skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Paul Graham and most other (good) investors invest in people rather in ideas,"

If this is the case, why don't people pitch their autobiography and personal interests rather than their new business idea?
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I think it depends on the type of application you're building. A Twitter like application probably doesn't need as much hardware as something more complex.
Node.js+Socket.IO+OSC+Cinder+HTML
Yes it is. They make much more money off of iOS than they do Mac OS. Therefore, Mac OS will become iOS because Apple isn't your friend they are trying to make money just like any business.
I have not taken the time to verify your claims here, but don't you think it's fair to use "off the scale" when comparing this to any other time period during the modern human era?

As other people have said, life on earth will go on in one form or another. But "off the scale" is a necessary term in this context to drive home the incredible turmoil and human suffering that will result as we are forced to adjust the local pressures of water shortages, mass human migration, and agricultural failures that will be caused by this...
That's a lot of blah blah claiming to be about Lion, when it's really not so much about Lion at all. So far, these details are to the most part just about new applications for Lion - and you can be sure that at least one of these will be available for Snow Leopard later on.

Maybe people should hold back on their second-guessing regarding Lion until we actually get some technical and substantial details to hold on to, but I guess as long as there are fools, there will be wolf calls...
I'm pretty sure you can tag the new release with whatever you want, and these kinds of decisions are left to the developers.
Fascinating; thank you for the links.
--but try to convince your higher-ups that it is a good idea to switch to a language that they've never heard about, "because it is fun")

I've never had issues convincing management the biggest issue I have is convincing coworkers who don't see value in learning new languages.
Check out growvc.com, we are looking someone like you. We are not open source yet, but are heading that way...
I would say that Austin is really an Oasis in the middle of Texas. Great town!
I do not have an API for solvers. There would have to be a registration system, possibly white-listed by IP address.
I doubt punctuality is a strong indicator of anything other than how reliable the public transportation system is.
Quantification in types
I've been using it regularly for over a year, and I love it. I could start out imperative and then code more and more in a functional style as I got to be a better functional programmer.

Having said that, I did find the transition painful. But that's going to be true of transitioning to FP no matter how you do it.

I'm still in a Windows environment, but I look forward to transitioning to Mono once I get FP down. At that point I'll be on an open, free stack, programming in a powerful language with tons of libraries and thousands of people to help if I have problems. What's there not to like?
The more stuff you own, the more worried is your mind. Live light, live happy.
OK, let me rephrase -- they invest in people first and ideas second. Idea without a team that can execute it worths nothing.

And while pitching your idea, you communicate something about yourself implicitly (besides the explicit background you give about yourself).
> It’s an uncomfortable coincidence that the XML API was closed down a week after the removal of MDV’s release of the ‘My TfL’ app.

I reworded the title based on my reading of the article where the above quotation is from. TfL was a meaningless acronym in the title, especially without any context.
That's the beauty of it - F# is now a peer of C# and VB.NET. There's no reason whatsoever for organizations to shy away from it - it's mainstream now. Whereas even tho' it's a very similar language, I can understand why a PHB would balk at OCaml.
British SIS Kills Top US Oil Expert For Breaking Gulf Oil Spill News Blackout
Minnesota has DIY culture, but what's the next step?
A little off-topic, but what little experience I have about successfully shipping successful software is that it's all about Dwight's aphorism that planning is essential but plans are inconsequential.

When you take the mindset that planning exists to help you observe and react to future discoveries rather than to detail exactly what you're going to do regardless of future discoveries, all sorts of serendipity is showered on a development effort.

Thanks, Paul, and sorry about the alliteration.
I went on a few 24 hour online poker binges to pay the rent. I won a lot, but had to borrow money from my parents because it took over a week to cash-out.

Also drove to Foxwoods to play poker once with my co-founder when we were particularly desperate. We only had enough money for one buy-in ($300). Figured that if I was asking my parents for money again, asking for an extra $300 was worth the risk, if I had a chance to win and not ask for anything.

Bill also took random jobs on Craigslist (helping people set up pod-casts, writing papers for wealthy foreign students, etc.)

I taught the LSAT and did "law school admission consulting" which basically translated to helping people write personal statements.
Summary:

Developer's app depends on external API to function. He has sold thousands of apps and his customers are happy. Then, external API stops working. So, his app stops working. He wrote a long article complaining about the external API and its failure impacting his business.
Wow. That worked much better than I was expecting it to. Bookmarked.
shit, just posted this from my girlfriend's HN account :(

(I'm "aberman", one of the co-founders of WePay)
Brooklyn Beta
Even though I haven't been "successful" with startups (yet), I feel I've been very lucky. Anybody else feel that way?
It's fine to have a range of personalities for different software types, including power tools. Flickr comes across as a cheerleader in a language class - excited about meeting people from all over - and it works great for something fun like photos, as opposed to an accounting app.
One of my personal metrics for low resolution professionalism judgement is spin off of the classic "wtf's/min" standard for judging code quality.

