skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a "fail story" that stuck with me -- wish I'd been able to suggest it when you were looking for stories similar to your own!

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html

Also here are some Mixergy.com interviews that I've enjoyed from failed entrepreneurs:

http://mixergy.com/interviews/adyin-mirzaee-fluidware-interv...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/chris-snook-no-limit-publishin...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/rene-eric-forecast-interview/

http://mixergy.com/interviews/dean-soukeras-computergiants-i...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/mark-bowness-tribewanted-inter...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/james-altucher-failseries-inte...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/eric-ingram-redtagcrazy-interv...

http://mixergy.com/interviews/sebastian-replanski-search-to-...

This is with Chad who's posted I started with:

http://mixergy.com/interviews/etzel-notifo-interview/

And, finally, if I were leaving New York, I'd listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4i7frhNUs

Hope you're feeling better and looking forward to seeing you sometime 'round Fishburners :)
Is it a Business as a Service? Seems it'll integrate lots of SaaS such like Shopify, Weebly, ...etc
Not really a great reply as 'phantom types' are possible in the majority (all?) of typed languages with generics. Even C++ has them - that is mentioned in the article.

What I think the OP was expressing is that the various articles written on people writing great code in Rust inspires people to work with it. Admittedly phantom types are not a distinguishing feature of Rust, but it still makes a nice read that people are elegantly solving real problems in the language.
I would really love to see some docs on how to actually install and get started with Cargo.

It doesn't ship with Rust and the docs on GitHub and crates.io are not very enlightening.
Hey Nikki. Have you thought about learning how to code?
It's really never as hard as it seems to be. If you had a business model and some level of revenues then you might be able to sustain yourself financially, run everything yourself and keep it going maybe!?

Probably too late for that kind of advice though.
But I believe a start up dies if you give it up. But you don't have to let it if you don't want to. Sometimes that's the most reasonable thing to do, but you don't always have to.

I'm in the same case as you. I had to let go of all my employees, Couldn't pay them anymore. And I'm now the only one on board doing all the code, design, marketing and everything. I'm just too stubborn to give up and I still believe in what we do 100%. (Damn I still say 'we' I mean 'I'. Just a reflex)
I do feel your pain. But my best advice is to try to learn how to code and sketch things yourself. With all the skills that you accumulated you'll be able to create prototype rapidly, be less dependable and bounce back rapidly and next time you'll be fearless. Food for thoughts ;-)
I wish you the all the best for your next adventures.
I would add a point to the ecosystem: the availability of developers in your area. If you want to develop a new product based on X, but you can't even assemble a team, you are going to have a hard time. This is a big contributor to the inertia of any technology. (That could be used as a competitive advantage, but I am talking about the broad adoption of a new technology)
We have similar in the UK.
I bought the Nest thermostat originally but could not see how to make it work for me.
I like the shineyness and am a big home automation fan (I have mostly LightwaveRF 433mhz sockets and switches and some hand rolled code connected to google calendars https://github.com/pauly/lightwaverf) but am going to wait a while before buying into this.
So 10 mio lookups free. That means they will log each and every lookup... more tracking.

Something they said they won't do on 8.8.8.8.
My guess as to the grey / blackhat tactics they used to gain initial traction were:
1) Fake "sell-side" accounts to provide marketplace liquidity
2) Manipulating app store chart ranking through bot downloads or download services to acquire "buy-side" accounts

It sounds like the service basically stopped growing once they had to abandon the black hat techniques they were using (possibly because they grew large enough to attract scrutiny from the platform operators). If that's the case, there was never a business.
TerraTech – Physics-based vehicle construction and combat
There's a difference between a legal obligation and a rational move. It's not illegal to refuse to hire non-drinkers, but it is both irrational and even (if your firm becomes powerful in the labor market) somewhat unethical.
This was how I installed it (Mac):

