skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, d3x, you are mistaken about what the article says. You are arguing that passion is important. The article doesn't dispute that. It is categorically not saying that you should do things you aren't passionate about. It's saying that there are many business possibilities related to any given "passion," and the first one that comes to mind is just the most obvious one, not necessarily the best one or the one most closely aligned with what you're passionate about.

> Maybe we should take another piece of advice from this lady that obviously knows nothing about successful products

Amy actually has a number of successful products to her name. See http://unicornfree.com/2010/i-made-216668-from-products/
I just got a DUI. I don't need a VC, but if a VC were to reject me b/c of this I'd find another one. I don't think you can win if the other party has such a limiting belief.
I'd think the key word there is "undisclosed". If they're going to find out, they had better find out from you.
> What about too much data? Overflow is a concern

Buffers are not supposed to overflow with trusted data either, so again, security is subset of correctness. "Not trusting" data only prevents exploit from reaching vulnerable code, it doesn't fix the vulnerability.

Don't write web applications C? ;)
Cr(H)acking, Old-School
Wow, I've never had to do this before...could the downvoter explain him/herself?
I don't get this at all.

> If a book is a URL, it is fantastically easy for you to lend a book to a friend: you simply give up access to the URL while they have it.

Yes, it is "easy" for you to give up access, as long as access to that URL is controlled, and this control is done by someone besides you.

In which case, this is "better" than DRM, exactly how?
My current complex is fine and has bad reviews on ApartmentRatings, just like every other big complex. Happy renters don't rate.
"That just mocks the idea that science can predict the way the world works."

No, it makes a joke about a reference most people will remember from school. This complaint is just pedantry.
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The hardest part is really finding the courage and right strategy to approach these people. I've done it. And you are right. Many will talk. But the hardest part for me was working through my own personal discomfort and putting myself in a frame of mind to think it was "realistic" to get a response. (oh and good work with the title)
Surprised it's not android based given that it has an app store and some reasonably popular games already. Anything that would stop them moving in that direction?
Nothing beats Lisp, except perhaps Paul Graham.
Isn't this more a reddit/digg sort of article?
Windows is a Ghetto
The low usage was due to the fact that nobody even knew it was there. I always watch real estate, and only saw these on Google Maps once. (And was instantly enamored, and now it's going away. Sigh.)
I put it under non-web company, though now that you mention it, a university isn't really a "company." Seems better than "other", though, since it falls under the same general area.
I did not have to deal with bad Haskell, yet. But I wonder, how it would turn out. The type-system can give you some pretty strong guarantees (if you abstain from using back-doors), and thus make interfaces much less leaky. I.e. if a function has the type String -> Int, you know that it takes a String and gives an Int, and doesn't have any strange side-effects, like setting some random variable or sending away your credit-card data.
I've noticed the same thing, but found that I can get around it by simply moving to a different room in the same house. When I was doing my startup, I tended to move my primary workspace between living room floor, chair & makeshift desk, bed, and outside every month or two. And even working in a big company now, I've moved desks about 10 times since joining a year ago, and the longest I spent in any one location was about 7 months (and I felt pretty drained by the end of that).
Looking forward to a Denver/Boulder addition. Cool idea.
Missing option: None
I spent about twenty minutes googling around trying to find a central repository/library/listing of games available/ported to it... with no luck. That would probably be important for gaining traction.
GPS/mapping business
Close your eyes. Pick a direction randomly. Point. What are you pointing at? You're pointing at something that took over a billion dollars of software to get to your door. Software at the exchange, at the bank, at the office, at the factory, on the loading dock, on the ships, controlling the trucks, in the supply chain, running the register, in your car.

No, web is not the last refuge of software, and $20/mo. is not a high price point.
About.me For Songs - 1 Song. 1 Site. 1 URL.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi
Thanks for the feedback, would see how i can work on that.
Why I chose to build a Plack framework instead of using Mojolicious
Interesting blog post regarding use of an "opinionated" Perl web framework versus the long-existing mantra of TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It).
Perhaps IChrisI was a bit sloppy, and actually meant DVD-R?
There's no way that they can implement thorough manual curation at the scale Facebook is at. Even better, as the parent suggested, use positive words to avoid any automated sentiment analysis: Starbucks makes my colon sing!
Hold on! Churches have Design Directors in the US? Wow, just wow!
Nobody talked about F# here but it's clearly the CLR Next Language, and reasonably f&(*ing awesome; i.e. combines the Next Languageness of clojure, jruby, and scala from the JVM world. Invitably, people will raise the same "broad and deep syntax" complaints they level against scala
I'm a dreamer.

