skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my personal experience and from all the information I have on the sidelines, I see 2 camps arising.

1) Build a perfect product. Rally everyone around this perfection.
2) Build a perfect team. That person or people you know of where if you could just work with them on what you want to do, you could accomplish anything.

I've been in camp 2 with a friend of mine for a few months now and it's extremely difficult. It's difficult because we've yet to find an idea we can agree on implementing for the long term.

Camp #1 seems really difficult too because you have to sell a small group of people on your vision. A vision living entirely in your head.

I have no clue what's worse but I think it'll be subjective anyway. I would much rather be people in search of product than product in search of people but that's how I roll.
I can immediately see use for this product. As a former investment banker, the majority of your time is spent in powerpoint sending different documents back and forth between analyst, associate and VP. Track changes always worked fine in word for the majority of my purposes. I imagine there are a number of investment banks, both bulge bracket and otherwise that could benefit from this.
StumbleUpon sort of does this, although it's more attuned to drag up older content than new stuff. I guess this is because the older the content is, the more data you have to make statistical associations.
I sent a copy of my passport to Google since they want me to prove I report impersonation.

I really hate dealing with legal cases and also since I'm a Turkish guy living in US, and the website impersonating me is also Turkish, I don't wanna spend my time on this shitty case.

I just believe this; Google should start being friend with people.
Seems like you could make some easy money by going to the nearest college and gathering engineering students email addresses.
Not to mention cloud computing platforms that have no idea what computation their clients are performing.
I know exactly why we[1] don't A/B test.

It is because I don't want to serve the people that it would be effective on.

If you're marginally buying / not buying my product based on color scheme or (buzz)word order or some other piece of puff, we're all better served if you just moved along.

[1] You know who we are.
Hey Mattan,

Do I have to have a Mac for your course? A Windows Laptop won't do? I want to make sure I don't get caught with the wrong hardware.

I asked YC a couple of days back, and most said 'no', although the q was not specific to your program:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152605
Sure thing, would be happy to.
I upvoted you from zero, in the interest of HN remaining a supportive and congenial place for people who are doing stuff to move the industry's state of play forward.
Agreed. Samsung made a great phone w/ a keyboard though. http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/27/samsung-galaxy-s-relay-4g...
Hmmmm, make that:

def gauss(x):
return (x+1)*x/2

(consider gauss(11), for example)

You gotta admit, on an article about the difference between integer and floating-point arithmetic, that's pretty ironic!
Lots of generic hosting providers can be used for it too, if you have a hosting account somewhere. As long as the server has git and you have SSH access, you can do this on the server side:

$ mkdir project_name.git; cd project_name.git; git init --bare

Then locally, from the repo directory:

$ git remote add origin username@server.com:~/path/to/project_name.git

That's what I do (on Webfaction). Of course, then you don't get all the fancy issue tracking and all that from github, but it works if all you need is a few kb of storage for a remote. That also makes it easy to deploy PHP projects with a single post-receive hook, since it's all in the same box.
Not a professional art critic or anything, but they honestly just look like pretty bad shots.
Attacking a linux box that runs little more than the TOR daemon is much harder than attacking a browser on an avarage client machine. The difference in attack surface is huge.
Further, one needs to attack many (hundreds) of TOR nodes to effectively "own" the TOR network.
The difficulty level between these two attack vectors is very different.
I'd go as far as saying that such an attack is beyond what "low level" fed departments can do (due to HR shortages, budget limits, lack of cooperation with the more serious guys, etc). An attack of this level is something, that in my opinion, is reserved to the guys who hunt down bearded men in some warmer regions of the world.
Now, a "common" browser exploit, and some basic attack skills, is something you can expect for these "low profile" investigations such as the one in question (again, purely in my opinion).
I dread seeing a cop on the highway when driving from Houston to Dallas and back, and I'm a law-abiding college graduate. The drug war is not being kind to the relationship between civilians and law enforcement here.
http://morguefile.com/ is my personal favorite...
This is good advice if there's a decent law firm nearby or you already have a good attorney on retainer. I'm guessing they had neither.

Keep in mind as soon as you decline the search, the cops will go out of their way to find multiple things to charge you with and then you have more problems than when they pulled you over.
Good to see this. Not a new idea but not seen anybody execute well on this, yet. Have looked for and used a similar tool in the past, to refer friends to, and act as a listener. paul is correct but might be underestimating your TAM! I'm concerned that you might spread yourself across too "segments". Do you have plans, or enough insight yet, to concentrate on beachhead?
I use olive oil regularly in my cooking and now, I don't know what to think.

I'm curious why the original article wasn't the one submitted (though it's inserted at the bottom of that entry).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/13/extra-virginity-...
This is why I finished my comment with this sentence:

"I'm sure there are exceptions, but not enough for GNUStep to get traction."

