skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't had a startup fail, but as a freelancer I've had some 'feast' times and some 'famine' times so I relate to feeling haunted by yourself over your decisions.

If you need somebody to talk to, please feel free drop me a line tomhodgins@gmail.com and at the very least I can listen and share in what you're going through.

In the meantime, here's a little perspective trick I learned, there's a phrase in English that we used when something happened that actually works on two layers: "it came to pass".

In 2014 it came to pass that verysadpanda's startup finally breathed it's last. It came to pass that verysadpanda's relationship faltered and came to a close. But it came....TO PASS. It won't always be this way, it's all temporary!

It also came to pass that verysadpanda felt sad, and before long totallyfinepanda came back out again.

Best of luck in the days and weeks ahead, but you're not nearly as alone as you feel :)
"A GPS transmitter" ... "Seize the GPS chip" an accurate description of technology is always nice
How to make beautiful data visualizations in Python with matplotlib
Haskell: https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM
See: "and a standard dependency manifest file that every go project adopts"

You need some way to create a complete dependency graph for a given project. If your project has a list of its immediate dependencies, but those dependencies in turn require specific versions of other packages, how do know what those versions are? You need some consistent way of getting this metadata.

There are a couple solutions, but a few that come to mind: each project stores their deps metadata in a consistent location in their repo, or there's some central package repo (a la RubyGems) where such metadata can be queried.

For any solution to work, all of your dependencies (both direct and indirect) need to opt in to the same metadata scheme, or the system falls apart. Unfortunately, there isn't any consensus in the Go community on how to fix this.

This is what the parent meant by "there isn't much you can do with git hashes."
I'm working on an X11 tiling window manager that behaves quite similarly to vim. It is my first C project, so I am learning a lot as I go.

I feel it has unique features that were missing from other WMs, such as vim's use of operators, modes and motions.

For example, you can kill 3 clients with a command similar to q3c.

Project is hosted over at github: https://github.com/HarveyHunt/howm/tree/develop
I disagree. The lower federal appellate courts, which hear appeals as of right, don't even hear oral arguments on cases that can be easily decided on the briefs. The Supreme Court rarely hears such cases: if a case was easy to decide on the briefs, the Circuit Court below would have clearly resolved it. Oral arguments are particularly valuable in cases like this one: where the law is clear, but the facts are ambiguous. Should Aereo be viewed like essentially a long antenna, or like essentially a cable service?
That is the tedious history nonsense we tell children. This is HN, we have better discussions, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Railway#Role_in_origins...
That's actually a rather common error for Finns. G and Q are almost exclusively used in loanwords and foreign proper names. What's more, some Finns pronounce the name for the letter Q as "guu". I've never figured out why.
I'm working on a coordinates storage service to be used for future mobile projects.

http://latitudr.org
An app for playing media on a Chromecast using AirPlay on an iOS device or Mac.

It's currently an Android app, which presents an odd set of hardware requirements; hoping Google releases a Cast SDK for Mac sometime soon.

First iteration is done and will be shipping soon.
They all make me wonder if money is too loose again. I look at all of them and ask: did they really need to get to such scale to learn that they had big issues?

I have the most sympathy for Foursquare, in that their previous incarnation got purchased and ignored by Google [1], so I can see why Foursquare's founders just decided to do the same thing over again. But it seems like they could have noticed these problems 2 or 3 years ago.

Quora and Path, though, have spent an awful lot of money in ways that make me wonder if they would have done better if they had a lot less cash in the bank, and thus more need to prove their hypotheses in the small.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball_(service)
I’m working on an online platform to store and share raw footage from action cameras like gopro / contour and others.

We’re working on things like GPS support, real slow-motion and generally designed to work better with raw footage.

https://boldkit.com/ and your feedback is welcome at andy@boldkit.com (use ASKHNKIT code to get extra space)
Building a free service that gets consumers small discounts or upgrades when they buy a new car.

http://NewCarDeal.net
they were fads. Variations/customizations in one way or another of a social networking. The social wave has passed and the crystallization in its wake has left only options significantly differentiated in parameter space from each other - FB, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp.
This played a big role in my decision to leave a tenured position several years ago to go work in web dev. The university's increasingly biz-dev-oriented emphasis on student evaluations and quantity of diplomas pushed through turned the whole thing into a consumer-oriented relationship where you're expected to just give 'em that paper they're paying for. Shouldn't be the purpose of higher education IMO.
Interesting how brightly Bakersfield and Fresno glow.

