skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Success at teaming up to build projects/business?
So this question is pretty straightforward.

Have any of you successfully managed to find a team and build either a project or business using HN as the network to find the team members?

It is difficult to define what success is, but let's call success in this scenario both:

surviving the 24 month startup period; generating some decent cash flow;

I ask this because I was considering submitting a proposal to find folks to join me in building something, but I thought I would ask this to gauge whether it is possible or there are successful use-cases of it happening in the past.
I think calling it "hackable" is a little bit of a fudge on Github's part, but from what I can see of Atom, it's open enough that I'm okay with their characterization. Certainly it's more open and hackable than github.com itself.
Nope (though note, I'm biased for several reasons). In terms of performance per unit area and performance per Watt, VideoCore IV is about as good as you're going to get. There are chips with higher performance GPUs out there, but they get there by brute force: throwing area (and therefore cost) and/or power at the problem.
Fortress Investment Group reports a $3.7 million loss on Bitcoin
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Ask HN: Do you think we'll ever be able to trust Bitcoin?
The events at Mt. Gox the past few weeks (and months!) clearly show Bitcoins have a long way to go before gaining the mainstream's trust. Do you even think they ever will?
Where do you draw the line on enabling a broken system that awards contracts to ill prepared monolithic RFP generating machines, and start saying, "We need real reform for technology in government and not just half-hearted bloviating about transparency"?
Tor develops its own anonymous IM tool to hide chat from spying eyes
Yes. See here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5535

a lot of this work goes upstream.
I agree, never had any disappointment with them. Some may think I'm exaggerating but what I see is they are contributing to Visual Studio's success more than Microsoft.
How Ars readers cope with bad Netflix and YouTube performance
So a not yet profitable site is going to start giving away revenue. Very happy I'm not an investor in that company.
From the article -

"This isn’t the end of the road for us: there are still significant parts of the multimedia hardware on BCM2835 which are only accessible via the blob."
Not quite yet. We're hoping to be able to provide a minimum-functionality blobless world fairly soon.
Yes (per the guidelines the Navy issues on working around the Aegis system), but not quite like this. Per the discussion about phased array in the article the amount of power you need to do that is many times the amount of powered that gets delivered. This technique allows you to create such an interference node without any excess power from any single source.
> A currency requires backing by a central authority.

Not so. The proof is that Bitcoin is functioning as a currency, and the Fed chair has recently said that the government has no right to regulate it:

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/27/janet-yellen...

Quote: "The Federal Reserve has no authority to supervise or regulate Bitcoin, chair Janet Yellen told Congress on Thursday."

Falsified.

> EDIT: I would also like to add one simple thing. Here we are discussing a topic that falls into the field of economics. How many here are economists?

This is a logical error (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority). Do you have an opinion about whether astrology is real? You do? But you aren't an astrologer, so why do you think you have the right to your views? Don't you think you should ask an astrologer whether his field is valid?

It's not as though economics is a science, or that economic principles must be transferred from one person to another in a college classroom in order to be valid. If that were true, economics could not have come into existence in the first place.
In the Low Lands they have less positive experiences with AnsaldoBreda - the high speed trains turned out to be unfixable (according to Dutch & Belgian Rail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyra

"They entered service in December 2012 - five years later than originally planned.[19] They were taken out of service the following month due to numerous technical issues. Four months later only two of the 9 already delivered trains were still capable of performing test runs.[9]"
As per Joe Grund: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-cert...

npm config set strict-ssl false
npm update npm -g
npm config set strict-ssl true
Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978206 for you.
I wonder if anything GPGPU will become of this... I'm thinking it's probably not possible. OpenCL?
Bioshock Infinite review
Link goes to http://espn.go.com/blog/poker/post/_/id/1528/green-friday-ft...
The Web at 25 in the U.S.
assuming you know what a vm is...

vagrant is a manager for vms. it lets you manage vms (by default on virtualbox, but you can use other vm hosts too).

docker is a manager for linux containers. linux containers are linux only and a bit like chroot on steroids - they use the same linux kernel as the host, but with a different file system. so they're like lightweight, linux-only, vms. they're so lightweight that they're being "sold" as containers for single applications (so you then use docker like a package management service, installing postgres, for example, as a docker container - often this can use a separate vm as the host, so that you're not making changes to your main machine, or because you're using a mac).

fig is new to me but seems to be a wrapper around docker that simplifies some things.

the above is a simplification - for example, i'm pretty sure vagrant these days can also manage docker images (linux containers + docker metadata).
Engineers tend to view fonts thru an engineering lens, instead of cultural or aesthetic points of view. So, often the number one feature of a font for us is symbol clarity. How easily can I distinguish between a 0 and O, and 1 and l, with no context (a test which most fonts fail). Many typographers or font enthusiasts don't care much about those distinctions because they can rely on context (programmers cannot).

