skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among othet things, I've stumbled my way into being a high (over) paid crowdfunding expert who also trains / certifies people to be high (over) paid crowdfunding experts. I looked at your site, the following advice will be your highest leverage IMO.

By the way, this is easy, just do it. It's the holidays, people are generous which is also going to help you.

1) Look at your school list and identify the most in need school. (1 min)

2) Identify a top level professional services firm in the geographic market that has an interest in education / philanthropy. (15 min on google or less)

3) Call / email the most senior person you can and ask "are you still intersted in creative ways to help Chicago students? (10min)

No? Is there someone are your firm who is? (Repeat)

Yes?

"I'm builing this new mentorship program to a school in Chicago, and I'm relying on a local firm to underwrite (key word) the cost of the program via sponsorship. So far I've raised $17k and have 5 days left to raise the additional $10k. Based on your commitment to education and mentorship, I thought this would be a great opportunity. In addition to helping, there will also be a press / media opportunity and we'd invite you to one of the schools as a guest speaker if you were interested."

Try to close them for $10k (create a $10k entry on the Indigogo page) but settle for the $2,500.

Of course, take anything they give you, and ask them to share it with their networks..

Repeat this until you have the $10k in funding..

If you get 10 senior people on the phone, you'll close at least one of them. aim to talk to 10 people a day for the next week and you'll be good.

Also, before doing any of this, email all your current donors and ask them to "Double Up" their donation and maybe throw in some additional perk for doing that. They have already given you $$ and are more likely to give again.

It's too late in my option for scrambling for Press (that is a T-30 or 60 days process). But if you have any media connections, sure let them know - but at this point tactical selling of the big ticket items is your best bet.

Good luck! If this was useful at all or you want more detail hit me up at Anthony @ 175g . com
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You know what, I keep thinking I've tried it and now looking at it I realize I haven't. And there's both Windows and Mac ports.

edit license: $70. Nope. Not for a text editor. Sorry. I don't care if it's made out of the shavings of a unicorn horn mixed with fairy blood. I've bought high-end audio production software for around that much.

Meh, I'll still check it out the problem is bad enough in OS X that I hate editing text files.
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+1 Go F* Yourself Cat
> Spivak's Calculus starts with a set of 13 axioms

I am reading third edition and it only has 12 not 13. Did that change in later editions?
Anand is excellent, but he looks at things and writes from a completely different perspective. They are not comparable in my opinion.
The vast majority of credit should go to the rippers, dumpers, maintainers of the archives! Scott merely downloaded them and put them on archive.org (which is great but just the tip of the ice berg).
I'm a friend of Jareds (OP) and wanted ot thank you guys for these tips! Jared is a humble, hardworking guy and its so great to see the advice here.
Handy tool for Reddit users
Sigh.. a Windows-only language? Really? Talk about ivory tower..
Oh, thanks for reminding. I was told this before, but forgot.
>Umm... where?

Lots of places
http://www.math.uga.edu/~pete/MATH2400F11.html
Ask HN: Is wordpress premium theme development market saturated?
I am thinking about starting to sell wordpress premium themes.I was wondering whether the market is saturated, from those who are experienced.
Thanks
GIF is a terrible format for video, but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation. Historically, playing video in the browser has required loading plugins, increasing the attack surface of the browser quite a bit, as well as inflating memory usage, increasing fragility, etc.

HTML5 video is also blocked by my flash blocker. Up until the latest version of Firefox, animated gifs were blocked by my use of image.animation_mode:once in about:config. Providing the element is clickable, the flash blocker makes it easier to play back the desired video on demand.
Sorry, haven't started it yet ;-)
"For example, I haven't needed to iron a shirt in years because nice shirts come out of the dryer looking perfect. So no need for an iron or ironing board."

I'm more in the "minimalism but within a big property" than in the "minimalism within tiny houses" movement but I'm curious about these "nice shirts" that do not need ironing: would you have any brand / links? (genuinely curious for I wouldn't mind getting rid of my iron)

Besides that I find watching a movie on a 15" MacBook or, worse, an iPad to be a terribly bad experience and, honestly, a 42 flat TV (which isn't big by any mean) isn't something that takes up a lot of real estate.

