skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes. Everything is relative. :)

For example, I imagine life is Hell right now for Egypt President Mubarak, although this probably only means losing power and living the rest of his life quite comfortably exiled in some other country.
At least they apologized. Well, the modern state did.
Report details iPad 2 components, 5 million unit supply
There's some scuttlebutt that this is the inspiration behind the Macintosh logo. Most likely apocryphal, but nevertheless amusing and fitting.
Being gay no longer automatically avoids the married with kids & big expensive house problem, at least not in Silicon Valley.
zero. spend more time on your product than trying to rack your brain over made-up numbers.

unless you are sitting down with an old school investor / spreadsheet jockey, you're better off selling them on the potential of the startup.
Here's the thing: I don't believe that the second part is true.

I think your chances of getting an enormous cashout are more or less independent of whether you work sixteen-hour days. If you have a great product that people want and the skills to implement it, what's the real difference if you work eighty hours a week instead of forty? Maybe you get the first version written in half (or more likely two thirds) of the time? Big deal.

Sure, there are probably some cases on the margin where speed really matters. But I think that if your product isn't going to take off then working a bit harder won't make it to do, and if your product is going to take off then you can probably get away with eight hour days anyway.
This sounds like something that could lead to an interesting YCombinator application. :)

The nice thing about this type of technology is that you have enough paranoid people in the US to market to initially (assuming you're in the US or that the US is easy for you to sell to, and no, I'm not trying to be condescending of people that are paranoid). Another interesting bit could be to donate one piece of the technology to opposition movements in countries run by dictators, when somebody buys your devices. How you'd smuggle it is one question, but I'm sure there are NGOs that would gladly help you.

Fred Wilson might be interested in it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158529
Ask HN: Good documentaries to watch?
I am out of documentaries to watch and am bored. Does anyone know any great documentaries that you can recommend?
I find that I used to do most of my work without nibs and do it in loadView. In recent releases I've been using xibs for a lot of the base layout and doing the rest in viewDidLoad. 99% of the time you can create most of your interface in IB and save yourself a bunch of time and make it more maintainable.
Picking fruit is hell? Sheesh, in Australia picking fruit is considered a "working holiday" for middle-class European kids.
1. It is within the realm of technology to profitably provide unmetered bandwidth at standard rates, with minimal shaping during peak use hours. To borrow the phrase seen used on here with reference to nuclear power, bandwidth is almost "too cheap to meter." That's what is real.

2. What the ISPs and/or infrastructure owners are charging is orders of magnitude beyond covering costs. Bandwidth is getting cheaper as technology advances and old lines are paid for, and yet they are raising prices.

3. Many of the hackers on this site are developing cloud-based solutions to computing problems, solutions which can advance the well-being of the human race and provide new value to the marketplace. ISPs' greed has stifled and will continue to stifle this economic and societal growth.

Given these three points, I think it's clear why commenters are arguing against ridiculously overpriced Internet access.
They also throttle our bandwidth and our taxes are ridiculously high. You'll generally have a constant feeling of being ripped off, but you get used to it eventually, and it gives you something to commiserate and bond over with fellow canadians ;)
XML is being abandoned as the medium for a variety of APIs at the moment (Google and Facebook especially). It looks like failure when my XSLT code deprecated before I can even release it.
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Looking for The Way Back movies online to watch? You've come at the right place and at the right time. Based on a memoir by Slavomir Rawicz about his escape from a Siberian gulag and subsequent 4000-mile walk to freedom in India.
> In fact, for most of the good stuff, you have to do this.

IB's biggest benefit is we can have our artists skin apps and check in the XIB - no programmer needed. This is very important once you start creating platform type apps. Skinning can be a very time consuming process; IB makes it more manageable.

To clarify what milkshakes is saying, IB stops being useful when you are doing custom animations (e.g. moving subviews around - something that is very common if you have a custom animation). Usually, IB will beat a developer coding CGRect type code from scratch (unless they are using Opacity - a great tool that generates code and is very programmer friendly). A custom UIView will probably win the performance race but lose in the productivity/maintenance marathon.

Once you start getting into custom rounded table cells, custom table headers that act as row 0 of the table cell, empty placeholder cells, CoreData, and table/cell animations - you are entering the dark side...

Using IB for UITableViewCells doesn't have a significant performance penalty now because if you are doing custom cells - the client is probably willing to sacrifice 60fps scrolling - to get their custom table gradients/cell backgrounds (otherwise the cells would be opaque).
I'd like to question the implication that your life is not affected by work as a normal employee of a big company. Sure, it's most probably not going to be as intense as for a start-up, but that's less because of start-up vs big company, but much more about how committed you are to your work in general. I know lots of people working at big companies who have crazy work-hours and whose social life definitely gets affected by that.

