skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the founders level of motivation is a key factor of risk for a startup company, one thing is early after the creation and another ten years after, even if your company is profitable. One test is how motivation works after macro/micro economic cycles (i.e: dot com) or inflection points (crisis or growth). Also excelent moments in a company gives a false sense of security for the inexperienced management, so... I'll get the money if I have the risk of being out of business and without some personal financial security
To me it looked like Apple would scrap OS 9 for BeOS, but after Steve Jobs came back it was forgotten. I remember playing around with BeOS at the time and thought it was pretty fun, though I don't know much about it. Is it UNIX based? Has it gone anywhere since?
I can recommend Ecuador. I am currently living on the beach in luxurious apartment with see view, swimming pool, safe gated community , 2Mbit internet connection for $900. All done through AirBnb
No worries. I'm not too concerned about my karma, though -4 seems harsh for not catching a joke.
> Reading this, it occurs to me that designers probably had little to no input into the creation of HTML and CSS.

You're right, and I think this makes sense given the history that Mark recounts. Originally, HTML was a format for marking up documents. I imagine there weren't many designers interested in improving a document markup language.

Only in the last ten years, with HTML becoming a common way to build business websites and then full applications, has the widespread involvement of designers in building web pages become commonplace. When HTML and CSS were formulated in the 1990s, there weren't any "web designers" to speak of.
One of my favorite not-much-talked about analysis books is "A Radical Approach to Real Analysis" by Bressoud. Must read if you enjoy reading about the history of mathematics and famous mathematicians. A lot of people here recommend Rudin or Royden, but I have seen many people become turned off to the whole field of analysis because of how terse and user-unfriendly those are. In that sense, ARTRA is the polar opposite. The follow-up, A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration, is also superb.
The cost of making them is surely getting lower, in accordance with Moore's Law.

I would assume the price remains the same because they have little competition (almost a pseudo monopoly - it seems like they're the only one because their brand is so powerful) and a lot of demand.
Great PR placement and spin about Mark Zuckerberg. Congrats to the PR agency!
In my experience(YMMV) with trying to use BPMN to make inroads into automating workflows at a small financial authority, I had to reduce it to an extremely small subset even just to get business stakeholders to look at the models. The only ones who were assigned to actually help me create the models were the most-spareable, least-knowledgeable people in the organization who pretty much only used a subset reduced to ANDs, ORs, and XORs, and after months, still didn't consistently understand the difference between ORs and XORs. The ability (or even the earnest attempt) to use the symbols correctly had absolutely no relation to the enthusiasm any individual showed towards using heavily marketed tools promising automated execution.

So basically, I was assigned the least knowledgeable people to work on models, and I had to spend an order of magnitude more time redoing their work than they spent doing it. In the end we had a big beautiful graph that no one could verify was accurate in any way except me by describing sections in plain English during the 20 minute meetings I could sometimes wrangle out of the people who knew the business side well enough to give me a plain English answer that was interpreted by me and added to the giant unverifiable graph.

Really a horrible experience all around. And at the beginning of the project, I really thought BPMN looked nice. Of course, I looked at it like a programmer:)
Well, the fastest scripting language must be LuaJIT?
"Naive Set Theory" by Halmos is a true gem, and readable, too.
How Gareth Edwards Shot ‘Monsters’ On An Incredibly Low Budget
I think the first question to ask is, what is the definition of a multicore processor? Is it something like the current crop of cache-coherent designs? There are concerns about scaling this design to lots of cores. Or is it something like a network of machines on a chip? In that case, the OS might look more like Mach.
> "Good enough" is not only disrespectful to the student but completely unnecessary given the quality and cost of great content production tools available the past four years.

Evidently a LOT of people disagree with you.

Mr. Khan seems to have an MVP (minimum viable product). Just possibly this is one of those cases where if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Depends who I'm talking to.

If its someone at college (say, at a party), I say that I play with my iPhone all day. If they ask for clarification, that I make iPhone applications. Usually at this point, whoever I'm talking to will say something like "So you write stuff on the computer for the iPhone?" and I nod.

The alternative is usually "Software Engineer" or "iPhone Developer", depending on where I am and how specific I need to be -- general description of what I do vs what my current job entails.

Or, if I really don't feel like talking, "student" shuts most people up pretty quickly.
Or you can go to a place in Brazil where there is no Beach ;-) Just curious, where in Brazil you went?
I don't think that's really testing the argument he's making. He's arguing that people are more likely to start giant companies on their first go round, not that they're more likely to prefer cofounders who're on their first go round.

