skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For fun:
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

For figure out a web front end for my REST API:
AngularJS by Brad Green & Shyam Seshadri
Digger - CSS selectors for databases
Official Canonical statement about fixubuntu.com
I have at least 4 machines at my house in the exact same situation. They all have windows license stickers and they were activated, but they all run Ubuntu, not windows.
In addition to Tuna-Fish's excellent reply, bpodgursky, you need to ask yourself: what would be China's motive to destroy Bitcoin via a majority ("51%") attack? They have no particular reason to do so. On the contrary, they can instead economically benefit from being a participant in the Bitcoin ASIC design and manufacturing industry. (And they already are: Avalon, Blackarrow, ASICMINER/BlockErupter, etc, all these companies are operating primarily out of China).

Also: China "locking up" coins would do nothing to stop or destroy it. It would just drive the value of the remaining coins higher and as we are seeing right now, an appreciation drive the interest in Bitcoin up, not down.
Here's the new site: http://cognitect.com/datomic

And Datomic has been discussed in detail here...

* Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3797272)

* Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093037)

* The Architecture of Datomic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4732524)

* Datomic Free Edition (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286121)

* Thinking in Datomic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215765)

* Datomic: Can Simple be also Fast? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426362)

Docs: http://docs.datomic.com

UPDATE: Jernau gives a great practical overview in his screencast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao7xEwCjrWQ) on building a basic app with Datomic, Clojure, and Light Table.

Also see "Learn Datalog Today" (http://www.learndatalogtoday.org) for an interactive Datalog tutorial.
Great timing. The angular based project I've been working on for the past 6 months just had a soft launch the other day. Being able to tell the powers that be that we are no longer on the unstable branch will ease a few minds.
Maybe it's less important to have the best developers than it is to have the best developers in your market. That means you want better devs than the competition, and potentially domain knowledge that matters.

I wonder if that's a good explanation to give a VC - "Our guys are pretty decent, but it's not the quality of developer you are investing in. Our idea does not require rocket science right now."
So you can eat dog shit and you can troll. Anything else?
OK, thanks. It just clicked.

For anybody wondering what clicked: I'd have Datomic running with one peer, and that peer would serve as many end-users as it could handle. If necessary I could add a second peer and double the read-query power. And that's more than enough for my little web-app.

Given the nature of Datalog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAilFQdaiHk) I'm getting excited.
Show HN: How to solve the “can we meet for coffee” annoyance
Here’s the basic problem: People (including me…especially me) have emailed people who are more successful, well-known, connected, etc. and we all just ant a few minutes of their time to speak with them, show them a startup idea, land some connections, etc.

The busy people are bombarded everyday with the same requests.

So, the solution to to give, give, give before you get, right? Well most people fuck that up too. They ask, “can I help”, which signifies that they can’t offer any specific help and it also detracts more time from the already busy person.

So, how the hell can we fix this?

Simple: Plan your meeting at least a couple weeks in advance. Then if this person has a company, blog, twitter, whatever it is, make sure to study it, interact, share, etc.
Maybe send them a creative gift that can add value (i.e. not some picture you painted of you and this person as stick figures in a park) but more related to their interests. When I ran a little streetwear company, I sent a $30 Garfield phone to Bobby Kim, owner of TheHundreds.com. Why? Because he mentioned on his blog that he couldn’t fine an authentic, mint condition Garfield phone and really wanted one. Boom. That was my in, and it worked!

So, be creative, be willing to spend time and maybe a few bucks, and see what happens. Most of all, don’t expect anything in return. To relate it to startups, conversion rates are never 100%, but getting a few to bite here and there is all you need.

Oh yeah, and go into the meeting with a specific purpose. Sounds dumb, but I’ve actually met with people for no fucking reason at all and didn’t even realize it until the awkwardness of the meeting had fizzled over to me.
I'll toss in my "isn't life weird?" story...

When I was at Madison during that time, I applied at one of the 2 student papers to be a sales rep. I went on to be the Sales Manager for the paper. The guy I won out the job over decided to start the Onion with his friend.

You've never heard of me :-(

----

When they first started, their sales tactic was that the paper was a small tabloid -ize, with the entire bottom 3 inches or so a double-column coupon book. So you just trimmed off the bottom of the weekly issue & went out to the bars/restaurants with it
Nice. They should include the ass rehyphen rule. http://xkcd.com/37/
I would argue Dropbox probably took quite a bit of serious engineering, especially considering the scale it's at today. I'd pretty much agree with the rest, though.
Ahahahahah the entire history of the United States is based on expanding economic prosperity at the expense of human rights. For fucks sake slavery was enshrined in our constitution because it was so profitable. Then there was the whole genocide of native populations at the expense of economic growth.

