skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there are objective indicators in terms of product:market fit, your startup has only failed when you let it fail. Most successful entrepreneurs I know that have had an exit generally were on the 2^nth permutation of the initial set of product features. You keep bashing your head against the wall until you can no longer take it. It is not a glamorous road, and founder depression is very real. Just take solace in the fact that everyone - even the really successful teams - have been where you are. Find a way to take care of yourself and if you are meant to be an entrepreneur, the idea or set of ideas to get you there will eventually find its way into the back of your brain.

Finally - ideas are nothing. Ideas are next to worthless. There are tens of thousands of proven business models you could go build right now if you wanted to. What matters most - whether at your corporate job or your startup - is execution. Make that first dollar, and claw tooth and nail for the second, and the 100th, and the 1000th. One step at a time. No one is 'killing it' and every startup is a hot mess of ego, spaghetti code, and future employment lawsuits.

Just take a breath and don't lose your spark of insanity that impassioned you to build something to solve a problem in the first place.
It's interesting to juxtapose this over the article HN article below "Chris Dodds email reveals what mpaa really thinks of fair use"

Privacy-rights are quite upside-down in the US right now with personal privacy being almost non-existent and our Government almost totally lacking in transparency. Clearly a discussion about Fair-use should be happening transparently in public - not hidden in emails.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150416/17252230680/chris...
It's not the client that hangs around in the cmd-tab list (and as an icon in the dock) – what's signified is the process for the Emacs daemon.

I agree that it would be nice if it could be configured/made to disappear.

I use terminal-mode emacsclient on my Mac all day everyday, and `C-h k` shows <shift+tab> is interpreted as <backtab>. That's the case for Terminal.app and iTerm2, though I only use the latter. I'm not sure why yours interprets it as M-[.
Mr. Le Van,

A comment if I may....as well as a criticism (if you can Handel it). clay
I think he is just saying that iOS is not proof of the native performance of react native as also cordova on iOS is smooth
> Wind instruments are a hodgepodge of compromises.

It depends on the wind instrument and the setting.

For woodwinds, yes, this is typically true; it's very difficult to adjust the tuning of a particular note on-the-fly.

For brass, however, this becomes less and less true; more sophisticated brass instruments will have easily-accessible "tuning slides" (in addition to the main one) meant to adjust the tuning of a particular note, making them well-suited for situations where absolute tuning is necessary (it's really useful for brass-only ensembles) and where temperament is dominant (like orchestral and symphonic settings).

This is taken to the extreme with the trombone, which is basically just a giant tuning slide with a mouthpiece and bell, allowing for effectively-unhindered tuning flexibility akin to that of a chamber instrument or a human voice.
Isn't getting something in return (tangible or not) for supporting an aligned cause the entire point of supporting it in the first place?
The text at the end is determined by your results. The results you obtained were the result of parsing "Hello" 100 times. Since the data was meaningless - so are the results.

I don't particularly blame the developers for not placing checks. It's expected for the user to use the tool in an honest way. It's a lot of wasted effort to check for a thousand different edge cases of using the tool improperly to tell the user they are using the tool improperly.*

*I'm aware this is a taboo thought for programmers.
Wacom introduces 27“ touchscreen
Former Academic Librarian:

Fair Use doesn't even get used in Colleges and Universities since there is such fear of litigation. How about we secure the fair use in our school first and than we can start talking about Fair Use for International Treaties.
This article is misleading. While it is true that almost every smartphone has an FM radio on the SoC, it's not true that it's always up to the carriers to enable the radio. Many unsupported phones are lacking the trace between the FM input to the headset jack, meaning this issue can't be fixed in a software update.
> ultimately it’s capitalism’s responsibility to make me produce for it, and within the scope of my career, capitalism failed.

Ok.
Can you give any tips on how to find consulting fast enough when you are about to be evicted?
This is a problem with time-decay voting content systems and evergreen content. It happens on reddit as well.
Unlike web deals, healthcare investing is growing faster outside major hubs
The name game (1999)
I just logged in to say this. It's an incredibly powerful feature.

In general, plain text is great because it's explicit. In contrast, word processors store some odd chain of objects. The steps to rebuild a document from scratch that leads to the same representation are not totally obvious. Sometimes it's a bit stochastic even!

XML formats improved the situation, but still plain text wins IMHO. With plain text you can have a toolchain where components for version control, edition and transformation can be replaced seamlessly. New stuff can be introduced at will. In e.g. Word you're mostly locked-in, or at least it's far from trivial to break out.
Jonathan Blow's stuff (posts / talks) seem to be consistently excellent.
> * Toggling if search results should be highlighted (:set hls, :set nohls)

After you search, you get persistent highlighting. To turn it off, "SPC s c". All the toggling features are in "SPC t" group.

