skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"there will be no DirectX 12" - AMD
> Split the stock between the founding team evenly.

I worked as the first employee at a now successful start up. They were 5 founders with each 20% of the shares. What I heard from them after several investment rounds is that investors don't like evenly split stock and prefer that one of the founders has the most stock, even if that's just a single stock more than the other founders.
Clicked the link expecting a $10-20 price. Saw the screenshot, glanced up to the 4.5 star reviews, and bought it. Probably 15 seconds from landing to purchase.

I have bought $10-30 apps in the past (mostly for music production) and have been happy with all of them except one, which I returned for a refund.
While he was CEO of Sun, Jonathan Schwartz got an SEC clarification that blogging is OK under Reg FD, so I guess Tweeting is also allowed. I wonder if Bloomberg syndicates Icahn's tweets now.
Contrived, but if I write:

var allMyPageHeaders = HTML.find(".header");
allMyPageHeaders[0].textContent = 'This is my main header';

... and there's only one element on the page with the class ".header", my code is now broken.

Unless I'm missing something, and an "HTML'ified node" acts as an array in the single case.
Ssh Passwordlessly
My experience has given me a simple litmus for whether a startup is going to fail or not:

Are they trying to build a small idea into a great company, or are they trying to build a giant idea into a giant company?
This is actually very small corpus, just 3 billion docs. Google, for example, is known to have 50 billion docs in index.
Russia Today: Putin's Weapon in the War of Images
For anyone else confused, as I was, by the Everest trek photos: these were taken with tripods and not with the new Trekker gear.
Naming changes were for consistency across the framework.

We only use `!important` on utilities where specificity would make them impractical. Quick floats, toggling by viewport size, etc make it necessary unfortunately. When it comes to every other component though, we don't use it at all.

Major version release enable us to break backward compatibility. Other motivations aside, I see no reason to not do it in attempts to do something better.
You have PHP for that.
Who says I didn't go insane? ;-)

The crazy edge cases were...challenging. The source code to the parser is very assert-heavy, so if there's anything that's amiss, it tends to blow up with an assertion failure. I'd run the MapReduce and it would blow up a few hundred times, then MapReduce would stop trying and kill the job. Then when I had a spare moment, I'd look at the assertion failures, pick off the most common ones, and run it again. This time it would get farther, I'd pick off another couple of bugs, and run it again.

As expected, the triggering frequency of bugs follows a power-law distribution. It took a long time before I could get it to parse one HTML document, and then it would fail on 1% of documents, then 0.1% of documents, then 0.01%, and so on. It got stuck at a roughly 1-in-a-million failure rate by a long time, until I figured out that it was crashing because of a stack overflow in the testing code, which would recursively sanity-check the produced DOM. Some documents generate a DOM >20,000 nodes deep, which is evidently too much to fit in typical C stacks, although Gumbo can handle them. (I found one page with a DOM tree 100,000 nodes deep - it was really an XML document masquerading as HTML, with a bunch of self-closing nodes that don't self-close under HTML5 parsing rules - and when I posted the link to say "Look what I found!", I got a bunch of "Kind of a dick move, linking to a page that crashes Webkit.")
Just any.
That's an interesting approach... the writing essays about what's stopping you from getting started. I think I might have to try that.
$150 is a bit pricey. Have you tried it?
This is a little unrelated but I notice that all Google services are getting very slow. They eat up CPU and memory like it's nothing.

It's nice what can be done with Internet these days but I prefer the old quick Google with almost the same features but less shine.
As a counter-anecdote I purchased 2 fitbit ultras, and the aria scales and had nothing but trouble with all of them.

The fitbit ultra has a design flaw that means that if you wear them in a trouser pocket and then cycle, that they can deal with the twisting flexing motion. This results in popping the plastic case open and exposing the internals (electronics) to the elements, thus rendering them useless in all but fine weather when you're walking.