1) Install latest version of Rust found here: http://www.rust-lang.org
2) git clone --recursive git@github.com:rust-lang/cargo.git
3) make
4) make install (could be that sudo is needed for you)
will be a fine competitor to Lumia 520 and Microsoft's going to be in a crazy confusion without knowing which phones to promote and make!
Wonderful article, but it's major effect on me is more curiosity about the iWatch.
I hope it does cycling and weightlifting better than the current crop of devices - I'm definitely NOT going to drop my 30 km/day of cycling to walk more.
This comment was voted below 1 when I found it, but it seems plenty true to me. This is a silly thing to have on the front page of HN; an almost textbook case for the "Flag" button.
While I appreciate the eloquence in the article, it's also quite verbose. There certainly is a time and place for ad hominem attacks, but if your entire argument consists of them it's just one big logical fallacy.

Do like the Texan idiom, though!
It's also true with an A/C - the faster you are trying to cool the larger temperature gradient you need, and therefor you lose efficiency.

I'm not sure that's always correct. The Coefficient of Performance (heat moved/work done, higher COP is better) of an A/C is:

COP = T_hot / (T_hot - T_cold).

T_cold is the inside temp, T_hot is outside of the heat exchanger. The narrow the temperature range, the better the COP. Thus the A/C will actually be more efficient in terms of heat moved per watt while it's cooling a warm house down than when it's already cool.

There's one other factor that applies. The rate of heat transferring into the house is proportional to the temperature difference. Once the house has warmed up, you reach equilibrium. The net heat flow stops, so the total amount of energy you need to remove later stops rising. If you run the A/C all the time, heat is transferring in all the time. So the total amount of heat you need to move back outside in a day increases significantly if you leave the A/C on.
Discussing things used to be a good way to gain understanding. You know, back in the day before PC, when people were still willing to have a real discussion.

Besides, I can't stand bullshit and prejudice.
I have read some subreddits that look like that.

I suppose in an over the top sort of way it communicates the overall absurdity of how our government as a whole communicates with the people it supposedly is there to serve. Do they really think us that stupid?

From the FCC, IRS, CIA, NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, and more. The level of disdain they express for our rights gives credence to the belief that government can become and is too large to benefit the people.
Theres a news article about alternatives to drilling/fillings every few years… but then that's the last we ever hear of them.
Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1
I'm pretty sure $login can be set to true/false somewhere on top of the file as 'configuration'. Only it gets overwritten by the call to extract().

It was not meant to be user input
Get a desk at Fishburners.org ... that's where I met Nikki :)
Quickly somebody make an insult generator from that letter. It's epic.

Something similar to (DO NOT CLICK IF EASILY OFFENDED) http://www.fiftyshadesgenerator.com/ (NSFW).
I'd love if

$ cargo cult

would build a new project/module from a template.
You should get a desk at Fishburners.org!
Emacs enhanced
Haha and I just posted a list of my favourite "fail" interviews from Mixergy :)

I'd love to see the interview!
Cuba's Budding Entrepreneurs Travel A Rocky Road Toward Success
I'm diverging from the topic, but isn't it terrible that "a good football team" is a major cost to running a university (in the US)?
Interesting stats.

Another advantage for cyclists is "right on red". Even though it's illegal, a lot of people does it. Sometimes the car lane to turn right is packed and you have to wait several intervals for you to turn right, and the cyclists just pass by.

The roads are small, especially compared to the US. And there're just too many cars!
I'm putting rust in $HOME/bin (and other self compiled software).
You can change the default installation from /usr/local by running

DESTDIR=$HOME make install
I have (but no longer wear) a FuelBand.

My experience was that I found the data initially interesting (mostly that the idea anyone was under the Nike "average" staggering - I have a desk job and don't consider myself massively active but easily hit it most days) but the problem I had was that in a busy life I found relatively little room to flex what I was doing in any substantial way.

My week day routine essentially goes - get up, get ready for work, get kids up, leave, drive to work, work, drive home, get kids bathed and into bed, tidy house, get dinner, eat... and by that time it's about 9pm and I've either got to do whatever jobs need doing or relax. In itself that routine is relatively active outside the desk job (kids...) but there isn't a lot of wiggle room.

