but performance was ghastly. We added a native query to pull out the first four levels at once, and a great deal of manual code in Java to process what came out. This is good, but the fifth level is self-referencing and recursive. I have an SQL query now that can retrieve everything at once, but the amount of Java code I'm going to have to write to drop it in is a significant barrier. Still, once I do, most of our egregious performance problems will be solved.

You can make it work. But I think Hibernate and other ORMs work by selling you on the notion that they're an abstraction, that you don't have to know everything to use them. In my experience, Hibernate winds up creating a third domain of necessary expertise, rather than managing the two so you only have to have one. And this is the source of the anger.
The TFS web UI is another project that was converted to Typescript.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/10/24/typescript...
I'm inclined to agree with Justin here.

I mean, he's absolutely right in that if you have physical access, or if you have OS account access to a computer, it really doesn't matter what you do, your shit isn't safe any more.

The argument of a 'crime of opportunity' doesn't play out in the digital world. Everything in the malware world is so automated and the scenario of 'If there are exposed passwords on this particular machine, I'll take them' just doesn't ever play out.

To that end, while it certainly seems awkward from a 3rd party perspective, I'm kind of agree with Google on this one.
> it can only serve to narrow down the candidate list of companies that the post was in reference to. That is somewhat malicious, given the sentiments expressed.

This seems like an awfully cynical view to take. YC has accepted quite a few startups in its lifetime (564 to be exact [1]), and he mentioned no other specificities aside from that. He could have titled it "My experience at an incubated/accelerated startup", but then there wouldn't be much of an anchor back to reality to drive it into people's heads that: 'hey, this does happen, and it could happen to you'. Not to mention that any of the other 'large' accelerators probably still pale in comparison to YC's startup numbers. Either way, trying to anchor a helpful point into reality does not seem like good evidence for maliciousness. Trying to frame another person's legitimate attempt at helping others as malicious feels more malicious.

>If that wasn't "overwhelmingly" the point he was trying to make, and he was in fact trying to imply that YC startups have an inherently better chance of success than "just another startup," then your comment is moot.

No, because that's a given. The post was talking about cultural aspects, and I in-turn was talking about cultural aspects. And thus here you are (either intentionally, or unintentionally) arguing that there is some deep correlation between a company's specific set of cultural decisions and a company's success. Personally, I'm not entirely convinced that's the case.

> Malicious or not, telling the world over the Internet about bad experiences you had with co-workers probably isn't a great idea in the long run. Hash it out with them directly, or learn a personal lesson and move on.

I agree that being a bad sport and gossiping over the internet is in poor taste, but telling someone to bottle up their insights when it seems like they're trying to help other people avoid the same mistakes is just counterproductive. We live in a society and we should help eachother out. Depriving the community of potentially useful insights out of fear that you'll run into the ~0.1% (1/564 * 100) chance of accidentally gossiping about somebody is just not productive for anybody.

[1] http://www.cloudave.com/29767/y-combinators-startup-math-2/ (Granted, the number of remaining active startups is definitely less, but it is still a large number.)
People have been calling mainframes "dinosaurs" since the 1990s at least. They still keep selling. The mainframe division was the only hardware division that is still showing growth, according to the article.
The Moto X From Google, iPhone’s Latest Challenger
Yes, yes, and yes. I work with Holacracy and I will confirm that the techniques described from Stirman's experience before joining Medium (chatting with employees, SCARF, etc.) are not to be put in the same bag as Holacracy.

It doesn't even make that much sense to compare them -- these techniques are bolt-ons - more or less useful practices to make do with the challenges inherent to a conventional structure. On the contrary, Holacracy is a new meta-structure for how power is distributed, how decision-making is distributed, with different channels available to effect changes - a new "social operating system", really.

In my experience, having my manager use techniques like SCARF to "better reward me" is nowhere near as powerful and empowering as having no manager to solve my problems, because there is a system that allows me to address them myself.

-Olivier Compagne
If all you can get (are getting) is two week, then it's less than my "limited vacation policy"!
Art Hoaxes by Denis Dutton (1993)
Show HN: our bitcoin only group buying site has cheap .co domains for sale
Though they're not selling so hot, any suggestions? Places to go market?
Twitter auth is not functional

http://imgur.com/70sPKpM
A gem to scrape craigslist data
Fair point.

If you own the condo or house that's being AirBNB'd, then we're ok (modulo pissing off the neighbors).

If you're renting, then we're getting into the same territory as "unlimited bandwidth" subscriptions for ISPs or cellphones. Landlords -- reasonable, non-legalistic ones -- might then want to specify the maximum number of "person nights", etc., since all of a sudden "having a few friends spend the night" (taking the # of occupants over the lease maximum) becomes a permanent thing.

It's a little like a tenant who takes a dozen showers a day, every day for a year. Leases don't generally specify the maximum number of showers permitted, but they might begin to do so.

So, it could be workable, if the various contractual arrangements could be adjusted.

Disclaimer: I'm a (small-time) landlord.
If you're a responsible adult, it works really well. Coordinate your time off with your team & boss, then go. I would usually take 3/4 of December off to spend with family (slow time at work anyway, as the customers weren't wanting changes to be made during their year-end work).

There are any number of ways it could be abused, of course. But the thing to remember is that your coworkers (and boss) aren't blind - if you're using the policy to create a 4-day workweek, and not getting stuff done -- someone is going to say something.