skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know there's a huge difference between programming and computer science. I bet there's at least as large a gulf between business and what they teach in business school.

When I was in college one of the people I got to know was a guy who started with a paper route in junior high school and by the time he became college freshman he had several houses he was renting out. He cleared enough from rent to cover the mortgage and build up the downpayment for the next house.

The guy worked hard, was smart with money, damn humble (he was the one who cleaned the houses between tenants himself even though he could have afforded to hire people to do it). No question in my mind that guy went on to be a multi-millionaire.

Also, if you do a venture with a guy like that and it fails, you know he put everything he had into it.

There was nothing slick about him. He was not a networker in the least. But he treated everyone with respect, and got along well with just about everyone. He was a natural born businessman and entrepreneur.... who knew how to "Stack up money" as you put it!

Show me a business guy like that, and this code monkey will take notice.
Was meant to upvote you, but my fingers failed me.
A good thing to have - better than the "assert" keyword in Java.
The pen is simply too big, my preference is for a smaller pen.
FBI Acts on Another Anonymous DDoS Search Warrant
Too much time has passed and I no longer have an edit button. Wanted to make it more accurate. My brain mangled the following:

Lawrence and Auda left Wedj on 9 May 1917 with a party of 40 men to recruit a mobile camel force from the Howeitat of Syria.[10] On 6 July, after an overland attack, Aqaba fell to those Arab forces with only a handful casualties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt

So he went with 40 men and more joined. It would be better if my remarks indicated he took Aqaba with a relatively small number of Arab irregulars. But they apparently basically overran the city with a small-ish force. The point is not inaccurate, but the detail of how many men is inaccurate.

My bad -- posting in the middle of the night while suffering insomnia.
No. I was referring to messages by lwhi and nitrogen. As nitrogen said, there are less invasive options to contact them than colonization and there are cases where it is beneficial to the (in some ways) less advanced civilization. It might not have been fun for the japanese when the westerners first came there, but in the long run it was a good thing. And while the japanese culture was certainly changed, it was not destroyed or forgotten.
it looks fucking amazing, I can't wait to get hold of one. If it lives up to the marketing images, I think this is a game changer.
Eclipse does not do static analysis by default I believe. There are some patches however...
I know the site is a joke but there is a real disconnect. There is this idea of a "business person" in a startup. But I think everyone serious enough about startups to be on HN, if you'll think about it, will realize there is no "business dude" role in a startup.

You're either engineering, design or marketing, and preferably more than one.

My background is in engineering, which means I didn't have much need to pick up design, marketing, or entrepreneurial/business skills while growing up. Once I realized I wanted to work for startups (about a decade before founding my first startup) I started learning about these things. Design, as in graphic design, is probably the hardest to teach. Business is the easiest.

If your background is you got a BS in "Business" or an MBA and you want to be in startups, then you should figure out what role you're going to play. (And it shouldn't be "CEO".) Pick up some engineering, design or marketing.

Show me someone who designed and marketed several extremely popular websites when they were in college, say, along with a technical buddy who made them, and I'll see someone who can greatly benefit a startup (whether their degree is an MBA or a BS in art appreciation.)

Eventually if your startup gets big enough, or for some business models (eg: Groupon) you may need large numbers of sales guys or "Bizdev". Well, "BizDev" is just sales to other businesses where you sell a partnership. Sales guys sink or swim on bringing in business, and I think nothing will kill the "whartonite" sense of entitlement more than working on a commission.

Much respect to sales guys, though. I have done that job because I knew I'd never be able to hire a sales force if I hadn't ever done the job. It is not easy.

So, Engineering, Design, Marketing. Which hat do you wear?
You should check that again ;)
My Twitter app needs a complete design overhaul. What do I do?
So one of the twitter apps I worked on some months back (and let rust) really needs some polishing up.<p>I'm not a designer and it looks like...crap. Where do I go to for some help on this front?
Why would it make people's lives worse to have price transparency both on devices and on mobile phone contracts?

Around here (i.e. Europe), you can get an iPhone 4 (24x25EUR) and the corresponding phone contract (20EUR/month), either together (which would give the well-known 45EUR/month) or separately from each other. You can cancel or change the phone contract later and only pay for the phone, if you want - in any case, you know which is which, and it makes it a lot easier to compare both contracts and device prices.

No early termination fees necessary. It's just the US mobile market being bogged down from being under the control of an oligopoly of non-competitive companies.
The data reported in the interesting submitted article, based on research in one place by one field investigator, do not support the generalization to the headline of the submission here.
A Dating Site (Lovely Faces) Nicks of 250,000 Facebook Profiles
Remember when the polarizing search battle was between Google and Yahoo? ...yeah neither do I.

