skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is clearly a nitch in the market place but is it large enough to sustain and grow in a publicly traded company? That is the question.

Mobile phones are only going to start taking bigger bites out of the market. And sure we may not mount our phones on submarines or airplane wings like we could a GoPro but apart from the extreme cases, our phones will be much more convenient than another piece of hardware right?
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This is a really good, thoughtful article. I've had the same experience as more founders reach out and seek advice, but rarely do I strongly suggest a path that hasn't already been considered. Even if they disagree, just telling them to go a different way for xyz conceptual reasons isn't going to change their mind. Given them specific experiences to compare against is much more effective.

Thanks for putting this out there.
Interesting what causes a successful company to file an IPO?

I understand why some do it, they've reached a point where they need funding to scale and already have many private investors. Maybe thats not even right.

When I start a company one day I dont think I will ever want to take in public. It seems like you loose too much control over where you are going. Maybe its because I am a build what our customer want type person and not a lets return value to our shareholder by delivering a cheaper product type. Maybe that doesnt make sense.
Matasanos CTF is hard. At least I think so, but a good start anyway.
No. 3D printers enable feats of engineering that would be impossible without their availability.

You don't need to make the plastic part in two pieces so that a screw can fit into one of them, for example.

House foundations are 3d printed in a sense... The dots of plastic are just larger and take longer to dry ;)
Looks like companies are missing out on a lot of social and educational networks with plenty of talent.
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Sure, everybody has agreed to hide leaking toilets and falling off doorknobs in London but emphasize it in Russia. I'm sure Elders of Zion or reptiloid Martians are behind that. Keep wearing that tinfoil hat.
Funny anecdote re: good product:

I fly gliders recreationally. Last fall one of the guys in the club called me up and asked if I'd lost my GoPro. I hadn't, but from his description, it was probably the camera of a guy I flew a two-seater with in a competition a year earlier.

Turns out that the camera had been returned by a hiker who found it while hiking on a mountain, approximately 10 kilometers from the airfield. Looking at the last footage in the camera, you could see three guys using a suction cup holder to attach the camera on the outside body of the glider. The video continued as the glider launched, and for approximately ten minutes of flight. Then, the camera detatched from the airplane. As it went tumbling down, there were a couple of frames where the glider was captured from below, rapidly disappearing into the sky.

The camera landed on the mountain, where it remained through the winter. A year later, a guy hiking there found it and returned it, in working order, to the glider club.
Neither should you. So you're doing it right.
added sass version.
Ask HN: Launching your mobile project to the world?
There is great post on HN talking about announcing to the wold your new project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488822
Though, it feels, it mostly talks about new web apps. How about announcing your new mobile app? Looks like this question deserves a separate topic.
Actually I think programming is profitable because of two things:

* Not everyone can program
* Of those that could program, only a small part of them *want* to program

The combination of these two conditions limits the availability of programmers.
Although you'll have some competition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you
You shouldn't have to accept irrational beliefs in order to function, at least not about something silly like Free Will.

"What is true is already so.

Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.

Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.

And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.

Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.

People can stand what is true,

for they are already enduring it."

—Eugene Gendlin
According to Leiserson, the qualities of "great software" are,

* performance
* modularity
* correctness
* maintainability
* security
* functionality
* robustness
* user-friendliness
* programmer's time
* simplicity
* extensibility
* reliability
* scalability

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-introduction-to-algorithms-...
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This story isn't quite as sympathetic as the one about the aspiring teenage rapper who was harassed and arrested for posting rap lyrics to his Facebook account. Charging this guy with making "terroristic" threats seems to weaken the case why not charge him with threatening a police officer that would seem more appropriate.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/grand-jury-rejects...
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We can split hairs on definitions as long as you like. The trading desk I used to work at, we used to even have the phrase ponzi asset. It is quite common for firms in trouble to pay large dividends, to improve the stock rating, so they can raise more money. I worked on an equity derivs desk and have been corrupted by their terminology and no doubt thinking. I hope I made clear what I consider to be the issues, that lead me to want to use a negative word.

>as the market for Bitcoin has grown it has become less volatile.

