skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly light on actual details. I was hoping for something more of a step-by-step guide.
I wonder if API first approach is suitable for all type of app. Is there anyone taking this approach for a CMS site, a eCommerce site or a stock trading site?
By that reasoning, I can convert my USD into donuts, and hence the USD is backed by donuts, hence the term "dollars to donuts".
> If you EVER plan on charging for your product you have to ask for money NOW

There are actually a lot of good reasons to wait before you start charging. Like, getting situated, getting everything working, working out the kinks, evaluating possible monetization models, etc. etc.

> The second one usually refers to media companies and massive networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc. If you’re the next Twitter, Techcrunch, Facebook or Instagram then kudos. For the other 99.99999% of you who fall in the first group with the rest of us, if you haven’t asked your users to pay yet, then your startup is completely bullshit until you do.

Uhh, no. A lot of companies can work on this model. And do so. The examples are numerous.

And, what is it with this condescending style of writing? If the content of the article wasn't full of reductive, hand-wavy half-baked ideas, the arrogance in that entire piece would be forgivable. But that's not the situation it looks like.
Good point; At the level that BitCoin is currently, I wonder if this might indeed pay for itself, in the very least?
Pretty much any image format OSX supports.
Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is persuasive writing.
Seems like an enormous risk to me. There's no going back if I don't like it.
Algorithmically predicting the success of startups
You do not use the reflog to revert a merge. You do it to undo a messed up rebase, and I am not sure if that is something which you want to fix automatically. I think using the reflog here might be better, maybe with a shortcut to make it easier to reset to a point in it.
>37,000 employees and 5,000 managers

That's 6.4 employees per manager. Isn't that too many?
Possibly on the new Steam box. I'm slightly curious about whatever the heck that is, but doubtfully on the others. The last console I actually owned was a Nintendo 64. Then I used only computer games and then I gradually phased most of those ou. I couldn't shake the feeling I was wasting time with them as I got older, so I generally only find myself playing games that are less involved like, say, Android games. (Not to start a flamewar or anything. )
Two problems:

1) Search engine indexing is broken with client-side rendering

2) Page takes longer to load, and so you will want some server-side rendering to take place (even if to seed your initial models, so they don't have to call back immediately).
Many cars also unlock the doors just before a probably collision.
Alert(1) to win
Show HN: Smart (not big) data for mobile apps + games
Not to mention that no analysis of incidents per mile driven was attempted.
Well I guess if it's going to be garbage anyway you might as well go whole-hog and ensure nothing is salvageable.
> Since fiat in the US, we have the two worst economic crashes (great depression and great recession).

False. We we on the gold standard during and before the great depression. Bank runs, panics, and depressions were of the gold standard era and have been virtually eliminated by the introduction of fiat currency.

> Under gold standard, recessions were more common and smaller in impact.

Also false. They were more common and bigger in impact. Since fiat money has been introduced, recessions have been smaller and shorter.
Windows version plix. :(
There seems to be very little substance here besides a thin wrapper around some database queries to categorically show posts. The search is complete garbage also, I searched for "never give" (partial title of one of the posts). The post was 5th or 6th in the results, and the top results had neither search term anywhere in the article or title. This is "Uninterestin" in every sense of the word.
With a plotting package that generates image files, like 'Winston', there is easy support in Julia Studio to get some interaction. When the image file is opened in an editor window, it is live updated with each run of the program. see:
http://www.kees.cc/images/JSplot-big.png
That's not true at all, as Google as no way of surfacing new content.

Write the best, most authoritative article on a topic in the world, and if you simply put it out there without doing marketing (getting others to link to it), no one will ever find it on Google. If it's in the SERP it will be on page 9000.

This is the biggest mistake I see startups doing, simply creating content and hoping it surfaces to the top of Google.
Ah, didn't realize it wasn't supported for openWRT anymore.

Perhaps you would be happier with a script like https://gist.github.com/aarmot/5730468

There's also http://block.si/ cloud service but I haven't tried that.

Pretty sure there's a small dns blocker app for openwrt/pineapple as well, but don't remember the name of it right now.
Is it really? I've noticed that wine and beer are more expensive than in continental Europe, but maybe it's unfair to compare against wine in France/Italy/Spain and beer in Belgium/Netherlands/Germany...
From my understanding, the overall idea from the "inclusive" standardization process is if there is a choice between two things that are otherwise functionally and cost equivalent (or comparable), the inclusive item is what should be in the standard. Keep in mind that housing construction standards already have things like door height, door knob height, door width, stair tread rise/run ratios, etc. And the purpose of including new house construction in some of the standards, isn't for the benefit of the current home purchaser, but for the benefit of future owners of the dwelling, so that they have a greater selection of housing to choose from that doesn't require major retrofitting after purchase.

