skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of what you said about risk, I think most of the time when people talk about a startup being a risk what they mean is that the business itself is risky, that it's most likely going to fail. While sometimes it might be the case most of the time I don't think people are talking about any personal or financial risk to the founders, though that's just my perception and what I've always understood it to be meant when people talked about risk in a startup. Of course, a founder can definitely take on some personal or financial risk in a startup but I've rarely seen or heard of cases like that, when we talk about startups most of the time we talk about some sortof VC funded entity. Although plenty of small businesses are funded by the business owner, but most small businesses aren't really "startups" either.

Finally, there is the risk of failure to the founders, which can be quite demoralizing and possibly personally devastating, especially if it's the first time. I think how much a failure would impact someone just depends on their personality and how easily they can mentally move on, even if it didn't have any major financial impact. I mean, it is quite a bit of time and effort that could be wasted on something that ultimately fails; unless you view it as a learning experience and draw the right lessons and are able to move on to the next thing, whether it's another startup or more stable employment at a company that already went through the risky phase and won.
We (Maluuba) are actually working on improving nAPI and now have the ability to define your own domains and actions. It's not public yet, but we're planning on releasing it mid November.
Why would I want to test my containers?
What they might have done instead is reached out to the core team and let them in on it up front. Now it's going to be one huge code review after they commit their changes.
I dropped Reeder after the Google Reader shutdown and went looking for a new service.

I wanted an RSS service that would sync seamlessly on all my Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, two computers).

I found NewsBar to be (AFAICT) the only service currently offering this.

The UI leaves a bit to be desired but it's been working flawlessly and serving its purpose.
Guidebox Launches Free Movie & TV Streaming & Download Discovery API
Did you find that your revenues increased when you switched to IAP?
Well standards and replaceable parts brought the PC to world domination.

And the networks should be removed from the device business at all.

So a smartphone that could be assembled and upgraded with full control and root access is idea that I stand behind. And if it forces the carries to compete on services and not lock people with contracts all the better.
Superfeedr moves to Riak from Redis for "the cave"
Thank You. dm-crypt looks like a good alternative as it also has windows compatibility though FreeOTFE[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE
At a guess, you and Swizec are not in the same location.
Why is so important to "know" who is behind TrueCrypt ? They publish the code and you can inspect it and build it yourself if you don't trust the provided binaries.
Developer wake-up call for iOS 7
I'll take it over another self important blogger's take on the NSA. I found the article to be interesting and enjoyed it.
Marissa Mayer is too Busy to Lock Her iPhone
For what it's worth, Spark performs quite well in terms of request routing when compared to other JVM frameworks of various sizes [1].

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=ec...
The article glosses over that Invisalign already uses 3D printers! Thousands of jaws have been 3D printed as part of the Invisalign manufacturing process. The clear brace is molded on the 3D printed jaw.
Turn any CLI into a websocket with websocketd
And what are the others? We really don't need to increase the technology sector's unhealthy dependence on ads as a revenue stream; we should instead be trying to wean ourselves.
While it's bad for you - you had to spend a lot of time and effort on integrating - perhaps this experience can be shared with the Qt WebEngine people and improve their effort?
Using Grizzly/Netty as the core comm component seems like a good idea. Jersey integrates will with Grizzly, I think.

Dropwizard packages together Jersey on top of Jetty with good monitoring, but doesn't take care of other stuff like multicast. Nothing prevents you from adding Netty/Grizzly into the mix, though.

Actually, the modularity, composability and cross-cutting concerns you mention suggest Spring – not lightweight by any means, but neither are your requirements :)

I think you can even use Jersey with Spring: http://www.infoq.com/articles/springmvc_jsx-rs
I object to the whole context of an article that misuses the language to make its point.

No one is "forcing" anyone to pursue a startup life.
Success isn't about Money, it's about Time
How the NSA could have backdoored Intel chips
This is fine, no? Who better to judge than investors? As long as it's not for firms he has a stake in, there's no conflict of interest. This is especially true when competitors want to attract investors.
You're basically getting to what separates the professional class from the capitalist class, and why a couple in Manhattan making $500k/year HHI is part of the former and not the latter.

Thanks to exploding housing prices, skyrocketing tuition, dysfunctional urban schools, etc, having a 2BR + a couple of kids in New York City involves a $1 million house, $30k x 2 per year in school expenses, $50k per year in nanny expenses, $25k/year in health insurance, etc. On top of that, you've got $50k/year in paying off your student loans, because after all you didn't get to a $500k HHI without an expensive bachelors or graduate degree, and you'd better be putting some of that in a college fund to help your kid repeat the whole cycle, lest she fall into that 90%.
>The author's daughter was harassed, and that is wrong. Full stop.

