skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely - hence my snarky response to you comparing apples with apple pie :)

And of course pricing and assigned values are subjective, when but the original article says Dropbox is "overpriced in many ways" even though it's simple, and has saved his "asked" many times, and is now the de facto data sharing platform for iOS, I very much question whether Dropbox is, in fact, "overpriced in many ways".
Interesting to see some US in there! How can they legally work in the UK? UK immigration is a mess right now [1]. I would know, I barely got in on my Tier 1 - which no longer exists [2][3].

[1] - http://www.economist.com/node/17581736?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/the...

[2] - http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/inf21pbsgeneral...

[3] - http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/aboutus/newsroom/?view=News&...
A personal recommendation from Patrick or someone else as high profile here on HN must be like gold dust in the early stages. It's just the sort of recommendation and publicity that I'd love to get for my new startup when I launch the private beta soon.

I've been playing about with a competitors A/B testing free trial but their site seems to be having problems today as I can't access my experiments. May be related to Google app engine I think. Anyway they don't provide heat maps like VWO and some other stuff and so VWO will definitely be next on my list to test drive. Thanks for the insight into the day in the life of a startup too.
Thiet ke web, cong ty thiet ke web
thiet ke web, cong ty thiet ke web, thiet ke web chuyen nghiep
Hate this. Still region specific and on Facebook.

The Last thing I need in my life(or at least one of the last things) is more apps/companies/etc. trying to make me use Facebook.
I remember having a conversation with some friends related to the benefits of having a Women's day vs just Mothers' day (as they do in US). I prefered Women's day as Mothers' presumes that unless a woman is a mother, she doesn't deserve to be celebrated. Of course I don't see a reason not to have both.

If we are talking about "fairness" the next question is "What about Men's day?" In ex Soviet Union there was Army Day (February the 23rd). Since all men had to serve in the Army that day became the de facto "Men's Day". As service in the Army became volunatry (at least in the country I am from), people just started celebrating that day as Men's Day and disassosiated it from the "army" completely.
how many times is strlcpy used? This bug was fixed with strlcpy:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...
Thiet ke web
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A one paragraph snipe at someone talking negatively about perl? Really? Flagged.
I agree that weekend deploys are a shitty idea, but isn't the real issue here not being able to roll back?
I heard about it through this really good podcast, where a rep from the David Smith, Senor Vice President of Enterprise Ireland (and I believe is based in Silicon Alley) explains the stake they take and why. Very informative:

Blog Post on Startup Success Podcast:

http://startupsuccesspodcast.com/2011/01/show-96-david-smith...

Direct Link to MP3:

http://media.startupsuccesspodcast.com/StartupSuccess096.mp3

You can still work in the US but you just have to have your company HQ etc in Ireland.

As I'm from Ireland myself, but live and work in NYC, I can attest to the talented developers and modern infrastructure in Ireland. Its not for everyone, but worth a look.
I've been there. Just know that this too will end. Take some quiet time out and use your analytical brain to think outside the box. I did that and found a way to manage my debt so that I didn't feel crushed by it (closed all credit cards, and took a loan on my 401k - paid it all off in 3 years). Started working remotely part-time and took the occasional day off. Little things help.
Interesting to Nestle there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott#The_baby_mi...

(thanks for posting)
The cynic in me says that it is because people are stupid. They don't understand what 'an internet' is and so the greedy corporations take advantage. And since there is virtually nothing in place to protect the citizens from this nonsense things will only get worse.
How much did Microsoft paid Nokia to feature Windows on its Phones?
Strange to find this on Hacker News, considering I was only discussing the EI programs with my entrepreneurship lecturer last week!
The March 11th deadline may be a bit too close at this stage, but I'm always willing to plot and scheme with Irish hackers!
I will shortly complete my business management degree, and as part of this I am consulting with a local online marketing/SEO firm. I've dabbled with learning programming to do my own startup, or maybe even starting my own marketing shop, but for the time being I have been lurking here for ages, absorbing all the business advice I can get my hands on.

