skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an HN thing. You just have to ignore it - it's based on ignorance not malice.

I'm an "MBA type" running a very early-stage startup and I am only too painfully aware that cold-calling is the way forward to get our first few hundred sales. Somehow we spend so much time reading about digital marketing, and optimising this sign-up flow, and A:B testing this and that, that we forget that a significant number of users can be persuaded to use your product just by being compelling and enthusiastic.
It would help if you have a short synopsis of what this is - for example if I want to share with others (like an about page). And if I could copy the text, it seems it is coded in a way that text isn't copyable which is lame (in my opinion).

These mistakes are not uncommon. I often get the feeling in those cases that such pedestrian concerns are beneath the coolness of what we are doing. That is the impression I get (even if it is wrong). It feels to me like the Flash enthusiasts 10+ years ago, for example, making lots of restaurant sites that were highly unusable but looked pretty.

I think, making it very easy for people to share info about worthwhile efforts is a good idea.

I do really hope you all can make this a success. It seems to me to be a potentially very worthwhile effort.
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Not that funny. Gittip shifted its focus solely from programmers pretty early on.
Interview: Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Computer (2007)
The caring classes he talks about being underpaid are probably underpaid because they tend to help the poorest who do not have much money, the amount of people with their skill set is high and their professions do not scale in the amount of people they help.
AMD Launches Mobile Kaveri APUs
There are a few issues with your signup that stopped me from signing up:

- Signup with Facebook is broken (invalid url?)
- Private is spelled "privite" (incorrect)
- Submitting a signup form missing one input causes it to clear out.
- There is no clear indication that fields are mandatory. I guessed that you didn't need my school/job, but it looks like it was necessary.
- Why do you need my school/job?
- Dropdown boxes cannot be tabbed-between (tab button doesn't work)
- When I move my mouse inputs move too.
As far as I can tell, it only runs on Windows.

In my opinion, any general programming tool, however revolutionary, is at a significant disadvantage if it lacks multiplatform support.
// protocol = interface

interface ISample { void Process(); }

ISample sample = new ConcreteSample(); // Duty #1

class GenericSampleProcessor<T> : where T : ISample // Duty #2

{
public void Process(T sample) { sample.Process(); }
}
That is true, although direct drive without a tranmission simplifies a design and reduces driveline losses. IT all depends on the application. IIRC Tesla originally had a two-speed gearbox in the Roadster but dropped it because of reliability, and went to increasing the engine RPM instead.
it would be foolish to expect that such a measure can be passed without negatively affecting some businesses. a lot of people, including the electorate of Seattle, and the authors of the here oft cited study, obviously consider that the gains outweigh the losses.

surely you don't suggest we should allow majority of workers to be exploited because some weakly profitable restaurants might fail? (and 50 employees with 250k annual profits sounds pretty weak.) all these workers are paid the same miniscule wage, regardless of whether their restaurant makes more or less profit, so most of them are exploited, simply because they can easily be replaced.
This reminds me of a popular visual novel game, "9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors".
but have you actually phoned up any of those people and tried to persuade them to use it? If you've just validated the idea with a poll, then thrown it up waiting for them to use it you may have a long wait. I bet you can persuade some of them to use it if you literally hold their hand all the way.

I'm discovering the joys of fast screen-sharing for demos. (I use join.me).
I haven't tried it, but at least they claim that it runs on all three major platforms:

"Leo a PyQt app that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS."
hmmm ... I'd say: have something to show
Gittip is a nice idea. But sadly, it has become a place for certain people to receive hefty monthly paychecks from anonymous patrons in exchange for incredibly aggressive and toxic trolling. Despite original intentions, this is not making an ecosystem of love and gratitude. So if its creator isn't even making money from it, it's probably better if it goes to sleep.
"Leo a PyQt app that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS."
The Invention of Discovery
The documentation tells the contrary http://leoeditor.com/installing.html
> if you don't have experience with a Lisp, it's often difficult to understand the benefits of interactive development

Also with Javascript and browsers' built in consoles you can have good times developing interactively
You're assuming the website is targeted at normal people. Considering the state of the software, I find that a suspicious assumption. Most likely, the jargon is used because the intended audience can understand it.
These are awesome. I did a couple in Warsaw, one in Budapest and now one in Prague.

