skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for bringing this up. Even worse is trying to raise a round of funding when you can barely raise yourself out of bed in the morning. VC/Investors are probably the last people I would ever talk to about the low feelings during dark startup days.
When I went solo-fulltime on my startup, I started a Mailchimp newsletter and asked all my friends who I thought cared about the startup to join (I'm just shy of 100 subscribers now). It's been incredibly useful for battling loneliness; every few weeks I talk about a success, a failure, or maybe just something random. It's helped make the whole process less isolating; I always get personal replies after I send one.
> In Lua's case, the only thing I can think of it missing is native floating-point support, and that's really it. Everything else: you can get there with nil, number, string, function, CFunction, userdata, and table. (But CFunction and userdata should be enough for anyone! :)

I think you're missing the point; static typing doesn't let you write more programs, it specifically lets you write fewer programs, by ruling out ill-typed programs. If I see a Haskell variable of type "Int -> String" then I can be quite confident that it's a function turning Ints into Strings; in, say, Python I can't be confident of much without analysing the entire codebase.
1. https://www.eventbrite.com/reserved-seating/
2. your event pages look identical
I usually tell people it's "peaks and valleys". The peaks are really, really high, and the valleys are really, really low. But that's the whole point, isn't it? It's the ride that makes everything worth it.
I hope I don't appear insensitive. I promise you it's not my intention. A joke in a movie (name is not important) had a character threatening to punish a person who was a developer by "cutting his hands."

I started thinking what is the best interface to type when ones hands or fingers are not operational. There are a few things current auto typing software can't do (as they are primarily focused on mass market for word processing in general).

I wonder if some of this software had commands (or can be configured for those commands), for example, for "Next function call" or "Go to end of line" or for example enter syntactical elements into the code (it can get tiring to say "curly bracket" for example). Or things like "Show class methods" -> "Scroll down" -> Select ".print" etc. and then "git" commands, or ... you get the idea.

Probably not a huge market, but a valuable thing for developers.
> The ref has no mic and makes no hand gestures

While, from the stands, they may be difficult to see, soccer referees definitely make standardized hand signals.
There was never any evidence that she stole the kids, or that they had ever belonged to anybody else. In fact, there was a vast amount of reliable, historical evidence that they were her kids.

The _only_ evidence to the contrary turned out to be wrong, and it was proven wrong when she was observed giving birth.

Otherwise, even if she had stolen the kids, the government action was insane. As I already pointed out, it costs social services a lot more to break up a functioning family than it costs to provide enough support to keep it together.
Well said, Josh. It's about constant iteration and improvement.
Paying for someone to say nice things about you is pretty similar to paying to a prostitute to sleep with you ,and eating junk food instead of eating decent food.

We as a society should aim for more, and not diminish ourselves to satisfy the market.
...for very long
Why was I down voted for my open heart experiences for those who are struggling with their dreams?
Whence this assumption that filling your entire screen with characters is helpful for understanding your program?
Intellectuals have been known to give terrible relationship advice. They have their theory and they apply it. You can't hold them responsible when it blows up for you. I don't have advice on what to do, but mix a good dose of common sense and your experience of human nature in with Eric Fromm.

Edit: It sounds to me like you are rationalizing and intellectualizing.
Thank you exabrial.

Maybe I should've put this in original comment:

Before marrying, people wonder "do I want to spend rest my life with his woman?" Well there's a good prediction of what your future wife will be like, and that would be her mother.
It could be my network, but on chrome console errors:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://859-events.olark.com/nrpc/c?c=create&u=http%3A%2F%2Fw.... No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://www.kimonolabs.com' is therefore not allowed access.
Maybe, but to be honest, haven't had one complain of not replying to emails yet (Except from recruiters).

Maybe I'm just not involved in a lot of circles with folks that do that (looking at signatures of most of my emails, most just have name, email and phone)
I don't "want" any of those things... but I don't "want" to live in a crowded city even more. So it is a trade off.

- Do people really "want" to pay twice as much for half the living space?

- Do people really "want" to share walls on all sides and have a person above and below them?

- Do people really "want" to step out their door and have a major roadway packed with cars (or buses if we're ditching cars) right there?

I think the answer is generally "no" to all those questions, too.
why, you can grab the source on github: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling
Even better for your nails is a glass file, and then you don't have to replace it all the time.
I hope you sensitive guys had your therapy with down-voting me and now feel better that you "won" something :))
And you work for an education company?
"Blitzkrieg" has simply become the standard way to invade territory on large scales and unbalance a large enemy force. Patton had adopted it wholesale.
You can't afford to follow this advice. Saying you're crushing it is part of your 24/7 job description.

