skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't going to respond... But after reading the whole article, the author really comes across as self-entitled. I fear no one is willing to tell her the truth. So here are some thoughts:

1. Fundraising is hard no matter who you are. Stop reading TechCrunch and comparing yourself to others. You never know what someone's journey is. From the story the press tells it looks like I've had an easy path raising capital but that's not true. We've gone 12+ months on a single $50k investment after a year of no funding. Startups are hard and you need to be willing to deal with the fact that most companies struggle to fundraise.

2. I am glad you have conviction, you'll need it, but the dating space is not as guaranteed as you think. Up until recently, the entire dating market combined didn't top a billion dollars in the U.S. Companies like Tinder are probably overvalued and yet they have millions and millions of users with crazy metrics. Do you have ANY indication you've built the next Tinder?

3. Investors invest in opportunities they understand. I look at your product and I ask "what's novel, defensible, unique here?". The design doesn't blow me away and the model sounds just like Three Day Rule which now has support and backing by Match.com (note: all founders of TDR are female). What sets you apart?

4. Please please please don't think you're hot shit because the press covered you. YC says to focus on traction because that is all that matters, and they're right. 60% growth doesn't mean anything. What are the numbers? Do you have 100k users on track to pass 250k in half that time and 1MM in a year? Look at Slack or Snapchat or Instagram growth to compare what investors get excited about it. Be really honest with yourself about whether you DO have numbers or not.

Look, I understand discrimination and believe you experience it far worse than a straight white guy, but it really doesn't come across as a compelling argument the way it's explained here. I'm sure I'll get a lot of hate for calling you out here, but I feel it would be dishonest not to reply and tell you what it looks like from the outside. I wish you the best of luck and hope you build that billion dollar company, but please remember the dating space is hard, saturated, historically hard to monetize, and filled with tombs of companies that got millions only to go nowhere.
If you really stretch the definition:

> To use the machine, one had to program it with a series of buttons and switches, using pure machine code. Output consisted of a series of lights.

Also, the Kenbak-1 was made in 1970 and sold in 1971 while the Programma 101 was made in 1964 and sold in 1965.
I honestly even feel weird about godoc just being standard comments, in my mind docs and comments are different things, docs usually being noted with / * * (no spaces, but can't figure out how to escape) and comments being /* // or #
there's a good section that features Bruce Fancher (Dead Lord) which touches on Patrick Kroupa (Lord Digital) both are from Legion of Doom. If you get chance read up about both - very interesting for similar and differing reasons...
From my perspective, what I miss with decryption only in the client (where the mail database is stored encrypted) is search. That's also the primary value of Google Apps for me. Easy encryption across the Internet would be more valuable to me than encrypted storage, but the option to have encrypted storage for things that are really private would make sense. I tend to opt for alternate channels with no storage in those cases though.
Ask HN: Good HTML-Editor/CMS for Marketing-People?
Hi, we need to create a lot of landing pages for our marketing campaigns and I'm looking for a good tool to help the marketing people to do it on their own.

They should be able to click together a site with pre-defined components, change texts, add tracking links (these can be js-snippets), and deploy it themselves with a click on a button.

I'd prefer a webbased solution but a desktop app would be okay, too.

Any ideas?
If you're feeling paranoid and don't have time to look up the set of magical incantations, maybe you should write your actual comments like this:

// COMMENT we have to check that [...]

:)
You should have bought a "Rugby" clock in England. Many of these clocks come in four different versions: Japan, Europe, UK and USA, depending on which signal they use (JFY, DCF77, Rugby, WWVB)

DCF77 works OK in Denmark, provided you don't have too much local noise (switch-modes, old televisions etc. etc.)
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Bang & Olufsen's Beolab speakers do pretty much what you are describing.

They have a test tone and each one has a little micro dick (only way I can really describe it) that pokes out during the test tone playback to pick up reflections.

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/technology/how-it-works-a-...
I think it's comparable. Would you really invest in "the idea of a sexy movie star who finds her conscience after her first few kids and wants to do healthy and honest products". (overly cynically stated)

The op was an expert in her type of business already, had the right partners.
With Alba I would have seriously underestimated Mrs Alba's business sense. But she proved everybody wrong and has now a billion dollar business.
The same expectations as the op in the dating business.

She describes it here:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201411/lindsay-blakely/how-jessi...

But Alba needed 3 years, so I would suggest to hold on. Facebook didn't level the business field already, even with competition there's more in. Those guys were just stupid.
I think it depends where you fish.