And yes obviously they were revolting over having to pay taxes not you know the whole taxation without representation thing (hmmm... taxation in exchange for representation, that sounds almost like some sort of social contract). Maybe try reading some history through a different lens than "waaaaah taxes!" Why don't you give this a try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_Unite...

Also I was dead serious about accepting your offer to buy me a ticket to Cuba, you can email me at quinnchrzan@gmail.com

Thanks!
There are two problems here:

1. if the company moves to stack ranking rather than just does a cull, it's a bad move

2. stack ranking works at the team level, not at the company level. If a team is full of morons and the next one is full of awesome developers, stack ranking will keep 90% of the morons and cull 10% of the good devs.
Technical problems being essentially solved has nothing to do with a startup actually succeeding in the market place.
Thanks. I recently removed all ads from all but one of my websites (and got a job). The one is to study trends. Concentrating on learning for now.

Also:

1. not hating on sites that run on ad money, which is a very valid business model.

2. You can detect and choose to not show content, if you detect adblock(should work for casual users).

3. Do something that reddit does - "Thank you for not using Adblock" banners or something that game-debate.com does - "Pics of kittens asking you to add them to Adblock's whitelist"

4. You can use adblock-friendly ads
1. That first statement isn't true, and you will never come close to proving it is. It's a broad generalization.

2. The comment you're responding to says, "Anyone who is a pickup artist is an asshole", which is synonymous with "All PUAs are assholes", so you haven't contradicted his point.
http://newrelic.com/ has analytics for web client, mobile client and server side.
Sweet, looks like some major changes to the compilation in this one.
Now don't start giving them any more ideas !
Well, what I'm saying that your model, while useful, will be unrealistic if it does not take into account the billion other variables in play. Some words weigh more (in ink). The meaning of words bear upon the mood of the wordpicker, influencing his hand. Etc. And that this is the case with models in general. (And your reply reflects the attitude of modelers, in general).

Call it humor.
I was under the impression Dropbox is a UI to Amazon S3. I use them and don't mean to deny it's a slick package. But I could duplicate the entire thing in about a day with inotify and rsync. The scaling is mostly on Amazon.

That said, I must point out that the scaling issues all of these super modern "change the world" companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, have are purely for the purpose of centralizing power. It's a self-inflicted headache. It's great business to be in control of millions of users. But it's a sad state of affairs for the internet in general. We've gone from open, decentralized, and peer-to-peer protocols to one company controlling everything.

There are interesting scaling problems. But Facebook isn't one of them.
Somewhat offtopic but does anyone remember the name of the temporary VM service that I think was on HN many months ago?
Self-host the web with ArkOS
I've never founded or worked for a startup, but I would imagine that especially at the early stages, all your engineers will need to be pretty good generalists. You're (probably) going to need a website, a product frontend, a product backend, an infrastructure, etc... And if that work's being split between 3 - 8 people, most of them are going to have be generalists.
That's where he lost me.

He didn't leave because he could no longer live with himself for working for those bottom-feeders, he did so because he saw a profit opportunity elsewhere.
You are absolutely right, and that is what Jack Welch intended when he first implemented stack ranking at GE in the early 90s. At the time GE was overly large with an ossified bureaucracy and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of deadwood employes who were just coasting along occupying a chair. It was killing the company. Stack ranking was the answer to forcing managers to make the hard decisions about who was really helping and who was just collecting a paycheck. It worked very well.

This was only supposed to last as long as required to turn GE around. Like all good fads in the business world, though, it was taken too far by the MBA crowd. They now see stack ranking as a great permanent solution to deadwood. They fail to recognize that: 1) all organizations have a certain minimum amount of deadwood, as a function of their size; 2) once an organization approaches its natural level of deadwood, stack ranking hurts more than it helps.
I think they'll do great in NYC. The city has an order out culture, and many financial services firms cater dinner. (Many bankers have dinner at the office every night) Law firms and accountancies too. The price point looks very appealing.
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? A linguistic analysis
Game looks awesome and fun!

I personally don't play games on my Iphone5, but it would be cool if there was a PC port that you can throw on steam.
Well.. the story is actually probably worth it.. The way it went down was I got this request for a big order (My memory says it was $10k, could have been less).. I only had basic PayPal and couldn't accept credit cards. I was on the phone with my screen printer and the convo went something like this:

"So, I have this big $10k order for t-shirts, but I can't process the credit card."

"Oh, well, we could process it if you want and then just credit you with your markup."

"Well I've never done this before, so like, what if they are a scam or something..."

"As long as the card goes through, there is no risk to you." !!!!!

"Oh, well in that case, sure."

You can imagine in 3 months when they called to tell me there was a charge back I was surprised! I insisted that I wasn't in the wrong because their sales rep (who wanted a commission) gave me incorrect information that I made a decision on.

