skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure! We worked with Macaw to power their pre-order sales, and did several thousand pre-orders of their application prior to the launch. It was Macaw's intention for the duration of the pre-order to use Paddle's SDKs on Mac and Windows to distribute their application (provide trial version, license codes etc...)

A few weeks before the pre-order ended the Macaw guys decided, that users having an account with Macaw would be a better way for users to license the application (to be fair to them, they've made the product registration/ activation process really nice).

Unfortunately, we weren't given much notice of the switch away from Paddle, and the process of giving access to pre-order customers wasn't handled in the best way. Which resulted in some pre-order customers not getting their copies of the application until a few days after the launch. -- We weren't actually powering the app, or their licensing at this point, but given more notice of the switch/ their launch, we could have assisted in getting the pre-order customers copies to them more seamlessly.

That said, and although Macaw aren't a customer of ours anymore (and haven't been since the pre-order), they seem to be killing it, have made a truly stellar product, and we wish them all the best! :)
Is that a fair comparison, though? Do we really see people writing significant new software using Cobol as we see using C++? We don't. Right now we're all probably running a lot of software written in C++ (hello, browser!) but none in Cobol.
Yes, the point is that whether they use ECB or not makes no difference and thus can't be considered an "Oops" in this use-case.

ROT13, AES-ECB or some state-of-the-art crypto, it's all the same if the end-device needs to have the key to decrypt it anyway.
Second the Denver/Boulder area. There are quite a few companies in this area currently. Also, there are active efforts to expand the startup scene - lots of events and meetups. It may not be the Bay Area but cost of living is far lower and, in my experience, the people in the startup community here are more helpful and less focused on waiting for their turn to tell you about their startup.
This is exactly what I've found and exactly what I used to do. So much less painful and so many more dates. The dates themselves, however... didn't always get me what I wanted.
Erlang? That switch that is routing your phone calls?
> women publicly opine to want

This comes across as cynical towards the women on dating sites. The problem is that the women on dating site become a lightning rod for messages. If every message were of a kind that interested a particular woman, how would she respond to (e.g.) 10-20 messages from new people every day? She's likely not going to end up going on dates with multiple people at a time, and if she finds someone long-term, it's (more than likely) only going to be a single person. She likely will only be able to carry on a few meaningful conversations at a time, and the rest just get dropped. If she were trying to meaningfully respond to everyone then going on a dating site would end up being a significant chore.

Edit: Also, it's probably difficult to respond to someone that puts in the time to right a well-thought-out message, but doesn't come across as interesting (or expresses views that are contrary to your own -- e.g. an avid hunter messaging an animal rights activist). You don't necessarily want to be the bearer of bad news, so it's easier to not do it at all (or you convince yourself that you'll respond 'later' but 'later' never happens).
We could not have handled the load at Microcorruption, emulating CPU state for thousands of concurrent users, using Ruby --- which remains the front-end language for the site.

We could easily have done so in Java, but we'd be in Java's concurrency model, which is much more difficult to reason about.
We Still Can’t Predict Earthquakes
I switched back to Firefox recently from Chrome. I find Firefox faster too.

Chrome is losing focus on what was making it great : ultralight and fast.

I'd ditch Chrome if Firefox had full html5 video support on OS X.
It's pretty amazing that something pushing the absolute limit of technology in the 1960s is now something that you could bundle up, throw together as a torrent, and publish for anyone curious enough to look at it.
Of course the vast majority of them are no threat, but you should not assume every fast food employee is in it for the pay. If you are committed to opening a hamburger shop, you go and get a job at a hamburger shop for a few months to get some experience, see how they operate, maybe even pick up some ideas in terms of recipes, though usually its more learning the operations rather than stealing recipes. I know for a fact that this is a real thing because I know people who have done it in the taco truck business. If you are opening a hamburger shop without significant hamburger shop experience and you don't do this, you are a moron.

Doesn't mean blanket non-compete is fair, but to completely dismiss the OPs point it at best naive.
The full list of new features, bug fixes and breaking changes is in this epic changelog: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG....

I trawled through it a couple weeks back and wrote up some of the most interesting new features: https://speakerdeck.com/niallsmart/angular-1-dot-3-whats-new
"One of the problems with being poor is that you might not be able to afford lawyers to contest a suit over a non-compete. "

But even if you have money that doesn't mean it makes economic sense to pay for an attorney's time and file suit. Even attorneys don't file a lawsuit just because they can. Their time is worth money and there is also the opportunity cost.

