skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Variant 1:

A friend and I were out of jobs and eager to test an idea we had about local real estate which had the potential to scale. I raised 25k in seed money from family.

That person was more biz/sales oriented and we hired one of our other friend who had experience building software. Both of them became lazy and uninterested after a few months and quit as soon as we ran out of money.

I worked at it for almost a year, alone with a part time admin assistant.

Managed to pay back the seed money and "live through" that year but ended up very tired and still broke.

Variant 2:

One day I get a call from a MBA in a similar industry and he was very excited about the model. I was tired, broke and felt lonely, I easily got convinced to re-launch under a new name for a broader market. (original was in french)

Created a whole new business, new name, new website, new everything. With the technical side mostly handled by me. 3 months in just as we were about to launch the new partner starts arguing all the time and suddently didn't trust me. We were not even putting our new version in front of clients yet and he was panicking.

He forced a shut down of the business. It was the second time I was building this model - was still broke and exhausted.

Variant 3:

I felt relived and thought I'd go work a day job for a little while. Then 3 days later I'm sitting with one of the client of the first business and for him it made such a difference that he trying to convince me to try again and offered 100k in investment.

Worked my ass off again for launch #3 - except this one I was aiming for the stars and had 100k in bank.
Made a huge mistake in hiring technical talent, took us months to get a shitty product out.
Made a huge mistake in hiring admin talent, burnt through 15k until we had to stop working with that person.
And worst, 6 months in, as we're trying to hit it really hard we realize that the real estate markets we were after slowed down dramatically (40%-50% drop in sales)

So we ran a test campaign and indeed, it confirmed a huge drop.

I had to cut on every aspects of the business, let go of hires, go back to the plan and do a lot of thinking. We managed to survive a few months but it was extremely hard to get money out of clients because they knew the market was down and felt like they would waste money by investing in our platform in such a downturn.

We had to pivot our business model and our client approach multiple times in the last 3 months. Which in retrospective brought me tremendous knowledge and made us try new innovative tactics to help my clients and show them that we could be trusted.

Slowly but surely we've started to generate revenue and I'm proud to say that in the last few weeks we've actually hit our target, we're no longer digging ourselves in a hole.

I'm now still completely broke but at least I can pay our team every week and I know that it's not just money that we borrowed but money that we earned and I'm confident in our new way of doing things.

Reiteration works. It will get through anything, look at water. And so will I.
Interesting from the FT [1]:

Airbus said although the design was worthwhile enough to protect with a patent — like about 6,000 other ideas its engineers devise every year — it was not an immediate prospect for shuttling passengers from Heathrow to JFK. “This is not something that’s currently under active development,” Airbus said.

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ba80c518-6492-11e4-b219-00144...
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Also, out of all the "leaders" on the anti-GG side, I can't think of a single one that could be described as a "social justice warrior". Neither Wu, Sarkeesian, nor anyone else has ever said that all men are bad, called people "shitlords", advocated censorship, or done anything else attributed to "SJWs". From my perspective, they have tried very hard to maintain civil and reasonable discourse, even in the face of this GG onslaught.
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As others have said I'm fairly certain that you're breaking a trademark with your naming. I'd also suggest redesigning the websites interface, it's confusing and not usable on a mobile device.
Perhaps people will rediscover the value of standard protocols and platforms that allow for competing client AND server implementations.

Or not.
I like the idea of functional programming in C++, but unfortunately, you would have to write an entirely different (non-standard) library for that to work. For example, from the article:

template <typename Collection,typename unop>
void for_each(Collection col, unop op){
std::for_each(col.begin(),col.end(),op);
}

...I like the pass-by-value syntax here, but it just won't work with the standard library, at least not the one in C++14. If you pass a vector into this function, you'll be creating a copy of the vector (!), then operating on the copy of the vector (!!). Then there is the question of what for_each does if it isn't manipulating state or performing I/O. In either case, you would not want an 'unop', you would want some sort of monad.

For a more complete perspective on this sort of thing, I recommend Eric Neibler's blog and Bartosz Milewski's blog. Here's somewhere to start. You'll find Neibler's blog linked from there:

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/17/c-ranges-are-pure-mona...
When you wrote that, did you know that if the sticky-keys setting is set and you accidentally hit a modifier key, then you can undo that by hitting the key 2 more times?

(I've been using OS X's sticky-keys setting with Emacs for years, BTW.)
This distinction is already visible today in our field. Looking at my batch of CS grads, there's clear divide between people who took on riskier positions or joined startups and people who continued to do what they were already good at. A few years after graduation, and this divide is already fairly stark - with people in the former being exponentially better than when they left school, and people in the latter not growing significantly.