So, many engineers I've come in contact with care deeply about their fonts, but view much of what happens in typography as a distraction.
Having both good leadership and good engineers is more likely to provide success than just good leadership. That said, having only good engineers without good leadership will lead to failure. But the companies you mention require different amounts of net engineering effort to achieve their respective goals.

Hiring the best engineers doesn't seem to be as big a factor for companies like Facebook, for example. Facebook found means to connect people in ways that kept them engaged with the site, which was more of a social programming [psychology] problem, which while still an interesting engineering project (from a web-design standpoint) is more of a question of designing features people want to use.

Google wanted to provide more relevant search results, and so engineering was a key component in solving a complex problem. DropBox was similar in that they were providing a way to reduce friction in a basic user experience: synchronizing file copies. But DropBox's solution is nearly all engineering, because the problem they're solving is almost entirely based on managing logical resources (which is something engineering is great at).

However, if you leverage technology poorly, your company will suffer. Myspace ended up developing quicker with less engineers in Coldfusion than Friendster's greater number of engineers using JSP. Years later, Facebook gained great success using php - but was it because they used php, or because the goals they were focused on were different, or their execution more deliberate?
Isn't that convenient for you, then?
Hence the theory that the missing BTC is in cold storage but the private keys have been lost.
See the comment of paul_willis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7320581

BipolarBear0 has stated that he's an independent contractor for the DoD
It's because I don't speak for the owners of the site and I'd rather make sure they don't mind me putting it out there like this. I could let you know privately, if you'd like to check my story for yourself, though.
> Bitcoin is functioning as a currency, and the Fed chair has recently said that the government has no right to regulate it

No, the Fed Chair (the chair of the Federal Reserve) said that the Fed (the Federal Reserve) had no power assigned by Congress to regulate it. She didn't say the government had no right (or more accurately, power) to regulate it. The Fed is not the same thing as the government.
> 4) Call around and get a deal, my phone plan is $65/month

Which provider are you with?
I wonder if it will be the EFF... ;-)

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_ce...
I don't think you have a clue about Christopher Hitchens (who I actually quoted in this thread: "don't take refuge in the false security of consensus").

Perhaps you should read more of what he wrote, and watch the dozens of debates he conducted with priests, rabbis etc. Of course, you can use ridicule in an argument, but you cannot put yourself above the debate (or you will lose).
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It's great news. It's also not quite enough to get rid of the entire binary blob, as the article notes near the bottom. (I have the feeling some didn't read that far.)
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Short answer: No, they don't.

Long answer: Some GNU projects require copyright assignment to the FSF. The most well known example would be GNU Emacs. However, unlike GitHub or another for-profit business, the FSF is a non-profit charity dedicated to free software. Additionally, there is a clause in the CLA to ensure that contributions cannot be made nonfree. I have made some small contributions to a handful of GNU projects at this point and I have not yet had to assign copyright for any of them.

The copyright assignment situation with the FSF and the GNU project is dramatically different than the potential situation that I've described about GitHub. I hope I've made things clear.
Lol.. you've clearly never been to jail, much less prison.
Let me rephrase that "So a not yet profitable site is going to spend 10% of a new form of marketing. Very not happy I'm not an investor in that company" :)
These startups found unusual ways to get funded
It's really awesome we were able to build this completely on Firebase's system. The zapier integration for email was clutch too. Ne sweat on the scaling.
No one has found a bug in the protocol that breaks bitcoin itself. What is under attack are the layers on top of bitcoin, in this case the exchanges. We will see more exchanges who make an effort to prove they are solvent, likely via technical methods.

Put another way, some businesses running on bitcoin are still operating like ordinary fiat businesses (e.g. fractional reserve of bitcoin). They will be replaced by those that can leverage the blockchain, for it's security, and therefore maintain a higher level of trust.
It's only for the ad revenue. I'm guessing this is a small part of their revenue compared to reddit gold.
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What are your thoughts on pricing for this? How about a form builder?
So? A payment processor is, in many ways, a utility. There's only so much innovation I need out of Stripe - they need to process payments for me. Done. If a competitor is cheaper, it's valid to go for them.
> * if a method does not use the object's state (no `self` usage) make it a `class-` or `staticmethod`.

Is this really true?
`highlight = reverse` also flies in the face of TOOWTDI (from PEP 20).

Which is a shame, because this means that convenience methods that Ruby has, e.g. ary.first → ary[0], ary.compact → ary.reject{|x| x.nil? }, ary.map → ary.collect are pruned out of the stdlib and frowned on in contributed libraries. This chilling effect that descends from PEP20 is one of the worse aspects of Python.

