skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup: "You are probably thinking about selling your startup as you are experiencing a lack of traction, tough competition, or difficult time fundraising... this is a bad time to sell your startup"
So now I have to keep tabs on the behavior of my tools, in addition to everything else I have to keep tabs on?
i think enterprise and SaaS are orthogonal descriptions. new relic is definitely enterprise - as opposed to consumer (ala, dropbox). That their product is a SaaS offering doesn't really make any difference.
uWsgi is an implementation of the python WSGi spec that also supports Rack:
http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Ruby.html
Hmmm... wow I lost my bet that GitHub would have been the first of the hipster Ruby on Rails companies to IPO. Though, I'm still betting they will be next. New Relic is a great company that makes it very easy to keep on top of your application servers. I look forward to this infusion of cash taking them to the next level. Congrats team and good luck with the process!
Only in the past year did I pick up the Culture series, and I agree entirely; "The Player of Games" is one of my all-time favourite books. Absolutely brilliant.
but knowing it makes you a more versatile developer.
Does it seem weird to anyone else that they're doing all this marketing for a project that's supposedly going to be open source? Why all the suspense, why not just release it? Or, if it's not ready yet, why not just finish it and then start promoting it?
I agree, the first statement was captivating. It's nostalgic and yet, a form of forecasting in it's own right, what becomes future technology in this architecture
And downvotes, once again, serve to prove my point.

It's interesting how the metatext works around here, isn't it?
> First we define a helper mixin textShadowToCropUnderline which draws 12 text-shadows, half to the left, half to the right, spaced every .03em.

This seems like a big waste of CPU and memory. I don't want to drain my phone's battery rendering these underlines.
So what? More code has been written in C and Java than Go and Rust and Ocaml and whatever-else combined. A language's popularity says little about its complexity or how good of a language it is.

Powerful languages let you grapple with problems, weak languages first make you grapple with the language before tackling problems. Some people feel like Go gets in the way. I have not written any Go, but I understand both the praise and the criticism.

Powerful languages can cause other issues, but they do enable certain things that weaker languages simply never can.
Any chance of adding Stripe/Bitcoin payments? I'd rather not support PayPal.
Kind of a dick moving, posting detailed pictures and descriptions of that seller's "stealth" packaging...
there's a very long list of videos on youtube on maths for game devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKCF8A3XGxQ&list=PLW3Zl3wyJw...

i watched some of it - quite educational, albeit a bit dry.
Will you be adding a total somewhere on the page?

Also, I think the link on HN should be directly to http://www.gnome.org/groupon/
The percentages in that table (68.3% for directors and officers, and 22.0% / 5.6% / 4.9% / 13.6% for four significant investors) add up to 114.4%.

I obviously don't understand what it actually represents :) Can somebody explain?
For anyone interested in a good, intense read about surviving alone on Mars, I highly recommend Andy Weir's "The Martian". Fiction (for awhile, anyway) based on science & engineering & human behavior. Don't start it on an evening when you can't stay up all night!
> Debating the prison's respect for Sunde's vegan wishes misses the forest for the trees.

The forest is big and scary and honestly a bit abstract. I've heard about it from childhood; I don't know where it begins and where it ends. I'm supposed to stay away from it, so I do; it serves a useful function, or so I hear.

But a single tree I can see at once. I can walk up to it, look at exactly how tall it is, imagine getting trapped under it, fear just how dark its shade is.... and then I can understand just how dangerous the forest is, in a way that my parents could never convey to me from the safety of my home.

You've been lost in the forest, so this isn't new to you. But for me, appreciating the enormity of a single tree is one of the few ways I can actually begin to comprehend the terror of the forest.
Sigh, another fabulous list of books to wish I'd read but won't have time to read.
Which one of these values, when in-grained into society, offers the most utility:

"I give a lot to my fellow human beings, because they are obligations enshrined by law."