IF the author's daughter was harassed THEN that is wrong. Full stop.

I have no idea what really happened. You have no idea what really happened. Neither one of us was there. Neither was the mom. Her version is still just hearsay and worth exactly nothing. The only one who knows what happened is the young girl involved.

People throw the word harassment around a lot. Being bullied is the new black. What if this kid is super-sensitive (we all know people who cry when they step on ants) and the other kids just laughed at her and called her a teacher's pet. Maybe that was enough to sour this kid? But... is that harassment? Are the other kids just evil? Maybe the teacher was a completely insensitive jerk. Maybe the teacher was in on it. Maybe the mom embellished the story in some bizarre modern day blogging version of Munchausen by proxy.

At the end of the day all we can do is speculate that if A happened then B should have been done about it. In a perfect world A would never happen, but we don't live in that world and everyone who tells a story brings their own biases to the conversation. It's fodder for discussion and not much else because it's a story with only one version of the "facts".
...which is exactly why they don't feel under any pressure to update it in a timely fashion.
The stupidest idea I have heard was Twitter.

After that, I changed the way I thought.
This was not the salary for the internship - this is the salary of the position that this guy was about to be offered -- after his internship
In my recollection, this is one in Austin, TX:

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=119%20West%208th%20Stre...

I may be wrong though. I wasn't able to find any references about it easily.
Many aspects of this post somehow resonated with me. I spent many years in corporate employment because I don't have any backup options. I also feel like I've wasted some time where others learn more about business the hard way. I'm now part of a startup, after my last jobs were with banks, and I believe the route from startup to corporate or the other way around can lead to a similar destination. The only difference is what experience you bring to the table, and a wider range of it is better for everyone.
There's something very pernicious in this story. The fact that you almost feel obligated to give this developer money just so that he doesn't stop supporting the app seems disconcerting. Developers have an obligation to support their paying customers even if it is not expedient for them to do so. I would never give money to an app simply out of fear that the developer is going to cease developing it; that just seems like throwing fuel on the fire.
Ok, I get it, not HN material. But, write a blog post about creativity and simple solutions in startups, using shot towers as an illustration, and boom goes the dynamite. This post requires us to use our imagination and extrapolate to get the point, I guess.
It sounds like it but not really so from the original article.
What makes this comparison not applicable is that the interviewed intern said that they were really just adding warm bodies. I am sure Mayer added far more than that.
What do you mean by "difficult" here? Do esoteric programming languages like Malbolge[1] count?

"Hello World" in Malbolge:

('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>a=<M:9[p6tsl1TS/
QlOj)L(I&%$""Z~AA@UZ=RvttT`R5P3m0LEDh,T*?(b&`$#87[}{W

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
Federal Courts Still Scaremongering About RECAP & Spooky "Open Source" Software
I recently read about BANCstar, and it seems like a good contender. 0-9, comma, minus sign and return are the only legal characters in it, and despite that, it's actually used in serious applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar_programming_language

Here's an article about it:

https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar
I didn't call it capitalism. I said that the 0.1% were capitalists. I.e. owners of capital. They're not the bankers, almost all of whom are in the professional class. These are the people who own not just the banks, but the F500 companies, etc.
Interesting, my dentist sends the permanent crown out to a lab who apparently guarantees fit based off the mold impressions. The turn around time is about 2-3 weeks. For those of you fortunate enough to not have any crowns, a temporary crown created while in the dentist chair is worn in the interim. A temporary crown takes about 15-30 minutes to make.

I bet out sourcing that allows him to see more patients. I wonder what the economics look like between the two options on the dentist's end.
Hi Scott - was sent here by another HN user - As an author I'd love to hear any feedback that you've got regrading my thread I just started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6373031
This is Probably The Coolest Rocket Video In History
Chattanooga, TN Startups
> But guess what? They are free to default and not pay back any "banksters"!

Oh yeah?! Says who? EU? So the Euro lands in the trash bin and then there is a whole line of countries that want to leave the Titanic as well? You're so naive.

Let me explain it to you how it works:
If I'm an investor. Private investor. I buy a stock, equity or a bond, or commodity. I understand that there is risk and reward. That the asset may go up in price but it also may go down. So, if I buy Greek bonds - and note, I do it after analyzing the market, etc, etc - I know they may go up, or they may go down in price. Actually, they may go to zero. And that's a healthy, normal capitalism. That's my attitude when I invest my money. But when you are bankster? Do you accept the capitalistic risk&reward model? Do you accept that the Greek bonds that you bought back in 2000-2007 may go to zero. Oh nein! Then you call Die Frau Merkel and ask her for a favor. Because you gave her money for the campaign, didn't you? So now it's payback time! Die Frau together with the whole EU then forces little Greece to repay as if the bonds were not at zero. As if they were great investment.