These battles do nothing more than establish the two dominate players.
Ask HN: sell me a good domain name?
I know HN'ers sit on a lot of unused domain names. I need one for a new consumer product. A .com Requirements:

1. Pronouncable

2. Spellable.

3. Somewhat easy to remember.

4. (optional) doesn't end in an "r"

I'll pay 500$ (or send you an iPad or something) for a decent domain and you'll get my thanks :) Contact info in profile.
In my experience, you're both right. You need the agreements so that the business doesn't get killed by bickering between co-founders, and you need to not spend a whole lot of time on "corporate matters" when you should be building the product.

The advice you hear from "VCs" very often is that the first thing you should do is not just get incorporated, but get a lawyer, an accountant, etc. All of which is premature.
I understand that my comment may look like the sort of thing that would appear on a lesser news aggregation / community website that shall remain unnamed, but I promise I never intended it as such. Nor did I attempt to attract the kind of fire-poking (flaming, trolling, or whatever the cool kids call it these days) responses that usually follow such comments, but I guess there's only so much we can convey in text when we don't take the time to elaborate.

The Daily is a collaboration between Apple and News Corp. I'm not going to post links to various sources here that state that fact. Google is an excellent resource for finding out such things - I regularly consult it before attempting to shoot down people's comments (just in case my argument is unfounded). I also respect HN's rules about posting links all over the place.

Although John Gruber has been critical of Apple in the past, he is thought of by many (especially of late) to be Apple's unpaid mascot; solidly supporting their opinions on the Flash situation and the WebM/H.264 debate. To be honest, my comment was more to do with my feelings on his recent behaviour, because I connected more with the John Gruber that brought us Markdown and other great things, rather then John Gruber the Apple fanboy. I just wish we got to see more of that side of him, but it seems to be fading.

I don't appreciate your congratulations. I never entered the ugh pageant, and nobody likes to win the 'doubly wrong' prize, especially when they're not.

I think that next time I'll provide a bit more information, lest someone think that I'm here to spout sensationalist drivel.
I usually setup purge tasks (copy to same table in another db) every week or fortnight in low-traffic periods
Wireframes are boundary objects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object

That's the best explanation I've ever found. They're better than pretty designs or actual implementation at getting "different social groups" (think business, dev, design, ...) to create a shared understanding. A developer looks at a wire and sees something different than a businessguy, but they're still looking at the same document, which lets them communicate. They're communication enablers. They should be ugly and they should be throw-away documents.
The response time for individual pixels is quite slow, around 250ms. It takes that long to apply the necessary sequence of voltages to get a clear image without visible ghosting. That slowness is an obstacle even if you had no bus limitations. Something like the loading indicator might be moving faster, but ghosting is acceptable for something like that.

I wrote low-level software for E Ink displays years ago, when the practical response time was more like 400ms IIRC. At the time, drawing lagged too much to be pleasant for a consumer device. Maybe now, if you do something clever with a quick 1st pass and a slow 2nd, darkening pass, you could get a reasonable result... Maybe.
Well, antirez was talking about new features and their discussion, one could assert bugs are not new features and have no requirement for discussion beyond "does this fix the bug?" and "does this code not suck?"
Based on the excellent responses here, the conclusion is that this guy is completely wrong and that query plans are definitely useful and even required. Now I think it is interesting to figure out how it can be that he is so wrong. It seems to me the simplest explanation is that the pg devs aren't eating enough of their own dogfood and are just unaware of a certain uses their product is put to? However, I would expect them to have been supplying consultancy services to exactly the users that come across these kinds of problems. In that case, the 'no query plans' must also have become stuck in their mindset, to remain unmodified after coming across practical uses cases that actually require them.
I invested in Ze. I figured it would be amusing.
I think many entrepreneurs think they need the 12 months in runway and thus the first step for their business is to find someone to give them the money. IF you go and raise that money from investors, it will likely take you 6 months (seriously) and then you'll hire enough people that 6 months into your 12 months you'll have to start trying to raise money again.

Building a business and raising money are mutually exclusive things. If you have a big enough team you can do both, but the CEO is going to be distracted or will have to pick one or the other.

I submit that the best way to get a 12 month runway is to shrink your idea and your company to the point where you have 12 months without any outside investment. No investors means no distraction. No spending half your money trying to raise more money.

Before you have product market fit you need to experiment on the cutting edge. Once you have it, then maybe get some money to help grow the thing.
ACS:Law shut down
hey, i'd try the following

1. try to ask users of your app if they fancy to help you out, if youre lucky a design-gifted one is among them.

2. if you want to invest little $ try out oDesk.com or some crowdsourcing sites like http://brandstack.com/ http://www.crowdspring.com/ http://99designs.com/

good luck
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Apple did the subscription stuff (Gruber was not critical of that), the app and its content (which Gruber is criticizing) is wholly developed and created by News Corp. An endorsement by Apple and some collaboration on the subscription APIs does not make this an Apple offering in any way.

