skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backstory: We run a media company and we've put more than $200k of our own savings into Listnerd - not counting the thousands of work hours we've also invested. It's a list blogging platform / social network centered around top lists. We're growing extremely slow, so after 1.5 years in the grind, we've come to the conclusion that our site sucks. Please help us out by destroying us with your criticism.
He doesn't really dismiss their tastes as much as provide an idea of why they were rejecting the disc he put in.

It's not like he put in something musically strange; it's a piano and a guy singing. A reaction of "what the hell is this, make it stop" is not very reasonable.
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After we failed to get into YC, my partner quit when he got a salary offer that was too good to refuse.

The distance between now and that offer within the startup was too long to imagine based upon how successful we had been independently.

It was always about odds. 10:1 at 10x with us, or 1:1 at 1x with them.

His girlfriend had a lot to say on the matter. She needed a home.

I wish his quitting never happened, but I was powerless to stop it. And I can't blame him, though I wouldn't have made the same choice had the circumstances been reversed, I understand why he did.
Definitely (if in need of an editor).
I am curious to know what other books are on that list.
Inspired by other posts here, the interesting discovery for me was "Who Paid the Piper?"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1862073279/

From the comments:

"the financing by the US government of a secret cultural propaganda programme under the cover of `philantropic' foundations" (...) A major propaganda `instrument' was God. As the author states: `Political virtue was to be submitted to a long standing Christian tradition of obedience to the law of God. By invoking the ultimate moral authorities, the US acquired an unanswerable sanction for her manifest destiny.'
That raises a few questions :

1- will this takes us closer to a golang like way of working in parallel ( since that means no GIL) ?

2- Why did dropbox / guido didn't join forces with pypy, since they already had proved that their approach was very efficient performance wise ? Is it because pypy doesn't deal with native C code at all, whereas the python LLVM approach they chose may let the two work better ?

3- does anyone else feel like the python world is a complete mess right now ?

EDIT : didn't want to sound harsh, on the contrary. Seing so many smart people work on separate path on great projects for so long feels like some great energy is going to end up a waste of time.
kickstarter doesn't allow you to offer equity, but the JOBS act + the SEC did change this year to allow non-accredited investors (people with less than $1M in assets) to buy into a company directly; and for a company to market equity in the style of kickstarter.

Here are the new rules:
For income below $100,000, invest a max of $2,000 or 5% of income or net worth
For income over $100,000, invest a max of 10% of income or net worth
Investments made in a Title III crowdfunding transaction can’t be resold for a period of one year
Just curious - what was your goal/perceived business opportunity with the site and idea? Advertising revenue or something else?
Time to get in touch with the press. 25 bugs in something health-critical? They'll have a field day.
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My first thought was, "Primordia?"

But really, I think the term AI is a bit much here.
Having seen an upsurge in friends quitting, I can tell you that this is the reason for the quitting. Jobs are paying less, asking for more work, in conditions that are worse.

This is especially difficult when you have a prior standard of work and pay to judge from. Most people are willing to cut their pay 20-30% from their top, but a 40-50% cut with worse conditions, and higher expectations, people will quit.

That's what I'm seeing.
...or the liberating effect of knowing you'll have healthcare coverage wherever you go? (Chill with the downvotes, it's just a hypothesis.)
The Last Days of the Polymath (2009)
this is a place to tell people what they want to hear, not to tell the truth.
SISCOG [1] is a company that has been developing such systems for quite some time now (since 1986).

In their case I know that the core of their systems is written in LISP and it's mostly AI optimizaiton algorithms. The guys who run the company are both professors of AI related classes in the CS dept of IST.UTL.PT.

[1]: http://siscog.pt/
Well, kinda. A lot of the coding and early work was done in Cambridge but the first node I think was in Regents Park.
This is a business opportunity to create that infrastructure.
Well... actually you have a good point about some projects existing mostly (if not only) for self-promotion purpose.

Talking about Swift's expressiveness. After skimming through Apple's Swift book I tend to agree with you. I misunderstood your first comment having a thought you wanted Swift code to be more like Objective C.
Perhaps more comparable to the comprehensions shown in this post would be generator comprehensions:

list(p.first_name + " " + p.last_name for p in people)
dict((p.first_name + " " + p.last_name, p) for p in people)
set(j.organization for p in people for j in p.jobs)
print(", ".join(p.first_name + " " + p.last_name for p in people))

(Of course, Python has sugar for the first three.)
Right, but I don't think that addresses my point at all. I'm not saying there should be no difference, but should there really be that much?
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas - I discovered this via my volunteering with @codeclub teaching primary school children to program using scratch
One of the more infamous classes in Computer Science at Cal Poly SLO is "Professional Responsibilities", is taught by Dr. Clark Turner. The class delves into Therac-25, and similar cases that have happened since. I found the class really interesting because it does make you question and think about the ethics of what you are building and what others have built.