I do not agree, the vomma does not show this characteristic trending in a reliable fashion.
After 10 years in the industry I relate to that second paragraph far too well. What makes programming hard is that people who aren't programmers don't understand what we do.
This is a fairly good article on hawala too, but tacking on the somewhat forced Bitcoin analogy makes it clickbait.
Some banks work only with IE...
I had to come up with the aspect of sustainablity because it is of utmost importantance in the postoil we have entered whereas it remains outside the mainstream, as opposed with the topic (the electric car), which are deceptevly sold as a synonym of sustainablility, whereas it is opposite because of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

There is also one problem with your recycling analogy. Recycling is always a good thing (after Reduce and Reuse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy#How_the_hierar..., of course), no matter what. But, relaying on automobiles is not. The automobile is the source of evil - itproduces antisustaibale environment, aka "urban sprawl" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPS1y81b1Bw
Mozilla launches $300,000 Gigabit Community Fund
Doesn't sound too dirty and not that similar to the Uber matter. By "sneak in" you mean "got invited"? And advertising against "500 Startups" doesn't sound very effective.
Britain made more planes than Germany except in 1944, made more tanks, except in 43 and 44 (when imports radically increased. It's navy was growing throughout the war. It out produced Germany in many important measures. The army grew and the workforce grew. Yes, it was hard, but total war was what the Russians and Germany fought, not the British. Casualty figures tell us that.
Bitcoin value didn't sink. The exchange rate on MtGox took a dip from $930 to $760 between yesterday and now but on other exchanges like Bitstamp it may have gone from $790 to $750.

The rate on MtGox was higher than on other exchanges because it was hard to get cash out of MtGox. Hence if you had money on it, the easy way to get it out was to buy bitcoins, transfer them to another wallet and sell them on a more liquid exchange like Bitstamp or btc-e where USD withdrawals are quick. This created too much buy pressure on MtGox and this pressure faded when they made it hard to even withdraw bitcoins. That explains the crash on MtGox but its amplitude was nowhere as large as on other exchanges who by the way handle larger transaction volumes now.
> That's much less clear if someone isn't aware of how negative exponents are defined.

Yes, I've noticed that in other contexts. It's too bad because it makes the representation less clear, more complex than necessary. I first became aware of this when I tried to say that gravitational force declines as r^-2, to numerous protests.

Oh, well -- a tempest in a teapot, as they say.
I have seen this example before, but to me this neglects the aspect of using human intuition to understand how to, for example, send a wire through Citibank's site vs BofA's site. Without being argumentative, I think want to understand how this applies to APIs? (i.e. How could Citibank's hypothetical RESTful API teach my code how to send a wire transfer through their system if I had been using BofA for all previous transactions?) Or am I just flat-out missing a bigger point here?
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So finding a way to mitigate computer mistakes, to make them milder, is every bit as important as eliminating them entirely - a potentially impossible task.

Seems like they should run multiple instances against different but overlapping corpuses and see what they agree on. For all we know, any single person would forget what a door knob is if they had all the information in the world in their brain.

But maybe it already works that way internally, I don't know.
Wow just yesterday I was visualizing and dreaming about what a containerized CI system might look like after realizing:

1) I don't want to pay for hosted CI

2) Setting up your own CI is a pain in the butt currently

Well done. I'm gonna have a look through this!
Ask HN: Maybe NimbleBits games use Cocos2D?
I noticed a Tiny Tower update where the icon was a Cocos2D icon.

http://imgur.com/ZWRJLyK

So anyone know if NimbleBits is using Cocos2D as their engine/SDK?
Good question. Part of the answer is probably selection bias: bad companies don't get to that stage (although I suppose that is quite debatable when they are in an arena where people can't tell the difference between good and bad).
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Does the phrase "bank grade security" actually inspire confidence in anyone? My bank still doesn't have 2-factor auth.
It's a fundamentally different question. The first article asked "how much would it cost to buy devices in 1991 to provide similar functionality?" while this one asks "how much would it have cost to buy the same amount of raw capability?"

This would have been an interesting article except it loses credibility by pretending the two questions are the same, when they are not.
Defining a computer in terms of transistors and logic gates is analagous to defining a brain in terms of neurons and synapses.

You arbitrarily impose limits in the definition of a computer and lift those limits in definition of a brain.
But, but, but improving something just sounds soooo boring.
Yep, so good 5 years ago I built a site to try and catalog the best ones! http://goproheroes.com
How can you folks say there's no brogrammer culture in silicon valley when I hear talk about "culture fit" all the time on HN? Some founders admit to excluding applicants because they wouldn't fit in to the workplace culture. Which implies these founders hire people who are like themselves. When people talk about brogrammers, this is what they're talking about.
It's no different than any other market. Noobs look at "the price" and traders look at the book.
Credibility is a heuristic to determine what arguments should be evaluated and which should be discarded. It is not reasonable to expect every person to critically evaluate the word of every person who has something to say on a subject.
To my understanding, a company IPO's for one or both of two reasons:

1) To allow initial investors (be they the founder or venture capitol) to cash out

2) To generate capital for the next stage of the business's growth & development
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Since we are all adding quotes I'd like to add this one...

