skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because the example that inspired the thought was drawn from Vienna, it does not mean I cannot extrapolate it to across Europe when I look at the beautiful and ageless cities and traditions that exist throughout Europe. And I put the disclaimer first that I am making conjecture only and nothing more.
That movie was horrible :P Would not like to watch again.
Cgminer configs for new n-factor
Does anyone have an idea on why Pidgin was dropped?

Apparently the decision was made at a meeting last month[1], but I can't find much discussion on it, even on the mailing lists.

[1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2...
I think I up voted this comment, but I'm not 100% certain.
Ukraine Mobilizes After Putin's 'Declaration of War'
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Can you support this? So you don't think comedy shows have any advertising agenda simply because their main purpose is to entertain? I would suggest that they have an additional tool at their disposal (humor) to help put a spin on matters.
Ask HN: C Programming Book for a Beginner
Hello, I know a little Python and Java but actually you can count me as a beginner. I want to learn C, so what C programming books or tutorials should I read?

Thanks.(Sorry for bad English)
by the time he graduates in 2016, he’ll face $400,000 in student loans

Why choose to study in New York? I imagine one could train to be a dentist for ~30% of that cost (including living expenses) in Central Europe or in India. Perhaps you'd need to do an extra exam before being licensed to practice back home, but avoiding that doesn't seem worth a > $200k premium.
Haha, this is funny. I'm one of the co-founders of PredPol, the startup that makes the predictive policing software LA uses. I think it's a stretch to call anything I wrote in my dorm military grade, but I suppose I'll take that as a compliment. For the record, the DoD called us once asking if some of the models we use to predict crime could be used to predict IED locations, but nothing major ever came of it as far as I know. Also, I live in Santa Clara not Fallujah.

P.S. PredPol predicts crime using only the time, place, and type of past crimes using some simple statistical models. All that is public information for municipalities in the US.
Because in 3 years the frameworks, tools, etc. will have a much weaker base of developers than it its heyday (now). So in 3 years the framework will fall behind in browser compatibility, integration with newer tools, etc. Left to rot in the bit bin of history. And if I need to make changes in the web app, add new features, it'll be much more challenging if I also have to be dealing with framework maintenance in parallel.
I immediately become furious when I have to speak to someone on the phone because I assume, from years of experience, that the person I'm speaking to will be useless. Not because they aren't intelligent, but because they simply aren't given the authority to solve my problem. It's an unfortunate side effect of the tiered support system. Most people are calling because of a PEBKAC error, but I typically have a much better understanding of the problem and of the solution that should be instituted.
What's unrealistic about not letting your kids buy IAP? You set parental control and tell them they are not allowed to buy IAP and that's it.

You also have to teach kids to brush their teeth every night. That's 365 times a year. Is that unrealistic to teach them, too? Or is teaching them to brush their teeth an instant process?
A 20% failure rate in the first year, to me, doesn't seem that bad. My experience with jobs (granted, I've worked in some of the most volatile sectors of the economy) is that the median case outcome is that it's not worth coming in to work after 12 months. I achieve a lot quickly, but most companies don't really think they need much high-level work. I desperately want to find the 5+ year fit, but I'm not one for self-deception.

When I heard that only half of venture-funded companies live 5 years, to me that sounded like excellent odds. I would kill to find a job where there's a 50/50 chance that it's still worth coming to work after 5 years. My experience is that unless you can convince someone in upper management to take you on as a protege (and that's 95% luck, because they're usually not technical people) you are wasting time after one year. Internal mobility (i.e. the ability to self-allocate to something better suited to one's talents and shine) should fix this in theory, but in practice most large companies do a terrible job on that front: bad performers (whether they are actually bad, or just have a shitty manager) can't move because no one wants them, but good performers' managers won't let them. You have to be exactly 51st percentile to move internally at most companies.
What do you think of http://hikebikemap.de/ ?

The tile rendering seems a bit slow, but it isn't super visually busy.
I'd like to see an organizational com platform built around App.Net. Or maybe there already is one.
> SAS is basically a slightly improved excel.

SAS is a pretty big system, and I have worked with SAS for about 10 years, and I can't see any similarity with Excel at all. Which part of the SAS system do you think resembles Excel ? Here is a list of their products (http://support.sas.com/documentation/productaz/index.html)

Btw. I do think I am doing serious data analysis in a bank :-)
Sometimes a need arises for browser-based apps that are not on the net, usually as part of a system installed at a location without access to public internet for various reasons.

If these systems are planned to have a life time of say 5-7 years, it would be best to not start developing parts of them with libraries and frameworks that are due to be phased out in just 2 or 3 years.