There is a story of the founder who had just put a round together with a VC. Then, privately, the founder confided to a mutual friend, over dinner, about some of the difficulties. Result? The friend told the VC, the VC pulled out, and cited this conversation, saying that it was because his mutual friend said the company was having difficulties.

You can't afford to talk.
Dammit, wish I found this before I manually created my database for http://wcfixtures.co.uk!
It won't be integrated into Android very well though; you can't kill the process, you can't check its resources, it's not in the task switcher, etc, etc
Ixia Introduces World's First 400GbE Test Platform
I didn't downvote you, but it doesn't read very coherently. Maybe give more information.
highsea kindly posted his (very good) code in this thread.

Study that, for starters.
man it up.

This is the same phrase that someone once used to tell Aaron Swartz to deal with his problems.

Yes, i never been through awful depression

It is ok to seek specialist attention, but then you are not ready for real world yet.

It is like 300lbs fat kid will seek counseling because he can't withstand failures on a track.

If you've never been through depression, you shouldn't speak as if you know whether someone is spoiled or haunted.

I'm upset that comments like yours might contribute to people feeling embarrassed for seeking out someone to talk to. Luckily, those who read these comments are smarter than that.
The main advantage is that anything that you can turn into a a type error will be reported at compilation time, much earlier in the development cycle. This is not just a matter of safety but also helps in terms of refactoring and testing.

This includes things like typos (wrong method names, etc) but where types really shine is refactoring. If you want to add or remove a parameter from a function or change a string field to an integer then you can use guidance from the type checker to be sure that you didn't forget to update anything. Its a bit like adding bumpers to the side of the bowling lane - it lets you be more reckless, updating things until the compiler shuts up without needing to carefully go through each line.

---

Also, don't forget that gradual typing solutions such as Typed Lua are all about letting you program dynamically if you want. The idea is that you would only convert to the typed dialect in the parts of your program where that would suit you.
What stops them from taking a short position in Bitcoins and forcing the exchange rate into the ground?
Your comments in this thread are illogical, antiquated, and misogynistic.

Illogical -- "Not everybody make a fortune doing entrepreneurship and that's why it's hard." It's hard because not everybody gets rich? No, it's hard because you're doing something difficult; the difficulty level has nothing to do with getting rich. Many people work on startups for reasons other than cashing in.

Antiquated -- suffering depression, in no way, makes you "psychologically weak".

Misogynistic -- life tip: if you find yourself using the phrase, "man up", you should reconsider your entire personality.

For the record, I'm currently in one of the downswings of the startup roller coaster ride, and am suffering from depression. You know nothing about me, or my situation, but offer your anti-sympathetic comment regardless.

Seriously, please rethink your opinions. Or, at the very least, stop sharing your thoughts.

To anyone else suffering from mental health issues, especially while running a startup, I strongly suggest internalizing this line: "Failing sucks—there is no way to sugarcoat that. But startups are not life-and-death matters—it’s just work."

Then find a person (therapist, significant other, family, friends) who can offer you support. Someone who is as sympathetic as hippich is ignorant.
Isn't this data very skewed by the fact that not believing in cohabitation and not believing in divorce are highly correlated? This group includes lots of marriages that I wouldn't consider good outcomes even though they don't end in divorce.
SEEKING WORK
Remote, Relocate, Turkey

Stack: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, AngularJS, NodeJS, PHP, Wordpress

Resume: http://www.mehmet.pw/m/resume.pdf

Contact: m@mehmet.pw

I started programming when I'm 15 and I'm graduating this month from BS in Computer Engineering.
I'm experienced with Rails for almost 2 years. You can check my github profile for my projects. Currently I'm working on ConfDeck app. It's a open-sourced SAAS conference management app. Code is available in Github.

https://github.com/kodgemisi/confdeck

http://www.confdeck.com

I have experience with Javascript and AngularJS. There are some simple projects I've done are available on GitHub.

https://github.com/beydogan/jPuzzle/

https://github.com/beydogan/blogular

I live in Turkey, I can work remotely but I want to move out if I have a chance.

Github: https://github.com/beydogan

Blog: http://www.mehmet.pw

PS: All feedbacks about me and my profile are welcomed. Please leave me some feedback and I will do my best to improve myself and my skills.
I also linked to the code of the winners in the blog post (you can also find them here https://gist.github.com/schmatz)
It seems to have an open-source, copyleft, non-GPL license [1].

[1] https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/blob/master/LICENSE
> why shouldn't I have to educate myself

The problem with this argument is that it devolves into:

1. Requring that everyone knows everything about everything (total knowledge)

2. It being acceptable to take advantage of anyone who doesn't do #1

I see this argument as a trust issue. I'd prefer to live in a society free from kickbacks and money passed under the table, and arguing for it is the first step to even worse corruption.

