jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
True - we did raise from established contacts. However, we only met them through a lot of hard networking and continual evenings spent discussing ideas, helping others with theirs etc.

I hoped that the point of the article would be that once those relationships have been made, the funding itself can be (but isn't always) straightforward.

It would be interesting to hear others' stories on this point, if you want to share them?
So the point here in this 1000+ word article is that it's not what you know, but who you know?

A good point to understand about life if you haven't gotten it yet.
Antitrust law provides some interesting insight into the question IMO. It was established because laissez faire economics failed to prevent monopolies. Instead, a carefully crafted regulation supported capitalism.

I think true capitalism can't arise in a vacuum; it needs a regulatory support structure for enforcement.
sorry but most MBAs I know are either unemployed or sub-employed, so I don't find them a high-salaried prone population as you do. You are living in a bubble where you can get a 100k job out of school, and being broke means not being able to change cars every year.
I'm not saying that the values he talks about are wrong, but that they are unrealistic given the constraints of economics for 99% of the population of the world.
Um... http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/20/atandt-agrees-to-buy-t-mo...
No, Beethoven could not have written Tambourine Man. Beethoven was a man of his time, and music was bound by strict rules that controlled what was acceptable in terms of harmonies, and physically bound in what instrumentation he could write. Beethoven pushed out the rules a little bit but he was not anywhere near where Tambourine Man is; the very concept of the modern I-V-IV progression would be enough to give musicians of the time the vapors.

Part of the reason the classical musicians were so voluminous in their output is that their rules were so constraining that once you wrote down the melody, half the work was already done for you; there were a very limited number of choices left to you. I enjoy Mozart a lot, but at the same time listening to him with modern ears it is obvious that he has a very strong signature style, and that he could simply crank out the tunes using that style in a manner not entirely dissimilar from how one cranks out autotuned pop hits using standard harmonies and singers that can't actually sing. Mozart's results were better but there's more method overlap than you might think.

I think when people say that all the good composers are in the past, they are really just socially signalling. It's not actually true. Plenty of spectacularly good people are around today, and like I said before, if they seem less unique it's because the top end has become crowded, not depopulated.

Despite having no physical limitations of relevance, Mozart would never have written even The Flight of the Valkaries or much of anything else Wagner did, let alone Debussy, or Gershwin. All the classical musicians, geniuses though they were, were also very very confined in their style. They did not exhaust the space of good music; they only took the first hill of what we'd call modern music. It is a disservice to the many that have come after them to pretend they were uniquely virtuous; they were merely uniquely first.
Yes. Obviously, it's not completely bad or good. It is my opinion that it's mostly bad, but in theory, it could be changed to something that'd work better.

What I think will actually happen, though, is that it will collapse.
I think Matthew is talking about taking the backups from your computer.
I've new invites - let me know if you need one!
Great tip, I will check it out.I just saw there is a tool in the mac app store for 4.99 called patterns that looks pretty good too.
If it is, the database is seriously overengineered. Find my iPhone will not let you access past locations, it seems to always only let you access freshly requested location information.

Such sensitive data should not be saved without the user's explicit permission if it's not needed for some purpose the user explicitly wants to use the device for.
@deafcheese - Definitely. We're going to have a lot of stuff going on over the summer that's open to any startup intern.

Follow @dctechsummer on twitter to keep updated on what happens.
Backups... on an iOS device?

The backups are stored on your Mac/PC, which are likely to have Flash.
25565 is less common than alternate ports from what I've seen. Most small, individually run, servers are not running 25565.
Thanks for the other feature ideas!

Now that we've launched I keep stumbling across more and more implementations. So far, I still like mine the best. ;)

Twitter integration is high on the list. Since there's so many things to do with Twitter, I'm prioritizing the easiest one: just being able to tweet out links to videos on Instafilm.

I like the pinboard.in idea. I'm interested to hear any other things you'd want out of a service like this, too.
Agreed. On both counts.

However obviously it's good PR, and we all appreciate the Mea Cupla from Heroku, the fact is, they are proposing to migrate to a situation where they are still completely reliant on AWS for their hosting.

I'm just not sure you can really say "We don’t want to ever put our customers through something like this again and we’re working as hard as we can on making sure that we won’t ever have to.", when at the end of the day, you are again relying on a company that has failed you in the past.

Not trying to attack Amazon or Heroku, I'm honestly intrigued by this issue; not to mention the fact that we are facing the exact same decision at work.
Kudos? For nothing but the words "heroku takes 100% of the responsibility ..."?

Sorry, but that's not cutting it for me right now. I pay Heroku $250 a month and I was down for 60 hours (not 16). Our app isn't even out of private beta so I fully expected to be paying Heroku $2-3K/month by the end of the year. Now, I'm not sure I'll stay.