E.g. AngularJS, the writing is clearly on the wall. Google are investing in a number of libraries and technologies that are the "next thing": Polymer, Dart, Web Components + Shadow DOM in Chrome etc. It appears that in the big picture AngularJS is a stepping stone, which is a problem when you plan on building something that should be supportable for 5+ years.

Remember GWT? 5 years ago it was all the rage. At the 2012 Google I/O event they announced they're handing over control to a steering committee - their way of letting go and moving on. Imagine if you needed to continue supporting GWT based code for another few years, when the catalyst for the technology are phasing it out themselves. The worst part of this is the lack of developers - they see Google dumping GWT and stop learning about it. How do you hire developers to continue maintaining your software? This should qualify as being "in a rut".

So it begs the question, should an organization start using AngularJS (or any other fashionable framework trend) for long-term support systems? If so, how should one decide?
Hi. You're right, no European entrepreneurs talk about these topics, but they are very much implied barriers to entry. What is normally vocalized is the size of their markets - which implies that scaling out to a whole EU launch is much more difficult.
I would hypothesise that there are two reasons for this.

1. The size of the US market is a huge advantage. Startups targeting and operating in the US market can grow bigger. China has the same advantage.

2. Americans are less risk-averse because Americans are mostly descendants of immigrants. And immigrants are more likely to have a less risk-averse DNA.
That smells uncomfortably like an ad hominem to me.

What does his Catholicism have to do with his abilities to think vis-à-vis the confines of the notional "box"? And since when is the rule of law a bad thing? You do know what that term means, don't you?

Speaking for myself only, if the US were truly governed by the rule of law, I'd think Snowden should come home and face trial, too. Of course, I also think that if the US were truly governed by the rule of law, his acquittal would be as foregone a conclusion as a conviction currently is.
I don't know the source of Ben's quote, but there's a well-known "ripple effect" from educating a girl. It's largely because educated women tend to stay within their local community where they reinvest in their family and community, whereas educated men are more likely to move away to seek opportunity.

"According to Camfed, when you educate a girl she will earn up to 25 percent more and reinvest 90 percent of her income in her family."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons_plans/important-ed...

I couldn't find the original research cited, but my family lives in a remove village in the developing world... and you can definitely see the educated boys move to the capital city and the educated girls stay in the local community.
I find it interesting in a thread about failure you are going to use an example of highly improbable success to highlight what you call vision.

That is a cool anecdote and all but it smells like confirmation bias. I'm sure the one guy who won the lottery yesterday had a vision too. Maybe I'll have a vision tomorrow when I play a slot machine or maybe I'll have whatever-its-called when you dump a bunch of money on a long shot and it doesn't come through (were there no visionaries to see the social graph for myspace and friendster?). There's a line somewhere where a can-do attitude becomes naive and the other side of it is where practical sensibilities become choking to fresh ideas, right now I feel we are in a place where having a go is a good thing but it won't always be that way (at least in our industry).
Welcome to every other artistic endeavor ever. First it was painters, then writers, then photographers, then music and comics, etc. Today cheap ad-hoc manufacturing is also doing it to the indie boardgame world. Every other art-form goes through this process when its materials become cheap enough for anybody to get involved.

Well, except maybe gaming, and that's just because the actual paying market for videogames keeps growing.
>>an extremely well funded organization with zero oversight

>This is a false statement since the NSA does have oversight.

Which is itself a statement that is very much up for dispute. Maybe we should add the word "effective" before "oversight"
Why, if Snowden was concerned with letting us know how we are spied on, why did he let us know how we spy on other countries? I think we should spy on other countries.

The last sentence is where he is - only in my opinion of course - completely wrong; no country should spy on other countries without very good reasons. And wanting to know what is going on behind closed doors of foreign governments or companies misses my definition of very good reasons by orders of magnitude.
There are still a great many organizations that are using XP. It's a reliable and battle tested OS. Ignoring these users wouldn't be a good idea, I don't think.
> 2. Americans are less risk-averse because Americans are mostly descendants of immigrants. And immigrants are more likely to have a less risk-averse DNA.

Do you have any evidence that this is a genetic trait, and not a cultural factor? I have never heard this postulated before, but it would certainly be interesting if true.
"As European talent in the form of startups and entrepreneurs continue to flock towards the USA, the question remains: why? Is it attitude or is it money? Is it bureaucracy or is it poor infrastructure?"

This is a loaded assertion. And, sincerely very cliché.

Oh Europe is bureaucratic and expensive? And yet there's nothing like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro in the US. Ridiculous

Funny how several of these big US companies open offices in Dublin (offices, not merely a mailbox and a shell company) guess they didn't get the memo.

Cell phone plans are way cheaper in Europe (no paying to receive calls).