Knowing about, and thinking about, the ACM Code of Ethics, Stuxnet, Therac-25, the Windows Security Patch Policy, and other problems our programming culture have come across is important. Realizing that the code we write can affect people in both positive and negative ways on a long and short term scale is something that can change both your product and how you build a product.
There's nothing particularly revolutionary about this concept. It existed for nearly two centuries before the SEC locked down rules on investing.

The sole reason it hasn't existed the last 20 or 30 years is due to the SEC, not the lack of someone 'inventing' it. Their rules restrain the ability to do it.

Anonymous investing was extremely common prior to the SEC taking over full control of investing laws. It was trivial to set up anonymous shell entities and hide who owned what, making it practically untraceable.
Well, our last really successful startup was called Biip.no. It was a social networking site very much like Facebook, only for Norwegian teenagers. We built a lot of traction, eventually grossing 10% of Norway's population as members, with a annual revenue of 3m USD - mostly from advertising and mobile payments. Then we had an exit of $12m USD. We started in the social media space pretty early (2004/2005), so we always regretted not going international earlier. Listnerd is kind of our shot at redemption; because I think social e-commerce is at the same stage today as social media was in 2004.
The real article is behind a paywall so all I have is the Globe article.There isn't much to dig into. Based on he Globe article, the researchers "asked the people how much they would pay to avoid the shock experience if they had $5 to spend." And "...of the 42 people who said they would pay to avoid the shock, two-thirds of men chose to shock themselves..." It didn't say anyone actually stood to lose any real money to avoid shocks. It also doesn't even say how much someone would pay ($5, $1, $0.1), just that they would give up some of (hypothetical) $5 they had. This combined with the fact the shocks were "mild shocks to the ankle" makes me wonder whether that was really unpleasant enough to make the point the Globe headline trumpeted.
Compared to what? You don't get unemployment if you quit voluntarily, unless you can show you were effectiely forced out (eg abusive workplace or somesuch).
Came to say Lisp because of http://xkcd.com/297/ but Forth gets ex-aequo.
I have a feeling MRGando means the library doesn't look idiomatic enough. Though this meaning is lost behind the tone of the message.
Perhaps at minimum write code to monitor tweets say 24h later so you can measure this.

Surely after a few hours it doesn't really matter if the retweet is removed. Sure, it won't appear on their history but the recent timeline is the biggest use case.

Perhaps send the code after say 15-30 mins, or base the time on their follower count.

Edit: Does this violate any Apple or Twitter ToS? I've a feeling Apple won't like this, but they probably won't care.
Yet by denying the capital to speak, it inherently stops you from speaking.

This reducto ad absurdium is meant to illustrate that money, while necessary for a bullhorn, is not speech in and of itself.
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I shutdown my startup of two years a few months back. We were full time and bootstrapped, minus a few thousand from an accelerator program. We shut down when our money started running low and the third pivot didn't come together the way we hoped. We felt like we were finally heading in the right direction, but theres was still a lot to do before we could see some initial traction. Some could argue that if we kept at it at a few more months or raised some money maybe we could have had a better perspective. But we were adamant on not raising money and pivoting was getting old. In some ways it did feel a little premature. But I don't know how many times we could say "just 3 more months" before it was meaningless.

It takes a long time to build a successful business and maybe two years wasn't enough time. But over time we became less excited about the vision and the space started to get very crowded. We spent two weeks evaluating all of our options and outs before we decided it was over. It was a sad day when we finally decided to close shop, but my co-founder and I both seemed to be on the same page. I don't know if theres an exact right time to shutdown. For us it just felt right.
I didn't say it is conspiratorial and intentional. Of course they don't want those they monitor to know they are being monitored. The thought control element is a byproduct of constraints, rewards, and bureaucratic setup. So nobody probably sat down or met on some secret island to set this, but nevertheless that effect is there.
It's not about how it looks, it's about what and how fast it does!
Any economic unit of value that moves, in any way shape or form, within the United States - and sometimes as an extension outside of it - the US Government claims dominion over. Period. It is exceptionally naive and will come back to bite them.
My hope (which is steadily fading) was to make contact with someone in the development team to suggest a few improvements and show a few of the more obscure bugs that I haven't reported. I'd love to be able to positively influence the development. There has been limited "end user" input as far as I can tell and some small changes would make the platform so much more powerful. The upside to the lack of communication is that I've begun leaning to code and use my code on my phone to bypass the scanner's crap - without the poor scanner interface I wouldn't have done this. I should note that my basic code is truly awful to look at, although it works reliably and does a better job of its small task than the multimillion dollar console I use.
The illustrated second story floor is a non-starter, to be certain. Could not crossbeams be manufactured in the same style? The article mentions hollow bricks with slots for reinforcement. I would assume a crossbeam style brick with a reinforced core would fit the bill just fine.
What? No Object Pascal?
Hi there. I admit that's not anything scientific. :-) I just entertained to give some interesting variants of these ideas.

