skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask SaaS Owners: How did you plan your product launch?
Did you already have people interested? Did you even have paying customers before launching? Did you start collecting emails with a landing page before launching?

I would like to learn from other HNers experience regardless of having had success or failure.
https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike

https://github.com/citusdata/mongo_fdw
Haha, did you just refer to Mongo in the context of legacy apps? I feel old and tired, and we're not even 10 years into this....
What thermoelectric converters are available currently ? I thought the most efficient is a stirling engine and its efficiency is capped by carnot cycle.
For most customer they are stored just long enough to provide support, create aggregates for the analytics dashboard, and update threat profiles. Our enterprise customers have the option collect raw logs through SFTP for up to 3 days.
> If you understand physics, why has it not occurred to you to ask why Rossi doesn't use 200 KW of the claimed 1 MW output power to remove the input power requirement? How hard is that?

What makes you think that it hasn't occurred to me? Maybe I just don't think it's worth posting about until Rossi has a physical product we can test?

> No! The burden of evidence belongs to Rossi, not to his critics (see below). He cannot meet that burden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

Again, no disagreement, but you're starting your attack before he has a finished product with which he can attempt to meet that burden.

Just because you know something, doesn't mean that you need to be aggressive about it. You're actually giving Rossi more attention than he deserves before these things are ready to be tested.

You talk about the null hypothesis and filtering out claims and not even giving him the benefit of the doubt. Absolutely. A scientist who has useful things to do with their time just ignores it until there is evidence otherwise.

Going on the attack is something completely different.

Edit: ^ The moment that I realize I'm arguing about this with a legit scientist who I have major respect for and whose site I've read on occasion. :(
How to Shrink a Git Repository
This reminds me of:

Wanted--Acrobat capable of crossing a slack wire 200 feet above raging furnace. Twice nightly, three times on Saturday. 53 Salary offered &sterling;25 (or $70 U.S.) per week. No pension and no compensation in the event of injury. Apply in person at Wildcat Circus between the hours of 9 A.M. and 10 A.M.

See http://diki.heliohost.org/parkinsonselection.htm
I was thinking the word "diddums".
How Hacker News Page Rankings Really Work
Sweet...

One suggestion: take, for example, (= ___ (count [:a :b :c])), or anything similar. Check that the answer provided by the user isn't exactly the same as the value on the right. Trivial to pass all/many of these by copy/paste. ;)
There is definitely an irony in shoddy construction being done in an earthquake prone country.

I think part of it may also be that the construction companies form a strong political lobby.
Relevant Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address
Google/Motorola aren't in the game of trying to upsell customers to higher-end hardware. In the end, Google needs to own low-end smartphone marketshare and it needs to make those customers happy; low-cost, happy-UX smartphones are the future.

Also, treat the Moto X like the Model S/iPhone 1/whatever; a who-cares-the-price-let's-make-something-awesome-to-get-started.
> What else is missing? Just a protocol implementation?

Yes. Actually that's why I said that I'm nearly sure.

As a side note: We may also need some rumors on being "web scale" (Actually I don't even know much about the events/comments/whatever which lead to that famous video but I still find it funny)
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Statistical zealots
Wow. This is a scam on a truly impressive scale.

Note that they are looking for a beta site customer... lower right corner... next to the impressive list of folks who have validated cold fusion, which would be zero by my count. At least from places that don't feature folks with funny hats made of foil.

100,000 times more efficient?

Wow. Just wow.
Body blow: How 23andMe brought down the FDA's wrath
Nice write up about the different demographics on mail providers. But I'm not sure that "ISP" is the correct term for the title.

I always considered which ISP you use has more to do with picking the least horrible option for your geography.
It has a sort of Max Headroom feel to it.
I get that this is a stark contrast and functions as a great example. But, isn't every place in America like this?

Maybe I've lived in Texas too long but I see it when I travel too. The immigrant labor class allows even lower-middle class families to live like "rich people". A lot of people now use a cleaning person and who mows their own lawn anymore?

In an economic sense, it's America's new version of slavery. Where once we provided food and shelter in exchange for labor. Now we exchange barely enough money for food and shelter in exchange for labor. At least the ugly parts are mostly gone. However, I can't help but thinking that will create a passive acceptance of this societal structure.
My traffic is probably too low to earn significant referral income right now, but it may be a decent idea in certain cases.

One place where I've considered adding affiliate links is dealing with copyright violations. People have shared translations of Harry Potter in different languages which I've removed, and I thought that it would be cool to leave the first few pages and put an affiliate link to amazon to buy the item. And in future it would be awesome to actually sell novels and graded readers directly via Readlang.

