skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at your site and then went to usersnap. Overall, both ideas are good but usersnap is beating you in terms of landing page/design and most likely sales/marketing efforts. For example, on your landing page, there is no clear way of knowing what bugmuncher is for. Sure, I want to "Fix bugs like a boss!" but how ? Then I realize you have a small text description "BugMuncher is the best way to receive feedback on your website. With BugMuncher annotated screenshots can easily be sent along with feedback reports, making it ideal for internal use, as well as getting feedback and bug reports from your users." Why not make this prominent ? Usersnap smartly says "Screenshot is worth a thousand words" and we know immediately what it is about.

I would not throw in the towel yet. Functionality wise, your demo video is pretty cool. Other than work on your landing page, you definitely need to go out and do sales/marketing. Stop working on the product and turn your sales/marketing hat on. Get help from someone who knows this better than you do if possible.
This is one thing I really like about DigitalOcean... I can spin up a machine, perform some tasks, destroy it, all for a buck or two...
A lot of that buyer protection is only needed because of a system that is prone to fraud because of bad design. ie: your employee can steal your customers credit card information and sell it. That kind of fraud is _not_ possible with Bitcoin. So the one thing that is left is the case where a company is dishonest and doesn't provide the product or refund. There is no reason that the dispute mechanism has to be linked to the payment that problem can be solved over time for those who want it.
How to find your life’s purpose
At Rackspace we are a founding member of the Open Compute Foundation though we did not supply the original designs. There is a good Q&A with our lead engineer about how we're using it: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/qa-rackspace-open-compute-engi...

Hardware goes through longer "sprints" than software. The equivalent of "merge and compile" is "setup a new manufacturing line" so it isn't surprising to me that at less than 3 years old adoption isn't widespread.
Not that my home is Fort Knox or anything, but allowing a direct electronic connection between your lock and an unknown external device seems like a bad idea.
Great tips, thanks! I'm really looking to collaborate with them as equals, not merely remote assistance. It just seems like a great people policy.
It's interesting, although the Dow Jones index is sort of arbitrary in its choices; it's certainly not the "largest corporations" as you stated, although of course some of the largest will end up in it.

In fact, I'm not really able to find what it is that actually determines what companies are in the Dow Jones Index. If you know or find something I'm curious.
Can I buy starbucks cards with bitcoin? Or only sell?
In the 80's people put the names of the people who built the apps into the about page/section/etc. It didn't mean much but made a nice resume addition. It's pretty rare to see that today.
Interesting... Do you have links for the aforementioned internet communities?
Yes, but there seems to be a certain amount of judicial uncertainty there.

But maybe he can sell for a "private beach" price and leave the issues to the buyer ;)
LiveRebel 3.0 lands: Now release multiple apps simultaneously
Except they return it as account credit not as actual money because Linode doesn't want to fall into the high risk category of payment processing because they refund a lot. If they just did hourly, or even daily, billing I would use them. But I don't want to spent $20 for what ends up being ¢75 of usage and then being forced to either use or lose the other $19.25
Eve has prettier graphics than Dwarf Fortress, though, :p
It's not unusable: I can surf and watch movies fine (GPU-mining).

No gaming probably though.
Did you use a string library when working in C? C's deficiencies when it comes to string handling are well-known.
A suit rental service. I want to start it, but have too much going on with my full-time job to get it done. Suitparcel.com is already bought, just need to develop it and invest in the suit inventory (the easy part).
A database should not lose any committed data on `kill -9` in the default configuration. This is why PostgreSQL waits on fsync on the write-ahead log before completing a commit. This can be disabled with synchronous_commit off, in which case you will indeed lose data on a crash.
What about 32 bit ints stored 64 bits away from each other?
A little wrong to look that way though since (a) it was under USSR that the country got its current borders and shape on the map, and (b) the actual issue over which the conflict is going on is due to USSR-like foreign policy doctrine of Putin's Russia.
Sounds like a proof of concept of an implant that William Gibson described in Mona Lisa Overdrive. Good job guys, keep up the good work.
I'd watch Iron Designer if that show existed.
Thanks for your feedback. Just curious... Have you tried it or do you have some sort of negative experience with remote devs? I'm going to need to do something sooner or later.
Switching Doctors: The American Horror Story
I wasn't trying to insult you or anything, my comment was just my (extremely) sleepy attempt to express an idea that I've had shuffling around in my mind for a while now.

At times there's nothing I want to do more than solder components onto a circuit board and make a radio or something. It's really, really gratifying to make something work that's so "magical" (from a certain point of view, radio is pretty magical to me) and completely understand how everything works from start (bare materials) to finish (a working radio!).