Not related to your comment but I'd say that "minimalism" looks better (for properties, for paintings, for UIs, ...) when there's lots of "free space" around. These tiny houses look kinda weird: I prefer Steve Jobs and his couch + stereo in his big empty living room : )
If you like this but want to see how you might take it a step further:

http://www.cookingissues.com/2010/05/12/the-quest-for-french...

I believe Kenji Lopez-Alt, the author of the Serious Eats article, is the "Former Cooks Illustrated Test Cook" quoted at the end of Dave Arnold's article.

(Everything at Cooking Issues is amazing, especially Dave Arnold's weekly podcast; also, you can get Pectinex Ultra SPL from Modernist Pantry online).
It's not a question of trust but competence, and that's practically impossible to evaluate as an end user.
I downvoted because I disagree with asking for explanations of downvotes. I think the practice is bad for HN.
As someone with native IPv6 connectivity (from a braindead/broken/cheap/stupid ISP, behind Dual Stack Lite, which causes a bunch of other problems) I .. don't believe that IPv6 is

- being generally available soon enough to matter (ever tried accessing your home connection via IPv6 from your mobile? There's no usable workaround that I've found so far and I don't see networks switching to IPv6 anytime soon)

- easy to migrate to (privacy concerns, lots of things to relearn, existing hard- and software WILL break - as my ISP provided cable modem does every three days when my prefix is renewed -> Reboot/reconnect or you're silently offline forever)

The idea is great. I was a fan of the technology in theory. Living with IPv6 at home for ~2 month now I'm considering to cancel my contract _because of issues due to the IPv6 migration_.

That aside, ignoring my anecdotal troubles and my personal disappointment with the way IPv6 is (not..) introduced around me: How would IPv6 help anyway? Just because you're having a globally routable address for all your machines probably doesn't mean that you want them to be directly exposed to the internet? Wouldn't you still need (rather: want) to punch a hole through the firewall?
This is what I was thinking. I would totally get treatment to 're-open' my critical period and get cracking on some tonal languages!!
thanks for the reply and suggestions.
I agreed and feels that sponsorships (in this case) might work better for me. JV is definitely something interesting for me to try out too.

I realised that dkokelley and you shared a common advice for me and that is to grow the users first. I totally agreed with that.

This is my first web app too. So I also I like to ask in your opinion and dkokelley how long would you give your pdt/service a chance to reach product market fit? Currently I have on 30 signups. What if after 3 months it stands at 300 users? Do you use number of users as a metric?

Thank you :D
No economy is going to switch to Bitcoin completely overnight (assuming such a switch happens at all), there is plenty of time to figure out how to collect taxes on Bitcoin income before the government needs those taxes to function.
But the body doesn't suggest such:

"This is hardly unprecedented for the Mac Pro (nor is it surprising, given that Intel doesn't sell soldered-in ball grid array versions of the Xeon). Older versions of the computers were dual-socket Xeon systems, and both processors were user-replaceable."

If you want to talk about headline click-mongering, well, be my guest, but it's kind of a boring topic....
[2014] Product Design Tour - 10 startups, 4 days each
I've looked quite hard for obfuscated Python (and there are a couple of other answers to this question using it). It's always been much more readable than that perl.
Been using this on reddit for the past couple of weeks, and it works wonders. It's especially handy on mobile, where bandwidth can be scarce.

But what has really struck me about the mobile experience is that using HTML5 video significantly improves the performance. This is important for GIFs/videos with a high resolution, which as GIFs would not render in real time on my phone (which has an S800, so I can only imagine what the experience must be like on other phones).
Not really. We've tried running several C# programs on mono, and as of a few months ago, the effort to port them so they will work on mono was pretty intense, and the performance was lacking.