And Gruber still is critical of Apple. That’s not a thing of the past. Just because he doesn’t agree with some of your personal opinions about something doesn’t make him an fanboy (which is a stupid word anyway and should never be used to describe anyone. It’s a lame dismissal of serious debate, a conversation stopper.)
Without taking anything from Raymond Li, who did something awesome, is this really a brand new thing, as the article seems to say? I think I remember seeing water-powered jetpacks on TV (Discovery, I think) years back. Does anyone remember any previous attempts on devices like that?
Prescient - I read this right after patching [1] jekyll (static site generator) and sending mojombo a pull request on github without any mailing list or other discussion.

For quick/simple patches, I find the pull-request approach to be way less hassle. As much as I value the open source process, I simply can't be bothered to join the mailing list, post, wait for a reply etc etc for every project I write a trivial patch for, especially if it's a project I'm not planning to hack on a lot. Life's too short.

At least this way, if the project authors want my patch, they can get it easily. Otherwise I'm happy for it to just sit in my fork.

Common sense is required - sending a pull-request out of the blue for a large or structural change is asking for trouble. For trivial patches it's very convenient.

[1] https://github.com/RJ/jekyll/commit/2f9d4f5be623f37ca79adf84...
Wireframes being ugly is not really a problem. And I happen to think that Balsamiq wireframes are ugly, but wireframes created with other tools (especially sketching) can be quite beautiful.

Of course you could get attached to your first photoshop mockup or your first prototype, but my point is that since they are closer to the real deal, it's easier to judge if they'll work or not.
Do you have any interest in Oracle DBAs?
Bring down a poorly deployed WordPress (and how to stop it from happening)
I would go to dribbble.com and forrst.com and look for designers that you like. Then contact them and ask them for a quote.
Completely agree, for small projects, or small patches of big projects, pull requests are not that bad, but neither very good IMHO as there is always a lot of background missing.

But the kind of pull requests I receive are often fairly large. New commands implemented or other large changes.
That's a very good observation. I agree that they enable communication, but I just think in many cases other tools can be even better at that.
any subject hints?
In the sorted parameters example contract, would it not be as good to pass an new object whose constructor ensures the sorting?
Is this only for web development libraries? I think there will be a huge market for iPhone/Android libraries.
I signed up. The confirmation mail hasn't arrived after nearly 20 minutes :S
posted this one two weeks ago, nobody cared ... :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130647

looks like a neat idea. still I wait to get one to play with.
pdf support seems to be interesting ...
Dell.com coupons
Licence Pickers
Video of the IPv4 final allocation ceremony
How Can We Select Website Designing Company?
The decision of having a website for a business development should follow the search for a professional website designing company.
I agree about the editorialized headline, this has little to do with Facebook and it's limited to NY. But the data itself is interesting, if not surprising. Legalizing sex trade would help getting rid of some of the uglier side of prostitution (minors, STDs, physical abuse).
CSS3 Properties and Compatible Browsers
Also, a suggestion for non-technical cofounders: Do not tell us a list of technologies that you think we need in order to cofound a company with you. (I've seen this happen a lot.)

If you think your technical cofounder needs [java/php/rails/javascript] experience, then you're starting off attempting to dictate technology to the person who you're supposed to go to in order to discover what the right technology is.
already ordered mine!
wasn't it stated multiple times that the people who break into computer systems are not to be called "hackers" but "crackers"?

Yes, here. But not in the Wall Street Journal. To everybody in the world bar a few hundred of us here, they are using the correct terminology. It's probably best to let it go.
Coca-Cola : the Popular Beverage Around the World
I don't know why the dude is bothering with it. The first link I click has stuff recycled from HN of months ago:

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/03/020411-news-boxes-br...
If you don't mind me asking, I'm curious about what alternative medicine you used.
Ouch, it's a campaign monitor list, so delivery is up to their system (campaignmonitor.com). When it closes to invite only, we'll use our own system to manage invites and emails.

You can subscribe multiple times and it should re-send the confirmation.
As an extension to that don't screw people around with equity deals which are undervaluing them unless the project is a big success.
There is an even easier way. Use nginx.
Local casino was closed for renovation?
Most domain names you consider good now are not good because of the name, but because of what it was used for. Domain names, in and of themselves, are generally pretty worthless (unless you happen to own one of the rare few) and I think it would be much better for you to work on your sites content and then finding a suitable name after.

Besides, what use is a domain name which follows your criteria but is meaningless in the context of the product? Build the product, find it a name, name the domain something related to the product name or purpose. Save your $500 for somehting else.

Thats my opinion, at least.

