skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Founder/OP here.

Totally agree. Funny how things change: Old technology for music discovery was FM radio. Today it's YouTube's related videos and stuff people are tweeting.

I encourage all musicians to make videos for their music if possible, for YouTube discovery... (related business opportunity: make this easier)

But if/when they're ready to buy, I think they go to iTunes/Spotify/Google Play/Amazon.
It makes sense here since these are all tech industries with high gross margins. There are few or none even remotely like McKesson in the set.
I often agree with you, but the statement that the Internet founders didn't care about privacy is factually incorrect: Vint Cerf (as mentioned by the sibling comment) is on record as not only being in favor of privacy but wishing the technology had existed for practical cryptographically secure authentication at the protocol level at the time the Internet was designed.
Yay! In fact, PayPal now offers that same "leave details on file" feature, but an even more powerful version; I intend to have that integrated before I'd make drastic changes. (Also, of course, do something about the back grounding thing. Woah, and a really simple fix for that just hit me: almost all of the critical "let this background" requests come up while inside of the login and payment flow... I can easily make that part background!)
Radiolab: Lucy
But you still feel that SV is the power-law best place to start a startup, right?
I thought you can get around excluding vendors just by specifying generic requirements that only one vendor happens to fulfill. Like "must have inter-processor bandwidth of at least Xgbps" or whatever generic-yet-specific thing you can find.
They might have COBOL around, lots of banks and government agencies do. But the VA's critical system, VistA, is written in MUMPS[1].

It's NoSQL!

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
The government IT procurement process puts people that don't know what they are doing in charge of multi-million dollar budgets. The primary determinant of whether or not a company gets hired is its ability to navigate the procurement process - not their ability to actually do the job. In fact, many companies specialize in winning government contracts and then subcontract the work out to others.

It's a sad, broken system that will almost certainly never change - in part because we don't vote for the people in charge of these things. It really doesn't matter who is in the White House or in control of Congress. The fiefdoms within the government that control these issues have maintained a culture of mediocrity for decades, and it will likely remain that way.
For others who are curious about the Gandhi reference, here's what I dug up:

"“Hitler,” Gandhi solemnly affirmed, “killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. I believe in hara-kiri. I do not believe in its militaristic connotations, but it is a heroic method.”

“You think,” I said, “that the Jews should have committed collective suicide?”

“Yes,” Gandhi agreed,” that would have been heroism. It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany to the evils of Hitler’s violence, especially in 1938, before the war. As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.”"

http://stevereads.com/weblog/2007/12/10/gandhi-the-jewish-vi...
Volatility comes from uncertainty. That is going to remain high. Which means if I hold Bitcoin there is the chance that I will wake up tomorrow losing 50% of the value. But insurance for that decline is to expensive. Perhaps one could create different kinds of insurance or transfer mechanisms which mitigates that risk.
Outrage is a growth industry. Go long on Outrage futures.
I believe all they did was block US users from seeing the website - there is no way to block users from transacting with Satoshidice.
Yeah i didn't expect a Flame War on HN. I have seen angry mobs (JustFab incident) and very whole hearted debates but they usually have some really nice points on both sides. This incident... well it was wrong. BUT that does not in any way mean that HN is wrong as a community to criticize products etc. That's called "peer review". And it's usually very productive on HN because the people here are really good at distilling through you pitches and analyzing what's good and what's bad about a product.
Because Sarah Lacy knows VCs, and VCs like investing in the projects of people they know, whether they're a tech blog or a grilled cheese sandwich restaurant (http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/06/01/jonathan-kapl...).

Which does sort of undermine the point she tries so heatedly to make about how women don't need connections to get funded -- a woman with connections can get funding even for something as far outside the standard venture portfolio as a tech blog.
Zend Framework's API builder
> The judge is correct in stating that if Levison doesn't trust the government, then why should the government trust Levison, but Levison is clearly correct when he notes that giving up his SSL private keys would destroy the security of his whole infrastructure.

This doesn't make any sense -- it's not symmetrical. The gov't should trust Levison they same reason we trust anyone that testifies in court. The power of the criminal justice system punishes those that are caught lying. Mr Levison has no recourse if the Gov't lies to him. He has a very strong incentive to carry out the modifications that they ask for to avoid fines and jail time if he lies about them. I'm sure they'd tack on "aid and abet" if he covered up any evidence.
The constitution of the US only guarantees freedom from unreasonable search. Reasonable search is absolutely authorized.
>> Never, ever, buy a TV. If you own one, throw it out. If you live with someone who has a TV, move out. If you GF has one, get a new GF. It's that big a deal.