"No great programmer is sitting there saying, “I’m going to make a bunch of money,” or, “I’m going to sell a hundred thousand copies.” Because that kind of thought gives you no guidance about the problems."

Amen brother.

Too many times, especially here on HN, developers create something to make the big bucks. Usually they find little shortcuts for the things they want. The final product ends up sacrificing the mission as well as the quality.

I like the adage wise people give to enthusiastic people who want to "start something".

When starting something, be it a business, learning a skill, etc, make sure you're doing it for you.

Bill, I feel hit that on the head about BASIC. He saw a problem, and worked on it for himself. Others liked it and started using it. Reminds me on David Heinemeier Hansson's talk on why he built Ruby on Rails. It was a means to an end that ended up helping him and others in the process.
http://bigthink.com/users/davidheinemeierhansson
do you have better phrasing? suggestions welcome ;-)
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I watched this video and this needs to be shared! This guy opens up about his life and it made me cry. It is inspirational to say the least.
Here here! I saw a demo as well and what he has built as well as what he has planned on the roadmap is great. Love where its going.
I use LiveReload (in conjunction with nodemon if it's a Node project).
Will he make more money? Lets see what happens..
Right now GoPros seem to be mostly in the extreme sports/recreation community. When I mention them to friends & family I often hear "what's a gopro?".

I think that there are a ton of use cases in markets they haven't broken into, or among more casual users. If every urban biker in the western world bought one, that's a $BN company right there.

As they get cheaper/better there are things like dashboard cams that you wouldn't use your phone for, so I think they have plenty of market left to grow into.
I'm black. So, I think I can speak a bit about the issue. What I notice is that a lot of black kids are/were afraid as being classified as being geeks/white. So, we basically lost them as kids. Way before anything about bro culture comes in.

Now they are older, they probably see Q from world star hip hop raking it in and probably wonder how do they get into that gig. But, they see the tech beyond their reach. So, I guess what they lack now is the education to get into tech.

Personally, when I'm finish working on Akasha(a programming language for genetic programming), I will dedicate some of my time teaching programming for free. It will be project based, come with an idea and we will develop it. And it will be a kind pay-it-forward system where they in turn teach someone else.
>Whilst it is unable to assign one symbol with multiple nouns, I think these are more engineering issues than anything. The overall architecture of NELL can be made smarter with horizontally scalable knowledge inference additions.

It is not a trivial problem.[1] In fact representing knowledge as some ontology of human language strings with fixed schematics has its fundamental limitations. In many situations it simply fails, disambiguation is just one of them. For example, trustworthiness, temporal information and newly invented phrases etc.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word-sense_disambiguation
Hawala seems more analagous to Ripple or the #bitcoin-otc IRC channel than to Bitcoin imho. Interesting read, nonetheless!
"Moneycracy" disguised as meritocracy?
As I understood it, "bro culture" was supposed to be about overly techno jerks treating other people (most notably women) badly. Exaggerating to explain the point: bro culture means putting picture of naked lara croft on the wall and then pretend last women changed the job cause she was too weak.

The first half of the article is about minority candidates not even showing for interviews cause of structural problems in education (two quotes):

* (page 1) too many kids of color who think that they're going to be basketball stars or entertainers or Barack Obama,

* (page 1) By the time kids are applying for colleges, they're virtually out of the game.

Then the article shows stats that tech employs mostly white people, which is not surprising given education failures described on the first page. So far so good.

Out of nowhere, there is complain about bro/frat culture, as if the same article would not describe those minorities "out of the game" well before even applying. (Assuming you search for tech job after college). No relation between previous content is shown.

Then another jump and it turns out the article is just an advertisement for some startup hackatlon.

So, yes, companies should allow and embrace cultures other than those of their founders. No, this article still has bad title.
It was about time to see an alternative to Jenkins.

