skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a hard question to answer. Your prospective investors really aren't going to invest without customer traction. You have no product, and you have just a month's living expenses left.

Even with a hail-mary play that gets you some a semblance of a working product and some users in December, you still won't have a trendline to show investors.

If plodding forward doesn't really cost you anything, because you're basically insolvent anyways, sure, keep plodding forward.

Otherwise: draw up Plan B. Doing something else doesn't mean you can't return to your fantasy sports platform later on. It just means you need to figure out a way to start getting paid, and that needs to be a priority.

Due respect to the rest of the comments on this thread, but how much you believe in yourself really doesn't have much to do with your decision.
I don't recall that ever being the case. And I've used SourceForge since 2005.
I've just realised that my last sentence which you quoted could be read as saying that what is currently being worked on won't be as relevant when it was really intended to mean that there is probably some things that are being done now that will be relevant in the future I just don't know what they are.
Ask HN: Cloud based e-mail extractors
Recently I had to code a component in Rails which extracted contact e-mails from a website for marketing. Basically a list of urls was provided on relevant businesses (<500) and contact e-mails were extracted via Mechanize page parsing and regex matching. Each company is then revetted for relevancy and then contacted.

I was kind of curious if there was any demand for cloud based e-mail extractors for those running saas businesses or otherwise? Or are these the things that are developed in house?
Nah, no automatic highlighting or anything of that sort - just the raw, default, eshell.
One Day, I Will Die on Mars
Straight-up banning them probably isn't productive, because yeah, it's nice to sit back and watch some TV sometimes. It might be a better policy to just limit the amount of consuming time.

My parents had limits on consumer computer/TV time when I was growing up (interestingly, both drew from the same pool of time even before internet TV was A Thing). If I wanted to hop on the computer, I'd always get asked what I was planning on doing with it (and then they'd drop by the computer station later to check in on whether I was actually doing that). If I was doing something educational, like reading up on a hobby, doing schoolwork, or programming, then I wouldn't be subject to any screen-time restrictions (other than those that came with it being a shared computer).

Though to a certain extent, kids just get stroppy if they don't get their way, and sometimes they just need to learn to deal. Which sucks for everyone involved in the short-term, but oh well. :/
It's worth noting that Conjur's SSH solution is built around familiar unix tools like pam-ldap and AuthorizedKeysCommand. Why reinvent the wheel?
I'm surprised no one is complaining about it being split into multiple pages considering this is HN and more inconsequential stuff have been complained about.

I like skimming articles. Got to page 2 and lost interest. If it was all in one page, I may have found something of interest further down and gone back up to read the whole thing.
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nobody's talking about legal contracts. the issue is of good will. the promise github has made is they would provide all kinds of hosting (git, gitsts, pages, whatnot). people move from other solutions to github because the github's promise (again, not a legal contract) is "we're better".

the other half the difficulty of running a business comes from making tacit promises and then acting annoyed that the other side holds you to them.
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Totally agree. This is the direction we are going to head in. We will display existing team members and also how you may compliment/overlap one another.
That the most common case, though, not the exception. You make a CV that highlights your accomplishments, and you make sure you're prepared to dive into technical details during discussions. The hiring company tries to put your through your paces, somehow or other. It's imperfect, but the GitHub profile approach is going to weed out a lot of candidates who you probably ought not to weed out.

By far the most interesting work I'm doing is for my current employer; and it's not OSS (and wouldn't make sense to open source).

In theory, I could cut back on my work-work, and spend more time on side projects; but I have a family, and other interests as well. I'd rather have good overlap between "interesting work" and "work I'm paid for" than sacrifice my time with my kids or my guitar so I can work on interesting technical problems I'm not paid to work on.

For some people this could work out well -- e.g., maybe the crucial and awesome component of your company's infrastructure that you're building can be open-sourced! -- but for lots of other people life simply won't line up that way, and building something serious (but a personal project) on GitHub in your spare time means you don't have spare time for anything else in life... I wouldn't demand that of myself, or of anyone I was hiring.
clickable - http://codesouthlabs.com
Plan9 is more into distributed systems than everything written with json/rest.
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Show HN: Apps You'll Love – Community-curated App Discovery
Top 5 Data Science Incubators and Accelerators
Ruby Book Giveaway Extravaganza: POODR, Clean Ruby and More
SUSE invests in software-defined storage
Without, all the time, bothering to read the article, and asking here something that no-one here could know, because it's not in the article. If you really wanted to know, you could have mailed the author.