When we're talking about why GNUStep never took off, "substantial number" is highly relevant.
Midrange isn't a bad word, but a midrange phone at high-end prices is a bit of a turn off.
How I made $50,000 in 30 days…
To be fair, the reactors survived the earthquake just fine, as well as the tsunami afterward.

The problem is that the diesel generators that were supposed to provide backup power to the cooling systems got swamped, basically making meltdown inevitable with the design of the reactor.

Edit:extraneous words removed
I took this course and learned more while taking it than any other RoR course.
I'm having trouble thinking of even a hollywood movie plot where that info could be exploited. Other than where the listeners are actually 4chan trolls on a raid, in which case the pics are probably fake/stolen anyway.
I don't know. Sometimes I think cooperating with cops can get you a lot---even consenting to a search. Especially (unfortunately) if you're white and upper class looking.

Refusing to do what a cop asks you to will pretty much always piss them off. Most of the time, that's okay, but sometimes you just want to be let on your way and be left alone.
Anecdote: when I tried to buy AdWords for my "No BULLSHIT guide to math and physics" google said I needed a special permission.

Then I talked to someone on the phone and they said they cannot have shit in the advert, not on the page the user would go to after clicking --- the person on the phone said I should change the book title or use SH*T.

So yeah... prolly a bad ideas ...
http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Whats-the-story-behind-the-Obama...
Robotic Intelligence - or signals of the Singularity?
Is your desire to only serve certain people based in the long run on profit motive (i.e. you think your fewer customers will be more valuable and stick around longer), or is it just out of principle even if it means less profit in the long run?
Google Co-Founder Unveils His Latest Moon Shot: A Test Tube Burger
Bitcoin: Not the Currency of the Future
A friend mentioned that site and I saw it while googling, I'll look deeper at it. Thanks!
f/0.7 is way past the range of usefully thin depth of field, although this look is somewhat in vogue right now as a way of distinguishing "professional" photography from cameraphone photography.

The reason Kubrick used them was not for their depth of field, but because he was shooting on far slower film than the digital sensors available today. They're relatively pointless today except for their historical/curiosity value.
I thought this post was pretty funny : [Flat Design: Towards a Flatter Earth — User Experience Design - Brasil — Medium](https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/fe8f583a4917)

Design based on function and performance removes emotions that contribute to the overall user experience. A purely engineering approach can lead to boring design, IMO.

I really don't understand the performance argument when we've been dealing with skeuo for some time. Of course, skeuo can be overdone, but in balance, it's what many users find useful.
I took this class on SkillShare with almost zero experience and loved it. I wish the lecture notes were formatted for printing. Keep up the good work Mattan.
Like most things, I learned the first 10% by reading on the Internet (A/B testing is very much not the new hotness that was just discovered by software companies in 2008) and the next 90% by throwing stuff at the wall and taking notes on what sort of stuff tended to stick.
Not really. First, mma isn't a power sport. Second, notice the protein supplementation. Clearly the diet alone isn't cutting it.
I wonder that when (it is a when, not a if) several someones consider a cop a intruder and kill it, people will start to wake up that things are getting too far.
As a business, this makes perfect sense to me. San Francisco is the city that taught the world you make more money selling pickaxes and denim than from digging for gold.
I would feel perfectly justified in knowing that had they not had the anonymizer, the individuals would have been murdered or shipped off to torture facilities without even a hint of due process. If the government's criminal process was actually transparent and just, then I might feel a bit of remorse for promoting anonymity tools, but in the current state, I have a large reason to suspect the motives of the hypothetical "NSA guy".
Actual worst case for solar:

Oops, we spent $270B on solar panels that can't provide enough power.
This is a fascinating paper which discusses how 'intelligence' emerges as inter-dependent organizations and actors seek out advantage. After reading it I was thinking "Ok, so the next Phd thesis will be someone who writes three genetic algorithm engines each targeting their own fitness function, and fighting the other two for resources."
Thanks! I appreciate your support, especially given you don't agree with me on the benefits of bandit testing.
Thanks, rasca123, you're correct -- I do like sugar. Probably more than I should.... but thankfully we did an episode about fitocracy too!
If you were charged with building a city from scratch (unlikely, I know) and had to power the thing, the question wouldn't be "nuclear or solar/wind?". It would still be "Is this near a good damming location? No? So... do I want nuclear, or do I want to burn something?"

For renewable base load, your options are basically hydro or burning something renewable like ((farmed) wood, trash, or methane from trash). Otherwise, with current technology, you are left with either burning atoms or burning something made of dinosaurs that you claw from the earth.