I use it mostly as a 2nd/3rd date to find out how people handle stress/cooperate, but they're really fun too.
Which is really weird, because we already have Visual Studio.
Same here (Iceweasel 30). It works fine on chromium (same PC) and Firefox 30 on Android.
I kinda agree with you here. I have not heard of Gittip either before this post came on HN. So I visited it, and upon seeing the front page, I immediately thought that this is like a competition where the rankings of the highest givers and highers receivers were showcased.

I think that the site should show something that tipping the projects is a good idea. (Shooting from my hip here) maybe they should pick out a couple of projects and show how the tipping has benefitted the project?
Also in Australia most / ?all? state police detectives carry General Search warrants, which allow them to search your property and person without applying to a court on 'reasonable suspicion' -whatever that means. I'm not sure if they have to arrest you first, but that doesn't really matter.
Smoky background generator in JS
If giving up control over your country of birth without any form of violence doesn't show the most absolute effort to integrate, then I don't know what measures will convince you otherwise?
The “Dark Heart” of San Francisco's Housing Crisis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7794632
You could share code with Android and Windows Phone targets.
> DynDNS replacement

I would disagree. This may look like a replacement from the end-user's point of view, but it does not address the real issues of DNS management: space to store all zone data, bandwidth to support requests flow, resources to handle the load.

Either you are just proxying someone else's service, or you are running your own on (supposedly) limited resources. Am I wrong?

Moreover, I heard from DynDNS engineers that the main reason that led them to stop their free hostname offer was: it was abused for spamming too often. How do you intend to cope with that?
9 Tips to Network Your Way into a VC Job
"(And as for Java, it was my understanding that Apple had hobbled it by refusing to release updates on a timely basis.)"

That's a different, later issue.

Early on in the life of OS X, Apple offered a Java interface to the Cocoa class frameworks. In theory, you could write OS X applications using Java, calling into the Apple frameworks instead of using Swing or whatever Java frameworks.

This wasn't all that well supported, didn't perform well, and wasn't popular.
Focus on sales? Does it mean "selling crap to crappy people" and other "sales techniques" as seen on The Wolf of Wall Street?)
Thanks for the clarification on how to use it in Swift - like this it's indeed the perfect solution by enforcing it to be explicit. Having multiple cases rolled into one is also a very nice option. The snark wasn't really called for though. No, I don't 'use' it by accident, that would in most cases just become a bug. I use it when it makes code more concise rather than having nested ifs. Consider for example ACL rules where you set different privileges by default according to an access level.
In other news, HashNuke rocks! :D
Interesting case study here: I got very different results in my two attempts at the quiz, based on how I use school grammar and generative grammar rules in answering the questions.

In my first attempt, the algorithm guessed that my English dialect was 1. Singaporean 2. US Black Vernacular 3. American (Standard), and it guessed that my native language was 1. Vietnamese 2. Chinese 3. English.

Then I turned off my school grammar, including some generative grammar rules (from linguistics) in my head, and just truly went with my guts. This particularly affected the answers I gave to later questions. The second time the algorithm guessed that my dialect was 1. American (Standard) 2. Canadian 3. US Black Vernacular and that my native language was 1. English 2. Norwegian 3. Dutch.

This second set of results was very much off the mark but conformed to what I intended my answers to be.

My background: a native Thai speaker, born and raised in Thailand, started learning a bit of 'real' English at about eleven, lived in the US for two years when doing my Masters. I'm currently in Thailand but I mostly read and write in English for about fourteen years. My everyday spoken language is still Thai, but most of the movies, music, multimedia I consume are in English.

