skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What do you think about the "Lean Startup Machine"?
Hi, the Lean Startup Machine (https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/) is coming to my city. I've heard about this from some entrepreneur-related email lists.

I wanted to know what HNers think about this event, and any experience attending.

I only hava a rough idea of the Lean Startup, and think this could be interesting, but also wanted to know what other people have to say (personally I didn't find the website very informative).
Do you still have to awkwardly shout out commands?
The Evolution of Foursquare Homepage Branding 2009-2013
1. Fail to read a short README and install plugin properly.

2. Waste hours of your and other's time chasing the weird "bug" that's direct consequence of point 1.

3. Write a long pointless post where you don't even aknowledge your initial stupidity.

4. Get famous on the World Wide Web.

No fucking wonder why nobody RTFM anymore: failure is success!
Oh really? Do you suppose many VCs will want to invest in his startup, knowing that a crowd of zealots will be chomping at the bit to protest them and boycott their other investments?

I'm afraid he may be effectively blacklisted in this industry now.
That is a textbook example of behaving like a boss from hell. The only proper response to that is "I'm not the one with the problem. If it's bugging you, then YOU can be Margaret." (Presumably followed up by a call to the unemployment office, sadly.)
Yeah but nobody will be willing to be the ones who suffer horrible or no service in the short term, certainly not long enough to enact the required changes to bring better competition to the areas that Comcast monopolizes.
you could always work for endgame systems
Bruce Schneier touched base on this, too. He noted how simple it would be for non-artists (i.e. spies, criminals, the IRS) to develop the exact same capabilities.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/conversnitch....
Bitcoins in Space: Hacker to Fire Digital Currency Into Orbit
Not an immigration lawyer but I unfortunately have to care about this stuff w/r/t a non-US nation and have previously had to care about it w/r/t the US on behalf of third parties: even "You talk at our office and we pay you a modest honorarium" requires a B-1 (short-term travel for business purposes to e.g. negotiate a contract) as opposed to e.g. a visa waiver. It is vanishingly unlikely that the duration and scope of this project, which looks an awful lot like "We wish to purchase your professional services for 3 months", would be sustained under the B-1 visa.

Speak to a lawyer prior to relying on the above, etc.
They waited until infected died.
Glad to hear it. I apologize to Google's engineers for my uninformed implication.
Obstruction of justice (which is not actually a single thing, really) generally deals with doing this when there is an investigation in progress.

See http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34303.pdf for more details of the federal statutes.

Anticipatory obstruction is kind of a possible thing under SOX, but otherwise, no.
> So I can't buy a Tesla in New Jersey

Sure you can. Just go to their website.
The moral of the story...

If you have a business, it is almost always to your advantage to break the law in pursuit of profit. Even lawsuits, rare as they are, are cheaper than following the law.
Ooph, twist the knife a little more. I'm still mad about Reader's death. At least Feedly has mostly replicated the simple interface and quick scanning of Reader.
> To the world it looks like you've never posted on Google+, but meanwhile you've been sharing pictures and funny jokes with your brothers and sisters every day

Exactly : not everyone is comfortable sharing everything with everyone on Twitter. Some are not even allowed to share publicly.
There's a bigger writeup from Olark that was recently posted on HN, with some good comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599765
If you want to know why, look at the twitter replies. She's being regarded as a Brave Hero of the movement. Bad for a technical employee. Good for a highly visible position, like startup founder, developer evangelist, head of a female programmer outreach program or anything marketing related.
Netflix was paying Cogent to link it to the internet. Now Netflix's servers are directly linked to Comcast, so Comcast is connecting it to the internet, and that's who they're paying instead.

No, Netflix is paying Comcast to connect them to only Comcast's customers, not the Internet. Suggesting that they're paying Comcast for transit is disingenuous.
You can do whatever you want. But drawing nonsense conclusions won't suddenly become reasonable just because you are defensive about the shootout.
Unequal Wages: For Women in Tech, Pay Gap Is Unusually Small
How did you pick your electricity cost?

It's a lot lower than I would guess.
Hmm, here's some more random numbers:

- Smiley faces: 642 employees
- Frowney faces: 557 employees
- Miley Cyrus collages : 1 employee

If I add them up, I do indeed get 1,200 employees.

I wonder why your random numbers and mine differ so much?

EDIT:

I'm not surprised there are 1,000 people on Google+, and I would wager you that that's not counting ANY Core, Ops, or Web ("Web" in the traditional sense).

You're also forgetting to count Auto-Awesome Photos, Auto-Awesome Videos, the ability to search UNTAGGED images that have been uploaded to Google+ Photos... Those are fairly ambitious on their own.
Or, if the funding body mandates the switch, as is starting to happen:

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php?la=en&mode=simple&p...
"If I'm Margaret you must be Psycho Path."
From the ashes of immoral companies, better ones will prosper.
Windows XP, IE8 (at least I have chrome because I'm the webmaster, but not for the rest of the mortals, because of "security issues").