If any Irish hackers want to have a chat, to let me know what you're working on, or need a business-head to compliment their hacking skills drop me a line (email in profile).
People who score lowest in skill rankings tend to overestimate their abilities
Perl is just a tool like anything else, and it gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with. It's a problem with the programmer if they can't use it wisely.
I'm surprised no font snob has brought up the lack of VAG Rounded yet.
...and where's BP? :-)
I feel for you. On the plus side, process improvements to prevent it from happening next time are exactly how you should respond to things like this.

One which has saved my bacon numerous times is investing a few hours into tweaking monitoring and alert systems. I hear PagerDuty exists to help with this. I use a bunch of scripts and bubblegum, and even that caught 10 of the last 12 big problems. Queuing systems dying has hosed me many times over the years, for example, and a borked deploy which causes that would have my phone ringing before I got my laptop closed.
Most people use sizeof when they are copying between static buffers on the stack. Strlen would be just as bad of an idea in this example because they're using the src buffer as the limit on the copy rather than the dst buffer which is still vulnerable to overflow. Should be:

strncpy(dst, src, sizeof(dst)-1);

Edit: bad code
Or you might want to put two of these monsters in Crossfire, if you feel the need to cackle maniacally. I'm happy with my 5770 myself.
The concept of having your "real identity" associated with comments is very similar to the recent issue with the gaming company Blizzard. There was an announcement a few months ago stating that a poster's full name would be displayed on the battle net forums (this was prior to the release of WoW Cataclysm and SC2).

There was an online petition and a massive cry of dissent from the users. There was even a moderator who tried to justify Blizzard's position by posting his real name and saying he "didn't care". Much of his personal life information was displayed and if I remember correctly he had to change his FaceBook account due to all the trolls.

Blizzard did not put this idea into effect.

Associating identities with views online can have massive repercussions regardless of how much "integrity" that person has. Trolls and stalkers would have an absolute field day due to the loss of anonymity.

And now, for some humor to wash down the pessimism, s/fb/blizzard or vice versa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgAkWxcPBE
If you are so sure that you can get a good job in the private sector, put out some feelers before you leave. Worst case scenario, no one interesting responds,you can work on an idea and foundation for a startup at work.

Personally, the people surrounding you should not be the reason why you are frustrated or enthused, it should be about the work. If the work is getting you down, talk to your manager about what you just said to us. I think you will find that he will be most interested in maintaining a capable individual and find many opportunities for you to do fascinating work, on a higher level.
Good to see that modern revision control systems are starting to gain on SVN.

EDIT: Removed incorrect statement about 63% stat.
Wow, I did not expect do wake up and achieve enlightenment today, but here I am. Thank you, magnificent, high-quality, content-filled article, if only we could have more of you!
That virtual keyboard trick wouldn't work in case the desktop/laptop is locked, though, that's a drawback.
That sounds rather inconvenient. Are the external elastic IPs non-routable internally? I mean, if you add the IPs explicitly to hosts files then will traffic to those IPs not work?
Probably not much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strlcpy#Criticism
The claim (P) was that "For all intents and purposes, people of age 16 are not much different from other adults except in that they don't have much experience in life," with the implication that (Q) "therefore they should be treated the same." If P, then Q. I'm saying P is not true. I did not say that !P is enough to say !Q.

While I personally have concluded !Q, there is more to it than what I have brought up - but that was not my purpose in the post. I wanted to point out a false statement because it was being used to conclude something.
"Post-PC device" is Newspeak for "Personal Digital Assistant."
I'd suggest you go on with your initial plan to build projects of your own. Projects that reflect your passion and at the same time provides you with a way to learn the technologies which you've never used before. This will challenge you a lot. The reason I think you wanted out is because of the notion that government work seems too bureaucratic and limiting. It is as if there is no environment that would cater to the people's drive for innovation and motivation.

As I have said, learn something first by doing something you have the passion outside your comfort zone. Challenge yourself. Once you feel confident that you got the chops for that technology, try to move on to a new zone where you think you could be challenged a lot.