Boy, do you deserve these downvotes.
Perhaps antivirus deployment on Linux is low enough that they simply didn't encounter the Linux version. One fairly telltale thing would be if there were indications of a platform abstraction layer, but the report does not mention anything like that.
Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Drug Now Exceeds $2.5B?
I like University of Cambridge Naked scientists: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/
It's a podcast about weekly new science stuff from new papers nature etc. Usually they call the author or someone who knows his stuff. Podcast is made with PhD students for general public.
Great thorough write up, and awesome hack.
regarding the "community curated" aspect: what's the incentive for someone to spend 2 mn adding a coupon to your site?
Ubuntu is pretty much there. The only reason Ubuntu can't do some things is because of the requirement of Flash and DRM, both of which are obsolete or overbearing technologies we should avoid.

>it's hard for me to attribute it to anything else than lack of leadership from FOSS community.

So when it's a consortium of multi-billion dollar tech companies with massive R&D budgets, political connections and marketing dollars, it's FOSS's fault. OK.
The shopping/gallery angle is unlikely to work out, because Apple bans third-party stores of all kinds from their App store, and blocks end users from installing native apps from anywhere other than the App store.
Give up. Your current team is incompetent. They are padding their resume with node/angular experience at your expense. They should have a working demo after 2 months.
The most interesting part about this device is that it apparently has support for Android apps with restricted permissions, as has been requested by Android enthusiasts for roughly forever, and implemented in CyanogenMod. Seems that Cyanogen did the relatively simple thing of just disabling the permission. I wonder if this works the same way, or if they implemented what I've always wanted to see - faked permissions. Like if the app wants to request your contact list and you restrict that, instead of the app trying, throwing an exception, and dying, it just gets passed back an empty contact list, or a fake location, or the system tells it that its SMS was sent but actually ignores it.
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Anyone care to take a crack at this SO question?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26811628/performance-of-n...
If you water in the middle of the day, you'll lose more water to evaporation before it can soak into the soil.
Terrorists Get a Phone Upgrade
I'm a huge fan of lo-dash, but might switch to Ramda. Here's a rundown:

http://bahmutov.calepin.co/lodash-to-ramda-example.html
Pivot Today: Keep your team together, assuming they're good guys. Find some contract development work to bring cash-in. Carve out time to work on your e-sports platform as a side project.
Recommend reading Alan Weiss on acquiring clients> http://www.amazon.com/How-Acquire-Clients-Techniques-Practit...
A lawn doesn't need a constant mist, it needs a couple of inches of water a couple of times a week. Dew is unlikely to accumulate to that depth. Watering in the morning reduces evaporation.
Thanks! That one already had an issue filed: https://github.com/mailpile/www.mailpile.is/issues/9

;-)
There's one awesome thing that is apparent here which is that you already know the answer to your question. Read your words: "boring details", "hired away", "not much progress", "developer doubts", "find a replacement", "too early", "need usage stats", "able to make rent", "stress is getting to me", "shut the whole thing down".

Your last comment is the most telling: "Giving up is way harder than trying."

When I say something is hard, what I mean is that it challenges and scares me. I live my life by one motto now: do the thing that scares you the most. It's worked so far for me - good things are happening already.

I think you should try doing what scares you the most. Is that keeping on keeping on, or quitting?
Interesting. I do have a couple piping runs near the wall in the basement that might not be a terrible idea for. Just like with computer systems, I'm always debating the depth of backup and types of failure modes it's worth spending money on.
Morning dew is not enough to consider your lawn watered. Typically you want a few inches of saturated soil for watering.

As for why it's not "ideal" to run sprinklers in the middle of the day, the idea is that if you water early in the morning, then all of your sunlight hours beat on watered grass. If you just started watering in the afternoon, your grass has already been in prime morning sunlight without the watered soil to boost growing. It's not necessarily bad, it's just not ideal.
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* Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) by Sandy Metz

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Safari Online has also graciously contributed a 6 month subscription for every winner.

I'm also giving $50 in each winners' name to The Ada Initiative or another tech charity of your choice.

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No, it's not a one-way communications scheme. It's a connectionless communications scheme, and no more vulnerable to spoofing than the connection oriented protocols.
Top Security Threats for 2015
User continence works great until someone figures out how to get lesspipe called automatically...

'I would never run bash manually on unsanitized input from HTTP requests!' [years pass] /shellshocked!
Does anyone else feel that Radiolab is incredibly over-produced? I've tried to get into it several times, but the fast cuts (after pretty much every sentence it cuts to another speaker) somehow make me nervous. I guess I'm just more into longer talk shows.
Trying to ride the wave: I have written about functional programming in javascript, see blog posts http://bahmutov.calepin.co/tag/functional.html - Ramda is great!
Agreed. A business relationship is more like personal relationships than I think some technical people think. Pointing at the contract is a failure condition.
Great read.

A big difference emerges in how young folks develop their skills are developed when spending one's time as a creating vs. consuming novelty/distraction in mindless screen time.