The aria scales have a fundamental design flaw that makes them incompatible with small apartments/flats. They expect to be stored flat, and calibrate over several weigh-ins. If you really have a small apartment, and small bathroom (as nearly everyone in London that I know of does) then you need to store them upright and lay them flat to use them.

The effect of that is that they never calibrate and weigh-ins seconds apart where they have been upright in-between can vary by as much as +/- 1.5kg on every weight-in. This makes them absolutely useless as scales... even if the accuracy wasn't there, consistency would have still left us with a predictability that allowed them to have some utility.

I tried to `reach out` to Eric (the founder) in addition to the support people about both issues, including reproducible steps to demonstrate the design assumptions that rendered the scales useless.

I feel to this day that they released a little tested alpha product and not a finished one. All I got back was an automatic offer to replace with a new one, and later (I was insistent they had a design flaw and clear about the effects of it) an acknowledgement that they were not going to update the firmware of the scales to pre-calibrate each weigh-in (which is what every other electric scale I've ever seen actually does).

My investment in every fitbit product turned out to be a waste of my money and time.

My investment in time, trying to tell them the issues as someone who cared about them getting it right turned out to be a waste too.

I tried the quantified self with fitbit and their version of it failed spectacularly.

I now strongly recommend Nike and Withings to everyone who will listen. I should point out I run one of the largest cycling web-sites in the world and this testing was done very publicly, 36,000 cyclists now know not to touch fitbit. I wanted fitbit to win, and that was why I so cockily did tried their range publicly. Nike and Strava (with Android) are the big winners within that community, with a few nods to Jawbone Up. Fitbit was tried by others with similar experience to mine... everyone I know who touched a fitbit has given away, for free, their fitbit hardware. It's worthless to us.
Show HN: AWS DynamoDB Session Manager for Tomcat 7
This session manager will store Tomcat session details in AWS DynamoDB. Please feel free to submit pull requests :)
Thanks.
Why I Use Mac OS X for Web Development
ProBar, Meal Bar, Chocolate Coconut, 12 Bars,
ProBar, Meal Bar, Chocolate Coconut, 12 Bars,
I'm going to do one on Compton, CA.
I'm tired of being gamified
Must-have Educational Software for All Homeschooling Parents
There are three best and must-have softwares assisting in home teaching and education recommended for all homeschooling Dad and Mom. They are the helpers of DVD backup/burning, as well as video conversion and edition.
Just because it's from Google it must be special?

Don't want to sound too negative but wondering if Trek would get any attention if done by some startup.
Show HN: A Personal Blog
Hi HN,

I know, I know. Not another personal site. I'm just looking for a few quick eyes on my blog[1]. I'm not a designer at all, but would really value any advice you might have (whether or not you're a designer yourself).

I had two specific questions: is the menu ok from a UX perspective (for example, the resume icon isn't that clear)? And, how could I improve the typography? Any/all general feedback would be much appreciated!

I hope to be submitting actually worthwhile content from my site (projects/posts) soon! :)

[1]: https://ahrussell.com/
Partly a reality for cyclists.

http://www.tacx.com/en/products/trainers/i-genius-multiplaye...

http://www.cycleops.com/en/products/software/virtual-trainin...

http://www.minoura.jp/english/trainer-e/option-e/cogmon-e.ht...

Cycling on indoor trainers is boring without some sort of incentive.
Yes it is. It's not the source of BAD websites, nor ugly ones. But as far as just plain monotony, it's Bootstrap that allows bad/ugly/designerless websites to look so similar to each other.

Source of bad design? No. Source of bad taste? No. Source of monotony? Yes, just out of convenience.
Hyperloop as explained by Elon Musk (video)
Where do I apply and what is the hourly rate? I assume all travel expenses are also paid.