Also the main business software is a Java webapp that is less than 10 years old but looks, feels and works like it is from the 90s.

EDIT: I wanted to add a desktop flash app for editing web content. This is what sucks the most, it is mostly unusable (for example, you have to create a image object -db record- before you can load a picture) and you have to do a remote desktop session to use it (yes in prod).
The article doesn't mention it, but I'm going to go ahead and propose orbital mining as a way to make solar power satellites [0] practical.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
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I have to log in to read a blog? nothx
Is Google too big to trust? (Schneier)
Thank you for this, I just started using node-readability for a project and I'll gladly give this a spin. The second url [0] I tried passing it however unfortunately returned an empty body. node-readability is able to parse the contents of tagesschau.de seemingly without problems.

[0] http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/krise-in-der-ostukraine112....
Why not use the solar electricity to mine bitcoin from space?
1) Startup doesn't necessarily mean VC funded, or large VC funded.

2) He doesn't have to be CEO; I don't think most people who disliked him as CEO had a problem with him as CTO of Mozilla.
This is really awesome. Super inspiring and wish more companies would do this.
I am not a UX person and I am horrible with front-end. But the thing that kills Google+ and new Google product UX today is the awful UX. When I want to change a password, or look for option for two-factor auth, or getting app-specific password (if you've enabled two-factor I need to get specific app password for apps like thunderbird or iphone's Mail app) I would Google (yes, the search engine) "gmail password", "google+ password".

That just shows me how awful the UX is. When I want to change my real name I do the same, then come to the conclusion that I have to click on "edit profile", click on the damn avatar in order to edit the real name, INSTEAD of changing it from some "general settings" page.

I really like to mention Twitter's new UI is way better. I have a good UX with the new Twitter. This is something Google just don't seem to understand.
What I'm saying is that you seem to be very annoyed over something you can fix in about 5 minutes. If you choose not to fix it, you choose to remain annoyed. If you choose to keep getting annoyed, don't bother to complain about it.

To everyone else: When did all these tech guys turn into grandparents, "All these new fangled social networks, we didn't need that when I was a kid, a rock and a stick, that was enough, now get off my lawn."
Interesting, we'll see. Maybe car manufacturers learned from Android, maybe it's beneficial to them. So far, I haven't read about anyone licensing Google's tech
> Except for being the ones who were actually harmed in the matter.

What did the engineers risk with this lawsuit? Nothing. What did the law firm risk? Getting paid peanuts for hundreds of hours they spend on the case if they lose.
Exciting updates to certificate verification in Gecko
Linode now all SSD and lower pricing
I would think the judge need to approve the settlement before the claims are mailed.
The easy nym fix is to create a "page" with your handle. The "page" can post, comment on YouTube etc. Not heavily advertised though, I only became aware of it when I had to give up my old YouTube account.

You can easily switch between main account and nym account and you only need one password.
I spend 5-10 minutes deciding which potatoes to buy in a big supermarket. My choice of potatoes will probably be good for 3 meals and I like to get the right ones. I will carry them home, up a big hill with plenty of other food items, by bicycle. I will peel, prepare and cook them with a great deal of care.

The idea of them being bought from some standing order setup on some ipad screen for them to just arrive and be placed into the kitchen is just mind-blowing. I don't know if I could live like that.

In the future houses will have kitchen cupboards that can be opened from outside, probably with some steel shutter/garage door type of arrangement. You probably won't even have to have Mr delivery man step in the house, he will back fill the cupboards and even take away any out of date items for you.
The point here is that "we" did not fire anyone. Members of the Mozilla community expressed an opinion that they didn't want a CEO who had previously acted to restrict the rights of a particular group. Some expressed this by ceasing their use of Mozilla products, and some of those people also encouraged others to do the same.

Mozilla (and Eich) decided that this expression from the community was sufficient for Eich to step down as CEO. No one forced them to do it, much like no one forced them to make Eich CEO in the first place.

This is exactly how public dialogue is supposed to work. If you find that a particular executive at a company has taken actions you disagree with and this upsets you to the degree that you wish to stop using their products, you're free to do so. You're also free to talk to others and encourage them to do the same. The company is free to retain that executive or remove them depending on how they feel about the public outcry you've raised.

This is free speech and public dialogue. It's people deciding what products they want to use and talking about it. It's companies deciding what to do based on what's good for them and their objectives. Which one of those things do you object to?
I second and third that motion.
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Wow, I had no idea their network was already this good:

> The network is already robust enough to support long-distance drives on the most popular routes across America, wherever it be a cross country trip from Los Angeles to New York, an East Coast jaunt from Rhode Island to the southern tip of Florida, or an epic 12,000-mile journey to every corner of the United States.

