skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use .Net MVC (C#) at OpenRent [1].

Might be worth checking out bizspark [2], as I know it lists lots of startups that are using a .net stack.

Also probably worth mentioning what you're compiling the list for if you want more responses from HN users...

More info: We actually don't host on Azure (Web Sites not flexible enough for us), but use a mixture of AppHarbor [3] (awesome product and team), and various Amazon web services.

[1] - https://www.openrent.co.uk

[2]http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/partners/startups.aspx

[3] - https://appharbor.com
Motions can be passed prior to trial to question the validity of certain charges.

The problem is there are a lot of federal judges who let prosecutors continually change the charges, change the rational for the charges, add on whole new charges in an attempt to force a plea bargin etc...
Planning to launch a SaaS product full .NET stack running on Azure, BizSpark gives you almost a year of free server time ($3700 worth, 9 months worth of their biggest single VM uptime).

It's hard to say no when they give you so much free stuff for a startup-style business.
This sort of visualization while really really cool (and kudos to the developers) is also really hard to navigate. I can't easily find any of the languages I'm looking for without a lot of visual scanning and zooming in-and-out.
Modern doesn't have to be a code word for deliberately convoluted. Things can be both modern and simple.
Sounds somewhat like Klout (which I hated and also had to register with in order to opt-out)
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I grew up with linux. Back when slackware was king. I've always found it to be a constant source of irritations and problems. I tried out openbsd in 2001 or so and immediately jumped ship. And since then linux and most distros built on it have only gotten more complex, while openbsd has not. There is definitely more to it than "whatever people are used to".
I was diagnosed with ADHD at a very young age, and have been doing battle with my attention span for most of my life. I had only read a half dozen books all the way through when I graduated from High School, despite reading at a college reading level before I was out of elementary school and having started hundreds of them. The few books that I had read included Les Miserables and War and Peace, both of which I binge-read over a period of a few days, barely allowing myself to eat and rarely allowing myself to shower while I read them. The other ones were Frindle, Tangerine, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, and Catcher in the Rye. They were completely consuming. My addiction to video games was so intense and so severe that they were outright banned at my house. I was terrible at school, skipping more than half of my classes, but tested in the 99th percentile for standardized testing, learning a lot of what I should have learned in school by deduction as I was taking the test. That allowed me to get into college, which I later dropped out of, electing instead to buy a one-way ticket to China unsure if I would ever come back. Basically I was either 0% engaged in something or 110%, and if I wasn't engaged it felt like no matter how hard I fought I couldn't force myself to care.

The turning point came when I was living in eastern Ukraine serving a Mormon mission. As per the mission rules, the only books we read were scriptural, we only used a computer for 30 minutes a week to email home, and in my particular mission I spent 90% of my time, every minute from 11 AM to 9 PM (except for a one-hour dinner) walking around, talking to people in the streets.

I don't know if it was age or that I was finally rid of the many stimulants I used to have, but my mind just slowed down. I concentrated on everything, and, perhaps especially because I was speaking Russian, I could literally recall every word of every conversation I had. I sat down in the mornings and studied the intricacies of the Russian language for an hour straight without blinking an eye. I read the Old Testament cover to cover; something that would have made me literally pull my hair out just a year earlier.

Then I went home. I got an iPhone, I got on the Internet, and it all came back. I try to limit the stimulants, (I've become very minimalistic), and I usually spend a lot of the morning with a calmer mind, but... I work online. I love the Internet. And I haven't yet been able to calm my mind like it was for those two years.

It may be a matter of self-control - it probably is, but learning to program is incredibly painful. 10 minutes at a time sometimes with an incredible number of stops and starts.

I don't know what the answer is, nor do I pretend that I can project my experience onto some greater understanding of what ADHD is, how to defeat it, or if it needs defeating, but the experience of feeling like I could finally do all the things I wanted to do because I didn't have anything else to stimulate me was fascinating, and it may be valuable to someone else.
Migrating from SSL during Halloween
I'm using ASP MVC 5 with Knockout.js, hosted in Azure, for my startup (commuting.io, still in dev). I've come from a .net background, so it seemed like the easiest choice to get up and running.

Also using SQL Azure and Redis for data storage/caching - it's been mostly positive so far. The downside with Azure has been the portal/management experience. The current UI is somewhat sluggish and disorganized, and the new portal tile UI is extremely confusing to navigate.

Overall it's been a pretty pleasant experience (maybe minus dealing with web.config files).
If you'd like to learn more than you thought possible about EXIF, IPTC, and other metadata for photos, check out Phil Harvey's excellent ExifTool program and libraries. It lets you read, write, and edit metadata from image files created by hundreds of different devices.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
They aren't "better" and most of pathogen users are well aware of them. I don't think they are bad enough to discourage anyone from using them if it woks for him, but when asked I'm always recommending pathogen as the only option, which I'm using myself.