And to further address the "banning stairs and requiring elevators" part of your comment, that falls under the Reductio ad absurdum informal logical fallacy -- that is, it isn't functionally / cost equivalent. However, I think you will notice that not to many new houses are built with only ladders connecting the various floors instead of stairs. Probably due to the current building standards.
Will Ubuntu server gets the patch in its update? How long does it take to get that update?
You do realize she is an adult now. She was just writing about how she felt at 18. Don't be a jerk about other peoples ambitions.
"Like, getting situated, getting everything working, working out the kinks, evaluating possible monetization models, etc. etc."

What does getting situated mean? Working out what kinks? People aren't paying for your product they're paying for what they believe your product to be. Kinks don't matter.

"Uhh, no. A lot of companies can work on this model. And do so. The examples are numerous."

Lets hear them.

"And, what is it with this condescending style of writing? If the content of the article wasn't full of reductive, hand-wavy half-baked ideas, the arrogance in that entire piece would be forgivable. But that's not the situation it looks like."

Sounds a lot like your feedback.
We are not making up these numbers. Even for an IO-bound workload, we are seeing 350x speedup.

The very fitting application is MapReduce, which is embarrassingly parallel.
I watched the video, and although it is pretty cool, I have a couple of issues with it:

1. It's a bit fat, not skinny like a pencil. I generally don't like fat pens.

2. The point is pretty large and blunt. This suggests it is hard to locate it precisely. I've done professional drafting work in the past, and having a nice sharp tip to control exactly where the mark goes is important.
Ah, but there's a huge difference. Boeing isn't a company founded by Elon Musk.
When it's for an iPad, which is $300+? I don't think $50 is out of reach.
I knew the "Buy Now" button would link to a Kickstarter page. Kudos to the FiftyThree folks for proving me wrong. This looks like a great product.

I'll buy one as soon as they port it to Windows (because seriously, doing real work on a device that doesn't even expose a filesystem? I'm clearly old-fashioned).
How long does it take to build a technology empire?
I would love to here Coinbase (YCS12) talk about this.

I honestly feel the same way. I want to play around by, say, buying $100 in Litecoin but I find all of the different avenues pretty invasive. The closest I found was buying Litecoin in person, but none of the listed sources were anywhere close to me geographically.
I agree with you that a well-funded company has no excuse for offering a below-market salary and make up the difference with equity. But for early stage startups that have no money, this is something that you don't have much control over.

Back when our startup was like 2 people and barely ramen profitable, as much as we wanted to, there was no way we could pay market rate for some of our early hires without going out of business before we got any traction. Those hires made a risk vs. reward decision to take a temporary cut in salary in return for a larger amount of equity. Now that we are bigger and stabler, we have raised all their salaries to above market.

Perhaps this is what you were saying as well, but I find that many people demonize any startup that offers below market salaries in return for higher equity. In many cases, it's not because they want to - it's because they have to.
Devices thrive through native, strongly typed, compiled languages, because both are fast and need each other to make each other happy.

Programmers thrive through interpreted languages because it is fast to learn and allows boss and his programmers to craft something quickly to show up for their effort.
I use to live in a home where the front door opened up into a staircase which went to the living area, the first floor was commercial space, not residential. What would this hypothetical elderly visitor do then?

I think accessibility is fine and dandy in public spaces, but the line between accessibility and safety becomes quite clear when you begin considering private residences. There are all manner of perfectly normal objects, appliances, and situations that can become dangerous in hypothetical situations involving disabled visitors. Hell, just look at bathtubs: generally considered benign, but potential deathtraps for hypothetical elderly visitors. Nobody is likely to replace their bathtub with a no-slip walk-in bathtub just because an elderly person is visiting, should we mandate that all new structures be build with walk-in tubs?

In the context of private residences, safety issues are ones that really present an equal-opportunity risk. Mandating circuit breakers is a clear-cut example of a safety issue, not an accessibility issue. Something that is done solely for the sake of the disabled is a clear-cut accessibility issue. Stair lifts, ramps, and accessible nobs are all accessibility issues. They do nothing for the safety of the general population; they should not be framed as safety issues.
In the very very far future perhaps. http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/0b4524e145
Google remembers all your passwords
Just to reiterate, are you saying that Linus' father doesn't understand his son, and misinterpreted a "joke" to be something serious enough to provide testimony about in EU parliament?
This is the first of his posts that I would describe as clearly aggressive. I found his tone very off-putting and defensive, as if the next paragraph could be "You IDIOTS! You're far more likely to be eaten to death by feral hogs than injured in a Tesla car!"
RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
Inside Tessel, the JavaScript Microcontroller That Is Changing Everything
I'd be happy to, I'll make the code somewhat presentable and post a message to the list sometime soon.
Quite literally outside the box, in fact.
Talk to a professor.
What sort of process or way of thinking would that be? I mean without giving away the whole store, (since I think consulting on that is your business) maybe there is a comment you can make that would give me ideas for things to google.
How do you find out that someone's using a known decrypted password on your service?
This approach is very attractive to developers because it makes things so neat and tidy and perfect, but there are two problems that you quickly run into:

1) Search engines can't index your page properly. If you rely on this to drive traffic, you'll have a problem

2) Your page takes a longer load (even more noticeable on mobile), so you will inevitably move some work back to server, whether to render some or all parts of the page, or seed your initial models with current values so that they don't have to immediately call back.
I guess I'll step aside the js dominance discussion for now.

