skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this is pretty naive of me, but I'll ask in the hopes of learning something:

Why does a VC care about sustainability or the company getting disrupted? Wouldn't they just want to grow fast and big enough to get a return and move on?
What is HMAT?
Perl as a career option
LibreOffice 4.3 upgrades spreadsheets, brings 3D models to presentations
My WordPress blogs have hit the HN front page a coupla times.

I got about 6000 hits in an hour the first time and 10,000 the second time.

WP-SuperCache coped admirably in both cases. The mod_rewrite caching was enough to cope with HN. (I sent the developer, Donncha O Caoimh, £10 with gratitude!)

But what really made the server cry: being on HN led directly to being on Reddit, where the second popular post got 80,000 hits in a day. In this case I had to put WP SuperCache into direct-cache mode. Then it was fine.
Sorry, added email to my profile. :)
Location and Local Identity
Anything where you just need a laptop & internet should work. Indie software development is one option. Back when shareware was the big thing there were a few nomads, Trygve Inda springs to mind and got a mention in a CNN article:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...

Some folks do it with blogging (lots of bloggers do it funded by ads & e-book sales), mobile app development, web design & admin, content development, even some online consulting (bonus points if you're prepared to fly to meet clients).

If you're lucky you can even talk your employer into it. There are some enlightened ones who allow remote work. But being a 100% Digital Nomad is probably too extreme for an employment situation.
most street corners in sofia have a slice for ~ 1$ (1.2lv up to 2 lv) i've heard friends recommend the pizza around NDK & Vitosha buss stop but i haven't tried it personally
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I can honestly say it's not only impacted the way I think about habits, but it's impacted my actual habits as well, and for the better I might add! Leisure read turned life hack textbook :)
Awesome project! I've passed by many of the cities mentioned in Asia and I have to agree with most of what is up on top of the list. Specially Chiang Mai. I spent a 2 weeks up there and enjoyed it a lot. Met a lot of great people as well.
I link to this version of the story because of this:

> "We think there is a very strong argument that, in the new regulation, search engines should not be classed as data controllers, and therefore not liable as 'owners' of the information they are linking to. We also do not believe that individuals should have a right to have links to accurate and lawfully available information about them removed, simply because they do not like what is said."

The first sentence is a perverse interpretation of current UK law.

Actual full title is "House of Lords criticises right-to-be-forgotten laws as 'unworkable and wrong in principle'"

See also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10998382/Right-to...

and http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/30/lords-righ...

None of these articles mention the fact that Google refused to give evidence to the upper house of English legislature in public, and would only give evidence if they could do so in private.
My theory is that no data on snapchat's servers has been deleted. Once they hit 100 million users they will have a shyamalan-esque reveal where all their users' photos will be posted publicly on a website for all the world to see except for the users who pay $9.99 per month FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES (insert dramatic gasps here) to keep their photos from being revealed.

Aside from such a scheme, I just don't see the valuation as warranted. I could stomach a billion and maybe two, but this is just selling to the greater fool at this point.
I don't use Docker for anything that stores state.

I store it in a separate pool of servers that are solely for database nodes. At which point, I'm back to the "Service Discovery does not require a Docker-aware design."

I think the issue here is I'm used to different assumptions than other people. I virtualize application/service containers. I don't virtualize the datastores but run those on bare metal whenever possible.

So it goes LB -> pool of docker containers -> Database Cluster(s). The database cluster(s) are known in advance and are restored to the same DNS location when they are revived/moved/transferred. [e.g. I have a cluster of 5 DB servers, they are always something like galera1-servicegroup through galera5-servicegroup, or whatever]
Except dentists don't actually care about any of that, just on how well it actually works.
Hash array mapped trie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie
I don't know if I'm the first one to say this, but I have discovered that Sebastapol, CA, which is an 1.5 hours north of San Francisco, has fiber internet, and a significantly lower cost of living. Its also in a fairly beautiful and wooded part of Northern CA. O' Reilly Associates is based there.

I'm surprised it isn't more jam packed with start ups.

Oh yeah ... there is nothing to do there. So you will have to just admire nature and work. And then commute to SF for your meetings.

If this explodes in popularity, I hope someone will credit me for leaking the secret.
I work for a company that was in the same class as ZeroVM. I'm not a founder but I was around for the second half of the 2013 program.

Of course Rackspace was involved but Cloud isn't a "powered-by" program like those with Sprint or Nike. Other than ZeroVM, I don't think Rackspace was seriously involved with any of the other companies in the class.

