skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Hi,<p>I'm a medical student and had an idea of creating unique apps aimed at teens and donating a substantial amount of the profit to register charities. I thought everyone would love the idea and when I would be ready to launch the media would be abuzz. Novice mistake I guess; from the countless emails I've sent as press releases I have had zero responses.<p>The app is very unique and even somewhat controversial.
I have a good story to share; below is my pitch and it would really appreciate any feedback. The app is aimed at teenagers so the majority of you lovely people may not like the app idea.<p>Hi, my name is Riaz and I am the founder of Socialdom.com - an app entertainment company which pledges at least 50% of our profits to charity. Find out more at: www.socialdom.com/about<p>We hoped to crowdfund the next phase of development on Kickstarter,
but our project was banned. So instead we bootstrapped the costs for Date or Slate (DOS). DOS is aimed at the teenage demographic and is some-what controversial. Please click the link below<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1phNzM_YsN0&feature=youtube_gdata_player<p>The app can be found here; www.dateorslate.com<p>Some key points about our story:<p>I am a student that set-up this company by bootstrapping and out-sourcing my idea(s).
Slept on the floor of a friend's living room for the past 6 months to save money to invest in finalising the prototype development of Date or Slate.
Renamed and re-branded the app and marketing videos.
Banned from Kickstarter due to the apps initial controversial name.
I will be pitching to investors very soon, and already I have heard concerns over the fact that I donate at least 50% of profits from the apps to charity. But this is one of my main ambitions; to create an app entertainment company that also benefits people, so I will establish this company without compromising on my social goal.<p>
For those interested in history, Freedom at Midnight is a great documentary book on the liberation and subsequent partition of India: http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-at-Midnight-Dominique-Lapierre...

It's a sad fact that the departure of the British Empire from various colonial possessions frequently resulted in a power vacuum followed by deep internal conflicts which remain problematic today - Ireland, Israel, and India being three obvious examples.
yeah, the problem is assert is already such a fine name. why, oh why, must it be confined to debug only builds :-(
Kudos. This is a great start. As someone constantly on the look for great technical talent (as both an entrepreneur and investor), I am constantly looking for tools that help me source candidates in a credible way.

I have looked at several sites like this and using GitHub to query and then present is smart. Some suggestions:

1) Find a way to notify the user when their resume has been built. This could be a great distribution tactic.

2) Allow the user to reveal non-detailed summaries of their private repos. This is where the real power of a tool like this would come in. Allowing a generalized summary of the private repo's could lead to an "IMDB for programmers"
> Google is basically a better Wikipedia searching tool than what Wikipedia provides.

isn't that true for most sites all around ? i, fwiw, normally just use site specific searches on almost all sites...
Because quite simply, they can't.

To buy it, they would borrow the money from China. China would provide it by using the BTC they own at whatever price they choose to sell it at.
How many of you paused the video to search for "jhajariya" and clicked on the Wikipedia link?
Not even sure why people are using file manager anymore. I stop using one few months ago and I waste a lot less time clicking around. I don't feel a gui really help on the file management side of the computer world really.
Bought the book, I hope most of the money goes to him... but I doubt it
U.S. government moving to the cloud
Yes, Google is basically just a better X searching tool than X provides, where X is most every web site on earth.
I'm Finnish too and feel the same way. If someone smiles and acts too friendly when I don't know them well, I feel like they may be trying to manipulate me in some way. After living abroad for a while I am starting to see that it's just the default way to act, but being unsure when someone is genuinely enjoying my company vs. just trying to act polite still makes me feel uneasy.
You can use the Plotly libraries: plot.ly/api/julia, and make interactive, browser-based graphs you can easily share and embed.
Is any IDE usable on a phone?
For those that don't understand the ad, the partition was, and to be honest, still is a very sensitive issue in India. My grandmother experienced it first-hand: people lost their homes, were separated from their families, and many people died along the migration from Pakistan to Punjab. There was no way for people to get back in touch... until now, which is why this Google ad is particularly poignant. As much as everyone here has loved to hate on Google for the past couple of weeks, the ad shows everyone just how valuable their products can be. It's certainly worth something... and it's a lot more meaningful than whatever Apple is doing with their marketing.
assert is both easy to write and read. that's why people use it. the people who made it debug only were stupid.
He lost the house; meaning a lot of money went to the trashcan because he couldn't afford keeping a house for 10 people (the common ones with 4 rooms are already very expensive)
I respectfully disagree, but hear me out first. A man's boat capsizes in the middle of the ocean and he prays to God for help. A man in a canoe comes by and ask's him to jump on and he declines, saying that the lord God will save me, a man in a speedboat comes by and he declines again, saying that the lord God will save me, a cruise liner comes by and he declines again and straight after he drowns. When he gets to heaven he says, "what the hell God, i put my faith in you and prayed to you for help and you let me die." God says to him "I sent you help three times and you refused it."