My commute isn't easily changable (I live in a rural location so anything other than driving is out), I can sometimes get out and go for a walk at lunchtime and I try to do walking meetings if possible (maybe once a week) but generally speaking my day is my day and I can't really change much.

As a result measuring it didn't feel like it had much point - the number was the number and it was relatively rare I'd look at it and think I could have done better.
Measles Outbreak In Ohio Leads Amish To Reconsider Vaccines
Popular amongst whom? They have sold only a million of their thermostats since they came out. if anything their marketing and web facing has conveyed them as more popular than reality.

As interesting as they are they are priced out of the market for far too many people. Considering many homes come with programmable thermostats, in some areas new homes have to have them, this becomes close to a frivolous purchase.

If anything it should tell entrepreneurs that there is a golden opportunity for a low cost home automation solution.

Oh, its UX, colorful feedback, etc... uh I cannot recall the last time I ever cared about my thermostat. Its set and forget.
I feel stupid. Of course, you are right.
Good story. On a completely unrelated note, this girl is very beautiful, so that's rather positive
Reliably measuring cheating is of course difficult; we can measure /detected/ cheating, we cannot measure /undetected/ cheating.

And who can blame students for cheating considering the incentives - I was never faced with the choice to cheat or fail, but you can bet if I'd gone $70,000 into debt for school I'd cheat before I'd fail.

I once sat in a computer lab and watched a group of four guys completing an online take-it-when-you-like multiple choice exam for first year mathematics for engineers. The software attempted to prevent copy-and-paste and changing windows to Google, and of course there were instructions saying the exam should be their work alone, and they shouldn't look up answers. One of the guys was on the exam system and would read the question; his three peers on computers next to him would google for and calculate answers. Needless to say, by the time the fourth guy was doing the exam his results had little to do with how much mathematics he had personally learned!
This isn't really new, they have just altered the law to make it clear it applies to all schools including the free schools and academies.
Does Galera still suffer from the "gap locks" and related deadlocks? I was quite horrified to find this out.

I would hope that that's not a problem with Bucardo or in fact any serious database system.
Application monitoring using passive monitors
Police Story: Hacking Team’s Government Surveillance Malware
1. Can't pay with bitcoin so staying with namecheap

2. Google offers 0 support

3. Google rolls over to quickly to copyright requests, whats to stop them from pulling the domain from under you

No thanks
I started off at Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa) aiming for a BCom Accounting, the path towards being a Chartered Accountant. It definitely was the path towards gold.

(And access to cutting edge technology, I remember a friend of mine showing me his new portable computer - in 1993ish, two black padded canvas bags, one containing an all-in-one Mac, the other a portable printer. It was the first time I saw a Mac.)

I was quickly disillusioned by the field, from high school days Accounting was something that appealed to my asperger-like tendencies - a mathematical model of a business, a true answer to the health of the business.

But in a university level it rapidly devolved into picking apart legal statute to find ways of tax avoidance. A game to hide as many debits into pseudo-equities like "Goodwill". That appalled me. I know tax avoidance is legal, but it conflicts with what I believe to be fair and acceptable. That only worsened when I started job interviewing with accounting firms, including Arthur Andersen.

When I see debacles like WorldCom and Enron, I'm not really surprised. And now, tax avoidance schemes like the Double Irish, and the Dutch Sandwich, I'm thankful I am not in that profession.
Example from the website in json

{
'package': {
'name': 'hello-world',
'version': '0.1.0',
'authors': [ 'wycats@example.com' ]
},
'bin': {
'name': 'hello-world',
'comment': 'the name of the executable to generate'
}
}

So where is the problem ?

And you have the advantage, that other tools can use the complete file including the comment. In TOML you need an extra parser to grab the comment.
I wish language advocates would break themselves of the urge to sum up languages they don't use.
Wouldn't keeping someone earning $5000 on AdSense make more sense financially for them?
We need to get Aphyr do his funny picture magic with this, before we can trust it.
"Maybe its because most founders are men, and men generally don’t like talking about their feelings. Maybe its because failure is embarrassing."