Let's face it, if you want to be successful - start-up or not - you'll have to work your butt off.
how does one 'sell' potential?
Windows Phone 7 devs get long-awaited pay day
Is there something like this for the Ruby/Rails ecosystem?

Starting out with Ruby/Rails can be quite daunting, not so much because of the language or the framework but because of the ecosystem with it's many third-party tooling.
"Techcrunch guest posts are often incoherent"

More incoherent than their writers' posts? :-)
Lack of employment.
PirateBox: an "artistic provocation" in lunchbox form
I was intrigued until I saw the site and realized that they were talking about a degree in business and not a MacBook Air.
> I think that's a bit high - possibly a lot high

This seems very low to me.

Let's assume 3 employees at your rather low rate. That's: 3 x $70k = $210k.

So all you money is now gone.

With no money left how are you going to pay the rent, pay for equiment, pay for any other day to day business expenses (i.e. phone, electricity, insurance, taxes etc).

I'd say $200k is even too low for 2 employees (in any western country).
I've tested a lot of things. See http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/ for a tutorial I taught on the topic.
Well definitely, and I'd hope every entrepreneur has the confidence in their company to think he will be successful. I just meant, given the hypothetical situation where you knew you would fail, would you still do it? Basically, are you doing it just for money, or is it for more than that?
Yeah...when your company makes almost all of its money selling software your profit margins are clearly going to be higher than a company that does both hardware and software. Hardware is expensive and the profit margins suck. MSFT is still winning though, probably not for long ;)
What's the difference? Besides the obvious name.
IPhone 5 Chip Overloads Samsung Production Capacity
Would I use it for my startup? Probably not... because I've already made my own: http://www.lifelitup.com - it didn't take very long to make.

I do not have the viral parts, (invite 3 people) because as cabalamat said, it reminds me too much of Facebook Applications. I didn't want people spamming their friends.

Don't get me wrong, I think your service would be beneficial for sure, just make sure to include heaps of features, (i.e. no viralness) :-)
Put it in a checking account and use it to run your business. The bar down the street probably has more money in its bank account.
Do you have any examples of the functionality that is not available to the browser? Specifically ones that would be required by their current web applications? Only one I can think of is offline caching.
Sex sells. But not as well as our Christmas card
Actually, I read Fred's post a few moments before writing this. It was one of a few sources of inspiration.

And that's a cool suggestion, applying the TOMS shoe one-for-one model.
Social Self-Service
If you want to eval anything anyone passes you with no consideration for what it could be, then I have to agree with OP that you must not be aware of the pitfalls of using eval.

Consider that the "black" portion of that argument actually comes from user input and that you were passed instead:

black"); alert('This framework is awesome!

Try eval'ing that.
source http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/28/dahl_...
For the record, I'm still undecided whether slice is a good idea. Thanks for calling it cool and elegant though :)

You can use slice for just the clojure/html/js and do the css separately. Or you can use enlive+html and slice for clojure/js. I think slice still provides a nice way to structure your code.

The site's design doesn't have to be coupled with it's logic/semantics. All the design can be in separate slices from the rest. What you gain is still composition, a full programming language, and easier testing.

Added: Originally I pitched slice as a solution for solo coders, so I agree that it has some significant weaknesses for teams, but I think it also some strengths, such as the ability to see relevant code (i.e. clojure/js/css/html) in one place, navigate code with IDE features regardless of language , abstract away details that span languages, and easier testing.
I guess that would depend on the definition of failure. Relishing failure as in the "Charge of the Light Brigade" (ie. marching to certain death) is a little masochist IMO. Not too appealing to me.

But if a almost certain failure served a greater good that mattered to me, I guess that I'd be with you.

Failure is a concept with shades of grey, and largely depends on your definition of success. I've met a few people who from my perspective are amazingly successful who feel that they are failures.
Where does the author say that “Apple wins again”?! I’m a bit befuddled by your interpretation of the article which seems to be mostly based on your prejudices about the author.

Apple is actually growing faster than Microsoft and it is not in any way strange that Apple, as a hardware and software company, has worse margins than Microsoft, that has always been the case. Here is an illustrative chart, showing all that: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-ap...

The article just reports those facts and includes the author’s prediction that Apple’s earnings will overtake Microsoft’s soon, probably in the next quarter. That’s not at all unreasonable or unrealistic.
Best way to get in touch with AirBnB guys?
So I've noticed AirBnB has a job for customer support strategist and I'd like to get in contact with the people making decisions. (founders presumably at this stage)

Let's face it, submitting a resume is great, but if you want to work with people you generally need to show some enthusiasm and a simple cover letter isn't very 21st century nor enthusiastic when you don't know people.

Anyone have any ideas how I can get Brian, et. al. on the phone so I can tell them I want to make Tony Hsieh jealous of AirBnB's customer service?