In the end, the company owner offered to split it with me 50/50, but only like a hard ass 21 year old can, I told him I wasn't paying a dime. (I didn't have the money and I really felt like it was his problem.) I won my moral battle with him, but I lost the relationship. I ended up losing my screen printer and after trying to print shirts myself in a dorm room, ended up folding the company....

I think the lesson learned here, aside from the obvious one about Nigerian Ultimate Frisbee players, was that the relationship is the most important thing -- even if you are technically right, preserving relationships is much more important. I ought to have taken the 50/50 offer and asked to pay it back over time, perhaps just with increased prices per unit.

Luckily, I didn't "help out" the buyer of the shirts and ship him all those cell phones he asked about. When I confronted him about the scam, he sent me a weird email about being a revolutionary.

If you are ever over in Nigeria, keep an eye out for some long sleeve yellow tshirts that say "Flick & Hammer" on them.
> In 1981, Ford's sales were falling. Between 1979 and 1982, Ford had incurred $3 billion in losses. Ford's newly appointed Division Quality Manager, John A. Manoogian, was charged with recruiting Deming to help jump-start a quality movement at Ford.[19] Deming questioned the company's culture and the way its managers operated. To Ford's surprise, Deming talked not about quality but about management. He told Ford that management actions were responsible for 85% of all problems in developing better cars. In 1986, Ford came out with a profitable line of cars, the Taurus-Sable line. In a letter to Autoweek Magazine, Donald Petersen, then Ford chairman, said, "We are moving toward building a quality culture at Ford and the many changes that have been taking place here have their roots directly in Deming's teachings."[20] By 1986, Ford had become the most profitable American auto company. For the first time since the 1920s, its earnings had exceeded those of arch rival General Motors (GM). Ford had come to lead the American automobile industry in improvements. Ford's following years' earnings confirmed that its success was not a fluke, for its earnings continued to exceed GM and Chrysler's.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
Go tool for finding all impls of a Go interface type on GitHub
If it's such a successful business for Microsoft, how come potential next CEO of Microsoft is thinking of ditching that business to someone else? Is he insane or that business is a burden to Microsoft?
Bitcoin Vulnerability Could Allow Malicious Miners to Seize Control
I've worked with and encountered a lot of talented developers and tech people working in the finance industry.

Hell, look at Walmart's tech team: https://github.com/walmartlabs

There isn't necessarily a correlation between intelligence or talent, and the industry or company you work in.
Interesting post.

I'm curious, how much time do you spend every day on this process?
What about ISPs that block port 80? Does arkOS handle that? I don't see how it could.
Dangers of Fracking
Great use of the web to teach.
And for the vast majority of the programming world that is neither, well, we didn't want to hire them anyway?
For a typical user figuring out the command that this site provides to ensure their privacy is most certainly not "easy enough".
And of course, this applies to CEOs too. What is a CEO to do when they realize that they are worse than average? What can you do about this as CTO or another part of the team? Sadly, the only option appears to be to quit.
I haven't had to use $watch except to integrate with jQuery plugins for fancy widgets (and wish I could get rid of those). For everything else, two-way binding in Angular works very well.
We made this tool and presented it at GoSF[0] this week.

Example links (scroll down to 'Implements ## Go interfaces' or 'Implemented by ## Go types'):

* What types implement http.ResponseWriter?
https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/symbols/go/code...

* What types implement io.Writer?
https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/symbols/go/code...

* What types implement json.Marshaler?
https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/symbols/go/code...

* What types implement http.Handler?
https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/symbols/go/code...

* What interfaces does crypto/tls.Conn implement?
https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/symbols/go/code...

* What interfaces does *os.File implement?
https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/symbols/go/code...

It uses go/types for underlying type analysis.

There's a bug tracker at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.com/issues if you see any issues.

[0] http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/146083272/
That isn't the same thing as you clearly know... Paying to have things privacy infringing settings disabled and donating and then having to disable said privacy infringing settings are very different things.
I'm trying to tie this to the original article. Is the idea that performance reviews are inconsistent to systemic management improvements ala Deming? My understanding is he was against the annual review.
The reason I won't get a custom URL is because after getting the "Click here to get your custom URL" email, I was informed I had to give them my mobile number before this process was achievable.

It seems Google is on an absolute mission to get my mobile number, they've been relentlessly hinting that it's essential that I give it to them for what feels like forever.

No Google, you cannot have it. Please, stop asking.
In that case you need a gas mask. And kevlar. But those kind of protest require more organization.
Are there any details on that page or just a signup form?
My only problem is compiling nvidia drivers on the testing default kernel right now. At least there was a bug keeping it from compiling with dkms.
This becomes more relevant every day: http://magnatecha.com/moving-from-ubuntu-to-debian/
Since some comments are accusing me of nefarious motives, I thought I'll explain: (thanks though, it gave me a good laugh)

1. I saw the link on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 where plainOldText was kind enough to post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698086

2. I thought, well, more people need to see this awesome app, so let me post the link as a story.

The only profit I got was in karma points. I checked xe.com and it says 1.000 HN = 0.000 USD.