Personally, I'd love for it to be self regulating - for example, the "You break the candy bar in half, I get to pick which piece I get, and you get the other" model, where the best action for the breaker is to make a perfect 50/50 cut. I'd love for honesty to be the best policy for all involved parties.
I'm in Orange County running two startups with plenty of ups and downs. If you're in the area and want to grab a coffee and talk, my contact details are in my profile.
These operators are like the word "whence": a denser notation that could just as easily be written out in full, in a way more friendly to non-experts in the language - for example, as "from where" - but if you're already an expert thinking in terms of these dense operators, why not write that way? It's only natural.
Similarly to Javascript, all numbers in Lua are floating point numbers and all number operations are floating point operations. Integers can be represented accurately up to 2^53.
Apparently, our customers are the users who need carriage returns. Instead of telling them to fix their configs and remove CRs from their source code, we decided to make things Just Work™.

On Windows, it's not hard to get CRs in your source. With the default git config, cloning a repo gives you text files with CRLFs. Other source control systems do this as well. Many editors on Windows default to CRLF, but even those that auto-detect line endings won't help if your source control munges the lines.
yes, and how this matter?
I have moved away from windows and miss Fiddler the most. It's ability to record, filter, edit and replay requests made debugging a breeze.
Great point, "mentors" and VCs are there to make an ROI. The best thing to have is a network of other founders you can meet, people who have no stake in your success or failure.
Hmm, are you having issues with the API itself? Olark isn't related to the API (it's the customer support widget in the bottom right). If the API is also not working, it's possible there's a separate unrelated issue.

You can also try hitting the API directly rather than through the explorer and see if that gives you the correct result. If you are still having problems feel free to shoot us an email at support@kimonolabs.com!
I congratulate you on feeling like you're an emotional superman, and thus superior and impervious to mental health challenges.

I hope, when you are in a difficult situation, that someone offers you some support and sympathy. When that happens, please remember your unsympathetic attitude here, and use that opportunity to grow a bit as a person.
So what if the anonymous maintainer works for the US government or a large banking institution? Running a slick-looking pool seems like the easiest way to get in control of enough hash power to set the bitcoin brand back years. Doing the "wrong" thing at the right time would mean further billions in profit without the effort of re-imagining the whole fincancial sector, assuming it staved off a cryptocurrency revolution.
I think that the biggest thing missing from Typescript is contract checking. The idea is that you use the type information to add assertions in the program and that should let you get more accurate stack traces even for the dynamic errors. An example would be getting an error in the line where you set a variable to null instead of getting an error latter on in the line where you try to call a method on that null variable.
Money could flow to robots' owners. You can always buy better food and stuff.
I hope more people adopt yours "Failing sucks—there is no way to sugarcoat that. But startups are not life-and-death matters—it’s just work.". Then we will have brighter world ahead of all of us.
Facebook Announces Apollo, a New NoSQL Database for On-line Low Latency Storage
San Francisco, Remote or Local, Full Time | Contract | Part Time

Stack: Ruby on Rails, Javascript (JQuery, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Node), HTML/CSS, UI (Bootstrap)

Resume/ CV: www.esthersweon.com

Github: www.github.com/esthersweon

Contact: Esther.S.Weon@gmail.com

I am looking for a company that offers opportunities for full-stack web development and that places equal emphasis on web development and creativity, on technical knowledge and innovation. I have a background in film/TV production and new media, so the potential to work for a company that deals within either sector would also be very exciting for me.
Netflix is big enough not to need a public API, so they are closing it.

It also makes things a bit easier on the technical side after they moved away from generic "REST" to device optimized APIs.
Glad to see this being discussed.

Relevant: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychologi...
How does one get in touch?
it's being filtered by my company's no fun firewall. Thanks for the reply.
The github page has always been there, even before he started writing the paper. Its still very experimental though and I don't think its ready for general use yet.
I'm in Oakland too and have some experience with the ups and downs (and downs, and downs) of starting a company. If anyone could use a sympathetic ear, I'd like to help.
I've been looking forward to having WinMerge on Linux for so long. I haven't found a good alternative on Linux which can do quick side-by-side comparison just by pasting from clipboard.
It's been on an exponential growth curve for a number of years, and the doubling time recently decreased to about 8 months. Whether that continues is of course anyone's guess, but if it does, after another three years it would be at 20-40% (depending on whether you take the recent trend (http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V1MLaAEiuNI99s7NO2ZgQ...) or the longer term trend (http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V1MLaAEiuNI99s7NO2ZgQ...)
Just a tip that I hope is helpful to you. I agree that the parent comment is a bad comment. But it's also a two-sentence comment, and one that was clearly heading for the illegible light grey abyss.

So what I'm suggesting you think about next time you comment is how much weight you're donating to that comment by dignifying it with a long response.

