skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eh, I guess I don't really mind them hanging out, I mean, I'm not interested in what they have, but others are. My problem is that they seem to have the attitude that everyone wants to talk to them.

Having angels at hackathons is fine, maybe even good. The problem is when angels become (or act as if they are) the centre of hackathons.

I remember not so long ago I was at a kinda business oriented hackathon and I couldn't get this angel to leave me alone. I mean, okay, I talked at first, but after realising that he was only interested in something that would sound good on CNN (which is to say, he wasn't interested in anything realistic, or at least nothing realistic that I was capable of doing) I lost interest.

It was like trying to talk to someone who was stoned. He said things that sounded deep, like they were 'big ideas' but if you pinned him down and dug into the details, there was no actual content.

The guy wouldn't leave me alone, even though I was being fairly direct about "not interested, working" both verbally and non-verbally. It didn't help that my partner liked talking to the guy, I assume because of the money.

Really, if the guy wanted to sit behind me and watch, that'd have been fine. It was the talking to me, /after/ I made it clear I wasn't interested in talking to him that bothered me.
Even if IE9 catches up 100%, it will still be frozen in time at its point of release until IE10 is released several years later, where other browsers will be regularly releasing new versions every few weeks/months (with almost 90% take-up).
Can't you print from your editor ? (Emacs can) Then you get your highlight setup.
For more fine-grain control on the output, there is some LaTeX package that can highlight code.
Looks like it's more expensive than S3 at this moment. USD 0.17/GB/Month vs S3: 0.15/GB/Month for storage. Curious to see if this is going to change. An extra competitor in this space will do no harm. Amazon has done a great job, but overall pricing can use some competition I think.

btw. during preview you get 100 gigabytes of data storage and 300 gigabytes of monthly bandwidth at no charge according to:
http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/overview.html
"I threw out people who were French," -- haha, just curious, what beef do you have with french people. i.e. why do you think you can't roommate with them?
The main problem with Perl seems to be the incessant trolling, because it fills the same niche at some other language(s) with lots of fanatics.

And Perl culture just don't have traditions of that kind of negative time waste.

The good thing to come from that is Perl Iron Man blogging, instead of the traditional mailing lists/PerlMonks.
What a great set of measurements. Without being able to test the performance of the kernel, such a problem might really develop into a disaster.

Thanks for the effort you have obviously invested to get these results and best of luck to the kernel developers to narrow down the issue.
The bigger those competitors, the slower they are going to react. It is extremely rare for a large competitor to even acknowledge your existence for months, then they form a committee to analyse your product/service and make a recommendation, etc.

Your best bet is to make your business an attractive target for acquisition. That way you cash out early on the basis of huge potential future revenue.

Rinse and repeat ...
Thanks.

Tip 1) is on-the-money and greatly appreciated. We gonna do that right now.

2) Noted and point taken.

Thanks again for the comment.
Since you don't seem to consider the best OO system around a part of the language, I assume you are a functional fanatic?
It seems amazing that so many people were prepared to support the company with loans. Particularly as such support was surely a strong indication that the company was in trouble.
so i found his deleted twitter account cached here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cskPmCG...

I'm guessing porn also :)
Well, isn't that ten year support timeline due for expiration in the next year or so? I'm going from memory here so please correct me if not.
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I think the bit you are missing about business advice is that what constitutes good advice varies a lot based on the size and ownership structure of a company.

If you are a 2 man bootstrapped company and you take advice from someone running a fortune-500 corp, you are probably getting horrible advice.

Really, if you don't need investor money, you are probably too small to benefit from most investor advice.
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If Star Wars were real. Do you ever wanted to know how that would look?
It does. But I think it's even more important on your way to making that first million. It keeps you sane.
"Crash? He was using programmers’ slang, he said to describe when the camera locks up because of a software error."

God, I'd hate to be a normal.
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Once a language has lost the ability to recruit talented and passionate programmers, innovation dies soon thereafter

Probably very true. However I see a lots of new talented & passionate Perl programmers appearing at Perl meetings, on the blogospshere and with many new code/CPAN modules. So your statement doesn't apply to Perl.

Perl may have new modules, but I'm not sure many of them can be called innovative

CPAN is having a "purple patch" over last few years. Lots of new and innovative stuff have appeared and I see no reason for this not to continue
Good ideas are all over the place. It is implementing them that is hard, time consuming, and valuable.
I think it's probably a clever PR strategy to lie down flat until the leak is plugged and the damage is assessed, before trying to smooth public opinion. If they're caught spinning this, they'll never recover.
good advice.