I wouldn't email my customers to advertise another service since it seems way too spammy, but I could imagine referring to another service if I thought it was really useful. I've been thinking of pointing beginner learners to Duolingo since I think it could complement Readlang, but since it's a completely free service it's not exactly a revenue generating idea!

You can upload whatever you like for your own private use, but publicly sharing copyrighted content is obviously not allowed.
I bought it at the same time, and can confirm that I was able to update to 6.0.
Amateur Radio Transmits 1000 Miles On Voice Power
If it's true that anyone who could say "HTML" in 2001 was called a "programmer", then that year is not a good baseline for tech job statistics.
EDIT: Sorry wrote this after a long day. That should read per minute and not per second.
I'm pretty sure this is a scam/hoax. I was just trying to explain how the initial claim itself was at least plausible.
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This device isn't even primarily targeted at the US or other developed economies. Its intended for price-sensitive consumers in developing nations where LTE isn't even available.
Excellent idea - charging per email should cut out most of the spam. I have no plans to leave my current employer anytime soon, but I'd certainly at least consider it if the right opportunity came along so I keep a profile on Stack Overflow Careers. Charging recruiters should produce even lower volume and higher quality "head-hunts" than that.
All sorts of interesting in here, hard for my brain to grok.

"British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about...heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud...The data is protected with sophisticated encryption, and multiple passwords are needed to open it...The passwords are...valid for only a brief time window each day."

How, if the data are out in the cloud, can the passwords be valid for a brief window of time? Interesting, if true.

"One former senior U.S. official said that the Chinese and Russians have cryptographers skilled enough to open the cache if they find it."

What kind of encryption is this, then? Snowden had said even the NSA couldn't break strong encryption. Which is true: (a) the NSA not using strong encryption on its own documents, or (b) Russia and China have better cryptographers than us, or (c) the NSA can, in fact, break strong encryption, or (d) the statement in the article is untrue and alarmist?

"Among the material which Snowden acquired from classified government computer servers...are documents containing names and resumes of employees working for...GCHQ...The sources said Snowden started downloading some of it from a classified GCHQ website, known as GC-Wiki, when he was employed by Dell and assigned to NSA in 2012...Sources familiar with unpublished material Snowden downloaded said it also contains information about the CIA - possibly including personnel names - as well as other U.S. spy agencies."

Contractors have access to the names of intelligence agents? That seems unwise.
Sorry. I wrote this after a long day and replied above that this should read per minute and not per second.
I think that was the purpose of the article, even more so that we would stop categorizing ourselves because in doing so we impose psychological limits.
Same for me. I enjoy social activities and have learned good social skills, but I still need my recharge time alone.
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Think of the other side ... all the hacker movies that we watched - they could become a reality. When you launch your startup why not just try to use zero day exploit to mess with the brakes of Zuckeberg's tesla (that is PS4 on wheels) while he is near a cliff.

Home made drones - with the advance of 3d printing why not? If 10 people could create a billion dollar company today just think what a rogue genius could do in 10 years if he is hell bent on eating the rich.

Technology is an enabler. It also enables the nasty stuff.
And the elites while more powerful than ever will also be more fragile and vulnerable. And if they unravel the social fabric that keeps them safe now ...
Looks nice! Thanks, will try that one. :) Btw, found a JS barcode reader today. Didn't try it: https://github.com/EddieLa/BarcodeReader
The personal licenses (at least) have migrated to a subscription model. I bought RubyMine last Dec as part of their end of the world sale and can upgrade until April 12th.
Option A will disable the same-disk Time Machine snapshots feature, while option B will slow down git.

Personally, I've never encountered this issue and I rebase frequently.
Think this is what happened with the ECAT the DoD bought?
That is a lot to ask for, and my first thought is: what happens to the company if the person holding this position leaves?

Dividing this job into two positions will sound more reasonable.
Thes boundaries are blurred quite easliy with sufficiently advanced technology. That is the point. I can FLIR your house from a public location. Or isps and email providers could store every message (full data) just like the metadata and now 'own' a free copy. Arguably gmail has walked this line in their argument that scanning the metadata to route the message and scanning the content for meaning are equivalent interrogations of bits. But there are strong arguments about piercing of protected speech or inpinging on the veil privacy in the home, using technology to blunt force your way in are limited by jurisprudence already. That is why the surveilance by artifacts of speech and surveilance of actual speech is not such a simple issue.
Where Linux rules: Supercomputers
There are plenty of places in Brooklyn where you can live (with 3 or 4 roommates) for less than $1k/month.
Thanks very much for that book. Of course I'm going to read it too. :)
Well, I guess "legacy" doesn't always mean "old" - not that I didn't have a weird smile while typing that particular word.
The £150 hobbit hole: Farmer builds a cosy cob home
I think that's part of the point of their proverbial existence. Their description isn't self-consistent, which is just further emphasizing these are objects that don't exist.
Furthermore, in order to nab an Xbox Live account these days, Microsoft requires you register using a Microsoft-owned freemail platform (Outlook, Live, or you guessed it, Hotmail).