Possible implications:

1. Over-application of school grammar could result in unnatural use of language.

2. With enough exposure to proper language materials, non-natives can get pretty close to the native speaker in grammatical knowledge, even fairly subtle ones, at least according to the short and incomplete quiz here.

If any American English native speaker has time on their hands, I'd be grateful if you can tell me the differences between my writings (you can click on my username for more samples) and those of an educated native American English speaker.
Sequoia Invests $15M In Indian Mobile Multiplayer Games Maker, Octro
OpenPGP is a standard, GnuPG is one implementation of it.
Three-Parent Babies Possible ‘In Two Years’ According to UK Report
I agree with you about the competition bit. I immediately thought: "Oh how surprising the cute girl is in second position" (I dont have a clue who shanley is). So focusing more on how they make a difference instead of a silly selfie would be a good first step indeed.
And then there were two headed people.
I ran a similar site a few years back (youtipit). The biggest challenge was actually getting people to give money for things they can have for free. Looking at Chads figures, I think there definitely has been a huge change in the way people respect "free" work, and are now a lot more willing to pay for it.

I hope for him (and all others in this market) that this trend continues and that more people can start making a living from free work.
Modern UI isn't ready - that's why so many people hate it. How do you make desktop better? It is already perfect. But development must go on - there is a need to make something new that people would buy.

So, you start a new thing and add continuously "new features" that are simple and elementary as hell. Years of safe development of elementary features that may simply be included in the first version of software - but they aren't. In Windows 8.1 you don't need to stick with static background colors. Wow, what an update and development achievement. Couldn't foresee that user would like that.

I think that Modern UI becomes more and more user-friendly but it takes time because you simply cannot make final product with first version because then the next versions wouldn't shine.
> $40k per year is quite close to minimum wage in California.

Exactly. In California. If you want to live off of what is basically donations for community work, you might want to relocate to a much cheaper place. Eastern Europe or South-East Asia are nice places to live on a tighter budget.

I donate a small amount every week myself, though I find it hard to make a bigger commitment to it.
My recent R# discovery is that JetBrains.Annotations is like a lightweight version of Microsoft Code Contracts.
It's long, a lot of known stuff intermixed with the nice hacking details, it's the best Wozniak interview I know of. It explains how he acquired the capabilities he had.
Whoops! You're right.
To where exactly? Europe is pretty well covered in 3d printer shops.
Lets not forget that this narrative was forced upon white South African's by the liberal west through sanctions and boicots. So if there is a genocide, it will fall squarely on the west's conscience.

Lets also not forget that the reason why America and Australia does not have majority non-white populations is because they exterminated their native populations. An inconvenient fact (google general Custer and aboriginea hunting permits).

Edit - spelling
Why not? Might get more people using Scala for Android development.
Yet still no automated refactoring. F# team likes to develop the language and the compiler but they have no interest in practical tools.
While I generally agree with the concept, encryption isn't free, and will break pretty much every routing protocol used. It's easy enough to get a tunnel through transit when you control both ends, but neither the hardware nor the software that actually runs the peers supports it in any way. You'd have to set the link, then encrypt on top of that, costing a ton of cpu cycles, bandwidth overhead, and requiring something that can handle encrypting everything in real time and then pass it off to the actual edge connection. "Large" networks do 100Gbit plus, and I can't think of any way this is currently feasible to do.
Funny NeXT thought otherwise. WebObjects was a very good server platform.
So you're saying golang is web scale?
Virtual Worlds and the Internet of Things
Technically speaking, EVERYTHING in your house is giving off some kind of indication that could theoretically be captured and re-assembled.