Likewise it works both ways. Take a developer who doesn't complete a project yet collects $6000 from someone as a deposit. Doesn't pay to bring a lawsuit even if you can afford an attorney. [1]

[1] An actual case I was the one out the $6000 deposit. I walked away from it (and I'm glad as it would have been tons of aggravation as well as attorney fees).
Can anyone speak to the trade-off in file size, for non-trivial codebases? There is a stated design goal of "small size of generated code", but the default snippet in the playground introduces quite a large amount of boilerplate. Is the penalty on file size fairly front-loaded or does the generated code scale horribly?
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There sure is and these comments will definitely be taken into consideration in our website makeover.
I should have clarified: by "continuous upkeep", I don't mean patches and feature updates; I mean the type of perpetual update model you see in things like Creative Cloud and Facebook games.

I make software because I enjoy it, and the type of software that I enjoy making either takes the form of one-off entertainment (games), or tools that expand your range of abilities (apps, mainly non-networked). If I couldn't hope to make money off these anymore, I'd probably lose my creative drive. (I am also a one-man developer. A corporation would obviously have different priorities.)

This is basically the Chromebook version of the future, and it's why I support Apple's native-first model over the alternatives. If I buy a hammer, I want to own it, not have it streamed to me over crappy H264.
Would they have preferred to just have someone at Google to contact about this?
Portland is one of my favorite cities I've lived in but it's
not a tech city by any means.

Are you talking about Portland, Maine, rather than Portland, Oregon?
yeah my understanding is that it is very state-to-state - I think in TX they are unenforceable unless they are part of the sale of a business in which you are an owner and hence receive compensation as part of the sale...
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I don't have a complete solution yet, but I can share some links:

https://github.com/azul3d/issues/issues/29 - Very relevant discussion with good resources/links/info.

https://github.com/ajhager/engi - 2D game library for Go with desktop/browser/android targets.

https://github.com/shurcooL/play/tree/master/57 - Simple WebGL/GopherJS render triangle demo.

https://github.com/shurcooL/play/tree/master/58 - Unfinished attempt to make the above compiled to two desktop/browser targets.
Does it add type checks into compiled code to emulate strict typing?
Types of variables in the source code we can check by go itself, but there are server responses (JSON) where we don't have checked types. Really interesting.
> men discovered that being a well-behaved actor is a losing strategy on dating sites.

The entire seduction and pickup community is based on the idea that women say they want a guy who's nice and plays by the rules but that that isn't what they respond to. They respond to assholes, bad-boys and dominant men. Obviously not every woman, but there are plenty of independent scientific studies to support this theory.
What do you do for a living? I run a business that competes with fast food franchises for low wage labor. A great majority of our employees aren't poor, or struggling to get by, but college kids who are looking to make a little extra cash and get some work experience. A small handful are children of parents who have millions in the bank, and have no need to work other than it's something to do, and maybe to gain some necessary life skills. A number of them also wish to start their own small business one day (I always ask, because I would rather convince the ones who do to start a franchise for us). We have them sign a non-compete because a large portion of our competitive edge comes from operational efficiencies that our competitors can't touch, but aren't necessarily exclusive or proprietary. We also tripled in growth in the past year, and pay our employees higher wages than virtually any alternative job they could acquire elsewhere. The risk that one of these employees would try to start a competing business is very real, and someone who is resourceful enough to do so is also probably resourceful enough to pose a significant threat to our business. Yes, many of the employees we hire probably won't ever try to do this, with or without the non-compete, but all it takes is one employee who wishes to do so and has the financial backing to make it happen to significantly hurt our business.

I appreciate your judgement on my knowledge of the life of a minimum wage worker. Yes, there are many who are struggling to get by, this is a very real problem that needs to be fixed. However, generalizing the skill set and struggles of a few to an entire wage class of labor is absurd. You're talking about millions of individuals in just as many different live situations across thousands of local markets. I would advise you to rethink your assessment of the life of a minimum wage worker. You might want to add a little complexity and depth to your profile of the minimum wage worker.
>WhatsApp charged users $0.99/month, and was self-funded.

Is this accurate? I remember being charged $0.99/year back when they started out. And the first year was free.
They don't fit the narrative that you need to live in one of a handful of cities to be a "real" developer.
This is something that is a difficult decision for a fledgling startup trying to get traction with a highly local product.

It is hard enough to get traction in one market because you don't have an email list to start necessarily. However if you collect all this great segmentation data and email addresses from people in other cities, suddenly you have a huge head start when prepping to launch in new markets.

I am not for one moment disagreeing that it is a poor user experience. Just saying that from a business standpoint, I can see where they may make the decision to frustrate some users initially who aren't in their active markets to get a leg up when they expand.

Sure you could argue that if they piss you off here, you'd be unlikely to consider them in the future, but then it becomes a numbers game. People who have a hard time finding a good date may still have that problem if this company grows into their market in the future, and may still be willing to give it a shot at that time since the chance for finding love probably outweighs that one time they had a less than ideal user experience.