Fantastic!

The banksters are the folks I described above. And for the mentality itself - like we should be paid even if it's our error here and even if it means neo-nazis governing Greece - is the reason for which I would behead them with pleasure my friend. And don't confuse these clown with true bankers who believe in capitalism, believe in risk&reward and would just take the hit like they believe in the system (capitalism). Not some aristocrats who think that socialism should be only for them and rest of the populace should live in capitalism.

Greeks vote neo-nazi because they know that the Golden Down would have balls enough to cancel the whole so-called debt to these crooks with a stroke of a pen.
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http://jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+dump+January+2011+edition

I should do another one of these, it's been way too long.
I don't believe he was addressing sites collecting child pornography, rather stating that teenagers shouldn't be going to prison for sending each other images of themselves.
What happens when he stops supporting the original version and it ceases to work after an iOS update?
"If you leave work at 5 and start at 9, and are sensible and live within 20 minutes of work (which you can on a banker's salary, at least in NYC), that's like 3 whole hours of sleep."

First, as stated, these are interns, which wouldn't have the money to live in NYC. Second, three hours of sleep may help but in the long run it is just as unhealthy. This is shown by the answer to myth #3 on WebMD's "7 Myths About Sleep" (http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/features/7-myths-about-...).

"Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die."

How many times did take prescription pills to stay awake? Mix that in with lack of sleep and lack of exercise (after all, how are you going to exercise if you are working all of the time) and you have a potential recipe for disaster. Plus, there are the possibilities of health conditions that the individual may not know about or may not want to disclose in this particularly fast-paced and competitive environment.
It was closed by R. David Murray (a Python core developer), not David Halter (the author)
Show HN: Kickstart Your Own X-Prizes with FuturePrize
I can't help but think this will only result in disasters.
“Business people have a hard time grasping the fundamental concepts behind web applications, and they often lack the patience required”

Exactly. That's why those business people hire developers to build their web applications. If we're going to let them create their webapps using drag & drop, what do we expect for an outcome?
The issue is that the source code is too complex to audit personally. Having no real identity behind it also removes the risk of finger pointing if a backdoor were to be discovered.

"There has been no known comprehensive review of the source code by a qualified cryptographer.[46][44] Thorough security code review and testing is hard, tedious, and painstaking work, and very few people have the skills to do it. There was, however, a functional evaluation of the deniability of hidden volumes in an earlier version of TrueCrypt by Schneier et al. that found security leaks." [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrypt#Reasonable_paranoia
"So far the only physical thing created is the models by the orthodontist."

Actually at this point, the dentist can take the models entirely digitally. My dentist did this a few months ago with a new scanning machine. There was nothing physical sent.
Studies have shown that people are much happier when they're doing self-directed work.

I also think that lamenting losing talent to a bank might have more to do with the perceived negative value that modern banks bring to humanity.
In a most restrained and calm way I must also point out that the Guidelines have this to say about What to Submit:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

and they also say this about complaining about submissions in comments:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission
is inappropriate for the site.

They are silent about pointing out the guidelines in comments on comments that complain about submissions.

:)
Hi HN, FuturePrize is a crowdfunding site for incentivized prize competitions – kind of like if you mixed Kickstarter with the X-Prize.

This isn’t a minimum viable product (we had a couple of alternate takes on the site that we ended up scrapping), but it’s definitely a more basic version of what we have in mind. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but we would greatly appreciate any feedback HN might have.

We’ve gone ahead and seeded the site with half a dozen prizes of varying degrees of crazy, that we hope illustrate the range of projects you might see on FuturePrize – from absurdly ambitious, literal moonshots like the Icy Moon FuturePrize, to something pretty basic like “A Software Fix for Glowing Pet Eyes in Photos” that just represents an unmet consumer need.

We realize this site could be a bit controversial on HN, where the “Idea vs Execution” debate happens frequently, and usually leans pretty heavily towards “Execution” being everything. That’s mostly true, but it’s our view that ideas can definitely be very important. People seem to know this instinctively when they hang on to them like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, even if deep down they know that they may never get the chance to execute on them. It’s our belief that providing a platform that allows the free exchange and funding of ambitious or novel ideas - where people can get a bit of recognition for their idea, and maybe even choose to keep a very small portion of the funds raised - could be a very beneficial thing.

Also, just to clarify, when we picture our average prize creator, they look more like your average HNer with a folder full of side projects that they don’t have the time or exact skillset to take on, rather than your stereotypical “Idea Guy” - although there could definitely be a lot of diamonds in the rough from them as well.