On a serious note, in the footsteps of OpenStreetMap that could be a great next community project: write the software for the infrastructure and the camera gear, open the designs of data collecting hardware (for the 3D printers) and let people upload their treks.
Some people will buy into it for different reasons than others. This is a silly argument.
As somebody who lived in Russia, it makes me sad to see ordinary Americans believe Russia Today, not understanding that its only purpose is to actively hurt the USA.
you cant just choose one ..i use all of these throughout the day:

osx, ubuntu, windows, amazon linux, android, ios
Show HN: Another payment startup launches in London
AT&T Next:  A response to T-Mobile's equipment installment plans.
Sort of like Amazon for venture capital: "zero-marging infraestructure"
This article says the industry norm is 20-25% at the early rounds, which has been my experience as well.

http://techli.com/2012/02/the-founder-dilemma-risk-equity-di...
> and i hate to be an ass, but ... under whose criteria does rethinkdb qualify for this, anyway?

You're not being an ass. This is a question we struggle to answer every day. (I'd argue that even very successful companies have to struggle to answer it every day if they want to remain successful.)

I think that there are two separate issues here. The first is that many of these lessons came from messing things up with RethinkDB. RethinkDB didn't germinate this way at all -- many of the things we had to fix, and many things we can't fix so we have to live with their consequences daily. These lessons aren't right for everyone (and you can't hit the ballpark on all of them no matter how hard you try), but if I started another company, this is what I'd look out for and strive for. If you want to do something different (like open a dive shop in the Caribbean), that's awesome (really -- I mean that; I always feel a bit of envy for people who take this path). It's just not what I would do if I started another company.

As for RethinkDB augmenting the human condition, this is a lot simpler than it seems. Thousands of people take time out of their day to learn Rethink and build cool things on top of it. In many cases RethinkDB is crucial to their livelihoods (because their products depend on Rethink working). Instead of spending their time on thing X, they spend it on Rethink, which gives everyone here a tremendous sense of joy. Since the adoption is growing extremely rapidly, it's giving us a great platform to reach more people. We have lots of things in mind that will allow people to do things they can't feasibly do today. That's augmenting the human condition.

(You can't look too far out. We're not inventing flying cars, but if we can make scalable web apps accessible to people that couldn't do it before, well, that's augmenting the human condition for them.)
Goodbye Firewall, Hello Obstruction: Cyvera Gets $11M From Battery Ventures
Firefox OS Phone
If some startup comes along and provides stunning zoom-able StreetView pictures of some no-name street in Tel-Aviv and two clicks later it can show you the red light district in Bangkok, all for free and all taken in 2013, I think a lot of people would give that startup its due.
Carl Icahn Uses Twitter to Say He Took 'Large' Bite of Apple Stock
Show HN: Web Summit. The Rolls Royce of tech events.
Maybe I misunderstood. Were you intending to imply that 12 or more years of freely licensed software constitutes "nasty, brutish, and short"?
The Pragmatic Programmers Rubber Duck of the 19th Century
Which one of those two options do you feel is the one more likely to fail?
Divide-and-Conquer Multiplication
I'm not sure you appreciate the engineering infrastructure at work here. This isn't special because Google is doing it, it's special because it's really hard to do. How would you go about attempting this project as effectively as Google with the resources of a typical startup company?
You laugh. My first thought was how to get this mashed up with https://github.com/benvanik/vr.js
What Build tool to use for a Polyglot Cross-Platform app?
Which BUILD Tool shall be used for a PolyGlot app with a bit of C, C++, Python and Shell in it with re-linked system binaries?
We can clearly see that since the move to GPL3, Apple is reimplementing a lot of free software previously licensed under GPL2 (I wonder how long the default shell remains outdated bash. I wonder what they will move to). And unlike clang, not all of their replacements are free software.

Case in point: their SMB stack.

To me this shows that Apple would just not have used (and contributed to) any free software if it was all GPL3. The world would be a worse place. In fact, the world has gotten considerably worse, Apple-wise, when we lost Samba in OSX.

The patent clauses in GPL3 make that license completely unsuitable for any company (with cautious lawyers) that owns significant patents. I can really kind if understand Apple here.
Does it bother anyone else that the SEC is considering disclosures on closed ecosystems like Twitter to be ok when the stock impact is in the billions?