Incidentally, I'm willing to part with enemynetwork.com for $500 (or an ipad) :-D
What I find most annoying is that in GitHub's world, a pull request is an issue (e.g. see here: https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt/issues). That's totally backwards to me. A pull request is a solution to an issue.

This workflow is natural to me:

1. Someone reports an issue
2. A patch is provided

If you follow this workflow today, you'll end up with two issues in the issue tracker. Confusing! It should be one issue and one fix for that issue.

And if someone sends a pull request (without opening a ticket first), what should I do if I agree with the feature/bugfix, but not with the way it was solved? The issue isn't fixed yet, so it's wrong to close it, but it feels weird to keep the pull request open (since I've actually rejected it). I want to close the pull request only!
Agreed, nginx is nice (I'm using it to serve static content on my blog in front of Apache). But nginx requires additional setup with WordPress to get it working properly, in particular mod_rewrite rules (especially if you then use WP Super Cache, or at least that's what it was like on Lighttpd when I used to use that).

I don't consider WordPress to be server agnostic - it's built for Apache and it only works well on IIS because Microsoft made some effort to make it happen.
Relativism is destroying our society. There are things that are not up for debate. They usually involve facts and science. Inoculation is one of them.

I think vaccines should be mandatory for all children. If you don't vaccine your kid, CPS should take the kid away after multiple warnings, because you are an unfit parent and a danger to our community otherwise.
...it is very difficult to interact with them without violating their right to life because it is easy to infect them with a disease. What do we do?

Ship in a bunch of doctors, and introduce them to disease under medically controlled circumstances. We can't isolate them forever to avoid an epidemic, but we can try to mitigate the impact when it occurs.
Gee, I just don't know who to believe - Jenny McCarthy or billg.
I put "alternative" in quotes because I don't see a practitioner of any kind of medicine. I hang out on a forum where folks know all kinds of interesting things (about non-drug treatments and other related stuff) and I do a lot of research and have made it up as I go. It's basically a diet and lifestyle based approach. There is a little info about what I have done here:

http://healthgazelle.com/
With the amount of comments on this page it's unlikely anyone will even see this, but am I the only one surprised at how many people still use the term "Indian" to refer to natives populations who look a bit like Indians?

As far as I'm aware, this is the sole reason for the origination of the term in this context (as opposed to, you know, people from India).
I am reminded of 1K ZX Chess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess
As an open source author, I prefer to discuss features with people after they send their first patch. GitHub allows me to sort potential contributors into 3 categories:

1) Programmers who talk a lot without sending patches will be gently discouraged by the lack of a forum.

2) Programmers who send dirty patches, or who don't write unit tests, can be given some quick mentoring and asked to please resubmit.

3) Programmers who send clean patches with unit tests and well-written commit messages can be welcomed with open arms and fulsome praise.

If you're a UI/UX expert, or a designer, then please substitute "blog post with pictures" for "patch". All types of skills are valuable.
I'm also amused by the fact that the weather forecast simply reads "11:56 AM, Mostly".
He is right. The problem would not have been a problem were it not for apples stupid limitation on things that can run in the background.

The only sane way to do this is obviously to run it in the background overnight, a thing any program can do on android.
Thanks for your support. When I saw a picture and a name in my news feed on facebook I had the same feeling as you describe. I believe as people we have come desensitized to hearing massive numbers of people being killed all over the world, but when a face is put to a name, and in this case when a whole profile is put to the name, the world might really feel the magnitude of the loss and its every individual.
The important thing is not your opinion about who is to blame but Gruber’s opinion about who is to blame and he clearly thinks that Apple is not to blame. Hence, the comment is wrong.
Now I want this kind of list for iOS apps. Suggestions?
Write Essays – Your Way
There are so many rules and regulations when it comes to writing essays. Students will be overwhelmed with the amount of information they have to keep in mind. This however is just the basic guide. As long as you keep to format and proper structure, you will be able to write essays your way.
ZX81 - chess ...only 672 bytes. source code:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/

Micro-Chess, from 1976, which ran on a KIM-1 (6502) machine and used 1.1K of RAM.

http://users.telenet.be/kim1-6502/microchess/microchess.html

Toledo Javascript Chess Game

http://nanochess.110mb.com/chess4.html

+ TOLEDO JS1K orking demo: http://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/699
Currently it's only for web development - we will be adding mobile and desktop development environment in about a month or two.
Another day, another survey by a company desperate to get attention by defensive Apple fans. Sad how well the tactic works.

So I guess Android is done then. Lets shut her down! Or we could just wait and see how it pans out.
Insightful look
"online research firm" hmmm...
They do transplants, but the rate is extremely low - mainly due to no donors: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6156925.stm
Yeah, I do that for simpler things (a bunch of mutexes, condition variables, etc.) but as soon as I look at anything lock-free, by brain just fails to take it all in.
If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6...