skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drop folder trees (subtrees of home and var-www and the like) into dropbox as soft links too.

What I could really do with is being able to tell dropbox -"all this tree but not this branch please" so I can exclude a leaf or twig.

I've also had problems when symlinks have caused a folder to be listed twice and so the same content (a huge folder) got uploaded twice and breached my account limit, oops.

Lastly I'd like a more asynchronous approach to be possible "download all files but don't delete when other clients do" which helps to create a complete working backup locally.

Any of this in the pay version ...?
That's an odd way of advocating hype over facts. And it's a bit of a stretch to pronounce Microsoft's decline if they're not #1 in a couple of trendy areas (cloud computing, smartphones).
I think you're asking for money too soon. I don't really have a good idea of how your app works or if I would even use it. I'm not going to pay $24 just to find out if it does anything worth while for me.
I'd say that getting Steven Colbert and John Stewart to hold a rally is DC is as impressive a hack as I've seen on HN.
Jason Mendelson on Venture Capital & Dating [video & transcript]
The parent comment is saying that to attract a good dev, e.g. from Google or IBM, you have to pay much more to compensate for doing less interesting work. Personally, I'd accept a living wage to work as a post-doc, but I'd need a truck full of gold to work for an insurance company.
Touching story of Rai Singh, top Indian innovator
I agree 100% with your last paragraph... their desire to keep bolting bits onto legacy software is a major annoyance and leads to a lot of kruft.
See, this is why I chose the HN title.

As soon as a site adds rep, there come the accusations of rep whoring. I don't care about my SO rep, as long as it's not libellous or something. I don't need a job, I don't want a job. I want (in this specific case) to teach.

What if people don't know they have a problem?

If SO becomes a standard destination (and it appears to be from watching the devs around me), then what is not on SO / accessible to Google might as well not exist.

Re: the letting others answer. Let them edit my post instead, if they think there's a problem with it.
Exactly. Also, tumblr is full of NSFW blogs and that's a huge boost in visits.
Yes, being pedantic about responses and stuff that's flying around is vital. We can agree on that.

But keeping an insanely good db documentation and a bunch of other stuff feels like overkill.
That's pretty interesting. I'd like to hear more.
A lot more "longevity" than just a blog

A. I'm not sure I believe this. I have bought three or four books which were compiled from blogs. They all felt really dated within a couple of years. I read each of them zero to one time and then sold them off; after all, the material is there online if I need to refer to it again. And sometimes the online version even gets refreshed.

B. Books only have more "longevity" than blogs if you are a librarian, or at least an amateur librarian. You must keep them around on your shelf for a long time, dust them off, carry them from place to place. It pains me to say this, as a former book collector and the son of two book collectors, but in the networked era print book archiving is like collecting and preserving fine art: A vital activity for a handful of professionals, but a niche hobby for everyone else. Especially for content that was born in digital form.

C. Books don't collect links. Except possibly to (e.g.) Amazon, which helps Amazon's SEO but contributes nothing to your own. It might be the height of irony for Patrick to publish a dead-trees book which advises you to publish everything on your own web site where it can attract inbound links.
I'm using openSuse 10.1. I got 11.3 but it was awful. I don't know how they messed up. I went back to 10.1.

Either way, Ubuntu didn't find my video card. but Suse did (it's a 1920x1200 Dell laptop). I don't know why Ubuntu didn't.

Suse is easy to configure and it's amazing to think how much a Sun box would have cost that did what this can do (my Dell M70 cost just £200 second-hand).
Xbox gui should be instantly responsive (at least as an option). It's so tediously slow, it even misses button presses - you have to wait for it. It's frustrating and unnecessary in a graphics machine. No offense, but even the grossly underpowered iPhone manages to be instant.
Xbox Zune is even slower: the switch to movies takes many seconds. Perhaps this is setting up encryption modules - but it's absurd.
Because of this, I avoid anything movie related (Of course, games are the key, but an unnecessarily shoddy experience actually makes me use the Xbox much less often.)

"Indie Games" aren't available on Australian Xbox - this would add a lot of value.

Gold Xbox: the inline link to "switch off auto-renewals" doesn't work.
You have to ring up, and cancel instantly, losing the rest of the month. This comes across as underhanded and dishonest. Unless Xbox LIVE is a major profit center, this needlessly loses goodwill.
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Yes you would keep a certain amount of money in the company accounts for expenses. The company expenses would have to be paid by the company (as opposed to your personal income which is passed through to you) for these expenses to be tax deductible (right? I'm not a tax guru either.)

@rwhitman I wasn't necessarily referring to a salary. I know that you can't pay yourself a salary as an employee when you are the owner of the sole proprietorship. As the owner in such a case, essentially you are the company, not an employee.

