skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We don't yet know if the Court has invalidated all software patents."
I see a lot of "don't do this unless..." or "why would you...".

Ignore those. Start by researching books (good, old, paper-based pbooks) that offer exactly this: There are plenty of them out there, usually one or two quotes per page, usually taken from public sources. Some of them are work related, some have a spiritual bent, etc.

Do this research just to satisfy yourself that yes, there are people who buy this sort of thing.

Next, validate the idea: Not with the HN crowd, I can almost guarantee they are not your audience. We tend to be self-starters, independent thinkers, etc. Some of us even mock the whole "motivational quote/poster/speaker" model.

Hell, how many of us would have told the guy who created "bingo card creator" to stick to his day job? Most of us. We are not good judges of the broader market because we all of us live on the fringes.

(Sure, there are one or two or a few people in here who can see into that broader but they are few. If you are lucky, some of the better ones will comment on this.)

Bring up those inspirational quote books with your friends, your family members, and acquaintances from non-tech fields. Do this in small groups and at times when people are more reflective, more willing to consider. Ask what they think of these books. Do they read them? Openly? As guilty pleasures? If they do, say something along the lines of "too bad there is no app for this". Judge their reactions.

As to how to do this, crowdsource the quotes. Create a system where people can submit (and correct) quotes with attributions, where they can upvote them. Whether or not a login is required is up to you, but if you go with a login, make it facebook and/or twitter, maybe pinterest, not google+ or roll your own, etc: My guess is that the people who would use this app will be very comfortable logging in with facebook and/or twitter, sharing their favourite quotes on those platforms, etc.

Make it possible for people to tag quotes, e.g., #spirituality, #productivity, #friendship, #peace, etc.

Have quotes of the day, featured quotes, etc.

There are opportunities for translation into many, many languages. See if you can crowdsource that, too.

Do NOT expect to make money doing this. Not because you won't (hell, I have no idea), but because that will allow you to gauge how much time to spend on it. Unless and until you have a successful kickstarter campaign or VC funding or hit a magical pricing structure that "just works", you will be doing this because you enjoy it, but it will not put food in your mouth or a roof over your bed.

Budget your time accordingly.
Reddit is wonderful for fostering fringe communities and inspiring others to become a part of a subculture, whatever it might be. If you're comparing it to fb, tw, or ig, you've already missed the point of its existence.
warning: GOPATH set to GOROOT (T:\Tools\Go) has no effect
go build runtime: windows/386 must be bootstrapped using
make.bat

So, if you installed Go in a different directory, ignore the Windows environment vars "PATH" entry and just execute the "make.bat" in the "Go\src\" directory - the first time.
Apparently Reddit is relevant enough to have gotten you to hijack the comment thread for a political story so you could post a critique.

You're bitter at something so you're lashing out. It will pass.
There is no secret. You just need to eat better or less, get the correct amount of sleep and exercise! Even if it's only walking- My parents have struggled with weight for years and it took me a long time to convince them to start going for walks. 5 years later, they both have lost significant weight and my mom in particular has recovered from a weight related illness.
Battle Cries: An audio tour of World Cup "Goal" announcers.
Supreme Court rules on software patent case Alice Corp v. CLS Bank [pdf]
Egads. Sounds like one of the guys I've played tabletop RPGs with in the past. He'll have a character, clearly a minion of someone of questionable morality, and then when the time comes to complete his character's part of the bargain, his real world morality gets in the way. Very frustrating, especially since he's not consistent with it so you can't anticipate what game events will trigger a game-breaking response.

He's still in a couple of groups, but if the game dies for reasons other thna scheduling conflicts, it's probably his doing or a TPK.
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I'd like to add that generics can add a lot of complexity to a compiler, and the compiler's simplicity is IMHO of great benefit to the language. I'm happy they're taking their time with it; it's better than ending up with a half-assed implementation like Java.
"Also I am have insane trouble controlling my weight, I am yet to find a safe place to exercise for free (I don't have money to pay a gym), and even with a carefully controlled diet my weight swings around madly (I managed to get 2kg lighter in 4 days, and then 4kg heavier in 2 days for example...)
"

I've good news about that. The +/- 4kg oscillations are just water, but you can fix the weight problem even without exercising much, just eat at a caloric deficit and you'll lose weight and the overall health may improve considerably just because of this.

EDIT: you may get much fitter just doing bodyweight exercises at home if you wish, and for this a great resource is this: http://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/25kxq1/ju...

Also google for "reddit fitness". However the bottom line is that you lose weight in the kitchen mostly, by eating at a deficit.
Buying a Bootstrap theme isn't very impressive. Try formatting images, videos, rescaling fonts across devices. It will take a lot more than two weeks.
> What issues have you seen with regards to using tabs?

