skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only by removing all meaning from the word "concatenation" and taking is to mean "associative with identity" , which is what a monoid is. Concatenation is a special case, not the whole of monoid.
We bootstrapped our SaaS company (www.cbinsights.com) and while profitability is not a goal as we reinvest any excess back into hiring, technology, etc, we're doing 7-figures of annual recurring revenue.

We launched 4 years ago with 3 folks and should be 20 by this summer assuming we find the right folks (we're 15 now). Just hired our first biz dev guy a couple of months ago. I'd sold the first couple of million in subscriptions. While I'm not sure if we should have hired a BD guy sooner, my co-founder and I did feel like we needed to understand the sales process first.

The good news is that I'm pretty far from a natural salesperson so if we get this product into the hands of someone who really knows how to sell, we'll be on an even better path. That said, I brought a really solid understanding of the product to sales calls which def helped us.

It's been a great and rocky road. We're about to reach escape velocity I think, and I'm really looking forward to that.

As an aside, I try to convene a group of bootstrapped SaaS entrepreneurs for lunch/dinner periodically to exchange ideas/tips/help one another so if you fit the bill and are based in or near NYC or going to be in NYC, please reach out. (details in profile)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3192978/why-does-ruby-hav...
It took me way too long before I stopped reading, looked at a card, and had a lightbulb moment.
>This thread is 100% nerdy dudes feeling offended

"anyone who disagrees with me is a man! "

There are plenty of women here. You're just choosing to ignore and erase their existence because it invalidates your religion.
Hello,

I was in two 'crews' as they used to call them in the early 00s. I'm not sure if you would really want join them. I think I prefer my current networking (twitter, github, blogposting, hacker news, stack overflow, etc.)

Back at the time, there was no StartUp culture (where I lived, not talking about Silicon Valley), everything was closed and there was a huge debate over full disclosure (I'm not even sure how it ended... I remember tf8, antisecurity.is and the rest...).

There were a few skilled people around and almost everybody knew them. WEB 2.0 didn't exist (twitter, facebook, etc.) the web was a totally different place...

I'm not sure it was better though, it seemed way more exotic IIRC. But the general behaviors of the communities (linux communities, hacker communities, etc.) was awful: You were getting your fair share of curses every day. Some IRC networks were wild, with DOSSes (flood, nuke and other shit which could disconnect a 56k easily) flying around. Exploits were flying around, some private some not-so-private.

Security was not an industry and the required skillset was not so extreme as it is today. I mean, you could do quite some damage without being very technical. Things changed after 2002-3 (you can see this in the Phrack articles, turning suddenly extremely technical).

Then the web-based internet came out, everything start requiring PHP+SQL and XSS was born. Then Java and after that JavaScript... Which created a new, less sophisticated attack vectors.

Then the era were officially sponsored cyberwars came into play arise. Stuxnet was the most prominent example of this era, with the NSA revelations and China's cyber-army giving a clear view of how the security industry is shaped nowadays.

Today there are no crews like Team TESO (I'd like to read about the story of their members...), ADM, etc. I still remember 's0ftproject[1]' back in the days in Italy. Some members can still be found involved in the Tor project.

Anyway, things have changed for the better or worst. Better keep up with the times...

ps. Today's world should be considered a kinder-garden for a security professional. Way more attacking vectors (so more protection needed) and a huge amount of companies which understand the importance of computer security. Back in the 2001 telnet was still widely used...

[1] http://www.s0ftpj.org/
Ask HN: Difference between selling benefits vs featuers
I am basically a dev. but I do have a SaaS product, which is selling. But my sales skills are not good, and hence conversion rates are low.

One advice I get from people is sell benefits not features.

Could someone please explain via example, how to do the above.
Because not every editor I use will automatically turn the tab into spaces. This is especially a problem when I am editing a YAML file over SSH using vi or nano, or pico or thousands of other editors.

They stick the damn tab in, then the program that is parsing said YAML file does the wrong thing and I am confused, annoyed, and most times really pissed off because I will spend hours trying to figure out what went wrong.

YAML is stupid for configuration files.
Look up [HaRe the Haskell refactorer]
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I normally argue the opposite position, but I have to respond to this -- what a movie theater shows is its own business, because it's not a public forum. The First Amendment doesn't apply. If government tried to prevent a movie theater from showing certain content (as with obscenity rulings) that would be different.
You can look at the source code of any extension, doesn't have to be released under OSI-compliant license. <Chrome Profile Folder>/Extensions/<extension code>.

Get the Chrome profile folder for your platform from: http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory (note, may not be "Default" if you use a created user profile.)