(Kidding, poor startup founder)
And, let me guess, it was probably trivial to break for the black hat guys?
Sometimes I wonder if Java's "classplosion" is actually a subconscious backlash against the type system. In order to get anything done within the narrow box of its static type checking, you're forced to apply insanely convoluted indirection, pushing the code you want to be polymorphic up into factories and ByzantinelyComposedClassTaxonomiesWithIncreasinglyUnreadableNames.

I'm not sure how to actually prove that, though.
No. A Startup is all-enveloping, and a pregnancy is all-enveloping, and there's only one person
Lets face it, it's not a point in your favor. But the good news is that trust can be earned. I trust people I've worked with who have pulled 20 hour days with me or who I've climbed mountains with and who have held the rope my life depends on. So put yourself in positions where you are exposed to investors and where you have an opportunity to earn their trust.

I would also take the strategy of being very very open about this. Post a blog entry that says: My name is Mike Jones, I have a criminal record, I'm creating a startup that does XYZ.

You could even capitalize on it: Create a startup that is a job board for ex cons. Or a forum where people with records in their distant pasts can share notes and advice on how to work around it.
Im told that startups are very risky, low chnce of success. I'm also told that females are more risk averse than men. I'm not sure if that's true but what you could do is: look at other high risk fields, and see if women make more or less than 4% of the demographic.

Of course I suppose startups aren't risky in the sense of life threatening.
Brainstorm HN: What would you do with 15 years of weather data?
I'm going to be getting around 15 years of weather data for Canada. I can get either hourly or daily temperature and precipitation for every weather station in Canada.

My mind is swimming with cool maps and graphs to create, but I'd like to know - what would you do with this data?
I don't understand what you are arguing here. Quoting from the docs - Android 3.0 includes an extensible DRM framework that lets applications manage protected content according to a variety of DRM mechanisms that may be available...

All I am saying is it would still be possible for me to buy a Android device whose maker doesn't implement any DRM at all. Or do you happen to know something that I don't and Google is planning to provide a default mandatory DRM for Android that everyone must carry?
i'm a huge fan the new redesign also. great stuff, guys.
Cheezburger Haz Teh Jobs
Interesting blog post about the use of an "opinionated" Perl web framework versus the long existing mantra of TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It).
> Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?

Absolutely. Software that runs warehouses. Payrolls. Manages inventory. Manages cash registers. Figures out how to optimize manufacturing across multiple vendors, multiple workstations. Robotics. Warehouse automation and robotics. Embedded systems. 3d rendering. Automated trading. Inventory control. Lot control. Pharmaceutical side effects tracking. Call centers, customer service...

Each of those, and ten thousand more, are all not web related, and each one of those has large communities of developers bigger than hacker news that bend their minds each and every day to the tasks at hand, and they're mostly not web related. Obscene amounts of money change hands every year for creating, maintaining, installing, and customizing all of those kinds of software.

Oracle's annual revenue is something like $100 billion, and it's just one player in a few of the above markets I mentioned. I'm not sure what SAP makes. But then also factor in the myriad of middlemen, integrators, and contractors, and it's a really large sum of money that goes into those things.

Web type businesses get more buzz because there is far more comparatively easy low-hanging fruit for effort vs. reward with a typical web business than in the world of enterprise software. Things like supply chain optimization are comparatively more mature and hashed out than things like making people's lives easier with computers, or connecting people and information in new and enriching ways.

There's still room for innovation in warehousing and so on, but the changes are more incremental, and you have to work harder for each advance than you do with web type companies. The progress still comes, and impacts our lives (witness Wal-Mart, lowering prices for everyone through awesome, difficult, supply chain optimization efforts), but it takes way more work to make a difference than it does with "web" businesses.
What about.me did for profiles (facebook), it seems this is a similar take on songs (myspace). It is interesting really ... I had musician friends share their songs by sending a public box.net URL. This would have worked so much better for them.
But an unlikely one. Like all privacy "outrage" when it comes to Facebook, this might follow a predictable cycle -- firestorm in the news, some minor concession by Facebook, and eventually no one even remembers the issue down the line.
It's probably telling that the correlation between this and hardcore programmers is so high! For me, all of my attractiveness to women has seemingly vanished when I turned 30. None of the things that used to work for me work at all (e.g. internet dating, speed dating, clubs and activities like singing and Salsa dancing.) I've experienced nothing but rejection in the last two years. I got down to 10% bodyfat for a while but lapsed on that when I figured out that this made no difference. Everybody I meet likes me, but my male friends all also tend to be men who are more than a little socially repulsive to women.

I'd almost do anything to get a woman to want to spend time with me and appreciate who I am, but the one thing I won't do is suppress my distaste for bullshit enough to try speed seduction techniques.

I guess the one thing I can pass on about this is don't take it for granted if you have an awesome girlfriend in your 20s. I just sort of assumed dating would be easier (or even possible) in my 30s but I would have lived my youth very differently if I would have known I'd basically be cruising for life alone now, and feeling so helpless about it.

