skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great comment. I have been in the OP's position. In fact, I technically kind of am in the OP's position (again) right now.

Personally (and forgive my language), when I look into what lead to the situation and what could have been done differently, my perspective on what happened changes as time goes on.

For me, stage one is "I'm a fucking failure whose head is so completely full of shit that I could make a fortune selling manure". Stage one is great fun because it is when I look at every single choice that I made and find the negative in it. This stage is completely irrational and is likely a symptom of mental illness. My brain usually just lies to me during stage one, so I usually prefer to get the most mindless job imaginable (delivering pizza is amazing) and spend my days listening to vinyl, reading books and lifting weights. I am in my late 30s, so this is a little too close to the plot of American Beauty for even my comfort, but so it goes.

Stage two is where the real growth starts. It is the "I'm a fucking failure because" stage. My startup post-mortems tend to come out of this stage - they are a point where I begin to focus on the particular choices that killed off my startup. All of the noise and ambiguity of stage one is gone, the emotional pain is still there, but it has been dulled by the knowledge that nobody can screw up 100% of the time.

Stage three is the "I learned..." stage and is the place where I feel ready to (as you eloquently say) rise 'above the median'. This is the stage where I realize that I actually did something...it didn't work out, but most crazy ventures fail. I did something, I earned my skin, and nobody can ever take that away from me. Strangely, in stage three, I usually laugh at how naive my startup post-mortem was.

The OP likely can't stop analyzing what went wrong, but at this point, it is just as likely that his/her brain isn't telling him/her the truth. This sounds like his/her first business and, I know that this is hard to believe, but it will get better. This feeling of failure will turn into a profound learning experience that will propel him/her above the median.

Once again though, excellent comment and huge respect for focusing on the positive!!
You need a Brompton folding bicycle.
He must keep it updated, as it now references Go.
That is one beautiful book. I've read it twice so far, and it remains on my read again list. I wish you much happiness in the years ahead.
Alchemists Code
I found this one rather ironic: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/70993

> "Subject: SPE Email Retention Policy

> Email Retention

> SPE’s email retention period is two years."

They might want to rethink that. Or perhaps use encryption.

> "There should be no expectation of privacy when you use SPE’s email system"

Indeed.

I don't condone this leak. But it's explicitly stated in their policy that these emails should not be considered private. They might want to rethink that one too.
pls write up Lancey's Law. Then we shall put it on Urban Dictionary. Then we shall feast on Internets for 1000 years.
It's also used for the comments at robots.thoughtbot.com
> This is not exactly correct... "At least 10,000 Euros of capital that you were required to invest in the company.

You are completely correct, as is lultimouomo, but I skipped over the exact details - this article was aimed at a broader audience than those interested in the technical details of Italian company formation.
This would mean that less than 25% of songs start on the root chord. That can't be true. I would expect a distribution of about 90% 1 chord with a smattering of others taking up the rest.
I agree, phones have taken the same course too. Replaceable battery used to be a line-item in the feature list, but seems like nobody cares about it anymore. When people need more power they just get one of those battery cases.

This thing is underpowered and overpriced, right now, just as the Macbook Air was when it launched. And it's being ridiculed to some extent for those reasons, just as the Macbook Air was when it launched. I think it will be pretty nice in another couple cycles.
Great that you are a Spacemacs user now and glad that you like my tutorials.

So, could you be more specific about how vim-sexp works? If you want to visual select sexp from symbol and expanding outward, uses expand-region: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el. Same for string. Then you can use smartparens: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens to wrap around by simply pressing "(". It is all in Spacemacs now, and you can explore further with evil-lisp-state commands, bound to ", k".
This reads like a press release rather than a news article. It also doesn't explain the business very well other than "uber for tutors" - it mentions that Tutree hires tutors that are "top of their class"..but how? Spam them with email? Provide a good amount of $$?

Also how does it solve all the problems listed:

- "like sending emails" [how is this a problem?]