C# (especially when developed in VS) is a nice language and environment, but cross-platform is not one of it's strengths.
That idea originated from https://mediacru.sh/ - I read that article and considered doing my own "gfycat" site, it looks like someone had the motivation to go through with it after all :)
Edutainment vs. Lessons on YouTube
Wow, that's possibly the most hilariously offensive idea I've heard of in some time. Given your lionization of the man, you clearly care about Mandela, so imagine the product you're suggesting: a big picture of Mandela with some sort of respectful, eulogizing headline, next to which is a picture of a lolcat with some glib pun, and the -- almost sarcastic -- title 'Life goes on' above both.

The mental picture alone is amusingly objectionable.
> Rust has a completely different type system model

What are the differences? It sounds pretty similar to Rust—"rvalue references, move semantics, destruction, references / borrowing" are straight out of Rust's playbook.

Granted, if it's based on C#, it sounds like it'll be more object-oriented than Rust is, which is a difference. Rust has some object-oriented features, but they're much more minimalist than what C# offers; idiomatic Rust prefers composition over inheritance, etc.

> Rust is not aimed at high performance applications

This week has been bizarro week for weird things people are saying about Rust. :)

Rust is about zero-cost abstractions, period. It's right there on the Wikipedia page: "Performance of safe code is expected to be slower than C++ if performance is the only consideration, but to be comparable (and sometimes faster) than C++ code that manually takes precautions comparable to what the Rust language mandates." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29

Mozilla is explicitly investing in Rust in order to build the fastest browser engine around and has been from day one…
I had a Creative Nomad jukebox and it was so bad I went back to an MP3 discman (all the while laughing at the $500 iPod). I had never owned an Apple product. After trying a Mac I saw first-hand that Apples makes great products so I tried an iPod and loved it. Not because of marketing or advertising. People who claim that Apple is successful because of marketing – and think Apple's millions of customers are brainwashed – are the ones who are brainwashed.
> The problem is that html5 video doesn't work everywhere (we actually encode six different videos to cover the most browsers)

Six different videos?? Anyone knows more about html5 video fragmentation and why six videos are required?
that's one hell of a sample video

other than that: awesome
Is OTOH really an acronym people are using now?
What you're describing is essentially how hybrid drives like the Momentus XT, as well as Apple's "Fusion Drive" software solution already work -- writes go to the HDD and are then pulled into the SSD for fast reads.

Also, I believe you could also achieve this at a software level with ZFS, which I understand allows you to do things like allocate an entire SSD (or multiple SSDs) as caches for other (presumably slower) drives.
Imgur should do something like this when people are viewing gifs at the Imgur site itself (as opposed to viewing a hotlinked gif file), automatically replacing the embedded GIF file with a video. I imagine they could save a lot in bandwidth costs
Nothing on that page gives the impression that it's more than proposed feature enhancements (which in themselves may be wonderful of course), as opposed to a fundamentally novel approach to operating systems.
I think the main point here is to avoid general catches and instead catch specific exceptions.

The author raises the interesting point that if it's truly an exception, you're better off letting the system crash all together (especially in a webapp, where you're basically dropping a single request for a single user) -- and if it's an "expected exception", then you should be handling it directly.

I don't see how that reduces to "never use try/catch" though, since catching a specific exception (or types of exceptions) is a way of "handling it directly."
I happily live with my wife in a 160 sq ft RV and have met tons of happy couples over the past year doing exactly the same.
AFAIK, yeah.
I know of that website, it is made by a fellow OSMer, and while it's perfect for creating and editing GeoJSON, it lacks in simplicity of sharing maps (well, it depends on an external site for that). For example, MapBBCode Share maps can be embedded into posts on any forum or blog with MapBBCode plugin installed. Both sites were made with the same technology stack, though, namely Leaflet + Leaflet.draw.

And of course MapBBCode Share maps can be loaded in geojson.io: for example, http://geojson.io/#data=data:text/x-url,http%3A%2F%2Fshare.m... (replace zdjzk with map id).
Getting Johnny Castaway to run on Windows 7 x64
>Inevitably you will need to have a partner and say, four children, for the human race to survive.