In my experience, Rackspace was pretty hands-off, both with Techstars and Geekdom in general. I think you're trying to insinuate something negative about their involvement when it was only (IMO) positive.
It would help if I could spell. Fixed the typo and:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie
Wikimedia Foundation now accepts Bitcoin
Also if you're interested in seeing more pictures of the device and some active public shares currently live visit https://plus.google.com/+Stowaware_public
Your takeaway from a failed hardware project is that authors should sucker a ton of people out of money using crowd funding in order to not be in debt when project inevitably fails?

Brilliant! You want a thermal camera with that (muoptics)? or maybe a smart watch (ostro)? or a magic nano ultra capacitor AA batteries?

Main problem was economies of scale, no experience with manufacturing, NIH syndrome, and no market.

1 NOBODY wants a tablet with 2 year old specs.

2 almost nobody wants a KDE/gnome/firefox tablet.

There was nothing stopping them from simply ordering 1000 (pretty standard moq for crazy low prices in $30-50 range) already shipping tablets, and porting their code over.
That link didn't get me to the full text of the article, but searching for the headline on Google gets me through.
Per 100,000 what? People who cycle? People in general? Patients with head injuries?
I don't understand this whole immutable thing... Why not just avoid changing the data once created? Why do you need a library?
This was a great reference when I started learning JavaScript. It just didn't go over the language, but also gave a great history of programming in general and why JavaScript is structured how it is. A lot has changed in JS land since the first version came out so I look forward to have the author tackles it/
Ocrad is not very powerful, it uses hand-written recognisers (one per character) to identify the shapes of the characters. Compare this with more modern libraries such as Tesseract which use neural networks and OCRopus which adds language modelling.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Pretty basic - looking for a good read though and my reading list is running dry. Manning is releasing some good stuff on reactive development that I'd recommend - the Reactive Design Patterns material that is available is super good.
http://docs.zerovm.org/clitools.html#zvsh-and-zvapp The link to the docs are broken for zvsh and zvapp
I can already see the craigslist "entrepreneur" billion dollar ideas...

"It's like snapchat, but for dogs!"

Of course as the "coder" you will only get 1% equity.
> but an entity with global network insight will always be able to correlate users by the timing of their transmissions alone.

For what it's worth, this type of adversary is explicitly excluded in Tor's threat model[0].

[0] https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...
Re-reading what I consider to be the best book on Stoic philosophy - Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
There are several of these image classifiers now that someone should run an accuracy/speed/price comparison between

AlchemyAPI: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemyvision/

UToronto

Rekognition: http://rekognition.com/demo/concept

Clarifai: http://www.clarifai.com/

I'm doing it myself, but I have a conflict of interest
Yes Thailand is, supposedly, cracking down on visa runs from August 12th. Although there have been threats like this before, and its soon dissipated. So we will have to wait and see.

This however has nothing to do with whether or not you show up at co-working spaces! We're not dealing with the secret service here, they're not tracking your every movement.
Show HN: Only Follow the Top 1% of Show HNs and ProductHunts
I was in the first class.

I'm not trying to insinuate anything negative. I just think TechStars Cloud might as well have been a "powered-by" program by another name.
Halt and Catch Fire is doing a bang up job of reflecting the technology and even the market of the time. Really refreshing to see.
That post was mocking Facebook's valuation at the time. Now we know how wrong they were.
Paywall? I'm out.
Great point that makes a big difference to people looking to work with US states. I can only imagine trying to find good internet at 2am for an issue if it's business hours in the US.
If computers only had a brain: Software mimics human brain function
Google asks judge to keep Gmail privacy case docs secret
I am not able to add a city - I can open the spreadsheet but it's not editable.
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela!
Show HN: Find a Reporter
That's cool. How about putting it on your site, even if it means making an 'About Us' page (although it'd probably be better integrated into the landing page)? Pointing people to your domain at this point doesn't help them unless they already know what it is... make people WANT to join your site, even if they can't yet.

Hope it works out, sounds like it's a better deal for sellers (which often makes buyers happier in the long run).
Not to toot these kids horns and all but they have worked for draft and Weiden + kennedy. I think your pure design analysis of this has missed the mark as in their approach has a much more story driven purpose, creating a look and feel. To leave this out of your analysis or crit, is as though you are only judging half the equation. Purpose and design go hand in hand, And while I agree with the type comment I think that the work itself can illicit an emotional response of pride and accomplishment that the post office can champion. I mean they seem to be using patriotism and while that can be bad in some cases for the post office, which is a government body this would be a perfect place to use it.

*edit for spelling
Fair enough. I was attempting to make the point that they can post an $800 million loss and not sweat it. ;)
Per 100,000 what? Per 100,000 people in the general population? Per 100,000 un-helmeted cyclists? Per 100,000 cyclists in general?
Cannot edit with any Mac browser here - not in Safari, nor Chrome, nor Firefox.
Wikimedia Foundation Partners with Coinbase to Accept Bitcoin for Donations
The Passionate Programmer.