Overall quality of life in bigger European cities, mass transit is ubiquitous.

So, in overall, I think the US has a lot to learn from Europe. But I understand, while in the US people think "Why not, let's do it!" in Europe people think "What can go wrong"
Yes, I hope and believe this is fully a satirical joke because I read the idea to say:

"I want to prevent other talented people from making indie films or working on creative projects and developing their own independence"

Awful idea, awful attitude. It should be illegal.

If there is genuinely a glut of crappy independent movies, I don't get nearly enough opportunities to see them. I would much rather be watching novel creative works than always the next thing put out by big budget industry. Even indie film festivals often show the same indie-darling movies as many others.
Haskell parser generators: Unhappy about happy
A FLOP is quite a lot simpler than a SHA-1 hash, however.

The Bitcoin network might be a better comparison since it uses doubled SHA-256; currently it's at around 3e16 hashes per second, or 6e16 SHA-256 operations per second. That's enough to hash all possible MACs in less than a second.
Does anyone know if the whole VC industry is profitable? A chart with yearly startup investments and profits would be really interesting.
Agreed. Short of any break of the obfuscation, there's always going to be exposure of the media in an analogue form where a user can point a damn Polaroid camera at it. DRM just makes it difficult for the legitimate consumer and easier for the illegitimate one.
I'm an R person, but I used SAS in a past life, and I have to say, this is very wrong. SAS is nothing at all like an improved Excel in look, operation, or user-base. It can do much of what R can do (build forecast models, ML models, even OR models), but it just looks very different.

And the licensing model will make you pull your hair out. I ran into issues both with geography (not being allowed to use my license on a project in another country) and functionality (hey, that's a cool PROC...wait, I don't have the license to call it)

I think R and python will win the day, but it's not because SAS is anything like Excel. And there are a shit ton of "serious" data analysis people using SAS. They're just all in the enterprise. Every Fortune 500 company I've worked with used SAS except for one (who used R).
No, this is just an idea that occured to me a long time ago in school, it may be completely wrong.
I've just been ignoring(well, downvoting a few) the HN-comments around these YC Female Founder. But this one, this one is just awful. You represent the absolute fringe worse-case scenario that I suspect a few of the other commenters are thinking just not foolish enough to actually post.

Get back in your time-machine and return to the 1950s.
3. The opportunity costs of failing are higher in Europe. Thanks to welfare and lots of vacation, the founders of a startup have to sacrifice much more leisure time vs. the alternative (working at an existing corporation). For the same reason, it is also harder to find risk-seeking employees. They prefer doing financially ok with lots of leisure time over having the chance of getting rich without leisure. In the US, they don't have much holiday in either scenario.
I see an article which says "they're the same camera, they're the same insides" over and over again - and absolutely no evidence to support the claim. Am I missing something?
There are hotbeds but Europe have far less success stories than the US and therefore you have as I explained further up the risk-averseness of the european investors.

At least those that I know, and I do know quite a lot.
During beta. It will be on other platforms soon. Chill.
Ask HN: Are there any HN readers on Crimea and can tell us what's going on?
No, you need localisation to get traction. People are surprisingly fond of their own language, even if they are almost fluent in English. At least if you're dealing with consumers.
That has absolutely nothing to do with why European investors are more risk-averse (they are).
Security flaw in Android Jelly Bean, KitKat: CERT-In
User generated content – impact of comments
Are there any studies about impact of allowing comments on user generated content?
To be fair, the problem is that the neighboring cities have completely failed to manage growth. The tax-bases of these places are positively exploding, but what have they done with them? Have they improved intensification in the urban core? With property values skyrocketing, builders would be lined up around the block to make condos for all these young, single developers. Better transit?

Ultimately, when the local municipalities are failing to provide the big companies with the housing and services that are needed by their employees (who are citizens and potential citizens of these municipalities) then those municipalities are failing to perform their function.

Part of this falls on FB/Apple/Google for using out-of-town campuses instead of core urban highrise office towers that would allow better access for employees in the surrounding area via the existing transit/housing infrastructure. But still - these cities have completely failed to properly work with the hand they've been dealt.

And if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.
On the plus side, more students than ever before are attending college, which is a certainly a good thing, as van der Klaauw points out, even if it is a contributing to factor to overall debt increasing. A degree is usually worth the cost of college, even if the price tag is increasingly tough to bear.

It's not clear to me that 'a degree is usually worth the cost' but even if it were the case that going to college were the optimal decision for each individual who chooses to go, this locally optimal decision doesn't mean that it's good that 'more students than ever before are attending college'.

