skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two months? Just wait. I'm 9 months in solo, and day-jobbing to pay for the bootstrap. It's incredibly exhausting.

If I could find a co-founder or two, I'd be thrilled. But finding someone really worth their weight hasn't happened yet. And I'm not going to just sit there and ignore this opportunity just because I can't find someone to hold my hand while I'm doing it. I'm going to get it out the door, even if I have to do every little thing myself.

Having a co-founder is great. But not having one is no excuse to not work.
I was hoping that was an acronym i've not heard yet, but I fear it is not.
There are many reasons, but all the others become moot when you take into account that a return to traditional agriculture is economically impossible. It survives as a niche product, but it can't remotely compete on scale and price.
Dash cams have been around for a long time, but their utility has chiefly been to record what's happening right in front of the vehicle, at minimal resolution. The result is not a comprehensive data feed of everything happening, but merely an eyewitness of events.

Not many people see the "data", and the dash cams & their data are (mostly) not used beyond some basic purposes.

On the other hand, the license-plate scanners [0] are higher resolution, pointing in every direction, are also attached to road infrastructure (numerous bridges and buildings), and their purpose is to collect and compile data which then goes into a massive, shared (among the executive branch) system ... in a way, more invasive than a giant "Google Analytics" for public roads. After all, Google Analytics doesn't make it easy (possible?) to see visitors' IP addresses, and even an IP address doesn't tell you the likely human behind it.

Therefore, to avoid leaving footprints for all these "Little Brothers" to see, it's necessary to not drive an owned car on roads that may be adjacent to many bridges, or certain buildings, or may happen to have a police car on them.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognit...
>Recording screencasts is a big win. It was previously too slow using emulators or screen cappers

But can you use any screen capture software for the emulators?
Just wait.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294205/Billionaire-...
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/keeping-your-da...
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/10/cloud-hack-via-google.asp...
i guess this was before google poured the billions into it with it's engineering elite, class-A data security. Google may be more secure but google is also a big target. a personal cloud is less likely to get hacked. if i live in the woods with $1000 and only have one lock, i'm probably less likely to be broken into than a giant bank filled with tons of money in the middle of a city, even with it's heavier security.
I launched my weekend project 7 months ago on HN – here's CameraLends today
The traffic in this service seems to go peer-to-peer?
Robbing a bank in person is a completely different crime. Many victims suffer mentally for years afterwards with PTSD and other issues
Agreed.

YAML is easy to type, even with the whitespace. So is INI. And as verbose as XML is, it's easier, ime, to type than JSON. Of those four, JSON is the hardest to write by hand; certainly it's the one I make most mistakes with, to extent I have a particular technique for writing it out (prefixing the commas). As a result JSON as a config file format is tedious, verbose, and error prone; its sweet spot is a machine interchange format that a human can debug/read if needed.
Yes, but the US robbery rate is lower than in England, and the crime rates in many other categories are comparable [1] to what you find in the EU. Intentional homicides make up only a small fraction of all crime.

Crime tends to be more lethal in the US, not (that much) more frequent.

[1] http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/statistics/d...
Turning 100g of protein into 15g of protein is not "very effective and efficient."
You are somewhat misinformed: If you are using more than one template, this is a non-issue. Only the HTML from the initial page load will ever display template bindings, that being the purpose of ng-cloak, ngBind, etc. $templateCache can be pre-loaded with something like the ng-templates Grunt task, so excessive HTTP requests are not an issue either.
The Fate of the Copyright Monopoly might lie in German Elections
> (I use the numbering scheme since the numbers are more precise than the associated names. “Jelly Bean,” for example, refers to both 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3).

4.0.X is Ice Cream Sandwich, not Jelly Bean.
tvrage at least as I remember it was built from a crawl from tv.com data. But yeah, I left the product 6 months after launch and since then it's been in a dozen different hands and a bunch of redesigns, most moving the focus towards quick news and away from the wiki. Such is the way of the web.
Unless I read the source link wrong it is the other way around - only initiating the connection happens through the certral server, but the audio/video is transferred peer-to-peer.

However that means it probably won't handle large amount of people connected to the same 'room'
Top Tech Investors in 2013 Midas List
The top VC funds and top partners in terms of returns and what are the firms that brought the most liquidity to tech investors.

Who would you add to this list?
> However, there is a trap in this. [...] Pigs and cows would exist in a wild state in a small fraction of their former "territory." If at all.

Why would that be a problem?
I'll chime in here and say that reading this article sounded exactly like reading about my own 3 previous (failed) partnerships.

My sole successful venture has been solo all along (not including employees), and has outlasted the rises and falls of the other businesses (during the amateur entrepreneur "too many fingers in too many pies" phase). I don't think I'd do a partnership again. But maybe I just don't play well with others?