Why? Well, there could be multiple answers, but essentially there's one main reason: it's just dead simple, while vundle and other ruby-inspired ones are not. Pretty much for the same reason I like pathogen+git thousand times more than emacs' package manager.

So even if it could be arguable that pathogen is better than vundle, there's completely no reason not to advise it.
Perhaps off topic, but charges of conspiracy can be upheld where any elements of the conspiracy took place, whether or not all of the participants were in that place at the time.

If he received a phone call from a co-conspirator, he can be found guilty of conspiracy charges, whether or not he was in the country at the time the other crimes were committed.
Just curiously, what do you find superior?

pathogen loads the plugins which is all I need. Does Neobundle do something else?
silverlight isn't required for netflix if you use a recent chrome browser on linux.
Sorry, I didn't understand...

You need help with the front end or the back end ?
> backslash isn’t bound to anything by default

Actually it is. That thing is called "leader" and is used exactly for the same purpose as author uses backslash. So better way to write

:nmap \o :set paste!<CR>

would be

:nmap <leader>o :set paste!<CR>

Reasons to use "leader" are discussed more than once, so I'll leave reading the docs/blogposts to you.
Nerf Takes to the Battlefield
The lack of bicycle lanes in Japan always seemed odd to me. So many bicycles on the sidewalk.
It was just moved from base to ports, so you can still get it from ports/security/heimdal if you want it.
Right, seems like it to me. This other stuff about the legitimacy of Bitcoin, taxation on uncollected payments, etc. seems a little over the top.

However, I do think there's an interesting debate on the opt-in/opt-out issue. People are saying that Google itself is an opt-out system, but the "right to be forgotten" seems like a real concern to me.
Bitcoin has value because it's the best and often the only way to buy drugs (scheduled and prescription) online.

>It's understood that that gold still backs US currency, in a more abstract, unpromised way.

This has nothing to do with value. Gold is almost completely useless - its value is overwhelmingly due to speculation. Dollar is backed by enforceable debts. No better backing is possible. With gold, you're only hoping that somebody will buy it from you, for unclear reason.
update: Callas says control was transferred to @kingladar in mid-October, so it's meant to come back, but it's a work in progress.
iTerm 2 has way more options than Terminal.app, my favorite being the ability to set your color scheme.
Flexibility, configurability, work in the terminal, oh... and did I mention snipmate?

That's just scratching the surface. I've been using VIM for around 3 years. Most of the day almost every day. And I feel like I'm barely acquainted with what it can do. Still, it is one of the most important and vital work tools and its hard to imagine life without it. I'm pretty sure I would leave any job I wasn't allowed to use it.

Admittedly I went through a rough month or two getting started, but I could see right away that the potential gains in productivity were worth the cost and I'm glad I did. Sort of like learning to type which some people refuse to do because hunting and pecking is faster and easier short term. I'm sure you have seen people like this. And some actually type at amazing speeds for two fingers, but it doesn't compare with what they could do if they took the time to retrain themselves.

The problem now is that Vim is so ingrained in muscle memory I type splotch all over any other editor and web browser I touch. Hold on a second, I need to arrow back and clean up this comment... bbbbhhh
There is a new one coming out recently called vim-plug: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/

The major feature is that it can install plugins in parallel. I've switched from vundle to it and have been quite happy.
There is, of course, the whole bell curve of erroneous outcomes. But you can't know a priori who are the genuinely innocent people. The reason justice reform is so hard is because it's hard to get police and prosecutors to assiduously assure people's due process rights when the overwhelming percentage of people they deal with are bad people.

I think prosecutorial misconduct is absolutely unacceptable. But I can also see why it happens, without assuming that it could only happen if large numbers of prosecutors were evil people who would convict someone they knew was innocent just to inflate their quota.
A quote from an econ professor:

"Economists hate war because it's the equivalent of taking your economy out the back and shooting it"
More recent documentary about the same girls:

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/mobile/touch/episode/2014/03/13...
the top comment right now is http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2kz9x0/please_remov...

and that comment agrees with mitsuhiko
Thanks, will give it another shot with your config.
Using a cluster of Owin (self-hosted) servers with NancyFx on Mono to host REST APIs behind nginx for a distributed-computing solution on AWS. Also use EntityFramework on Npgsql+postgres - experience has been positive.

Only downside is that for something like a customer-facing portal, the identity-management is tied to Windows-specific features, for now - so have had to build a custom solution for this that runs on Linux. Waiting for ASP .NET vNext and its Identity solution when it becomes slightly more mature.