How does a team adopt a standard regarding line length if their code base uses tabs and the team members specify different tab widths in their editors?

In my experience, devs that prefer tabs over spaces have a tendency to be unconcerned about line lengths, and their lines of code can become annoyingly long.

For example, the most popular Go project at GitHub[1] is Docker. Docker's code base contains Go files with lines of code that are hundreds of columns wide.[2] Gross. ;-)

[1] https://github.com/search?l=Go&q=stars%3A%3E0&type=Repositor...

[2] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/api/client/co...
I don't think you can beat human experience here. Try to find an experienced freelancer or ex-project manager which is willing to make some side money by helping you negociate your contracts. I don't work in freelance, so I don't know the feasibility of my advice though.
The more and more I get to develop sites for people in the wild, rather than corporate intranets, the more I learn: truly semantic HTML is responsive by default.

You have to go out of your way to make it unresponsive. You have to insist that you know the one, true, best way to use your site for every type of user--big-screens and small, strong- and weak- and no-sighted, color-seeing and non-color-seeing, rich-enough-to-own-the-latest-macbook or not. The pixel-perfect positioning of your logo is more important than people who do not meet your conception of your perfect user.

Sure, certain concessions need to be made. Obviously, if you're making a shape-matching game, the blind need not apply. Deaf users probably won't get anything out of SoundCloud. But most sites have a broken interface for anyone other than a median human.

Just imagine if HN had a properly semantic HTML layout. It'd scale properly to every cellphone with a browser, ever. Unstyled, semantic HTML may not be pretty, but it works. Resist the temptation to corrupt it with CSS and its nutty notion that it could ever maintain cross-compatibility with print.
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A little more info from Dan Skiner's blog

http://dansinker.com/post/89256288060/opennews-building-new-...
> Through the new platform, the news organizations said in a news release, “Readers will be able to submit pictures, links and other media; track discussions; and manage their contributions and online identities.” The news outlets can then collect and use the reader content “for other forms of storytelling and to spark ongoing discussions.”

So it sounds like they want to create a new social network, or at least their own form of Discourse/phpBB....why? The impetus for this seems to be the infamously dreadful comment sections of news sites...so...why not start by building a better commenting filter system? Even something that can sit atop of Disqus or any other third-party platform, and quickly sift for comments that are irrelevant, based on such heuristics as user account's signup time, the user's overall "karma", the length of comment, maybe even some configurable NLP factors to determine how relevant the content of the comment is to the overall article? This wouldn't/shouldn't have to be an auto-flag system, but merely create a priority queue of messages to be modded...which would be far more efficient than whatever system most news sites currently use.

But to build a system that is basically another social network, except for news sites? That's a lot of faith in your customers to think they'll sign up for something new that is also cognitively demanding.
Statwing is trying to do nice visualizations and analysis in a web browser, without programming. This is more of a way to use R or python to do data analysis on a remote AWS machine. You still have to know what you're doing in R or python, but it makes the "remote" part easy.
Terms and Conditions for recruiter
Hey,

I remember a while back there was a story about a startup defining their terms and conditions for recruiters, instead of accepting the terms and conditions of the headhunter companies. Unfortunately I don't recall the name of the company or the URL and was unsuccessful to find anything so far.

Does anyone have the link to that article? Or does anyone have any experiences with dictating their own terms to recruitment companies?

Thanks
Ben
I suspect at the start he would have done code reviews because otherwise he couldn't know if the other party [the consulting firm] was a competent entity.

I'm sure once he figured out their level of competence and how far he could trust their agency [e.g. How much direction they needed to succeed], I suspect that is really when the slacking started.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the second or third consulting company he had tried.

Honestly, I doubt that process took more than 3-6 months.

Do you find most Chinese programmers don't know written English?
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Yes, you can really use steel wool to wipe your ass.
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Great on both counts!
I'm not originally from America, but at family gatherings everyone wants to be "nice"... instead of discussing how they feel.

IMHO Fred Wilson's point is basically "Don't be a jerk" but he doesn't seem like the person who avoid saying what needs to be said (eg. This idea isn't viable) just to be nice. There is a appropriate way to convey criticism, and then there is being a jerk. Avoid the latter.
And as the GP said, for those cases that truncating is expected (or not a problem) then use strncpy_s.
From Wiki: "Leadership has been described as "a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task"."