As I mentioned in my other reply. I'm thinking that giving yourself regular payments from your business account would be a better way of showing a regular and steady income than showing the more crazy activity of the business account

I think the biggest problem is that he simply couldn't give a straight answer to questions. He could only say he is a freelancer and he works for himself. He could have said that he is a sole proprietor and that his company name is x.
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"Dying platforms" was the phrase they used, IIRC. Was in a bad taste, for sure.
Who gets mono?
Trouble with Diaspora
And you can use AirBnB to find a place to stay while you're there ;)
No, it's passing experience on to others so they can benefit from it, aka teaching.
37signals made a lot of money selling "Getting Real", and it was straight blog posts. You should look into how they did it.
Is it me or is that not exponential growth?
Digg let down themselves. I doubt Tumblr is going to do. If nothing else, they have a decent design taste. That alone is enough to survive and multiply.
If you sign up and don't pay there is a limited account, but maybe we should make that a little more clear. Thanks!
Yep-- vetting the idea/market. (verbal) Customer validation can be a part of that, I imagine.

I think you're right-- it's a big topic and people have radically different frameworks ranging from "I just want some side income" to "I eventually want my own island". The biggest thing that seems to trip people up is figuring out (before they build it!) if there's a way to scalably acquire customers. Unless people have a well-understood distribution channel they can tap and an ARPU obviously high enough to buy customers through it, entrepreneurs generally have to hustle (sell 1 customer at a time, beg for coverage, write targeted linkbait, etc). And hustling doesn't scale. Hell, with some products/markets, it doesn't work at all.
Wufoo showcases a bunch of awesome API Contest entries
A demo or a trial period would be useful.
Just to be explicit: you mean you programmed it purely with opcodes, presumably compiling by hand a program you'd figured out earlier?
That's exactly the point at which we are at. Trying to build a repeatable customer generation 'system'.
I vaguely remember that at least one version of the 6502 had half a mul instruction, that is, an attempt was made to add one, but it was buggy: it only worked for some multiplicands (ones without any neighboring one bits or something like that). That made for interesting programs, where, depending on the arguments one would compute a times b, b times a, a1 times b plus a2 times b for some a1 a2
At least now the next time a client wants me to do something in .NET I have a good excuse to gently persuade them to something else (until this gets patched, at least).
That point is exactly the first thing I thought of when I read the article. How much of Tumblr's traffic is for "photo blogs" of naked girls? Based on what I've observed, probably a good amount.

Not that that traffic is somehow invalid, but I think it makes the comparison a bit more apples-to-oranges.
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I think this post is great but the period after launch is seriously underexposed in all these 'how to start-up' articles.

Typically, if you're a hands-on person with the right attitude sooner or later you'll figure this part out. Posts like this can help you ease the pain a bit but then what?

You've just launched, you have a few paying customers (but not enough to be profitable), your initial press powder has been shot. Traffic collapses to near non-existent levels and your first customers do not seem to be going out of their way to tell their friends about your product.

That's a much harder problem to solve than just to get to the launch date.

Launching something is like a marriage, the first honeymoon period with a new fledgling company.

If it works out during the 'dating' period you might end up marrying the wrong company, or it may be the right one but it will require skills and expertise that you do not have that go way beyond coding or talking to your existing circle of potential customers.

That's when the real work starts. Getting to launch is the easy bit.
Their share price has gone sideways forever in spite of growing revenues and profits. It's called multiple contraction. The reason is that everyone knows they cannot continue to extract those kinds of margins from people forever for stuff that is basically commoditised.

[Edit] The funny thing is that they were the ones who commoditised computing. They were the ones who made computing cheap and ubiquitous. Now they are on the wrong side of the equation. Now they are the ones defending an overpriced unscalable model as IBM once did.
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The best buyer for Mono would be Microsoft.

There is a massive truckload of .net developers who create iPad and iPhone apps using Mono (particularly via Unity3D) and even more who would if Mono had better promotion.

They'd also be able to get .net into the browser as a standard.
Too bad you didn't have enough space to fit in "Where useless work gets done."
I do know you - you're the type of person that calls people who try to do you favors & curse them out for not being able to get your startup on techcrunch.
My reality if fucked-up--only get indirectly mentioned. Whole world media talks to me, though.

It's pointless until reality is not FUBAR.

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No, no, I'm just saying that if you asked me in 1985 whether an online community of people who had never met one another could raise hundreds of thousands for charity in order to get a liberal political entertainer posing as a mock conservative to hold a rally in contrast to a modern-day rabble rouser posing as a real conservative, I would have failed even to understand the question.
I'm especially excited because my three entries to the contest are included in the showcase, including two of my first open source projects, a Python API Wrapper and a Java API Wrapper.
VMware wants SuSE because of Mono
It's not about the Linux. It's about squeezing Microsoft the fuck out of the picture.
Google Voice would be ideal but as an alternative you can port the number over to Ooma. I've been using the service for about a year and have been relatively happy.

https://www3.ooma.com/phone_numbers.php
If you watch ESX boot, the Linux kernel starts first - the 'VMkernel' is started via the vmkmod.ko module.