- "making sure you hire a tutor worth the money" [they never mention how they solve this]

- "finding a place to study" [Tutree mentions the tutor and student can then meetup at a place of their choosing...so what's different than before?]

- "finding someone cheap" [doesn't this mean you'll have a hard time retaining and hiring new tutors?]

> Among the many tutoring services out there, only a few stand out like Kumon, Khan Academy, Princeton Review, Wyzant, and Tutor.com. However, among all of there, not one company really meets the needs of college students. Most students enjoy and learn more during an in-person tutoring session. Tutree solves that problem.

If i recall correctly, most if not all universities offer some sort of free tutoring - either through learning facilities or professional organizations. Not to mention the many fliers posted throughout the walls of people marketing themselves for various tutoring.

What Tutree seems to really be solving is the "my homework/project/test is on Monday, and i need a tutor this weekend to help me through it" - they should be much more honest about this otherwise many may have trouble truly trusting what comes off as bullshit. The on-demand tutor is really a great service that can demand good/high service costs due to the very nature of how stressing college can be at times - but the title is wrong, this isn't "disrupting education", only attempting to find a better way to market what's already available.
I was counting U.S. civilian casualties from Al Quaeda on 9/11 against civilian casualties in Iraq + Afghanistan with all figures coming from my highly imperfect memory. There are a number of obvious reasons why this comparison isn't entirely appropriate, I can think of a number of more appropriate comparisons, and you can probably do a better job than I. But before you rise to the occasion, let's re-focus on the core argument.

My claim: We (the US) are unmatched in our ability to "export our agenda" by "using technology to slaughter civilians." Terrorists do the same thing just on a much smaller scale. A direct comparison is appropriate, as is dismissing their relative contribution to the civilian death toll by calling them "pesky hut-dwellers."
Just out of curiosity, do you know the marginal costs of hosting a free private repo? How much of your upkeep costs are hosting free repos vs paid?
around 32 in my opinion.
Hey that's awesome! What are you building these days?

Also, did you ever contact those folks back?
> Fiona Ramsey, the director of communications for Peers... added: “We worry the share economy will cease to exist if these cases are successful.”

> That worry may be exaggerated, however. Deep-pocketed companies like Uber, which has raised nearly $5 billion in venture capital since launching, could surely afford the additional expense of putting drivers on its payroll.

What a silly argument! Raising a ton of money in venture capital doesn't mean that the business model itself is profitable, and in the long run that's what matters. If the profitability of the entire business model is built on illegal classification of workers, then the model is a failure (within this legal framework, at least) and won't work.

Either change the law or change the model, but something will have to change.
> NoSQL is a database choice now, a worse choice in my opinion.

If that's legitimately your opinion on that topic then I suggest you expand your knowledge.

NoSQL databases aren't slot in replacement for SQL databases. However, for what they're good at they're REALLY good at it. Namely highly scalable, Document Storage (or "blobs"), and incredibly low latency reads.

Keep in mind that NoSQL doesn't mean schemaless. You can have a schema and be NoSQL, and that is the direction most NoSQL databases are moving into (or have moved into).
That argument could be made about a site like pastebin that just hosts user content. But they went to a lot of trouble to present journalistic integrity over the Snowden affair. You can't have it both ways. If they were not trying to be "good" there would not be any justification to publish the data at all.
Halo: Spartan Strike Now Available, Will Cost $6 with No Microtransactions
The funny thing is that Atlassian, whose HipChat had a few years lead on Slack, was only (?) valued at $3.3bn last year for their whole suite of products

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7554904
and before them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
WebRTC on IE & Safari > Today, no other choice than a Plugin.
As far as I know, only one enable WebRTC locally, unbundled from any platform:
http://Skylink.io/plugin