And I am not an expert in the question of superluminal communication, be it on Birgit Dopfer's experiment or using ordinary subluminal speeds through wormholes. But to consider that the absence of alien artifacts or communication might require us to look for gaps in our knowledge w.r.t. physics is a fun one, you've to admit. :-)
Well... This seems pretty similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k . Are there any fundamental differences or is this essentialy the same idea, just more modern?
>it rots because api's, platforms and basically the tech that surrounds and it relies on changes.

The whole point of standards is for that not to happen
GE scanner, by chance? I've heard their software is pretty terrible compared to their competitors.
We already do traditional banking with computers and mobile apps. Why can't we do the same with Bitcoin? Besides, you can have your hardware wallet in your pocket or safe, which will actually have to be physically stolen for someone to get your funds.
The basic legal rule is that you can't issue "equity" in any venture unless (a) it's registered with the SEC (and certain state authorities) or (b) you fall within exemptions (accredited investors only, etc.)

Swarm obviously doesn't fall under either category, so what they're basically trying to do is claim that they're not actually issuing equity in the traditional sense. Best guess as to what they're arguing is that by making the cryptotokens redeemable for a service (as opposed to actual cash), they're really issuing something closer to gift cards than traditional equity. Gift cards have their own legal issues, but it's not equity. That said, gift cards have limited upside relative to real equity. When the next Oculus is purchased by Facebook, I might be able to redeem by crypto-shares for a free Rift headset, but that's not the same thing as getting X% of the proceeds from the sale of the company.

Here's the take-away though: The reason these laws exist is to prevent con artists from selling shares in some fly-by-night operation and disappearing with the money. There's nothing about crypto-equity that makes fraud any less likely than traditional equity. So if you're the SEC, and you see someone selling something that acts like equity, looks like equity, is actually described as equity, and poses the same risks for the buyer that regular equity does, the fact that it might not fit neatly in the traditional definition of equity isn't going to deter you from putting a stop to this.
Burning through savings looking for another job, working part time, trying to start something of one's own, relying on family members, recognizing that one's mental health is at stake and no job is better than personal collapse...

There are lots of possibilities. Note that the uptick is relatively small. People don't have to be choosing rational or amazing alternatives. There just has to be a slightly larger percentage of people unable to handle the working conditions, and choosing any alternative.
If you put most of your assets in a "cold storage" wallet, it will be more secure than any cash, gold, or financial instrument that you own.

You put only an amount that you're willing to lose on one of today's machines, for convenience, and it works just fine.

Infrastructure doesn't need to change, and it only takes a small amount of effort to learn how to be security-minded.
I actually laughed. Yes. Latest release, flagship scanner 3T 750W. We have a few of the extra bells and whistles but not all. I'm not entirely sure which we have, as trying to run something you haven't paid for used to crash the scanner, so I'm hesitant to try some things. This bug I reported.
1. badly indented monthDict content (and not only because the four spaces in place of a tab; ending brace should occur in a separate line, if you format like this)

2. trailing whitespaces in many lines (including, but not limited to, empty lines with whitespaces)

3. too long lines

4. bad command line arguments processing (should be optparse or argparse)

5. bad operation separation (addEvent() being the first example -- too complex, too many things being done on the same level)

6. string formatting done badly (you should use printf-like formatting instead of string concatenation)

7. code duplication (getEventsToday() vs. getEventsTomorrow())
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I had a professor read this case study in a lecture.