Is this true? How does this not trigger any flags for monopoly abuse at the DoJ? Oh, I forgot, MS is savvy about lobbying now.

Seriously, why has no one called them on this bullshit? Why do people put up with it?
If it needs a heater, wouldn't it be warm fusion then?
I was trying to make the distinction between those who get to the level of competence of contributing vs those who don't reach that point. The former group being people who don't complain about the docs (or at least not as loudly) while the latter group does. But I guess I didn't get that across clearly, sorry.
> feel like this is even more valid now in 2013 since nearly anyone who's building websites has done so with one of those high-level frameworks, and they expect a similar experience.

But in 2013 do I really want to use server side HTML tempalating? Why not just connect a webservice to a HTML/JS presentation layer like I am suggesting? If all you are doing is building a webservice then the abstractions beyond net/http + Gorilla are not buying you much IMHO, but they do come at quite a performance cost: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...

My first couple Go web applications did things the html/template way and were structured on the way I used to go JSF applications- but since I switched to the above approach my projects have been better performing, faster to develop , better scaling and easier to maintain. As we all know, we seldom get all those things in one technology choice without trade-offs.
It is probably not as simple as "supports json now". Imagine if HN comments were stored as a JSON document:

Client A: Read JSON.
Client B: Read JSON.
Client A: Append new comment to json document.
Client B: Append new comment to json document.
Client A: Save JSON
Client B: Save JSON

A's comment will get deleted. My understanding is that Mongo DB does have a way to append a record within a document, but Postgres does not.

I am in no way advocating for MongoDB (I dislike it). I am just saying that I understand that MongoDB has much more sophisticated updates capability than Postgres.
As I mentioned in another comment, everything I said was speculation based on playing in high school and college. I don't have any strong evidence to back up my claims. That said, I'm skeptical of the numbers in the article you linked. I could be wrong, but in my experience players in high school were much more likely to report injuries than in college. Especially head injuries. Friends of mine in college, on multiple occasions, had headaches that lasted more than a week and refused to report them for fear of being benched or missing playing time. High school was the opposite, players would go to the trainers all the time for every little thing.

I can't argue with numbers, but I am just not convinced the method of data collection is accurate.
I don't know who came up with the "where they derive energy" explanation, but I see it mentioned as the correct answer all over the place, and I can't relate to this at all.

I derive my energy from food and sleep ... Jokes aside, I have no clue what people are talking about when they say this. I don't feel energized by talking to people, and I don't feel energized by doing alone-time activities. I don't even see what energy has anything to do with having or not having interaction.

I also don't think "deriving energy" is anywhere near being a measurable scientific event but rather an ill-defined handwavy concept.
The News.YC App isn't made by YCombinator. I emailed the guy and he said there were issues with iOS7 but that was over two months ago and haven't heard from him since. Try Hackerful. It's not as minimalistic as news.yc but still not bad.
What's wrong with most compilers
Physician here. (Disclosure: I have no financial interest in this or any related company.) (Edited out some 'heated' remarks)

Medicine is NOT, I repeat, NOT 'hard' science. Most of the 'normal' lab values we use when reporting things like elevated white blood cell count, anemia, etc. are based on population studies with the average considered normal and setting extremes as 'abnormal.' You will find that different hospitals even have different values of abnormal. Not to mention, for cutting edge therapies (Oncology, I'm looking at you) there is no 'standard' of care and there is a high variability between physicians. My point is that, I could go on and on about how much the field of Medicine is subject to the vagaries of stuff like regional practice, academic pedigree ("Oh, we at Hopkins always do it this way, but Mass Gen does it that way."), as well as bias like anecdotal evidence (the plural of anecdote is NOT data!) or just plain mis- or dated information. If you are out of med school/training for only a couple years, the amount of new therapies, lab tests, etc. can be staggering and if physicians aren't learning about the new, then they quickly become dated.

So, what am I saying? The FDA is holding 23andMe to an unreasonable standard. If your doctor saw the same test results, they might tell you the exact same correlation (oh, you are predisposed to Alzheimer's or Parkinson's). Tests are incredibly complex... I mean we still don't have a perfect pregnancy test! Again, there is sensitivity, specificity, with false positives and false negatives. If you are unfamiliar with how inaccurate medical tests can be, please read up on some of those items. This is the best we've got for now. If people can order pregnancy and HIV tests over the internet, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to find out they 'might' have a predisposition to high blood pressure. I would argue 23andMe is not doing something so radical... as far as I'm concerned, pregnancy and HIV tests should NOT be over the counter if we are going to limit genetic screens because there is a LOT of work to be done in positives of either.