You will end up not having a TV and not having a GF too :)

@OP - stick to rescuetime (in windows) and toggl (on ubuntu), do not get sucked into productivity porn
Entrepreneurs are A/B Testing investor pitch with videos
In quantum computing, light may lead the way
"...for compatibility reasons, we still support the entire ARMv7 machine in the new ARMv8 architecture, but when running 64-bit software, this part of the machine is not being used, and the area of complex legacy it had built up does not need to be active when running in the 64-bit ISA, unlike other architectures where 64-bit extension was simply added to the historical complexity and legacy of their 32-bit mode. The new ISA drew upon the years of experience of building different micro architecture implementations, so again it was defined so that these new processors can be more easily optimized for low power operation — an opportunity not really offered since the first ARMv4 machine that resulted in the now legendary low power ARM7 processors."

http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_white_paper_v5.pdf
That and the whole power imbalance. He has no recourse if the gov't lies to him, but if he lies or covers up evidence he will be ground beneath the wheels of justice.
I am the first remote worker at my company, and I definitely feel some of the hurt that DHH describes. I transitioned from working in the office to working remotely a few months ago. We're incredibly meeting-and-email oriented, so I still phone into one or two meetings every day.

Bad idea or not, does anyone have any tips for playing the part of sole remote worker?
It should be noted that healthcare.gov might be the highest traffic website launch in the history of the internet. With millions of visitors on day one, I certainly can't think of one that would even compare.

They are dealing with scaling issues that are almost completely unprecedented. Every other e-commerce site that deals with many millions of visitors a day has had months, if not years, to figure out the touchy parts of their infrastructure and make adjustments while the traffic ramps up.

Given this, I can't help but think that 90% of the scorn heaped upon healthcare.gov is politically motivated. When Twitter spent YEARS going down on a regular basis, or Simcity just completely shut down on launch day (with a fraction of the users of Obamacare), nobody demanded the companies that running them be shut down. Shit happens when you build a website that gets incredible amounts of traffic. It will work out just fine.
I buy on Bandcamp because it's significantly less expensive.

Artists set their own prices and many are below the $0.99 price point.

A lot of albums are "name your price" and you can't beat that.
In Bandcamp you can buy with Paypal. I appreciate that. On the other hand Bandcamp is a bit more like that brick-and-mortar record shop next door compared to those huge corporations. Music and corporations don't match too well for me. I know my reasoning is out there for the most, but can't help it :)
Physics won’t be the same again
Interestingly enough, healthcare.gov itself is open source and uses Jekyll for the static site. It seems to be decently done. But the marketplace itself I guess is a whole different story.

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov
On my dictionary, giving up my rights to use an hypertext document system is not freedom.
Its a big database, but handling a db of that size isnt that hard of a problem (if you precomputed all results, and then threw the underlying details away because HOLY SHIT FIRE).

If you batch processed the delta from the other agencies every night (or as soon as they could if better), it could work!
That's how it works (sort of, I think) in NYC. The Duane Reade has a sign posted outlining the limit per day for unsolicited bottle/can deposit redemptions. If it's scheduled, you can turn in much more at a time.
If not for copyright, a magazine page could probably store a compressed copy of every cited url.

I suppose one might argue that this is an educational use. It's for future academics and has no commercial impact.
Those are hacks and not fully endorsed by Google.

Besides what is the point to pay $279 for a web browser?
What does this post mean for His portfolio companies? That VCs are sharks and you should find a way to not need them asap?

A part of me really liked this post; another chuckles at the irony that his own firm is famous for making some of the largest bets with the least proven companies(ie. lyft).
Spewing Sentences
Yes, I agree.

A hypothetical bar owner could get away with banning silly hats. We can defend that with assertions about ownership of property and the privileges that gives somebody... that isn't particularly problematic within reason. Governments though? They need to play by a different, stricter, set of rules. "Ownership of infrastructure" should not be accepted as a defense of a government banning silly hats on their sidewalks.

Governments operate in a privileged space where they are permitted to do many things that individuals and companies are not allowed to do (as a quick example, they can levying taxes against the general population). That has to come at a cost though; they aren't allowed to do things that individuals and companies are permitted to do (as a quick US-centric example, they cannot endorse and support a particular religion).

For this reason, comparisons and analogies between what governments and individuals/companies can do are very frequently worthless at best. These sort of comparisons are just unavoidably apples and oranges.
Congrats Pud and good luck!
> nonetheless pretty close to pointless to move remove bottles and cans from recycling bins that will be picked up by a truck anyway

Not pointless: less curbside pickup volume per truck means you can run with less residential-serving trucks (less time trundling back and forth to a big recycling distribution center).