I wonder if it's because the streets are so gridded and therefore not as prone to aliasing.
"There is no portable way to check whether the parameter is a string constant"

Well, the compiler should warn you if you try to pass a (char const ＊) to a function expecting a (char ＊). Use -Wwrite-strings to make string literals have type (char const[]) rather than (char[]).
Haskell's :

- House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(operating_system)

- HOP (House parent) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/299 (topic recurse on jnode and others)
There is so much more to Foursquare than just checkins! It's such an amazing service; and not for what you may think. It's the best tool to find new, popular or places that I would like based of things I already like or do.

Not only is Foursquare's recommendation engine great; the lists are awesome. It's actually been sad to see them gradually make lists less visible. At least, they still have the TODO list which gives me an easy way to find a place I have been meaning to go. On the venue profile, they used to feature the lists that users made containing that venue. So what I would do is find a place I like and then I could easily find other places based on the list's it was a member of. It makes traveling so much more fun.

The whole social thing about Foursquare is it's weakest point. I don't know why they are emphasizing it so much. Firstly, only an extremely small subset of my friends are on Foursquare and secondly I have enough social networks.

Yes, because of Foursquare I ran into some friends in my neighborhood that I would not have otherwise. But really that's not nearly as cool as the random hotel costume party I found that was trending one night. Or the countless coffee shops, bars and restaurants I discovered while traveling.

So to me the strengths of Foursquare are:
* Recommendation engine.
* Lists ( TODO and Public Lists )
* International usage.
* chance social encounters with friends.
I am wondering if decision trees ever get used in game code. A quick search isn't exactly turning up an answer, though I did find a piece on decision trees on AI Horizon: http://www.aihorizon.com/essays/generalai/decision_trees.htm And there is also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_tree But I am thinking more like a game like SimCity, for example. And I am not really finding an answer.
Though I'd give it a go but Facebook login on iOS fails for me.
Absolutely. There are lots of us that live in areas with little if no content easily obtainable over-the-air, and our HOAs forbid larger antennas. I am sure NYC and SF get a much better selection of OTA channels.

I would love the opportunity to lease an antenna off-site. And not just from the US, but antennas around the world. I can do my own DVR recording and storage locally.

Break it up to where individuals can install your antenna and DVR software for it. And let them lease it to another individual. Imagine me in the US and a friend in Japan want to share. I put up an antenna for him, he puts one up for me. I get to watch Japanese TV, he gets to watch US TV. We now both have a great resource for language study. And it's 100% decentralized.
Here’s an example of what I mean by GPS support: https://boldkit.com/v/gidxXqcj

(the file is uploaded separately by the *gliders unless the camera has that capability)

And here’s an example of how a profile might look like: https://boldkit.com/serge-shakuto
I'm working on a new App that we're hoping to launch soon. I can't talk about what it does because our application to TC Disrupt SF is still pending. 2 man team. Our front end stack is jQuery Mobile integrated with Backbone.js, wrapped with Cordova (native ios/android App). Our back end is based on Django/Tastypie (API/JSON) hosted on Heroku (probably move to AWS before launch). So far the App has near native speed; I spent a lot of time optimizing performance (both on the front end, and also relating to the API call payloads). I think we've nailed the UX, feedback has been good.
> Those things all infer guilt, but don't directly prove it.

Which is why they're all so untrustworthy. Take your example: If what actually happened is that you were sitting next to your friend having a beer when a madman came in and shot your friend, and then you wrestled the gun away from the madman and barely escaped with your life, you would get all that same "evidence."
I don't think gut feeling is accurate. There is a popular saying that marketing is about applying a great deal of common sense. I think that's a bit more accurate description.

In any case, there's plenty of exact science in marketing dealing with statistical modeling. Then you have pricing, which is arguably the biggest part of marketing (a lot of people don't realize how much thinking goes into a pricing strategy). Then you have communication in all of its marketing forms, and lastly you have the product creation, which in itself is part of the marketing.

I view it like operating a jet. I have access to lots of buttons, switches and dials, and I know the science that takes care of what's beneath them. But in the end, I'm only interested in what happens as a result of using them.
There's a surprising amount of atmosphere up where we would consider it to be at orbital heights. People think of the atmosphere as suddenly ending, but it doesn't.

For example, one of the major considerations for how the ISS orients its solar panels is minimizing drag.

And that's what an electrical generator does. It produces an electric potential difference between its two terminals.
I have been doing this too! I actually just bought a new PC so that I can do hobbyist game development. Always wanted to learn game development (I'm a web developer mainly) but never got around to doing it. With the new subscription service and all, I decided to pick UE4 up to tinker around and create random things, regardless of whether or not I release a commercial game. It's amazing. :)
For a highly provacative and informative lesser-known history of WWI, see Robert Newman's History of Oil.

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=GIpm_8v80hw

The book (and PBS/BBC series) The Prize also includes some highly interesting aspects on both WWI and WWII and the role of oil in combat. Though the concerns over the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad Newman highlights aren't discussed.