They increase readability and should be encouraged. Even if ary.last is one more character, it uses less of my brain to read than ary[-1]. ary.map might be more readable if other code uses ary.reduce, while ary.collect is more readable if other code uses ary.inject, ary.detect, etc.

The OP gave a perfect example with this---in an event handler for a drag operation within an editor, I'd rather communicate that text is being .highlight()-ed, even if the underlying view methods are reversing the pixels. If I used .reverse(), it might confuse a coder into thinking the text itself is being reversed when I drag.

Perhaps if more Pythonistas consider this a "best practice," it will swing favor for amending the Zen. But I wouldn't bet on it.

Also, you're incorrect about help(). help(Foo.highlight) will provide the docstring for Foo.reverse if Foo.highlight = Foo.reverse.
There's a significant WebKit consultancy industry.
Sort of reminiscent of ESWL, which breaks kidney stones, except in that case they "aim" the sound waves with an elliptical waveguide.
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Here's what I would do if I stole 750k Bitcoins.

1. Split the wallet up into as many wallets as possible. Preferably by transferring them through a couple hundred compromised (but not emptied) accounts.

2. Sell each individual wallet of say, 100-1000 BTC, on the black market. Make sure the transaction happens outside the transaction chain (i.e. either in real life or using other wallets with some kind of alternative trust system).

3. Be prepared to lose 5-20% of the value, in exchange for turning the money "white".

If the money was stolen and the people who took it aren't stupid, I don't see how someone is ever going to find it.
I think this is another example of how Raspberry Pi Foundation's decision not to move forward with a gazillion different boards, but rather to stick with A and B and let the software evolve, was a good one.

I'm very excited to see what the next year brings.
"Bayes’ theorem– a sophisticated and complex tool for analyzing probability"

Uh... really?
Kinda hard to when you've exhausted your quota of 10 article a month.

But from the opening paragraph (all I can see for more than a couple of seconds) it's clearly an anti-gun, anti-concealed carry attack, for which excusing its verbal brutality as "humor" doesn't work in the least. From someone who's likely grossly ignorant of the relevant details, including at least a couple of nearby states, Utah and Colorado, that allow concealed carry in public universities without any incidents of note.

Heck, when Colorado flipped hard-core anti-gun in the legislature and executive last year, a law to eliminate that was the only gun-grabbing measure to fail.
Is reddit gold all that much? I could imagine a surge when it came out, but how about ongoing?
I'm surprised that this wasn't one of those "hey in 60 days we'll be making this change and it will break x, y, and z. Be prepared." sort of things.
> Commodities have intrinsic value.

Currencies aren't commodities and have no innate value. The represent wealth, they aren't themselves wealth.

> In the case of a government-backed currency, there's at least some value based on that government's ability to mandate its use for taxes.

That begs the question -- by which I mean it assumes what it should be proving (the real meaning of "beg the question"). The fact that government collects taxes using dollars as a medium of exchange doesn't mean the government's action validates dollars, but that government gives dollars the same regard the public does, for reasons having nothing to do with government itself.

> This doesn't mean that Bitcoin can't be valued but it means that the community has to have a strategy to provide equivalent reassurances.

The validity of dollars results from public familiarity, faith and trust. This may or may not happen with Bitcoin, but that's the usual route to currency validation.
There are limits placed on you by parametric polymorphism. Adding typeclass constraints in Haskell is how you weaken those limits in a controlled way. So I think it has quite a bit to do with typeclasses. I agree "overloading" might not be the correct term to use here, although it is itself a bit... overloaded.
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San Francisco's light rail system also uses trains made by Breda.
Show HN: Flask and Angular.js Project (TodoMVC Like)
This is cool, I wonder why they are using part of the ad rev though. Advertisers want to advertise no matter what, like it's _basically_ just a formula for $ <-> traffic. But I'll bet users would be more pumped to buy each other reddit gold if part of that purchase went to charity.
That's the first explanation I've read that makes any sense.
In the case of SQLAlchemy you are not. The cascading methods on query objects create new query objects as it should be. Mutating objects with cascading methods is horrible API design as it suggests immutability where there is none.
Sears, Secret Service Said to Investigate Possible Data Breach
Show HN: CakeBet, a HTML5 Bitcoin casino
If you really need an answer call them.
I'm neither a fan of the administration, nor the NSA. I'm simply frustrated at the manner in which these leaks have been presented.

The momentum is all gone, and GG is seeing it. People don't care because it took too long to get it all out there. Pretty soon, the story will be swept under the rug.
We are not sure about pricing for now. We shied away from making a form builder. A la wufoo or google forms. This is made to be as close to HTML forms as possible. It's made to work on any static site with any form markup. If you are like us you are picky about your markup and wouldn't think of using an iframe.
http://www.reddit.com/gilded

You can see "gilded" comments in real time. Gilded is when one user gives a month of reddit gold to another user (it doesn't include people buying it for themselves).