I guess what I was trying to say was that if I would ever want to make a CPU comparable to, say, what Intel produces today, I'd have to give up my soldering gun and any notion of manufacturing the CPU with any discrete process (like soldering individual transistors) and instead adopt an entirely new approach - like maybe electroplating - in any event, it's one that allows me to make incredibly powerful things at the expense of being able to "use my hands".

Experts are always going to need to know (and I mean really KNOW) the underlying fundamentals of their field regardless of how "high level" their work becomes - see theoretical physics, et al. With that in mind, I think people who care deeply about how bits are laid out in memory are exactly the same people who will always be at the forefront of computer science and software engineering - even if 99% of their practical output in life is at a level much higher than bits. :)
I don't know any Chef.
Red Hat and VA Linux gave him stock options back in the day. Once they IPOed, Linus became a very wealthy man. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_torvalds#Later_years)
A week after sort-of launching my first startup
My startup: http://poucherapp.com

I wanted to write, not to advertise, the experience I had and how grateful I am for the HN community.

Currently, we are working really hard to manage the social media and quite happy with the attention we've received over the world. Once again proved us HN is frickin' global.

Currently we have a nice increase in our user count and we would still love to have brutally honest reviews for Poucher, as it would improve quite well.
No...If the driver is provided as a blob from the manufacturer then it may have nothing to do with AOSP directly.
Yeah, people tend to forget that net neutrality and censorship are two different things, albeit related.
No one was ever really impressed with 3D TV though. It was a broad standard adopted by the industry, rather than some new innovation that people were genuinely interested in.

The manufacturers got together and decided that we were all going to like it, and then it turned out that we did not.
"However, efforts are thwarted by senior managements opinions. Opinions which aren't justified with any kind of evidence. It's just driven by their own personal taste / a lack of understanding of the current industry."

this seems like a very common issue these days. it seems like people in this industry reach a certain age and then cease to evolve and refuse to do anything new, which seems logically out of sorts in an ever-evolving field.

while its somewhat a mystery to me now, i can say its great inspiration for myself to not end up that way 10-15 years from now.
>The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away.

That's exactly why you need something like discussions: refinement. There's no specific 'right result' for every possible user and query. Google might give precedence to blog posts or articles from big sites for some queries but what I really want is to search forum posts.
They might as well just remove the search options for images with that premise, since they supposedly know what you really want and you don't need to filter.
> The battle ... is one of information.

Bookmarking.
What about taking advantage of the back log of denied or pending, highly skilled U.S. Visa applicants? It seems to me that tech companies can't import them fast enough. I'm thinking it's time to go to the source instead.
Not sure about this. You can't film a 360 degree video in stereo, because the proper camera positions depend on the user's head rotation, which can't be known in advance. You also can't respect translation of the user's head. For these reasons 360 degree video will always be inferior to virtual environments for VR.
Using what everyone else uses and covering one's ass is a sure way to prevent your IT from generating any competitive advantages.
Ha :) I guess it beats spending ages on something that sucks
Fluent-interface Java HTTP Client
Fluent-interface Java HTTP Client released in version 1.0 to Maven Central
Simple SPAs with Routie
That sounds like it could be a bug, you should consider filing it on https://code.google.com/p/android
> If a process doesn't respond reasonably to SIGTERM, then you should consider removing it from your filesystem.

I currently have a vim process that is running in the background and not responding to SIGTERM (so I'll probably SIGKILL it). Does this mean I need to find a new editor?
That's your opinion. I (and many other C programmers) find it refreshing that when I see a "+", a couple numbers are going to be added together. Nothing else could possibly happen, and I don't have to cross-reference the types of the operands to figure out whether a method in some far-off source file is going to be called.
> rescale it to [0,1] in order to further increase precision. [It's the interval where floats are most dense.]

Who not to scale to [0,0.5], where they are even more dense? ;-)
Linode could handle that the same way other providers do: bill per-hour, charge per-month.

I love Linode's performance and stability, but not having per hour billing is an absolute dealbreaker.

And it's a shame, because even if they kept the prices the same, they destroy AWS on a price:performance basis.
Current & former Node.js project leads discuss what's next
Thanks! I actually learned C from that guide!
The premise is flawed. Not many chefs are famous, 99% toil anonymously in hot kitchens. The chef's who are famous locally usually get that way by spending lots of money. Self-promotion drives traffic to the restaurant.

This works in other markets too. If you're unfortunate to live in an area where Billy Fuccillo owns a car dealership, you're painfully aware of his presence via incessant advertising, which somehow drives traffic to his dealerships.