Does it provide the fine-grained workflows Jenkins does?
How is saving $6k at best doing anything other than making your new employee resentful?
Ask HN: How do you organize your CCS?
What has been your winning strategy?
It wasn't the case with The Uprising. There were serious efforts to help from the air. The Soviets made this hard though. And yes, treatment of Poles (and Cossacks and others) was very bad). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_airlift
LinkedIn Axing Clever But Ill-Advised “Intro” Feature And Slidecast Product
Good! Intro is a Security and privacy disaster:

[Podcast: Understanding the Dangers of LinkedIn Intro]
http://www.securityweek.com/podcast-understanding-dangers-li...
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Anyone know when the GoPro Hero4 is expected? What is GoPro's release cycle?
HN works for a lot of reasons, among them is that when in doubt it's about Silicon Valley and when in doubt someone will say quit whining and build your idea of what perfection looks like. The focus on creation and a default set of means for creation and the carrot of vast wealth and a context of cleverness all work to attract people into the pool of potential YC participants. There's a business model at the bottom of it that asks nothing more than reasonable behavior from an individual HNer..

Why isn't HN the HN for education? Those reasons are why an HN for education won't be.
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Ask HN: Over time why wouldn't companies and people switch over to the new TLDs?
I feel like this is real estate 100 years ago - undeveloped so no one wants it but as the internet gets older and more people go on the web as well as more people utilize it, there still will only be one restaurant.reviews and discount.clothing.
I'd consider it extremely underhanded, but it's definitely legal. Actually, you should be thankful that you saw this now -- you know what your competitor's values are, and what they may do in the future. I've been at a few startups across a few industries. In some, the competitors didn't care about each other, and everyone played by themselves. In others, we saw tactics similar to what OP describes.

You now know which bucket you're in. Plan accordingly. Don't put on your tinfoil hat, but keep this in mind going forward.

I'd also recommend bringing this to 500startups. I wouldn't consider them at fault here, but they should know that this happened to one of their companies. They should see if there's anything they could do in the future to curtail this. "Demo day" startups are at the most vulnerable point of their lifecycle, and something like this adds unnecessary complication.
Their inflationary calculations are very tendentious and ignore substitution effects. 32GB of flash memory in 1991 would have cost $1.44 million: Sure. So you wouldn't have used flash memory, you'd have used something cheaper, like audio tapes and film, and you would have had an inferior experience for it... but not $1.44 million worse of an experience. These figures are meaningless. That's why the CPI uses an actual market basket that's meant to represent what people actually buy. People whose payments are linked to the CPI have not in fact seen their payments deflated by such astonishing factors.

The BLS (which is responsible for the official CPI) has a recent overview on possibilities of error and related considerations: http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-1/consumer-price-index-da... Their conclusion: "Measurement of price change in a large economy is sufficiently complex that the accuracy of an estimate is difficult to gauge and is likely to be debated. The CPI cannot claim to be a completely precise measure of inflation and publishes the variance of its estimates. Several potential sources of bias have been identified in the CPI and addressed, though there continues to be debate over to what extent and in what direction bias may still exist and the ways in which BLS can continue to increase accuracy."
That was fast. Great! And thanks!
Maybe desktop developers that want to learn web development from the ground up ? (my case ;-)

After a really bad encounter with Javascript 7 years ago I chose to forego web development completely.

Now I have a web-app project and I discovered with horror that not only Javascript is not dead, but it's even more prevalent than before !

I'm gonna have to suck it up and start learning it, but maybe not to the point of choosing Node.js as my server side technology :-)
You wouldn't, but the Chinese definitely would:)
The Russian search engine? I'm not sure what you mean.

My comment references a Russian propaganda technique of brushing off human rights violation accusations by saying "Yeah well, the US is shitty", as though that excuses them. I suppose Yandex could in theory be used to distribute this form of propaganda, I don't really know much about them.
This is not to stop theft. I can wipe my phone remotely right now if my phone is stolen.
The goal is to secure the phone so that all the info on it is not accessible if the owner is not there. Especially considering that more and more the phone is the key to everything due to two step authentication (for email accounts, banks, etc. ) If things need to get more secure online then the phone needs to get even more secure.
SUre you could. The{} make it work.
Love seeing an alternative for jenkins, it's about time!
Just wanted to toss out another alternative in Stash by the folks at Atlassian. The setup was easy and it provides a nice interface that can hook in with Jira. Also, for small companies the 10 user license is free.
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There's no mobile phone camera that's even close to GoPro's video quality. I can't put a phone on my helmet and go skiing or windsurfing, it will simply not survive.
Half the comments are about his pay scale, imagine the ruckus if he had been paid in unwithdrawable bitcoins at mtgox.
A reductive ontology of the world emerges, containing aspects both obvious and dubious.

Now I'm contemplating what an opposite-of-reductive ontology would look like (if that even makes semantic sense). An ontology that enriches rather than simplifies. It's hard to think about.
Not a concern if you live in Russia or Eastern Europe.