Not saying that VMware Inc are wrong, but Linux runs VMkernel. VMkernel may them 'subsume' its parent kernel somehow but I'm not sure how they'd accomplish this, nor do VMware like talking about how this is achieved.
Right, in fact being in a recession probably makes this more stark as companies cut back and lay off underperformers. Meanwhile, high performers are more hesitant to change jobs, particularly to go work for a new company which might not survive in this economy.
I love Stewart and what he's been doing for the last 10+ years but I'm worried this rally thing puts him in the same position as the very people he's been mocking for so long. IMHO, much of his power stems from the fact that he's on the outside looking in.
500% agree here. You should write something about this. (My newest crusade is to get anyone with any experience to start writing).
Their problem is that cloud computing is the successor of Windows. It's not just some trendy area.
I hope you never have to understand the perverse inner workings of the corporate IT manager's mind. :'(
What's your feeling on the quick screencast videos on the front page?
My memory is probably failing me. Gads.
I believe your POV is fairly subjective - I've run e-commerce ops with $15k+ in revenue from "month one".

It matters how much effort you are putting into marketing - SEO, Blogging, Affiliates, SEM, Display ads, PR, Retargeting, A/B Testing (& direct mail, telemarketing if they're the right fit for your product)...

Testing & optimizing these before launch is critical to gaining a steady flow of traffic & customers. If you don't do this & focus only on the "launch post" on TC/Mashable/TNW/RRW then you can easily fall flat after launch, otherwise you definitely have a fighting chance.
If you're hitting the up arrow more than a few times, you could easily see search your history instead with "history | grep somestring", or, as someone else mentioned, Ctrl+R and start typing a command.
Totally. I'd pay at least $100/year without thinking and I'm a poor bootstrapper.
Whatever you're talking about I think you've mistaken HN for your inbox. Please take it to email, whatever your beef is.

Public mudslinging is to nobody's benefit.
Independence from Red Hat, since Red Hat sees VMware as their biggest competitor: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/199870/red_hat...
A periodic conversation I have with myself about my career in Silicon Valley, "If you're so smart, how come you're only a thousand-aire, not a millionaire?"
When does Reddit stop being a "YC startup"?

FWIW I'd rather not see political stories like this on HN.
15K of revenue on your first day is absolutely amazing, what site was that?
Beyond that amount, however, in the US, we also all have to pay Medicare and Medicade taxes. Also, that health insurance at $500-$600 also almost certainly includes a deductible. And copays.

And, as a sister comment points out, National Insurance also includes government pension. I don't know if this is true, but if it is, also include our Social Security taxes in the cost.

All of these together makes our equivalent cost thousands a month.
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With Stormpulse we "launched" with a post on Hacker News that got us a whopping 200+ visits in a single day! Then we lingered at 50-100 visits per day for over a year. Then we figured out distribution (embeddable widget) and traffic is no longer a problem (we did get a TC mention a few months after the widget launched).

So freemium really worked for us in getting through that post-launch desert plain. Aside from the cost of supporting the free users, our out-of-pocket advertising expense has been <$100 since the start of the company to present day.
As I understand it, Android apps are native; ChromeOS apps are webapps, so no they won't be compatible.
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Does there exist a library of the "best" startup focused articles written across the net? Kind of a Digg-fashion voting system?
A screencast is fine in addition to the above. But anything in the screencast should also exist in text and images.
Ask HN: Logic Gates (Be Gentle: I'm New to This)
I was trying to fill in some gaps and was looking at logic gates and the article said that all of them can be made from NAND. I loaded up my JS REPL and this is my first pass:

var lgs = {
nand: function (a, b) {
return !(a && b);
},
not: function (a) {
return lgs.nand(a, a);
},
and: function (a, b) {
return lgs.not(lgs.nand(a, b));
},
or: function (a, b) {
return lgs.nand(lgs.nand(a, a), lgs.nand(b, b));
},
nor: function (a, b) {
return lgs.not(lgs.or(a, b));
},
xor: function (a, b) {
return lgs.and(lgs.nand(a, b), lgs.or(a, b));
},
xnor: function (a, b) {
return lgs.not(lgs.xor(a, b));
}
};

Questions:
.

1.) can 'or' and 'xor' be simpler?
.

2.) why is it called 'xor'?
.

3.) are there any in browser simulators?
.