If you're really taking 100% responsibility, then consider pro-rating the bills of affected paying customers (based on the downtime).
Mm was nearly fully Sony-funded pre buyout. Sony put a lot in to start that studio and also published LBP1, so it's not horribly surprising that they acquired them once it was revealed that Mm would be more than an indie fluke of a business.
A few things:

Machine shop safety is really important. People die. You need to know how to use the equipment.

These "strict" screening standards that Google has are, well, standard for any machine shop.

I think it's awesome that they have this stuff available to employees for free at all.
Yes, you are running on shared hardware, securely, but with no hypervisor.

The biggest money-saver is in performance. IO-heavy applications can see anywhere from 5-10x performance improvements[1] by switching from hardware- to OS-virtualization.

[1]: http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/01/11/virtualization-pe...
Not at all. I’m all for chessboards and I’m all for kids learning and playing chess, but the boards should be put in an area where both adults and kids have access.

With a simple rule change you wouldn’t even have to change anything about the playground layout. Just allow unaccompanied adults playing chess and nothing else and the problem is solved.
It would matter in this situation:

In the beginning:

function A(){
return 1;
}

Now commit this in one branch:

function B(){
return 1;
}
function A(){
return 1;
}

then this:

function A(){
return 1;
}
function B(){
return 1;
}
function A(){
return 1;
}

And then this in another branch off the base:

function A(){
return 2;
}

Now merge the two end points. Which is correct? This, assuming a purely line-based diff:

function A(){
return 2;
}
function B(){
return 1;
}
function A(){
return 1;
}

or this, assuming knowledge of the history of events?

function A(){
return 1;
}
function B(){
return 1;
}
function A(){
return 2;
}

In Javascript, where such code is acceptable, `A()` now returns 1 or 2.

In Git, or by applying patches manually, it depends on the order in which you merge. If you merge the `B()A()` branch with the `return 2` branch and then the `A()B()A()` one, you'll get the second result. But if you merge the `A()B()A()` directly with the `return 2` branch, you'll get first one. The same set of changes producing different outcomes.

In Darcs, the history between `A()`, `B()A()`, and `A()B()A()` are checked, and it's seen that the second `A()` is the "original" one, so the `return 2` is applied to that one.

Which means that you won't necessarily get the same behavior merging two Darcs patches as you would merging it within the repository, where there is a history. Git behaves exactly as if you were dealing with patches. I side with Git on this, personally, but it's a valid point - you have history, why not use it?
"Also how do you meet programming partners. I have been working by myself for a while but"

The above statement you made is a good reason why you do need someone who is is not a programmer (as well). There are many skills necessary for a good startup and many of them don't involve programming.

The fact that you have to ask a question like that of others and can't figure out the answer yourself is a good indication of how you lack certain skills that are necessary.

You've been reading to many stories about all that counts is top programming skills to be a success and the world will beat a path to your door.
Slightly patronising there - however much you compare pollution and energy use over lifetime, the absolute worst thing you can do for the environment is buy a new car.

It's far better to run an old one into the ground.

You don't even need to go looking for the production "costs" of the vehicle. Just think of the distance that all the different parts of your new vehicle have travelled before they're put together... and then shipped to your country.
Can you recommend alternatives that offer all their features? We use currently for example sourcecontrol, forums, bugtrackers, a wiki, the image galleries and their website hosting. I'm often unhappy with SF, but it's not quite that easy finding that kind of service elsewhere.
>whether society should value descriptive over prescriptive policies on its language is a huge debate among linguists

There's no such debate at all, whoever told you that is not a linguist.

Linguistics is a science and it is inherently descriptive. It describes what it sees in natural language. It doesn't make judgment as to the worthiness or corectness of something. That's what laymen do, but they cannot reinforce their views through linguistics, only through distortion of linguistics.
I love Embark. Even though they've stopped supporting it in London - and it comes up with that blasted "we've stopped supporting it" message every time - it's still one of the best travel apps around. Well done guys.
Right, right. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all beer is the same! The specific thing under test was the assertion that some of the "shitty" beers are better than others -- the stuff you can get a 12 pack of for under $10. The thing that spawned the test was someone objecting to me picking up a pack of Coors because it was on sale, to which I asserted that all of the cheap stuff is indistinguishable from one another, and thus snobbery is not needed. Which ultimately lead to our science throw down.

It was a very narrowly scoped test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Spaces
This right here. When the green revolution dies so does 90% of humanity.

This also ignores our continuing need for modern medicine as our use of antibiotics has grown some rather nasty things that would greatly reduce our densities if left without things like chlorine for water purification.
Beautiful. An operating with one of the lowest bugs-per-line count just got better. Still behind FreeBSD, though ;D

(What's a little razzing between sibling projects?)
Totally agree but they are entertaining fast reads. Realistic dialog is always lacking in his novels.
Try filming a distant moving object with a commodity phone camera, especially in lower light. Everyone has a camera, yes, but it's the wrong kind of camera for capturing anything useful in this area.