Solar and Wind might be able to do some limited base-load with massive efficient energy storage schemes, such as pumped-storage hydro, but really I don't see that scaling very far. PSH is about as good as it gets for that, and it is highly dependent on local geography.. Other schemes like storing molten sodium or compressed air don't really operate in the same class as PSH.
There's no such thing as "scripting" languages.
It does apparently get "trained" on your voice, however do you really want to shout your passphrase at your phone?
I think I'm a visionary technical person. The problem I'm addressing is based on two decades of experience in enterprise configuration management - solving the forest/trees problem of seeing small technical changes in the context of bigger business changes, and/or drilling down from the big business tasks to the technical details that implement them. It's a boundary-crossing technical issue that's near and dear to my heart.

A good CTO could devise their own implementation path rather than following mine, but that's not really "vision". That's about how it works, not why it needs to exist. I can do the "how" myself, but I don't think it's a good use of my time and focus.
It is done out of principle.
Is it really a surprise to anybody that this "loose end" was "tied up"?
Good use of the word approximately.
> I agree with this statement: "I am over 18 and I am not homicidal, suicidal or abusing anyone."

I can see how it might be legally required to add this disclaimer, but I would at least direct them to somewhere else that can help them.
> WTF!? This is like asking "Do you use a gear-stick?" followed by "Have you ever been in a car?"

I was once asked if I had ".NET and API experience" (verbatim) :/

More to the point, though, I don't really understand all the complaints about recruiters. Emails can easily be ignored, and it's not impossible to decline a call (politely, or even rudely if necessary). Having an awkward conversation is, to a certain extent, a self imposed burden.

For my part, I tend to enjoy hearing about what else may be available out there, even though I currently have no intention of switching employers.
Strongest German, vegan: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Baboumian
Barometers are also very useful for fitness training, to record hills for biking and running. The vertical accuracy of GPS is not great, and people often get better results by looking up altitudes on a map using the lat/long.

The high-end GPS sports watches generally include a barometer to get more accurate altitude data.
In python? I wasn't aware that fold did anything other then iterate in order...
> As for parsing, it is impossible to parse Perl, as it is Turing-complete and nobody has solved the halting problem (yet).

Most Turing-complete languages can be parsed (even Ruby, which is, among currently-popular languages that aren't Perl, noted for being parsing-unfriendly.) Perl can't be parsed not just because it is Turing-complete, but because (unlike most other languages), parsing Perl requires simulating its execution and it is Turing-complete, which combined require solving the halting problem to parse perl.

Insofar as it is valuable to be able to parse code written in a programming language, perl's unique barrier to parsing is a drawback.
Oh, well that's effectively no different than probate.
True. But that same sentiment can be communicated without trying to corral developers into two arbitrary groups. There are plenty of other reasons, in addition to the lack of a substantial number of Objective-C (not just iOS) developers. One of the reasons, I think, is a distinct lack of notability for GNUStep.

Anyway, this is a pretty silly line of disagreement. :)
Here's an email I received this morning:

From: [redacted]
Subject: Windows Software Developer Engineer
Date: August 5, 2013 9:47:37 AM PDT
To: Aaron Brethorst

Dear Aaron,

Good Morning, I have an open Windows Software Developer Engineer position available.
I would like to know if you or someone you know would like a new adventure. I found
your profile by simply using Windows Engineer, C++, SCM and Visual Studio. You are
only 1 of about 200 in the USA. I have attached the position description along with
a description of the company and location. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you
[redacted]

So, setting aside the fact that—if you were to spend literally five seconds Googling me—I have never been a C++ Windows developer, and clearly have no interest in embarking on that now, I am kind of astonished that this recruiter is proudly proclaiming that she found me by some sort of really naive keyword matching on LinkedIn.

She also didn't actually include a description of the company or location. Sigh.
For anyone who missed it, that was written in the style of The Trial.
> FBI special agent describing Marques as “the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet.”

Is it just me or is "facilitator" a PR weasel word?

They would have said "distributor" or "seller" if they could.

Does "facilitator" mean in the same sense that BitTorrent "facilitates" illegal MP3 downloads? Or in the sense that Verizon and Comcast do? Or in the sense that HTTP does?

i.e. Is this RIAA/MPAA style spin, or is their more substance to it?

(Not rhetorical questions. Although cynical and suspicious, I genuinely don't know.)
SaaS model all-in-one marketing toolset service for bootstrapping apps. The current ones are either to much data analytics, or too dumb mail-list management tools.
Hardly a chance, if you have a device that is used for criminal activity don't be surprised if that gives cops a reason to scrutinize you.

This article is so biased and reeks of agenda. There are no other more sympathetic people to do news stories for? My BS radar just off the charts. If you can look past the fair amount of cash in the car and the drug paraphernalia then there is a need for outrage. However, I can't.