"I give a lot to my fellow human beings, out of the goodness of my heart."

And that's what "Anti-Libertarianists" don't get.
Their April round of $100M with a valuation of $1+B so figure that post money on the IPO they will be $1.5 - $2B making 13 new multi-millionaires in the San Francisco and probably take 13 houses off the market[2].

And the roughly 6,000 people in their networks will say "Man I could have been doing that gig, only a matter of time until I find the one that makes me rich!" and the circle continues.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/28/cloud-app-monitoring-compan...

[2] One allowed exemption for insider selling without filing with the SEC is certain types of mortgage expense. (which I think is still intact post STOCK act but I'm not sure so don't trade on that before checking with legal counsel)
In our tests (scrolling an older iPhone on a page with 300 links), we found that it’s actually not as much an issue as you might think, particularly because none of the shadows use a spread value. I’d definitely be interested to see if you have evidence to the contrary.

That being said, it’s definitely something worth considering, particularly since iOS 8 now implements descender-aware link underlines now. If there were a way to duck type for this feature, we’d definitely disable the JS anywhere we detect it working. Drawing an underlined “g” on a canvas and then reading the pixels at a certain location may work, but we haven’t tried it yet.
> Try using Chromium instead of Chrome, it's not the same experience.

What's wrong with Chromium?
Way too gender normative for me.
I understand, but writing your own dynamic resizing array class is not hard.
Daily Cafe Hustlin': The Digital Nomad Anthem Music Video (Hustlin' Parody)
> My feeling is that this statement translates fairly directly into "all user data is available to any corporate entity or state security agency for any purpose"

Speaking as a semi-informed bystander who's been following Urbit for a while now, it certainly seems like one of the problems it's trying to solve is the typical notion of "user data" as something controlled by third parties. Eg [1]:

> Where is Joe's financial data in mint.com? In, well, mint.com. Suppose Joe wants to move his financial data to taxbrain.com? Suppose Joe decides he doesn't like taxbrain.com, and wants to go back to mint.com? With all his data perfectly intact? [...] Imagine the restfulness of 2020 Joe when he finds that he can have just one computer in the sky, and he is the one who controls all its data and all of its code.

[1]: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/persona...

That said, the current implementation has been explicitly called out (in past incarnations of the docs, at least) as not-remotely-trustworthy with sensitive private data.
The NSA is hardly the entirety of the US Federal Government. Notably, none of these documents on Aaron Swartz were from the NSA.

Whilst I'm sympathetic to the idea of keeping the NSA's operations under the spotlight, that doesn't mean there isn't significant benefit (or just interest) in other things too.
America’s dystopian new normal: Endless suspicion, limitless spying
Composition. That is the single biggest thing that has impressed me as my codebase has grown. Concurrency and messaging is nice, but I come from Erlang... I am not easily impressed by concurrency and messaging. Composition, the power of interfaces in complex systems is the key for me. It is what makes me stay with Go, and why I will probably stick around for a long time. It is so obnoxiously useful, without ever getting in my way. Let's talk for a second about the tiny little function

io.Copy(dst io.Writer, src io.Reader)

It reads data from reader and writes to writer... simple. Now what makes this little function so darn useful is it takes anything fulfilling its interfaces (io.Writer and io.Reader). The first way you will probably use it will be to copy between some stream and a file without having to eat up all the memory to store the buffer (not using ioutil.ReadAll for example)... but then you realize you can use a gzip compressor on the writer side, or a network socket, or your own code... and io.Copy works with anything that fulfills its interface.

As you build out a complex application, you start by creating your own functions that take advantage of existing interfaces foo.OCR(dst io.Writer, src img.Image). After that you start building out your own interfaces... like a MultiImage interface that has ImageCount and ReadImage methods that returns the count of images and binary data... but then you realize the images could be big, so you make the ReadImage method return an io.Reader... and now you have gone full circle and are using io.Copy to copy imageX from a stack of images to return to your OCR function that will output the data to an io.Writer which you made actually a gzip writer because text compresses well.