Is this allowed because Tweets are accessible without login or would this be ok on a platform like say, Quora, which requires login to access most of its content?
That's how GCC works internally, but neither the front-ends nor the back-ends are available to use individually. Indeed, RMS specifically avoided having a flexible architecture similar to llvm, because he was afraid such flexibility would be used for non-GPL "plugins".
I don't know who makes the best. But I know the history behind dragon is very sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking#Histor...
Jet packs
But you aren't checking to if your users are willing to support it and honestly you have almost no way to reach your users. Your users have no reason to visit your site, most probably don't even read the about page linked to in your output. If you do implement donations you need to some way more than just adding a donation link in the output or to the about page.

I'd suggest trying to drive some traffic to your human readable site once you have donations setup. The only people that will probably care enough to visit your website and see a donation button are the people that are about to use your service for the first time. Unless they are just stumbling across your URL in some stackoverflow post and then you'll probably never get a chance to connect with them. Create several tutorial pages on how to call your service. Create a library for people that don't know JavaScript enough to use XHR. Make a library with XDomainRequest support so IE 8 & 9 will work with CORS. Make a jQuery plugin, etc, etc. Don't do it as blog postings, make a real tutorial section. Every single code example you create should embed the donation URL as comment.
Digital Fitness Tracker Startup Fitbit Raises $43M
To be slightly pedantic, 0.0001% less risk than the sun is actually a fair bit of risk. 0.0001% of the sun's risk is not much risk.
I don't think there's any real protection against someone using entirely truthful, open, public methods to raise the price of a stock.
A mentor of mine drew the line like this (paraphrased) -- a "startup" is a new company with some innovation at its core. Without the focus on innovation, most discussions tend to drift off into categorical murk such as whether mom-n-pop shops are startups, whether the local hardware guy is "an entrepreneur", etc.
Let's not stop there.

Apple now has declining marketshare in existing business lines, and there is some evidence that they don't know how to generate new profitable product lines. A year ago neither was true, but there were worries about what the lack of Steve Jobs would mean. So their valuation a year ago was high. Their valuation now fits with a company that the market expects to decline.

Amazon by contrast has strong marketshare, increasing numbers of lines of profitable business, and the market understands that they are not generating profit because they keep starting up new potential lines of business that lose money in the short run. They could become very profitable tomorrow if they wanted.

I am not saying that the market's theory about either company is correct. Just that these are theories that are widely held, which justify the stock prices that you claim are simply wrong.
If you can dump or generate the IR you can use the front or back ends as you please, no? You might have to write something that reads in the IR.
The company added another channel that they will do 'press releases' via. What are the problems you see?
personally I was more amused by the "ordinary course of business" defense— that an otherwise (as argued by the plaintiffs at least) unlawful activity could somehow be made lawful by it being part of the defenses "ordinary course of business".

I look forward to seeing bank robbers use that one. :P
> How do they know you performed physical activity -- they issue you a pedometer or allow you to connect your Garmin/MapMyFitness/Fitbit/MyFitnessPal/etc account to the program. It's brilliant, and the $0-75/mo employees can save on insurance is a strong motivator

I don't like it, and would not participate. Why should someone who is fit and healthy have to carry a tracking chip to avoid a $75/mo fee? Aside from the privacy concern, anyone with 5 minutes to devote to the problem can beat the system.
I don't think it's contradictory at all. There are really three things here:

* Make something people want
* Ship it on time
* If you screw up everything else but still manage to sell
your product somehow, you'll be ok