When you're looking for a cofounder, you're naturally biased toward someone with relevant experience, because the whole point of recruiting them is so that they can add value to the business and increase its chance of success. But when you're the initiator, a large portion of your contribution is picking the initial direction of the company, and what it's trying to accomplish. It's quite possible for first-time entrepreneurs to pick more ambitious goals and yet have less of a chance of success than repeat entrepreneurs.
I wouldn't worry about ads. Why did it suddenly get popular? Why are people visiting your site? How are they using the site? What features would they want?
Depends on the language / framework. ASP.NET 2.0 with VB, for instance, does not. Furthermore, modifying a WebService doesn't inform the web server that it's been updated, so it keeps serving up old versions of your code.

ie, even MS's own products don't play nicely with each other. But you're more stuck with them than you would be with something more atomic and disconnected.
Best analysis of fractional reserve banking ever
I build things that people click on.
Best source I can find say's he used a .45 caliber pistol, you know otherwise?
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/rela...

No disagreement on the similarity between those two, however.
I would get ads on it right away - money is always nice. I would also use it to send traffic to my other sites and my twitter account.

Start pitching it to news sites and the like, because there's a very high chance it'll turn into something bigger than just something to scratch an itch. Create a Facebook page; start gaining fans. Same with Twitter. Increase the presence of your site.

Very cool product, good luck! You can always email me if you need help. :)
There's a version for modern Unices: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

Also, this gets posted on HN quite regularly :)
Programmer. Works every time. No one has ever asked me to explain what it means.
yeah those guys are scum

Search for "recover notepad files" and the first Google result is "How to Recover an Unsaved Notepad File | eHow.com "

and then the whole article is about how you can't recover the file...with 4 adsense links at the end with most having click worthy titles like "recover deleted files"

so Google users get screwed, Google advertisers get screwed, and eHow and Google both make a few extra bucks. I'd bet that all these content farms would have been long banned by Google, if they weren't using adsense.
> It was most likely building an index of your source tree or something.

He's comparing it to building emacs from source. He's quite obviously trolling: Emacs has 15MB of C source and header files already.

On my machine (2010 15" MBP) a configure alone takes 20s, which is about 3 times the loading time of an empty IntelliJ (no project), and about twice if loading a preexisting (cached) project. A `make` of 23.2 takes nearly 3 minutes. Unless he's trying to launch an IDE with no free RAM or building an already-built soft (or a networked build), his declarations hardly make sense.
Apple may surpass Exxon as most valuable company
I lived in Amsterdam for a couple of years, and it was great to be in a country that respected cyclists.

As it was explained to me, the rule was that in the event of any accident between a car and a cyclist, it was automatically the car driver's fault. Which seemed like a pretty good strategy for improving cyclists' safety to me.

I'd always wear a helmet though, since it doesn't matter who's at fault, it's always the cyclist that comes off worst.
I find it interesting that JavaScript can apparently determine what video camera you have connected to you PC even without the acknowledgment of the Flash Approve/Deny access dialogue.
CTO: I talk to my CEO and work out how technology can improve our business. Then I design what we're going to build, build it, and set it up to run on our servers.
Any Dutch/Belgian/German investors on HN?
For a while I've been developing sites with some friends, some for fun, some for money, but never a dull project, always a challenge.

Creativity is without doubt my strongest side, and since becoming interested in setting up my own startup 2 years ago, I've written down almost 200 ideas that I feel I can honestly turn into a million at least. Of which about 5 are Google-class Juggernauts (I'm not kidding).
However, I am very hesitant with raising any capital and have a desire to do it all myself at no risk. I fear no matter how I raise capital, there is a risk. To make matters worse, I feel there are too few investors in Europe, and to be completely honest, I do not feel USA is the best country to live, I would consider Canada, but for now, I study in the netherlands.

So after spending about 1½ year studying everything I considered I needed to know in my free time for starting a upward stairs of businesses (from low investment needed, mediocre gains to large investment needed, absurd gains), except on raising capital, I started.

This went fine so far, but a few weeks ago something changed in my perspective. I was having lunch with a old friend who I see every few months, and he always had a interest in my stories of managing a project, keeping people involved motivated, and the resulting projects (2 since starting 6 months ago). This time I decided to tell him a idea that I had recently and felt was quite good, but couldn't do till I made a little more money. When I told it he than became so excited (I've never seen him like this before), he immediately said he wanted to work on it with me and my main and closest coder friend, and offered to pay 11500€ from his own pocket for a 33% share.

While this is good, it also made me think. If I can make a student who recently inherited just enough money to buy a Porsche Panamera so excited, and offer me risk-free terms within 15 minutes of sharing this idea, could I do better? I'm not going to betray a friend (he studies law, so he's a addition to the set of skills anyway), but what if we talked to a party who had something better to offer.