If someone can email me some contact info or forward this along to them, I'd appreciate it. Contact info is in my profile.
Hey, thanks a lot. I looked at the WP article but I must've missed that section.

Looks like this essay, then, is the first example I can find of its use. Dellums wasn't in office until 1971, and the Lennon song was 72.
Web designer's worst nightmare
I'm in Orlando too. Where / what / when etc?
It's essential when working with artists and UI designers. I'd rather have the coders coding and the UI guys laying out / lining up the UI.
i didn't mean to imply a correlation there between work time and cashing out.

my point was more, you can be an entrepreneur and build a healthy business irrespective of things like raising funds or working 80 hour weeks.
Right, I didn't mean to distract you from the original goal :) The directory would be very, very cool to have as well. Sticking with the watcher/forker theme, perhaps the overlap between two projects' watchers/forkers (either in raw numbers or as a fraction of the total) might be a way to gauge their relationship?

Can't wait to see what you come up with. Best of luck!
Why we [the U.S.] give Egypt so many weapons [pdf]
anyone else read the linked wsj article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870355420457611... and think this is just google hiring more native app developers? considering that google already has a bunch of native apps (wsj says 20), the whole "vs html5" thing seems a bit much.

the only interesting part seems to be the "autonomous but with google's resources" development model.
Out of curiosity, how are they more composable? I haven't used Enlive for a bit but the entire thing felt so smooth on that level (and all the others) I'm very curious to hear how it could be made better, or are they using tricks based on the type system?
I assume most data coming out of Egypt are via the few who had satellite based internet in the first place?
Your argument doesn't make sense because even if you're doing it just to learn, you're learning entrepreneur skills so you can do it for other reasons later.
Here's what I used while doing an undergrad independent study a couple years ago (except for the books; at the time, books on the subject didn't exist yet):

Online Tutorials:

Dr. Dobbs - CUDA, Supercomputing For the Masses: http://www.drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/207200659

GTC Video Tutorials / Presentations: http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu_technology_conference.html

University Courses:

GaTech ECE4893 - Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games (not CUDA specific, but covered): http://users.ece.gatech.edu/lanterma/mpg/

UIUC ECE498AL - Applied Parallel Programming: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece498/al/

Books:

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Massively-Parallel-Process...

CUDA By Example: http://www.amazon.com/CUDA-Example-Introduction-General-Purp...

If you decide to go the CUDA route, as opposed to OpenCL, then NVIDIA has a lot of solid documentation that will help you get to a "Hello, World" level pretty quickly. This StackOverflow thread should help if you choose to go with an AMD OpenCL solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/780978/opencl-books-tutor.... Personally, I would stick with NVIDIA; they seem much more dedicated to advancing the cause and you have support for both API's.
I think the Netflix prize is a pretty bad comparison since it fueled years of active research from top machine learning and data mining people. It's great work, but if you're trying to find new hires the time scale is quite a ways off.
I guess the logic of this position is that if the suburban soccer mom's were forced to send their sons and daughters to war, they would do something about it. Or that as a nation we would somehow be more sensible since we would all know someone who may be sent overseas.

Maybe so, but traditionally conscription has been all about maximizing manpower to fight a protracted war, and isn't a concept that is typically associated with pacifism.
With Intelligent Design, all you have to do is run with it for awhile and see where it leads. Others have done this for you. It's okay to reuse that work.
The large ecosystem is one of the biggest benefits to Ruby/Rails development but, yes, it can be difficult to determine which third-party project is best supported or most popular. I'd have gotten lost long ago if it wasn't for Christoph Olszowka's "The Ruby Toolbox" site [1] with its grouping of projects by category and sorting by GitHub watchers, forks, and recent activity. Take a look if you don't know about it already.

[1] http://ruby-toolbox.com/
I'd not want to be that customer service rep that has to explain their actions, or the PR person.

That sounds like it would be the easiest thing in the world for a good CSR: "I'm so sorry, but I preferred obeying a government order to shut down rather than get tortured to death in an Interior Ministry dungeon -- so sorry again that I prioritized your computer uptime below the prospect of having a car battery strapped to my genitals."