As for the self esteem part, you don't need to disassociate yourself, but it helps for mental health. This is more of a sidenote.
NSA “touches” more of Internet than Google
Why would it be drop in? The default for clang is c99, for gcc it is still c89, if this was never specified in makefiles you're in for a world of possible hurt. Most "errors" I see on that page amount to boring differences of how the compilers treat C, or how clang doesn't support some random gcc extension, or how clang differs in its interpretation of implementation defined behavior.
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The Internet, day one
Reasons for Optimism and Concern: Can Technology Save the World?
Bridges and overpasses are already build that way.
You misunderstood, but no worries. If you missed the reference I imagine many others did as well. "Nasty, brutish and short" is the Hobbes quote about the state of nature. Here is a little teaser from WP:

Thomas Hobbes famously said that in a "state of nature" human life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". In the absence of political order and law, everyone would have unlimited natural freedoms, including the "right to all things" and thus the freedom to plunder, rape, and murder; there would be an endless "war of all against all" (bellum omnium contra omnes). To avoid this, free men contract with each other to establish political community i.e. civil society through a social contract in which they all gain security in return for subjecting themselves to an absolute Sovereign, preferably (for Hobbes) a monarch. [1]

Hobbes/Locke/Rousseau's social contract is similar to mpyne's "Sometimes long-term freedom does require constraint on permissible action."[2]

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract#Overview

[2] At least in my reading of his comment, it is entirely possible that he thinks I am a crackpot and completely missing the point.
Twitter launches ‘Twitter University’, acquires OS training company Marakana.
gcc is in C++ for a while now.

gcc has been becoming more modular over previous releases, and is becoming more modular in the future. For example, there are plugins since 2010.

Your information is outdated, so it makes your opinion seem uninformed.
Does it bother you that the SEC also allows publication in news papers which generally are not free?

Does it bother you that level 3 quotes cost upwards of $1000 / month?
High Speed Rail is still better:

High Speed Rail between downtown LA and downtown SF:
2 hours, 28 minutes

Hyperloop trip between downtown LA and downtown SF:
1 hour from LA to Sylmar via Metrolink
20 minute transfer
35 minutes to Dublin
20 minute transfer
1 hour 10 minutes from Dublin to SF via BART
Total: 3 hours 25 minutes

http://stopandmove.blogspot.fr/2013/08/hyperloop-proposal-ba...

The project also doesn't even attempt to price the connection into LA or SF. That's where the high costs are.

Amusingly enough, the California HSR budget for the Central Valley is under $10 billion. Ie, in the same ball-park as this proposal. The reason the HSR project is going to cost $60 billion is because it has to face an uncomfortable truth; actually getting to LA and SF is expensive. Very expensive.

Is Elon Musk's s mega-announcement really just a last-ditch attempt to sabotage the California High Speed Rail (HSR) project, rather than a serious proposal to revolution travel? Something smells very fishy.

The motive is clearly there.
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Om Malik, Father Of Tech News Blogging, American Citizen
... the video is itself a few months old.
I love pssh for simplicity but I guess I better look at fancier stuff too.
I think this is a silly point of contention. If I recall correctly, it's established that for English-language prose, speech recognition is easily faster (300+ wpm) than typing (150-200 wpm if you're good; 20-50 wpm typical, IIRC).

All he needs to establish is that he can do things like type aVariableNameLikeThis in six words (16% overhead) instead of fifteen[0] (200% overhead) and the rest of the claim follows.

[0] If you tried to type it using the out-of-box dictation in, say, Android or Dragon, you'd probably start with something like "lowercase a backspace uppercase variable backspace uppercase name..."
A word of warning -- I started dictating all of my email and Facebook replies on my Android using Google's voice keyboard on my Nexus One a few years ago in response to RSI pain in my hands from overusing my cell phone. Within a month, I started losing my voice.

RSI comes in multiple forms; using your voice exclusively is not going to fix the problem. The trick is to switch things up, which involves having alternatives in the first place.
They should hook up with a buddy of mine eric! He's currently going to all 194 countries and having some amazing experiences. Seems like the perfect partnership!

http://gowitheric.com/
Funny that your link was light-gray in color when I loaded these comments (meaning that I, too, once went to that page looking for documentation).