Unconvinced? Well consider this. Over the counter Tylenol products are responsible for about 500 deaths per year in the US. Do you believe that Tylenol should be prescription only just because a minority of consumers make mistakes? If not, then you must conclude that over the counter sales of 23andMe should be allowed unless the FDA can show it has ACTUALLY harmed people.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23974801/tylenol-warn...
I agree, at this point if you do anything tech related you are infringing somebody's patent on something. Whether you get sued or not depends on how much money you have.

As for the legal extortion using lawsuits. That's an old game in the US, there are people who make an active living out of suing somebody for something and offering to settle. Get a copyright infringement letter from somebody? I guarantee you that the settlement offer will be much less than defending yourself in court, even if they are mistaken in their accusation. It's an industry that people have been abusing for years, if not decades.

The courts themselves have to do something to stop this but I see no signs they are interested in reducing the need for more resources to be spent on things the courts need to address these cases.
No, there are no down-vote buttons on polls.
We have put in place some of the toughest controls that one can possibly have within a democratic Government

When the fuck did I have a say in that?

Democracy my fucking arse. Plutocracy more like.
> With the nexus 5 at $350 right now, not sure why I would bother with either.

The N5's apparently abysmal battery life?
Top 7 reasons for why Google Drive document sharing remains broken for so very long:

7 Google only thinks in terms of very large numbers, starting at a billion. If you were to share a billion documents, and those billion documents appeared in everybody's folders, then (you must admit) that would be a bad user experience.

6 This feature is not part of Microsoft's or Facebook's or any hot-new-startup's core feature set, so there's no incentive to fix this.

5 Writely finished integration long ago. There's no one to do the work.

4 Google is a search company. The current mode encourages users to search for documents (in hopes they're there).

3 Fixing this feature would not increase ad revenue.

2 Google's tech support department left for a dental appointment six years ago, and she never came back.

1 Fixing this problem would not lead to more Google+ logins

Google's recommended workaround: If you want to share your document with your coworkers, and have them see it without searching, post the document on Google+
> libel

As sp332 said, you can say most anything as long as it is true.

> bullying

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but...

> calls to murder

That would be considered "fighting words", which do not have first amendment protections.
Raspberry Pi: Making Robotic Photobooths
Buffer Enables 2-Step Login
You have these backwards. The definition I gave of introvert is the accepted/technical/actual definition. Myers Briggs use the word introversion to capture a concept that is much wider than introvert. For example it makes claims and assertions about the mechanism of "drawing and rebuilding energy" which is clearly a metaphor, not an actually measurable quantity.
Seriously, another case of using Mongo incorrectly? I want to believe all the Mongo hate, but I can't because I always find out that the actual problem was one or more of:

* didn't read the manual

* poor schema

* didn't maintain the database (compactions, etc.)

In this case, they hit several:

" Its volume on disk is growing 3-4 times faster than the real volume of data it store;"

They should be doing compactions and are not. Using PostgreSQL does not avoid administration; it simply changes the administration to be done.

"it eats up all the memory without the possibility to limit this"

That's the idea -- that memory isn't actually used though; it's just memory mapping the file. It will swap out for something else that needs the space unless you are actively using all the data, in which case you really are using all your memory. Which is why you should put it on its own server...

"it begins to slow down the application because of frequent disk access"

"Finally we sleep quietly, and don’t fear that mongodb will drive out redis to swap once again."

You should be running Mongo on a server by itself. At the very least, if you're having disk contention issues, don't run it on the same server as your other database.

I'm not sure you always need to read the manual for everything, but for your production database, it's probably worth it.
Also worth noting that the Vetting and Barring Scheme was established in 2002 and the Identity Card Act was from 2006 whereas the SNP only took office for the first time in 2007.
I didn't understand how they got the "age" of users for different email hosts.
If there's no gag order, jurors will often talk about what happened. Now, whether to believe them or not is another thing.
It seems that "inflation" has an equivocal meaning here. I presume he meant that the purchasing power of the currency would diminish and it's not hard to imagine why. Look at housing - if the credit wouldn't be cheap (or if it wouldn't be available on a large scale), the houses have to have a price between the basic price (the combined cost of land plus house construction) and the price that the market can bear. Given the credit, the housing becomes able to bear a lot more. The housing credit affects just housing, but a basic income would affect pretty much everything an average Joe would require. A basic income would rise both the basic prices for every human-involved activity (the payed work becomes more expensive) and the bar of what a vast pool of potential clients could bear/afford.
$1.99 now.
> She's often described as the emotional heart of Facebook

That's an interesting role I've never heard of before. Is there an equivalent at Apple and Google?