Wild fish, certainly you should limit how many fish you take. In stocked waters, it doesn't matter so much. In fact on the ticket they stipulate how many fish you should take with you.
I followed the "Make a donation" button from the right-hand side, to: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/ab/5qJ7f
Once there, press the orange "Contribute" button.
Any thermostat with a placebo button is basically telling workers, we don't care if you are suffering in stuffy or shivering working conditions, because we know better. It's arrogant and condescending and manipulative, it speaks very badly of management, and I would be sorely tempted to smash it with a rock.
They are a great source of inspiration to me. This comes as a shock.
I suspect the £75 'donation' came from their 'fundrazr' page: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/

You seem to have to join via this fundraising site. It's mildly concerning that their participant login site seems to be coming up with an SSL error too ( https://www.microbio.me/BritishGut ). This site also takes you back round to the fundraising page when you select the menu option to join.
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Yeah but the CIA didn't do it in B, why don't you read the article.
Sweden rejects Assange appeal to drop arrest warrant
You can if you want to! Close Windows and you are at the DOS command prompt. From there, you can do "anything"... like write a better OS, perhaps?
Original Hack Challenge: design and make eco-friendly clothing through an API
A British clothing manufacturer invites coders to think up new uses for their t-shirt API to win original prizes with the opportunity to make money from applications.

Rapanui, an Award-Winning eco-fashion company from the Isle of Wight, challenges developers to integrate an apparel API to their projects with the possibility to win free customisable t-shirts and to monetise further their works. The virtual hack challenge is on until August 1st on the hackathon platforms the Hackfest and the Hackerleague: http://www.the-hackfest.com/events/rapanui-api-hack-challenge ; http://hackerleague.org/hackathons/rapanui-api-hack-challenge. The clothing firm came up with this little challenge to introduce their first IT product to the developer community.

Rapanui’s t-shirt API is an apparel print-on -demand service inspired by the internet of things movement. It allows users to create and print personalised shirts and can be integrated to any application (web, mobile, software) that lets users manipulate images, draw or design, or simply has great visual elements. Using POST method and API keys, the API returns a clothing product URL for any image file sent from an app. Users can then checkout through a completely customisable cart, Rapanui prints, packs and dispatch direct to the customer. When a sale is made through the service, the profit is split fifty-fifty between the company and the app developer.

The API connection is developer friendly: the sign up for an API account is 100% free, with no subscription fee; a full installation guide covering IPhone, Android and web integrations is provided; and sample code for Objective-C, AS3, HTML5, etc. is supplied so that any coder can get connected easily.

Find out more at http://rapanui.io.
Step-by-step installation guide – https://rapanuiclothing.com/api-integration-guide.
The t-shirt API is a project of Rapanui clothing – https://rapanuiclothing.com.
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The two comparisons with Zoosk and Tinder were a bit off the mark too. Zoosk was founded in 2007 and has been around since forever. And Tinder is not quite a ... dating app. Dating app to Tinder is Slack to Snapchat. They might look superficially similar with some overlapping use case, but by far and large, they're different things.
This is the second post in the series regarding "non-constant constant-expressions in C++" - http://b.atch.se/posts/non-constant-constant-expressions/

Feedback is more than welcome!

/Filip Roséen
I generally think of the whole dating web-site vertical as a bit sleazy. I'd be interested to know what percentage of the investors they pitched outright dismissed them on these grounds (psychologically it may have happened before even hearing the pitch).
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To be fair, given what these researchers look at all day, we can't expect too much from them aesthetically.
Recently, thanks to comments on Hacker News, I've learned to think about where money is being made.

In this situation, there are companies competing for business in the studio market, where equipment needs to be functional (easy to move, install, plug stuff into, etc.), not alter the audio signal in a way which is undesirable and - generally - be worth the money in terms of real benefit.

The home market is entirely different. Across the price range, (most) customers care about looks, how it alters the sound of the music / films they care about to match their personal preference and - less often - be worth the money in terms of audio quality and practicality. There's also trendiness, which is much more of a factor in this market.

A 'classic' example (sorry to use that phrase, especially for such a recent phenomenon) is Beats Audio headphones. They are attractive for the home market because people like how they look (including that they're trendy), they make music sound 'good' (I haven't heard them, but I've been told they enhance the bass but otherwise are lacklustre), and are (based on the other factors) not worth the money in terms of audio quality or practicality.

Just because the equipment is made from the same basic components (in fact, much may be made from the same components) doesn't mean that there aren't two separate markets here. They can't be treated as one because the customers are entirely different. Or maybe they can and you should start a company selling to both!
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ReactOS re-implements the WinNT series (XP+) OS kernel (you can compare it with UNIX vs. Linux) and WINE provides the user mode layer.

Visual Studio 2010 and the dotNet Framework work fine in WINE: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... . VS run as early as 2003 in ReactOS: http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/wordpress/wp-con...