Also, use standard tools. If you have cobbled together, badly written php/MySQL, there are armies of SysAdmins (like me) who can come in and do relatively easy things without touching the code much to make it scale better. If you use something new and weird, well, you had better hope your tech guy sticks around, and is good enough to make it scale, because he'll be hard to replace.

I've worked at several places where 1. the founder cooks up something that is revision number four thousand on a pile of php/MySQL spaghetti that was originally intended to do something else, but this time it finally gets customers. 2. the guy hires me to prop the thing up while he hires a compitent developer to re-write the thing in a scalable, maintainable manner, 3. they switch to the new code base, I get bored and leave.

going from step 2 to step 3 often takes a few tries. Don't get too discouraged.
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It appears it might be heavier oil also, which breaks down more slowly and sticks to more things. But nobody has very accurate models of effects of oil spills, so it's hard to say if it'll actually be worse.
VCs are good to share risks and gain economic stability while building something on your own. I wouldn't drop out my day job to sink into a project and risk all my money, I must be backed in order to start.
What you need is experienced, advising, business savvy VCs. They're a necessity, not Freaks. The article is bogus.
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I see slightly differently. It would be nice to be able to have FOSS apps on the iPhone, but I don't think anybody of the parties are acting particularly unreasonably here.

I think the FSF is forcing compliance with the spirit of the law. As I understand it, the point of having source code freely available is so that anyone can make modifications, use them, and further distribute them. Not everyone will make modifications, but if everyone cannot, then no-one will.

In the case of the Go app, if you or I obtained the source code, and made modifications for the go pieces to have some marble effect for example, then we could not distribute those changes.

As a side note, I think it is pretty reasonable to require Apple to distribute the source code. It is more likely that the creators of the Go go out of business than Apple, taking their FTP site, or other source code distribution mechanism with them. In which case the burden of distributing source code would fall to Apple. If Apple are not willing to set up a mechanism to distribute source code for apps now, then they would not be willing in the case that an app producer goes out of business. While I wish it were possible to run FOSS on the iPhone, I think t's a sensible business decision for Apple not to undertake this contingent responsibility.

What may happen in the future is that competition from Google commoditizes the App store, and forces Apple to open out the iPhone platform, for example by allowing other people/companies to host their own Apps. In which case a GPL App store may become a possibility.
With iTunes, Apple has thrown weight around
Stevedekorte's vertex.js
"vertex.js is a graph database inspired by filesystems that supports automatic garbage collection and is built on node.js and tokyocabinet."
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I'm an underpaid massive corporate's cog, dealing with stuff I have no interest in. That's why I'm gonna quit and start something on my own.
hah! this seems like a good read so far and promises to be great based on the chapter list.
Well, by the looks of it also aint going to happen this time.
finally they got it. i'm curious when google will launche it own 'dont do evil' fund.
Except they've neglected to support XP, so anyone stuck on XP is stuck on IE8 unless they switch to an alternate browser.

They say that in a year or so, whenever they get around to actually releasing IE9, then people won't be using XP as much because they'll have upgraded to their much better offerings.

But that's what they said about IE6 too, and it's upgrades were free and didn't require complete re-installs. Basically, you're relying on the physical machine upgrade cycle to kill old IE browsers.

Also: canvas support?
My recommendation would be to think in terms of a minimum viable product. You said you have $1000. That amount might not be enough to build your entire product, but is enough to build something. And that something would be enough to get further feedback--feedback about demand, but also about more specific things like pricing and marketing.

While your mention of wireframes and mockups makes me think you might already be walking the Lean Startup path, I don't think it's necessary to make the leap to a full-blown product just yet, particularly since you're not in a position to build it yourself.
IE6 was everything IE9 is, 10 years ago. IE9 will be everything IE6 is, 10 years from now.
Wow. I couldn't disagree more.

I grew up the child of missionaries in Central America in the 70's and 80's. My parents ran a school for Hondurans during a time when 1 out of 100 kids graduated from High School. Half the students paid tuition and half were scholarship students.

In 1997, my parents went back to Honduras to help with the disaster relief after a hurricane destroyed much of the Honduran infrastructure.

And over the course of 6 months they were there, they had dozens and dozens of former students find them after hearing that they were in the country, and they stopped by to say "thank you". Those former students were now Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Company owners etc...

So, I'd disagree rather heartily with the idea that charity increases dependency.
Kind of bummed they seem to have gone the exact opposite of what I was expecting.