The best people in CS are no different than the best workers/athletes in any field. The challenge for the next few decades will be to see how we can improve the pedagogy at Universities to help people learn to learn better.
One wonders about the mass accretion over billions of years.
This is Wired's repost of Kathy Sierra's "Trouble at the Koolaid Point". It was previously posted on HN about a month ago, but I missed it then. I think it's very well written and it seems especially topical today.
Most schools do this. I once heard it's to make room for sports after school, as jr. varsity and varsity teams start to become a big deal.
Someone needs to implement the garbage collector and virtual machine.
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Announced 18 months ago: http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Changes_to_the_Public...
Why do you believe that? It seems unlikely.
Yes, once. Not once per lock free algorithm.
http://www.omdbapi.com/

http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/
One way would be to fire an entangled photon down both ends of fibre optic cable in the middle. On the sending end you could observe/ ignore it, and on reviving end you'd observe it.

We'd have to develop cables capable of preserving the entangled state of light particles, and a beam splitter that's more reliable. You could improve the bandwidth considerably by measuring the polarisation of the particle, even more if you could somehow encapsulate the entangled photon for a given period of time.
The quantity of diligence is usually proportional to the size of the deal.
> It's broken because many people correctly calculate that the impact of their individual vote has less value than the cost of physically voting, and even less so than the cost of educating themselves about the candidates and issues.

Agreed but that becomes an issue if everyone thinks and behaves like that. That is, if individually everyone goes through the same thought process concluding that voting is not worthwhile for them on an individual basis what happens is that no one votes. There is an inflection point below which votes do actually matter.

> democracy in general is a bad way to aggregate the preferences of a large and diverse group of people.
That may be true. The question then becomes what is a better way to "aggregate the preferences of a large and diverse group of people" ? Perhaps, such an aggregation is not practically possible.
Well, what's missing is that if you're a dude, it might be hard to believe that men can behave this way towards women in everyday life, even in the 21st century. Problem is, this stuff is mostly hidden from us. Remember that 10-minute street harassment video from a few weeks ago? Turns out, it's fairly representative.

Do some reading in this thread and see if it puts things into perspective: http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading#2777344

After realizing that, yes, this stuff happens to women all the time, it's not hard to extrapolate this behavior to the internet, where people are bigger targets and harassers are even more anonymous.
They only said all male gamers are bad, right? I guess that's OK then, at least they didn't say all men are bad. Who likes gamers anyway.
In case this wasn't obvious to you, Netflix is not the internet's friend, fun examples include:

- Browser DRM (making it impossible to produce a fully functional AND open source browser)

- HDCP-for-sockets (e.g., to replace HTTPS with something they can tie to platform DRM-protected key exchange -- http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/10/message-security-layer-m...)

... and now this.
I grew up, and still currently live, right in the middle of strawberry-land (South San Luis Obispo and North Santa Barbara counties). I grew up in Oceano, which has a lot of strawberry fields and migrant farm workers (I went to one of the few bilingual elementary schools at the time).

A few observations/anecdotes related to strawberries and pesticides:

- The strawberry "season" here is now much longer. It used to be that in early April all the local farms would open their roadside stands within a week of each other. They would all shut down around the same time too. Many of them now open in February or March and sell strawberries into early Fall.

- The strawberries now look and taste different than they did when I was a kid (i.e. the 1980s). They used to be smaller, sweeter and red all the way through. The strawberries you get now are often white inside (unripe?), less sweet and much larger. There is one local farm [1] whose strawberries are so big it's freaky.

- Some friends of mine lived in a neighborhood surrounded by strawberry and other other produce fields. Frequent dust, migraines and illness forced them to sell their house and move to another part of the county. Purely anecdotal of course but they are convinced pesticides were partly to blame.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Okui-Strawberry-and-Fruit-Sta...
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How do you conclude is thanks to "toxic masculinity"? And not something else? BTW the slipery slope in such term is revolting, otherwise can you give me an example of common toxic femininity?
Nice answer, thank you. Rose my interest to study some quantum mechanics to figure out how exactly this can happen.
As much as I love Boston, SF is not the only other city in the world, and both cities are extremely atypical. The graduates are likely leaving for a place where they can get a $49,500 salary and a $700 apartment.