Another thing to consider is that when you take an ill-considered and mean-spirited comment and pick it apart in detail, you beg other people on the thread to critique your analysis. At which point (from several years of experience on HN) we're all off to the races in a meta-debate, the terms of which were set by a self-evidently terrible comment.

When you see terrible comments like this, just vote them down. Or, if you have to reply, vote it down and then write a careful reply, with brevity.
Thanks for saying that, skyfaller. My co-founder was incredibly focused on curation at a high level. We often got notes from bands who were turned away that, upon listening, I thought...I would listen to this! So we tried to be flexible but we had to make sure people knew Earbits was a place of quality. Anyway, you have an incredible attitude about it. I'm glad you're able to take that feedback and do something positive with it. That is the sign of a great artist in the making.
I remember playing this with my co-workers as an in browser game when it got posted to HN last year. It's a must-download app IMO.

Here's the previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205

EDIT: I didn't realize the game had been monetized. Is it worth the 0.99c over the HTML5 original?
Yes, I see problem in trying to shift responsibility to YC. But I do not see how your second part is any different? It seems essentially the same, except that wanna-be-entrepreneur would not pay for it out of pocket right away and get compensated later.
While the situation is most acute for founders, I feel that the general situation is true for most if not all professionals with strong aspirations.

You can't show weakness in public (web) for fear that a potential employer will flag you. You can't express your lament to many coworkers since it can come back to bite you.

Non-founders generally aren't subjected to the kind of lows that founders are, and have more room for camaraderie and confidants. But no matter who we are, it seems that were need to put on an air of invulnerability, and this bothers me immensely.

(And in general, I play the game as well)
Because Comcast controls (possibly exclusive) access to X% of their customers (where X is decidedly non-trivial).
Wouldn't we all be better off if this sub-thread just ended here?
It's almost like frameworks can't ever solve all of our problems.
My new free information sharing community, please help spread the word
The only way that I can think of to make it shorter would be typing x chars from the address and it would list balances from all matching addresses using auto complete (it probably only need a short part of the address to be unique) but of course most people probably use copy and paste and it would not matter
I listened to a surprising podcast from John Lloyd (UK comedy producer deity (Spitting Image, BlackAdder etc))

He talked about his breakdown, about how he was fired from ten or so jobs and slowly came to a realisation that I think is worth repeating - that you can accept your life is yours, if possible live "with no fear and no blame"

I certainly don't suggest his approach is perfect but I is interesting to see someone widely successful and respected talking about the same fears and depression pervasive within us.

Look for Seun Hughes / John Lloyd on iTunes
Let’s Start Fixing Twitter – For Real
Yes, it's easy to pick yourself up again. As major life events go, the failure of a startup is not one of the harder ones to metabolize (but it sure feels like it is in the middle of it).

Here's something I wrote a few months ago that covers the same ground:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7140231#up_7140423
Feel free to build apps on top of the API - we'd love to see you build something cool with it.
It is true. As much as any other industry, the music industry is entirely about connections and who you know. This is an interesting article about the biggest new pop music station in the UK, and how they go about dealing with playlisting (effectively choosing who gets to 'make it')[0].

Especially at large UK festivals like Glastonbury with a broad appeal, it's the acts that are playlisted on BBC that will be playing the festivals. It's not just that that's where the audience is, but it's the echo chamber effect caused by the fact that that's where the industry's ears are, from the pluggers, to the PR men to the festival organisers.

The funny thing is that in my experience this pattern even holds true for niche scenes like math/post rock or metal, just with a different centralized power broker (be it a label, radio station, magazine or booker).

Like tech startups that are beholden to the VCs because they're capital starved at an early stage, the speculative nature of music (I think) is why power tends to accumulate in the places where influence and capital lie.

[0]http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/25/radio-1-playlis...
In case it wasn't clear, I don't mean physical destruction of real things. I mean auctioning the physical, and then destroying the received money electronically.

With a fiat currency, it's not actually destroying anything. I'd rather no one feel it as part of their bottom line, or there will be pressure. Certainly, moving it far from law enforcement would be an improvement, but I think destruction is better.
Momo, the Chinese app that exposes sex and generational divides
Black Swan - Nassim Taleb

http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness/d...
As a hidden/unofficial perk - may be I would agree. But I doubt they would want attract candidate with that kind of perk (I wouldn't.)
I wish I could explain what I'm going through right now, as a founder, but I legally can't. The few people that know what I'm going through have said it's the hardest situation they've heard a startup founder in, ever. I hope to one day tell my story.

Let's just say, it involves dealing with somebody that developed severe mental illness, quickly.
Big fan of this one. HTTPie is a lovely replacement for cURL, especially when you just want to quickly test a JSON API.
> As long as we depend on fiber and copper controlled by big companies, net neutrality will continue to slip through our fingers like water.

Why do you think that?