Get the extension number from chrome://extensions/

One thing that needs to be taken care of is updates-gone-rogue (a la HoverZoom, for example.)
<<The community has designated a Nobel leaurate as its nemesis, solely because he asked some inevitable questions every thinking person in his profession ought to ask>>

If I'm not mistaken the Nobel leaurate [sic] in question wrote an article entitled "Bitcoin is evil." That seems to be slightly more than asking questions.
I'd say ... write yours. The one which satisfies your needs and your needs only.

There are dozens of extensions which change the new tab page - I didn't like any of them, so I hacked a quick one myself - it took me 2h? 1.5h? It was fast and I didn't need any complicated features - just a CSS-styled table with fixed list of links and a clock.
The problem occurs when you are SSH'ed to a machine you are setting up, or one that is customer owned, you use whatever editor is around to make a quick edit, not realising that the file labeled .conf is actually a YAML file, you hit tab because it makes logical sense and then shit breaks.

No thanks, YAML is a terrible choice for configuration files.
Why do you assume that any coins were in cold storage? That's just another unverifiable assertion.
Same here. Even just the faster processor, and the responsiveness while drawing that comes with that, makes a big difference.
I like how being a man is considered an insult these days. Woman who disagrees with feminism? Damn men!
You can continue to use vim, if you can paste from a file directly in a terminal. Mac OS X comes with pbcopy and Linux has xclip and xsel.
I honestly do not think, that it was a root cause. Judging by how fast and smoothly everything happened, invasion was planned long before, and cancelling this law was just a coincidence which gave a boost and just one more reason for invasion.
Or, for whatever you prefer: http://yellow.bikeshed.org/

(The same site also seems to be on bikeshed.com, which is where I remembered it)
When your compensation consists of $500,000 fixed salary with bonus of $2 mil - $5 million, naturally you're going obsess over Wall Street numbers.

I think executives should be penalized for layoffs, because with proper resource management, layoffs can be greatly minimized.

In fact, EPS increase through asset sales, layoffs, stock buyback should all count against their bonus figures.
What good is the experiment if nobody uses it as though it were "real"?
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I played the first game in this series as well as the Juniper's Knot (free) game a while ago. I don't play a lot of games, but I have definitely found this visual novel scene to be an interesting one, so I'm excited to see how this might change the way we do story-telling here in the west.
Scala.jsFiddle
Today I learned that a bug of which you can only know either its position or its velocity but not both to any significant degree, is a heisenbug.
Yeah, absolutely tough to get into. I'm using some free resources right now (football-data.co.uk in particular), but would like to pull more information - the Betfair API in particular is a mess, and Opta are ludicrously expensive - c£8-10k a season. Actually might have public beta in a couple of weeks, I'm just going to put the prototype layouts into Django templates, and then troubleshoot. Want me to ping you an email when we're doing a soft launch?

(PS: If you know anywhere that has a free, REST/JSON livescore API, that would be grand...)
He's insecure and judges people and himself based on how manly and muscled they are. Read his other comments. Good guy, just needs to let go of things that don't matter.
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I'm the founder of http://oregonlaws.org which is Ramen profitable. And now I'm revving up v2 to do the rest of the U.S. Since Oregon is just 1% of the U.S. population, I'm optimistic. But I'm tired of the slow bootstrapping pace and starting to look for funding.

Meanwhile I'm spinning off an internal tool for black-box testing web apps. It should launch today: http://think200.com/beta But I really don't know what to expect.
I'm thinking the natural progression of the split-screen mode would be a system-level tiling window manager. An advanced, easy-to-use version of what most IDEs implement to show their various panes.
>And the reason for why Windows 8 for x86 was spared for the moment is because it replaces Windows 7, so because of market forces, but I hate the direction in which Microsoft is moving.

I doubt that. I think Windows on ARM was a backup plan because x86 processors weren't good enough. To reduce the amount of things needed to be ported and to reduce confusion (x86 apps not running on ARM), they limited WoA to WinRT.
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That might be because a lot of women prefer other fields. If you pick a random female and a random male, chances are the female has far less relevant tech experience than the male. Even in "tech," they're more likely to be HR, graphic design, or a paid tweeter like Adria Richards was before her lack of basic git hub knowledge led her to try to bully people out of their jobs.
I have no idea why you said this in reply to a sarcastic post, because

- we SHOULD have JSON comments. Have you never edited a JSON-based config file?

