skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between, say, the local bank claiming to have a giant safe that's rated TL-30 but it turns out to actually be rated TL-15 while the bank across the street also claims to have a TL-30 rated safe when in actuality it turns out that during installation someone smashed a 4ft by 4ft hole through the safe then covered it over with aluminum foil.

There are the inevitable almost impossible to fully plan for security vulnerabilities (e.g. in code outside your control) and then there are vulnerabilities due to extremely poor process at a fundamental level (like sql and html injection).
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he doesn't know what he's talking aout
None so far I think. I could be missing something, but looking briefly at what I spend money on, I don't think any of it counts as SaaS.

I do spend money on various IaaS offerings. But none of the services on top of that have come up so far as something I feel I need. But I'm doing mostly research (which is also my job) and side projects, not running a tech business. I need servers, not so much services. There are some vaguely relevant services (like machine-learning-as-a-service), but I generally don't feel comfortable being dependent on an external service for my actual research. So I'd only use these if it was an ancillary need and not something where I might need to publish the results. There's also a move towards asking researchers to ship VMs of their test setup as a replicable archive of the work, and dependencies on external services are a no-go for that.

For my personal life, Dropbox is the closest I came to paying for. But then I realized I was mostly just using it to back up photos, which seemed like a use-case it's not even designed for. So I moved those to a local backup + Flickr.
I can't speak for the big guys, but I'm seeing more smaller Flash game devs make the transition from Flash to Haxe, mostly for the ease of porting to mobile/HTML5.

I've been making Flash games on and off since about 2007 and finally made the transition to Haxe with my latest game [1]. As others have commented, it's not perfect yet (i.e. some features aren't yet available on all targets), but I'll never be going back to Flash now.

[1] http://www.iquitmustdash.com/
State of SaaS 2014 and its Challenges
I have a side project where we spend about $150/month on Amazon Web Services for hosting and $50 on one other SaaS service needed by the product.

Take that with the grain of salt that our total marketing spend is $0. We don't even use Mixpanel or any equivalent to track what our users are doing.
We never figured it out...
Libraries don't encapsulate data or operations.

For example, say we're on a team at Netflix responsible for handling recommendations. We could provide this to other teams a library they call: get_movie_recommendations(user, genre, ...)

However, that call will need to hit a datastore. Which datastore does it use ? Which servers is that datastore running on ? When we make changes to the schema and need to migrate, which groups do we need to involve ?

If it's a service, the recommendations team can own everything: the code, the data, and the servers. The other teams can be treated like customers of the service.
How do you differentiate yourself from all of the other companies already in this space? You offer used clothing at a discounted price?
Households without any cash savings are twice as likely to be wealthy as poor
a hoarding, power hungry society that uses money as the means to manage the distribution and ownership of things.

Actually, I think the problem is that we don't use money enough to manage distribution and ownership; too much distribution and ownership is controlled by factors other than money. But it's true that there is a problem with money as a control mechanism, though it isn't what you appear to think it is: the problem with money as a control mechanism is that governments manipulate the money supply for political reasons.
I receive donations for my writing, coding, and art. I do some tutoring, too, which pays alright. I'm not a conventional developer, but I'm more than happy with the freedom I have and I feel I can really appreciate the things I have a lot more because of my self-imposed poverty.
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I wouldn't bother - Crosswalk does the job great for Android:

https://crosswalk-project.org/

It's based on Chrome for Android so you have a fully-featured browser engine available. iOS is the only platform where there isn't a good GPU-accelerated browser engine available that can run native apps, hence the use case. (P.S. we hope to support Ejecta in Construct 2 officially soon!)
Most do. Only in the extremely bleeding edge world of boutique tech frameworks and tools does it seem out of the ordinary.
A neighbour of mine died just 2 days ago (I went to his funeral yesterday). He left home at about 10pm for a short walk with his dog, as usual. Then, a few minutes later, somebody noticed him laying on the ground, his dog sitting by his feet. When the ambulance came they apparently tried all they could - to no avail. He was dead. He had a healthy lifestyle and, as an officer, had regular check-ups. He was just 38 years old, and left his wife and two daughters of 13 and 8. I'm sure he didn't plan to do so.
If you post high quality content, almost nothing should change. Are you upset because you didn't fit in the somewhat arbitrary initial rule to be included in the set of moderators?
The current rules are just meant as a high level baseline to start a discussion around designing the competition and the announcement was a call for people to do just that. An XPRIZE can take several months to years going through a design process before finalizing the rules. During that time domain experts are consulted to help define the competition.
I am actually working for a startup who is prepping an app for investors approval, and what we have found is speed, and progress is important. I would definitely recommend RoR because the speed to development is so critical. With Rails it isn't unrealistic to have a MVP within 3 months. Especially with 10-15 hours a day.

