skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that really hit home for me was the whole Winkelvoss plot-line. I got sucked into web development because of a deep desire to create something that will take off and become a hit - it's the best place to be if you're a modern entrepreneur, and I wanted to be a part of it. It's become an addiction for me, one that I fund by doing contracting work on the side. I don't have the money to pay someone else to do it, and even if I did I'd still build it myself.

I've met and been approached by countless Winkelvosses since I've started doing this, and I've always had the same question in my mind: if you want to create something for the web, why the hell don't you figure out how to create it yourself? I started out with ZERO development experience and figured out how to do it - pretty quickly too, in fact. I don't understand how you could stand not being able to act on your ideas yourself if you were truly excited about the prospect of building them out - especially when the barrier of entry to entrepreneurialism has never been lower in the history of business.

That the twins believed they should be compensated for having supposedly given Mark the idea for Facebook cuts right at the heart of what bothers me. The Twins were busy training to be Olympic rowers, besides being gorgeous Harvard supermen and screwing God-only-knows-how-many gorgeous women in the process. Mark was busy coding Facebook. Every waking hour. Obsessively. It's true the Twins had great insight about Facebook's (or ConnectU's) potential. But so did I back in 2002. So did every internet generation college-aged computer geek who'd seen Friendster and MySpace and hotornot.com.

The point, that I know has (rightfully) been beaten to death on HN, is that it's not about the idea. It's about the blood, sweat, and execution of the idea. If you're only coming up with ideas, you're not throwing your hat into the ring as far as I'm concerned. You're playing with monopoly money.

By far the best line in the movie was "If you were the inventors of Facebook, you've had invented Facebook." It was a fist pumping moment for me.
In a number of countries I've heard it pronounced to rhyme with "Mike."
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I think you're right on this one. The idea that Python is suddenly experiencing a reemergence doesn't feel right to me - it makes more sense to talk about this trend in terms of relative activity.

Note: I use and love Python, and I'm doing my startup in Python, but I'll admit that I don't know much about the Ruby community. I will say, however, that we decided early on not to use RoR because of its scaling issues.
I'm not sure we should really blame either of them for "killing" startups. In truth, often times, the startup just fails to grow much, or fails to complete a rewrite to be more scalable. But that might have happened anyway.

We can say that they both have a history of not giving startups what they need to succeed, especially social startups. However, at Yahoo it's largely related to internal power struggles on the order of Europe in 1913, and it can seem much more personal.
Would you mind fleshing that out? Just posting two words and linking to wikipedia doesn't add much to the conversation, and people who care about maintaining the level of discourse on HN might heavily downvote you.
This is a good quick reminder, but its title is misleading. It doesn't explain why larger leading helps people read. It just says that it does.
An old documentary on the life of Gandhi (born Oct 2nd, 1869)
I think that "bad technology" can kill a startup, but slightly different variations of good technology don't have much effect. Choose what you know/like best. And Ruby and Python are both in this latter category.

I think it's just that Ruby enjoyed a brief surge of hype which pushed it to the forefront of the startup founders' mind; this has now ebbed a bit and Python use rises up to its natural level.

I wonder if Ruby will come back a bit, though. There hasn't been much hype, but in the last few months the Ruby community has really gone for broke, with rails 3, ruby 1.9.2, rvm reaching maturity and bundler to handle dependencies. Things are changing so fast I think the magnitude of the changes haven't sunk in for most people but it's a whole new environment and really impressive IMO.
For an internship, you really want to be on-site. The point of an internship isn't to make less money for the same amount of work while you don't have lines on your resume. Well, maybe it is for you. But, thats not what it should be imho.

To me, an internship is about learning how to work with people (or: how a business works) and meeting awesome people (or: making connections). Figure out what it actually means to ship a product, getting real world experience, etc. You can't do much of that if the only contact you have with the company is a Skype session every few days. Thats closer to freelancing than interning.

That said, if I didn't lose your interest, Justin.tv is looking for interns[1]. You should totally apply, if you're in the SF area. I can tell you firsthand that you'll have a great time and learn a ton -- I did an internship with them over the past summer. Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724889
There has yet to be a startup company to dethrone Microsoft. (Apple wasn't a startup and was reseeded with money from MS )

At some point a company just gets large enough to buy or edge out the competition.
It's unclear what they mean; they seem to be implying a distributed denial-of-service attack. (In a sense, a real-world sit-in is a denial-of-service attack on physical offices and workplaces, so this interpretation is not a stretch.)