I want to choose the folders (that live anywhere) to sync, I don't want to not sync some stuff in my Dropbox folder.

But such is the life of a technical user using a consumer app.
Because you need to be a billionaire to successful at those.
They're both needed, of course:

1) Intelligence steers hard work to the right direction.

2) Hard work turns intelligence into reality.
Because I'm not in the U.S., that link gets me a 404 error, because popsci.com redirects to the local version, which doesn't have that article.
Do you realize the EXACT same problem happened 30 years ago by the EXACT same drilling company?

There is nothing "new" here. They should know what to do and only have better techniques to solve problems, but they are doing no better than 30 years ago.

Nothing worked 30 years ago, they had to wait 9 months while they drilled relief wells. The tophat failed, the kill failed, everything.
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Primer is one of my all time favorite movies. I had goose bumps watching it the first time.

The linked timeline from the article is actually pretty "easy" to read and really helped me understand what I've just seen. Just watch the movie beforehand :)

http://neuwanstein.fw.hu/primer_timeline.html

Edit: The entire movie is officially(?) available on Google Video, though the quality is not that good. You should find yourself a better copy...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3909854615539675694#
("Money can also mess with your identity in bad ways. It's important to remember that we're all made of the same shit, some people are just a little luckier than others")++;
Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man'
Surely "beware using social media when drunk" is the more general lesson here.
1 Head is Better than 2, or 3, or 4, or etc.
It was for you, David.
IE7 too would be nice while you're at it :)
Alas, most of people saw Avatar, and believe that it was the best movie in the history of genre..
>> it is doubtful that BP will have to pay much for this disaster

Since Obama has gotten more campaign contributions from BP (also from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that any other politician in the US, at least we'll know who to blame if it happens.
Please, don't read the Wikipedia article before you go out and rent or buy this movie. The movie is absolutely fantastic.

I have seen it 17 to 18 times, and even-though people have attempted to explain everything that is going on to me I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it. Awesome for the hacker in you!
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Not very surprising, since most large companies have treasury departments responsible for managing the company portfolio. The graphic in the article shows that most of their non cash assets are in debt securities. Not as exciting as the title sounds :)
Much like the cratering in housing properties, I prefer to look on the positive side: if markets didn't occasionally send signals that bad ideas have negative consequences, we'd have no incentive to improve our (broken) systems.

If your company is built on your employees giving you salaryman-like loyalty and on you treating them like expendable interchangeable cogs, your company urgently needs market feedback.
Yes, beacause it is nice to parasite on free/subsidized education of Europe/Asia. And native borns should compete, compete, compete, pay off education loans, compete, compete, compete...
While your point about the help your family gave and the long term impact they made is totally valid, you are missing the point I think. The incorrect assumption you're making is that charitable donation == starting a school and teaching self-sufficiency.

I think that the good kind of charitable giving is exactly what your parents did, going and teaching a valuable skill that others can use to help themselves. I guess it foes back to the "education is the key" mantra that so many people tout, but it's true.

So while I disagree with your post and I believe that many, if not most, of charitable donations are poorly spent, siphoned off by bureaucracy, or otherwise wasted, teaching people skills is a type of charity that I would support.

Though the model you post about sounds like it was actually quasi-charity, as students had to pay for the classes. This I believe is the best of both worlds, as it allows do-gooders (your parents and other donors who supported the program) to do good, but it also requires sacrifice from the student and their families, which builds character and makes it more likely that the gift will be recognized for what it is and appreciated - and that the person will go and do likewise for others.

From my iPhone - excuse typos etc
I probably should've been more clear with what I meant -- I might've also avoided getting downvoted below 0 if I had.

I am surprised that someone discussing what to do with your money (in the context of selling your company and being posted on Hacker News) and discussing what to do with your life did not mention the possibilities angel investing offers beyond trying to make more money.
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Tell it to pharma-corps and medical establishment that refuses to sell medicines without prescription.
Trust me Cato, being right wing institution would come up with reasons why it is not good.
"In the case of the Go app, if you or I obtained the source code, and made modifications for the go pieces to have some marble effect for example, then we could not distribute those changes."