Beyond composition -- obviously, the concurrency and messaging is nice and when you need it vital. The other thing that will help make Go "click" is being very "data oriented" in your design... be vicious and minimal: http://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc (great talk on data oriented design) and be absolutely pragmatic, focus on getting shit done, always...
Because one of them is an earnestly held belief and the other is you lying to get special treatment, and humans are capable of telling the difference. See the bit above about using common sense and not being a mindless rule-applying robot.

Also, because people who request kosher, halal, vegetarian, or vegan diets in prison aren't generally demanding higher-quality food, just different food. When accommodated, they generally still get low-grade prison fare. Thus there's little motivation to lie about it.
The Students Who Feel They Have the Right to Cheat
You sound like a rational person. May I suggest looking up Larken Rose's video "I'm Allowed To Rob You" on YouTube?
The advantages of using ternary logic vs binary logic to do our computing would be that we can hold the same amount of information in less memory, and we can process more information at once.

To implement the hardware based on ternary logic is much more complex and that is why binary won. It is much easier to process and store 2 representational states in each bit then 3. It is easier to tell if there is a charge or not vs determining the difference between a high charge, a medium charge, or no charge. It is easier to store and read information with 2 polarities vs 3 polarities.
Sorry, I wish there was an epic mash-up of non-misogynistic tracks, but this is what I've got to work with.
I'm not totally sure how a non-optionally garbage-collected language with a runtime could ever be called a "systems language."
The chase scene is in "Consider Phlebas", in case anyone is wondering.
> Seeing Aaron made to stand shoeless, handcuffed to a metal bar for over 23 minutes as armed men rifled through his belongings and occasionally asked him questions, I can't help but think this process is designed to be demeaning.

This likely happens dozens of times a day across the US and Canada. I think this is to be expected when you encounter law enforcement in this situation.
I received one of these when I submitted FOIA on myself.
I don't hate Makefiles, in fact they're quite wonderful in languages that have file based build systems (see: C). I'm just tired of the go team touting that they are unnecessary.. except that every major go project has one (or something like make.go in camlistore).
Don't see your point. The FBI denies plenty of FOIA's.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/benghazi-fbi-fo...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131118/01542825271/fbi-s...

If the FBI released the Swartz data, it's because they felt like it, not because the FOIA somehow actually compelled them to.
Tools from previous discussions:
http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/email%20hosting
> Will you be adding a total somewhere on the page?

As quickly as possible. We're working on deploying a donation banner with a live meter right now.

> Also, I think the link on HN should be directly to http://www.gnome.org/groupon/

That was submitted too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587640
i suppose if they market it right, such a boutique style use-case is viable. But i doubt it'd be all _that_ profitable...i m going to guess it's going to be a family style business at best.
Dozens? Thousands of times a day, surely - if not tends of thousands. There are nearly 400 million people between the two countries.

Regardless, yes, this is to be expected. But reality isn't normative - it just is. The question is, ought it be that way.
Is this only getting the first container's background? If so, what happens when a layer below that has an image or gradient bkg?
I'd argue that overcoming xenophobia is more important for us as a species so we can relate to true AI.
Economics 101, things are only worth what others on the same market are willing to pay.

Ask what market tpb advertisements are on. Is it more similar to those of nytimes, or to a spam network using botnets to send emails?

A botnet that send spams can easily reach more eyeballs than any top 90 ranked website, and thanks to security researcher, we do actually have a good idea how much they earn. Unsurprisingly, its far far less than a nytimes.com makes per eyeball.