Is portraying the UC managers as villains, disrupting normal campus work, and increasing security/administration costs likely to reverse the state budget cuts? Or make them worse? Choose wisely.
How accurate was the jargon? When they talked about hacking, or were coding on screen, was it realistic?
If DevPay worked outside of the US I would be using it for my product today. Since it doesn't, I'm not. And that is probably not a bad thing because it has caused me to build my software in a much more generic way which means I'm not dependent on EC2 either - and in fact, I'm now saving money because EC2 is fairly expensive compared to the other options I now have, including running on some of my in house capacity where it makes sense.
Could this be a rational financial decision from an employee's point of view? I'm not smart about financial things, so perhaps someone can school me.

As I understand it, startups are usually acquired through stock swaps. So that $X million really means $X million in company stock.

The investors cash out immediately, but employees vest years afterwards. So the employees are the only ones who care about the future value of the acquirer's stock.

If Yelpers had calculated that 3 years hence, the difference between Yahoo and Google stock moves would have erased the difference in initial price, then does the Google deal become the rational choice?

The difference wouldn't even have to be that large. If we assume a three year vesting period (with no partial vesting earlier on), and that growth rates are constant, then by my calculations the Google deal works out better for employees if (for example) Google grows by an average of 6% per year while Yahoo shrinks at 3.5% per year.

But this is just my rambling, I don't actually know much about this stuff. Informed comment?
1) Yes, there will be many ways to do it. One is online, clicking the scripts. We'll provide a lightbox with the code. Another way is "cloning" the script to your account (no git clone in this case, just a hard copy). You can then make changes and publish it back to your account.

2) The connections between your server and StackFu's will be done using HTTPS. We also offer the option to run the service as a daemon or as a standalone, where you have to manually confirm each installation request;

3) I am not sure I understand your concept of shell. We already have a REST API and a Ruby Gem that enables you to do things like publishing a new script, listing servers and scripts, deploy scripts, all from the command line.

4) This won't be available in beta, but we have planned as one of the possible requirements of the script to be the operating system, and that would involve doing some server side checking to make sure the proper OS is installed. Once we have that, I agree that we need to make that searchable;

5) We don't, currently, have a rating system nor rates, however they are interesting concepts. We may do a upvoting/downvoting system similar to what Reddit or StackOverflow does.

Thanks for your feedback. Keep them coming, please!
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What? You don't want to fly through a world of 3D towers with flashing text on them while you hack the Gibson? :)
Agreed. We'll be addressing that and improving the text communication on the website. Thank you!
I would like to work on social application, either game, educational, or productivity related.

Right now I am working on some exciting stuff for UCSF and Harvard.

I have a few ideas around augmented reality, vr, music, games, social calendars, openid and a language learning app i am working on.

I would like to pick a cofounder before settling on something, until then. I am just hacking around and writing code that is fun.

you can find me on twitter @jdavid
Actually, it's worse than that. Herpes and HPV can be transmitted via skin not covered by the condom, so even if the condom doesn't break it doesn't necessarily prevent transmission. It only reduces the probability of transmission.

Also, there are no HPV screening tests for men.
Can you please explain to me what you mean? I have read the article and do not understand why this is especially important to Hacker News.
I enjoyed the mental thought process and geek speak of Zuckerberg when he tried to hack into harvard's network and hire the first intern. A lot of people in the theatre around me were visibly confused, while I was actually able to follow along and think to myself "hey, I know that term!." Pretty cool.
The article illustrates how local editorial control and not-for-profit ownership can allow a newspaper to act as the conscience of a community.

Tampabay.com is the online portal for the The St. Petersburg Times. The Times is one of the few remaining independent newspapers left in the US, It is owned by the Poynter Institute. http://www.poynter.org/
I'm guessing you only read the first sentence of my comment. I directly quote the opening sentence of Lessig's summation paragraph from the second page.
What should I wear? I find myself asking that question all the time. First date? What should I wear? Job interview? What should I wear? Friday night out? What should I wear?
Wouldn't it be cool if 500-1000 of your peers could make sure you look as good as possible before you leave your house?

So I created http://www.TonightsOutfit.com - a website that attempts to answer that question using peer review.

I've got a business plan/financial statement, I'm incorporated, the design is complete, the front end code is complete. I have money for marketing/hosting and any other expense that may occur. I've got beta testers too.

I have everything needed for a v1 launch except the backend.

I am interested in someone who can build the backend, bonus points if you are able to do design/front end.

I could talk forever and ever about the project, if you are interested in knowing more I'm available @ Nick [at] tonightsoutfit.com

I'm located in Seattle.

References available on request.

http://www.tonightsoutfit.com
As a UC employee I had to laugh at this bit:

The UC continues to make efforts to expand the prison-military-university-industrial complex

You know you've gone off the deep end when you've lumped UC Fricking Berkeley in as part of the military-industrial complex.
Windows XP.