4.) where should I go from here?
They also say they plan to add other cloud providers later.
You're right. It's a tricky thing, to (fake) report on a story without becoming a part of the story.
I don't think I've made any mistakes here, today. Jason clearly said "if you know me...". I do know Jason - so it's a data point.

My opinion of him is not one worth discussing here.
Another case: MS SQL Server. It's a real bear to connect to it from unix since (last I checked) there are no official drivers. You have to use some unix ODBC open source stuff and it's just not suitable for production work.

FYI, you probably want to use the FreeTDS driver on Unix/Linux. It's not an ODBC driver and it is production quality.
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Poor girl, that must of hurt.
RTFA

that new GPU acceleration advances in the upcoming version 7 are achieving speeds 60 times faster than in version 6
Would they keep the Unix-like part of the business together?
Very much the first point here.

Microsoft needs to stop trying to lock me in to their stack at every point and turn. Currently, if I want to use some Microsoft technology i'm forced in to the rest of the ecosystem and that's a hurdle that i'll likely never jump unless there is simply no other option.

In some respects, Microsoft is already at a disadvantage over Free and Open Source technology when starting new projects without legacy issues, just from the simplification of licensing and the supplier diversification. To add extra barriers, such as having to take on larger and larger parts of the Microsoft ecosystem to get the best out of one component just makes things worse.

Positive first step would be once and for all unequivocally clear up any IP issues surrounding both Mono and their library reimplementations to silence any critics. Second would be bringing Mono in to the .NET ecosystem as a first class citizen. I like C# and .NET but i'm highly unlikely to use it unless I have some real choices for deploying it. From what i've seen from Mono, it's an impressive project but not yet on par with Hotspot and the CLR.

On a site note, there have been some positive steps. The move to Apache 2.0 licensing on several recent contributions is a positive step and helps prevent more license proliferation.

Essentially, I want Microsoft to compete for my business with technology that I can deploy without the worry that i'm perennially locked in to one ecosystem and one vendor.
It's great that they're getting so much open-source help, but I'm going to ask the obvious question: if a "complete overhaul" is what's needed, as the author seems to imply, and the FOSS community performs said overhaul, then what of the $250k that was given to the Diaspora guys? Is it still even "Diaspora" anymore, as opposed to a FOSS project?
Nah, enough of us know our Pareto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto), who "is famous for saying 'history is a graveyard of aristocracies.'"

What we are seeing now is the beginning of what he described as a "circulation of elites".
Please use webkit for IE9+?
That still doesn't explain what is faster, only how it's faster.

Based on the GPU acceleration bit, I'd assume it's page rendering though.
My favorite of all time was

// Michael, this is brilliant!

Yeah, somebody else had complimented a change I'd made a few months earlier. I still maintain that code occasionally, and it's the only comment left I didn't write myself. I leave it there just to get that little ego boost every couple of years.
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This is a good post and accurate one; it also describes how my family's business basically runs -- as a business. We do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (http://blog.seliger.com/about/), and most of our clients and more than half of our revenue comes from shortish (6 to 8 week) clients. But it's run... like a business.

However, one thing I'd point out is that most businesses don't have the immediate cashflow to hire an assistant right out the gate, and many businesses that eventually charge $100+ / hour don't start that way as they try to acquire clients and get some amount of money going. When I was a little kid and my parents were starting the firm, my Dad routinely worked 80 – 90 hour weeks -- and that is not an exaggeration. He couldn't have hired someone else to do the scut work at the time.

I think there are two lessons to take from this, which isn't to discount your observation -- as soon as you can afford someone in a secretary / office manager type role, get them, but you might not be able to --

1) Do anything it takes to survive. pg calls this "maximizing your runway" and so forth, but that's the basic idea.

2) Do something that, ideally, everyone else isn't doing. We're basically the only non-specialist grant writing firm in the country. No one else works the way we do, from what I can tell. If you're a freelance writer for magazines and so forth... every third person in Brooklyn works the way you do. (That's one reason I never tried to be one, tempting though it was; I'm probably better suited for journalism than grad school, but here I am). If you're trying to be a freelancer, the competition is, to my mind, insanely fierce.
Well, for what its worth, I wasn't big on the banning of users, and, if I had been asked in your case, would not have supported it.
Don't keep on building what you think is a better OS every few years, and EOL-ing the previous ones. Why do you think people prefer WinXP over any of the others?
I don't think the blogger pulled this one off well.

S.J. Gould did a far better version: http://www.monmsci.net/~kbaldwin/mickey.pdf

I believe that PDF comes from a book of Gould's, but I recall an article in "Nature" or "Scientific American" sometime in the late 70s that made the exact same point.
It still doesn't say what exactly. I doubt they have a 60 times speed increase in everything
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