And you can get a macbook air for around $900-$1300. That's all you really need, nothing fancy.

And if your app is meant to be mobile, you can get deep into mobile web development and even create a very native experience. That's what forecast.io did.

Also as you probably know, in startups it's more about proving a model than having a fancy piece of software. Think about what features are going to attract customers asap. Iteration is easier when you have customers giving you feedback.

IMO RoR is the fastest way to make those vital iterations. Once you're sitting on your $5 million in venture cash you can worry about architecture and scalability.
If you had a chance to make the decision again, what would you choose instead of Mongo?
My advice, start from Linux. It exposes all the moving parts, has the best tooling, and pretty much anything you learn about it is applicable to Windows or OSX - though there are parts of both that are unique. A mainline distro with a long term support release makes sense.

Hardware, cheap laptop and a cheap desktop and a decent keyboard. I am partial to the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000. With two computers running Linux you can learn about networking, hardware configuration, ssh, and using the shell.

Next, Emacs [or maybe Vim] there's a reason these are around after decades. Emacs is fully programmable which if your into programming makes logical sense. Plus it forces you to use the keyboard and the keyboard is the fastest most reliable interface.

Language? For learning programming nothing comes close to Racket/Scheme. Racket is huge and provides tools for just about any programming paradigm. The two best programming introductions are How to Design Programs and The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Both are free on the internet.

Racket: http://racket-lang.org

HtDP: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
I use a Firefox add-on that does this for every form:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...
BrowserSnaps – cross browser compatibility checker
Now that twitter has automatic link shortening, I'd say this is even less of a problem than it was before.
What you are talking about is essentially the tokenization concept which should become real in 2014. All retailers such as Amazon would become Token requestors in this concept. Advantages would be to essentially make these breaches irrelevant as tokens could be invalidated quickly by the card issuers easily. Further, for merchants - the advantage would be reduced fraud and hopefully better interchange economics.
I find it extraordinary how many people are willing to give full access to their LinkedIn account and get so little in exchange.
it really depends on where you live, just to put things in perspective, pretty much every European laughs at the American gun laws/culture
Some time ago I built something similar to Ejecta (https://github.com/funkaster/FakeWebGL) aiming to have support for Android. It's using Spidermonkey instead of ScriptingCore, and it's written in C++. I haven't updated the code in a long time, but it shouldn't be too hard to update to the newer SpiderMonkey and at some point add Android support :)
I just need the time (which between work and my side projects, is almost 0). If someone wants to help, the code is there, and I'll be happy to provide guidance and support.
MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display
I think the problem is chemistry, not math. If you don't start with phosphors with the right behavior, you can't combine them to get the result you want.

Specifically, the math breaks down at "subject to all concentrations being >= 0". This is exactly the same reason you can't generate all visible colors from RGB or CMY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut) - there are colors outside the linear combination of the starting values. And the problem is much worse here, because the number of dimensions is much greater than three. (You also have to assume the mint will watch purchases of the necessary phosphors.)

For reference, the relevant patent (via SO) is https://www.google.com/patents/US20110305919
I bought a windows 8 licence, but that has no expiration date so I don't think it can be converted into a per month rate. Other than that I have a domain which is hosted for $20 annually. So while server software and domain can probably count as Saas but the (part of the (VPS)) server itself cannot be saas I guess. That's pretty much it.
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Yup, I have been working with it. It's promising so far.
About the nested ssh attack - I don't get it, how come the ssh client on B waits until return is hit to send the password but the client on A doesnt?
History is a lot longer than 2000 years.
Sea Level Rise Planning Tool – New York City
LOL. It just dawned on me that post happy people are probably the most active people, thus best suited to do a job requiring quite a lot of work. I never seem to give pg enough credit.
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More details here:

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/sea-level-rise-planning-tool...
Some quick UI ideas
http://i.imgur.com/7PDTIt9.jpg

Maybe also keep the scroller for when you absolutely have to have a higher resolution...
Make more money.
LogicBlox – Datalog REPL tutorial
I hate to be all "get off of my lawn," but "growth hacking' isn't really a distinct thing. It's a combination of marketing, branding, social media management, engagement analysis etc., which are frequently grouped together as the responsibility of one individual in the early stages. This is partly because there's not really enough work to partition these into distinct roles until your product or service has evolved a little!