Mitt Romney's father was on foodstamps, but used that help to catipult him. This is real life, you look for edges not to abuse them but to help them elevate you. You take financial aid to get a degree to elevate you. If you took fin aide just to game the system with no intention of actually studying and not paying off your loan, that is a different story. Do not confuse seeking out and taking advantage of help to progress with abusing help. People certainly do that but if you came from a disadvantaged background take any edge you get and use it to get you up that mountain.
That's disappointing. I wish it had been an original venture, but with Nokia's, and really every other OEM's massive patent warhead I guess we can't expect these sorts of things anymore.
I think your comment about "not coercive" is insightful.

Thanks. That's one of the biggest changes I've seen. Your comments are interesting (of course, no way to know if you are who you claim to be, though, similarly for myself).

Larry's fear of Facebook.

I've written multiple times on G+ why Google should be focused on Amazon, not FB. Social is ultimately ephemeral. The evaporative cooling effect always kicks in. Given G+'s lack of effective filtering, sooner there than elsewhere. I've posted far too often to Shimrit Ben-Yair (G+'s product manager) on aspects of this.

The other trend I see is self-hosting / distributed services becoming viable. See FreedomBox as an example. A few years off yet, but it'll be a game-changer.

That damn red alerting bell

One of the first things that lead me to segregate my G+ activities from "everything else I do on the Web". I've actually removed the bell via user-side CSS (repeatedly, thanks to repeated CSS class-name changes) from other Google properties. I ultimately found it was easier to 1) not use them when logged in (so: in another browser/session), or 2) use other services (DDG, OpenStreetMaps, FixYT.com / Vimeo, etc.).

if Google+ loses, Google itself will become entirely irrelevant a short time later.

He's wrong. However if he keeps cramming G+ down peoples' throats, he'll keep encouraging exploration of other servcies. Particularly among the more technically literate and thought leaders.

I don't know if Google will change, but unless Larry wakes up and realises Facebook isn't going to kill his business, I think it will continue down the current path for a long time yet.

Sad. In particular, even FB doesn't suffer disadvantage that it's sucking so much else of my information online (mail, video, search), though FB itself is pretty invasive (NB: I don't have a personal Facebook account).

As others have noted, the fear-driven strategy is highly reminiscent of Microsoft, and is among the factors which killed Microsoft's brand among end-users (the OEMs and business partners loved them so long as the money kept flowing).
I don't have a link handy but I've read in multiple places that Comcast will be doing ipv6 for consumer class first and then deploy business class.

(Same boat as you, business class with no ipv6)
> shell scripts aren't technically a programming language

Of course they are.
Thanks for correcting me, this can be a very expensive thing to be wrong about.
Not at all. If you're filtering based on multiple categories, a search that understands them, even barebones, is better than a brilliant generic-text-search.
Show HN: Internet's Classiest Page
4096 according to the code linked to in the article - http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/l...
I'll ask him what he thinks of this tomorrow night.

My buddy and I are interviewing him for our podcast, The Crazy Ones. So far in talking to him he sounds like a really nice, genuine guy.
No Indian background in me but I still teared up. This ad would work in any culture, but the separation they talk about in Indian culture makes it a realistic plot. All you need to relate is to understand what a good friendship is like, maybe even less than that.
Want That Promotion? Three Things Not to Say
That two situations are superficially similar doesn't mean they don't have different real-world implications, and shouldn't be regulated in a different manner. Driving a go-kart is broadly similar to driving a semi-truck, but you only need a license for one.

Google's (and other Internet services providers) terms of service restricting your usage aren't anti-competitive in nature. The restrictions they're placing on your usage of the content don't prevent you from getting that same content from another provider (especially when we're talking about public domain or fair use text.)

Carriers are regulated much more heavily than other businesses, because the nature of their business creates a disproportionate number of opportunities for anti-competitive practices and other shenanigans. Also, many of them have a monopoly or duopoly position in their marketplace, and as such are scrutinized more closely for anti-competitive practices.

Example: As a monopoly cable provider I can be the dominant internet provider in your city. So to extract more money from users, I create a new subsidiary owned by the same (unregulated) parent company as the cable division that charges for online video. The parent company then tells the cable company to throttle the bandwidth for all competitors so that everyone is forced to move to that new company's video service, regardless of whether it's actually a better product. This is anti-competitive and harmful to the public - rather than offering a better service, I'm using my ownership of one business to unfairly hamper free competition in another market.
I didn't want to go to far on an off-topic tangent, but basically what I was getting at was that I increasingly seem to be interested in a very limited number of sites -- that is, mostly, sites that I already know of and recognize.