I have used Linux almost daily for the last 12 years; a good chunk of them via putty/ssh from XP. I headless Slackware box without X; ssh or serial is just fine by me.

At the risk of being mauled to death, I also have a Mac that I just got used, and I only ssh to it. Couldn't be bothered to figure its quirks; will come handy when I get into iphone dev though.

Also, I will not use a non Thinkpad machine if it was given to me for free. My current setup is an R51; Pentium M, 1GB RAM, and 33GB disk.
You seem to have missed the point I was trying to make. I am well aware that Lessig has been "one of the good guys" - in fact, before reading this review, he was more or less a hero to me. I am actually shocked that Lessig seems to care as little about ethics and personal privacy as his praise of Zuckerberg indicates.
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In a meritocratic society with equal opportunities children from poor households should be able to end up in all income brackets - some in the top, some in the middle, some in the poor etc. The more uniform the distribution the better.

Have you even read yummyfajitas' reply? Regardless of whether you believe in nature or nurture, I imagine you wouldn't deny that intelligent and hard working people's children are more likely to be intelligent and hard working. Therefore, in a society where these traits on average lead to an increase in the social status, you should expect some stickiness. A uniform distribution would prove that a person's merits have no impact on their success in life.
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I was highly disappointed with one thing:

They only referenced emacs and not vim.

Where's the love? ;)
It actually was pretty realistic. When he was talking about writing a shell script to wget images from Harvard facebooks, I smiled to myself a little.
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You must be careful when applying this sort of logic because it assumes that what happens to a plane after its shot is entirely deterministic, ie. if it gets shot in the tail fin it crashes, if it gets shot in the wing it doesn't. That may or may be accurate for planes (I really don't know) but may not for other things.

Suppose anywhere the plane was shot led to a 1/5 chance of the plane crashing, meaning that all places are equally deserving of armor. Suppose also that the wings comprised about 75% of the surface area of the plane. You'd see 3 planes returning with bullet holes in a wing for every 1 with a bullet hole somewhere else. That doesn't mean somewhere else is a better place to put the armor.

It's easy to see how it could be possible, if the odds of a crash weren't uniform (ie if the wings had a slightly higher than average chance of causing a crash if shot in my example above) you could easily come to the wrong conclusion.
Spoken like someone who hasn't written nearly enough Fortran.
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Factual: Zuck is 26. But your point remains.
Ask HN: Best Way to Visualize Small Programs(150-250 lines) 
What is the best way to visualize small programs(150-250 lines) with 4-5 functions.
My ratings: 5/5

When I read about this movie, I thought this is something to bring down the image of Mark Zuckerberg.

After watching the movie, it seems, # of sign ups on facebook will sky rocket.
That's true, but I think it is a little worse than just accounting for multiple perspectives. The movies is based on "The Accidental Billionaires," whose author didn't interview most (any?) of the main participants other than Eduardo Saverin. When you combine that with Sorkin's loudly proclaimed internet ignorance, I think you can end up with a great movie, but not one that is particularly related to a careful analysis of the 100 different versions of the founding story of Facebook. In The Accidental Billionaires, "Mezrich allows that he invents dialogue, synthesizes details, and puts imagined thoughts into his characters’ heads." If you want a less sensational book, but one where the author interviewed many of the principals I'd suggest Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect
Sinh tiêu Tý, Sinh tiêu Sửu, Sinh tiêu Dần, Sinh tiêu Mão với sim số đẹp
Sim số đẹp không chỉ dùng dễ nhớ, mà còn mang lại nhiều may mắn cho bạn trong làm ăn, trong cuộc sống... nên bạn phải chọn cho mình một sim số đẹp phù hợp cung tuổi cho sự may mắn và thành công hơn.
This is the successor:

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

Downing has a bunch of good stuff; his text on concurrency is good too.
There is something about Python that everybody likes, whether it's the syntax, functional programming features, NumPy or one of the other numerous libraries. This quiet support allows Python to remain potent while fads die down.
I can't tell if this is actual insubordination, or an AOL-approved PR move designed to emphasize that Techcrunch will still be pugnacious.
Kind of like our app, http://afeedapart.com. We actually gave some thought to opening our platform to other events like this, but decided against it.
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We make games. On Facebook. But they're deeper and more interesting than other Facebook games, because we're gamers and we're not afraid to admit it. Our games were the first to feature animated battles, and we think they're still the best :)

Also, we're profitable, and not VC funded.

We've got two relatively successful Facebook games out, and we're always working on more. We've got some developers from some well known and established web startups, as well as artists who have worked with Marvel and D.C.

http://apps.facebook.com/ageofchampions/
http://apps.facebook.com/superherocity/

We're looking for developers. Must love games.

http://www.klicknation.com/
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There are many books for Usability, User Experience, etc. but if you are a hard core programmer, I would recommend "Designing Web Interfaces" is good for beginners and "Defensive Design For The Web".