Anyway, just thought I'd play devil's advocate here as you hit on an interesting lead generation point.
I'm not familiar with the event, but these two of the three questions that immediately sprang to my mind as well, with the third being: Who is the audience and how likely is it that their interests are already aligned with your product?
My favorite side-scroller: Robot Wants Ice Cream

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Hamumu/robot-wants-ice-cream

Or this meta-side scroller, Continuity
http://www.kongregate.com/games/glimajr/continuity

Traditional RTSes are not well represented in web games...
Microrobots armed with new force-sensing system to probe cells
Swing through Denver/Boulder sometime. There's a startup week in both (you just missed Denver), but there is usually something going on.
Sorry I am answering late.

One is this author suggesting removal of Gluten for MS: http://www.jandevrieshealth.co.uk/health_matters.asp?int_ser...

There is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20170845 but it is apparently controversial(?)
Most employers don't waste time on references given the legal liabilities, references are only required as a tradition, to prove you know how to play the game, so I think they're safe... with the sole exception of the camp counselor. Given contact with kids, I'd like to at least imagine they would try to background check. Even then they probably don't and rely on 3rd party professionals.

You have to be realistic about these kind of things. If, under better economic conditions, adults would never work these jobs and it would all be "teens first job" then they're not going to be geared up to check references or prior employers and they're not going to care if you leave your previous employer section blank. You don't need a stellar resume to meet the minimum requirements to flip burgers and if you show up with a stellar resume it proves you don't know how to play the game and they will politely tell you you're overqualified, until you learn to play the game.
It's impressive what they accomplished, even without technology (and by "technology" I include astrolabes and sextants, which have generally fallen out of common use).

Speaking of astrolabes & sextants, I recently read that higher-education 120-300 years ago featured "spherical trigonometry" as a course many students took ... because that was a core skill to navigate or even understand different locations / etc. Nowadays, the knowledge is there to be learned, but it's not commonly taught.
A Supersecret Spacecraft Comes Back to Earth After Two Years
Autocompletion and safe refactoring in IDE (in WebStorm, for example).
Hello,

I got my email registered a priori.
What should I do now ? Wait for a password sent by email ?
thanks in advance for the help.

cheers
What is your point? And what is "C++ triad"?
People love to say this, but the observation falls apart quickly under scrutiny. People working in Java are doing so to retain access to the JVM and to the zillion libraries built on it. The JVM with its ecosystem is a colossal asset for Java; one of the greatest in all of commercial software development. (I say this as someone who does not enjoy Java).

Meanwhile: Golang neatly fills in a sweet spot just "below" Python and Ruby, where finer-grained control of memory and more predictable performance characteristics are required, but bare-metal performance isn't. That sweet spot actually describes a huge fraction of all the use cases for C/C++ in Internet software.

So this is a meme I'd like to see die. It somehow manages to simultaneously get Golang, Java, and C++ wrong all at the same time. The only way to make it worse would be to work in some kind of Lisp comparison, based on Golang's parsimony with parenthesis.
Ah sorry. No I'm speaking about Portland, Oregon. Certainly a growing city but by no means a tech/tech-startup city.

But then again it's all relative. Someone coming from the bible belt might consider Portland to be a tech city.
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AppStop – turn your App Store metadata into a landing page
Seems that the realtime crawler was stucked, not yet sure why. We've restarted it and we'll try to add more sanity checks to avoid that.

Thank you for reporting us the issue!
Ask HN: Tips to overcome fear of opening up my personal projects?
I have a Github and Bitbucket account, but all my Bitbucket repos are set to private. My Github account has almost nothing on it, because every time I start something and think of pushing to Github, I'm worried that I'll be vulnerable to snap judgements by other people / prospective employers. Think, "Ugh, his C syntax looks like a child's, and he doesn't clean up his whitespace. And look, he clearly doesn't understand how linked lists work. No way I would hire him". I'm at the point where I can barely write code and get by, and feel a bit intimidated when people casually post crypto tools or large C++ web frameworks to HN.

Any tips to get around this? I think it's possible to clean up git commit history after it has been pushed to Github, so maybe that is one solution (although I hear that you are not supposed to rebase commits you have pushed to a public server).

[25-year old Asian male, in case my demographic provides any info.]
> Don't forget that x86 is well over 30 years old already

Don't say that too loudly. I've seen some 'passionate' Internet argument over how all of the terms AMD64, x86-64 and x86_64 are all wrong because it's really the x64 arch that we're all running on now. :P
It sounds similar to the Linux kernel. If all the providers and consumers of an API are in the same repository, then you can change an API at any time as long as you update all consumers of the API at the same time.
I've bought a number of humble bundles and have noticed that there is generally a steady rise in price over the first day of a bundle being announced. For example when I bought this bundle the unlock price was $4.18.