Ultimately, it's just buzzword-speak for knowing your market, advertising your product to them, and analysing the results. All the same features as traditional marketing, and the things this article highlights as important.
Do you have a minimum size for side projects in mind? To take my smallest: I have a project that costs $2-3/month to host, and it made more than $3 in ads in its first month up, so it's always at least broken even. :-)
Has it been confirmed that Reggie Watts is not a robot and has not already won this prize?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
Was this issue raised with 10gen?

Either way, was your experience the per-incident support was lacking because you did not have a support contract?

It becomes interesting, because for $100K per year, I could budget for a lot of choices.
What's your definition of "wastefulness"? For example, am I being "wasteful" by using a computer connected to the Internet to make this post?

If your answer to that question is yes (I don't actually think it is, but bear with me), then you are right that the only way to have an American standard of living is to be "wasteful" in this sense; but that would be true of any standard of living beyond bare subsistence. Good luck convincing people to buy into that.

If your answer to that question is no, then you're wrong that we need to be "wasteful" to have an American standard of living. The computer I'm using to make this post is considerably more efficient than the computer I would have used to do so when I first joined HN a few years ago, let alone the one I was using to make posts on CompuServe discussion groups a couple of decades ago. The new car my wife and I bought recently is considerably more efficient than the 12-year-old car I have (which we are going to replace soon for that very reason). We have a lot of room to make things more efficient without sacrificing any functionality at all--indeed, while continuing to add functionality. The computer I'm using now is not only more efficient (less power consumption, longer battery life, etc.) than older ones, it's more functional as well (faster CPU, more RAM, more hard drive).
Just using Javascript also makes it the same kind of "frankenstein" - if you are just concerned about code running then Javascript is no better than Flash
A bigger bite
Chrome still has Flash Player built-in and that won't change any time soon. I think once Chrome and YouTube completely move on it'll be a major development in Flash taking a back seat.
Totally unlike the books you named, but the best "intelligent investment" advice is probably in Bogle's "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" and similar books.
Because physics is not done?
Given that we have no distribution system in place, it is true that if the state redistributes money, that is a more efficient way to go. However, you slightly missed my point. I'm not talking about a system that gives you vouchers. I'm talking about a system that gives you FOOD. This isn't food stamps, this is a system that lives outside of the economy. You don't pay for food, you don't have a "quota". Everything is centralized. Basically, this removes the need for brick and mortar grocery stores, and ends our dependence on large companies like Wal-Mart, et. al., to sell us our food.

We shouldn't need to buy food. That's the point.
That's just a really simple markov chain generator. If someone could get a bunch of transcripts of TED talks in plain text, this would be pretty straightforward.
Good to hear, I sincerely hope that can get it right.
It really feels like this is solving a problem that doesn't exist, and as a result will hurt discussion. Additionally it assumes that people with 1,000 karma will sift through all of the comments to approve. Based on how few things get upvoted in the "new" section, I sincerely doubt that your members will sit on the "pending" tab waiting to approve.

We'll see how this plays out, but I'm probably done trying to comment here for now.
in my fantasy world I have a computer (a laptop or maybe just a processing unit of some sort) plus something like an oculus with many cameras on it .

When I am busy, I shut off the world and get distraction-free. When I want to interact with others I composite the real world atop my VR world from the cameras, without ever lifting the headset.

Ghost in the Shell but much simpler.
I found nuts of all sorts just killed me too.
And if that trend continues, at some point in the not too distant future, it will become profitable to mine metals from, say, automobile junkyards, instead of from the ground. Or we'll find substitutes, as we already have for many metals (an automobile junkyard a decade from now, containing mostly cars built around this time, won't have nearly as much metal in it because the car bodies will be mostly composite).
sold quantities, revenue figures - but no margins, no profits.

funny, this is a hardware business, not a software startup. running on losses scales up quickly as you need to pay real money for every unit you build. can't cheat costs as say whatsapp buy running lean and taking a lot of shortcuts under the hood of the product - if quality is shit people will not buy or return.
Replication is indeed not as advertised and neither is sharding. MongoDB hands off a lot of important details of the replica failover to the drivers which implement them to varying degrees of quality. We had several instances where there was a node that was still up but had degraded network or other real life failure cases that were handled very badly causing the DB to become unavailable. The driver would attempt to contact the node on every connection due to it still being in the RS causing timeouts It handled a node becoming completely unreachable OK but that did not happen that often.