What people are willing to advertise on tpb, and what are the competitor on that market. My guess: spam networks. based on that, revenue from tpb is going to be very similar to the hosting cost, or even below that.
Jean Nouvel's Sydney towers boast vertical gardens and a huge sunlight reflector
They have a full drip with email capture around this product as they are looking to sell a portion of it. (I think it was a multithreaded variant.) I do agree that I wish the product was ready but I can't fault them for "following the playbook".
This WSJ article points to the deal being with a former Google exec. Not sure if he is bringing in Google as part of it.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-next-mission-inter...
Evernote, Overdrive Media Console, Twitter, Stitcher radio.
could the force that is trying to loosen the nut bend the split pin? would the self-tightening bolt perform better in this situation under the same condition?
Tristan Walker: The Visible Man
Half way through the document they mention their plan to add paid for features: "Raptor also optionally allows multithreading in a future paid version."
Don't have any direct experience with YC in a hardware context (only second hand), but in my experience the key to most hardware companies is the software (iPhones are great because of the App Store; Dropcam great because of their motion algorithms, etc). If I were to do the hardware startup I was involved in over again, I would have pushed for a greater focus on the software earlier on.

I could definitely see value in having equipment on site if there are still specialized tools you need for prototyping, otherwise if you're at a decently advanced prototype stage there are plenty of contract manufacturers within reach. Any top accelerator will be one or two degrees of separation away from them.

If you come from a primarily software background and are largely outsourcing the hardware side, I can see a hardware-focused accelerator being of particular value.

Just my $0.02.
After the PR is opened is too late to warn about commit messages. They can't be changed without a destructive push to the remote, which is generally a no-no for a public branch, and when using github, closes the PR automatically. The correct place to do this is, I believe, in the `commit-msg` hook: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
The Dark Side of a Pill [video]
You're putting the motivation before the result.
Do you have a source? I don't find your claim implausible, however I would like to know how you came to that conclusion.
Michael Pollan Explains What's Wrong with the Paleo Diet
I haven't heard about it myself. Sounds like it could be helpful if you're trying to fit some Ruby services into a mostly Python shop.

According to that page, it doesn't support the most recent Ruby versions. That might not be accurate, though.
HI there i need full download file to install in my system how do I?
Aha.. so the Chagossians just needed a pen?
i need a full .exe file how do I get that?
Frederich Zoller.
"So we are optimistic that our centralized web search engine architecture will improve in its ability to cover the pertinent text information over time and that there is a bright future for search"
Wow!
A lot of people seem to miss the point that the Knowledge also acts as a deterrent to bad behaviour by proper cabbies - they have too much invested in their license to be likely to throw it away lightly.
I work in the same building as the groupon world headquarters, 600 W Chicago Ave.

Is there anything I could give them (not trolling, but seriously) in their office on the 3rd and 6th floor?
The incentives for police in this country are all wrong. It should be illegal for police to profit in any way off of the people they're tasked with protecting. They should be paid using tax money based on how well they're doing their actual job.
More code will be written in COBOL this year alone than has ever been written in Go.
I am not sure, not easy when there are powerful people who have a vested interest in exactly the opposite.
You wouldn't build such a lamp like on Earth. An oxygen plasma with a spectrum filtered glass case, microwave excited to avoid the need for electrodes, would last pretty much forever and be repairable using only in with materials.
The SA wore brown. I only know this because my grandmother totally freaked out at me when I once wore a brown shirt (totally oblivious of the historic significance). I stopped wearing brown shirts out of deference for older people's sensibilities.
This article seems to say Google isn't a part of it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-working-satellit...
yes .bit is much cheaper!
I do wish the author would have put up a comparison with the tulip aio lib in Python 3.x
Didn't expect to see Jerry Seinfeld to put a review for Sing Sing prison:) No idea it's real but looks legit.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/sing-sing-correctional-facility-ossi...
DogVacay raises $25M
The atrocities have been going on for decades, yet suddenly everyone is interested. Any ideas what changed, so that press is paying attention now?
Visiting experts are not prisoners they're free men.
Probably not, but you can always do a low fly over if you're talking to the tower. Just don't put the wheels on the runway unless you get permission.
How the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Torpedoes
That's really cool. Big thanks to the team behind this!