I read it in college, and now that I'm reading it again with a full time job, it's amazing how much better it reads.
Wandbox - the programming language sandbox
"How? Where is the mutual consideration? WTFPL looks like a gratuitous license, rather than a contract."

So if i understand your argument, because you are required to do nothing under the license, it is not a contract for lack of consideration?

If so, this is an interesting argument.

Let me turn it around then: Why, in your view, do most public domain dedications then include disclaimers of warranty (including CC-0), if they are pointless?

As for the second,
A. A vast number open source projects are sponsored or sold by merchants in the class of goods to which it belongs (consultants, companies people selling things on app stores, etc)
B. You can sell something for zero dollars.
C. For fitness, I specifically mentioned representations often made on mailing lists (IE as to whether the software would work for a given person)

The gratuitous license argument is interesting (though from what I can tell, legal minds greater than mind still feel the urge to disclaim warranties in that case), but the contract/sale one is just completely uninteresting to me, given the lengths courts have gone in the past.
how about mathematical universe
I disagree. The writing is excellent: pragmatic and insightful at the same time. In fact, your quote is a great example of its high quality. I don't need, nor do I like, the heavy handed style of some authors. Eloquent JS is eloquent both in its writing, and in the fact that it elevates javascript.
I kept giggling at its poor recognition. It's comically bad, but I think it's a step in the right direction. It was very fast at incorrectly identifying letters. If only it were very fast and mostly correct.
The Joy of Clojure. I highly recommend it.
On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
I can confirm that this guy does exist in most countries. I know a few dentists-turned-programmers in the USA and India who have been making and selling dental software since the 90's.

Instead of dogfooding it themselves, these dentists should hire professional software developers to build custom software and tell them what features to build based on their knowledge and experience. Then again, everyone is a critic.
But we aren't seeing anywhere near the same number of tech IPOs today as we were in 1998-2000. As I understand it, the "bubble" came from companies too easily selling their shares to ignorant, every day consumers who assumed "internet" meant the company would be huge. The only people investing in the companies you think are overvalued are VC firms with huge amounts of capital.

Now, are these VCs providing the same amount of capital that the IPOs of 1998-2000 were? Hopefully someone with more insight can comment on this, but intuitively it seems to me that the burst couldn't possibly be as bad, since there's just less easily available money to suddenly dry up.
Movement and the Brain
My Venice and Other Essays by Donna Leon
Because a data structure is useless if you can't change it. You do want to 'change' the data. Immutable structures let you take a data structure and 'modify' it, getting another structure. Anything with a pointer to the first one has a guarantee that it won't ever change.

With C-style language structures immutable structures wouldn't be much use. With Clojure, for example, immutability is one of a few mutually complementary features of the language in which it makes perfect sense.

Immutability doesn't just mean 'doesn't change'.
360° Video using 6 GoPro Cameras
I remember that there were multiple userbase attempts to lobby Wikimedia for this in the past. Looks like Coinbase's recent partnering successes have made the difference, in this case at least.
I agree with @lucozade.

This resume does not stick out at all. It needs more smak and pow.
C# – Generic for merging related data from different databases
That's quite a good revenue. Is it only from app sales ?

I've checked on App Annie ans your app seems to be around 500 (grossing) in health & fitness in the US. I find it a bit surprising that there are 500 apps in health alone making >2k month.
Why does Linux always have to be associated with "cheap"?

There is no market for Linux devices because everyone wants them to be "cheap". I would like a high end tablet that runs Linux myself...
It seems like Facebook had a relatively clear path with already having the news feed. Keeping users on a single page absorbing information with ads intermingled unobtrusively, but with Snapchat I'm in any of three views for just a few moments before I close the app again; all that to say, I just don't think it's a very good comparison.
Why one New Jersey school district killed its student laptop program
Some companies value the support you may need over initial cost.
"Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis

It's about High Frequency Trading (algorithmic trading) and how the market reacted; and what a few individuals did to solve the problem. It's a seriously addicting book.
I just finished Zero to One.

It's the most thought provoking book I've ever read on entrepreneurship and some of Peter Theil's stories are jaw-dropping. It's the first book that has had me thinking I'm actually a pretty conventional thinker and not nearly ambitious enough.
Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
The Rails 4 Way, Obie Fernandez
I asked a similar question a while ago and got a lot of great answers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609584
Unless you get out of your way to irritate someone with immigration connections, I would say the risk is pretty close to zero.