As of now, all my experiences are telling me I have absolutely nothing to offer a woman except for money.

Sorry about the non-productive rant, as well, but I sometimes find them therapeutic!
HN is about the articles, certainly, but also about the users and their comments. I would think that time having passed would justify seeing what new comments time may have brought.
I was challenging your absolutist statement that humanity can't deal with social prejudices by being unaware: "No, no conspiracy, just conventions that we would probably do better without but which are deeply ingrained in society. .. So deep that we're no longer even aware of them." So I presented the country's people of the author who has dealt with the issues tremendously well compared to 'large chunks' of the world.

Oh, and slavery still exists today in USA, even for child sex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_USA#Modern_instances
You're going to hate me for this, but when I was a middle school teacher I gave all of my quizzes in Comic Sans font because I had heard that Comic Sans was an easy font for dyslexics to read. (I have yet to come across proof of this, though.)

Edit: this mentions Comic Sans as a somewhat dyslexic-friendly font: http://www.angelfire.com/tn3/writing/DesignUsersReadDis.pdf
Since you get upvotes and nobody dares to ask, I step in: What exactly? Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery? Or nothing technical at all?
Anti-nasty system, maybe. The prefetching thing can't possibly be implemented by the DNS cache daemon because it doesn't know what the user is currently typing.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/when-it-com...

Consider a Standford CS undergrad working part-time in an on-campus computer lab who will graduate in a few months. Given that he/she has decided to take a market-rate job somewhere upon graduation, what is the probability that his income will be substantially higher a few months from now? How concerned should he be that his ship will not come in? Would it be rational for him to spend some money he doesn't have on bar tabs, weekend trips, and other such frivolity before working 60+ hours/week for Google/Facebook/Whatever? Conversely, it would be much riskier if this undergrad, after taking a job at Facebook, took upon debt with the assumption of a pay-off upon an IPO.
And it actually has a chance of achieving that, unlike Haskell/Erlang/Ocaml/whatever, because Blub developers can just use it as a better Java.
Leaving some clients to use nbsps in place of tables or tabs to try and layout columns, bullet lists, etc. Eek!
Austrian Beverage Company. Any guesses? ;-)
I hope to see these changes incorporated within Google's official implementation.

As of right now, deserialization of json and xml are way faster in Python: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499593/whats-the-best-ser...
A lot of what etiquette schools teach is exactly that. So are most "job training" programs in the US ("don't smell bad, don't insult your interviewers, etc." - it's really a big joke; I recommend Lafer's The Job Training Charade if you want to understand what's going to happen to the US work force and economy in the next 20 years).

Your example of skills training for autism is probably the best. There's also the self-help and pick-up/dating coach industries. Every single corporate team-building workshop. Basically all of psychology.

Social skills can certainly be taught through formal education (and programmed into robots, too). They do need to be practiced also, but claiming they're not like other kinds of information is the same baseless anthropocentrism argument the conservatives keep pulling out to deny that people weren't like apes, evolution didn't happen, god exists etc. etc.
It was around before Android so that's one reason why it's not Android based. I think that becoming just another Android device wouldn't be a good business move either, but I don't have any data to back that up.
Who is the most trendy?
trendocean.com
The discussion of founding a company has been artificially limited to web start-ups. What if Jessica had started a "PR firm for the rest of us" which made professional PR more accessible to small companies? There might be a technology component, but I would argue that her experience in corporate communications would be closer to the start-up's core competencies.
http://www.trendocean.com
It's undoubtedly a legitimate fear. But compare this to a company like ATT for example who has way more clients than most any property mgt company. Do you think they would prefer to deal with online support requests from clients or talk to them in person at their store?

Having an in person or live conversation is almost always more costly. Yes, it likely cuts down on the number of miniscule requests that you will receive, but you are likely to get a large number of those via telephone, unless you don't offer that as well, which would be impossible for offsite property managers.

So, in short, yes, I agree with you that the number of silly requests may go up, especially initially. However, to counter this, sorting them takes all of 5 seconds a piece instead of 5 min to listen to them ramble on the phone, the benefits of online rental payments saves you time and money, and the instant organization that comes from having this all flow into one system is in our eyes, priceless.

Thanks for your valuable input!
1) I'm not ready to make a move to California yet, and 2) I really do prefer small companies more than mega corporations with millions of employees. And 3) I don't know that they'd hire me anyway.
This is a vast oversimplification, but some markets are ruthless zero sum games, others are not. mature markets that are either fixed in size, growing very little, or shrinking are usually zero sum games with all competitors trying to screw each other and their customers for every cent.

Other markets, especially those with potential for large growth, behave differently. Growing the market is more important than trying to maximize your share of the market. You don't want to have the smallest piece of the pie, but sacrificing a little bit of your share in exchange for a larger pie can be a win.