> * Opening the filename under the cursor in a new window (^W f)

`SPC f h` then press `C-c o`. The key bindings are consistent in other Helm commands as well. It opens a window side by side. Nothing is misisng, sorry. Spacemacs can even do things like [these](http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html).

If you have any question, ask it on Spacemacs chatroom: https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs
My understanding is that thorium reactors have a bit of a chicken and the egg problem.

We've got plenty of experience building more traditional nuclear designs - considering how conservative and concerned the masses tend to be when it comes to nuclear technology (not entirely unreasonably), do you want to be the one "risking" it on an "unproven" reactor design? It's politically tricky, in an age when several countries are phasing out nuclear power entirely in a knee-jerk reaction to Fukushima.

Even ignoring political risk, I'd imagine there's some budgetary risk for investing in the "cutting edge" of nuclear tech - more room for new mistakes to be made, additional complications to be discovered, resulting in budget overruns.

I believe China is investing in building thorium reactors. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point in the future, the US is left in the position of poaching nuclear talent from China to play catch up in the thorium reactor department.

Wikipedia lists a lot of possible disadvantages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Pos...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor...
Thanks for the detailed clarification.

>That last sentence doesn't really make sense. Bicycle helmets do not cover one's face.

When you're propelled off your bike, some part of your head is likely to make contact with the ground (particularly if you're unconscious), along with your torso. The line formed by the outermost part of the helmet and whatever part of your torso that hits the ground is often outside of your face/head and thus helps avoid cuts/abrasions when grating against the ground.

I personally support others' right to not wear a helmet. In fact, I didn't wear one either when I lived and worked in Japan and bike commuted to the train station. I also believe the evidence and studies that show the relative ineffectiveness of current helmet designs. However, I also believe that the decision of others in wearing the helmets available for a marginal improvement in safety should be respected as well [1].

[1] The counterargument to this is if by not purchasing the current helmets and protesting for better designs, we can help spur companies to develop more robust products.
Incidentally, a just (non-tempered) guitar fingerboard might look something like this:

http://jsnow.bootlegether.net/cbg/fingerboard_at_a.svg

I swapped fingerboards on an old Harmony Archtone with one based on the above design. Admittedly, 20 notes per octave may have been a bit much; it's kind of awkward to play. The next one I do will be simpler. Sounds nice, though.
Show HN: Gtfoutside (Go outside dammit)
I think Google's solving a pretty different problem, low-latency communications over a quite heterogeneous network, where they don't control the lower-level infrastructure. HFT firms typically have a narrow range of configurations they have to work over and control the setup of their pipe; they aren't trying to ship technology that will work over every random person's DSL line and funky NAT setup.
It just says "one of the most popular", not "the most popular".

The double and triple numbers are Figured Bass notation (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass ).

So, if you have the 6th and it's the second inversion, it would be 664. For example, in G that would be the second inversion of Em.
Meh, this whole thread is loaded with so much bullshit and different opinions, it's one big ego/personality trip if you put in bigger perspective. Definitely some good points, but mostly back and forth arguments.
There's two different distinctions in software for which "proprietary" is commonly used:

1. proprietary vs. Free / Open Source (code released under an F/OSS license), and

2. proprietary vs. Open Standards (an implementation of a standard governed by an independent standards body and freely implementable.)

QUIC is not proprietary by F/OSS on the first axis, and currently proprietary rather than based on an open standards on the second axis, with a stated intent of becoming the basis for open standards works in the future.

There is, I think, a pretty good case that this is a good way to get to new open standards that are actually useful for solving real world problems.
Please provide evidence that a Thorium reactor is safer. We have the means to make all the 238Pu we want. NASA just needs to pay commercial reactor operators to irradiate 237Np targets. This is a big problem, because NASA has very little funding to accomplish this, and the target material comes in a purified form suitable for direct use in nuclear weapons.
I wonder if for activities near the gas giants the massive Magnetospheres could be tapped for energy as the satellites move through them. However over time you'd be trading orbital elevation for energy.

Another great side effect of RTG's is the "waste" heat keeps your electronics from freezing in the deep of space.
Someone says they are happy and the world rushes in to prove they are not.
This is the first I've heard of the claim, so I went to read the wikipedia article on Gustave Whitehead. Most of the information about the claim lead me to believe it is possible/plausible, but the evidence is far from solid.

Then I came to the line:

"Whitehead also built gliders until about 1906 and was photographed flying them."

And indeed, the photos are in the article. So, if he did indeed make powered flights, where are the photos of that? It would be one thing if he was super secretive and only ever claimed one powered flight. However, several flights are claimed, and there are no photos of any. My suspicion is that he tried, but was never very successful.
Datomic uses datalog but also exposes lower levels of the data accses api. This allows people with special needs to drop down and do there own thing, while others can use datalog.