My own unit is "Yes's/min". I find that when I'm explaining something to an individual who responds with too many "Yes's/min", that individual is usually (of course not always) not appreciating the nuances of the topic being discussed. Having an alarmingly high amount of certainty around a new or just introduced topic, I find, usually implies a lack of professionalism.
Be in bed by midnight, the circadian clock is your friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg
This is interesting, especially in contrast to "Nah, who needs another search engine?" from two days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822750)

The most important thing to take from the article is this:

> I was skeptical of their business (Google) and didn't expect it to last long, but it seemed like it could be fun and educational, so I accepted.

Live a little, and take chances!
I went on the "super noodle diet" - Which consisted of eating 2 packets of instant noodles per day, seasoned with lots of pepper to make it seem more filling. As a treat on a Sunday I had a 99p pizza too! I paid for this with the contents of my penny jar. When that had run out, I survived for another week on cornflakes with golden syrup instead of milk, which were the only things I had in my cupboard.

I lost ~30lbs in the 2 months I was doing this. In the end the startup failed, I swallowed my pride and got my old job back, the one I'd left a year previous to work full time on my startup.
Put him in uncomfortable situation and tell him to do something you expect he really loathes, something what just sometimes "needs to be done, no matter what". If he balks or talks too much, he's not a professional.
Example? Give photographer a video camera and say you have an vision of some cheesy shot (look at clientsfromhell.net for ideas) and see what get's delivered.
Ah yes my favorite topic. During the day it's just water and 2 cups of coffee (morning and post-lunch).

For adult beverages I enjoy beer and various distilled spirits.

Beer: lately I've been really getting into Belgian and Belgian-style beers. Trappist ales (Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle), lambic and gueuze (my favorite style of beer), most things from Russian River Brewing Company, New Belgium La Folie, etc

Booze: I'm a big fan of scotch, generally peaty ones. Laphroaig quarter cask, Talisker, etc. I also like aged rums (Ron Zacapa 23) and rye.
Whenever and wherever there is some pain, there is an opportunity. The universal pain of the tech-savvy and the constant help they have to give to relatives and friends is simply huge. Neither has OS X made this go away, though much of it has been outsourced in the form of the Genius Bar. It's much the same in the workplace, if not more so! What the majority of the population wants is curated computing. What IT departments try to provide as had as they might is curated computing. It's also a fact that they're hindered by the open architecture of today's typical computer. (Why do you think enterprise IT tries so hard to lock everything down?)

There is still a huge amount of pain and therefore there's tremendous opportunity.

My prediction is that under Lion, end-user computing is going to run locked-down under a hypervisor, and only devs/power users will be running as we do today.
Thank you. My profession is software. I write letters on topics I feel strongly about, though. I then (e)mail them to really important people and pretend they get read.

http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/letters/
That doesn't give any perspective, since banks close all the time.

Here's a list of banks that have failed since October 2000.

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

That shows ~140 in 2010, and ~140 in 2009, ~25 in 2008, 3 in 2007, 4 in 2004, 3 in 2003, ~20 in 2002, 4 in 2001 and 2 in 2000. (Approximate numbers, since I didn't count very accurately and I'm not going for a journalism award here.)

So yeah, that's a LOT more banks than normal, with both 2009 and 2010 being really, really bad.
ILuaBox: Lua interpreter on the iPad
I would like to make a request:

Please search for a project not in the web area. Try to work with projects like Gimp, Inkscape, Gnome - they need more help in my opinion.
I remember a time I was sitting in a restaurant run by some Egyptians, watching a satellite channel aimed at the middle east.

There was a show on that was something like "American Idol"; they listed numbers that you could text to, in different countries, to vote for your favorite music videos. One country was Iraq... And i'm thinking, the majority of these people must be really pacified, not jihadists, if you can get them to send texts to vote for music videos.
You're GF's HN about line is awesome.
Follow-up question: which libraries do you find most useful?
Making your app suck less is easy: go watch real users
Yes, Facebook users did have that power. Whether or not they took advantage of it is another story, but if all Facebook's users decided to leave without a TOS change I bet they would have got the changes because there is no FB without users -- same with governments. And there is a mountain of difference between having motivation to try to effect TOS changes, versus a human condition prevalent with graphic images of your neighbors being beaten and shot in the streets.