EDIT: and your percentages are wrong: try 48% of gross for BOS and 60% of gross for SF. Figure 40% for taxes and you have either very little for food, insurance, medical care, transportation, clothing, entertainment or you're already negative. Oh, and I forgot: STUDENT LOANS.
And now we have 10.1. You're speaking nonsense.
Thank you very much for a great link! I am using emacs for almost everything I do, and I've naturally learned a lot about it, and I was planning for a long time to start seriously learning some in-depth things.

I've just recently learned the basics of lisp, this will be the perfect time to find out more about emacs. It is fantastic, and every time I discover some new feature it blows my mind how great and useful it is.
> With modern C++ you can use value semantics with move semantics to get same performance as pass by reference.

That's overly simplistic. To enjoy the benefits of move semantics you need something to move from. If you call for_each from the article with an lvalue, you will end up making a copy (and it'll be up to the compiler to do something about that).
>"There's no affordable housing, and median salaries for most graduates are nowhere near commensurate with the cost of living in the Boston metro area." Certainly no worse than San Fran, at least.

So, certainly no worse than the single least affordable city in the entire country.

>As to the rest of the comment, how has Boston hurt you?

Honestly, I just kinda hate cold climate zones, especially when they're snobby while also offering low quality of life. But mostly I just really hate cold climates.
Of course, for their part, Europeans -- especially the Dutch, Finns and all of Scandinavia -- are very fond of ammonium chloride, used to make salty liquorice (often called salmiakki), which Americans generally seem to detest. What people grow up with matters a lot to what they find palatable.
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Kinda agree with this flippant response, but then again, if you need speed such that you care about lock free algorithms, you are likely using one of the very fast languages, and few of these offer a garbage collector.
I should have put "off topic" in my comment, but I thought it was obvious since I didn't mention a pesticide or depression. I just thought my comment might be of interest to anyone that would be reading the post.
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my 2¢ - http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Emacs
How does that make it wrong? Obviously people are willing to pay that much for those solutions, otherwise they would lower their prices.
Will there be windows in the doughnut hole?
At least these news reminded me that I wanted to pull the plug on the membership for a long time, so I just did that. Not in the protest but because selection (in Canada at least) is abysmal. I wonder how many people relied on 3rd party software to manage and view their Netflix and whether it causeS number of cancellations to be big enough for them to notice.
Still wouldn't be much use for communicating. The observer would just see random photons.
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Did I miss something? What has Twitter done lately for devs?
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> there's clear divide between people who took on riskier positions or joined startups and people who continued to do what they were already good at.

Not saying you're incorrect, but there might be some survivorship bias to this.
As a man, I have never felt threatened by anything these women have said. On the contrary, I enjoy watching Sarkeesian's videos, since they made me realize just how toxic and passé these tropes were, and how much more interesting our games could be if they went without them. Most recently, I played Valdis Story as Reina, and man, I felt like a badass. I wish more games let me play characters like that.

Perhaps you should examine your insecurities?
Repost (because this gets asked too often):

I defined this for someone else who had the same question a few days ago. There are 4 ways to contribute:

- bugs (find and report them)

- code (the part everyone wants to do)

- docs (the part that everyone should do, but has been given second-class status due to everyone thinking writing code is the only way to feel like you're contributing)

- tests (ever clicked on "button" and everything broke, well if someone wrote a test for the functionality there, it likely wouldn't have)

I urge you to start with the things the pure-coders hate, and that is well-defined, noob-friendly documentation.

You'll never be given the high status of "genius programmer living in basement, changing world", but your documentation and "dumbing that shit down" way of explaining things will sometimes make the project more successful and will carry more weight as far as bringing more users of the code-base.
I'm getting NaN on their "Calculate Lives-At-Risk Score" form.
I think it probably could, if for example the population of athletes was growing the entire time: then with a larger population, the #1 athlete (the person farthest out on the tails) will keep 'setting records'. If you draw from a distribution like the normal distribution 1000 times, the single most extreme datapoint will (almost always) be much more extreme than if you sample just 10 times.

To check this, you'd try to figure out some measure of population of Track & Field athletes (or maybe a crude proxy like entire USA or global population?), apply extreme-value theory to estimate how much the record should increase each year, and see if it undershoots the observed increases.
This is nice and all, but what's your point?

The congress-people you are maligning are not in office.

Meanwhile, the president could fix this easily.

If he's goint to use executive authority this make more sense for that authority than immigration.
What was the app's name? I built the same thing but for Android app about 4 years ago: FixMyQ. It's still a painful use case that I wish they would officially implement, or at least be more transparent about. I always suspected that they didn't/don't want users to focus on movies expiring at all (makes sense). However, rather than educating users as to why this happens, they pulled the info like you mentioned. Such a shame!
Is even near (but slower than) light travel possible? Doesn't your spaceship get destroyed the first time you hit some interstellar dust?
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It looks like 2 exit doors.