In knowledge businesses like consulting, educating customers often means educating competitors simultaneously. However, it can still be a win to share knowledge.

Finally, one must consider brand. Sometimes you trade knowledge for brand. If you write about programming, you may make your competitors better programmers. Some clients may feel empowered to write their own code instead of hiring a consultant. But your brand can now open opportunities for you that didn't exist before.

I guess what I'm saying is that knowledge is power, but sharing it can be an investment under certain circumstances.
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More
Yes, Embedded software.
Twin Cities and Chicago areas seem well represented here. I'm at a Minnesota medical devices manufacturer writing controls software.
>are significant web operations.

How are they significant: by the profit they bring, by the market share or by the investment made by the company?

Personally I never associate Microsoft with the web. It's either desktop OS or Xbox.
What do you mean by pregnancy as all-enveloping?
site is open beta. interesting idea and pure design
"I wanted to do x, but no one would hire me even though I was capable because I didn’t have sufficient experience in x on my resume."

I definitely identify with this line. I'm a 27-year-old woman and I left a cushy (read: boring) job writing for Vogue magazine so I could create a dating site that women will actually feel proud to join. Like so many, I was under the assumption you had to have ninja coding skills, an MBA, Google on your resume, or a genius gene to become a founder. I had none of those, and having worked as a print journalist, I missed the boat on the importance of developing your online brand. I had nothing to give me credibility--not even a Twitter page. And let's face it, my one laurel, ie that shiny "Vogue" on my resume, meant nothing to this audience.

I tried to get a job at a startup just to see what I was getting myself into, and no one would hire me. I had pretty much one friend in the biz--Meetup's cofounder Matt Meeker--and once he heard my idea, he said, "You've got to do this." I said, "But I don't have experience or any sort of reputation," and he said, "The best and most efficient way to get those things is to just do it."

So, I'm doing it. I probably wouldn't have if Matt hadn't offered those words of wisdom and created such an unthreatening environment in which to pitch him. The other thing that helped me plow forward when I wanted to give in to all the judgmental haters out there was the research I did on what sort of skills investors look for in the entrepreneurs they fund. If more women knew that it's about PERSPIRATION and PERSEVERANCE above all, I truly believe we'd have more female founders.

I've always had that fire in the belly that makes for a good entrepreneur. If it weren't for the misconceptions that you have to be some sort of savant to start something, I would have, like Jessica, maybe done this at 25. Though I've got a lot of catching up to do, I'm so thankful I realized I CAN do this, I SHOULD do this (to gain experience if nothing else), and I WANT to do this--because if I pull this off, I'll have accomplished something 100x more gratifying than anything I could have ever done working in corporate.
Haven't read all 220+ comments so sorry if someone has already suggested this, but what if you tried to convince landlords by sheer weight of numbers. Allow tenants to enter their landlord and 'vote' for them to adopt this system, as well as encourage other tenants to do the same.
Red bull?
My tips for Internet fame:

- Open up the Google API table. Close your eyes and click randomly on the page until two or more new windows appear.

- Using these APIs, create a mash-up with Bing Maps.

- Go to Domainr and search for an applicably douche-y domain to ship your new app under.

- Wait for the venture capital funding to flood in.
university IT department
Is trying to attract developers to a niche micro-platform a better business move? Android market might be crowded but it is for good reason. Getting developer mindshare is very very hard.
I was speaking about the fact that Chrome also re-fetch some of the (most used) DNS entries in the background when they are about to expire (like they do for the DNS "8.8.8.8" servers).

I agree that prefetching however can't be done by a DNS cache program.
I'm in Omaha. I know of a couple of startup type companies here, but most development jobs are for BigCos. Not a big IT community here that I know of, but I just moved here.
TYPO3 4.5 LTS is out
"Google's apparent academic focus is what puts me off. That and the doubt about whether interesting work is done outside of their main campus.
I'm self-taught and have been programming and making software from scratch for 15 years and have been pretty successful at it."

The academic focus puts lots of people off. I know absolutely incredible engineers with very good educations who wouldn't make it through the hiring process because they haven't been in a classroom in 20 years...ergo, their knowledge of easy-to-lookup trivia required to pass the gatekeepers isn't up to snuff.

I know one guy who walked out of a Google interview after they started in with the trivia stuff, his response was "are you kidding me with this?" Picked up his stuff and left. He felt it was extremely disrespectful and wouldn't have been a good selector for a successful employee anyway.
Also don't forget about the game industry, which is something like $50 billion
It should be noted that despite the headline - Google is not censoring any search terms. They're just not allowing certain words in the search auto-complete. A controversial move to be sure, but something they've done with other words since the introduction of search auto complete