As ReactOS also supports the Windows graphic card driver from NVidia, AMD and Intel - it's for sure an upcoming alternative to Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
. Beside that more and more Indie-game-developers support Mac & Linux (PR via Humble Bundle), and beside Indie: GOG and Steam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(hardware_platfor... ) are going strong too.
If they really believe in their business plan, they should admit their real motives; dissembling with such a weak excuse just gives Google that "shady used car salesman" look.

The fact that they went with a dodge suggests they know that they risk a lot of blowback if people started to learn about their actual business plan.
Later on the article it reads

So the day after achieving the highest score in WoW

So I suppose the initial sentence of "highest level" is not correct. I guess they are talking about "Server Rankings" - i.e. http://www.wowprogress.com/realms/rank/us

Which is very hard (apparently) to accomplish and I think they get reset now and then. There are other key achievements in WoW such as being the first guild to kill a boss etc.

So I think he was actually ranked #1 in the server, that's what "highest score" refers and that can take months.

I don't know much about WoW but I have a friend who still brags about his #1 in a WoW server 5 years ago :), so it's a big deal.
I've had to open up a number of Apple laptops for friends over the years. It does seem to me that the newer ones have increased in reliability a bit, but not to the point that I don't have to take a screwdriver to one semi-regularly. The only thing significantly reducing the frequency of such repairs is that some of them have become impossible.

I own a T61/T60P hybrid I built myself. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I need more than 8gb of RAM. I haven't had a problem with this hardware since the HDD died and got replaced with an SSD.
More convincing than translation would be spam filtering. I think end-to-end encryption would make spam filtering a lot more difficult.
Yeah. If you calculate the odds on any given combination of trades they are frequently vanishingly rare.

Lottery wins are incredibly unlikely too, and yet people win them.
> A crossing in central London had programmed intervals for red and green lights, for example. Pushing the button would only impact the length of these intervals between midnight and 7am.

This is the same where I live. The crossing buttons do nothing during the day (walk symbols still come on for the same length of time), but at night they need to be used. I don't push it during the day, but of course most people still do :-)
I don't need the extra security provided by end-to-end encryption for the vast majority of emails I receive and send. I value that ability to search/filter these emails far more than I value the security.

For the few emails I send where the value of the security provided exceeds the lost value due to being unable to search I can, using their extension, enable end-to-end encryption.

This system suits my needs perfectly, I appreciate that others may want all the emails they send to be encrypted but why should Google cater to this - they cannot make any money from encrypted emails.
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The issue with Excel is that it is extremely easy to use and is widely popular, especially for new companies as it is available to anyone with an Office plan, which is available on almost any Windows computer with very few exceptions. So when it comes to that a new business will rarely use something more complex and more expensive in the short term, they just prefer to use the Microsoft Office programs.

This is something I have mey a lot, including in the hotel/restaurant niche, where I work. All of them use it exactly because it is easy and is insanely powerful even for newbies. On the other hand at a certain point they start to learn about the negatives of it and an application that will do what they did in Excel in a proper way, is very easy sell.

Oh, about that... Pandas is great!!!
My personal belief is that designers of equipment and interfaces have a moral obligation to present the operation of the equipment in as simplistic and non-manipulative a manner as possible.

Yes, there are some social/mental benefits to lying to people. It's a very nuanced and complex topic, however, and I seriously doubt the people who make these things are thinking through all the ramifications. Instead I think they're just making stuff that causes the least amount of complaining.

But think about the endgame here. Do we really want semi-intelligent computers shading information in such a way to make us happier? Facebook already is doing its damnedest to keep all of us from insulting each other accidentally, thereby losing online "friendships". It's in Facebook's best interest that more people use the site and enjoy it. But it's in _my_ best interest to meet and socialize with people who may have widely divergent viewpoints -- even if it means stepping on some toes now and then.

Ever wonder why the world is more and more becoming an echo chamber for little niches of belief systems? Want more of that?

Society's interest to self-correct, to have difficult conversations. It's in manufacturer's interests to create things that make people happy. These interests are not aligned. More troublesome, the more we get what we want, the worse our self-correcting feedback loops breakdown. Not a good thing.
It is not obvious to me that emission limits are being exceeded here, and I don't have a calibrated antenna which would allow me to decide one way or another.

But even if emission limits are not exceeded VLF-based radio-clocks near the loop will still have much more noise to contend with.
Very nice! One thing that would make it easier to see how the distribution behaves would be to have a number of common parameter choices as presets for each distribution, like the Wikipedia pages often do.