So I decided to share my little story, as to what motivated me to ask the question:

Are there any Dutch, Belgian or German investors on HN who are willing to offer a better deal (risk free) for a low-risk, high gain idea? That needs a little money to really get going, but than will conquer a very large niche market that to quite some of my surprise, people are simply not seeing properly. I'm willing to agree a lot of terms, but I do not want to be personally at financial risk.
I'm betting it's an overarching PR strategy that will be executed over the next few months. To try to fix Zuck's reputation by association, rather than directly.
I always say 'Software Developer'.

If you say, 'Computer Programmer' then they picture someone tinkering with computers, if you say 'Developer' or 'Engineer' they don't know it's anything to do with computers or software.

What really annoys me, is when people respond with 'Oh right, I.T.' or 'I have a friend who does I.T. too, yeah he fixes computers at... '

- I personally see being a 'Software Developer' as a far higher position than someone doing 1st line support in I.T.
A related question I struggle with - how to explain to other people how qualified you are? You and I could both say we "know" Java but there's probably a big difference there. It's really hard without showing them your work.
The interesting bit with Perl is that so many people don't realize it's pass-by-reference because the standard idioms for starting a function copy the aliased "references" by value, which then act just like in any of the other languages.

$var = shift; // Take the first value passed to the function, copy into $var

or

($var1, $var2, $var3) = @_ // Copy the first three into $var1, $var2, and $var3

Using the aliased variables directly and with the intentional goal of altering the originals is almost unheard of in my experience (excluding some clever bits of magic in a few modules). Even if you want to pass a reference: you'd pass an explicit reference, copy that, then dereference the copy.
Then again though it sounds like you're shutting down the conversation when people ask - that's probably not good.
I love jQuery, but I don't see why it is required here. Wouldn't this code work just as well with a couple of element IDs, and add library independence to the bargain?
Linebreaks would be great. Even if you just spaced them every 3 sentences, it would improve readability greatly. It may seem totally arbitrary, but right now the wall of text is rather daunting.

Also, set .body { margin: auto; } -- it will center the text in the screen.
if you like this, this guy's style reminds me a lot of Khoi Vinh's, who also has done a famous realignment mockup: http://www.subtraction.com/2009/09/15/our-craigslist
Interview with John Cooney, a leading Flash game developer
> To me it looked like Apple would scrap OS 9 for BeOS, but after Steve Jobs came back it was forgotten.

Erm... Jobs came back because the BeOS deal didn't go through. That was the point: Apple could go on their own, with Be or with NeXTSTEP. NeXTSTEP was Jobs's company.

> Is it UNIX based?

No, though it has a POSIX compatibility layer (and therefore access to BSD CLI utils)

> Has it gone anywhere since?

Be, Inc was sold to Palm for a penny in 2001 and BeOS was killed. Fans are writing an OpenSource BeOS (with no IP-relations to the original one, but goals of being able to run BeOS binaries unmodified for instance) with Haiku: http://haiku-os.org/
Wow. I remember reading CL/DM in college, in maybe 1976. I was running my programs on IBM mainframes, entered using punchcards, so this book really spoke to me. I think I remember it describing Core Wars, and that inspired me to create a similar game, first on a PDP 11, written in assembler; and later in SNOBOL4, running on an IBM mainframe.

I walked into my kitchen this morning, and there were two mac laptops there, with many other computers throughout the house. I told my 17-year old daughter that at her age, I never imagined that such a thing would be possible in my lifetime. CL/DM really has come true, and then some.

My recollection is that it really nailed the idea of a personal computer, but completely missed the networking side of the current computing world.
The death of digg is not exagerated
I would think that if someone manufactured a similar product which costs $15, the TI brand name wouldn't compensate for the price difference.

Perhaps it's a complex product and teachers won't switch products because they've invested so much into learning how to use the TI? And teachers decide what calculators are required for a given class? Maybe a competitor would have to get to the teachers first and convince them to use a cheaper alternative.

Another possibility: perhaps TI has some vital patents?
Nope, down again. Varnish that bad boy!
I'm really interested in how you did the automagic summarization? Is there some sort of public algorithm, or did you make something yourself? If so what/how?

The reason I'm asking is because I was thinking of making a summarizator but ended up realising I have no idea how to even begin making one.
Keep in mind that select basically sucks for handling more than a few sockets -- it's slow and limited to max. 1024 concurrent sockets (unless you change FD_SETSIZE and recompile everything, which may cause unexpected bugs).

An almost always better choice is using epoll -- it's usually faster and can handle any number of concurrent sockets (up to a million and more).

* http://docs.python.org/library/select.html#edge-and-level-tr...

* http://scotdoyle.com/python-epoll-howto.html

* http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action...

* http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
"I run a business that sells websites to videogame players"
You're right, I vaguely remember BeDepot. I can't remember whether or not you could buy software (as I wasn't much of a BeOS user).
I agree completely. Rolling your own is just a day or two of work and you can customize it however you want. If you're using rails, I'd be happy to summarize the nuts and bolts for you. Email is in my profile.

