skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait what? Where did we reference it I didn't even notice it :P
StrongLoop and Express
Ask HN: Should I sign a photo release form for a Hack-a-thon?
Is it common for a "Hack-a-thon" to ask you to sign photo release form, giving them permission to photograph you and do whatever they want with the photos?
Trying Out a New iOS Monetization Strategy, First 2 Months Stats
No, because he specifically said he was opting out because of the paywall, not because it was the WSJ.
Sorry, but the advice in this thread to just get going without even learning about little things like taxes and record-keeping and incorporation is crazy.

Sure, on average a start-up will fail. However, if either it does work out or it fails because you screwed up and someone came after you, and you didn't get a few basics in place up-front, then you are up the creek without a paddle and may not be able to salvage the situation after the fact.

It will probably take no more than a quick chat with an accountant to figure out the minimum you need to do to comply with your local tax laws and whether it's worth setting up some sort of company at this stage. The total spend required to do that in my country, including both the accountant's advice and the legal fees to register a new company and get the proper documents created, is less than a day's salary. This does vary significantly by country, but again a local expert can advise you because they do this all the time.

Likewise, if you're potentially bringing in thousands of bucks per year, spending a couple of hundred to get a real lawyer to look over your terms and answer any general questions about licensing things you really need to know right now is probably money well spent.

None of this is to say that you won't decide to just set up a site and start charging anyway, assuming you can find a payment service available in your location that will let you take payments as a private individual of course. Maybe that really is the right path for you at this stage (though at least if you were in the same position in my country, IMHO that would be unlikely).

But seriously, any accountant and lawyer used to working with small businesses will understand the situation you're in and be able to give you some basic advice about what you really do and don't need to worry about right now, and it will cost you a few hours and a day or two of salary, and even if things don't work out this time you'll still have the useful background knowledge if you decide to do anything else commercial later.

You should concentrate on making what you make and marketing it so you have a business that is worth having in the first place, but part of running a business professionally is knowing how to deal with the administration and keep the overheads in proportion, and it's much easier to do that if you just get something basic but sufficient set up from the start.
It's a footnote to the larger thing, but it mentions "compression and crypto co-processors". I'm familiar with hardware crypto acceleration, but I'm sort of curious about the compression part--is it gzip or one of the fast algos like Snappy/LZO/LZ4 or something proprietary? How fast?

Besides compressing network traffic, hardware compression could be interesting for applications like zram--somewhat expands what you can store in RAM with (perhaps surprisingly?) less random page-read latency than even an SSD.
DevOps’ weakness and what it does best
Booking.com is a big place where newbies will be sitting with lots of experienced people they can ask and discuss with over lunch/coffee.

I doubt that smaller places will see so fast ramp up that they don't bother to hire people that know the language environment. The language in itself is quite irrelevant, but building a taste and learning the standard libs (here -- CPAN) takes time. That goes for every environment.

Edit: It would be interesting to hear the experience on this at other big shops? Maybe material for an academic article, someone?

Edit 2: I might add -- the differences between the scripting languages seems a bit overblown in the article. The languages (Perl, Ruby et al) aren't that different. Here I argued about the environment and standard libraries, which takes many, many hours for at least Python and Perl. And for taste -- to not have anonymous functions in Python needs changes in how you code. And so on.
"Corporations no longer are loyal to employees". I very much agree with this. Which is why I have no loyalty to any company I've worked for.
Bringing Collaboration, Orchestration and Lifecycle Management to Docker
It's not so much the Swift, which I've been learning just from an application development perspective. It's that your comp sci kung fu is obviously much stronger than mine, and coupled with the fact that you're even at the point that you're dealing with Swift compiler bugs added to my fear.

The article is certainly well-written, though.
Probably tweet about it, and hope that it happens in SF.

Watching Valleywag or TechCrunch scamper to provide coverage would be delightful.

"VCs suddenly interested in funding medical care"

"Marc Andresson calls out for single-payer healthcare"

"ebo.la: disrupting filoviruses"
Watch Doom being played on a hacked ATM
I believe they were told to hand over the SSL private key. I'm not sure everyone using the Lavabit service was a criminal... So, my thought is that probable cause for handing over the master key to the hotel should be a bit more than probable cause to hand over the room key...
I've been watching it and racking my brain trying to figure out what company it is based on. As it turns out it is completely fictional. It could be tighter - the scene of the guy singing in his car went on FOREVER and did not move the story one. inch. And the sex scenes are kind of like, oh, well we need to fill out the hour . . .
So terrorism is worse because we overreact, therefore we should overreact by considering terrorism to be worse?
The Tidy and Effective Nature of a Wood Fence With Wire Mesh
Any deal details?
sure, sure. remember the context is "not a lottery".