The biggest feature for me was that it can run alongside the normal version of Firefox so I could tinker with it without disrupting day-to-day workflow.

Not like it's a big deal or anything, but it still shows a warning when you enter about:config even though it's targeted at devs :)
Posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8582398
Data visualization of couples sending long-distance messages
I'm wondering just how well these app servers perform with a real-world Rails app behind them? My understanding was that Unicorn deliberately does not try for maximum performance simply because you'll lose most of that as soon as you add Rails, and then the app server is not the bottleneck. Amdahl's Law applies - you can't get more than a 1% speedup by optimizing a component that consumes 1% of the total CPU time.

I also wonder how their hybrid evented/threading/process model works in the presence of a GIL (which, last I checked, Ruby still has) and in the presence of blocking socket calls (which, last I checked, both the MySQL and PostGres APIs used).
From what I've read, the rate of seizure has increased something like 10-fold in the last decade. That's at least part of it.
> Whether that proof was correct is definitely up for debate.

No, no it's not.

You're not really understanding mathematics, which is fair enough, but also the fundamentals of science and human nature with a statement like that.
was this article setup and paid for by FB?
(http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)
There was also a good bit on last week tonight about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Uber hires Tom Harrows who led Google Shopping Express
A look at the new GitHub Enterprise
That is absolutely the mildest form of intimidation the police can use. Every aspect of our system is designed to dehumanize defendant and victim alike.
The section "Hybrid evented/multithreaded: one event loop per thread" suggests that the whole model is basically SEDA [1]. I'm surprised the article does not directly reference the project/paper.

[1] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf
Similar NYTimes article posted yesterday with a bit more substance: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-w...

I'm not really sure why civil forfeiture places the burden on owners. Kind of defies the logic of innocent until proven guilty.
Interesting idea. One initial question -- why wouldn't the girls just say yes to all items to get max commission?
Then it's a problem with the documentation (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2014/06/05/how-to-develop-fi...), which is a little easier to fix.
Maybe can you do:

- some phone call without having to hold the phone.

- put that in the office and have quick responses to the classical technical question. It may act as replacement of a internal wiki for question like "What the IP of the sever?" or "What the syntax to add a column in SQL?".
Downvoters: if you disagree, feel free to post an attempt at a refutation or somehow otherwise explain your vote.
Also that cause and effect aren't so cut and dry on social issues. A good neighborhood doesn't need a strong police presence because it has little crime. This is very much socioeconomic. Of course, if it becomes a bad neighborhood, bow are you going to ever improve its socioeconomic status until you make a dent in the crime and gang problem so you can give a chance for your social programs to actually work?
It's not about how much they have invested; this is a sunk cost. One cannot change the past. It's about the future revenue they would forego if they were to lose their licence.
What precisely is it about Go's syntax that you dislike?
We do have it set up so that you don't need a PayPal account to donate; we're currently using PayPal for credit card processing, not just PayPal account-based donations.

Regarding bitcoin, see https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-May/msg... for details, sorry.
I can understand your feelings, but i suspect you'll find The Hydrogen Sonata a fitting book to cap the series. There's a neat demonstration of what fairness really is worth at the end that's just ... I don't know, poetical. There's a sense of finality and closing that fits nicely.

But perhaps I just need to revisit the books again, if only to revisit Sleeper Service.
I'd rather have my telco read over my shoulder than Apple.

Telcos being in the business of handling my conversations anyway and Apple being a hardware vendor from a different continent.
That isn't what he said was arbitrary though. The argument was that the pairing is arbitrary. So there's a justifiable reason why this island would have the .io TLD, but no justifiable reason why that is also an acronym for Input/Output. There's no particular reason .tv is Tuvalu and also Television. It just worked out that way and some acronyms are more valuable than others.