On that note, how would this affect the all important question of how to most efficiently board an aircraft?
You want a big block of ice in front of your ship.
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I don't recall this specific circumstance being a problem with lock-free memory allocation. The semantics of malloc itself help you; when someone frees memory, they're asserting that they're allowed to do it. If they use that memory again, then that's their fault, not yours (when we're the one implementing the memory allocator).

We can also avoid this problem because scalable memory allocators try to minimize different threads touching the same parts of the internal data structure. This is counter to, say, trying to implement a lock-free red black tree. There, the whole point is that multiple threads will all touch the same state.

The allocator I worked on maintained lock-free queues for remote frees. We would sometimes deallocate these queues entirely - but we knew this was safe because we would only do it when all of the chunks of memory attached to these queues were free. If there was a dangling pointer somewhere, that was an application error.

Data structures inside memory allocators serve a different purpose than data structures inside typical applications. When you have, say, a tree in your application, you very much care about the actual data stored in it. Your payload - the entire point of having the data structure - is the particular data stored somewhere in the tree. If you want, say, the element with the key "ABCD", then no other element will do. The payload for the data structures in a memory allocator is just chunks of memory. If you're doing an allocation, then any chunk will do. If you're doing a free, you need to free that particular chunk, but you can also assume that no one else will free it.
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tables.chairs.lamps - 340 miles - table.chair.lamps

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FSL3D Announces $10m Investment from SSC to Fuel Rapid Growth in 3D Printing
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – Full Spectrum Laser LLC (FSL), and its FSL3D subsidiary, the rapidly-growing laser and 3D printer engineering and manufacturing company based in Las Vegas, NV, has received a $10 million growth equity investment from Summer Street Capital III, L.P., a Buffalo, NY-based private equity fund.

FSL will use the financing to expand its world-class engineering and R&D teams as well as develop sales, marketing, and customer support initiatives and is actively hiring (www.fsl3d.com/jobs). FSL will accelerate development of their next generation affordable laser cutting / engraving and 3D printing platforms in order to capitalize on the significant market demand for its products.

http://www.fsl3d.com/news/
Renewable in parts.

Consider that Theobroma cacao only grows well and healthy in the shade, in the middle of the rainforest, it's natural habitat, which is increasingly rare or protected land.

It's also grown by small scale farmers, because it's labour intensive, and they don't know/don't care about managing the forest properly, further increasing deforestation, and endangering the crop itself.

Today's practice is to grown it under sunlight, in poor soil, which requires large doses of herbicides and fertilizers, makes it susceptible to diseases and shortens the lifespan of the tree by 1/2.

On top of that, prices have been increasing for the past 10 years, but I've only seen the production go down here in Brazil. We went from exporter to importer. The invisible hand of the market is not fixing it either.

So you can't assume it's sustainable just because it's not oil.
Your proposals are untenable. If my $20,000, which I got from friends and family to buy a backhoe loader for my contracting work, is confiscated for up to 6 months, then that's a huge pain in my life and career. If my car is confiscated then that's a huge impact on my ability to get to work.

If you then "backlog previous periods of unvoted instances into later months with lower number of instances" it becomes worse.

Prohibit civil forfeiture. It's much easier.

If you want citizen oversight, get a citizen review board, and require that the putative owner is allowed to have a public defender. And make sure the public defender's office is sufficiently funded.
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I don't even know how to parse this comment, let alone respond to it. "The congresspeople I'm maligning aren't in office?" That's not how it works.
Out of interest, why ice and not (say) steel?
Because C++ programmers are masochists?
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SPORA: A network testing tool using LXC Containers
My first project in LXC containers.
Uses the lxc bindings in python3 to create containers and apply iptables rules to allow host OS to service multiple types to services. Currently supports http, https, ftp.

Love to hear comments, critique and feedback to make this better. Be nice :)
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Also see cpo.st/1H5EOOx for the science behind it
I made a more superficial version of this argument a year ago: http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad

Edit: "Safety is a characteristic of systems and not of
their components" -- http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fai...
Be careful of DD done prior to a term sheet, as it allows the VCs to retain optionality on your company in a way that is pretty cheap for them and very expensive for you. Arranged calls with bizdev and customer prospects from a VC's rolodex looks like progress but doesn't necessarily mean anything.

I'd love to know how people who are good at this qualify VC prospects and decide what kinds of up-front due diligence to acquiesce to.