If you wanted to get a good UFO photo or video what you'd really want is a high-resolution infrared camera. Unless our UFOnauts (whatever/whoever they are) are exempt from physics, anything using energy for any kind of powered flight must emit infrared whether it wants to or not.
I'm not sure many people opposing to federal funding of science consider the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake an inherently worthless activity.

For a start, the federal funding thrown at the Space Race this article talks about - a bigger proportion of the US budget than education in the mid 1960s - wasn't, by any stretch of the imagination exclusively "the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake". The prestige of beating the Evil Empire, the serious worry that falling behind would render the US defenceless and undoubtedly juicy contracts for the regular suppliers to the military all played major parts. (Of course, NASA funding also paled in comparison with what was being wasted on the regular military at the time, including the highly targeted pursuit of knowledge for the sake of becoming more efficient at winning wars.)

Then there's the question of whether the government is any good at establishing the relative merits of scientific endeavours.
The fact that we ended up with GPS and satellite television (some of it even benefiting poor people in Africa in some way) and didn't end up with an efficient way of levelling Moscow from orbit says much about the fact that scientific progress takes different directions from that those authorising the spending may have intended, but I'm not sure that necessarily weakens the case for those opposing federal science funding.
There's one technology, available everywhere including most toasters, which allows you to do this (cache HTML template and just substitute the data) and it can work on both back- and frontend with no problems, is crazy fast and even leaves you with something readable when it breaks.

It's called XML with XSLT.

Somehow it isn't very popular. But hey, we got this idea of "rendering pages on the backend or the frontend (or both)" from the same code lately!
What's your source for "most"?

Also, why would I leave my job where I'm not on probation for a new job where I am on probation?
Thanks! We'll use that unless someone suggests a better one.
"if the question is closed and there are no existing duplicates, then the question itself doesn't have much value."

Not fitting the guidelines of SO and not having much value are two very different things. Are you sure you meant the latter?
Using it less and less. It has just become like everything else: always trying to get your attention.
Seems that there's a new meaning of the phrase "miles per hour":

"these chargers can provide a charge rate of up to 58 miles per hour for Model S equipped with a second onboard charger or about 29 miles per hour for those with a single onboard charger"

Very interesting.
The types aren't optional. The types are always there. The type annotations are optional.
Hit the Windows key and type "power button" to open the power options control panel. Set "when I press the power button" to "do nothing". You can sleep/hibernate/shutdown from the start menu/screen, or automatically when you close the lid.

I have a UX301. The first time I accidentally hit the power button while working, I disabled it.
Um, what? Bitbucket was around long before Stash was. Bitbucket was a startup and acquired by Atlassian back in 2010, with Stash's first release not happening until 2012.

Atlassian's core business is Jira and Confluence. Stash is pretty much an also-ran at this point. (Bitbucket, the free product still looks better and has more features - Stash has literally no reason to exist unless your company is terrified of the cloud - and then, Github Enterprise is superior in every way.)
I suspect that New York City operates much like a city-state right now.
Nope, that's not explicitly made possible by the site at the moment. I'm thinking about adding that feature soon.
I've used this stuff to good effect, for years.

SOUNDEX turns 103 this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex It's used for telephone-directory and census lookup for names in American English, and is designed for high false-positive matches. It's simplistic. But it's a snap to index. In Bayes lingo it's sensitive but not selective.
IIRC they did have radios but those were so unreliable due to poor quality of vacuum tubes that many pilots chose not to use them, sometimes to the point of removing the antenna mast.
For perspective: 2 year old MacBook Pro 2018 256Gb. (Mostly used for development purposes)

Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 37 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 42%
Data Units Read: 892,035,478 [456 TB]
Data Units Written: 786,976,871 [402 TB]
Host Read Commands: 4,989,739,415
Host Write Commands: 2,554,081,641
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 137
Power On Hours: 2,132
Unsafe Shutdowns: 70
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

And a 6 month old Intel i3 MacBook Air 256Gb

Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 48 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 59,113,734 [30.2 TB]
Data Units Written: 47,319,687 [24.2 TB]
Host Read Commands: 596,571,150
Host Write Commands: 318,913,173
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 93
Power On Hours: 384
Unsafe Shutdowns: 21
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435
Lolita wasn't a documentary or a biography. 12 year olds aren't "highly intelligent sociopaths".
Mmm, our first computer was a TI99/4A, which my Dad picked up cheap when they were on sale as part of TI getting out of the home-computer business in the early 80s. Having very few commercial games for it was part of what nudged me into trying typing in games programs from books and user group magazines, which acted as a pretty good gradual introduction to programming as I had to figure out why things weren't working or try to adapt programs written for other BASIC dialects.
The cost of electricity may be a bit higher than in other states, but your overall cost of living in TX is so low that it doesn't really matter. For instance, in terms of my daily commute I'd be paying about $500 more a year just for gasoline if I was driving the same distance (20 miles) in CA every day of the week.
I guessed that he probably suspected he's unconscious or something, and therefore warranted shouting.