WebRTC Platform as a Service (a-z):
- http://Bistri.com (uses Skylink Plugin)
- http://Tokbox.com (plugin for IE)
- http://Sightcall.com (driver for IE & Safari)
- http://Skylink.io (plugin for IE & Safari)
- http://Twilio.com
- http://Voximplant.com

Looking for a list of all the WebRTC solutions?
https://webrtcindex.com
A history of different screw drives
I had to use this feature at a former job. I have a Github account with several open-source projects running, so the mixing of public and private repositories in the same account was annoying. I could've created a different account but then I'd have to juggle two different accounts all the time. Oh, and this private repository was on another account, so I think I wouldn't have been able to fork it onto my account without "forking out" some cash for Github, because private repos cost money. So the triangular workflow with pull requests would've been out of the question.
Wow, I got a shout-out in this!

"Adding real-time effects dock and automation would involve a major rewrite of the audio engine (not to mention redesigning the UI), something like what Joshua Haberman started years ago with the Mezzo project, right?"

Indeed, Mezzo was my effort at creating a really clean API between the audio engine and UI. I'm amazed that the interviewer knew about it; I didn't get far enough to actually merge it into the main tree, and this must have been 10 years ago. (EDIT: I missed that the interviewer was Alexandre Prokoudine, a member of the Audacity team from 2002-2012!)

Hacking on Audacity was how I spent a lot of my time in college (2000-2004). I was incredibly fortunate to find it and meet Dominic Mazzoni as early as I did. I had no idea the project would make it so big. When I found Audacity it was pretty much just Dominic hacking on it, and it had few users. I made a Debian package for it and Dominic asked if I was interested in helping out on the coding too.

One of the coolest experiences for me was when we had an Audacity hackathon in 2005 or so. Monty (of Xiph fame) was really into Audacity at the time, and I picked him up at the airport and took him to Matt Brubeck's place (mbrubeck here on HN) in Seattle. We met up with Dominic and Matt and a guy from Germany whose name I can't remember.

One funny anecdote. Audacity uses 3-space indents, which is incredibly unusual. Almost every other project does 2 or 4 spaces. Matt tells me (I don't actually remember this myself) that this was because Dominic and I had a disagreement over whether to use 2 or 4. We compromised on 3. I honestly can't even remember what side of that disagreement I would have been on. :)
It's fascinating that he doesn't say self-teach yourself programming in ten years.

I think he's wrong about the telegraph taking 10 years to master.
Pretty awesome article. Wish I understood more about what impact this discovery will have on computing. Will this mean faster cameras and higher FPS when shooting video?
Oops, Apple Watch won't be in stores later this month
It's so good that some people call it a Vim re-implementation, not an emulator.
Zed comes off as (and probably is) an actual badass

I think you may be using some different definition of "badass" than the rest of us.
... What?!
I wouldn't say 12-15€/day is a cheap rental. And these are the prices you find everywhere.

A lot of tourists are buying their bikes on flea markets instead and just leave them unlocked on the street before leaving. The bikes are probably then "recycled".
Which probably makes them much better. 99.9% of what the press does is waste of precious resources at best, and quite often socially harmful activity.
Kinds of Continuity
Google’s April Fool’s prank inadvertently broke their security
If this was done on the blues the chart might not be as diverse....
"P.S. The rest of the TPP, however, is just hunky dory to my member companies. Sony's consumer electronics division can not wait to sue the living shit out of the next country that tries to institute an environmental impact assessment on one of its devices. Woot!"
Show HN: My reading list website
21 days is way too short, but 10 years is a bit too pessimistic. 2 years...?
Avoid a Canonical Data Model
So you would be cool with all your employers records being available to the world.

Or MR X has a medical condition - congrats your insurance premiums just went up 100% - and possibly your kids in the future if its genetic
I missed the part where the boy claims to be a Jedi, so the response read differently to me.

Ok, but that brings up another question. Is this a change in policy for all Jedi, or a special dispensation just for this boy?
@RossM: We will definitely be supporting additional languages. Happy to take input on the order...
@vegasje: VPC tunneling is a frequent customer ask and is on the roadmap.
> You put the whole thing on Github, yet, you ask for a monthly fee?