At least, that is what I would find useful when picking a distribution to use for random inputs. It's also what bugs me about every documentation of C++11's <random> header I've found---they're great if you know which distribution you need, but picking one (when you have the freedom to choose) is hard. Of course, that isn't the job of a language reference, and this could be the tool for that.
DELETE a card from the deck. Return the card(s) drawn in the response body. Have a separate resource for the top of the deck:

DELETE /api/<deck-id>/top?count=2

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200 Ok

8♣

10♥
Anyone who says that PGP is not meant for common use has 20+ years of history clearly proving them right. Moxie doesn't believe it in[1], even PGP's own creator doesn't use it any more[2]. OP is trying to make news out of nothing.

[1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/08/09/e-mails-bi...
Things to consider when looking at new accounting software
If you are in a similar position to myself and are in the midst of changing your accounting software/erp system to something newer then there are a few useful tips to keep in mind that can provide several benefits later down the line. Here's a few questions worth keeping in mind when looking at a new system...

Look for a system that scales easily.
How easy/expensive will it be to add additional users and will a large increase in transactions have any effect on performance?

Does it have easy access on any device?
Having something that can run on a browser and thus on your mobile phone will save you a load of hassle! While it is not an essential that most people look at to beging with it definitely should be.

Price
An obvious one, however it is worth noting that the ones that seem cheapest at first glance often work out being more expensive than you first thought. Adding new users in the following years is the number one reason for costs spiralling out of control, this is why we decided against going with a per user based system. Also it is a good idea to keep note of additional costs that can build up for extra functionality like including a crm system.

Customisation
How easy is it to make it fit in with your businesses current branding? (Not an essential I will admit but it is a nice feature to have)

Currently I am looking to go with a system called Acumatica (originated from the US) http://www.cloudaccountinguk.com/#!leaving-your-accounting-system/c1q4c - as it seems to fit the main spec of what our business needs. If anyone else has any other pointers or suggestions for some alternative accounting systems then I would love to hear them..
That was mostly because the were (perceived to be) an economic threat to some very big industries, it had very little to do with electro-magnetic radiation.
The point is that many BI enterprise solutions are mere data extractor with very little intelligence built into them. That means that people have to download big chunks of data and run models in Excel. No, you won't convince people to move away their models from Excel, but you can/should build an analytical layer on top of your BI warehouse solution so that people will use Excel less. Unfortunately, big BI stuff is very unflexible and building good models (aka: dashboards) can take months or even years. Excel is the de fact answer to that unflexibility, solve that and you will see far less spreadsheets moving around.
I don't think they will do that, since the Linux kernel is GPLed.
If you want to save money in AWS, you can buy Reserved Instances. You will achieve relatively the same price of Digital Ocean.
Actually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.
Pretty sure that's fraud.
It looks like paid memberships start at £80 per month, so that revenue works out at just over 300 paying members, off the back of a "ton of press". Comparisons with "1 year old Tinder" are more than a little fanciful. They're also doing the opposite of what the other companies in the space are doing: replacing software with human labour.

I don't think that most VCs thought "woman" when she pitched, I think they thought "lifestyle business". There's nothing wrong with running a profitable traditional dating agency, but it's not the sort of opportunity that really sets their pulses raising. Her open acknowledgement that she found approaching VCs at demo day's "intimidating" - their fault, naturally, for being older men - suggests she probably wasn't quite as adept at pitching it as she thought she was either. I can understand her being pissed off if a couple of them made inappropriate remarks, but I don't think that attitude is the main reason why 300 emails and 40 meetings didn't garner much interest. Some VCs are even women!
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What's stopping you from calling SOAP APIs from a browser? Most use HTTP as the transport mechanism.
DELETE is idempotent to quote a Stack Overflow answer on the subject:

> Idempotence refers to the state of the system after the request has completed

> ...

> The key bit there is the side-effects of N > 0 identical requests is the same as for a single request.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4088350/is-rest-delete-re...
Right, so what is the competitive advantage?

She opens saying "Unless I have an absolutely perfect, bulletproof business (which I do not), I’m easily written off as someone blaming my failures on my gender" and offers nothing to dissuade me from following that. It seems entirely plausible she has been marginalised/dismissed - but I'm not sure I buy into it entirely.

Personally, I'd have thought that, in dating especially, a female founder would seem like a real strength. I wish the company luck regardless vOv
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> And that Benchmark’s best-known V.C., the six-feet-eight Bill Gurley, another outspoken giant with a large Twitter following, advised Horowitz to cut Andreessen and his six-million-dollar investment out of the company. Andreessen said, “I can’t stand him. If you’ve seen ‘Seinfeld,’ Bill Gurley is my Newman”—Jerry’s bête noire.

Sheds some light on http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part9.html