Anyway, can't speak for the OP, but when intelligent, ambitious friends around you see that you work your tail off and already have succeeded at building a profitable business from scratch, they suddenly get really excited about starting new businesses with you that often sound great. At least in my experience though, many of these people turn out to see themselves as "the visionary" who kinda sorta checks in from time to time and you as "the worker," which, if that isn't the role you're interested in, causes things to unravel rather fast.
Helicopter propellers are typically even louder, since the tips are going supersonic (due to the diameter of the propellers). The trademark "chop chop chop" sounds, as far as I know, are caused by sonic booms. The tech you're linking to is about minimizing the source of sound for the sonic boom.

Airplane and drone props are entirely subsonic. They make a lot of noise when the pitch is significantly different than the speed that the airplane "should" going at. In other words: if you imagine a propeller cutting through butter, there is a certain distance it would go in one rotation. Propellers are loud when they're going significantly over or under that distance. Also - I'm just a hobbyist, so my explanation may not be correct.

This effect is especially noticeable with fixed-pitch propellers used for hovering.

For reference, check out these videos. Note that airplanes have 1D variable pitch.

[1] http://youtu.be/e8nYZ-fMSHg?t=1m5s - note the sound at 1m12s

[2] http://youtu.be/QB6vtE3rIrQ?t=9m15s - note the sounds at 9:25 and 9:53.

For more examples, see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=propeller+taxii...
Well, and most of that 100g turns into manure which can be used as fertilizer. If you count that manure as 'waste' then you are doing it wrong.
Restaurants are such a fickle business anyway. Surprised they don't just auction off reservations to the highest bidder and cut out the middleman, while they're still trendy.
I've thought about writing a program that would randomly send search queries to Google, Facebook, etc for specific keywords like pressure cooker, drug, bomb, etc. Just overwhelm them with traffic.
Sometimes the drawbacks of a framework are more important than the features. Most competing frameworks (i.e. AngularJS, Ember.js, Knockout) keep on par with one another when it comes to features. Their real differences comes out in the drawbacks of how those features were implemented and whether you're willing to deal with those certain drawbacks.
Ah, excellent! Good to know that it is more ubiquitous than I suspected.

(The lack of ^T on Linux really annoys me too. What is worse is that it isn't just a matter of the line discipline sending SIGINFO for ^T... because Linux doesn't have SIGINFO at all. Means you can't even really hack up a pty wrapper program that emulates it, unless you are willing to have everything use a different signal in lieu of SIGINFO...)
Fair enough.

Some people here seem to be arguing there is no place for punishment at all. I think there is, but humane punishment. Not dumping people into a human shark tank.
I imagine that it's still a very threatening experience for teller. Much worse than logging on to a computer and discovering that there are money missing.
While stuff like this is funny, it's trivial to filter out extreme "orgy of evidence" or "Christmas tree hits" from data sets.

This would be far more effective if it only picked a couple for each visitor, maybe grouped for likely relevance.

I do think one good approach for defending ourselves from surveillance by state oligarchies is data set pollution, but to be effective it must be done very intelligently. The idea is to make the data set so dirty that any attempt to hunt down political dissidents for, say, targeted IRS audits would generate too many false positives to be practical or effective.
> in a coldly rational statistical sense, most of the accused are in fact guilty

Without a trial, how do we know that?

If I am accused of something terrible, of which I am innocent, but a plea bargain gets me back to my family in N years instead of Never (or 10*N), I'm likely to lie and plead guilty. We've seen that the government doesn't merely use plea bargaining as a cost reduction tool, but rather as a very large hammer with which to ensure that people get punished in extreme ways.

While there are good police and prosecutors, as a system they are driven to increase convictions rather than to find the _guilty_. Given the chance, they can find something to convict nearly anyone of, and guilty verdicts can be nearly guaranteed against even people who are innocent by heaping up enough charges that either defense is too expensive or the penalty of losing at trial too large.
US embassy closures used to bolster case for NSA surveillance programs
I've got a mini-review, stalled, of some of the options:

https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators
Apple Developer Update
I posted this in another thread - it is nothing groundbreaking but would be a good small project for someone to tackle:

Simple Ruby gem I was surprised didn't exist (that I could find): `validates_twitter_username`

Given user input for username, ensure it is valid. Two levels of verification - one would be probably regex based that the username matches twitter restrictions (valid characters, length less than 15), one that pings twitter to confirm the account is registered. Appropriate ActiveRecord errors etc
Deze gezonde groene smoothies doen je blijvend afslanken
Recruiting employees requires different skills from recruiting cofounders. They have different incentives, different roles, and it happens at different stages in your company.
At the very least some animal product is necessary (e.g., dairy or eggs).