first, blow up the top-grossing date range to "all time".

if you look at the trending data for 2048, it's in freefall. they're down and off the bottom of the charts now for us:overall and us:games. a non-craftsmanship game that's a lottery winner can't pull out of this spiral because the game isn't deep enough to re-engage their audience.

if you look at the trending data for threes, you'll see even with their latest price bump, they still haven't fallen off the us:overall charts. even then, they have levers like "more content" and "price drops" and "in-game events" where they can get bumps to put them back up in the, say top 400 in us:overall two weeks ago. quality game, earning their revenue.

not to mention threes still hasn't fallen out of the top 100 for us:puzzle where 2048 hasn't seen that since april.

because, note: "downloads" are neat. "registered users" are neat. but those are vanity metrics. "can you earn enough money to sustain your business" is the most important metric to an indie game developer. can you keep doing what you love and stave off working for someone else yet another day?
> The government seeks to sidestep these rules, asserting that emails you store in the cloud cease to belong exclusively to you. In court filings, it argues that your emails become the business records of a cloud provider.

So, how long until Dropbox contents are just a matter of business records?
I would be curious to see a similar list, but for Atom
Thanks. One of the reasons I posted this here was to find out such a rebuttal. The article smelt like BS but I didn't know enough to call it out.
If I understand you correctly, you currently have very little capital to protect.

On the contrary. If the OP goes into business without any sort of company as a legal shield and anything goes wrong resulting in legal action against them, then typically everything they personally own may be at risk: house, car, savings for the kids when they go to university, the lot.
Are you talking about it like the Kickstrter device "Reading Rainbow" does ?

I'm not quite sure as to what you meant, because I want to make software, and truth be told, I don't know anything about hardware...
> What you're missing is that, from the author's point of view, ebooks are not interchangeable.

> we're suppliers of bespoke one-of-a-kind products

People who make specialty designer products all think this way, it isn't just authors. I'm well aware of the mindset, I just don't subscribe to it. Many software products are as unique as two different ebooks, however, they meet the same general need/desire for products of that category and are ultimately interchangeable under the right market conditions.

> Amazon's proposed $9.99 guillotine on pricing would basically impose a 30% cut in my income if sales volume of my titles remains static. And I haven't seen any evidence that the price elasticity of demand for novels by Charles Stross will respond to crude pricing signals the way that aggregate demands for all books will do across the board.

The number of authors I don't buy on price is a very, very small list compared to the majority of my ebook purchases. FWIW, I've never bought any of your books precisely for this reason.

So, if you accept Amazon's premise that aggregate demand for all ebooks will increase, that leads to the basic question of:

Why should I specifically value the net outcome for Charles Stross over any other author that benefits from the increase in demand?
If it helps to add clarity to what this is about, Xen still requires a host (dom0) operating system, usually Linux but also NetBSD and OpenSolaris. Mirage OS (the basis for building your own unikernel) allows building applications as domU kernels. This is advantageous because it minimizes context-switching and allows all of the code in a Xen VM (domU) to be written in a safer language than C.

So the dom0 OS (Linux) still determines which devices are exposed to the Unikernel. The Unikernel implementation is simple relative to a full "bare metal" OS because it only needs to support the Xen interfaces to block devices, the network, etc., and does not have to deal with disk drives, ethernet controllers, etc.

If you are running your own hardware, you're probably better off using something like FreeBSD + Jails or Linux + LXC (Docker). The Unikernel approach is more appropriate for situations where you want to deploy applications on Xen-based cloud infrastructure (Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Servers) and do not want to waste resources or increase security risk by running a full OS. The physical servers at Amazon and Rackspace are already running a full dom0 OS (probably Linux), so running another full OS on top of that just to run your app is inefficient.
I don't think there's any shortage of people who believe the US government is a bloodsucking, many-tentacled world-destroying monster. But hyperbole of this degree is neither insightful, nor is it helpful.
$3000 for a single server?

Erm... a good Xeon Dell with Dual 10GBe extension is $2000... and the Xeon can scale up basically indefinitely.

Don't believe me? Go configure a Dell R220 Poweredge with Dual-10GBe ports. Its only $2,021.37.

Hopefully, the real hardware will be significantly cheaper. AMD has an issue competing against itself (ie: Opteron 4360), let alone against Intel if these are the prices they're looking for.
For me, it depends on the type of book. I find I can bare reading a technical book online. However, I have trouble reading it for very long, I find myself skipping prose to get to the meat of the content, and I find a quick glance at my email or F5 on my favorite news site is just a small click away. Still, I personally find reading technical books easier on the computer while reading a novel or biography far better with a cup of coffee, an easy chair, and an e-reader.
Sounds like S language is doomed either way.
It is true that driverless cars are a risky unproven technology, while human-driven cars are a proven killer.
it's a fable. it's meant to explain how we think about the world. it's not meant to be reality.
There's also an article about this matter -- http://hueniverse.com/2014/07/30/open-source-dickishness/
You probably know this, but for the sake of anyone else reading, your home state probably offers a brochure on how to be a landlord, including what rights you must enforce. It's essential if you ever get a bad tenant. Plus, find a real estate lawyer to go over your lease and whom you can go to in trouble comes up.
It is head-to-head.