- No one says that HTML or XML shouldn't have had comments

- JSON5 already suggests adding comments, so your proposed extension to a sarcastic proposed extension to a serious proposed extension is idempotent
you did all of that on a Surface RT? Impressive, because Excel and Powerpoint are unusably slow on RT.

Source:
We've developed a business app for Win 8, development was co-sponsered by MS and Intel. We have a very succesful iPad app in our vertical, it allowed large swaths of our customer base to switch to iPads for their fieldforce.

MS themselves acknowledged that if you want to handle "large Excel" files, the RT is the wrong device.

The Surface Pro 2 finally has the performance.

I understand your enthusiasm, switching from a 2005 MB Pro to any device in 2013 is mindblowing. Just hold back with a little bit too much hyperbole, the RT was an underspecced consumer device, Office support on it was an afterthought and a paniced scramble for the dev team (as documented here on HN a while ago).
I launched a paid upgrade for Postman (http://getpostman.com) last month and it's been doing pretty well. :)
Interesting, any links to studies that indicate that women systematically ask for raises less often? I find that topic particularly difficult myself, so I'm curious to know if I'm the odd one out when it comes to men in general.

I've never had a physical fight in my life. I'm also not sure that that's what was the intention of the quote.
This is similar to the tort of public disclosure of private facts.

Similar, perhaps, but torts entitle someone to sue for damages and this law creates a new crime for which people can be imprisoned. It also removes the opportunity to argue on a case-by-case basis whether the facts disclosed were, in fact a matter of public interest.

If covert films document violations of the law regarding animal cruelty or food safety, those are matters of public interest by default. This law differs from the tort of public disclosure of private facts in that it still applies when those facts are of legitimate public interest. I doubt it will hold up to a serious constitutional challenge for that reason.
Getting the word out: honest and probably in satisfying answer is that it's a huge slog. As an engineer, I kept looking for automated solutions that would be scalable and elegant.

All the "growth hacking" talk out there makes you want to search for the "one secret trick" or the better placed share button, but for Rocket Lease I did/am doing just tons of unscalable, schleppy, inelegant stuff.

I personally have made thousands of cold calls, found property management companies with errors on their websites and offered to fix them for free to get a conversation started, tried tons of online ad channels (Adwords converts for me now, but I can't buy that many clicks profitably and the viable keyword space is smaller than expected). Flyers, postcards, calling brokers and taking them out to lunch....

Basically all the elegant automated stuff I wanted to happen didn't.

Dogged persistence has been the biggest winner to date. It's gotten easier and with domain age and more back links I'm starting to do better in organic search but it's still not that much (~70 hits a day). With more customers now I have some social proof and I'm starting to get more recommendations in but I think the tipping point for when that becomes a meaningful growth driver is still a ways away.

Oh, and customer service. Unreasonably good customer service. Not because I have to but because I obsess about my business, I personally get to support tickets really fast, try to personally connect with the customer and understand their needs and figure out how to help them.

If I think rocket lease isn't the best fit for their needs, I'll tell them and recommend them to a better suited competitor (this happens if, for example, the landlord wants online rent payments built in to the same system).

Landlords really appreciate the quality service and personal attention. This is typically only necessary early on, and after the customer has used it a few times, it's pretty much auto pilot and they're a customer for life because of the great on boarding experience.
I run level09.com, I do services for web/mobile for around 10 clients, I work full time with another company, and I create a lot of side projects (propertify.me, uaeboard, getanymp3.com, flasharabia.com etc ..) I also invest in bitcoin.

I think this year I should be able to make around 180k, but life is getting tricky with all those tasks.
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Yes: Should scale decently as well. Funding can help scale it much faster though. Able to live and feed a few folks too.
On the conference itself - Great information imparted by talented and interesting individuals. Unfortunately the event also shames YC with its overt sexism. You're better than this. I noted most speakers rose above it by keeping sexism out of their talks. Not all did and that is a shame.
Which one came first? Tcpdump or pcap?
Can firms also fund a judge position in the US? An entire police station? A prison?
When I see the term ninja, wizard or hacker in a job title it suggests to me that the people recruiting are looking for above average developer. I imagine, the rationale behind that is to do with looking for someone who will bring increased efficiency and productivity by being very intimate with a given technology and deliver value from the start. I am not saying this is the case at all but it seems like a plausible rationale behind such words. However, there is quite a stigma attached to these terms and most of the time the interpretation depends on the context. Many recruiters or companies feel that these terms resonate with developers and work for them like a bait for fish. I would definitely approach them sceptically and seek clarification of what the role involves. Probably the biggest issue with these terms is how do you actually quantify qualities of ninja or someone who has talent? Everything depends on context and these are quite murky waters. Software developer or Web developer as a job title sends much clearer picture of the company recruiting needs.
To me, IBM is a dead company, no matter how cool Watson is. My perception of IBM is a consultant company. While IBM research still makes tons of awesome progress in AI and security, IBM looks like GE and Bell Lab to me. I don't know who is the legacy now... I wonder how IBM employees feel about their job.
You're right, it only took me half a blog post to explain all of the new concepts Microsoft introduced in their completely novel approach to operating system user interfaces. I don't think that's evidence against its ease-of-use :-)