IMO the only reasonable interpretation is that the 4th Amendment protects you from anything beyond whatever passes for ordinary observation by normal people.
Nice, will these be part of an automated test-suite?
(to check that future versions of Mirage don't regress)
One of the hardest things is seeing this happen, because there can be a lot of pride and hubris associated with doing good PR, biz dev etc. A lot of the time this comment, which is true and I can't emphasis it enough, will hit a wall of resistance for whatever reason.
What are you even doing with it? I only had one issue so far with the Web Essentials extension after installing VS 2013 Update 2.
Using Objective-C Classes and Frameworks in Swift
Because many young developers seem not to care to learn about our history.
I use Leo every day. It's a great little editor, very stable and with a ton of handy features.

Outlines are a fantastic tool to keep track of the state of a complex project. My .leo files are what keeps me sane when I'm in the middle of a project with a few hundred documents and need to compile a report. I like it that it's local instead of some online service (there are plenty of those, but I would feel remiss if I used them for something that is supposed to be confidential).

Leo is not very polished, it's a programmers tool and I'm ok with that. I tried getting the hang of emacs 'org' mode for a while but the learning curve was just too steep for me. I want my tools to get out of the way rather than that they dictate my whole workflow and Leo is light enough to do that. It's written in Python, you can modifiy it fairly easily. There are some warts (for instance, the export tree to html function is next to useless) but on the whole I'm very grateful that it exists and I would not know of a replacement other than emacs org mode.

If you're into literal programming Leo is very nice for that as well.

True, it's no IDE. It's not in the same space as Eclipse, Intellij and so on. But if you don't actually need a full IDE and you make your outlines in some non-structured editor then give Leo a try, you probably won't regret it.
Great idea. Also fwiw, kudos to Peer2Patent and AskPatents. Good to see more sites like this, organizing the world to fight trolls.

[1]:http://www.peertopatent.org/

[2]:http://patents.stackexchange.com/
Leo runs just about anywhere that python does that has a screen attached.
Swift, Can you still use Objective-C – Yes Here's how
Less ambiguity, allowing the compiler to optimize more?
Looks good. I have dd-wrt flashed on my home router. Since you are not in default service provider, I will try your service with wget+cron. Will host my own if your works :)
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Cus...
I'd second this, I remember something that really struck a chord with me was Eric Ries saying, in a LeanConf Interview session that a founder does whatever is needed for a company to survive first and foremost, and the technical aspect is just the fact that you have more experience in that area.
Living in cheap places is fun when you're young, but eventually you take on more responsibilities and your body fails you. Are eastern europe and southeast asia known for their health care? Are dentists cheap there? Most importantly, are they good places to raise a family?

I can totally get behind you when it comes to arbitraging cost of living, but not everyone can do that. At best, one could live in an inexpensive part of the US. Still, when it comes to children, school systems and health care are a concern.

The problem with Gittip is that anyone who wants to contribute to open source projects has to sacrifice dearly. If you're good enough to collect $40k/year off Gittip, you're probably good enough to collect 10x as much from Google[1]. If you want to provide for your family, the choice is a no-brainer.

1. After stock options, bonuses, etc.

Edit: I have no idea why this is at -2. Is there some disconnect between my line of thought and everyone else's?
I think you're an edge case. In fact, there is a very precise parallel with the fact that you store RAW/FLAC/VOB data, while the vast majority of people is perfectly contect of JPG/MP3/AVI.

In addition to that, I think that there is not such a thing as space limits, at least, generally (not always, of course).

Specifically, one would imagine that the general attitude is 'I have to store such and such - where do I find the space'?

Instead, I think that in general, it is 'Oh, I have such space for free/cheap price... let"s store stuff!'. Especially with the advent of the Terabytes order of magnitude, I guess most of the storage is simply composed of movies, even if they're never watched, either once or more times.

Again, pay much attention to the bias. As an amateur photographer, I'm tempted to think that "raw is the law", but in fact, for the vast majority of people, it simply isn't.
So in skimming your comment history, I'm no english teacher; your use of past tense seems almost forced.