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=ioazMpe1SHE (around 41m46s)
I'm working on a new productivity app for startup entrepreneurs who are feeling unfocused and overwhelmed. It schedules your work in your calendar, keeps it up to date and gives you helpful notifications so you stay on track with your most important work. http://focuster.com
The whole social thing about Foursquare is it's weakest point. I don't know why they are emphasizing it so much. Firstly, only an extremely small subset of my friends are on Foursquare and secondly I have enough social networks.

No it's not. For most people (on whose crowd-sourced data they live on) main motivation to checking in somewhere is pure narcissism and showing off. Nothing more.
originally wrote the app with Django backend and Angular frontend. Currently re-writing using Meteor.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll fix the bug shortly.
If the universities are smart and look at the MOOC's not as a competitor but as a partner, then higher-ed can improve. I'm a college student now and one of our school's math classes experimented with flipped teaching. I think the emergence of MOOC's is what largely caused this my school's faculty to seriously consider the meter of online learning, to the point where they were willing to A/B test a required differential equations class. While the first results from MOOC's haven't been what people expected,
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/from-a-million-mooc-u...
At least, like one of the comments above said, they're making the established higher ed organizations rethink their practices.
A fansite built for the game Smite. We offer 3D models, counterpicks and general God information.

We average around 35,000 monthly uniques and are in the process of a complete overhaul and searching for ideas to monatize other than ads. Any ideas?

Current LIVE version:

http://smitecamp.com/gods/51-ullr-guides-counterpicks-and-3d...

Overhaul in progress:

http://smitecamp.herokuapp.com/gods/51-ullr-guides-counterpi...
NASA Tests LDSD 'Flying Saucer'
> I'm still baffled at how everyone considers these startups to be "underachieving"

Explaining that was the entire point of the article. Given that startups by definition need fast growth ('definition' being pg's definition, as explained in the article) and given that the growth of these startups has slowed dramatically, these startups are underachieving.

Maybe 'underperforming' would be a better word to use, since we're all familiar with that term as it relates to companies large and small.
http://guildbit.com/ - Free, temporary, 10-slot Mumble servers for the gaming community.

I built this so gamers can easily deploy Mumble servers without having to subscribe to a service or install their own server.

I've been working on this for the past 6 months or so and recently added purchased upgrades via Bitcoin (Stripe soon).
DOTA 2 2014 International prize pool: $10m and rising
I don't think this should be downvoted. When you look at, for example, the Sonny Bono act, aka the Mickey Mouse Protection Act[1], it's obvious this is a significant Hollywood approach. Or consider this 1982 quote from the MPAA's head: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti#Valenti_on_new_tec...
> http://bootstrapcarnival.com/search?q= shows empty :)

Ah. Thanks for pointing it out. Will fix it.

> is there a way to search for free themes?

I've added a few free templates and I'll be adding more soon. The only problem is that free templates are all over the place. I need to manually sort through them to find the right demo/download links and to avoid duplication. I'll add a specific tab for free themes once there are around 10 free themes.
So, if they don't become the next Facebook or Twitter, what are they to become? I don't think any one mentioned company is currently profitable, they might not even have any revenue.

If they are not going to have that explosive growth, they are no different from your neighborhood car shop. But that one will still be around next year since it is actually running a profitable business.
After fighting and fighting with the asset pipeline I finally realized I could just use gulp to build to my public folder and completely avoid fucking with it. It was an amazing moment of clarity for me.
Not-So-Social Media: Why People Have Stopped Talking On Phones
I don't know that the social wave has passed, but it does seem like single-serving social apps are on the way out unless they have a difficult-to-replicate twist to them (like Secret or whisper).
"What's more, some Finns pronounce the name for the letter Q as "guu"."

That's how we Finns pronounce it in the Finnish alphabet. From there it easily slips into other languages that we speak. So it is like Finnish-English accent thing.
You should put a picture of different trucks on your home page to drive to point "further" home. Excellent idea.
Where do you complain, though? Do you write a stern letter to the editor?
I find hilarious the widespread belief that everyone is expected to spend their first 22 or so years learning full time only to pivot completely away from education once they begin their career.

I've spent the overwhelming majority of my life as a student. I'm certainly not going to let that change just because I'm earning income now.
I'm working on https://studentloanhero.com It's a tool to manage student loans with ease.
$324 million divided among 64,000 people is only about $5000. Once "legal overhead" has taken place I wouldn't be surprised if that number was more like $2000.

I think the judge has some grounds for questioning the lowness of that number. On the other hand, I agree that convincing a jury of laypeople that all 64,000 workers have suffered more than that in depressed wages might be difficult.
Each pixel represents quite a lot of area so aliasing probably isn't coming into it.