I'd say it's most definitely a success.
Reminder: "profit" is left over money. Profit means you've paid all your expenses (including people's salaries), and you still have money left over.

You can be not-profitable forever and still have a working company.

In fact, some organizations are even specifically set up to be "not profitable."
You make some good points, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I hope Gmail updates it spam algorithm to catch stuff like this.
I do this too. I dislike when functions in languages don't explicitly return something even if that something is nothing.
Linked paper:

http://www.rearden.com/DIDO/DIDO_White_Paper_110727.pdf
You have a good point. It definitely takes a lot of mental discipline to rebalance on a schedule with liquid paper wealth.
Mt.Gox's failure had nothing to do with the Bitcoin protocol and everything to do with their own incompetence at running a financial exchange of that size. Many people's losses could have been avoided if they followed common advice and avoided treating exchanges like banks, instead taking their own responsibility for the security of their private keys.
Well, let's see if someone can get Android to use the GPU now.

And yes, I'm not expecting miracles -- even though Broadcom never released their 4.x port, what they demoed on the-teaser-video-that-was-never-followed-up-on seemed "fast enough" for a number of purposes.
Something like that happened -- in the 20th century, not the 19th. And the outcome was that the public accepted the unlinking of paper money from a specific standard of value.
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A few things that bother me:

- no QR codes

- no link to a Github repo where I can download it

- no randomization function to seed the generator

Additionally, I think best practices should dictate none of these paper wallet generators should display their functionality while they are connected to the Internet. All of us have a duty to build software that is secure and has clear intent. Users get confused easily.

As an aside, I gave the retired couple next door a paper wallet last night for letting me borrow their printer. I put $10 on it for ink. The husband is an ameuter astronomer and used to code, so he's technical. The wife said she's been watching for news about Bitcoin. She said that she heard something about "that mount place" and hoped they were OK. I told her to get some popcorn.
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Scraping web pages using Node.js, Request, and Q [promises]
tshark also has a fabulous ring buffer feature that lets you run captures continuously while chunking the files up into manageable sizes.

e.g. -b filesize:100000 -b files:200 -w somefile

This will make a ring buffer of 200 * 100MB files.

After typing this, I realized this may have limited use cases, but I use it almost every day.
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Is there no way to specify type of viewmodel somewhere? Ala d:DataContext from resharper?
If you want to program with tcpdump check out its libary, pcap.

http://www.tcpdump.org/pcap.html

Lately I have been playing with a Go interface to it, https://github.com/miekg/pcap

Great tool, and lots of fun.
So, the point of the linked article isn't that you are expected to get your PhD without being paid for your research work. Most if not all PhDs in Norway are paid or sponsored.

The point is that you can, having finished high school, go to Norway and get the whole 8-9 years of bachelor->masters->phd education completely free of tuition fees (disregarding the nominal ~100/year enrolment fee).
Tim Cook: Apple TV did over $1B in 2013 revenue
You should have the URL go directly to the page (and indicate that an extension is available there.)

If I was going to your site regularly, I'd hate to have to type in /app each time (and the autocomplete wouldn't necessarily go there.)
Not-for profit companies have profit, they just redistribute the profits at the end. Any company that never has profit is doomed to fail.
Because I'd rather have proper types than stringly typed language requiring using a linter and 100% test coverage for avoiding trivial type mistakes.
If you want to go straight to the horse's mouth and just start hacking (this is Hacker News, after all!), the Broadcom downloads are here:

* BCM21553 VideoCore IV graphics driver source: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/Brcm_Android_...

* BCM21553 VideoCore IV documentation: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-A...
After receiving 80+ emails, I'd like everyone to know that I don't have any more invitations. Check out ##atom-invitations on irc.freenode.net!
The real story behind the San Francisco Google Glass accosting
New Brazilian pop idol. #GERY #NaPassarela
Gery is considered the new Brazilian pop idol. Moreno beautiful! of honey-colored eyes. He will also actor.
Do you like anything he does? He seems to have a pretty good record [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara
It sounds like it's to provide an incentive to stop blocking reddit ads.
May I suggest `any` here?

def is_file_for(is_nagyker, type):
return any([
type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER,
type == KISKER and not is_nagyker,
type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker])

I know unsolicited code improvements from strangers isn't the coolest thing in the world, but `any` (and `all`) can really improve clarity for stuff like this. I know I use them quite a bit.
This is incredible. Thank you Broadcom!
They were actually the biggest contributor, above Apple, for a while before the fork.
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its a good idea, making users supportive of advertising by giving some of it to charity. Now people with adblockers might more inclined to add reddit to whitelist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9wsrL43RY