Just wanna say what a delightful article.
I'm not sure either! Either way, implementing a clustering algorithm on a GPU was thinking out of the box for us :)
If you ever need to fit anti-ligature door furniture please avoid the conical style handles.

The worst I've used was like this, but without the cutaways. http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2013/10/17/11244306/CRX-K-NEWx5...

Really hard to use. Even for people with good hands who are not off their faces on meds.
Manning was a pre-Snowden whistleblower/leaker.
Ha, yes. Like a 3 week development sprint.
Is there a Marketer News for these posts?
Livescribe 3, Jot Script and Pencil: Three “Smart” Pens for the Tablet Era
Django Developers for Hire
I don't think you understand how that metaphor works... are you trying to say that every problem is the same and developers choose wildly different tools for the job?
Interesting thanks, what's a good book to read abou it all then?
How is this marketing? It's about validating an idea to make sure you're building the right thing.
I think what you're missing is that there are very different kinds of startup. There is the high stakes "next facebook or bust" kind, where it makes a lot of sense to first grow a userbase, get a lot of investors to pay you and take it from there. And then there's the "we are starting a business" kind of startup you seem to be talking about. And a lot in between.
You should. There is a liability. You are thinking self financing with bitcoin, but when regulation comes public consumers will expect some degree of liability. And this needs capital, not 50k from your personal bank to keep your server running.
In principle, it seems like it would be nice to account for this as "we are paying you market rate, you are reinvesting some of that in exchange for equity". In practice, even leaving tax consequences out of it, that sounds like it might plausibly run you afoul of something... (though I am by no means confident that it would)
I think you could do a cost/benefit analysis on this sort of thing. How much cost does it add to a project and how much space does it take up vs. how many people benefit and what's the scale of the benefit? In the case of lever door handles or something like returns on stair railings, it's not very expensive and provides a benefit in accessibility or safety.

On the other hand ramps are fairly expensive (thousands of dollars to hire a contractor to build one) and take up a lot of room (usually height:length of 1:12 or 1:16, not counting landings). Elevators are even more expensive (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars plus maintenance) and take up a fair amount of room.
350x on what possible workload? how do you speed up i/o bound workloads -- are you offloading compression/decompression to the gpu or something?
Maybe he's not being honest with himself? :-)

But I have heard elsewhere that a big reason behind doing this is it forces managers to not be wishy washy telling everyone how great they are. It's very hard to enforce the discipline of tough conversations in organizations where there are long lines of people waiting to be promoted. GE is a prime example of this. People aren't there to invent great technology, or make a financial killing. Therefore the senior engineer doesn't have status. It's the senior manager that does.
All ads should make you feel used. If you don't then they have succeeded! There is no information-only ad.
Indeed. Google takes 42% right out of your pocket using adsense. Google Search is 51% and BSA takes 25%.
Nokia shareholders approve sale of mobile business to Microsoft
Dealing with Timezones in Javascript
Amazing! Nice work!
I could be so rich right now. I missed the bus completely on this one.
Middle America if trying to minimize cost. Cheap US city if you want to balance it with other factors.
There's an add-on that can disable the all-caps menus. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c6d1c265-7007-...
Isnt Resin a server ? maybe you should look for another name , branding collision is never good for new products.
I'd think the grips would wear out due to friction which should be minimal in what I'm thinking. Something that is a no tool install would sell much better.
A distinction needs to be made between illiquid equity at early-stage startups and liquid equity at publicly-traded companies or companies that are well on their way to liquidity. What makes sense at Equinix, Juniper Networks and Opsware, all publicly-traded or acquired companies, may make little sense at an early-stage startup.

When equity is liquid, ongoing grants are akin to bonuses. At early-stage startups, however, the attractiveness of ongoing grants to employees ultimately depends on the perceived value of those grants. If a path to liquidity is not clear and employees are not certain that the company's traction is producing meaningful appreciation of their existing equity, ongoing grants are unlikely to be very compelling.

In short, I think it's a mistake for earlier-stage startups to treat equity as a retention tool. It can be an effective recruiting tool in some circumstances, but unless your company is a rocket ship that is going to reach the moon soon, which most early-stage startups are not, focusing too much on equity as part of the compensation package can easily hurt retention because most of the experienced and savvy employees know how to keep score.
(2007)

Very interesting, though. Just not very new.
Google continues to set the standard for high-security TLS connections; they are the world's biggest target, and they clearly take that seriously.