Bakersfield has a bunch of buildings (which lines up with the theory in my other post in this thread). It looks like imported land parcels make up a lot of the data in the Fresno blob:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/36.7805/-119.9009&layer...

(Probably a good idea to turn off the data layer there before zooming out)
As always, hammering away on new ideas for Pycoder's Weekly (http://pycoders.com), a fairly popular Python newsletter.

Also doing some work on a basketball news site, HoopsMachine(http://hoopsmachine.com), which currently isn't much more then a pretty awful looking up to date feed of Basketball news (with accompanying RSS feed). Keep an eye out though, lots of stuff to come there soon.
How to setup a DB-backed screenshot sharing website with your own domain on S3
> There is so much more to Foursquare than just checkins!

I argue with friends all the time about how Foursquare is a better tool for finding and rating establishments than Yelp. The simple like it/dislike it makes it a much easier way to rate, not to mention they don't allow for long winded rants much like you see on Yelp. I too also use the Lists feature a lot, especially when I know I'm going to be traveling to a new area.

Perhaps the bloggers constant referral to Foursquare as a check-in service is what has kept it from "growing", though they didn't help themselves either by trying to not highlight the other features more.
I had that problem with webstorm. You can tweak the gc settings.
Modula-3: SPIN operating system from University of Washington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_(operating_system) . This one is another example of security-through-safe-languages-in-kernel-space.
I actually agree with you in the "Don't Dodge" part. He could have saved everyone time and effort by just saying, "No. The particular configuration of equipment at Aero exists solely so that they abide by the law, and, in fact, they do abide by the law, obeying all relevant statutes regarding transmission."

There was no need to start with a "Well" when it was abundantly clear that Aero is basically a very clever hack on the legal system, which, unfortunately, ran into some justices who don't care so much for the letter of the law, as they do the spirt of the law.
This is a great problem to attempt to solve, for a few reasons. First, there's heaps of audio content out there with friendly licensing already. Second, there's huge amounts of metadata and related text available. Third, there's so many different angles of analysis to tie things together with. Fourth, everyone's got at least a few devices that can access some or all of that content.

I share your belief that someone can do better than the current offerings in this area.

However, right now your site is not giving me a lot of useful response. I am seeing no results for some pretty popular instruments (I searched 'hang' and 'sitar' and neither had any results). I am seeing very little of a lot of genres out there. And when I do get results, they are not presented in an easily reviewed manner (eg. with Google-style text snippets, many results visible per page in an uncluttered, single-direction-scannable results list).

Here's some random ideas:
- consider search by artist, individual within an artist group, instrument, instrument genre, time, event, venue, genre, review text, reviewer rating or location or age or something
- consider limit by 'has upcoming events near me' (good monetization path)
- timeline of genres
- timeline of releases by an artist
- links to wikipedia background
- metadata from same (+wikidata, etc.)

Good luck developing this further, I think there's a lot of great work to be done.
It would be interesting to see this map adjusted to population density.
Thanks. Glad that you like it.

> Creative Market is by far my favorite because of their license terms

Yes, I love how easy it is to set up a shop with Creative Market. I hate the exclusive product/author terms in ThemeForest and WrapBootstrap.

You can search for "Creative Market" to find themes from that marketplace.
Please add me to your mailing list, I'm interested in using this. All of the "Seinfeld-todo's" on the play store or app store look HORRIBLE and work just barely.

Someone should build something that works but also looks and feels nice.
Voodoo.js - a Javascript library to integrate 3d controls seamlessly into 2d pages, and be able to mix them with other peoples 3d controls. You get a nifty parallax effect, too. Its all open source, and IMO the best option if you want non-intrusive 3d elements in your design.

Specifically, I'm working on a components library for Voodoo that works with Polymer. Meshes, 3d text, etc. It'll have 2d fallback support on slower devices. Long term, I'd love to grow a marketplace for controls like we have with Wordpress themes today.

Check it out! And let me know what you think.

http://www.voodoojs.com
Royalty-free music site specifically for YouTube + independent musicians. Two months old, 3200 users, 181 tracks and ~350 videos (YouTube search count is fuzzy)

Site: http://www.sovndwave.com

Screenshot of my dashboard for fun: http://i.imgur.com/icmw74u.png

To use a track you must include an attribution that includes a unique URL. That's what the "clicks" on that page refer to.
Drop me a line at bharani[at]bootstrapcarnival.com with your feedback once your review it. Would love to hear your thoughts.
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This could be huge. I've tried using Skype and Viber when talking to people in different countries and they are absolutely terrible in terms of audio quality.
You have a law firm, right? You can use your lawyer's address. Or give them Regus. Regus addresses are semi-permanent, not a PO box. A bank should accept that.