(ps: Thanks dangrossman, plainOldText and bradly)
2) Internet is expensive, slow, and charges by the minute).

I worked remotely from a cruise ship that went around Hawaii for a week in 2007 (long story). I had a small Verizon cellular router that I set up in my room. It worked well enough, and I didn't have to use the ship's (presumably) crappy wi-fi, or pay by the minute or whatever.

Plus, when I'm coding, my bandwidth needs aren't that great.

I'd assume that using your phone as a hotspot today would work equally well in that scenario.
>> I have been waiting for almost 2 weeks, but I am not getting any email or phone call. This is exhausting and dismal...

Man, I know this feeling well. I just ended a job search a few weeks ago after two months of looking. I'm hoping I can share a couple thoughts that might be helpful. While I was looking for a full time position, and I have a couple years of experience under my belt, I think these insights still apply.

First of all, how many new contacts are you making every day? When I first started, I felt pretty good about the fact that I was emailing two or three people about positions every day. When I told this to a friend who has been very successful he said that when he's searching for a new position, he tries to contact upwards of 25 people every day. While I was never able to get up to that many contacts in one day, I did get up to around 15 per day. His specific advice: "You should be emailing so many people, that when someone responds you need to look back in your notes to remember what they do." This helped me a lot.

Second, I'd like to know what exactly you're sending people. I didn't really have any success when I would just send my resume over email or submit it to a website. I found that my best results came when I emailed a person directly, told them why I liked their company, included three sentences about myself, and asked them if they had any positions available and could share some information about them. I didn't even include my resume, and I only passed it along if they asked for it. My goal was to make it as easy as possible for them to get back to me, and take the conversation from there. It's much more encouraging when you're getting a lot of small emails.

I'll admit that the process was soul sucking. But, with those two ideas in mind, in the last two weeks of my job search I sent emails to around 50 people, got around 25 responses, 10 first interviews, 5 second interviews and two job offers. I would be surprised if you couldn't do similarly well. Your resume certainly isn't your barrier. Your approach may be though.

To sum up my advice: Lots of emails that are easy to respond to. You can do it.
If your boss is a weak performer, your options are to transfer, quit, or organize a coup. The third option is very risky, and doesn't work often outside of investment banks. If your boss is a weak performing CEO, then transfering is taken away.

I'll add a question though... "What makes you think you know your boss's job enough to judge their performance?" This isn't aimed at you, but people in general. As a manager of managers, I've seen people 2 levels below think that their failing manager was outstanding. The reality is they didn't see the things that were important in that manager's job. (This goes for the CEO valuing the CTO)

Understanding other people's performance is very difficult.
the last update they added to their site was "new 2fa added", im leaning towards their own app but not sure.

also curious about this
Softlayer - yikes! Was with them once and never again. AWS is far more flexible and cheaper (based on my experience). Not to mention the full suite of services available under the 1 umbrella from AWS where Softlater just cannot compete.
Good idea, I'm looking into it. Just moving the hyphen over one word isn't enough. It probably needs to identify nouns and adjectives.
I think it's relevant for many reasons. But I was reminded of the information when I noticed that Yahoo seems to be blaming the 15%.
The Help: Demand for Housekeepers and Butlers Is on the Rise
Yes, to better concentrate you should buy more distracting technology.

You don't need to add anything to meditation, if you need an fMRI or a headset you're already missing the point.

It's like running, you don't need a fitbit or a special outfit, we all come equipped with everything we need to run.
Define "most promising". I think deep learning is currently pretty hot and many people seem to think it will be very useful in the future.
I don't agree with you. If you find a job at 1200$/m you keep 1200$/m in your pocket, not 200...
The real problem is if you get paid 80% of that for breathing, because of government assistance!

When you want to help some industry, you'll give subventions to it. It should be no surprise that subventions to unemployment lead to more unemployment!

France (where I live) has a track record : we almost have basic income (it's called RSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_de_solidarit%C3%A9_activ...), unemployment rate is >10%, taxes are record high and growth is NaN.

Recently, I heard a lady (29 yo) tell me that her 1700€/m salary was not enough to compensate for the loss of social assistance. She decided to resign... but 1700€/m is the MEDIAN SALARY in France! 50% earn less than that!
Http://www.canada.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=9142998
The maligned 'thank you' email
Should you send it? Do you?
Agreed. For things like prescriptions, and organization, it's a great tool that bridges the information gap.
Do you happen to have the intermediate steps for these two examples? I'd love to see your normal maps etc.
Reminds me of a lot of political discourse - it is easy to be skeptical of people you want to be wrong, it is hard to be skeptical of people you agree with.