Yes, we've been doing this a lot lately. Nothing to stop you from running your own server, we're charging for our deployment.

> So, this is basically like gitter, but for any site?

Medium-style comments.
Agreed. I don't know why, but your post reminds me of the part of Cryptonomicon where the intellectuals sit around the table and nod incessantly as their Academic Prince derides the Internet because of who created it. The privileged academics who benefit from a very expensive education speaking ill of the privileged and expensive Internet infrastructure.
Ask HN: Should an engineer marry a doctor?
What is your real life experience about this? Does these professions have any effect on marriage at all?
Wiping out shareholders is entirely different from wiping out depositors though, entirely different.
4 of the current Grid K520 GPUs in a single instance, at 4x the price (on-demand and spot) of the of the g2.2xlarge.
Shame they're not also rolling out a Maxwell hardware-backed instance type.
Server-side is very big - in fact, a long time ago the part called simply "the Big" got too big and now there are multiple Bigs.
The burden of proof is on the cynic, not the person who is citing sources.
Expensive. That's basically it. We are using Bitbucket for that reason. We aren't a large team, but we do have quite a few repos. On Github we'd be paying $50-100 per month, on Bitbucket we pay nothing. Not a big deal for a heavily funded company, but we're bootstrapping for the most part, so it's a big deal for us.

Of course that might not be a sustainable state of affairs in a big picture sense, but it works for us for right now.
Using Go's interfaces at Clever – more than just easy collaboration
> No. Having a byte-code interpreter which is essentially an assembly language allows you to create any type system you want. It is wwhen you require interop with an existing type system that you are constrained.

Not with anywhere near decent performance.
The Woman in Green: A Chinese Ghost Tale from Mao to Ming, 1981-1381 (2013)
No clue how valid their standing is, but here's some coverage of the (planned?) lawsuits:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/20/bbc-featured-bloc...

http://www.notpauciloquent.net/2015/03/20/theblockbot-is-bei...

I haven't followed it closely enough to know the status of any suits.
PI: Faith in Chaos
@dewitt

So there are a few nuanced points that I think we disagree on. Together they add up to a lot.

First, you seem to object to this leak on the grounds that "due process" forbids it. I agree. I just don't think due process should apply. The press is not the judiciary, they don't have the same responsibilities and duties.

Second, and (I think this is something wikileaks consistently fails to clarify) Wikileaks is press. They are publishing information from a confidential source. The source may be a data thief, the data owner or a whistleblower (terrorist or freedom fighter?) but that's a judgement about whoever leaked the data, not wikileaks. There are some laws and a lot of ethical concerns regarding what the press should and shouldn't publish. There are also laws protecting and empowering the press.

You might berate them for insensitivity, irresponsibility but you can't accuse them of theft, IMO.

The ethical considerations of the press are about balancing things like privacy with newsworthiness and the public's right and need to know. There are definitely emails in here that do not meet that definition. Wikileaks' model is pretty scattergun, but realistically it's the only way to get that kind of volume. I'm not sure where I fall on balance but I would be more wholeheartedly pro-wikileaks if they did a better job of selecting only relevant documents for publication.

I think this is where we disagree the most.

Third, I don't buy the idea that corporations have all rights. A violation of a corporation's right to privacy is not as bad as a violation of an individual's. That'a a whole can of worms in itself, but perhaps we can leave this as a moral disagreement.
http://www.scalastyle.org/

There should be a linter for whatever IDE you happen to be using.
Exploring C# 6 Null Propagation Operator (?.)
Though Pachelbel's Canon is twice as long; it has a iii between the vi and the IV, and a I IV V tacked on the end.
While I see your point do we have to throw the word "hipster" at everything new?.