Links:
http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Interfaces-Principles-In...

http://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Design-Web-improve-messages/...

Enjoy :)
That's really helpful.

In the movie when the girl says, "But Sean Parker founded Napster", in real life she would have said "Shawn Fanning".
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Where's the ctrl-x-( <hacker magic> ctrl-x-) ctrl-x-e e e e ...?

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Yours is more like it, but I think there's little point in including C++ in the lot. It hasn't ever really been used for web application development, at least not nearly to the same extent as the other languages in the original diagram.

By the time the Internet took off in the early 90s, Perl was already around and much more popular for this purpose.

If you're going for rather exotic languages (in the context of web application development) I think it would make more sense to include Common Lisp.
Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. (http://irg.arc.nasa.gov)

We do satellite image processing (mostly Moon and Mars), computer vision, and robot software. We like developers and/or researchers. (mike.lundy@nasa.gov)

Some projects we have our hands in, in no particular order:

- Mars/Moon 3d in Google Earth (http://earth.google.com)

- WorldWide Telescope Mars (http://www.worldwidetelescope.org)

- GigaPan Robotic Camera (http://gigapan.org)

- Mars/Moon 2d (http://mars.google.com / http://moon.google.com)

- Robotic Follow-up (http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/robots)
Do you think non-tech people saw that the same way as us?

I felt the same thing about the Winklevoss' story-line. Did non-developers/non-HNers get the same thing from the movie?
It's still kind of for early adopters, trendsetters and those who like to live on the edge. It's not well known outside of places like this.

In the mainstream, I definitely have seen a trend where people moving past PHP, or designer types new to web programming, pick either Ruby or Python, and between Ruby and Python, Python is gaining ground.
Right, having written a billing system, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. I just got the impression that the article conflated rolling your own billing system with actual handing of the payments and credit card storage. Perhaps I was mistaken.
This is a US story reported by the BBC, which happens with some regularity here on HN. Is it because the BBC reports news that US media doesn't, because the people who follow the BBC are more interested in news, or am I just imagining it?
I completely agree
The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory is looking for somebody. We're new. We're trying to reimagine libraries through tech. It's a cool opportunity to join a good team.

To see some of what we're working on, check out the website:
http://www.librarylab.law.harvard.edu

Link to job description:
https://jobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?par...

email: jgoldenson@law.harvard.edu

Jeff
According to John Forester, being struck by an overtaking car is among the least likely bicycle accidents, even though it is the rationale used to justify mandatory bike lane usage. http://www.johnforester.com/

His book, Effective Cycling is a great way to improve bicycle safety.
I guess your saying that payouts across the board will be 25% short? I guess that is some comfort from the fact that I know I 'have' to pay in to a system that I have no choice in and at least get 75% of my money back at some point.
I went into it expecting to not like it. Actually, I didn't want to see it in the first place ("Psh, a movie about Facebook?") but got free tickets through StartupDigest and decided to go.

Really happy I did — the movie is one of my favorites now. Writing was awesome, soundtrack was fantastic (by Trent Reznor, and $8 to buy: http://www.nullco.com/TSN/), cinematography was enchanting (the tilt-shift part during the crew race was particularly great), and I thought that Jesse Eisenberg in particular did a great job creating both an arrogant but sympathetic character.

Additionally, the movie is pretty inspiring, as other commentators mentioned. Kind of disappointed in myself for being such a 'hater' in the beginning before actually seeing the movie.
This is kind of nonsensical.

Ruby and PHP are direct descendants of Perl (which is still going). Ruby merged Perl with Smalltalk, roughly, and PHP merged Perl with a box of hammers (nevermind that not all problems involve nails), while removing a number of "hard" features in Perl, like first-class functions and closures.

Python is not on the C++/Java timeline, either, coming from ABC and others.

JavaScript is a descendant of Scheme (with C-like syntax).

Scala/Lift is not popular enough to really deserve mention among the rest of this bunch of languages, all the rest of which have been extraordinarily popular and used by millions of programmers.
Any primary documents you recommend? (Curious history nerd.)
This conversion isn't automatic at all, though.

Helmets turn fatalities into head injuries but also head injuries into non-head injuries. You need the real statistics for each case before making a judgment.

Also, a metal helmet has the obvious problem that there's no damping for an impact. A Styrofoam helmet absorbs shock.
Anyone else notice they were writing PHP and said it was Perl?

Great movie, though. Amazing to see a popular film come out and do a decent job of portraying a software guy.