We know the path of seeking/consuming novelty and distraction is a limited way of engaging both abstract and critical thinking skills when imagining how the hardware/software/network stack comes together. There's lots of studies on gaming (I was a voracious gamer until it got in the way of my creation and learning time), but I'd wonder if spending time in someone else's virtual worlds helps people get out there and solve real world problems.

In a way, learning by seeing, and mastering a C64 is a timeless experience, only we don't have many C64's today as true, starter computers.

It's where projects like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and others are so exciting, but there's little like seeing a physical floppy drive spin up and being witness to so many more steps in slow motion.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Especially if you have ever been to one of those large Postal Centers. There are cameras everywhere, with signs saying you are being recorded.

The interesting thing is an article in today's WSJ, where the incoming Postmaster Megan Brennan claims to want to "act like private sector". If that's the case, they should be much more hostile to surveillance requests a la Twitter, Facebook.

The article is here http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-postmasters-goal-act-like...
How Smartphone Apps Can Treat Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
I'm not sure that listing all the features Nitra has and Rascal doesn't (or the other way around) is going to help make my point, so you're going to have to do with just one.
Clearly ARM sees an opportunity for synergy with PolarSSL. I've built a few services on top of ARM based SOC and being able to fully utilize on onboard cryptographic coprocessor for file serving applications can be a performance challenge.

There are some options [http://www.altechnative.net/2011/05/22/hardware-accelerated-...] for getting openssl hardware accelerated on common arm boards, but it could be made much easier to get a performant configuration if PolarSSL and ARM worked together.

I hope that this acquisition will pave the way to an encrypted internet of things.
Angular is a result of the over-engineering that is endemic to web development right now. Programmers are taking strategies designed by Google and Facebook and places that actually need the high level of conventions prescribed by software like Angular and applying it to their personal blog, their half-done only on github "startup," etc.

JavaScript isn't really a good place to adopt convention - you're dealing in a mixed-code environment almost from the start, speed is constantly an issue if you're doing something complex, and there's no such thing as "one size fits all."

I've looked at almost every JavaScript framework out there, and they really don't offer much more than what you would get out of a very lightweight jQuery (or your library of choice) abstraction. I want very much to find something that is as useful as the programming friction it introduces, but I haven't really found anything that meets that criteria yet. React seems to be very good at face value, but in general it isn't saving you nearly the amount of code that you might hope it does. Ember is probably the best at this, but it has its own tradeoffs (namely speed).
Elon Musk – Our Savior, the Supervillain
User Onboarding Checklist – Designing the New User Experience (NUX)
Reusing phones as VR displays, as in this project and in Google Cardboard, is nice from a cost perspective. But from a quality perspective I think it's a step wrong direction. VR that's a little bit wrong or inferior is not almost as good; it's VR that some people can't use because it'll make them sick. This might match the current generation (if the latency is good enough), but the current generation isn't quite good enough, and the next iterations of VR are heading in directions that phone-in-a-box setups can't realistically follow.
Myself and Shane MacDougall spoke of trustmarks at both BSidesLV and Toorcon several years ago, introducing a tool against some industry backlash, Oizys, to troll through all the trustmark placeholders we could find, logging when detecting a change in the trustmark during subsequent runs. Typically there were several reasons why a trustmark would change: the site was no longer secure from the perspective of the vendor scan tool (modified nessus?), or maybe the vendor was no longer under contract (the bill hasnt been paid to the vendor). The easiest thing to look for was a transparent gif where previously there was a non-transparent one. This can also be done with your favorite search engine, with some thought, but i am glad to see this getting some additional attention.
Github now uses the lexer framework from TextMate and SublimeText. If your language community happens to use those editors, then you are fine.

For Racket 99% uses either DrRacket or Emacs. This implies that the lexer deployed is very rudimentary.

Any pointers besides the TextMate documentation for writing lexers are welcome.
There's a growing open source keyboard community built around keyboards like the ErgoDox using the Teensy Microcontroller. Keyboards are surprisingly easy to build from scratch by hand.
Brain Scans Show Dogs Think of Humans as Family More Than Fellow Dogs
This is great. When my daughter was 11 and wanted a 'computer for her room' I gave her a VAX[1]. She had a lot of fun learning a bit of C programming and playing advent and rogue. And I had realized that for me and my generation we had these very accessible computers of that time and my kids did not. I think some of that need is being met by RasPi's and Arduinos (look at how successful the Kano Kickstarter was [2])

When you talk about folks like Gates or Jobs or Woz or pretty much anyone from the early PC days, the stuff they "learned" on was pretty straight forward. Any high school kid could write a driver for an ISA card in DOS, that is certainly possible in Linux but I find the learning curve to be much higher. And without those little triumphs to keep you going it is hard to stick with it.