What ever gave you that idea? Nothing stops you from putting your modified source up somewhere for download, so that people who want to use it can download it, compile it, and install it on their own phones.
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Seconded, watch the movie! Don't read too much about it first. Primer is totally awesome, seriously confusing though it is :)
Seconded. Worth looking on eBay for an X200s - it's arguably superior to the current X201. It was the superlight version of the x200, available with a 1440*900 display and had all sorts of carbon fibre bits and an ultra-low-voltage processor. With the 9-cell battery, you've got a machine that weighs under 1.5kg and will run for ten hours away from the mains. Randall Munroe has one - http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/06/12/laptop-update/
Remains of Soviet Empire Nuclear Base
In the pictures you will see the remnants of the Soviet Empire. The construction of the base began in 1971.
but maybe finding that right place and time is also one of their learned skills
There was an animal exactly like this being served at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
GP just said. Because getting rid of it would be stupid - the current approach is building long-term storage.
A few maybe-not-so-weak examples:

Noncomputable functions.

Exotic differential structures (brief explanation: consider 4-dimensional Euclidean space, R^4; you can think of its topological structure as being determined by the way you calculate distances between points; this actually gives you more than just topological structure because you can do things like differentiate functions on the space. Well, there are different distance functions that are equivalent topologically but not differentially. The same is true for lots of other spaces, in dimensions much higher than 4.)

Huge finite groups like the "Monster".

The Galois group of Qbar over Q. (Brief explanation: Q is the rational numbers. Qbar is the set of all "algebraic numbers", i.e. roots of polynomials with integer coefficients. The Galois group consists of all "field automorphisms of Qbar", which means all functions from Qbar to itself that don't mess with arithmetic: f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y), f(xy)=f(x)f(y), etc. It's an important object in number theory.)

The very infinite-dimensional Hilbert space in which the wavefunction of the universe lives.
Required link to related xkcd strip: http://xkcd.com/657/
Dropbox was originally built for small development teams as an easy alternative to source control. The kind of selective sync I'd like to see would involve regular expressions to filter out dlls and build artifacts.
I'm on my tenth time and I'm just starting to figure out a few of the nuances in only some of the scenes. The timeline has helped but one day I will do an animation that shows it more intuitively it that's possible.
If you like films like Primer you will like Triangle. I clearly want to watch it again to understand every time loop. Plus there's Melissa George in the lead role, which doesn't hurt.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/

If you're broke, it's available on Bittorrent (I am broke). Otherwise you won't regret your purchase.
they frustrate me too

for all the reasons you cite and more
At the time of the accident Sedco 135F was drilling at a depth of about 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) below the seafloor.

Every time I hear the depths from which oil is extracted it makes me think the Russians might be right in with their abiogenic theory of oil formation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
i have not connected the ipad to itunes since we set it up.

and we use macs in our house so the initial connection was on a mac.
i didn't say "this changes everything"

i said "i've changed my mind"

i thought it was pretty useless at first.

now i'd rather use it than my macbook

i thought was worth sharing
First, it's important to understand that once you have the basics, happiness comes primarily from healthy social connections and a sense of purpose.

Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way. Unfortunately, if given a lot of money, they are much more likely to end up addicted to crack, or even worse

I used to watch a lot of cable TV (10-20 hours a week) and from time to time I would hit upon one of those celebrity biographies. As much as they tried to spin it, suddenly becoming rich and famous usually destroyed people's lives.

Meanwhile, some family friends we know who never made a lot of money retired, joined an RV traveling community. Every year the same bunch of people take several months touring the country. It is not very expensive. They are having the time of their life.

The point is this: Paul's advice is good even without the money. Social interactions (I would add travel) and a sense of purpose are foundational to happiness.

Somebody said once that money is a magnifier. It takes whatever character traits you already have and exaggerates them. I'm not an expert or anything, and I'd certainly like to be better off than I am, but I'm willing to bet that giving 5 or 10 million bucks to most people would be about the same in the long run as shooting them in the head.
While I understand your point, I think that most people don't know what "existential risk prevention" is. And quite frankly, websites you linked to (except sens.org) convey impression of overly-paranoid semi-crazy science fiction, which is unlikely to win funding over puppies.
you are correct

that is one of many reasons the AVC blog is extremely valuable to me

but it is not the only one
When the spectrum is freed, mesh networking will become pervasive, given, free, and at no cost, except maybe a small government tax. 3G as a business model will die. Even homeless could have a 24/7 internet connection, provided they don't sell or lose their pocket computer. What's left is your dependence on centralized services. But I think people will host their web site and send their e-mail[1] before the spectrum is freed.

Of course, such an utopia won't happen tomorrow, nor in this decade. But it could happen in the next one.

[1] Most people today don't send their e-mails. They ask their web-mail or their ISP to do that for them.
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I think they've said they're working on that.