It's much easier to crack down on people doing perpetual visa runs or companies hiring large numbers of Cambodians than it would be to monitor what exactly foreigners are doing in co-working spaces.
I like the idea of the Nomad Guides, though I don't know what kind of value I would place on one. Perhaps, an alternative way to monetize would be if you worked out agreements in advance to sell Nomad Packages that covered all the basics for limited stays, which would minimize set up times and make arrival and departure painless.

It would be nice if the current site included a better description of the NomadCost and maybe even an overview of what you mean by the digital nomad lifestyle. It turns out that it is something I have been looking into for a year or so, but I did not realize it was a formal concept.
but ads are so hot right now!

http://imgur.com/gallery/qV1BzKb
I am about to give up on Android. I have an Android phone. Once the new Phoenux (GTA04) brings pure Linux back to a mobile phone, I will ditch that as well. I have an old Android tablet, and I just never got into it. And I love Linux variants and playing.

It is just too much cruft on top of what I care about. So if Vivaldi will not come to be, and the alternatives are so so (I did see that project to make a RPi into a tablet with a custom shell; very cool), I am definitely going to pony up the money for a tablet laptop with a touch screen and just spend a little more and save myself the hassle.

I have seen decent reviews of the Yoga 11s. I think I am going to splurge on that. Honestly, it is not much more epxensive than a high end of the line Android tablet, but with no one of the flexibility I waste my time on Linux for so.

So yeah. If someone makes Vivaldi I would be super happy. But I have come to see the truly open tablet as the year of the Linux desktop, in terms of them being pipe dreams, and I would rather focus on things I can use instead of praying for hostile industry players to begrudgingly give me and then make me do a song and dance to get back to root for.
> There is a big difference between the loss of 3000 people due to a deliberate attack on your country and the loss of 300,000 people due to heart attacks.

This is very true. We've spent over a trillion dollars combatting terrorism with little progress (and more American lives lost than in 9/11, let alone Iraqi/Afghan lives). Spending that trillion on heart attack prevention and treatment would've been far more effective at saving lives.
1 Year in the App Store – when “Move Fast and Break Things” doesn't work
I know their prices are average, or slightly more expensive, however, it's convenient. For example, say I need a pair of sunglasses, a fan for my computer, a new frying pan, and SD card for my camera. I go to Amazon, find the products I need, and place a single order.

That's much easier than trying to locate these items on a handful of different websites, signing up for new accounts and payment systems. It's also easier than going shopping downtown, finding a few items, but not the others, which means I need to place an order online either way. And if I need to place an order online, I might as well get everything on Amazon, so I qualify for free shipping.
I would like to hear some experience in building drones with higher (~30 min) flight times.
The datasets are interesting, but the UI is somewhat lacking IMHO especially compared to Google Earth Engine. In fact would this project be better off collaborating with the Google Earth Engine team and supplying the data to Google and let them deal with the UI and rendering of the data?
The APIs only have a single interface, and that is HTTP. All the examples are just different ways of making an HTTP request, whether through the curl command or a full-blown language. Hitting this API has only one requirement: something capable of making HTTP requests.

Running the script directly requires a correctly-configured environment for each scripting language you want to support on each device. If a script has additional dependencies or libraries, those must also be installed locally if you want to run the script locally. By putting the script behind an HTTP API, it just needs to be correctly configured once on a single device (the API server), and then the requirement for using the script on all other devices is just plain old HTTP.

Suppose you have five different scripts each written in a different language (because languages have their own strengths and weaknesses). And suppose you need to run all of these scripts on three completely different devices (say, a phone, a laptop, and an Arduino). If you want to run the scripts directly on each device, then you need to set up 5*3=15 runtime environments and make sure they all function correctly (and don't break with updates). To save effort, it might make sense to put these scripts behind an HTTP API, and then just use simple HTTP requests from each device to access all scripts in a uniform manner. Note that in reality, you'll probably want to be targeting much more than three devices, so the savings can stack up quickly.
Not good enough. When the time comes that you do need to add something, then what? Clone it? In languages that allow you to freeze a collection, adding something to a frozen collection is often a O(n) operation. Most of the collections in this library provide operations that grow collections in (almost) constant time.
Where did you get a copy? Amazon says it isn't out until September?
You'd be surprised how trusting people are, I'm explicit that nothing of great personal value or import should ever be stored unencrypted on these since at the end of the day I hold the keys to the proverbial castle. Quite a few of my customers are people I know from BBSs I used to and still do frequent. One even hosts a few BBS servers.

On the whole, I could probably net in the 11-15K range per month if I expanded but that requires a lot more work and I'm not sure the money justifies it. At the moment its a (usually) enjoyable hobby that helps me keep current in sysadm-land and make some money at the same time
Kiderwind – open source high altitude wind power project