Assuming these chips come in TCO competitive for a decent proportion of workloads (and in theory they should be clearly better for enough) Intel will have to respond either with new technology, which they either have on a back burner or isn't there, or cutting costs, which will destroy their margins and R&D capacity.

It's very hard to see how Intel can maintain their position here at all. Once that spiral starts they're stuffed, and normally the only outcome of such situations is to belatedly combine the competing product with your historic strength, so it seems inevitable Intel will be making ARM chips before too long, again.
Practical Guide to Code Clones (Part 2)
If you don't think that humans have access to the contents of your cloud hosted email service then I've got a bridge to sell you.
Could be, but then he had to alter his theme, because i don't recognize it.

But then again, the post is from 2 years ago :)
A couple of tips:

If you're hoping to get your book in bookstores, get an agent and work with a traditional publisher. Actually, I think going the traditional book-deal route is normally a better bet than self-publishing, unless you expect the vast majority of your sales will be digital and you have a large pre-order list that gives you an assurance of a larger paycheck than any advance you're offered.

Of course, authors must always be their book's best marketer, but having a publicist takes a load off your plate. In my case, the publisher's in-house publicist handled pitching media outlets so I didn't have to.

If you're going to spend money to publicize your book, spend it on pitching media outlets. A single mention in a well-read magazine or newspaper can give you a real bump in sales.
Wash my hands a lot, stay indoors, avoid people.

And if Ebola got loose around here, I guess I'd do that then, too.
they aren't always the same and its important to recognize when they aren't and be honest and open about it
If you read the John Scalzi piece on this, it's not working with him.

Everyone is talking about the price, but that's not the only thing they're negotiating. We've heard about some of Amazon's demands from some of their other negotiations, so I'm not surprised that Hachette is holding the line.
I think Microsoft are right here and I'm glad that they are willing to take this on. Of is in their interests to show that their customers' email privacy is afforded the same level of protection that normal mail does.
First, let me say that, in just a bit, I am going to criticize. I hope it's constructive. I also hope it's helpful, because I am in the same boat with my own screenshots. And I didn't realize it until WWDC this year.

In the iTC lab, the woman helping me said that every screenshot needs to stand alone in telling the story of the app. Every screenshot has to sell. And the app icon. And the title. And the description. She wanted me to pick one or two (no more) of the best, most compelling things about my app and change everything to highlight or focus on those two things.

She told me that potential customers have to "get it" in seconds. I was to make it as easy as possible for them to understand my app as fast as possible. She even told me what she thought the two things were for my app, which I agreed with, but she only got it after talking to me for 10 minutes.

While I agree the Unread screenshots are bad, I'm pretty sure that neither the gradient nor floating text is the problem. It's that the screenshots themselves are not focused on the one or two things that make this RSS reader worth buying.

There are actually 7 points made, in addition to the testimonial. But no one buys an RSS reader because of fonts, comfort, gestures, themes, sharing, OvershareKit, a testimonial, or even full-screen reading. They buy because they can read articles from their favorite websites. Why should I buy Unread? Not a single screenshot answers that question.

Again, I know I'm tearing into someone else's hard work here. But my own app's screenshots deserve the same criticism. Now that I know better, I hope others can learn from my mistakes.

Marketing an app well is just as hard as building one. I know how to do one and am still learning how to do the other.
If you've ever tried to get help you'll know that they just put you on whatever pill gives them the biggest kick back. When that doesn't work they put you on another, and another. I've been dealing with trying to get some help for years and I'm pretty sure they think I'm just making up shit at this point.
Curious why you would not directly use the RSS feed from NYTimes or the New Yorker? Where is the need to scrap?
A fixed wing can also generally run its single motor at lower power most of the time, which contributes as well.
Tip Calculator. I made one that was better in every respect than the one at the top of the app store by a lot.

I didn't realize that just because I could make a better app doesn't mean people would be able to find it. Search is based on popularity - and popularity for tip calculators is usually based on how high up you are on search. This creates a feedback loop - and I didn't have a good way to push myself into that #1 slot even for a short while.

If I had to do it over again, I would focus first on finding a way to get to that #1 spot for a week, and then I could cruise on the traction.