As for games completely ruling the top 100 list of highest-grossing apps on any popular consumer platform: this is definitely not the case in the Mac App Store.
He is just a guy with some opinions and famous name which can make that new product nice advertising among some people. I guess the latter is way more important. I mean, truth be said, we all know it is advertising, so it doesn't really matter how far from being precise these comments of Lenovo representatives are.
I think your comparison to 10 inch netbooks is spot on-granted, the Surface is 10.6, but considering I always felt uber crampted on a 10.1 inch netbook, I don't see the utility in having a tablet version of one. As a tablet, I think Surface has a lot going for it (kickstand, snapping apps side by side, flash, file system access), but there's no way I'd use a device that small as a primary computing device for productivity (programming or Office type stuff). Otherwise, its just an expensive VPN client.
why not just use an app?
The federal Animal Welfare Act specifically does not apply to farm animals, and many state statutes also make specific exceptions for agricultural operations.

Cf. http://awic.nal.usda.gov/farm-animals
You claimed it was the same. It isn't because there's a year's jail and a $5k fine involved, thus making it a constitutional matter, not a private one.
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Is this Jetpacks? Our test team has been using it at work. I would consider offering corporate plans if possible.
Thanks for the response.

I like the promise of YAML, but having tried it a could of projects, found all these issues which prevent it to be a simple, turn-key solution that JSON can be (at least for simple needs).

How do you feel about TOML? I find it a sane compromise, at least for congiguration file needs.
Why use an app (storage space, compatibility issues) when the website is better?
As others have mentioned, write your own.

Here are some templates: https://github.com/bsilvereagle/Extensions

It's pretty straight foward in my opinion.
I first learned to program when I was 11 or 12 years old because I was playing MUDs and wanted one of my own so I could implement features and ideas I had. Best of luck. :)
After hearing about WhatsApp's security problems I gather that Jan didn't learn much about security from w00w00.
I've always held the opinion that, even if you're not making any money, by working on a project you at least learn something new.

My favourite past-time is game development, nothing of value is produced, but I enjoy doing it and I learn more about writing software and OpenGL!

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
If you're interested in fixing the image of dairy farmers in Idaho it's probably not a good idea to ban filming on farms. Doing so just makes people assume the worst is happening. If, as you seem to argue, the conditions are not all that terrible, then why not open all diary farms to filming?

I also don't understand why the publisher should have contacted the dairyman beforehand. What purpose would that serve if the video would eventually be published anyway?

People care about where their food comes from now a days, and you're right that the public is ignorant of dairy techniques. However, you can't complain about the public's ignorance of dairy farming while at the same time decrying a publisher for making a move about dairy techniques. Censorship is not an effective means of education. If the dairymen want the public to be better educated then they should open their farms up, or start making their own movies detailing how they raise cows.
My first start-up http://moodpanda.com gets donations that covers the hosting and runnings costs and helps hundreds of thousands of people, which is fine with me.

My brand new start-up http://crowdscore.io is targeted at mid to large business's so is going to need quite a bit of cash to get traction, I've had some early interest but I think its going to be a much harder sell than my first.
Was not having one global currency - one of the main reasons to introduce currencies in the first place? All those "national" currencies will be susceptible for 50%+1 attack.
As opposed to doing what? Keeping these workers on board as an act of charity? IBM operates for the benefit of its shareholders, not its employees; also, water is wet.
Am I the only one that senses a Hollywood movie in the making?
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Data on what? On the fact that more boys than girls play team sports? On the fact that aggressiveness is a skill in team sports such as American Football?

I think the issue is that you're taking "aggressive" as violent or harmful, when in popular usage it often means simply competitive, assertive and/or ambitious, which is the more sensible interpretation in this case, considering the context (nobody would say that being outright violent is helpful as a startup founder!)
Well, you won't see 'magic values' in production code, or at least should minimize it
It's not trespassing if you're an employee of the farm.

We need to wait for a proper first amendment challenge to this before assuming this law will hold up in court. There is a lot about this law that could be challenged on first amendment grounds.