No, you personally won't. Plenty of people go their entire life without raising children and yet the human race continues to grow.

And there's nothing stopping you from raising a family in a small space. My family spent 6 months in a ~700 sq ft apartment in Chicago when I was growing up.
And very few people have reason to learn LISP or programming languages, for that matter. (If we are generalizing, we might as well go the full length and include the entire world population)

You seem to be mistaken that folks would learn a language for just the sake of knowing it. Far from it. Language is just a tool for communication of ideas. There have been some brilliant treatises, thoughts, ideas, and philosophies expressed in Sanskrit. Folks are more interested in accessing the thoughts and works in Sanskrit as opposed being infatuated with the technical aspects of the language.
Show HN: RAMBOOT "Ubuntu Core Bootstrap" 1.0.0-beta1 released
Looks like someone else posted RAMBOOT a while back so I'll submit as text. :)

It's been updated as of yesterday.

http://ramboot.org/

Edit: This project is something I created to leverage Ubuntu Core to quickly build custom diskless network appliances.
I love the naming scheme (AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal) you have used, and wonder whether or not it could hilariously backfire (e.g. the Scunthorpe/Buttbuttinate problem)
Nuts to that, I expect that Rust could regularly exceed C++ in performance. Ownership as a core concept means that you get pointer aliasing information for free, which has always been Fortran's biggest advantage over C. And correct me if I'm wrong, but C++'s unique_ptr isn't guaranteed to have zero overhead at runtime, as Rust's unique pointers are.
Photos of Japanese Startups
hey :D
amazon affiliate link is a great idea too, and you are right that I would need to make it transparent for the users. Maybe I could also test on the following hypothesis that "people who loves using-smart phone for photos, might be interested in camera pdts as well" - I could be sharing some of the camera items I brought off amazon.

And I really like the way you rephase my question."How can I make these emails absolutely delightful to users?"

Thanks
I absolutely agree. Magento does this & its one of the reasons why it sucks. They catch an exception, and throw a new one. Basically eating the message & stack trace. Then that one in turn gets caught and a 3rd new exception is thrown, eating it up again. By the time it bubbles up, your stack trace is totally useless.
For anyone else who is playing with this in OS X Mavericks, I've written a blog post describing how to get things working on it (there are a couple steps that need to be tweaked.) - http://blog.ljs.io/post/71424794630/xv6

Hopefully this is useful to somebody and isn't too blatantly link whorey :)
The article wasn't written by a guy claiming to do a comprehensive survey of every SSD on the market.

He tested a bunch of equipment, and was kind enough to share his methods and results. Lot of people/companies don't do that.

He's not misrepresenting what he did, and he provided some valuable data, so kudos to him.
Do tribal colleges have significantly better graduation rates than mainstream community colleges? I'm having a hard time finding good, current, nationwide numbers online, but that seems implausible on its face.

(On the other hand, it seems very plausible tribal colleges have excellent programs to maximize grad rates as much as possible.)
Incredible! That C64 archive is immense. From the collection description [1]:

There are an astounding 134,000+ disk, cassette and documentation items in this Commodore 64 collection, including games, demos, cracktros, and compilations.

And I thought the Apple II collection was impressive at a mere "4,800 floppy disk images." [2]

[1] https://archive.org/details/Commodore_C64_TOSEC_2012_04_23

[2] https://archive.org/details/Apple_2_TOSEC_2012_04_23
I'd written a JVM project a while ago that also spent an ungodly amount of time in GC. You can create bottlenecks almost anywhere given enough (lack of) effort. Who knows how finely tuned these projects were or what their load was like before a rewrite. A rewrite in a new language gives you more benefits than just the new language , it also gives you the benefit of hindsight. The ability to fix mistakes made in the first implementation can go a long way.
unique_ptr should have similar performance to Rust as designed right now, but the upcoming changes to eliminate zeroing out of moved values should give Rust's unique pointers an edge over those of C++ in 1.0.
Significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965748

Of course, if you comment there your thoughts will be buried in the large thread. You might want to comment on this one instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974137

Or, of course, you can always comment here.
From the frontend perspective, isn't it sometimes ideal to use try/catch? Unfortunately with the fragmented browser implementations of HTML5 and JavaScript, sometimes what is an exception in one browser is correct usage in another. It's a complex beast of a problem at times.