I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites. In this way, Google is no longer a tool for me to do search, where I'm not sure where I'll end up, it's now a tool to get me where I know I want to go (which happens to be some wikipedia page most of the times).
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Make scientific-quality graphs and run statistics and regressions - All in your browser.
I am using Geany on an device which is the same size as the N900 (and keyboard equipped), and I have already developed several full applications with it. It's definitely usable.
Pakistan is a pretty screwed up country in a great many ways, and much of their problems are due to Islam having such a central role in the identify of the country. I think they have the capacity to get past their problems but they have as difficult a problem ahead of them as does Iraq, Syria, or Lebanon.

On a meta-level it's fascinating how the vast majority of countries in the world still tend to be mono-ethnic "nation states". Even in the most westernized parts of Europe there are overarching tendencies for nations to fly apart into their component sub-ethnicities rather than to stick together based on belief in common values. Look at Britain and the ongoing discontent of Wales and Scottland, let alone Northern Ireland. Or Belgium threatening to split into two countries. Or the Basques in Spain. Or the history of Czechoslovakia, the USSR, Yugoslavia, etc.
In c, checking memory allocation. In python, checking that sql queries succeeded. The point is there's always something that should _never_ fail in real life but I feel better with an explicit check on it. I figure the ease in coding makes up for telling people (not that it's a high probability of this happening) to not compile asserts out.

It just bugs me to no end how people try to make the easiest forms of error checking difficult.
What is the relative cost in cpu/memory of encrypting with 8192 bit vs. 2048 bit RSA?
> It's a sad fact that the departure of the British Empire from various colonial possessions frequently resulted in a power vacuum followed by deep internal conflicts which remain problematic today - Ireland, Israel, and India being three obvious examples.

Let's not be overly generous.

I won't speak to Ireland or Israel, but in the case of India, the political strife was not a coincidence - it was the all-but-deliberate result of the British. They actively funded terrorist groups on conflicting sides with the express goal of dividing the region not just geographically (Partition), but ideologically and politically.

(This is, of course, not too different from the US funding terrorist groups when it is politically convenient to do so, and then invading foreign countries to overthrow the rulers brought to power by those same terrorist groups, when it becomes politically convenient to do that instead.)
The way I see is if you already know what you need to do to a certain set of files, then CLI would win any days, but there's still purpose for GUI, especially when you have to manipulate on an ambiguous set of files that are not necessary logically organized...
I assume the location bar only auto-completes previously visited URLs, while the search bar auto-completes search queries by hitting google with every key you press. So in chrome's unified case, google knows how many times you type http://news.y..*, not just every potential search query you make.
> Android phones haven't been built with physical keyboards in years

Droid 4 is a currently shipping phone that has one. I've been using it since Droid 2. Don't care for the extra heft and sub par picture quality, but love the keyboard when an emergency comes up and I have SSH into a server while away from a proper computer.
Maybe I should fire a Nightly channel up in the PortableApps.com Platform alongside Stable and Beta for Firefox like we do for Chrome (Stable, Beta, Dev). I'd need to write a custom installer to pull it down, but I still have a mostly functional one from the old process.
http://www.codecademy.com <-- Pretty decent resource for learning HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP etc.

I've not seen any lessons on frameworks or responsive design though, but still a good resource in my opinion.

It's also not video learning, but the interactive courses are pretty nice. Learn by doing philosophy.
Ask HN: programming with a chording keyboard
A friend of mine has recently been having some difficulties with typing: turns out it isn't his wrists, but rather he's pinching a nerve somewhere in his arm/back whenever he flattens his arms out to type. I've been investigating alternative keyboards and came across the Twiddler chording keyboard (http://tekgear.com/keyboards/chording-keyboards.html). Has anyone used this to program and if so how was your experience? What major drawbacks did you experience? He uses emacs as his primary editor and is mostly in an SSH shell.
How do the inevitable speed-of-light lag and network jitter play into this? I've always wondered if there isn't some kind of "uncanny valley" for robotic presence due to lag and jitter.
Thoughts? NYT-quality graph made in Plotly: https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/344/
It's been down intermittently for the last hour or so and was working for a few minutes... It's down again though.
Seriously?

"I provided for you and our 8 kids for 15 years but it's pretty much OK if you just want to go to live in Germany to sleep with another dude and leave me here to die alone by hunger just because now I'm hitting rock bottom economically"

Is not about love, is about being a fucking decent human being.
If you have the money I'm sure a desperate phone maker like ZTE, HTC, or LG would be willing to build any phone you want.
The Right Way to Do the Splits (equity splits)
As I was pointing in some other post, I am always looking for some thing better than Java. My problem is Very Very Good IDE. Without that I won't work with any language no matter how much great it is. (Because my programmers not not smart). They live and think in Java and Eclipse. Can someone let me know where does Groovy Stand with when compared to Java + Eclipse?
10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS
Nice I got my first .XX BTC from the owner of colored coins. I can wait for the second senate hearing to go on here. I'll ask them for the US site.
"So they basically made a machine the size of a room to do calculations any fourth grader could do? Probably loads of fun, but honestly I'm having trouble seeing the use. Find the sum of 2 + 2 isn't exactly a day-to-day event, and is probably better accomplished with pen and paper."