I think they just added too many features too fast to get adopted widely. It appears now too they are less focused with improving the actual DB and more interested in getting in the enterprise services area. They market themselves as a general purpose DB but it is certainly not. I think many developers were turned on by the initial ease of use, and really did not consider if they should really be using a document store. We used it 100% due to the replication which does not work often.
I'm kind of in the same boat. I took a year off college to focus on learning web development.

A year later, I'm working for a startup, but I am also making double I was at my old job. It was really a paradigm shift in my mind.

I looked at college as my entrance to a career, and later learned that wasn't the case. People value unique skills, not cookie cutter graduates.

You're asking some deep life questions, that extend outside programming. a book: The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin really helped me when I was at a place you're in right now. Helped me understand how really successful people do it. hope that helps :)
what kind of data structures were they?

Although I don't think I've hit 200gb (well, at least without blobs), I really like using couchdb as an object store. To get around limitations in CouchDB views, I usually just have ElasticSearch index the data in near 'real-time'.

I now think it actually makes a fair bit of sense to have storage and indexing happen in different applications, because it allows you to tune their performance and add/remove servers to the clusters separately.

Also, couchdb's replication _works_
So, what do you do for a living?
As the title says, also side/backyard projects count!
That's not dynamic content.

It's not. A company I worked for recently had a 2TiB S3 deployment for archiving insurance documents and the amount of hoops you gave to go through for it to be reliable is incredible (no uploads or downloads are guaranteed and sometimes randomly fail for a while).
Pending comments are now per thread, or more precisely per item tree, rather than sitewide. That was the original plan, and it turned out to be only a little more code. The moderator (who is not me) will turn pending comments on as needed when conversations turn nasty.

That doesn't happen on most threads, but it does happen on some, and pending comments may help fix the problem. I'm not sure it will. The moderator will have to experiment to see what works. But since the code was slightly complicated I wanted at least to get the initial version done before I left.
Artificial charisma is what's need for talk.
Agree on the eating meat front, I suspect you will be right on prison - except that slowly classes of crime will become medically treatable which will be a bit like blaming people for dying because they did not know about anti biotics

I am however interested in your root cause - is it religion?
Identity, like beauty, fun, and spiciness, is[1] something that's built on physics, not requiring a fundamental property, just as asking how much spiciness an electron has is futile.

[1] Well, presuming it actually does exist as something other than confusion, which I'm not currently arguing, though I'm sympathetic to the notion.
I just haven't really found a decent IRC app, tbh. I mean, I use them fine for my developer-ey needs, but pretty much the only reason that these proprietary apps exist is because the UX is kinda crappy on IRC. No one wants to constantly troubleshoot dumb stuff for the business person or the designer on the team, so, Hipchat. I think you could limit some functionality and sand the rough edges off of IRC, like Popcorn Time does for movie torrents, and have something pretty sweet.
That's very strange logic. You don't experience future versions of yourself in the present either. But they are also you.
You are working, as in earning money. Therefore snacks are an option. Six months down the line this guy is going to be looking back and seeing snacks as part of the good-old-days, when he had money for such things.

My advice would be to pare food down to the basics, as in a sensible lunch and a proper, cooked from fresh evening meal with no snacks. Get the sacks of pasta and rice in with canned goods, e.g. tomatoes, in bulk. Then do the rest of the shopping by bicycle, i.e. the vegetable shopping. Give up meat and go veggie on cost grounds. The jaunt by bicycle should also cover the regular exercise base somewhat.

I should also say: stay off HN!
I'm going to start paying cash everywhere. I already use cash at point of sale at regular stores, and I've limited my online exposure to Amazon, Netflix, Google and PayPal. Insecurity is sending me back into the 70's with financial technology.

I don't even want to use checks. I went to H&R block, tried to pay with a check to avoid giving my credit card details and they scanned the check's routing and bank number and stored that! Losing your bank info is more severe than credit card data because you have to close your account. Seriously bringing like a wad of cash next time I go to H&R block.
So basically, the open source community made a better flash than Adobe did? That is rather amazing considering the resources of the respective groups.
Thank you very much, this is a great idea! We will definitely add a feature to opt-in to give your actual salary.
Thank you. I was going to come in here and say "Look I don't know if there are any HTML5 games on Steam, but how hard could it really be to package your game up in a fork of Chromium or WebKit?"