If the site is successful, there will probably be a lot more “noise” than on Kickstarter or Indiegogo – unfunded prizes, or crazily unrealistic prizes that get a lot of pledges but have very little chance of being won. It’s our view that this is actually a good thing. These prizes would be more like crowdfunded moonshots… stretch goals for humanity. If no one wins, none of the donors are charged – no harm, no foul… but, if someone manages to pull it off, there are tremendous benefits for everyone.

Also, just wanted to post this before anyone else does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q

;)
Me too, I lived in Bristol (also in the article, and where the original inventor lived). Sadly the shot tower has since shut down and been converted to a penthouse (I think - the article says offices, but I'm 99% sure the tower itself became an apartment).
Tweet I saw earlier today "Is Putin's speech translated into Chechen? I'm asking for a friend"

P.S I don't think it's irony either, I think it's hypocrisy.
I don't see a campari one, :D but here goes my daily cocktail:

1. half glass of Campari bitter.
2. Ice
3. orange
4. a shot of water-soda

(never use tonic or white wine, if you like it a bit more alcoholic then use some cava or champagne [sprinkledwine])
Yahoo Monthly Active Users Are Up 20% To 800M, Including 350M On Mobile
Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
There's a lot of room in the justice system for discretion at various levels. The law isn't absolute like that in practice.

I'm more complaining about people - allegedly human - making black and white distinctions. Actually, what I'm more upset about is people working from this self-serving system of "logic":

[general problem] -> [label]+ -> [general action]

For example, saying that casual sharing of media is copyright violation, which is theft, theft is bad and should be punished harshly, thus casual sharing of media should be punished harshly.

It bottle-necks the ambiguity of the real world through a single specific label - ideally one stuck at one end of the spectrum - and thereafter applying a consequence from that label. It's a corrupt mode of thought to my mind.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
And when the wealthy make more money does it sit in big Scrooge McDuck style money bins, or is it reinvested into the markets or spent? If you don't want to "siphon wealth into the means of production owners pockets" then get your own means of production. Start a company and spread the stock out to your employees as evenly as you see fit. It is easier now than it ever has been to start and grow a company.
Sample size of one seems sufficient to establish a general pattern.
Well, i was thinking more of a "difficulty in learning" kind.
And yes, every programming language count. The point is to see which one would take the longest for someone to feel comfortable with.
I think this idea is brilliant. I may be in the minority but I think this would be a great thing for young kids to teach them how components can be swapped out very easily. I would get one of these for my 10 year just to watch him figure out what he'd like to add or upgrade.
>I didn't say they were, though I much prefer a system with them included.

So you don't believe in the markets setting price of credit more efficiently than a burocrat?

You understand that burocrats setting prices doesn't work, right? Or 70 years of communistic "experiment" isn't enough for you to get it?
It was so confusing figuring out what this service is supposed to do. Had to look up the documentation. In summary, from what I can gather

1. It doesn’t do any speech recognition (speech -> text), so not sure why they put Siri in the title. It is also not clear how they can ‘hijack’ the text from Siri to do this analysis. The ASR engines they talk about (CMU, OpenEars) have pretty horrible accuracy (compared to Siri or google voice).

2. Looks like they do some form of text normalization/correction, again not clear how they do it.

3. The actual service they provide is a form of named entity recognition (confusing named intent which clashes with the android intent mechanism in their examples).

4. Also they let you define your own entities to match. You can train them using a drop –down menu. Not sure how you can train hundreds of examples using point and click.

This different from alchemy (or many others) because this is open source(?)
http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/features/entity-extractio...

Given this service was for developers with an interest in NLP, it would have been good if they didn’t hide behind a snow job title like “Siri as a service”.
Well, here's one potential reason.

I work on a site that involves fancy uses of video and modals and other things.

For some reason, a recent update to Firefox broke some of the functionality. Testing shows that it involved Firefox on OSX and Flash video. We are using a HTML5 video with Flash fallback library on the site. Almost all browsers, including Firefox on Windows, use HTML5 video on the site and not Flash.

Therefore, I had to use the user-agent to tell me if they were using Firefox and then see if Flash content is used. If so, I fork the functionality to fix the issue for those people. Everyone else gets the original code.

Not an elegant solution but for that edge case it worked. Without knowing the exact browser then I couldn't fix the problem for those users.

There's also a need to know in terms of analytics what browsers are being used to view your sites so you can know what level of functionality you can reasonably expect from your visitors. That is, until all browsers in use render everything, and behave, exactly the same way.
The Socialist Network. Everyone has the same number of comrades.
It would also seem that referential transparency takes away many real world applications. We need randomness and an ability to read files.

This is coming from a big fan of functional programming and removing side effects.
Are these unique to entrepreneurial success?