RC4 is a terribly broken cipher. It was known to be broken in the late '90s and was included in SSL more as an accident of history than anything else. Unfortunately, SSL was standardized before researchers fully understood the interactions between encryption and message authentication, and SSL botched block encryption (and thus AES). So, for the past ~4-5 years, big companies have been using RC4 as a stopgap for dealing with vulnerabilities stemming from SSL's botched AES construction.

That doesn't work anymore, because the flaws in RC4 are now known to be far more grave than they were previously though.

Add support for AES-GCM, the only rigorously secure ciphersuite available to TLS, to the laundry list of other things Google has done to improve Internet security --- forward secrecy, certificate pinning, detection of forged certificates, patching the Lucky 13 vulnerability.
I see what you're getting at, but your language may have been a little bit too hard-hitting.

Shall we at least agree on the idea that "maybe some products should not be free and the creators should consider paying for them"?
I guess I don't understand something. Everywhere I have worked has had a ranking of employees such that when finances become difficult they knew who they would make redundant first. To me this is also stacked ranking.

This is a stacked rating.

Couldnt you have stacked ranking with a criteria that rewards all involved for collaboration?

Yes, though it's tougher to measure. People generally know who the best mentors are, and who they can call when they need help with a tough problem. They also know the worst mentors, and the people who don't return calls. It's very hard measuring the people in the middle.
Useful for sketching but any real work is going to be done with an actual drawing tablet like the ones Wacom makes.
so the soil will be very very fertile!
good for you India, good for you!
Saw the upvotes, opened the link, watched the video, came back to HN comments, saw many people confused and criticizing.

I have to ask, why so many upvotes then?

Could it be that people here upvote even before opening links? Or just because everybody else seem to think it's a good idea to upvote?
GE or Nielsen?
How to install Windows 8/8.1 on late 2013 Macbook Pro
>>You can wonder if they lack moral fibre, or if you lack experience.

False dichotomy.
the markets that can take credit card or do bank withdrawal require that id to protect themselves from fraudelent buyers.

if you're going to buy bitcoins anonymously, you'll probably have to do it locally with cash.
>> I don't even think it's all that true in that case either.

I don't disagree, that's why I used "might" as a weasel word.
Very interesting. The big concern here is what exactly happens in case of fraud. With credit cards, this is less of a hassle for the consumer, since the issuer takes the hit. With debit, it's a pita to get your money back if it's stolen. I use my debit card only at the ATM for this reason.
If the U.S. government fell, any bodies of power that arose in the aftermath would be quite likely to repudiate the debts of the old government. So no, the dollar isn't quite backed by the material value of everything in the U.S.

It is backed by the stability of the U.S. government though.
The pernicious USB-stick stall problem
Are there any API's out there currently that allow you to issue a debit card refund like this?

After some googling I found this: http://www.fuzenetwork.com/contact-us/ linked to from here https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/32

I tried to use their contact form but was redirected to what looks like a version of their site that isn't supposed (or expected) to be public yet. From there I find a link to this page: http://info.fuzenetwork.com/developer-center-fuze-network and I was able to submit the form.

Edit: I received an email after signing up but it seemed a little half-baked. I would guess that they are still working on their product and aren't ready to launch just yet.
Hmm, that's unfortunate since my biggest use case would be able to have a large canvas that I can move text around on. What's the syncing like? Is there some way I would be able to access my images via a desktop or web interface?
We tried asking people to make things accessible. They told us to fuck off.

Now we just tell them what to do and prosecute if they don't do it.

In this example: Requiring a lever prevents architects doing stupid things with doors. "Oh ho, this is not a door knob!" when it is a door knob, just a different still unusable shape.
Starting and growing businesses is very much within the scope of Hacker News.
Your cartoon doesn't really pertain to this because telling someone they have an e-mail is zero value added. Me asking my neighbor how to forecast something and saving what could be minutes to hours, despite interrupting a train of thought and setting them back a few seconds, definitely does add value.
1. Not really true nowadays. Google can trawl Javascript sites. Other search engines may be able to as well.

2. Initial page load will be slightly higher (and subsequent pages will be much faster) but I can't imagine it'll be too noticeable. People get away with a lot - even on mobile - loading numerous JS libraries, tonnes of CSS, etc. As long as you go easy in other regards, this shouldn't be a problem.

There's no reason that API driven design has to involve client-side rendering. You can always consume your API on the backend and render on the server.
It wasn't until over a year later (July 2010) that the first block was likely mined using GPUs.

Satoshi implored people in December 2009 (several months after this post) to postpone mining using GPUs for as long as possible[1].

[1]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12.msg54#msg54