While I might see a reason for seizure laws I could easily see them being abused. That said, the example given in the article isn't going to win over any opponents.
> And then he offers you to lead tor, with funding, and explains that this is a network that is hard to break ,so even if NSA can break it, it wouldn't do it for silly stuff , only for emergencies.

> You don't need to be a bad person to accept. It's seems like a perfectly ethical thing to do.

Yeah, except transparency is at the core of Tor. So someone who was approached like that would make sure to communicate this exchange and what they had learnt in a public manner. If this were not possible (for whatever reasons), it wouldn't be an ethical choice to continue because it would endanger people; including people in repressive regimes, whose governments might also decide to track down 'bad guys' because it would be an emergency. (Those governments do buy sophisticated DPI hardware from Cisco et al. and use it.) etc. etc. Nobody would just take the word for it anyway - actual peer-reviewed research is required. If this is not possible, then it cannot be used as a guiding force. If it is, it must be transparently acknowledged.

> [1]WWI , The iraq war, and the cease of the israeli peace process were all at least partially caused by terrorists. And we still haven't seen WMD based terror.

I believe 'terrorist' has become a very semantically-loaded term with multiple connotative fields, so to speak. But I won't argue there, it's probably not the place anyway.

Edit:

> My guess is that NSA has a top-down strategy regarding cypherpunks.That's the way military forces work. And it would make sense for this tactic to be part of their strategy.

Yeah, but this would make sense
The bit about 37signals reminded me of their timelapse video, "evolution of a homepage"[1], which shows just how many things they try before sticking to something (albeit shortly).

[1] http://vimeo.com/29088090
great to hear Chris, some of our very early users were at Investment Banks. Drop me your email on zefi@kivo.com, I'd love to get your advice on approaching the large ones.
I do something similar with local port forwarding in ssh - I can also use this to open files on remote servers in local gui editors, and to send things to notification centre - useful if you leave a long running task in the background.
The real link is here: https://swiftype.com/
Aren't supplements part of your diet? Maybe this is a domain term that operates differently. Many people who aren't vegan that I know take a daily multivitamin, does this demonstrate that their diet alone isn't cutting it either?
No, of course. But some of the busiest (sell the most) gun shops in the US are known to sell a copious amount of guns that are implicated in many criminal activities. Law enforcement knows this because they could trace the gun back (that's with what they can trace).

Now law enforcement knows this, the gun dealer also knows this and the gun manufacturer also keeps tabs on it's biggest dealers.

The incentive here is to make money, and nothing else. It's funny that while guns are sold and used in actual crimes the Police in that town are too busy 'cashing' in on poor unsuspected (allegedly non-criminal) citizens.

Awesome!
It will be interesting to see stats on how long listeners last. Compassion fatigue is very common in fields where people work directly with those in unfortunate circumstances (homeless, dying, drug addiction, etc.) I wonder if systems such as this will burn people out faster or allow them to help more people faster. Cool idea.
I agree with this analysis, but I also think that inclusiveness is malleable.

In "Song of Myself", Walt Whitman wrote "In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less/and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them". The Parable of the Good Samaritan is all about how we choose our own levels of identification and some are more morally praiseworthy than others.

So yes, the problem might well be the lack of identification between your white voters in suburban Maryland and your black kid in inner-Baltimore (and vice versa of course), but we can and do change. Society moves forwards, and we are not entirely passive actors in it.

Let's make arguments that encourage greater identification, take social steps to increase identification, etc. It may well be easier for those societies in Europe, but it's by no means easy, which your analysis seems to ignore. These attitudes have to be worked on, and reinforced.
Not to mention that the author admitted he was guilty of the same faults, so it should really be "pitfalls to avoid when starting a company".
Adapt Your Client Language
I get lots of calls from similar recruiters, but had I been in this guys position the call would have gone like this:

RECRUITER: Oh hi Matthew, my name's ### and I'm calling from ### with regard to an exciting opportunity that's come up in London for a Senior Developer, are you interested?

ME: Where is this job located?

RECRUITER: [Says something that translates to] 4 hours away.

ME: Thanks for contacting me, but I'm happy with my current job and I don't want to relocate right now.

RECRUITER: [In the face to two good excuses the recruiter says] Ok, you have a good day.

ME: You too.

More pleasant for all involved.
> ... one singular bad accident can completely obliterate the economic rationale for nuclear power in a given country.

The anything-but-nuclear policy has caused fossil fuel wars costing hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

The parent comment is not merely wrong, it is the opposite of correct. Having a Fukushima-size meltdown every few years would be an economic bargain.
> 60% yearly revenue increase in 2012 on the strength of a brief series of A/B tests...

I appreciate your transparency about Bingo Card Creator, but sometimes you make it sound like such easy money, do you ever worry about your openness encouraging direct competitors?
+1 to Vega, for sure.

You can also get hemp-based protein as well.