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/opinion/21planck.html

Vegetarians can go ahead and argue that vegans are too extreme while vegans fire back that vegetarians are just vegans who lack commitment.
It's the modern-day version of raising the terror threat-alert level to RED.
I'm working on a Google Reader alternative which in my opinion is a lot more useful! It gathers the news from across the web based on the user's interests and summarizes them like summly. Also it comes with a system to save the posts to read them later and let's users to add their own feeds and lets the users to turn the posts summarizing on or off for specific feeds.
In January, I posted http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/40523233923/getting-traffic-f... and got the initial validation I was looking for on my idea to start a peer-to-peer camera rental marketplace. Seven months later, I've had some reservations (<50), grown inventory, and expanded to a few cities. Most of the core flows work. I've been using AdWords attempting to SEO optimize for traffic, but I'm not getting much traffic. What should I be doing differently?
I have heard that some restaurants have started auctioning off a handful of their tables. Usually part of the proceeds go to charity I think?
Better still if it also threw in semi-random "safe" search terms to further confuse the issues.
I dunno. I'm very much a people person, but I'm going as a solo founder because I haven't found the right partner. My biggest problem isn't skills (I can both hustle and hack), it's bandwidth.
Agreed, and I cannot down-vote as well, so I'll just up-vote you.
It may not be, but considering how much we enjoy eating it, you would be unlikely to be able to get everyone to stop.
Temp CCs. There may or may not be money on it when the fee comes in..
Are you driven by making your investors rich?
The issue at hand isn't whether or not it is easy or hard to learn, it's that the rabbithole can go on forever as all language implementations will manifest inadequacies which you will have to 1) be familiar with 2) know how to work around.

It's an inherent phenomenon that DSLs will change and come and go at an incredibly fast rate. I just don't find it worthwhile to write code that is dependant on the DSL du jour and pigeonhole myself and whatever unlucky sole has to maintain the legacy code in the future. Imagine being dumped on a mountain of ColdFusion legacy code.

I just find it kind of absurd is all.
One involves a human requesting a reservation in real time. The other does not.
My outside read of the project is that it began losing steam long before iOS brought a large number of new ObjC developers. It was initially riding on the buzz around NeXT, which generated a lot of excitement around what the future of desktop computing might be (sort of parallel to the buzz around BeOS). And they got some ecosystem help; it was initially an implementation of the circa-1994 OpenStep specification. But NeXT enthusiasm waned through the latter part of the '90s.

I remember trying it around the same time as I tried Enlightenment 16, around 2001 or 2002, and at the time the user and development community felt quite small, much less active than E's.
I'm completely lost. You want to create a new programming language, artificially somehow make it the only language people want to employ people for anything, while somehow making sure there's no tutorials, no Indians (including presumably those who may be on HN?) can learn it and on top of all that doesn't actually out-perform or provide any advantage to the client - it's just harder to learn and use.

What's the benefit to anybody other than you, and why do you think anybody would want to tell you how to achieve that, making the assumption that it's even possible?
Since when has 'calling a restaurant' become a hassle?
Adding to what Ryan said, when the time is right for an idea, there are usually multiple competitors out there. 2 is a small sample size to generalize off of. But... There may be other reasons.
None of this is responsive to any point I made. Not only that, but your comment misrepresents all the points I made, for instance by asserting directly that I support the program. It is thus hard to find anything to respond to in it.
Rapid Car Rush : A nice fast paced 2d platformer
Oh TechCrunch....

The email specifically says "It would be great if you can propose the types of sponsored packages as well as a rough pricing information on them."

Couldn't they just have pointed the LG person to: http://techcrunch.com/advertise/
The problem with MVPs is that no one clearly know what they are and the folks that came up with it or evangelize it are often full of shit. On one end, lean is pitched being similar to the scientific method. But on the same note, when someone raises the objection about how to get statistically significant data, we are instructed to use our judgement. Well, that is not the scientific method then!

Next, let's move on to the case studies related to lean. Most people who credit lean rarely treat their project as a carefully designed scientific experiment. They do the common things like dry testing for demand, making quick landing pages, talking to their market...a lot. And yet, if you went to the lean folks and said if these things equate to being lean, they would say NO, lean is a lot more.

So what is lean? No one really knows. It's just that when it works out, people are quick to give it credit. But no one wants to see the graveyard of start-ups that give up their ideas everyday because according to their understanding of the lean method, they did not achieve product/market fit. You know this is bullshit because you can take a cursory look at the same product/market they gave up on and see multiple start-ups doing well.

I say all this as a former cheerleader for lean that is mostly disappointed with how poorly it is being taught and clarified.
Some kind of admin/logging console for cron jobs (specifically integration with the `whenever` gem). I have a few jobs that run daily/nightly/weekly and I would love to be able to get simple information like: when was the last time this ran, when is the next scheduled time, were there any errors, what was the output.