I don't see how this isn't exactly what every single manager does, everyday. They get paid twice what I get paid, just for giving me work to do. Whether I'm in the office or in China, what difference does it make?
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Nothing ever stops in big picture, no matter who gets hit by a bus. But there is no point in suffering.
You should try to raise VC money or get into an incubator. If you cant then quit or put this startup on hold. .Find a salary paying job, get your health back on track before it worsens further. Resume your startup when you feel better.
I'll try that right after I finish using this chainsaw to brush my teeth.
Thanks wodenokoto,
While we cannot share complete details of the technology, we do plan to have a beginner's post on how we have leveraged these technologies.
Kafka is a lower-level system than RabbitMQ. It doesn't support:

* Topic routing. With RabbitMQ you can bind queue X to exchange Y with the routing keys "foo.bar." and "foo..baz". The queue will then get all messages matching those keys. That allows for very flexible pub-sub-style routing of messages; we use this extensively. As far as I can see, not really possible with Kafka without message duplication.

* Nacking model. Since Kafka queues are strictly linear, if a consumer fails to consume a message and wants to nack it and then process the remaining messages, it can't do so, since it has a single "read head". It would have to re-enqueue the message in that case.

* Prioritization. Not supported. You will have to create topics for different priorities and then consume those topics at a different rate depending on the priority.

* Message TTL.

And it's susceptible to network partitions, just like RabbitMQ.
>This is based on very strong empirical evidence.

Could you point me to some of this evidence?

Even the article says :

We know that many different molecular processes are involved, but we still know little about which synapses are modified and when, and almost nothing about how to work backward from a neural connectivity diagram to the particular memories encoded.

> What is your reason to believe the laws of physics are broken in the brain or that the mind is more than the material brain? Is there even one shred of evidence for that?

I am not saying its breaking any laws of physics. As far as I am aware the laws of physics do not apply to the conscious. I can't observe it. I can't touch it. It doesn't seem to be a physical entity as far as I can deduce. Can you measure consciousness (I am not referring to brain activity)?

Whats your reason for assuming that the conscious self is a result of the laws of physics?
Ten years from now, when web security is even more laughable and anemic than it already is, some of us are going to remember discussions like these where application developers at large ignored the warnings from the established crypto community. Some of us are old enough already to remember this pattern happening before.

I understand the strong reaction to the actions of the NSA, but all this is doing is providing the appearance of security while not making it any more difficult for adversaries like the NSA.
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Agreed. For me the whole point of reddit is that there is a subreddit for (almost ?) every subject you can think of.
Not sure what literally any of your comments mean, but thanks for the troll!
If I recall correctly, Intel tried a few years ago to sell a system-on-chip combining an Atom CPU with a FPGA from Altera. I believe it didn't work very well, especially with regards to communication and synchronization between the two cores.
Clash of the Lambdas [pdf]
I feel for you because I understand how killing heartbreaks are. But, please, do not take a negative decision to end your life when you are feeling low. Get help. Reach out to your family, your friends from school, college. Anyone, whom you can speak your heart out with. Even your room mate would do. It will make you feel a lot better. Take a vacation. Go to places you wanted to go before. Look at the positive side of your life. A wonderful life you have in comparison with those millions who have nothing to eat and no future.

Strictly, stop being alone. Stop being in the company of those who make you feel sad. And stop your negative thoughts as many times as they come back.

No need to about talk this at work. Often, people aren't 100% productive at work, and everyone adjusts. Co-workers/employers seldom complain.

Connect with others as much as possible. If you have no one to talk to, you can contact me. I will be happy to be help.
Looks great, as a team that lives inside Gmail and Asana this could be very useful for us.
I believe the conversation is about being like #3, but without being rude and abrasive. It's possible. Being honest and reliable does not excuse rudeness and abrasiveness. In my experience, rudeness and abrasiveness are indicative that the person has not had to/been able to grow up. Perhaps they have extreme talent. Perhaps they have lived a life of extreme focus. Perhaps their moms still look after them. The reason doesn't much matter.

#s 1 and 2 are bullshit.
I've seen this concern that there are no function pointers in swift, and it seems to come from a misunderstanding on what it means for functions to be first class.

From https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... :

You use function types just like any other types in Swift. For example, you can define a constant or variable to be of a function type and assign an appropriate function to that variable:

var mathFunction: (Int, Int) -> Int = addTwoInts

mathFunction can now be passed around, fed in as a parameter in another function, etc. mathFunction is for all purposes a function pointer.
If Amazon allows affiliate links to TV shows/movies, the OP could provide a link to the episode/movie where the quote originates.
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Elon Musk wants to put humans in Mars in 10 to 12 years
It is alot like Diplomacy. You want to be honorable/nice until you are playing for the final outcome of your career, then you stop playing nice.