It seams like a good idea to allow diffrent layers of data access.
> No one uses bike helmets in Berlin, because Berlin is safe for bicycles, and that is partly due to the respect that cars and trucks show to bikers.

Bicycle helmets are not even rated for traffic accidents. It says so in their accompanying literature! They are for falls.

A couple of years ago, I went into a skid while making a turn on wet pavement and fell. I developed a huge black bruise on my right hip, and for the next six months had a pain in the right side of my rib cage. It was quite a fall. Now here is the thing: the back of head also hit the pavement quite hard, but I was wearing a helmet, so my head was okay.

There is no way I could have prevented my head from coming down. It happened so fast, that there was no time for "oh shit, I'm falling and I don't have a helmet, so I have to adjust my falling style to protect my head."

(Yes, I replaced the helmet. Not only are you supposed to after impact, but the date on it was March 1995.)

You may be able to get away without a helmet in a "safe" town, if you only ride in good weather, in broad daylight, on flat roads, go slowly, and avoid all obstacles, so that the chances of falling are vanishingly small.
We need a sidebar w/ prereq "must reads"
Google falls from grace
Original author here. Totally agree about version control. When I wrote that post I had not yet learned how to use Git. In a follow-up post I discuss how I now manage all of my notes and citations in plain-text on a Pandoc- and git-powered wiki called Gitit.

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html
Maybe it's time to find a more challenging job.
Actually, inside any client, you can do M-x eval-buffer and re-evaluate your whole .emacs.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Lis...

A note: I' be careful though, because depending on how you create your variables, thing can go wrong, I guess: if you-re going to use eval-buffer on your whole .emacs, I'd better use, for example, add-hook instead to add-to-list:

(add-hook c-mode-hook 'linum'mode)

instead of:

(add-to-list c-mode-hook 'linum-mode)

Just saying. Have fun with your configs :)
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

If you are unfamiliar with Roky, you should check out this documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFLqzJB6qw

His is an incredible story.
He mentions this under "Caveats":

'There are several limitations to this assessment since the Hooktheory API wasn’t really intended for this type of analysis. For example, it doesn’t mention whether “6” is “vi” (minor) or “VI” (major), which is kind of a big deal.'
Just tried it and despite some people here claiming vim-style support is really full I found it pretty unusable for me, the vim user. Which is a pity, as I find vim lacking many features emacs has (or allows to implement easily), but am struggling to switch.

My workflow starts from command-mode and is heavily dependent on it. It's far more crucial than any hjkl stuff and whatever. The first thing I tried was :tabnew. "Uknown command: `tabnew`." Then I tried to use :cd and while it has such a command it works in some weird way which I couldn't figure out how to use on the first attempt. I guess it actually has everything I need, but I probably entered something wrong and suddenly ended up using scp, lol.

While editing some text file without any real purpose I surprisingly didn't find anything that would be working in an unexpected way yet. Maybe it's worth trying it out.
> One of the most important is that open-source-but-proprietary protocols, if they catch on, end up devolving into bug-for-bug compatibility

I think there is a distinction to be made between closed spec protocols and protocols developed prior to being submitting for standardization; while its hard to tell them apart prior to the latter actually being submitted for standardization outside of potentially misleading forward-looking statements of intent, the latter is a reasonable way of cleaning up something and getting some solid real-world feedback and proving utility before submitting something as the basis for standards work while the former carries the problem you describe.
I know.

I'm Australian originally, and grew up with Troopies and Defenders. If I wanted to do it in a Toyota or Landy, I would. But I don't.

I'm not doing it in a Jeep because it's the most popular vehicle :)
This is AWEsome!
Iran has a plutonium reactor as well, although its exact capabilities and output are a matter of debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR-40
Original author here. Yes, I'm mainly assuming my reader is a humanities person less familiar with LaTeX. Though there's increasing interest in Markdown and LaTeX among historians since I wrote this post. See, for example:

http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorsh...
I really like how this guy clearly knows his way around computers (poke around his site a bit, like the colophon[1]) but his academic interests are in history. It's great to see hacking interests and skills in someone working in a different field; I think it's important that these skills don't remain solely in their usual domain.

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/colophon.html
Germany Is the Tell-Tale Heart of America’s Drone War
I know you feel that this is true for you. I will just give you a good example of the review from Sound on Sound which is my favorite source for reviews.

Quote: Furthermore, the measures that Apple have taken to simplify the program mean that certain ways of working with previous versions now seem to be impossible. For example, previously if you had multiple Regions open in the Piano Roll editor, double-clicking a note would move you up a level and display only the notes from the Region to which the clicked note belonged. Now, double-clicking a note opens up the Event List (or the Score Editor if you hold down a modifier) and there seems no way to get back to the old way.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep13/articles/pro-x.htm

Logic Pro X really does feel like a good tool but the UI has huge waste of real estate and many things became hidden. This was also seen in the Final Cut X release and the major move back to Adobe Premier that it caused.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar... describes what they added in VS 2013 and what is still missing.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/18/crt-featur... from June of last year says in part:

In the Visual Studio "14" CTP we have fully implemented the C99 Standard
Library, with the exception of any library features that depend on compiler
features not yet supported by the Visual C++ compiler (notably, <tgmath.h>
is not implemented). There are undoubtedly some remaining conformance issues--
we know of a few, including that _Exit is missing and wcstok has the wrong
signature, and we are working to fix these.