A college credential could have a positive NPV for each person thinking of getting one, but still be negative for the group overall. For each individual it's rational to participate in the credentials arms race only because if they don't, but everyone else does, they will be at a disadvantage.

(I acknowledge that many people get more from a college degree than just credentials.)
Oh there is failure in Europe too it's just that a lot of it is based on loans so many of the people who fail have no way to "try again"
Ads definitely aim for upselling existing customers.

in the case of coke, they want to sell you coke more often, and when you start becoming health conscious, they want you to consider vitamin water. if you have seen their expensive super bowl or Christmas commercials, they don't focus on the product, its features, or it filling your needs. coke sells its image to validate the refreshing feeling you know.
There are lots of problems with YAML; it does too much. If I had time, I'd definitely want to do a 2.0 that gives it a small haircut removing the most bothersome of problems. I've been unable find time for work required: about a year of discussing, writing, coding, testing, packaging, and forging consensus.

What I'd keep in YAML is the information model. When we started YAML ~12 years ago, it was obvious that configuration should be in XML, and that XML's information model was the correct way to organize data structures. Part of YAML's work was explaining a different way of doing things to those who'd otherwise use XML. This isn't a concern these days...

That said, the productions look painful because the specification doesn't separate the scanner from the parser. Once you do that, the syntax is quite a bit more sane to grok (see PyYAML source). It's not nearly as bad as what you may think... IF you see it this way.

Besides a few unfortunate syntax structures, YAML's complexity and sharp edges comes from it's venture into typed objects, type-spaces, and implicit typing. Much of this, for configuration files, is unnecessary.

When we wrote YAML, we only had a few years experience with it; and well, it wasn't done as a full time endeavour. It was a guess as to how things should work. It wasn't easy to bootstrap YAML. It's now ten years later... and, well, lots of people have experience with it. It's probably time for the haircut.
>human attempts at trying to control climate change are about as effective as Indian rain dances

I suppose we shouldn't try, then. Not even a little bit.
Dan Ariely – More Mulling over Squirrels
It's good to see stories that call attention to unique problems faced by women in technology. But you will know that progress has been made when we start seeing stories about women succeeding or failing in the industry and the news doesn't associate those triumphs or setbacks with gender.

The four stages of overcoming social stratification:

* Contributing to or ignoring the disadvantaged group's problems.

* Recognizing that the group faces undue burdens but not acting.

* Pushing for the group members to be treated differently to recognize their intrinsic value / contributions to a society, industry, etc.

* The "Aha!" moment when a majority of people realize that not only does the group bring value to an industry, but that value has nothing to do with their ethnicity, gender or other born characteristics.

After the "Aha!" moment, more news stories focus on what individuals in the group are doing rather than the fact that they are doing it despite their identities.
Ironically, none of the officials that caused the last Iraq war have even been charged or investigated despite failing to produce any evidence of WMDs or massive support for Al-Qaeda.
This sucks and Im sorry for the situation you're in. I was in a reverse situation a year ago where I was pushed out of a company where I actually started working on an MVP. That situation taught me a lot about core founders of any project. It showed me that founders need to be 100% committed and bought in/sold out. A few questions I would ask to gauge whether or not your co-founder was committed would be:

1. Did he invest any money into the project or just time?

2. If you quit would he run with the project without you?

3. Did you treat him like a co-founding member or like an engineer that you just found and put on the team.

With regard to #1. The current project that I'm co-founding with a good friend is in a position where we are both committing time and financial resources to completing the project. Both of us are taking 100% responsibility. There is true palpable excitement as we are working on the project and we are both individually motivated to push the project forward. If either of us need access to an online product (Version Control, Databases, Software program, IDE), we'll chat about it and he or I will buy it.

With regard to #2. If he wouldn't continue running the project without you, I would question how loyal he was to the project. I was offered a co-founder/CTO position a month ago and I had to be 100% honest with the founders and let them know that while I think the project is amazing and needed, I didn't wake up thinking about solving the problem. Some developers might not be able to communicate how they truly feel; An exit to another company is a clear sign that they probably weren't truly passionate about the project.

With regard to #3. I met a kid who just came to San Francisco late last year and was looking for an iOS developer to build a product. I could clearly tell from conversation that he saw me as a developer building his product and not as a partner working on a project together. Every idea I had was immediacy shut down with no room for discussion and I was even told at one point that one of my ideas was "Fucking stupid." I'm not sure about your relationship with your co-founder but this may have been an issue from his point of view.

I hope you find a new cofounder, one that is passionate about solving the problem that you're trying to solve.
If Mozilla would fulfill my request about building/funding a TextSecure client for their browser, Tor could also just take that into their browser and wouldn't need to build another one with their own money, which I think is already pretty short:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318888