It's a kind of ingenious way to decrease spending on municipal recycling collection, levying it on the consumers of the products apt for recycling directly. I actually wish the deposit were a little bit larger. What they do is enormously backbreaking and demoralizing work.
Funny how things change: Old technology for music discovery was FM radio.

Interestingly Radio Helsinki is a radio station that doesn't have playlists. Therefore they play every day 99,5% different songs than yesterday. I listen to that station when commuting and I tend to end up finding 1-2 new artists or albums on daily basis. At least for me Spotify manages just to suggest annoying and mediocre crap, if I try their random radio or what ever it is called. That's the difference between qualified and experienced DJ and some algorithm randomizing songs.
Google Hangouts is nice, but most/all of my clients use Skype and cant be bothered to switch. So while in theory not a big deal, in practice it kind of is. Even running Skype in a Linux enviroment is kind of a pain im afraid.
pud - been a fan since "death metal office drumming".

i've been looking to putting some of my music on iTunes recently, so really excited about this service. any chance of supporting Pandora?
how do you propose reconfiguring the procurement process? Remember, it's got to be fair. You have to figure out how to charge a fair price. Everything has to be documented, so that it can be audited by the bureaucrat in a few months and given a second rubber stamp. Also we have to score the service providers, don't forget to ask them if they are minority-, veteran-, or disabled- owned, because each of those gives them +20 points.
Do you have a source for those numbers? I need to vomit, but I can't without a source.

edit: Nevermind: http://newsroom.accenture.com/news/accenture-chosen-to-imple...

Vomit everywhere.
I had a job interview with Accenture that had 2 parts a dinner and a technical chat.

1. At the dinner their representative spoke about how life at Accenture was a breeze and how as a undergraduate he spent most of this time drinking. He drank on the weekdays but his favorite time to drink was on Sundays. He said he used to do some SQL but now he had moved onto the business side of things. One of the candidates told us how his hobby of skydiving let him see the big picture and another told us that his desi background would enabled to come up culture specific features for software services. I probed this question further, and he said that in India showing your muscles was considered hubris, while in America it made you look strong. On his facebook page he wouldn't show his bare chest... Nobody at the table `looked` like they could do any programming work.

2. During the technical interview I was asked what `clubs` I was in. I told them I wasn't in many clubs and instead spent my time doing research work (which by that time had yield publications) and administrating websites. I told them my hobby was programming. I wanted to tell them how I dealt with EC2 sight outages, worked with clients and their clients to write WordPress plugins. I wanted to talk about my experience engineering our production and outsourcing workflow. I wanted to summarize the techniques I learned overseeing our production staff. They didn't comprehend and asked he what `clubs` I was in.

I was scheduled to have 3 interviews, I walked out after the first. Don't work for Accenture, they are a joke because their employees are a joke, which is much in agreement with this article.

They also have 275,000 employees.
The WA version (https://wahealthplanfinder.org/) doesn't redirect you to www, so if you click that link you get a big red SSL warning.

This caused a number of people to worry that this was one of those scam exchanges people had been warned about.

Total cost: $54.8 million
Ask HN: Rebuffed in promotion.. now what?
Hi HN,

Entry-level engineer who's been here for 1.5 years + .5year as an intern. Here's the situation:

* Old boss promised promotion at end of quarter.
* Old boss leaves company at beginning of quarter.
* New boss comes in at beginning of quarter.
* I achieve top marks during the quarter the new boss is here.

I get along with the new boss a lot better than my old boss. But when I raised my interest in moving up a level, he said he's not convinced that I deserve a promotion despite my years and great performance while he was here.

It's personally frustrating for me because many of my peers have already been promoted and I'm still entry-level. I know he's new and all, but I'm a bit annoyed at having to rebuild the respect my old boss had for my work ethic.

What should I do? It'll be another half year before promotions are considered again. I enjoy the work but I feel that I'm doing much more than what I'm getting paid/recognized for.

I could try talking to him again, but what would I say? Is it time for me to move on?

Thanks.
> it's got to be fair

Why? It's not fair now.
That's not how deflation works. If it was, it would be far less painful.
Did the NSA help with the SilkRoad investigation?
Everybody in this entire debate is just talking past each other.

On the pro-government side, the position is something like "We have such a thing as a lawful search warrant, and if you get one you have to comply."

Meanwhile on the crypto-anarchist side, the position is something like "We can design a crypto-system that is indifferent to your lawful warrants."