I'm not sure if I've just been out of the loop, or if they aren't doing a good enough job pimping their supercharger network. This removes one of the perceived problems with electric cars - long road trips. Does anyone here have real world experience doing a long road trip with a Tesla S, using the supercharger network?
"MSFT's research isnt prototyping autonomous cars"

Ah, so it's autonomous cars or you're R&D-ing.

"or actually planning space elevators"
Tell us about it, how much did Google spend on it and far did they go? Oh, someone at Google thought about it.

"or acquiring Boston Dynamics."
so what? You said that Google is spending a fortune on R&D and I used the same criteria to show that MSFT is spending more. My point was to say that "R&D" as reported may include a lot of normal existing product development.

"Yes, there are lots of companies now rushing for a driverless car, but G is recognized as by far the industry leader"

By whom? Have they actually miniaturized it yet and how much does it cost per car?
> I like G+ for the photo back-up from my Android phone. In fact, that seems to be the killer feature. I wonder what will happen to G+ if Facebook adds a similar feature.

You'll probably find this interesting, then: https://www.facebook.com/help/photosync

Google+ Auto Backup is still far ahead of Facebook's solution for me, though, because of its superior online photo editing and automatic touch-ups.
Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos
Basically, it can be summarized as:

Problem: The legal system is expensive and inefficient. If a lot of people are wronged by the same defendant, it is impractical for them to pursue their claim.

Solution: Let's have class action lawsuits where the lawyers make a fortune!

In this example, the defendants get a decent bonus check. I'm really offended by "class action" lawsuits where the lawyers make millions and the victims get a coupon for $10 off their next purchase.

Also, in this case, THE LAWYERS WERE TAKING NO RISK. There already was a ton of evidence from the justice department case. What actually happens is several groups of lawyers rush to file, each with a different lead plaintiff, and then the judge picks which group of lawyers get the big cash windfall.
Jeff Garzik Announces Partnership to Launch Bitcoin Satellites into Space
http://www.coindesk.com/jeff-garzik-announces-partnership-la...
It would probably need a good way to get input: a usb keyboard or something? But if it's an iPad teddy bear, maybe you're biting off more then you can chew -- teach them to read before they can code?
user@uweb1:/$ pip install click
Downloading/unpacking click
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement click
No distributions at all found for click
How to improve your game retention
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Tunizers
Class members can opt out to preserve their own right to pursue independent action. Most won't, because as small as class action end payouts to class members may be, they don't carry the risk or time cost of pursuing your own direct action case.
Any donation >$250 to a candidate's committee is required to be disclosed to the FEC.

It's also searchable here: www.fec.gov
Here's a cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0gc-hc...
I've had good luck with the tools that come with xpdf:

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html

But some of that is because the source I was pulling text from didn't change the document format much from month to month.

I guess it is the library underneath jeffmould's link.
Who strangely enough for people who presumably know a lot about the internet and online didn't seem to understand why people might have completely different online personas and identities.

I have friends from the pre Internet online communities (telecom gold and Prestel) who would probably not even know my real name as we went by handles I even have a dedication using that name in a booker (think uk version of the Pulitzer prize) shortlisted authors book about that time "cybergypsies" by Indra Sinha.
Well, okay:

If you're an open source developer that needs space to work on their project in Phoenix, you can come to heatsync labs (a hackerspace) and work on it every day you want to for free.

Check it out here: http://live.heatsynclabs.org/

We can't give you money, though (since we don't have a ton of it; we're a non-profit).

[By the way, this is kindof meant in jest: anybody can come and work on their projects here if they want to, and that has always been the case.]
Are you interfacing with the EMS side public safety directly? Ultimately, Government public safety agencies override corporate and industrial safety personnel from a NIMS, ICS point of view. You can have the best intentions of the world, but if the data isn't getting to the people who matter... the point is moot when seconds count. Most campuses and industrial complexes in my city rely on municipal Fire/EMS over municipal police. That is, they have their own security forces or police department and do not employ paramedics and fire fighters.
Viral Loops or Viral 'Oops'?
They have horrible customer service and service for one reason only: because they get away with it. In many markets you have no real choice, and even if you do is the Horrible Comcast or just a as horrible Verizon, AT&T and so on.
Google+ is pretty, but behind the pretty face it's an execution botch. Except for lacking pseudonymity, the ideas were basically right. It was a pretty Twitter with fewer limits and better follower management. Conceptually not bad. But it seems to have stopped improving some time ago. Unlike, say, maps, which is awesome on the Web and awesomer on mobile devices. And every update gets better and better.

The Android app trails the Web site in functionality. You would think, for example, that the implementation of circle management on a touch device would be more drag-drop than the Web interface. Noooo, it's a series of lists views.

Where IS the FREAKING picture I just took? Since I got Glass, there's a third place. Plus the ones I have not yet found.