EDIT: Also evaluating a move to Azure. Primary driver (for choosing the .net stack) has been prior experience with C#, .NET and Visual Studio
Octopus Deploy [1], which is automated deployment software primarily for deploying .NET applications is written in .NET. For those that have commented about using Azure in their start-ups, you can use Octopus Deploy for that also.

[1] https://octopusdeploy.com
I know of at least two startups who're heavily using F#:

http://tachyus.com/
http://jet.com/

There are others as well (I just don't recall their names right now) -- take a look on http://fsharp.org for more links.
Cost per transaction of $19 is a fair amount of friction - https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction
Bad things: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199
The killer feature for me is Hotkey Windows - I set it up so that pressing Ctrl+Space from anywhere will slide out a terminal. So convenient.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48796/iterm-as-a-sl...
You can announce the timing of the patch availability in advance. You can tell everyone to take their site down between the release of the patch and the application. Depending on the vulnerability there may be a way of blocking it without specifically advertising the vulnerability (e.g. block it in unrelated code).

At any rate, worse thing is simply announcing [EDIT: i.e. releasing] a patch that is not going to be applied immediately by a large percentage of your users and allows all attackers to attack those sites. I can't quite think of a worst approach; even never patching at all might be preferable to that.
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Do you consider all of north-america uniting under one federal government as non-absurd?

how about north and south america?

how about all the rest of the world?

How about if you didn't have borders and didn't need to spend money on militaries to defend those borders, like California doesn't spend much money on the military to defend its border against oregon?
Chrome, Chromeless
>The UK does not tax worldwide income.

UK does not tax worldwide income based on UK citizenship, but it does tax worldwide income for all UK domiciled residents, which includes all citizenship-seeking immigrants.

Your trivia on the non-domicile status is interesting, but both the grandparent and myself have already mentioned it, and I specifically said that it's "irrelevant to this analysis".
Exactly. The gain from remapping ':' to ';' far outweighs the losses from not being able to repeat finds
Your comment is totally reasonable and I'm certainly not suggesting dropping someone the first time compromise is required.

But I don't see why there needs to be so much emphasis on couples staying together. The OP doesn't say, and it is certainly possible that I am making incorrect assumptions, but it sounds like they are young and don't have children together. (no one over 30 would say "gf", right??)

So who cares? If they are meant to be, the work/life balance won't be a big issue. If they are incompatible, better to find out now, before they are older and DO have kids.

I want to add that the readers of this site probably put way more time into work (and work-related activities) than the typical person. If your significant other expects work to be 9-5, you should probably disappoint them sooner rather than later.
A Ponzi scheme is an investment scheme in which new capitol is used to pay investor returns. Since Bitcoin is not an investment vehicle and does not promise a return, it cannot be considered a Ponzi scheme.
we use it extensively at http://www.backrecord.com (C#, mono)
Show HN: Letters app for children using Speech API
There are the practical flaws like "okay, how reliable can this be if it decides that this picture that is clearly a car is instead a camel." But you're right, we can study those empirically and say whether or not they're actually a practical problem.

But I think that the more interesting question is, what the hell is actually going on here? What is the neural network actually detecting, that you can change what it is detecting with such innocuous-to-human-eyes changes? Is there indeed some kind of pattern that is genuinely characteristic of camels or whatever that is invisible to us, but "visible" to the neural net?

The temptation is to say it's just overtraining, picking up some noise that happens to be the same in various training set photos but is genuinely meaningless in the real world. But the fact that multiple different algorithms have the same or similar adversarial examples, and the fact that deep learning neural networks do appear to perform reasonably well in the real world, argues against that.

So if we provisionally think that it's not overtraining, what is it? Could there be a feature of camels that we can't see? Could that tell us something about camels, or vision, or something?

And vice-versa, what if our goal isn't a narrow task like "identify the existence of camels," but instead we're trying to get a computer to identify similar features in camels as we are (perhaps because the goal is not simply to identify camels, but to identify camels and then reason about the camel in some way). How do we get a deep learning neural net to not focus on some invisible feature, and instead learn to identify a camel based on features that humans DO perceive?
This is all great advice. The key (over time) is in working more efficiently and productively, not working more hours.
Made this for my daughter this evening. Incredibly simple but got her hooked for a couple hours practicing the alphabet in three languages :)

(only tested in Chrome & Safari & iOS7+)
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Looking for full time developer or PM positions starting around Summer 2015.
Yep, the main abrahamic lineage of X11 window managers. uwm begat twm which begat fvwm which begat bowman...