I've thought about writing a plugin, but haven't found the time yet. I'm travelling with infrequent connections, so I might not get back to you for a day or two if you send an email.
It's not going to show up popular websites much because CS research, like most research, is not a popular topic. But if you want to know what's going on, a great place to start is to start reading the proceedings of recent ACM conferences: http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?linked=1&part=series...

Yes, it's behind a pay-wall. Not much I can do about that [1]. And yes, you will have to read academic papers. But that's where people talk about real computer science.

[1] Although, if you find a title and abstract that sounds interesting, you can usually just Google for the title and find a copy on the author's site. All of my papers, for instance, are also on my webpage. And, yes, this is explicitly allowed by the copyright transfer agreement.
Not necessarily. Some people ask me at what company I'm working or they want to find out more details about my work, e.g. what kind of products I'm building.
When non-techies ask what you do, they are probably not trying to determine if you're qualified to build a CRM system for them.
Twisted Rocks
How Apple Stores Got It Right
what language do you develop in? IDE's are bloated because they have tons of features, If you tell us what features you require, someone might be able to suggest a non-bloated solution to do what you want.

I develop mostly in python, so I use emacs for syntax highlighting and efficient text editing, ipython/pdb for debugging, and grep to help me figure out which files things live in. But that may or may not be sufficient for you.
Visitors to this country are often surprised to find that Americans like to begin a conversation by asking "what do you do?" I've never liked this question. I've rarely had a neat answer to it. But I think I have finally solved the problem. Now, when someone asks me what I do, I look them straight in the eye and say "I'm designing a new dialect of Lisp." I recommend this answer to anyone who doesn't like being asked what they do. The conversation will turn immediately to other topics.

http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html
"I create products."
I think a comparison to an oil rig is wishful thinking, to say the least. You have a basically clear and proven business model that's existed for 100 years, based on selling a tangible product that everybody inarguably needs.

Facebook has none of those characteristics, and nobody's proven that there's anything substantial where they're digging.
> I keep a separate lightweight browser, Opera

Opera is not particularly lightweight, even compared with Chromium. Check out Midori.
To me this sounds like much of the pedagogy I grew up with in the late 80's, which emphasized production values over clear presentation, or assumed that production values were an indicator of quality of presentation.

The underlying assumption then was that "modern students" needed to be "entertained" or somehow spoken to "in their own language" whatever that is. Your points, especially "high quality audio/visual production tools are a must", echoes that sentiment to me.

All in all that seems to me more disrespectful to students than letting the subject matter speak for itself, and assuming that young students are as capable as we are of seeing the magic in geometry, or calculus, if it is correctly and clearly explained.

Edited: Also, producing 1600 videos puts him rather apart from others in the field, even those producing awesome graphics.
"I write software" or simply "computer shit".
To be fair, I'm very happy with the performance of my ads on their pages. (For better or worse, they rank well for e.g. "How to make a bingo card" and my ads on that page have 400% ROI.)

I don't think users get anything by seeing their site before my landing page, though (aside from "frustrated").
I break stuff and I kick people out of places where they've broken stuff.

Or

I break into banks and investigate bank break-ins. (I don't just do banks but it paints a picture of a fathomable scenario in the non-techie mind).
op, i don't know your mind but i agree, Rudin/Spivak may prove challenging, especially without the help of a professor/TA to answer your questions in real life... i would not go and buy them blindly. the best course of action you could take would be to go visit a college bookstore and sit down with one of the analysis texts, and then read through it for a few hours. if you feel comfortable with it and don't experience any contempt for the author for introducing terms without explaining them, etc., then go ahead and get it. i would recommend finding something that holds your hand through the new fancy notation of proofs (for all, exists, epsilon, blah blah blah)...something that combines a basic intro to topology/set theory in its introduction
a viral meme probably introduced it to the masses
"You know this metal rectangle full of little lights? I spend most of my life pressing buttons to make the pattern of lights change however I want."

http://xkcd.com/722/ (of course)
Ads would be a knee jerk reaction. Try to find out how users are using it, what they're using it for (e.g. household playlist or live performances?) and what features they would pay for, then offer a pro version.

I could see this being a great tool for VJ mashups, especially at 720p.
These stick for programmers: do computers, startup, make money on the internet, websites, make iPhone apps.

For designers: websites, logos, posters, ads.

Lowest common denominator though.
When you find a really good site on HN, add it to your RSS reader. Check out proggit. If you have an industry you're interested in or a problem you're trying to solve, start googling and keep track of all the interesting sites you come across. There's a wealth of good stuff out there, though it isn't going to be TC style (linkbait titles, unnecessarily effusive prose, etc).