Blogger integration was a terrible lost opportunity. In part because Blogger sucks, too. The world needs to move fluidly between Tweet-ish things and blog posts. G+ did not deliver on the fluidity. Sites could have used some social pixie dust, too. But no. When Google+ stuff shows up in my GMail, it just adds noise.

Then, riding the wave of the Blogger success, they tried to drain the troll swamp at YouTube. Masterful allocation of resources and wise strategic move.

Because both my current books are about Android, their primary social presence is on Google+. For one it seemed to work well. For the later one, not so much.

Now is a good time to reassess and find a mixed solution that's first-tier in every category.
The blockchain story is bullshit
How Microsoft can reinvent themselves
CEO of a company working on this problem.

Honestly I'm enthused to hear the initiative, critical thinking, and passion behind your ideas here. I personally agree with many of you that the first problem here IS NOT technology. It isn't that we don't have the technology, it is that the technology isn't being properly applied nor has been there been a willingness to adopt it. A big reason for this is that the people making the decisions of what to use and provide (telcos and CAD companies) are not the people who face the consequences when response arrives too slowly (regular people like you and me).

As monkmartinez said, this is a full-stack issue. Here's the full workflow assuming what is state-of-the-art in a 911 center.

You need help. Bring out your smartphone and press 'Emergency' if you have iOS. Tap '9' '1' '1' and dial.

Call rings once, maybe twice. Depending on the area, this could be a long time.

Call is routed to nearest PSAP

They pick up and say '9-1-1 emergency.'

You say something about what's going on.

Their first question, "Where are you located?"

Most often, you don't exactly know. so if you were in SF, "I'm in SOMA, near the ballpark."

They want more detail, cause they want to avoid what happened with monkmartinez below. "Sir, can you name cross-streets?"

Hopefully you know. "3rd and brannan". Now they have something they can use to dispatch responders.

If you don't know, they will keep asking for more specificity. At the same time, they are using their console (which looks like it was built in Fortran) to manually refresh to try and get your coordinates. This takes anywhere from 45 seconds to 6 minutes, the whole time you have to be on the call without hanging up.

Let's say they get the coordinates. The accuracy can be anywhere from 150 meters to 4000meters. Also, they come in as RAW coordinates (37.7756, -122.4193).

They then write these coordinates on paper, go to Google Maps on a separate console and type them in. THEN they have an address that they can dispatch responders to. It is insane.

There is so much room to improve this. 9-1-1 is a public service that people depend as part of the social fabric that enables our lives. It is crazy to me that this is such a problem, and I know that it is one that has to be fixed. We think that fixing this will definitively make the world a better place and enable many people to live better lives.

If you want to know more about our company and what we are working on: angel.co/bluelight-1 or email preet@getbluelight.com
Awesome! Good luck! (Looks pretty good to me)

I wonder if it would be a good customer development/market research strategy to volunteer with some local departments (EMT-B certification is pretty easy; it's a fair amount of time to volunteer though). Might be a good place to hire, as well.
With what? Google, Apple et al can spend $100 Million in a heartbeat, where's an engineer going to find $xx millions to spend so can possibly win $100K or so?
AKA why I hate unix and the developers responsible for most of its tools with a seething passion, condensed down into a single webpage.

Anyone who reads the part where t_F9 actually means F19 and doesn't get completely enraged at the person who made that decision never gets to work for me...
I am a Mozilla employee, but I have no first-hand knowledge of what the board did. In Mozilla town hall meetings, multiple board members said they pleaded with Brendan to stay. I don't think they or Brendan would mislead us, so perhaps Brendan is using a very precise meaning of "tried to convince me to stay as CEO."
My coworker lives in NJ and owns a Tesla, seems to have no problem getting service or anything. I believe he ordered it from the website directly.
This is new to me but it does not surprise me. France has been light years ahead on the supermarket front for many decades.

Chip and pin arrived in France when the rest of the world were still writing cheques and doing carbon copies for credit cards, with the bank having to be called if the amount was over the card guarantee limit.

The out of town big box hypermarkets were also a part of the French landscape at a time when in the UK people would have to push some mini-trolley around a 'Fine Fare' or other such defunct supermarket in some town centre shopping arcade.
34 words; Inactive Account Manager is used 4 times.

Representing 35% of the message.
Click somewhere else to cancel Netflix and use Comcast's competing service.

Comcast is holding all the cards.
There's a nice interactive map here: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

It looks like you can do cross country road trips if you take a specific route through the middle of the country. By the end of this year, it looks much better.
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Here's a map of the stations, if anyone is interested: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
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It's ok for VC to risk their capital on startups, why is it not ok for lawyers to risk their time and capital on class action lawsuits?
"How can Microsoft reinvent themselves" is the title of that post.
Thanks. It's been fixed.