That would be regarded as sexist if it were arranged with such a blanket statement the other way around.

I've seen countless stories on HN where guy founders talk about the emotional side of failing and their startup going under. I'm not sure where she gets this notion. In fact, I see the emotional side written about more often than anything else. It seems like there's a few new stories every week on HN by some guy that failed, and he's discussing dealing with the substantial emotional fallout (how it affected his life, his savings, his family, his sleep, and how agonizing in general it all is).
Differential Privacy might help.
Ask HN: Exploit disclosure, suing attempt
First of all, I'm 14. I have discovered an exploit in a CMS of the largest web design company in my country, which means over 500 websites are vunreable.

Rather than hack the websites, I composed an email describing the exploit and the proof and sent that email.

The company is threatening to sue me, even though I didn't do ABSOLUTELY no damage just because I did discover the exploit.

Can they sue me, and what can I do to protect myself?
I like the extra detail from

curl ipinfo.io

particularly if using Tor or a VPN, but

dig +short myip.opendns.com @208.67.222.222

is usually quicker than anything curl / wget based, as it doesn't use http. You can substitute `host` if `dig` isn't available.
This in an isightful comment. Lazy evaluation combined with the level of abstraction in Haskell could make this micromanagement somewhat hard to implement. It is in our roadmap to revisit the cryptography implementation.
A11) Download a PDF with an outdated Adobe reader ;)
I felt exactly the same. I'm based in Brisbane and have seen 99dresses mentioned many many times in the media and startup communities around here. I'm amazed and incredibly saddened that it didn't work out.
Am I missing something here?. The number of API calls per month seems to be extremely low?

With 100 or 1000 API calls, how can you make a "dynamic" application? This would only be useful for static / stale content.

What good is purchasing more credits, if I only have a very low number of API calls?

http://www.wolfram.com/programming-cloud/pricing/
It's fun reading people's mind with my digit game
The read-manifest command seems to output a JSON of your Cargo.toml if you have tools you'd like to use that require it:

cargo read-manifest --manifest-path .
> it should be possible to estimate the runtime of a program

Isn't this an analog of the Halting Problem?
More than anything this article convinces me that there is a bubble of Data Scientists (speaking as someone who as employed as a DS and quit one month ago to build his startup).
https://twitter.com/jeremiahg/status/479042160193323008/phot...

The OWASP top 10 is old news but there is still work to be done.
I'm a former C++ programmer (and a current C programmer) and my go-to language is currently Golang; here's why I'd virtually always choose Golang before C++:

* Streamlined language with carefully-chosen syntax and keywords (there aren't 10 different meanings for "static", for instance); entire concepts have been eliminated to no apparent ill effect in building real systems. Fewer cycles allocated to the language, more cycles allocated to problem domain.

* The 95% case for associative and sequential containers is built into the language, with (for me) enormous benefits to programming efficiency.

* A streamlined and carefully orthogonalized standard library optimized for systems programming. Golang has the best-designed standard library I've ever used.

* A ruthlessly pragmatic packaging and modularity system; unlike C++, packaging is not left up to the build system.

* Build-world compilation times measured in 100s of milliseconds rather than 10s of minutes.

If I was writing, say, a generic trie library that I was hoping to get hundreds of different programmers to use, C++ would be a tempting target because of generics. But it turns out, most of the time I build projects like that, I'm really just wanking. Another benefit of Golang is that it's so stripped down and pragmatic that it subtly discourages wanking.

A lot of people would add Golang's concurrency model (share by communicating instead of communicating by sharing) and lightweight threads to this list. I like Golang concurrency too but my sense of it is that among languages designed from the jump for concurrency, this isn't that much of a unique benefit.
Just generally, don't write SQL queries as strings. An ORM is one option, language-level extensions another. But for that you need some good macros in your language - or convince the maintainers of your compiler to add it to the language (like Microsoft did in C#).
Toxic client or temporary pain?
I switched to freelancing(consulting) fulltime recently. I had been doing it on the side for 8 months... and it was a great experience so far. I had great clients and I absolutely loved working with them.