Cronjob logging and monitoring seems to be pretty tricky and involves a lot of finicky Unix magic, so a nice wrapper would be appreciated.
I'm not about to hit that button, but let me know if it works.
If you didn't encrypt your mail in Tor then you have made a big mistake and you get what you deserve.
The car still must be stopped for some lawful reason (speeding, broken tail light, &c) and the pivot from traffic stop to car search must still be based on some articulable probable cause that isn't secret information; for instance, drugs in plain site, or arrest warrant.
I think several big selling phones had Bluetooth BLE before it was baked into the platform, so it really depends on what you mean by sizable number of users. The fact that it's hardware dependant too, somewhat limits the adoption.
Any plans to launch this in NYC? I'm very interested in renting out my car.
"I asked [Turing] one day why he punished himself so much in training. He told me, ” I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.”"

I like that. The level of exercise has to be higher than the stress at work in order to drive it away. No 20 minutes walks on a treadmill...
Very often, the marriages where partners never considered nor discussed potential exit strategies should things not work out are the very same ones that, just like with the business partnerships where this is neglected, end up taking messy detours through the legal system on the way out.
You absolutely don't know that someone is likely to be guilty in any specific case. It's a statistical, macro-lens point.
My pleasure :D

Pull requests welcome!

Also if you can think of a revenue stream that isn't bitcoin donations, I'd like to figure out a way to at least cover the monthly server/bandwidth costs.
It absolutely does not sound more sensible for the USG to be focusing the tools of foreign intelligence on its own citizens for drug enforcement. I didn't miss his point; his point is wrong. Using foreign intelligence for criminal justice does the opposite of legitimizing foreign intelligence programs.
They've got the certificates so they'll see your lolcats either way.
It was hardly a joke on Top Gear's part. They have been ridiculously antagonistic to electric cars over the years. Top Gear staff pushed a Tesla Model S during an episode, falsely insisting to their audience that it was out of juice when it still had many, many miles of range remaining. They deserved the lawsuit and it should never have failed.

Top Gear is a joke.
Security shouldn't be a premium.
Ahh yeah, but airdropper costs $9/month for their basic plan.
Well that's super helpful, Sam.
There is a reason for costs to be higher - more human labor was expended on my treatment than on my hypothetical non-treatment. Combine that fact with Baumol's cost disease, and you discover that there is a good reason for things to cost more.
The goal of my comment was to present an emotional argument analog, not to create the best execution of that emotional argument.
> It uses literally billions of dollars in resources, some of the greatest minds of this generation to implement them, and cutting edge technology to secure its data

The problem is when all that is working against you rather than for you. There's no point in putting in your star player if they're just going to take a dive when you need them most.
Hackers Expose Security Holes That Allow 'Free Rides for Life'
Anonymouth Hides Identity
Ooh ooh, if we're playing anectodal data game day I'll pitch in too.

One girl I knew was complaining about how big her phone is and asked me about my 4s at the time so I let her try it out. She decided she'd get the 5 right after it was out because her current phone was "too damn big to text with easily". I pointed out she could install a different launcher/keyboard but her phone had never been updated.

This is the problem with anecdotes. The plural is not data.

I also know a fair amount of women primarily that have iphones because they don't like the giant android phones. But again, could just be my friends, where I live, the alignments of whatever influencing buying decisions.

I'm getting more annoyed with all of these "my anecdote X which reinforces view Y means company FOO should BLAH" comments. They don't really contribute to actual discussion of the technical problems at hand, which are interesting. Hopefully that didn't come off too harsh as its just intended to spark more of a discussion of can we please stop with anecdotes in these stories in future? Pretty please? If you come to the twin cities I'll even buy you beer, or if we're ever in the same spot. I'm not above bribing.
For various reasons, homicide is the easiest reported statistic to compare between countries. In any case, it's not robbery rates that drive the votes of scared suburbanites. Newspapers don't talk about which big city is the carjacking capital of the U.S.
New York State has pretty much banned carsharing for the moment, sadly: http://techsportation.com/2013/05/22/peer-to-peer-carsharing...
Recruiting is an entirely separate issue. Building a team begins where recruiting ends.

In this talent market (in Boston in my case) we have a difficult time with recruiting, but our experiences with team building have been far more painful (as growing pains go).
A truly global business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140894
> (Perl) based on a very different language (Perl 6)

Since when does a version increment make it a "very different language"?

How is it comparable between C and C++?

If anything, it's disliking C89 because of C90.
>I could not understand the decision to drop Chrome Frame.

They didn't drop Chrome Frame. It was a stopgap solution from the very beginning. It gave companies 4 (!) more years to fix their infrastructure. It did what it was supposed to do.

If you haven't done anything within those 4 years, giving you another 2 won't help either. You're clearly waiting for everything to fall apart.
I think the idea of the post isn't to tune out the negativity, but to thrive on it. If all the feedback is positive, you get a couple pats on the back and are forgotten. If you anger and thrill people in equal enough proportions, you have a discussion.