What works well for them is including another "premium" title at about twice the opening unlock price; Democracy 3 for $8 in this case.

I'd guess that the unlock price will rise to around $6 over the course of the day.
The Latest Perk in Silicon Valley? Egg-freezing
> The implementation is left entirely up to the browser.

This is the problem. Why not make standard inputs have OS-based UIs instead of browser-based? It would at least provide some design consistency. Could be harder to implement though.
That is an interesting anecdote about hiring trust fund babies on Manhattan Island or the equivalent on the west coast, but the fraction of the population operating under similar circumstances is extremely small and thus not very applicable to a nationwide discussion.
It won't 404, but that page was made by copy-pasting the source code of about:home from Firefox, including some image paths that are only valid on Firefox. I was too lazy to make it better since it's not _really_ meant for public consumption (it will 404 once this snippet is disabled in a week, for example).
I've been following that proposal, and I'm a bit surprised that it isn't mentioned on the roadmap. Looks like dynamic linked libraries will come sometime in 2.x land?
The real threat is not that fast-food worked gets job at Jimmy Johns, decides sandwich business is great, decides to open competitor.

The threat is potential competitor decides he want to open sandwich shop. Already has the capital in place, doesn't have the experience. Decided to get a job at Jimmy Johns to learn how they operate. I have no idea why people dismiss this like it's crazy. If you were already set on opening a hamburger shop/chain, you wouldn't stand a couple of months at minimum wage at McDonalds to see how a successful McDonalds franchise operates?
I've always been fascinated by that aspect of dating sites. Could you share some of the technical specifics as to what the hardest challenges are that still remain to be solved and how the cat-and-mouse game has evolved?
just because you'd earn "TimeMoney" from it doesn't mean you would spend it. It's nice to know that what I would give had some potential mechanism for guaranteeing a possible return, even if i never invoked that. Just like a money back guarantee on a product. It's nice to have.
Do you have recommendations for companies in Denver/Boulder that are doing cool things? (I'm from Denver but live in SF, so I know the area well.)
That is correct, a vast majority of our users are Rails developers and we don't have a paid product for them right now. So we'll have to reach larger audiences for the hosting and find a good product for our early adopters. It's not so easy to combine both and that makes our website copy not as clear as it should be.

We're trying to talk to Rails developers because they are the most likely to see the technical possibilities of the product and to other developers because they are more likely to use our hosting solution.
And we also insist on the free and open source side of the business while trying to monetize the project.
Apple, Facebook to Pay for Female Employees to Freeze Their Eggs
I believe the Humble Player handles this for many of these games.

From the related article about the process of porting Aaaaaa to asm.js;

"Lastly you’ll want to think about ways to allow your data to persist across multiple browsers on different machines. Gamers don’t always sit on the same machine to play their games, which is why many services allow for cloud save functionality. The same goes for the Web, and if you can build a system (like the wonderfully talented Edward Rudd created for the Humble Player, it will help the overall web experience for the player."

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/unity-games-in-webgl-owlch...
Where do you get your supply of vehicles? All independent drivers? Do you already work with existing fleets?
Since I rarely see any dating-related topics appear on HN I thought it would be reasonable to share a quick link to where the dating site I'm working on will eventually live.

Right now there's just a simple Wufoo form so I can gather input from users I can use to build the first version of my site...I have my own personal experiences with a lot of the free/paid services out there and ran into issues with fake profiles or being asked for credit card information so I'm working on an initial design right now, that should be nice and simple, won't require a credit card at all, and will have a healthy dash of security thrown in...but I'd love your input as well so if you have a few quick moments to share it that would be great :-):
http://serradate.com/
CDC budget for 2014 is $6.8B so 25 million is drop in a bucket anyway.

And the budget for the department tasked with responding to the Ebola crisis is how much?
Once again: this isn't an argument. Taco truck owners could also rationally want to demand that their employees work for Taco Bux instead of dollars. But they can't, because neither the law nor human decency recognizes the validity of that exchange. And so too it is with noncompetes. The relationship a Jimmy Johns retail employee has with their company will inevitably fail to satisfy the requirements for an enforceable noncompete. In particular: minimum- and near-minimum- wage employees by definition haven't been given consideration in exchange for agreeing not to compete, and have neither privileged access to a rolodex of customers nor access to trade secrets.

My opinion is that Jimmy Johns is in fact not concerned that their employes will start competing firms. Rather, they'd like to minimize employee turnover, which, unlike local sandwich business starts, is a metric they actually probably do track. And one vehicle they've found for minimizing turnover is in tricking their employees into believing they have fewer alternative jobs available than they actually do.