It amazes me that merely one programmer was trusted with building the software for a radiation beam canon.
Change 6 months to 6 days -- and agreed. Go has a 50 page SPEC -- the language fits in your head.
Yes, but if something is O(m*n) and m <= n (which is the case in string search), then it's also O(n^2). On the other hand, since m can be of the order of, say, n/2, it's not too confusing to say that naive string search is O(n^2), since it's actually Theta(n^2).
How do you diversify your skill other than in the IT sector?
While I learn a bit about finance, I learned that it emphasize the importance of diversifying your investment portfolio to minimize risk. I suppose it should apply to our professional skill as well, it's better if we can do something else in case the IT sector goes bust. I wonder how do you guys attempt or achieve this diversification. Myself, I have a computer degree, have been working as a software since. I maintain healthy interests in other fields, such as history, languages, and some sciences, but nowhere to a professional level, e.g. I'm nowhere near being a history professor.
My son the hacker used to work in the medical device industry as a summer employee while he was a student. The code he wrote for a medical device user interface was to be submitted for a line-by-line code review by the FDA. He estimated that the product would actually come to market more than three years after the summer he worked on it. And maybe that is what you are encountering--the person at the company who built in the bugs you have discovered has moved on, and doesn't work at the company anymore, and the other employees there are trying to figure out how to debug that old code and fix the problem. (Similarly, my son groused about the code in the device he was working on, which was acquired by his company from another company that had originally developed the device.) Always comment your code. You never know how long after you wrote it someone else will have to fix it, especially if the code is embedded in a medical device.
In my case, there were so many things suggesting that we quit that I'm surprised we didn't sooner: http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down...
You have a very good page rank and alexa traffic numbers (yes, taken with a grain of salt) so you must be doing something right. Have you been around for awhile, or did you buy an existing, older domain?
Too bad I can't just star this on GitHub.
Small bug: if I type Tokyo, it autocorrects to "Shinjuku, Tokyo" which is itself a neighborhood in Tokyo. I would've expected Shinjuku to be one of the suggestions if I search "tokyo".

Also, I created a suggestion for Houston and under "Top Accommodations", the listings are all restaurants and massage parlors.
Okay... And what's your point?
Electronic transactions with traditional banking are generally reversible. If I hack into your bank account and transfer all the funds to my account, your bank can usually track the funds down and have them returned to you. Moreover, most bank accounts are linked to real-world identities in some way, so there's a high risk that I'll be caught and prosecuted for aforementioned hacking attempt.

Not so with Bitcoin.
Aaah, that's what you meant by unsafe. I thought you meant that using a native code call was technically unsafe. Thanks for the clarification. (and that actually sounds pretty awesome for game development, I'll have to look into it)
Hackers promise to break Tor on a $3,000 budget
I like the clean design and map view. I don't understand how you are determining the "best" places to stay. Is this just a list of hotels, or is some super secret algorithm coming up with this list based on a few important real-time factors? Either way, I'd make this clear in your copywriting, so I'm clear on the value I'm getting as I use your app.
Checked the site and watched the video.

First of all - when people visit a new site for the first time and see familiar stuff, instead of new and exciting stuff, they tend to leave before they even dig deeper on the site.

The design is fine, the layout is difficult - you should use rectangles of different sizes and backgrounds to make it easier for the visitor to focus on content that are more important, new or viral.

What is dangerous about the assumption that the most popular things are the most written about, are that you ignore new things that MIGHT get traction, what you'd need is a time-machine - list things before they get HOT HOT HOT! So that people who visit the site have a larger reason to do so.

And think about what kind of users you want, the middle-aged people that love lists? Or the lazy teenager who love trends but feel that lists are for shores.
> The crypto-equity platform is enabled through bitcoin 2.0 technology

Oh, please tell me this isn't going to start becoming a thing people say. Please. I can't bear the thought of another "Web 2.0" buzzword bubble.
I will take a very close look and help if I'm able to.
I think the idea is great - I actually had the same idea last summer and built www.curate.im which ended up getting absolutely nowhere (log in with username 'test' and pw 'test' if you wanna see inside).

In terms of your actual site, the focus seems to be less on the content itself and more on sharing/commenting on things, almost trying to force people to interact with the site. Not a huge fan of the content on there right now either - a lot of it is quite trivial Buzzfeed-esque. This isn't inherently 'bad', but it's just that there are plenty of sites where you can find that kind of content.
>1- will this takes us closer to a golang like way of working in parallel ( since that means no GIL) ?

I doubt it. The asyncio module was an attempt at this but the API isn't that great and it also isn't closely integrated with the language like goroutines are in Golang. This is still a great improvement though, as is PyPy in general. Basically, currently existing programs should run faster, and people will use the multiprocessing module less and the threading module more. It may change the way lower level parallel code is written, and library maintainers may be able to simplify some things.

>2- Why did dropbox / guido didn't join forces with pypy, since they already had proved that their approach was very efficient performance wise ? Is it because pypy doesn't deal with native C code at all, whereas the python LLVM approach they chose may let the two work better?

Probably a mix of "NIH" and also the belief that Dropbox has some of the best Python devs (and BDFLs) out there, so surely they can create the best solution. We'll see in the next few years if it plays out for them.

>3- does anyone else feel like the python world is a complete mess right now ?

Not that much. It's a big mess if you're trying to maintain a large open source project and need to keep retaining compatibility from 2.6 to 3.4+, but as a regular developer it's not too terrible. Personally I am still going to stick with 2.7 for personal projects for years to come, though.