Of course, you should be judicious in your usage of try/catch, since it's obviously something that can be abused very poorly.
Note that LZMA decompressed at 20MB/s in that benchmark, while bzip2 managed about 6.

LZMA tends to be faster and more efficient than bzip2 in all respects.
> but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation.

Historically, this hasn't been the case. Certain browsers used to process the entire gif up to the current frame when rendering a new frame, causing long gif animations to slow down progressively.
As the lead cools, some see the New Year take shape
The type and amount of taxes which states will be able to collect may change, but the whole apparatus isn't going away any time soon. Taxes on real property and excise taxes on physical goods would still be pretty easy to collect even if something like bitcoin were used for nearly all commercial transactions.
Sponsored Pics.

One email per week sent is an ad (on a random day). Build up as much data about each user as you can which you can then offer up to advertisers. E.g. Email all women who like jeans with a sponsored pic.

$lowXX to remove ads.

Also offer backup service for small additional fee.

Partner with a service like blurb to send Instagram photo books to users of their old pics. Perhaps suggest the images that should be used in a book?

Back to beer.
Hi. The only part of that grouping I'm interested in is "urban". When you get enough people close together, you can do things that are otherwise unprofitable.

I live in a fairly large house on a road with real bus service that connects me to Cambridge, the Boston MBTA, and a commuter rail in and out. That means that we can get along with one car instead of two. We do our own laundry, cook most meals from scratch, and keep multiple cats. We have a standing arrangement with a housekeeper to help clean our house a few times a month.

My chief desire is to be comfortable, not to live a life of ascetic minimalism, aesthetic cleanliness, or meditative contemplation. There are books in every room in the house. There is always a computing device with internet access within a few steps. We have space for Lego, toys, hobbies and tools.

I understand how someone who lives alone might want to be in a tiny space -- because they don't really live there, they live outside the house anyway. But that's not what I want, and it's not what I have.
Tritiya just means third.
They offer the ability to playback in reverse, so I imagine it's three different formats, doubled so that there's a reverse copy of each video.

If I had to guess, they're probably encoding MP4/H.264, WebM/VP8, and Ogg/Theora.
Check out Hutt (http://hu.tt/).

No account needed and you can instantly start video chatting with anyone who has a modern browser.
I imagine it's because your phone has hardware H.264 decoders, while GIF is being done in CPU.
How automated referees work (and why they fail)
you are right, I might be getting ahead of myself. Because tbh I only have 30 users right now :D
But I thought it would be good to have a propose business model in mind before moving deeper into the project.

As for the site to allow users to repost their image > I like this. Maybe I can create a tumblr site and allow users to submit photos.

Thanks for the suggestions.
That sounds like a "feature" which could be used in interesting ways.
Node Is Done. Done Is Node.
As long a imgur promises to never play audio, I think everyone would be very happy with that feature.
Microsoft applies for trademark on 'Mod'
Orwell in America
Cheap enforcement isn't necessary because the government can create enough disincentive that most people will simply pay the tax. The whole point of the lack of anonymity in Bitcoin is that the government CAN have an idea of how much money you owe in taxes and they can simply throw you in jail (or take your house, car, etc) until you pay. Yes, that's pretty expensive for the government, but they don't have to do it to everyone. Faced with those consequences, most people would just pay.
Node is done, now get your PHP-programming ass out my kitchen
Ack ... I'm largely ignorant of the details of go other than its original positioning. Do the semantics of go constrain gc implementation in such a way that it precludes low latency? Or is it just not a focus of the implementors?
100 Years & The Future of Government
thanks for the enlightening suggestions. But thanks I want to learn Sanskrit. I don't have to justify what I do as long as it doesn't cause harm to someone. Please stop the negativity.