skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahhhh the American way to protest. Of course.
a few of the companies in this list went on to raise rounds - but they bootstrapped their way to a Series A (or later).
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Annotated Evan Spiegel Speech on What Makes Snapchat Work
It's not that the last moment is more important -- it is that the last moment is, by definition, the last moment you will be able to reflect on the sum of your experiences. That moment is the culmination of your life. Being aware of it allows you to influence that moment today.

I'd not read or heard of Tolstoy's Ilyich. A read of the Wikipedia[1] page, though, suggests that his last moment was incredibly important: in it he came to realize he had not lived fully and was in fact living only for himself. His impending death, up until then viewed selfishly by him, became release for those around him. Once he saw his death as an escape for his loved ones, his pain subsided.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich
Here you go: http://www.policymic.com/articles/79771/this-photo-is-going-...
I definitely struggle with this. I have a relatively successful side project, but I keep coming up with other good ideas. It's difficult at times to stay on task.

I made a pretty neat little app that would send notifications when products were available for purchase (such as the xbox one and ps4, which were difficult to find), and it did pretty well over the holidays, but it's too distracting from my main side project. I've looked into hiring someone to handle promotion / day to day activities for it in exchange for a percentage of profits, but I'm wasting too much time trying to figure out how the taxes work when splitting profits vs paying a flat fee.

Does anyone have experience trying to sell side projects? This project has potential, but I simply don't have the time to dedicate to it right now, and would rather focus on my main side project.
Agree! But I'm biased and work for Numenta. Jeff will be glad to hear you liked his book. P.S. Your site is down http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.az2000.de
> this is still just a few thousands of extremists being destructive... Most adult people want this to stop and get back to work.

I'm not even going to ask you how exactly do you know this, because this is completely untrue. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Ukrainians who already actively expressed their support to current shift in Ukrainian political landscape and their distrust to corrupt politicians currently in charge of the country, call it a war or a revolution. Arguing that and calling them "few thousands of extremists" is laughable - just have a look at any of the livestreams. Also, most adult people are at work. Ukraine is a big country.

From your comments I conclude that they have some agenda behind them. You are either trolling, deliberately trying to misinform HN community, or doing both of those things.
Middleman is actually a really great piece of software. I've used it on multiple projects, and it's really great for what it does.

When all you have to do is hand a set of static files off to the client, Middleman allows you to use your favorite technologies like Sass, and comes combined with LiveReload (which is a nice time-saver).

It's also very Sinatra-esque, which I greatly approve of.
You're assuming that what we're escaping from is the time dedicated to work. I'm more looking for control of my own destiny, even if it involves a lot more hours.
I'm surprised Square-Enix isn't getting involved in this mess, since it's not hard to imagine them wanting to resurrect the SaGa brand at some point in the future, if only for phone ports.
US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests
What do you think about http://hn.algolia.com/legacy ?
There are multiple rumors about Russian forces disguised as Berkut, there are some evidences about Russian snipers here, there are videos of some military forces of non-Ukrainian origin in Southern Ukraine, etc. I don't give this full credibility (usual rumors in time of unrest, perhaps), but still there's no smoke without fire.
FYI: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23digitalmaidan
While much of this is true, I feel like all complex web applications require almost all of this sort of maintenance. I don't see how rails is any worse in this regard than Django. If you can't afford to address the security concerns in rails, I'd like to know the alternative that provides rails-like functionality while improving the upgrade process.
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This is the first time I've heard jobs mentioned about the protest.
Hmm yeah, sounds wizzy, but isn't Intel still having trouble getting a CPU with low enough power consumption to make a cell phone? Priorities?
I loathe the day when this becomes true. It's an isomorphic situation to the decline in user experience that happened when automobile dashboard interfaces went from hard controls (tactile feedback, easy to grab, simple) to special-purpose touchscreens (unreliable, complex, ugly).
it makes a lot of sense to have a transparent set of rules that are applied equitably to every citizen, regardless of their demographics or background.

It sounds like your response is based on broad ideological convictions that have little to do with the commenter's argument. He or she is arguing that the NSA is not equivalent to the FBI because the FBI, in this case, did follow established procedures to obtain a conviction.

If you want a society where the individual is completely at the whims of mysterious and unknown forces that can destroy their life utterly for no apparent reason at all, well then carve out special exceptions for some while reserving harsh punishments for others.

In order for this comment to be relevant, you'll have to establish how it relates to the details of this case.
Silos Are For Grain…
Is there a name for the internet law that pretty much any discussion of a country doing something unseemly manages to drag the US into the discussion?
I was amused that the post mentions Google services never being down, when GMail was down last week.
> Poor language skills ...