But these are really two different arguments, that proceed as follows: the anarchists say "Because X is possible, therefore it should be legal", meanwhile the pro-governmentals say "Because X is required by law, therefore people should do it." But neither of these necessarily follow.
Anyone complaining about the price of a $120 smoke detector aren't the target market. I would buy these in a heartbeat if I could (I'm in AU). The pricing is irrelevant for even the small amount of extra life quality this product affords.
Not everyone is a webdev though. Try todo some C#, Java development (that basically require a decent IDE) or anything graphics related (games) via a remote connection and you will see its justs not there yet.
Brudgers comment is at top because community thought it was worthy. Brudgers comment garnered 120 posts, meaning it sparked interest and posters contributed to that discussion. This is the underlying message of HN. Discussing.

What you say here is true. But it also lacks context - Hacker News is not intended to be a pure democracy. Combative discussion fostered by an incendiary comment shouldn't be acceptable just because it features factually accurate content upvoted en masse by the community.

If that were the case, Hacker News would not have guidelines or moderators. You could allow Hacker News to operate like a pure free-market economy, excusing this as long as it's democratically supported - but that is detrimental to the community's purpose in the long term. Online communities require involved government because the participants (demonstrably) cannot govern themselves when in a group. At worst, discussion devolves to chaos; at best, it becomes inefficient and bothersome. Like anything else, there are pros and cons to combative discussion, and the negatives outweigh the positives.

Examples like the Touch ID discussion and the Nest alarm discussion are particularly informative in this regard, because combative, rehashed meta-discussion took up an entire page in each instance.
"Make Amazon's Customers Your Customers"

Except this is on your web-site and you would be making your customer Amazon's customer.

There is a deep conflict in this solution, and no doubt some people will jump for it not deliberating on what it could mean for them.

For me this represents a shift away from payment processing (Stripe, or even PayPal), and towards ownership of the set of master records that power an online commerce business. There is a fine but clear line between helping to process a payment and taking over the ownership of the customer. This is your customer, not Amazon's, and the master record should be in your hand and leveraged by you, not Amazon. I would be very hesitant to walk this path.
Start at 1:00

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-...
Another issue is that the price here in Australia will likely be double the US price.
Excellent product and targeting, actually almost muttered 'ooooh' after reading your post. I'd also add in some other promotional channels on next iteration like Soundcloud uploads. Promotional and general 'radio' like stations, I find lots of new music at Soundcloud, get started http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs
Thanks! Hope so.

Just really wanted something where as a musician, I can just upload my music to stores without really giving it much thought. Kinda like how anyone can upload to YouTube easy cheesy.
Gruber must be feeling pretty smug right now: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/10/02/qualcomm-a7
Then you would just disable the "wave" function in the software, requiring a button press to hush the alarm.
to be fair, you can listen to the whole song on Bandcamp before buying compared to 90 seconds on iTunes
This is an impressive accomplishment, I would say almost more because of the deal-making and logistics of dealing with the online music stores than the coding but together these accomplishments show you really have your heart in the game!

I will immediately share this with the people I know who would be interested.

Also let me know if you need/want marketing help, I would love to help spread the message of Distrokid!
Congrats and good luck! Gonna say that you should charge more though, $20 a year unlimited is incredibly low.
The real scary part is that we entrust these people with our most private information as well as decision making matrices that might very well determine what, when and if you receive the appropriate care.

To me these incidents, the broken procurement systems, the mediocrity (or worst) that permeates government and many other factors only serve to reinforce the idea that we need massively less government reach into our lives, not more. Frankly, the combination of healthcare and the IRS scares the living daylights out of me.
Well now he's got the founder of CD Baby on board, too. ☺

This is amazing. This is exactly what I would have created if I didn't sign a non-compete agreement when I sold CD Baby.

I just created an unlimited account on DistroKid and I'm uploading all of my own music in the background as I type.

I'll be sending everyone I know to DistroKid now.

Congrats, Pud! You rule.
From the little I know US has 51 states with each their little twist on different subjects like taxation or company laws. EU has a set of global rules, no trade barriers between the countries, and financial transactions and payment also should belong to a unified space thanks to the SEPA.

Doing payment cross europe may have it's difficulties I don't know, but on the paper that's not so different from the US, and as a customer I don't feel friction dealing with other countries merchants.

For the language question, if you're building a payment processor, localization of your interface won't be your biggest problem. BtoB documentation and support is OK in english, customer facing interface should be localized, but even supporting the main 3 or 4 languages should let you access most of the market.
How to be successful and how to deliver once successful are two very different questions, and with answer sets that may or may not play nicely together!

As for delivery, as a frequent backer I have seen a correlation between industry expertise and delivering on time.

For example, for those publishing a board game, the ones who delivered most-on-time are those who understand the process of design, playtesting, editing, getting a printer, getting/revising/approving proofs, dealing with shipment and customs, etc. Those who are naive to these things may still deliver, but get stuck dealing with details.
What!!! Yeah!