There's also the point that no one really needs a Tip Calculator. Make something that once someone tries, they can't live without.
Hi,

I have checked out that list and truthfully, it's a pretty awesome read but well, again, I want ideas for software/websites/apps and that is a pretty assorted list of things Mr. Curtis wants and not something that I can, atleast in the skills I presently have, can make with ease :)

P.S. I have saved that list to my Pocket and will be quite surely reading it from time to time...
you left out the transactions part which is in the same sentence as the ads part. i would imagine, if this fable were true, that dentistry.com would make maybe 20-30% of its revenue from ads and 70-80% from transactions. that's about the ratio at Etsy. ads drive transactions so it's a good model for everyone.
There are A LOT of assumptions in this argument.

One assumption is that spending 1 trillion dollars over the last 13 years on heart attack prevention and treatment would have made a significant difference in the number of lives saved. How do we quantify this?

A second assumption on the other side of the argument is that spending 0 to fight terrorism would have netted 0 new casualties, anywhere. If we did nothing we would have been better off. But how do we quantify this? We can see the results of our actions, but we cannot see the results of our inactions. If we did not invade Iraq, would more or less people be alive today in that country, and what would their quality of life be? Would Afghanistan be completely ruled by extremist Muslims and be ruled under a brutal Sharia law if we had not invaded and tried to put a partly democratic and citizen based government in place? Who knows? If that did happen, would more people be suffering due to extreme oppression and sectarian violence than what our invasions has caused? How do we quantify all of these factors?

Making big sweeping statements with huge numbers that dwarf anything we're used to talking about is sensationalism. The fact of the matter is that the people making these decisions, by and large, are not doing it because they are trying to get rich or build some fiefdom. Dem or Repub, Liberal or Conservative, I think that generally speaking, most politicians and government officials are in their positions to do good. They see themselves as agents of change and sometimes have to make incredibly hard decisions in the times in which they live (not 10 years later). They are trying to give this country and others around the world their best shot at living a life of freedom and liberty. We're not always going to agree with decisions, and some are truly mistakes, but few that we look at are simply because of some crazy conspiracy agenda.
The problem is that the legacy cruft is intertwined in the very architecture of X11 itself. That's what Wayland is intended to correct; it's a redesign to better accommodate things like compositors while not being held back by the need to explicitly support 80's-era graphical terminals and such (though similar functionality should still be possible, since Wayland is - IIRC - network-transparent).
Naming it Opteron is horribly confusing... is it x86 or ARM?
Rebound.js: JavaScript port of Facebook's Android UI physics library
That's my understanding as well. Unfortunately, Lavabit used one SSL certificate for every incoming user, rendering it impossible to use anything lesser. So to continue your analogy, the hotel only had one key - the master.
If fables are meant to be explaining how we think about the world then they should not directly contradict reality as we experience it. I understand that you're trying to paint a picture here but there is very little upside to the dentist profession in the picture you paint but plenty of upside for capital providers. As such it is a counter-example. A good example would show a win-win for the dentists and for the capital providers (and preferably the start-up founders too).

Many business models these days are 'x' on the web, where 'x' really does not improve by being on the web and practice management is a prime example of that. If you don't believe that try to explain to a dentist why they need redundant internet access to keep their practice running in case they have internet problems when right now they can do so just fine without any access at all.

Web apps have lots of upside but they also come with a set of requirements that is not always practical or even desired.

On top of that you discount domain knowledge which I think is a very important part of any successful business in an area like the one you describe.
I don't really get what is different with Perl and the other scripting languages for types, but check Moose.

E.g. http://search.cpan.org/~ether/Moose-2.1210/lib/Moose/Cookboo...

Quite OK for one of the scripting languages, imho.

has 'employees' => (
is => 'rw',
isa => 'ArrayRef[Employee]'
default => sub { [] },
);
Pre-announced and got people to sign up to my mailing list in return they got chapter 1 and the table of contents early. I write a weekly email about side projects and building products so a lot of my early traffic came from that. We did exactly the same thing when we launched Perch, and that launch day paid back in sales everything we had spent on the product to get it to launch (not our time but actual cash outlay).

You need to be building an audience for your book long before you actually launch it if you want to have a decent launch. Nathan Barry writes some good stuff about this, check out his book Authority: http://nathanbarry.com/authority/
Almost all the libraries you deal with are in-house. Which is part of what I'm pointing out, most of getting up to speed in any company is learning about their domain-specific codebase, not the language they happen to be using.

You're certainly at an advantage if you know some of those things already, that goes without saying. I'm just pointing out that many people seem to overestimate the impact of the programming language on the overall stack. Knowing DB workflows, distributed programming etc. is much more important than knowing language trivia which you can mostly trivially look up.