Poor English skills. However, there's a good chance that the writer is not a native English speaker.
I find the NDK fine to work with - but I'm writing a game which is entirely C plus some embedded Lua/Moonscript.

I develop on Linux (Ubuntu), with a make file set up to build for desktop or for Android with one command, and it just works. Took a little bit of time (maybe an hour) to get the build scripts set up for Android initially, but after that it's been great.

As I'm writing a game I'm using entirely custom UI etc. so I don't worry about not being able to access the normal Android UI classes and such. I do a little bit of JNI for loading resources but that was trivial to write. My game engine works exceedingly well cross platform for desktop X86 and Android/ARM.

My email is in my profile if you have any questions.
Singularity is BS because there's no such thing as "machine surpassing human intelligence". Human intelligence is not a one dimensional measurement that can be "surpassed". There's not much challenge to write AI that surpasses all humans in IQ tests. You can't even say if one human surpassed other human in intelligence, how are you gonna measure machine? In the same way every one of us are intelligent in some specific areas, AIs are and will be intelligent in their own. We, humans, only have many things in common, because we all have the same body, that makes us to have the same physical needs and what results in relatable experiences that we call "common sense". If we, you an I, didn't have same types of bodies, even if we both could speak english, we could barely understand each other. That's why there will never be a point where AI will become "unpredictable". It's just pop culture meme for people that don't want to think it through the details, sitting in the same page with UFO, spirits and other I want to believe crap.
Coffee Hydrates as Well as Water, Study Says
Don't take legal advice from anyone but a lawyer that you are paying.

Yes. I’m in the UK and I’ve dealt with this issue more than once, including taking formal legal advice. I’m not going to add fuel to the fire by sharing exactly what happened in my specific circumstances, but this issue has subtleties and in some cases proposed contracts did get changed after the advice I received.

Seriously, if you’re talking an employment contract, or a side project with enough personal value or potential that this question is relevant, you could be talking about many thousands of pounds if things go wrong. You’d be crazy not to spend a hundred or two taking proper advice on it. A single session with any decent employment lawyer will probably be all you need — and if it isn’t, that’s even more reason not to rely on random advice from HN.
It has it's positives and negatives.

If you tell a room full of Java and C++ developers with no experience to PHP, that on every request, everything gets loaded, and at the end of the request, everything (and I mean everything) gets torn down, you'll get a bunch of blank stares.

However, the web, in its nature, is stateless. So, having a language where nothing persists across requests (except that which you store/retreive by using cookies/session data) is suited to the web. Also, not having to worry about memory management or thread-spawning helped to make PHP the simple, accessible language that it is. No memory leaks!* ;-)

In loadtesting, I've found that PHP is almost always CPU bound. Yeah, you might be loading and unloading 60MB of memory each time, but a) caching (send those 304s!) and b) it's not like your memory is going to 'go bad' from loading/unloading Symfony.

That said, there might be something to keeping Symfony loaded in memory. In my own tests, loading the classmap is one of the longest-running tasks in simpler PHP applications.
Sassy Sinatra – Using Sass with the Ruby framework, Sinatra.
This is so cool! Has anyone seen anything similar for a python flask app boilerplate (with OAuth + how to use guide)?
The thing with calling someone "babe" is that it's too... forward? It's something that you call people you already know, so saying "babe" to a stranger is presumptuous. Anything in that category would have the same effect I think: honey, sweetheart.

It's also possible to use it in a belittling way, but I can't think of any synonym for "woman" which couldn't, if you use the right tone of voice. That's just general sexism, and the word "babe" wouldn't be worse than "lady" with the same delivery.

If you're talking about something that's not in those two categories, could you like me to it so I can see what you're talking about?
However, it is shocking that in America governed by a Nobel Peace Prize Winner we do things that put us on the level of Ukrainian Government, i.e. killing your own citizens without trial based on President's "gut feeling". Disgusting.
Yes and Darryl Weaver is a Cloud Sales Engineer at Canonical. [0]

This is the same as Microsoft doing a report for the government saying Windows is the best desktop OS.

In regards to the quality of the document; the tables are horrendously formatted and the note numbers are highlighted as if clickable links (blue underlined) like the links at the bottom of the document but are not actually clickable. Overall the wording in the document is basic and lacks any real information.

[0] http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Darryl/Weaver
The downside scenario you laid out also applies to executives who DO share the upside. Still confused?
Does SockJSRouter do any magic to ensure that wrapped handlers won't block the Tornado event loop?
I'm curious what the life expectancy of this imager will be. My understanding is that run-of-the-mill DSLRs get about 4-6 months before high speed particles turn the sensor into a grid of random noise.
> whether you wrote what you did with tongue in cheek and deliberate cynicism

No it was unfortunately serious.