After all, the leader had probably seen Top Gun, where this almost happened to Cougar :)
I'm pretty sure I am currently violating loads of north korean laws. They should subpoena the entiere world.
It's sensible to assume that everything you ever put into the cloud can be leaked at any moment. So act accordingly.
Thank you for one of the few rational comments I've read about the whole ordeal. And yes, as a Bitcoiner since 2011 (who last dealt with Gox that same year), your assessment of Karpeles is spot on. My impression is that he's not dishonest, just the classic Dunning-Kruger programmer we've all worked with.

The hard thing about accounting for these Bitcoins is that we keep track of them via addresses, but Karpeles was robbed at a lower level of abstraction -- via outputs. So he's probably struggling with that.

EDIT: I should have written that my impression is that he's not a thief. I suspect he has been dishonest about what he's known about his company's situation, in the sense that he's probably lied by commission or at least omission. But I don't think he stole anything.
Add LIVEditor [http://liveditor.com], although it's single-purpose is for css, html and js only. It uses Webkit too, but for live preview of css and html changes only, like the real-time effects you can see with Firebug or Dev Tools.
Not only was it a bad idea to throw some unnamed intern under the bus, it reveals how broken the culture is at SolarWinds that they would even think that this is relevant. It smacks of delegating blame to someone no longer their, and not accepting responsibility to a very bad series of decisions.
You forgot the most important number!

Weight: 25 lbs / 11.3 kg.

I have an electric skateboard (Yuneec eGo) that weighs only 14 lbs and I still don't take it from place to place because I don't want to carry it.

Think of carrying before you buy it. Carefully.
Yes but all the other deductions are expensive as well (retirement, death insurance etc.). Why specifically pointing out the health insurance part?

It is as compulsory as the others.
Who bounces any more?
Illegally sold, that’s the distinction the headline misses.
I am less convinced now after an initial period of enthusiasm. I can get around things locally fairly well with or without assistance. What takes effort to comprehend a code base is its overarching organization and internal interfaces that often only exist in the heads of the creators.

But if one is into literate programming it is definitely a must to check out the Leo Editor http://leoeditor.com
1) I have always strived to work alone, I eschew meetings, and I solve problems using software. I spent a lot of time doing community management, but remember that the conservative estimate only examines a third of my time: if, during the course of any given day, you haven't spent at least a third of those waking hours programming, are you even living your best life? ;P

2) I mean, if you are doing it "right" ;P, testing is also coding, as is "screwing around with infrastructure", and while I admit reading isn't always about programming... but shouldn't it be? I can recommend some blogs and wikis and mailing lists ;P. Like, the practice of playing tennis involves more than just hitting the ball: at minimum, you also--at least sometimes--have to spend some time retrieving the ball once hit.
>And yet I can go a-chopping anywhere but the brain without cognitive deficit, but even a little scraping of the cortex has a notable effect.

Is this not obviously false? Cut out someones heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, etc. and they will surely have a "cognitive deficit" in the form of death. (Assuming no transplant is used)
I've used a variety of languages in my career, both statically-typed and dynamically-typed[0]. I generally like both. Here's my take against static typing:

1. Static type checkers increase compile times. This is an acceptable tradeoff if they can catch bugs at compile time, but not if they still still allow bugs to occur at runtime.

2. If you're building a system which has to interact with other systems a lot, static types can be a hindrance if your static type system and their type system don't agree on fundamental things like how data should be modelled. This manifests itself as things like the Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch[1]. You would end up writing a lot (A LOT) of code to bridge the two, and in general, more code = more bugs.

3. Static type checkers can have bugs or quirky behaviour. This can lead to a lot of wasted time, and/or inelegant workarounds that makes your code less understandable (and therefore, more likely to have bugs in the future). This is one that I encountered recently: https://typelevel.org/blog/2018/05/09/product-with-serializa...

4. It's surprisingly hard to find any research that can demonstrate that static type checkers actually lead to fewer bugs.

[0] Python, Clojure for dynamically-typed languages, Typescript and Scala for statically-typed languages

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...
That is still incredibly dire, given the very important point you're omitting -- that 6 adults need to be supporting children!

Raising children as it is, is expensive and time-consuming, to the point that adults feel incapable of doing so. Bundling that many adults onto the care model is absolutely insane.
poor intern is getting thrown under the bus