Apps are more like tools than restaurants or car dealerships. Nobody has ever bought a wrench because it was made by a celebrity machinist. Likewise, I generally don't give a hoot who actually develops an app. (I may have brand preference or choose apps based on affinity with other apps.)
How about a cessation of spying on everyone and a return to the use of bench warrants for legal spying?

"Tapping" a phone would return to it's previous usage primarily as a lineman's diagnostic tool and the occasional legal phone tap (after a warrant is obtained).

How hard can that be?
Oren's point about how projects are managed differently in startups and the corporate environment really rang true with me.
You can skip straight to the Github repo if you searched for the string 'sc_project=9570855' from the stat counter code near the bottom of the html source. First thing I did.

And he/she was using Debian Live to do this as well.

Alright, wasted enough time on this. I'm gonna say its Turk in Vic.
It depends.

The Dogecoin client is based off the Litecoin client. The Litecoin client is based off the official Bitcoin client.

Odds are, if a remotely exploitable bug is present in Dogecoin's network service, it will probably be present in Bitcoin's too, and every altcoin that is a direct fork of Bitcoin.

Cryptocurrencies require you to establish P2P connections with other people on the Internet, so if you want the network to thrive you do have to run it on a public network. There is always going to be a risk with any service you run, but Bitcoin's code has been audited by security professionals on quite a few occasions, so the chances of a critical bug that can be remotely exploited against someone simply running the client are fairly low. There's probably a higher chance of there being a critical bug in uTorrent.
Simple: cooking is extremely relatable. Everybody has prepared food at some point.

And it's easy for people to tell - crucially, in a half-hour TV show - that a star chef is doing amazing things with food.

Programming is just the opposite: inaccessible to non-programmers, very specialized, very technical, abstract.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm pretty typical as a programmer, little to no marketing skills. I'd really appreciate any advice you can offer.

In terms of target market, I think I'm a step behind that, I'm not even sure what BugMuncher should be used for: bug reporting on live sites, team communication during development, are cross browser issues important?

Should it be a fully featured issue tracker (crowded market) or should it just integrate with existing tools?

I kind of feel like I'm throwing features at the wall to see what sticks :)

In terms of my current user base, it's mostly people using it for bug reports on live sites, but I feel in that use case, cross browser issues are important :s

I agree the website definitely needs redoing, I bought that on themeforest, gonna work with a designer to make something a lot better.
> When we (our generation) become old and get in charge, we'll embed our worldviews in the laws.

Part of getting maturing and growing up almost always includes a changing of worldviews as we gain more experience in the world.

THings like piracy - which once seemed perfectly acceptable when you are younger - can begin to seem a lot more like 'not paying for the work of the people that went into it'.

This is particularly true as people enter the workforce from school and over time begin to appreciate the actual value of what they produce, and its real-world implications.

I can't count the number of comments I've seen in recent years that start with a variation "I used to pirate..."
1) This is an ad for nCryptedCloud

2) It really isn't that hard or bad. This may come has a surprise, but hospitals are used to dealing with HIPAA compliance and are quite good at sending patient data in compliance with it.
We're working on it now, thanks for letting us know.

Edit: Fixed, thanks again
There are literally people who will invest months of their time to infiltrate an alliance, gain trust, rise in the ranks to then inflict the maximum amount of damage possible (a practice known as 'awoxing' after a character who made it popular a long time ago). This has lead to a level of paranoia among certain people that it would probably be easier to get a job at a Fortune 500 company than one of those groups.

Furthermore, the biggest coalitions [of alliances] consist of thousands and tens of thousands of players. Some of those operations could be considered at least semi-professional with extensive IT infrastructure and dedicated HR and financial teams.
It's OK, man. You need GPUs that aren't gossipy anyway. ;-)
Sounds a little scary to me. Trying to secure it against skimmers seems like it would be impossible. All you would have to do is rent the room, put out the do not disturb sign, then you would have unfettered, unmonitored access to the lock for as long as you like.
Accounting for Dark Data: What You Don’t Know Can Help
Do you think there's any chance that the latest advancements in video calling might change that? Things like "living on video"... Streaming the remote office and maybe distributing Google glasses etc.
I am afraid I don't understand. Duck Duck Go searches google, so if you are having a problem with a google service, how would this help?
EA's original business model was to be the equivalent of a gaming record label. The design studios were like bands.

I remember my favorite game at one point (StarFlight) had a picture of the programming team in a jet cockpit. The 6 year old me thought it was the awesome bridge of a spaceship.
> It is interesting that e.g. Thrift, Protocol Buffers et al don't seem to have made much of an inroad here.