> people are often hurt

If you still believe that any business still cares about this you haven't been paying attention. If you are not at the top, you are just a cog in a machine and will be treated as such. You are just a human resource, a resource that is one of the largest, if not the largest, singly money drain.

As I said, left to their own devices a business does not have any moral duty and the only fiscal duty they pursue is maximizing profits for themselves.
Funny that you post that question on a forum full of people who know well from first-hand experience how difficult it is to start a successful business.
Ask HN: How do you find backlinks placed behind a login wall?
I used to love to just take a 'walk' using street view from time to time. This is great. It really gives you a sense of how enormous the data set is.
I think that the map without flash is still gradually rolling out, but you can apply to have it.
Thanks sveta69 or sharing this amazing list ! There's some pearls.
I still doubt the theory, but yes, it's valid evidence.

Just don't jump onver a conclusion too fast, because it's still evidence for substitution of production factors (that leads to competition between them), an idea almost completely opost to the labor theory of value. (Did I already tell you that I hate economics?)
Klichko doesn't strike me as an honest person, he's as corrupt as the next guy, but that's just MHO.
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Yes, you know, I had forgotten about the rush, and I worked at JPL during that time. Obviously not on the Mars rovers, or I would have remembered ;-). Curiousity, the current rover, missed its original launch window and had to be delayed -- but by then, our confidence in ability to land spacecraft on Mars had been restored, so there was patience.

The really funny thing is, after an article patiently explaining the constraints (need to manage risk after losing two Mars-bound spacecraft, time line for Earth-Mars launch window, weight on the airbag lander) there are still people (see the comments in the article) who want to solve the problem with the methods dismissed in the article above their comment.

E.g., use "a can of compressed air" ("put it in a hollow leg, it would add no more than a few grams"), or a "beater bar" or "squirrel fan". It's like bikeshedding, but by people who don't get that it is a spacecraft and not a bike shed.

It's one thing to ask a question ("Why didn't they...") and another thing to assume the engineers missed something obvious ("Fools! They should have...").
"This is a company that wants to be the single-source provisioner of both the protons and electrons in your world. It wants to sell you physical books (and other physical goods; the protons) as well as electronic books (electrons)."

If your cute metaphor needs explaining, don't use it.
From the videos I saw and from what I tried to read on the subject, large portion of the black clad youth on the square belongs to ultra right "Svoboda" party ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)#Ideol... ) and others . These are not your regular tired of corruption ukrainians but highly trained defacto militia.

I just constantly compare it with Egypt's revolution and the people on the street looked very different from Maidan . It was more popular, spontaneous uprising , in ukraine it looks extremely organized and professional. The whole things smells heavy of outside intervention, just my personal opinion
I'm not sure about corporate earnings, but there are a bunch of lists on the internet that compare average worker compensation with CEO compensation and CEO compensation usually correlates pretty well with company profits.

Here's one such list:
http://go.bloomberg.com/multimedia/ceo-pay-ratio/
Really enjoying this! Thanks for building!
Why “Alaska goes to Russia” instead of “Alaska goes to Canada”?
For half a second, I wondered if the link was just going to be one of those novelty sites that just shows a giant "NO".

(like http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearthyet.com/ )
If you had a known 13A load, why didn't you have a dedicated 15A branch circuit installed for it? Its uncommon but not prohibited in residential construction.
And that is the problem here. No side has a clear majority, and any decision is going to be tough. Forcing the decision, either one, in this moment can lead only to country wide divide, since both parties feel stronly about this topic, and no compromise is possible.

Whatever is my opinion is not important, but "huge majority" of 42% shouldn't be allowed to force their decision to "only" 31% minority. I think Janukovič got it right here, not wanting to side with any side and trying to just keep it as neutral as possible. It is not a good idea to decide about such a big topic like future of the whole country and which union to join based on such a small "majority".

In the long run, the best thing is to just do nothing right now, and try to reach some kind of compromise in a deeply divided country that is equally acceptable to both sides. Whatever that compromise might be, going west, or going east, or peacefully splitting the country in two/three parts, everything is better than inevitable escalation that this leads to.
> Simply because he adopted very successful survival tactics to leverage the sex they were exacting from him doesn't change the fact he had no real ability to consent.

This idea is not compatible with White's own opinion of his situation, "I make every final call in this jail". Have we come to the point where third parties decide for you whether you consented to something?

> This kind of sexual relationship is not something to glorify or excuse,

Did you miss the part where I said it should be criminal, and called for it to be punished more severely than it already is? (The current level is basically a slap on the wrist.)