So, yes, I do believe the people have the power to overthrow the Ayatollah (or any other govt. for that matter) if they are organized enough. Unfortunately, I don't see that large undertaking helping even if it were to happen because the Iranian people largely want a theocratic government, which to me will be inherently dictatorial. It comes down to this: the Internet is inherently about connections -- connecting computers, which by extension connect people. It's not social networks themselves that provide the magic, they're just vehicles riding on top of that fundamental connection potency; that's where their success has come from. When you want to give people power you let them connect, communicate and organize. When you want to weaken them, you isolate them. It's that simple.
True, it shouldn't be survival for its own sake. But do we really believe that our quality of life will be going down because of (some, warmer or glacial) climate change? how soon does that happen, and is humanity powerless to adapt? I have a very optimistic view of human potential, I think in essence and the long term all problems can be solved.

Does the fact that CO2 levels have varied hugely in Geologic Time affirm that we are under imminent threat of terrible climate changes? is it irrelevant? or contradictory? or a puzzle? is it impolitick to ask such questions?
That's crazy!

The scene here fizzled a bit when a few events happened around the same time, involving babies and our strongest players. I much prefer to play in person than online, for the same reasons you mentioned.

I am planning on taking a trip next year, with a stop in Korea. Any recommendations for (smoke-free) Go clubs?
I like peach juice. Or even peach/white cranberry.
I also like Tea, though I don't drink it regularly. Except when I'm eating at an oriental type restaurant. I have a stash of English breakfast tea for mornings when I am really tired.
All Politics Is Olfactory
Symbian's dead, and MeeGo won't cure ailing Nokia
The scam is this... they all own stock in Toyota.

The same people who cannot accurately predict whether or not it will rain tomorrow know with 100% certainty that the polar ice caps will melt if I don't buy a Prius.
http://senseis.xmp.net/ is not bad
A good repair kit is necessary. I used to commute by bike regularly and flat tires would happen from time to time. There's a lot of sharp debris out there on the roadways. Not a terrible thing to deal with if you have tools and a patch kit. Things loosen up over time as well. I keep a spare tube, a patch kit and some tools in a bag under the seat. You'll want a good lightweight pump as well.
If you ever decide to come to Mexico and need a safe place to stay give me a buzz as well. I'll hook you up.
I'm not sure who is more of a professional, the web developer who gives the client their requested BLINK tags and Comic Sans, or the one who tries to dissuade the client and avoids work from similar clients.
In the early days of my first company my co-founder ran into visa issues. He was a British national and post-September 11 his H1B was coming due. At the time the company couldn't sponsor him due to prevailing wage issues so he had to leave the country. Within the span of 2 months I moved from Austin, TX to Sydney, Australia with my co-founder and his family. When I arrived I had no where to live, nothing (living w/ my co-founder was not really possible, mostly because he had four kids and adding a fifth would have driven everyone insane). I initially setup in a hotel and eventually found an apartment. We did it so we could continue to press forward knowing that such a large separation of distance would effectively kill the company. My girlfriend (now wife) stayed behind in Texas. I lived in Sydney on a tourist visa, leaving every 3 months and re-entering. I lived off my credit card and whatever hardware I could sell on eBay. This lasted for about 9 months. After we had made enough progress I came back and about 6 months later we had our first round of venture financing. When we got the check I had about $500 in my bank account.

Only now can I really look back at that time and appreciate what a huge opportunity it was. Most people only have one shot in life to take infinite risk. Eventually life kicks in and you have to start making more measured decisions. However, even with the huge amount of risk I took back then it almost certainly would not have been possible had it not been for my very supportive family and girlfriend. I knew that no matter what happened I could always go home and tell them I gave it my best shot and life would go on.
A bad idea? I would say its quite the opposite. Just look at it this way--your market research is essentially done for you.

If there are existing businesses with the same idea, who are their customers? What iterations did they go through to reach product/market fit? How are they vulnerable?

If there's currently no one profiting from this idea...well, why the hell isn't there? Did someone raise some cash, get a bunch of press, but ultimately fail to execute? Awesome, you now know what not to do.

The general idea behind all of this is that you need not worry too much about the competition at this point. Learn from it, sure. But please don't let it discourage you from even trying. Good luck!
Very cool, been waiting for such things to pop up. Now I can draw a penis on any site and send it to friends!
So, you can watch MLB over IP with a Roku (http://www.roku.com/mlb-partner), but in order to sign up for local games, you have to have a cable contract anyway?
No. Public transport might be unreliable, but if unreliable it is unreliable it is so in a regular way.

If you value others time, you can use that regularity and be punctual in spite of unreliable, traffic, public trsnaport etc.
"Hey, what was the name of that site that let you download one windows installer, and it would install a bunch of really useful apps?"

"Hey, what was the name of the site for buying plane tickets but they organized the flights in a useful way so the one you most likely want to buy is on top?"

Now; find Ninite & Hipmunk on the internet; via Google, unless you have something better (if so, I'd like to hear about it), but pretend you've never heard of them. Ninite's findable via an Ask Reddit, which actually spells out there is a problem. Hipmunk eventually shows up in the right-side ad-word gutter if you use the right Google query comination of flight, plane, airplane, online, and ticket - but in the gutter why would you pick them over any of the other sites.