I'm actually working on a tool called Haris to deal with this very problem. I'm looking to do structured binary data serialization in a way that's efficient, lightweight, and portable (in that it conforms to the C standard). Keep an eye out, I'll probably be posting it on Hacker News within the next few weeks.
I don't know, I like to think Eve has two skill trees, two progression levels. On the one side you have the in-game skills, spaceship command and weapon skills, that kinda thing. But those only get you so far; the other skills are ones you acquire IRL, things like fleet command, logistics, communications skills, organizational skills, etcetera.

Those can be used or applied IRL. I like to think.

Also, playing video games or other kinds of entertainment has a role in life. Sure, that energy could be applied to other, greater goods, but the fact of the matter is, nearly nobody has that kind of infinite energy supply, that kind of motivation, etc. There's a few that seem to do, which turn into people's role models - but those are the outliers. You can strive to be like those, but in reality, you'll just burn yourself out.

Relaxation has its role in life. Always has, too; sure, cavemen could be out hunting more food instead of sit around in their caves sharing stories of their ancestors, but they didn't. To name a random example.
New NTP-based Type of rDDoS Attacks
I really hope you are wrong about killing mysqld corrupting tables, because if it does then I would not want mysql near my data. Databases should use a journal for crash safety.
Is there an operator similar to "define:" that you can use? I can find a link for operators, but I do not know how up to date it is.

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
IANAL and this is a legit question but isn't this inciting lawless behaviour and thus not protected speech?
How risk blindness hurts startups
Google Chrome stores every password that you use, even in Incognito mode
I'm not sure if this is feature or a bug, but Chrome stores every password that you enter in it. Check your Keychain Access application on OS X to see every password that was synced to it by Google Chrome. Is this an expected behavior?
That link was super interesting. I found this concept frustratingly hard to explain to people, so I think I'll try this explanation next time.
> So it's simple... Don't screw up and the days of anonymity on the internet are not over

Simple isn't the same thing as easy.
Ask HN: A good book/online course for learning proof-based linear algebra
I'm looking for a resource I can use to learn linear algebra in a theoretical/proof based way. I have little to no experience with proof based math.
Ever since Facebook requested permission to paint over other apps, I've refused to upgrade or uninstall just to contribute an infinitesimal amount to the maintenance cost of their software.
Truecrypt is limited to one hidden volume, but maybe there's other software that can do more.
I can't name a single "great chef." I can, however, name some celebrity chefs...
Just awful, I agree.
Oh wow. Just about anyone in game development :) - lol... lol since I've had the exact opposite arguments with my own folks - but it wasn't for in game use, but rather game tools. But I think I was wrong at the end. Storing all model geometry vertices in floats would be too much of a loss, also stick to 16-bit vertex indices (instead of 32-bit).
A client of mine had several Linux VMs hosted with a company that relied on Hyper-V for their VPS product. Never in my life I saw so many prolems in such a small infrastructure. Volumes would seize and become unreadable, or would become unwritable for no apparent reason. Once, after an outage that lasted more than 24 hours, they had to bring in someone from Microsoft to solve the problem. After this, we moved our machines to EC2. We had some glitches, but none even close to that one.

I know I am not Microsoft biggest fan, but it even seems like their software knows it.
Hi all, owner of that Feedburner link here.

I made an Octopress theme a long time ago, and it looks like someone forked/used that theme to make their own theme. Source of that specific Feedburner tag is here: https://github.com/eturk/ethan-archive/tree/55a01aaa03398a57...

Whoever first forked it probably just commented out, and then someone used that and so on.
You're forgetting the singsongs and guitar playing on TeamSpeak. But other than that, spot on!

I was part of the BoB Goonswarm war, back when we were fucking up Lotka Volterra. It must have been what, 5-6 years ago now?
> It's Russia vs. the Europe/United States.

So that's one way to look at it. Here's another. It's Ukraine vs Russia. Ukraine has a culture, a history, a language. That culture, history, and language is UKRAINIAN. Not Russian.

During the USSR, Ukrainian was essentially taught as a second language. Russian was more cosmopolitan. That's like having English taught as a primary language in Paris.

After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine started clawing back its own heritage and of course, there is friction. You're witnessing that friction.
Call me speculative of everything I see on the net, but I see many things in this high production ad that would hold me back from contributing (and I have donated money before).

1. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to run livecd's or even cloud host an os?

2. Refurbished computers are still needed for this campaign, seems expensive.

3. $7 does NOT equal a computer, it's a usb stick which end users will still need to utilize only the refurbished computers, because I can't name one "non-tech-savvy," person that knows how to change boot orders in the bios (let alone get to the bios at startup).