Sorry to be blunt, but you need to realize that the current Egyptian regime is not exactly focused on the rule of law and is widely believed to use torture and extrajudicial killings. In fact, Sulemain, the newly appointed VP, was so skilled at torturing people to death that the US government actually outsourced torture and interrogations to him, according to Jane Mayer's book "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Inside-Terror-American/dp/03...
I was imagining using the number of watchers and forkers as a measure of popularity. Looking at overlap based on WHO is watching/forking sounds like a better idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
10 More Reasons Why Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College
I'd have figured closet marriages would be less common now, especially in the bay area, excepting senators/televangelists I suppose. Or are you referring to adoption? Ugh kids.
What If Google Is Just a One-Trick Pony?
Oh please! In US we have

i) constitutional declaration of rights, Israel does not

ii) I can drive on any road that an American civillian can drive on. I dont need to be a citizen or a resident or convert my religion.

iii) It is accepted that several inequities in US have their roots in racism and US has taken great strides to elliminate them, have open discussions on them. From what I read about Israel I dont see an environment (yet) were a corresponding national holiday to comemorate Martin Luther King is possible.

iv) If I were to be naturalized in US no law states that I cannot unless I convert my religion.

I detect a certain change in your tone after I called you out. But given your previous tone I do not have reasons to take what you say about building permits at its face value. I found too many documents from individuals and institutions that have earned my respect claiming otherwise.

Besides when you try to give an impression that you are quoting me, it is considered bad practice to remove words. Just basic honesty and propriety.
Articles like these over generalize, and I hope that anyone who reads this article doesn't assume everything they read is gospel.
I know my point of view on MBA's isn't the popular one on HN, and that's fine.. but an MBA was just right for my career, and it is for some others as well.
As for "...MBAs brandishing spreadsheets, the latest two-by-twos and the guilt induced by some watery ethics course." Way to read the "10 day MBA" and write an article about it. Oh wait a minute, the author is also basically pushing his own book on basically the same subject.
I remember someone saying that Google's only successful product (other than search) is Gmail. Actually very true if you think about it.
Darwin's Nightmare, if you want a reality check.

Baraka, if you want inspiration.

The Class (Entre les murs), not a documentary, but a hyper-real film about youth and the possibilities of education.

Seven Up!, as to what may come.
Photo Retouch - From beauty to beast
This is a tutorial in Photoshop in which you can change Natural Beauty to Beast. Like a Natural Scene converted in to Horror or Darkness rainy scene. Not a very long tutorial, but interesting one. Some commands/filters to learn in this tutorial like Difference Clouds, Add Noise, Motion Blur, Levels etc.
Hey, take it easy. Don't blow a gasket. No need to mod me down to oblivion.
The guy was asking for opinions. I suggested an option, for him to park the money somewhere.
It's not the only option in the room.

And the return rates are slightly better than the non-existent interest rates out there now. But considering he has a burn rate, then no, this would not be so wise. And the annual returns from the money, is not very high anyways. So it's not worth the risk.

So maybe he should just put it in a CD, ING, or just stuff the money under his mattress.
This kind of attitude is just self-serving. There are plenty of experiences you can have at a large company that you won't be able to get from a startup. It boils down to what you want out of your work life.
Nice chart - it makes me sad to see Microsoft getting rocked by Apple though :( Hopefully Kinect, Win7 & phone will keep them neck in neck with Apple.
While I care a great deal about civil liberties, HN has a topic bias. The TSA situation, while touching on tech via backscatter x-ray, is really a purely political situation: there is opposition grounded either in medicine or general civil rights, but it does not specifically or unduly impact tech entrepreneurs. Shutting down all internet access is far more directly relevant to the web-centric startup world.

It was you who chose to lump in the anti-TSA moderation with this article and launch this thread into that debate based on that relationship - none of the 'site authorities' you mention have commented on this piece, and there has been substantial discussion of the situation in Egypt on HN in the past week. It seems to be fairly accepted that Internet censorship affects us all.

And as for your last point, again, HN has a stated topic bias. You might as well bring up the death penalty or gun control - of course they both affect everyone, and of course most people will have (likely very strong) opinions. That does not necessarily make HN a good place for the discussion.

To close with a question of my own: why are you so set on making this the place for all civil liberty discussions? Given the sizeable overlap of this community with Reddit these days and the clearly stated opposition to holding the debates here, why persist rather than just go there?
Congrats! As a long-time user of Pylons I must say these guys rock. I didn't always agree with their design choices for Pylons and Pyramid, but this framework is rock-solid, it is truly production-quality piece of software.

Also it's built for a very specific user/programmer in mind, i.e. someone who's not afraid of popping the hood here and there, who doesn't need a blogging app in 30 minutes but in exchange gets to use the best collection of Python libraries neatly stitched together.
“HTML5 is the future platform,” he said. “That’s where we’re putting a huge amount of our resources.”

Make something cool in HTML5 that involves mobiles, and voila FB acquisition?
Am I reading the chart on that page correctly that the post-graduation salary is on average 20-30% less for most MBA graduates?

I find that to be a shocking figure after the 2 years and huge amount of money that people generally invest in getting an MBA.
It's amazing how many blog posts tech crunch come out with that just take a bunch of statistics, comment on how they compare and speculate on a future trend. Seems to be a good backup for bloggers when there is nothing to write about.