Telling other people where to buy things from can be lucrative if you've got pull, but how do you displace Google as a nexus for "I'm searching for a site that..."
Time Makes Things Worse
That is a totally tangential idea. The point is to not get in the way of what your user wants to do. TFA says nothing about simplifying the feature set.

Also, do you really think all those who use butlers/maids/servants are idiots?
I prefer SizeUp to Divvy for OS X Window management: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
Ya, why are you trying to drink so much water. There's no health benefit to it, and potential problems if you actually force yourself to drink in excess of your food intake (though that tends to be hard to do).
Tehran's Unplugged Internet Plan
Microsoft protects companies from the authorities
Transparent coffeescript support for rails 3
NGiNX HTTP Push Module
This is a valuable question, but the replies are going awry of what draws me to the question. What if all you have to go on is a 'reply-to' email and their first and last name?

Not a complete list, but fishing for suggestions:

Context--they sent you a business related email, and appear roughly 'professional' to you, but you want to make sure.

Their message/website/page/example project. You be the judge.

Do they reply to their contact form?

Is their contact information available and current?

LinkedIn, github, any other free, populous site membership--what is their public face?
Ford makes more money selling trucks than they do selling anything else, but no one would argue that therefore all their cars will become trucks because Ford isn't our friend.

They are two products serving two populations, and it seems unlikely that their timelines will converge anytime soon. However, "not converging" doesn't translate to not sharing. There are obviously some things iOS that would be at the least nice to have in Mac OS (the app store being the one of discussion now), just as there are things in Mac OS that would be (or already have been scooped and are already) nice to have in iOS.
Germany: Bottom-To-Top.

I've only seen Top-To-Bottom-Spines on US-Books so far. Also agree with the point, that if a book is lying face-up there's no need for readable spine-text. If it's face-down, there is.
Things moved a lot on Comet-land this year.
Easy answer - one who tries to dissuade the client. A professional will not always do what is asked, but that doesn't mean they don't do what is right.
> And every single note had a similar story behind it that furthered the myth of "workers in the spirit of socialism"

In Yugoslavia AFAIK the only note in that period with the real story is the one you've mentioned (but the other person was depicted in that older note). For others, citation needed, as the Wikipedia article is very specific. Old 1000 note "Arif Heralić" then some monuments or the most famous people, or generic faces, without real stories.
I've accidentally truncated a database table in a dev environment, bringing all sorts of testing and development to a halt and making my manger's life miserable for a few days. (Due to some really bad menu design in an admin tool. Instead of a right-click for "Renaming" a column, there should have been an indication that a table truncate would be happening in there somewhere.)

I would never have agony in my face about it, perhaps because the event wasn't "irreparable." The database was just reloaded from production. My first answer to your question would be "never" because the event really wasn't consequential. In fact, I'd question just how "professionally" run an organization is if a data deletion event is of dire consequence. Anything important should be backed up and easily restorable.

Some decades back, someone did a study of companies that had some disaster happen. (Fire, flood, etc...) Of the ones that lost their data, only something like 3% of them survived the next year. Digital data is the most easily backed up corporate asset and probably the most important.

(To keep it from happening again, I'd use a different tool entirely, if given a choice. In that case, I wasn't!)
Pretending sound scientific research is alarming has much, much worse record (see the past 'debates' over whether CFC's contribute to ozone depletion or whether cigarettes are bad for human health).

The first IPCC assesment report was published 20 years ago. It would take copious amounts of confirmation bias to pretend they're being alarmist.
Kashmir is world's biggest prison and another Gaza
My high school insisted that everyone take a typing class - it made sense, rural Texas schools were finally realizing that computers might be important at some point.

I'd been dicking around with computers for about four years at this point, so I asked them if I could come in and take a typing test to be exempt. They sat and watched me type, and didn't even bother looking at my WPM before they let me skip the class.

I don't really know how you can use a computer on a daily basis, and not learn to type quickly. It's like driving a stick shift for years, and still glancing down at the knob to see where 2nd gear is.
I happen to hate flying and the process of traveling in general. It is a huge hassle and it takes a lot out of you. But i literally force myself to do it as often as I can. In the last two years alone my wife and I have lived in the UK (London and Brighton) and France (Paris and Cannes). During that time we road tripped to Italy and Switzerland. The experiences we got from the trip were invaluable, not something you can learn about but something you need to experience first hand. These experiences always reshape me as a person and inspire my work.

For a few hours of hassle, you get life changing experiences. That's why we invented Valium :) Anyways, that's my .02. Experiencing another culture first hand changes you, it makes you see your world differently.
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