For quite a while, the window manager space was really dominated by rewrites and adaptions. Not quite sure what the first window managers of GNOME and the K(ool)DE were based on, but I wouldn't be surprised if some familiar names turned up...

An important second clan would be the 9wm ancestry. lwm, aewm and probably a lot of the tiling wm namespace.

Jeepers, I remember being excited when Xaw3D came out. This thread is really making me feel old, and goshdarnit, Pentium Pros with Slackware didn't happen that long ago..
The most recent casualty of the U.S. Civil War lived to see Obama voted into office. He is unlikely to be the last.

UXO is a hell of a thing.
How come nobody mentioned Umano? While driving (or doing something else), you can listen to stories you'd otherwise read.
It's a matter of controlling that window and minimizing the number of affected sites.

Scenario #1: Release patch with no advance notice. Takes time for people to take notice and apply. In that window lots (12 million?!) sites get hacked. That doesn't sound like a very happy outcome.

Scenario #2: Announce a patch will be released in advance. Get the word out. Give people time to hear it. You're not giving any specifics other than there is some vulnerability. That's doesn't help any hacker, every product has some vulnerability. There'll probably be a lot less than 12M sites hacked. Also consider closing the vulnerability in ways that don't directly touch the affected code to make it more difficult to reverse engineer.

Obviously if everyone knows of the exploit you don't have the time but often the way hackers hear about the exploit is through your announcement...

[EDIT: Thanks to aryx above I learnt there was a 5 day window in this specific case (An Oct 10th announcement for Oct 15th security update). I don't think that announcement made it clear enough what the consequences of not applying the patch immediately would be. I think this is something that needs more careful consideration in the future.]
Hm, embarrassing, I just assumed you were doing the naive brute force. You're de-interleaving the digits with an order swap when the digits first start to differ.
I like this idea. Maybe it ought to be not just the inputs to the ANN, but to the entire network- like drop-out turning a fraction of the values to 0 some of the time. The network would have to work really hard to generalize to deal with all the noise. I'm sure tuning such a noise function would be critical too.
They would have projects from people who are interested in their services, and interested in having them accept money on the projects behalf. If that number is 3, so be it.
I'm not trying to pretend that the way ANNs work is at all closely tied to how actual brains work. But the tasks we're trying to give to ANNs are generally about seeing some dataset the same way we do. The whole point in training ANNs on data images with human created class labels is to teach them / encode in them a representation of the mental concepts that we apply to the world, which is supposed to be generalizable. We evaluate them by testing their outputs on new inputs for which we have a human-provided label. You say that "similar" is relative to some observer -- but if the trained ANNs differ wildly from humans in judging what is similar, then maybe they're not doing the job as well as we hoped.
I don't think Blow is against big ideas as such -- his language has some big ideas on its own -- but he certainly seems to prefer familiarity and simplicity over mind-altering language-theoretical weirdness.

One aspect of familiarity, incidentally, is being able to hire junior devs. I see that as being a problem with Go -- and, in the future, Rust -- not to mention rocket-scientist languages like Haskell, Ocaml or even Scala, or indeed C++. Go is "simple", but not really that simple, not compared to Ruby or Python. (Of course, this might not be an issue for Blow, whose company is already using C++.)

While Blow was originally talking about safety not being a paramount issue, I believe he has mentioned ownership-lifecycle management, possibly something like Rust's borrowing, as being on his mind.
The way people classify hybrid images is a function of how far away they are. I wonder if these are essentially hybrid images for neural nets. It seems like the noise being added is very high frequency. Given that, I would bet that neural nets classify typical hybrid images the same way as they would the sharper image component.
The radio I listen to (in my car, the only place I think anyone listens to radio) is WQED (SF public radio), WCBS (news station), BBC and Bloomberg on satellite, and when genuinely desperate, CNBC.

Everything else, both terrestrial and satellite, seems to be horrible.
I have been thinking about this quite a bit, recently, as well and I do think the future does look like something you described. However, I do have doubts. Outside of being worried about the big brands removing your access to your hard earned reputations (which seems unlikely on a mass scale), what would be the other common uses cases for a crypto identity key? As we know, in order for a majority of people to adopt new technologies, there has to be a very compelling use case. I am not sure a consolidated identity key solves any real problem or rather it is just a cool tech thing that us hackers would like to see, kind of similar to the problem that bitcoin in general is having in achieving adoption.

I am curious if you guys have any really good thoughts on products that could implement a crypto identity key that solves a real life problem. Would love to discuss.
Do not create sockpuppet accounts to comment/upvote. It is not "growth hacking."
Build a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer (2012)
I've seen this so many times that it is upsetting. This would make it a place I would love contributing to.