But things changed soon couple of weeks back when I happened to look for another contract where I could put in 20-25 hours weekly - I had that slot empty after leaving a job. I landed up one with a decent hourly rate.

Firstly, it was not a typical job that I took up earlier - it is a "developer" job and less of consulting. In the test assignment - which was supposed to take just couple of hours, I had spent 3-4 hours. Around 1 hour was setup time and a very small bit of learning was required on that task. I also mentioned that clearly to the client.

Now, my workdays with the client are miserable. This client has been pushing me on timelines - Example: I have 7 hours of work-slot spread in 3 alternate days and he would call me on the non-working hours. Additionally the expectations are too high - He says "this is a one hour job" - And it takes me 12 hours to finish that. I am confident it is not a 1 hour job and doesn't look like 12 hours either - except that I was given something not supported directly and I had to tweak it up a lot.

How do you guys deal with such clients?

Is he a toxic client - that I should get away from ? Or is this just an early pain that I must endure for long term gain?

P.S: I took up this contract, quit it in just few days and took it up again 15 days later with lesser hours per week. I was frustrated with the work - but the reason for quitting earlier was unrelated.
US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report
How to Choose The Right Lighting for Your Room bit.ly/1iBbB4T
>api.Res("users", resp).Id(1).Get()

>What happens if the argument passed to api.Res is not "users"? Or "users" is incorrect? Or if Id 1 doesnt exist? Or you cant use the HTTP method Get on the selected resource? Or if I want to use a HTTP method you haven't got a function for?

It is places like this where i would love to use railway oriented programming[1] or monads.

I love chaining function calls but can't do them without worrying about errors as you said, Someday i'll sit and try to implement Monads in Go

[1]http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/
Yes I have the heating on a timer and its off when I am at work. I turn it on if its cold and I working from home or its the weekend. I believe this is normal...
Well it all depends of your application and which level of automation you're looking for. If your growth require you to often scale your infrastructure, and you want to save your developers to deal with operations, then you may need someone.
True enough: bundling IDE with browser does not solve the problem, but it certainly lowers the bar for beginners to start programming.
Zero percent direct object references? Three possibilities:

* IBM doesn't know what an insecure direct object reference is.

* I don't know what an insecure direct object reference is.

* IBM's scanning tool is routinely missing an extremely common sev:hi bug class.

The OWASP Top 10 is stupid. For some reason, every attempt at creating a taxonomy of security flaws of any sort fails, and OWASP's is a textbook example. But at least 8 out of the 10 flaws OWASP randomly selects are still common and meaningful.
It's hard for me to get the feel of what is this game about by just reading the description. The screenshots look interesting and I'd be happy to try it if it was free or if I had more information about it.
Metropoly launches new website
We help start-ups, established businesses and public sector organizations to get their digital products right.
British government 'breaking law' in forcing data retention by companies
It is security fixes --- there are no known security bugs in Opera 12.17 currently.
Mobile First is Dead
Everyone familiar with the digital industry is aware of the major revolution that recently struck us. Mobile first has changed the way we work. It’s a term you hear often and it’s definitely a concept which has been around for a while now. Tablet and smartphone sales have been increasing, while laptop and desktop sales have been decreasing. You can find a lot of smartphone statistics on this website, which is definitely interesting to check out for anyone who creates digital products. Smartphones have become a daily tool in our life. For many of us, we can’t miss their presence.
I'm pretty sure you can purchase more API calls.

However I want to make clear that those API calls are to Wolfram's servers for things like natural language parsing and data. You can write an APIFunction that does not use API calls, but just uses cloud credits to do computation.

I understand it can be confusing, but there is a difference between API calls to your CloudObjects and API calls from your CloudObjects.