> and the implicit "go for it dude!" shows a great lack of empathy for his situation.

Undisputed master of an extensive domain, making upwards of $16K / month tax free, with an extensive harem, and immune to prosecution (he's already in jail!). I'm pretty sure he doesn't need much empathy.

The guards weren't extorting sex from the prisoners. The prisoners were seducing guards in order to get perks. (Similarly, if a girl assumes I'm rich, sleeps with me in the hope that I'll buy her some nice things, and I later do, that doesn't mean I was raped. And if I offer a girl something to sleep with me, and she accepts -- that doesn't mean she was raped. What was going on in that prison was analogous to the first girl, and your erroneous notion is analogous to the second.) The agency distinction is important, and we don't just have to assume the prisoners were the agents because they're the men... we have their direct word that that's what they were doing! We have (and I mentioned this) gang literature on how to effectively seduce guards! We have Tavon White's own word that he controls everything that happens in the jail! There's no conceivable way for him to be coerced into sex, or, really, anything, in the middle of his own thoroughly subverted jail.
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Given the plethora of AWS services, the author may have been referring to S3 or RDS. The whole piece read like fire and brimstone, so I wouldn't necessarily give it the benefit of the doubt. There's plenty of other hyperbole in there, gems like:

> [Amazon lets] you use [EC2] for pennies per hour.

The author's probably referring to micro instances; everything else costs upwards of a dime. For large scale deployments, EC2 is everything except cheap.
Thanks for the research and writeup. That was really fascinating.

As a shareholder, I wonder how I'd feel. It's not exactly what I signed up for, but then again it's probably giving my investment a second lease on life.
Most seem to be B2B with a focus on independent workers and small companies. Is that a bias of the author, or a lesson for anyone trying to bootstrap their own company? My hunch is that its the latter: if you target small companies and independents, you're hitting a sweet spot of buyers who don't expect a sales/support team but also have dollars to fork over for good products.
I appreciate perspective and, when more general discussions on government abuse are taking place, comparisons to other 'first-world' countries. You're being criticized because we should be able to have discussions about other parts of the world without changing the subject.
Yeah i understand you. Didn't want to make the post sound silly, but I guess that's your opinion on the subject. The only thing am confused about is that I see NH post all the time that the title and the article title are not the same, but i'll guess from now on every time i share third party content i'll stick with the original title or something that relates directly to the article.

cheers
Awesome to see this on a big site like WaPo. Labyrinth is a great game and I'm looking forward to playing A Distant Plain.

Also if you want tons more info and pics, the best place to go is here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/127518/a-distant-plain
Former CEO of Bitinstant Charged With Money Laundering (Related to Silk Road)
I was at a meeting a week ago and there was the CTO of amazon.

He was speaking about how you could do 'secure and trusted' computations on untrusted platforms, and how your users would definitely be safe when you run your services on AWS, EVEN IF they would be in bed with intelligence community (which he denied). He went on to say how safe AWS was and how it was technically impossible to spy on their customers.
It was at this event: http://www.dezwijger.nl/86924/nl/amsterdam-connected Not a particularly technical crowd he spoke to, and there was no room for audience questions.

He seemed like a genuine peace of shit when it came to respect for privacy and telling the truth.
One principle that works in my case is to avoid "zero days". A "zero day" is a day when I would do nothing to advance my project.

Therefore a "non-zero day" is a day when I would do something (no matter how small or trivial) to advance my project.

The beauty of this approach is that once you create a chain of non-zero days, you don't want to stop, and also feel good about it.

I also read that Seinfeld was working in a similar way - trying to avoid days where he wouldn't write a joke.

Relevant comment from Reddit: http://goo.gl/SV8HPJ
When I first saw the article for the google patent on free ad-powered taxis[1], I immediately thought that it was another way to get get more cars for street view.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114079
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Apple to Release Larger iPhone, Discontinue iPhone 5c
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem Charged With Money Laundering Bitcoin | TIME.com
Ask HN: Should/how can I open source my new SaaS project?
I've had an idea for a new SaaS project which I'd like to open source if possible, but I don't want anyone simply duplicating my work and undercutting my pricing! (though I'd have no problem if people wanted to self host it for their own use).<p>Does anyone have any tips for to how I can achieve this, or any pitfalls that I can expect to come across if I try and open source it? I'm really hoping that someone'll say that there is a licence that'll give me the protection that I'm hoping for while also freeing me to release my code to the public. The GPL licence looks like it _could_ be what I'm after, but I could do with some advice!
There is a bit more information here, not much to be had anywhere I see, though.

http://business.time.com/2014/01/27/bitinstant-ceo-charlie-s...