"CTP" == "Community Tech Preview", i.e. a beta.
People who skim online articles are just as cultured as book snobs – Quartz
3 Ways to Style Spring Scarves
Controlling Walking Direction Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation [pdf]
The API syntax isn't that special. The ArangoDB Query Builder (aqb on npm) for example is even more straightforward (no functions needed):

a.for("album").in("catalog").filter(
a.eq("album.details.media_type_id", 2)
).return("album")

Or in plain AQL (ArangoDB's query language):

FOR album IN catalog
FILTER album.details.media_type_id == 2
RETURN album

The "map" in the second example is simpler, too:

….return({artist: 'album.vendor.name'})

Or in plain AQL:

… RETURN {artist: album.vendor.name}

Also, it doesn't really need drivers because the DB uses a REST API that works with any HTTP client.

That said, the change feeds are pretty neat and RethinkDB is still a pretty exciting project to follow.

(Full disclosure: I wrote the ArangoDB Query Builder without any prior exposure to ReQL, so I may be biased)
> Samsung, Apple and LG are among those who have not switched on the chip, but HTC and Motorola chips haven't been blocked, Smulyan says. Sprint has turned on the FM chip for phones on its network.

It seems like they're citing manufacturers as well as carriers. Since many major carriers order variants of phone models specific to their network, it's not out of the question that either could be responsible for the lockout, even if it is at the hardware level.
Yet, the author fails to mention marketing invovled behind this. Any fool can write a book, but it does take effort to sell it. Such titles like "Teach Yourself X in 21 days" are designed to give the user a small taste of what's involved AND to sell the damn book. Most of these books state right in the beginning that you have to constantly work at it to fully learn the material.

So are these books worthless? Absolutely not. They offer the user a basic foundation to start learning and work up from there. The user can from there find communities and more advanced books to continue to learn.

For me personally, these books gave me a foundation to continue to learn. But honestly, the best way I learned was actually coming up with small projects that I personally wanted to do.
> It's less activists than ordinary people going "Lol, whut?".

The activists are the ones telling ordinary people "scientists disagree and there's no consensus" when the reality is it's fundamentally settled science. The same occurs with evolution.

> I know people of low income who smoke, and the taxes hurt them.

Smoking is actually a great example to use here. Same situation as climate change - right-wing lobbying groups (some like the AEI are now engaged in the climate change "controversy") funded by industry succeeded for decades in muddying the waters and making it look like the science wasn't yet settled.
Construct 2 r202 (Beta)
Is it practical to irradiate the target in units of mass that are smaller than the critical mass?

(The thought being that you can then only allow one unit to be in transit from storage to a reactor at any given time, pretty much entirely mitigating the risk of someone gathering enough of it to make a bomb)
Thanks for an informative post. I was under the impression OpenOffice was dead post-fork. Colour me wrong...
Maybe you should learn the Spacemacs way (which is the combination of Vim and Emacs) rather than expecting it the Vim way. To create new buffer, `SPC b s` and enter new buffer name. To change directory and get into it, use `SPC f f` or `SPC f h` depends on your preference.
Right, and this is a presentation at GoSF about Go's interfaces, and how they work with Go's testing packages.
... and it is also my first experiment of literate programming written in bash. Any feedback is welcome.

Usage is really simple, just

gh-clone foo

to clone your foo GitHub repo and cd into it. Try it!
But that was my question -- if I only put out a piece of source code, is that itself a patent infringement? Or is that speech, as in publishing a description of a working model of what is patented? In other words, drawing up blueprints for an engine design won't (or shouldn't) get you into a patent suit, only building/selling that engine. So I was hoping that source code would be treated the same.
Is there a reason not to have that trace? And does it only prevent listening via the headset jack, but not on the phone's speakers?
Changing hardware as you know it. Idea to Products in 5 days.
What happened to make http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/in2010 so wildly off? Did those projections seem realistic 10 years before? Is it just taking a little longer?
> I get it, it's a great article but I don't think we need to share the same article and discuss it annually.

Serious question - Why not?
Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop

In Denver, cars running red lights is a big problem, I see it multiple times per day, and it's terrible. Since becoming a bicyclist, I've completely reversed my position on photo red light (tickets). I still don't approve of photo radar, it's mainly a way for cities to make money. But running red lights needs to be stopped, no pun intended.