Technology this nascent probably aren't the best subjects of this type of argument. I think we should wait and see what this can become.
Nope, had me weeping like a big white baby.
I love this comment because there are two opposite but legitimate interpretations: that N900 fanboys are living in the Matrix or that mainstream Android/iOS users are stuck in the Matrix and haven't "woken up" to the superiority of the N900.
Another successful app made with D3.js!
Btw, since you mentioned pocket computers, the OpenPandora is basically the same thing as this new N900 (in terms of hardware) and can run several Linux Distros as well. Personally whenever I need to type something on the go, I use my phone to tether my internet connect to the Pandora and type with it. You can do serious work with it.
Github experiencing an increase in unauthorized login attempts.
A couple of people (myself included) have been experiencing an increase in failed logins on Github. May be a good time to enable 2 factor auth.
A little bit facetious and entirely wrong, sure.
Yep, Portland here. Found a crappy stream for now. :-/
How much work do you really do on your phone, though? Besides managing email, calendar, etc, a laptop or even a tablet seems better suited for "real work".
Yeah, that's why the mouse is still around and has never been replaced by anything else on actual desktop computers ?
I refuse to answer your stupid singleton question in interview
you're right on that, when the naming and placement of files are ambigous and not structured, gui file manager helps to find and organize. Actually not using a gui file manager forces you to get organized and finally choose a good naming convention and folder structure. I am still amaze how file/folder gui structre haven't evolved much since it's inception ~ still dreaming about a 3d tree of my file system ;)
U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Important Fair Use Ruling Undisturbed
Some coins selling at $750 doesn't mean someone is willing to pay $750 for 600,000 coins.
I think the claim that future energy usage will remain static is largely flawed.

For one, a few billion people are currently moving from an annual income of less than $10,000 to closer to $30,000. That's a huge, unprecedented global shift that will lead to a big increase in worldwide energy demand.

Second, I think ingenuity will solve our future energy supply issues. A geologist once said "oil is found in the minds of men" and I think that claim holds true for all sources of energy. Look at shale gas: this is a huge energy source that wasn't even in anyone's radar thirty years ago. Moreover, effeciency increases over the next two decades, both in MPG standards, industry and electronics, could yield a savings equivalent to 13 million barrels of oil per day. That's like adding a new Norway and Russia to world energy supplies.

Daniel Yergin's book The Quest coveres these future challenges quite well, I highly recommend it.
> I'll still be able to get more work done than you because I can type much, much faster, and an order of magnitude more accurately.

No, you really won't. Autocorrect and predictive keyboards work great; even with a stock setup, one can type at close to full speed on a touchscreen so long as you ignore the apparent (pre-correction) errors. Add to that the increased screen area of touchscreen devices, and you will find that they are actually more productive -- you can type slightly faster with a physical keyboard, but at the cost of much less context.
Growth Hacking Magazine.
Honestly, with 8 kids, what kind of job do you expect to have that doesn't take the majority of your time up? It will either be one long job or a regular job and a night job.

"All of our children do as well. Germany has a stronger social safety net, so she decided to return with our two youngest daughters. They spent their high school years there and received a great education"

This part doesn't make sense to me. So his wife would rather divorce, which is even more unhealthy for the children because there is no dad around to utilize a safety net than have a husband with a job with long hours. He was making $600,000/year. This is enough to support them for many years.

His wife sounds like the selfish one and this was all an excuse to go back to Germany. Many women want the family and the money, but don't realize the time and sacrifice that it actually takes to get it.
Thank you for dragging the TPP treaty into the light Wikileaks!

Humanity may very well owe you for this.
wow really !!
i wake up in the middle of night several times, especially when I'm under stress, is that what you had ??
Thanks to whoever posted this. Just to clarify, yes, Bret Victor was an inspiration for this project. He was also quoted many times in my thesis for the first iteration of this project, mathapedia. The main point here was to built a product with an ethnographic approach to design---a product that works without the user having to change their behavior, in this case, an academician who already writes LaTeX can start to use LaTeX2HTML5 without much web dev knowledge. This is mostly a proof of concept for something that I hope to be more isomorphic to everything you can do with LaTeX and PSTricks, as well as utilizing other packages, such as TiKZ/PGF.
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