I'm not a huge fan of Javascript and it's proliferation of frameworks but some of that stuff is objectively both good and useful.
I've been picking up where I left off about a year ago on http://introtopython.org, an open resource for teaching and learning Python. It's based on IPython notebook, so anyone who knows how to work with IPython notebooks can contribute to the project.

I wrote most of the Python Essentials notebooks last year, and then had to focus on other work for a while. Now I'm updating the infrastructure so it plays nicely with IPython 3. Then I get to focus on projects, which will make the site much more useful to people learning Python.

Happy to hear feedback and build collaboration on the project.
Garage Band (and Apple's position as the kings of music) predates iOS and Android. That's my point. Even if Android had good low-latency audio, I doubt that Android would still see the kind of audio-community we see with iOS because Apple is the brand for that sort of thing and has been that since the fruity-iMac-days.
Decker = Docker and Cloud Foundry
Programming in the 21st century equivalent of low carb diets and miracle weight-loss without exercise! Haven't you heard? You can go from novice to ninja in hours! Just pay keep paying us for these carrots.

Mastering any skill in life takes dedication, training and time. Whenever someone promises a shortcut in life, there is usually an ulterior motive.
Openstack breaks a new record for active contributors
Build a profitable business helping to stop hit-and-runs
FBI pulls off hacker from flight who revealed aircraft can be hacked
Which IDEs have good Go support (code complete + debugging)?
> I haven't seen any other language get as much hate as Go does on this site.

While not from the same people or for the same reasons, JavaScript, Dart, and Java all get plenty of hate here. Conversely, Go also gets plenty of love as well as the hate (probably more than any of JS, Dart, or Java does.)

Its high visibility in the community here, so it get lots of attention, positive and negative.
The two justices are inextricably intertwined regardless of their momentary inconsistencies.
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Also, if you have problems, ask the community: https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Do supervised drones make sense in a symmetric war? Missiles cost roughly an order of magnitude less than a drone (and can be launched in large numbers from the ground), so I wonder what the value of sending drones into a well defended airspace would be.

edit: added 'supervised', because a missile is a sort of drone.
If you're starting something new and decide to pick something for even no better reason than "I like it", great.

If you use something else and decided to switch to one of those languages, someone might well ask why. Rewriting is almost always a decision that needs some justification.
UK delays £3bn debt sale after Bloomberg terminals crash worldwide
This is kind of unrelated, but when you grab the graph with your mouse and make circles, the whole graph rotates along the line of sight axis. I've noticed this with many 3d things. Why is that?
git is 10 years old [1]. mercurial is 9 years old [2]. git won.

Way back when I was looking at both (7 years ago maybe?), it seemed that mercurial's main selling point was functional equivalence to git with a "better" architecture and source language. This is the ultimate case study in the fact that neither of those things matter to users (even deeply technical users) unless they impact user experience (stability, performance, UI, etc).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial
Growth and the Suburban Chassis
> If you used Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, or Ruby, nobody would bother to ask why

People ask "why?" about conversions to those languages all the time (if you converted a web project from PHP to C/C++, I'd expect you'd get more "why?" questions than doing the same thing from PHP to Go.)
I've been doing it for going on 18 years, and sometimes I feel like I haven't even scratched the surface.
Agreed with you re. Vietnam. That is a good point.

Not quite agreed on WWI/II. Lots of modern military and foreign policy is based on the aftermath of WWII. After all, that was the last war that the US was involved in. All the ones after that were "operations", and the US never formally declared war on another country since. They aren't typical, yet they are always the ones other wars are compared against.

So war is emergent behavior because some percentage of young men is always available to fight it, and because old men in power are more than willing to send the young men into war. That's at least two different behaviors we've identified so far.

Up until reading this article I had the point of view that war was just too cheap vs alternatives. Want land/power/oil/money/whatever? Just go and take it rather than building your own. And the solution is the opposite: make war expensive. Then again, neither our war on terror, nor the terror attacks on the US and its allies quite fit this paradigm.