While as far I'm aware correct grammatically, your last paragraph gives plenty of hints that you're non-native: "If any American English native SPEAKERS HAVE [picky] time on their hands, I'd be grateful if you COULD tell me ("let me know of" maybe) ANY differences between my WRITING [big one here] (you can click on my username for an archive of my comments) and THAT of an educated native American English speaker.

There may be subtleties in your sentence structure that you'd be better off asking a linguist about; but you definitely come off as both educated and non-native in skimming.
Eric, I can put you in touch with a couple of the local headhunters. They should be able to help you. Drop me an email if your interested.

kabousvlieg at gmail
Thanks for the encouragement and feedback, we will try to update our site to make it more easily sharable.
Too easy us programmers like to complicate things in order to make them easy. :P
The Internet Doesn't Love Anything. It Is Not a Human Being.
Design as a evolution tool
what works best in show hn? url submission?
Iqram ended up finding a cheap sublet in West Philly, and we spent the summer building websites for restaurants, salons, bars, etc. We went door to door selling, “Hey, you need a website. We’ll build it for $500…. $100? OK, deal.” We learned a lot as we tried to abstract the sites we were building into something modular, and we got a lot of experience pitching and hearing “no.” One “no” that I still regret more than most of the others I have subsequently heard (for much bigger deals) was for this amazing Pakistani restaurant, Kabobeesh, that served a chicken kabob sandwich on fresh naan bread for $3.50: we tried to sell them a site for 100 chicken rolls, but failed to close them.

I love how much time was spent exploring the early grind phase of this journey. Maybe Far too often this gets glossed over or glamorized as a mere waypoint on the way to eventual success.
Kinda shocked by all the negativity here. Gittip seems pretty successful to me. Have those telling Chad to quit really challenged themselves in their own lives like this? I highly doubt it.
Interestingly, it picked up Welsh English for me, even though I only lived there for about 10 years when I was little. I only know a few Welsh words. I then moved across the border into England.
Very neat! How much does it cost you to keep this service up? In case I need it and want to donate.
I broadly speaking applaud the idea of breaking code into code-units which are independent of a specific file hierarchy and tagged with meta data; then reassembling them as a pre-compile / pre-run step.

As far as I can understand this is broadly speaking what leo 'nodes' and 'outlines' are.

It could really do with some better examples of usage though.

I'm also a little skeptical in some regards though; I don't see any tests, and 'mixing in' code units like this (using outline scripts) in various places surely means you have tonnes are unexpected side effects when you change the code units?

Still, interesting stuff.
That should work fine!

Email me if you run into trouble.
Here's how the team splits the money: https://www.gittip.com/Gittip/members/
Advertise tinfoil?
There's also the opposite scenario, in some countries they would punish both parties and there is no exclusion rule, as I understand it.
Sorry we will fix the Facebook login, typo ASAP.

User background help us curate all the submissions more effectively.
This actually made me aware of a bug in the last release that I just released a patch for, so that was fun. I guess nobody ever reported (or encountered? seems unlikely though) the issue until I got a crash report for it today.
IIRC, openpgp.js is what both Lavaboom and Protonmail use.
Not a whole lot. The domain itself costs ~50 euro per year. I'm hoping the AWS costs won't run too high - I figure a few euro per month.

It's not really about the money but about the rush of endorphins you get when an email arrives in your inbox to the effect that a total stranger found something you made so useful that they decided to give you a few euro out of the good of their own heart.
I do too. A little idea I have had is to record the paths of developers through this graph of code units and use this information to cluster similar groups of code. This clustering could then inform the way the UI is rendered. So a developer might be working on a code unit and then because this code unit is highly correlated to a set of other code units, these code units would appear prominently in some kind of navigation menu.
It's about:

a) executable size (packaging a large runtime with every app
b) RAM usage

Python suffers on both counts on mobile.
All user information will be kept private, and used internally for submission curation only.
Being born, raised in living in Scotland I got:

1. Scottish (UK)

2. English (England)

3. Irish (Republic of)

Surprisingly accurate.