The CEO at one of the places I've worked basically screwed over 80+ people to get his retirement package [sold the company; his equity was worth millions] and they blindly trusted him right up until the day he did it. Those 80 people were laid off shortly after and the jobs were moved some place cheaper and/or into the buying company.

I think the thing is the "dumb ones" stop playing nice before it is the final round of their career and they have years/decades for it to catch up with them.
Do it, I switched to Posgress for pretty much everything last year and I absolutely adore it, it just works, no stupid edge cases, excellent documentation, nice tooling (pgadmin3 is better than commercial products I've seen costing hundreds if not thousands).

I'm barely scratching the surface of what it is capable of yet as well (mostly because I'm in ORM land most of the time).
You can't sacrifice partition tolerance: http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/
Python Classes and Object Oriented Programming
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Thanks for the comment, yes we're still working on the startup and you're right, there aren't any big success with two co-founder in a relation.
Although my friends at AgentPiggy and http://www.gym-pact.com/ are going pretty well.
A little more clarity on abstract ideas, but not much more
Presumably, Carlypso will provide their own insurance.
tl;dr: Battery pack shorted out because the wires got pinched in the cover plate.
Radiant doesn't have the 'same' specs as the G.

Radiant: 480 x 800 G: 720 x 1280

Radiant has a much smaller battery.

G has quad core, radiant has dual.

G has 8gb of storage. Radiant has 2 available to user.

Moto G comes in an LTE flavor for $30 more, no option with Radiant.

Radiant is also forever stuck on 4.1 while the G continues to get updates and will probably get some for some time.
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Would be cool if The Times and The Post could figure out some way for their respective readers to engage each other via this new platform.
This is a great, straightforward summary of something I always hazily suspected in the back of my mind. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, that seems to be the biggest challenge for this right now! I have been reading quotes since a long time, so I have a good collection to start with.
> I was unaware that drepper had left redhat (and glibc).

> He's now at Goldman Sachs.

A much better fit for both parties, from a cultural / personality perspective.
It will take 2 years to develop this bitch?

My bet: It will flop. Systems that take long to complete usually flop. Reminds me of Diaspora. The things that take off are usually created in a short time. Hacker News, Git...

How long did the first version of Facebook take? Wikipedia says "Zuckerberg wrote a program called Facemash on October 28, 2003". Does that mean it was coded in one day? Since it was a hot-or-not type site, that could very well be. About the second version - then called "Facebook" - Wikipedia says it took less then a month to code.

My most successful project ever took me one day before I launched it. My second most successful one weekend. Then years of development went into these. But only after I saw people use the core functionality.
You should use something like tf-idf to normalize your cooccurance counts for your recommender, otherwise you'll just end up recommending the most globally popular products.
I keep a backup of my home data at the office (encrypted volume). Plus another one at a family member's house halfway across the continent (disks are exchanged at family get-togethers)

It's not hard - you just need to do it.
I'd download it. It would be cool if you were able to upvote the quotes like with quotes from books on GoodReads.
Not really helpful on validating, but here's a source for quotes...

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page has an API as all the wikimedia projects.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
Thanks Synergyse, We are planning to release soon, Love to get your feedback.
It seems to me that Mozilla has over expanded and is in search of a mission. A useable browser not beholden to the latest UX fads would be a start.
Ah. Now I feel stupid. Thanks!
I want to ask him if he is bitter at all that Edward Snowden is more popular now and he is yesterday's news. But I won't...
I'm not going to lie, this sounds like hell. Places like that make outcasts of anybody who makes the rest "look bad" by "working too hard." It's nice to be valued for your technical skills when you consider the alternative.
Any word on how those accounts are getting compromised?

Have they been complacent (easy password to guess, keys easy to be compromised (maybe in a public github repo)), or could there be some whole in the AWS secutiy model?
$50 GPS jammer from China coupled with another $50 GSM/3G jammer also from China = you drive away free, with no tracking devices working. I would be very worried to use this service.
Why would you play Diplomacy if you can play Twilight Imperium 3, A Game of Thrones the Board Game or War of the Ring instead?

Pretty sure us "alpha-nerds" would rather battle it out in fantasy/scifi settings than with boring old "real world" troops (Here I Stand is excellent if you want that). All of those games are also a lot better imo.

Always thought Diplomacy was pretty meh :)
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A system can maintain C and A despite a partition as long as no requests need to cross the partition boundary. In practice this isn't something you can count on, and CA systems tend to have absolutely horrible failure modes when reality intrudes, but - unless we redefine "partition" to mean a partition that actually gets in your way - they're not strictly impossible.

Longer version (approx. four years old) here:

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/2010/10/when-partition...
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