[1] A VAX 4000/VLC which is a really compact and nice VAX, running netbsd.

[2] http://www.kano.me/
Repeat after me:

I won't link to sites i suspect being compromised.
I won't link to sites i suspect being compromised.
I won't link to sites i suspect being compromised.
I won't link to sites i suspect being compromised.
...
Edx has a course in functional programming using Haskell. I haven't taken it yet but I'm going over Christmas.
Comparing Angular with PHP doesn't strike me as entirely fair; Angular, whatever else one might say about it, has a high degree of conceptual consistency in its internals, whereas PHP, for all that it's improved over the past few years, remains an utter farrago and likely always will. Comparing Angular with Laravel might be more reasonable, but my lack of knowledge of the latter framework forbids me from commenting further on the comparison.
Google case over online abuse settled
Uber is riding high in app usage
OCaml Briefly
Gamification – where did it all go wrong?
This is what people were saying not too long ago on Windows when we'd complain that the apps didn't work if the user running them wasn't a local admin. Now you'd be hard pressed to find non-legacy software that doesn't work as a non-admin. In the commercial world, pressure can be brought down from on high - executives and IT purchasers discriminating against shitty software. What about FOSS? If the community has a 'meh' attitude with SELinux then things won't be easily SELinux compatible because devs don't give a shit. The same way most devs don't give a shit about most security related topics.

I'm really worried that Linux has become a liability. The lax security practices of the culture its part of are obvious. What now? Do we migrate to OpenBSD? I've been considering this at work. It just seems that the culture surrounding OpenBSD just takes security more seriously.

The idea that we can just put a application on the internet sounds dangerous to me. If its isn't hardened by something like apparmor/selinux and also behind some kind of application-level firewall (or at least snort), then we're just asking for trouble. Something has to change. The status quo is now failing us. How many high-priority patches have there been in the FOSS world this year?

Sadly, I worry more about my linux machines than my windows machines.
The people who started this comment thread claim to have skipped your content so they could critique everything else. I wouldn't take it too seriously. I found your content cleanly presented and interesting.
the match aspect made me think of tinder, too
To be honest, using replaceState for this doesn't seem to make sense to me. A user would probably want to go backward and forward through this using browser history navigation (for instance using the navigation buttons on their mouse).

If you're launching a link from a page you expected to come back to, surely opening the link in a new tab would be the way to accomplish this?
Seems inactive -- http://zonino.co.uk/jobs/latest "No matching jobs found", and copyright 2013?
Except:

1. Apparently it watches all of /etc, not just /etc/init,

2. Which means that writing large-enough config changes in some part of /etc you thought was completely unrelated to init can unexpectedly take down your box.

That's not good, and not something that can be dismissed as "of course superusers can turn the box off".
* Incurable diseases

* Mass killings of human beings by other human beings (whatever be the reason, whatever they are called)

* Mismanagement of global food inventory, as mentioned by others

* Inequality between women and men (and others). Existing solutions are not customized for cultures/communities.
1) Find out where people who run cron jobs hang out

2) Figure out what they care about

3) Engage them to figure out what problems they have

4) Figure out if/how your app helps them solve the problems they have and show them how you can make their lives better

5) Repeat steps 1-4 indefinitely.
Nice, I wonder where have those flip flops been hiding so far..
Pretty sure that Marco is investing in Blumberg himself though. He says that in the episode interviews.
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Community spirit is important here. Share coupons and get Kudos from other members, much like Redditors go to the trouble of posting stories and images.
It's because the rate of evaporation is highest during the noon hours. Water utilities regularly ask people to water their lawns in the early morning or evening to reduce wasting water to evaporation before it can be soaked in by the grass itself.
Fish is chess slang for a weak player. An older term would have been woodpusher. Patzer would be about the same in German, which provides several other commonly used chess terms like zugzwang and zwischenzug.
Calling Out Bill Cosby’s Media Enablers, Including Myself
I really would have expected a highlighter written in Coffeescript to do a better job highlighting Coffeescript.

https://github.com/atom/highlights#using-in-code

(Generic identifier looks the same as class identifier looks the same as a property in an object literal looks the same as a string. I guess maybe orange is just the color used left of an equal or colon, but in that case the string color should be different.)
This is the canonical article I point people to when this question comes up: http://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-develop-for-the-mac.html

Evan is a frequent contributor here on HN and it's also worth reading most of his other articles/posts as well.
If ops can't keep critical systems secured, then it doesn't matter what approach you take.
Are there any lawyers on here that can comment on the legality of this? It sounds like this is against article four of the US constitution.
You should build products for Gordon Gekko and the 1%
Econtalk podcast is excellent if you are interested in economics.

http://www.econtalk.org/