I don't have an idea of your current financial status, but considering today's economy, I think you should weigh your options between leaving your current job right away or sticking with it and doing your side projects on your spare time.
I understand the premise behind Angel list, but with all of the literature, talks and emphasis on the team and the personality behind a venture, and knowing that the actual direction of a company can and does change quite often, doesn't Angel List mask those nuances in the investor-startup relationship? Understandably, the marketability of the venture is the ultimate way of making a return, but I guess I assumed that angel investors were also interested in an advisory role to assist an early stage startup that may not have worked out all of the kinks yet...But I guess if a coffee meeting is the "end" of Angel List, it is the beginning of that aforementioned relationship.
That's why strlcpy is safer than strncpy, it makes sure that the destination string will always be zero-terminated.
Also European market (though this is sales, not marketshare):

http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=pr...

Android Explodes in Western Europe, Drives Market Growth and Becomes the Biggest Smartphone Operating System in 4Q10, says IDC

Android growth was 1,580% year-on-year vs. Apple's 66%
The 63% refers to people who dont use code review tools, not people who dont use version control.
New Logo of Chromium
Accenture make the top 50? A lot of "business people" must be blind, stupid, lying or all three.
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My problem with a no fly zone is this: It will, in one way or another, have to be facilitated by the U.S., and therefore the U.S. will have to invade another Arab nation. I don't think the U.S. can afford this additional strain on their already dimly viewed foreign policy.
Those songs definitely weren't the top songs in 2009 (globally). Here's the billboard from 2009. http://www.billboard.com/charts-year-end/hot-100-songs?year=....
Adobe Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Converter, Codenamed Wallaby
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271421

Many, many comments there.
If anyone does something like this, I'd suggest supporting not just http://junk.launchpad.net/~jmillikin/ but also something like http://junk.launchpad.net/~~jmillikinpersonalwebsite.com/ , embedding other domain names in URLs for your service (with a policy of only permitting people to set up such double-tilde URLs in your service when they control the corresponding domain). Then to the extent that your service ever enjoys a success disaster where newbies naturally discover that all the mnemonic usernames like newman and whn and wnewman are already taken, you have relieved the pressure by providing a mechanism to delegate the unique name problem to the existing domain name system.
Find a pickup game anywhere in New York
> Annoying, but effective.

Until I read this and decide not to sign up in the first place.
Gee thanks for pointing that out. Now how am I supposed to ever watch a movie again without obsessing over this?
If you check out the relevant paragraph of the Directive itself (quoted below) you'll see that's just the BBC's rather odd interpretation. The Directive doesn't mention shopping cart cookies at all, but rather carves out an area of potential exemptions for information that is essential to the service the user is accessing.

The BBC's technology reporting veers wildly between the patronising, the embarrassing, and the just plain wrong. I think this is a stab at the former.
Too many open files using child_process…
Neo4j Spatial, Part1: Finding things close to other things
I've even seen levels where every few times the level loads, if you wait 10-20 seconds, some part of the structure falls over on its own.
You can always browse the "similar artists" section on individual artist's pages. There's a "similar songs" feature as well, but I've found it to be fairly weak.
As much as I treasure the image of sprinkling off magic startup pixie dust with every twitch of my shimmering wings, the hard-nosed metrics junkie in me notes that you can expect only a few hundred clickthroughs from the most popular links on my blog ever. Paras got a few more signups than that would suggest slightly because I banged down doors to give away VWO accounts to SEOs I knew but mostly because VWO is VWO's pixie dust: the product's quality and take on the space is disruptively better than what Google managed with infinite money.
Be sure to toss this app a vote if you'd like to see continued development/more cities!

full disc: This app is the work of a friend.
if it's only for 3 months, why wouldn't you just lie and say you're a tourist?
Lol. Wow. I guess I officially had burnout. Not surprising, really, since I knew it myself when I finally hit the wall (but not the lead up).

I'm an entrepreneur and I've been working at my startup for a year. I stopped exercising (partially due to a long term sports injury I was recovering from) and I was heads down on my project full time. After some cofounders didn't work out, I resolved to work harder.

Oh yeah did I mention I was having a kid and looking to move? ;P Sure ingredients for burnout.

I thought I could be Superman. I think adversity would only make me stronger. It did but it broke me down before it built me up.

It culminated with the move and then the kid. After we moved, I spent about a month not working, not reading TechCrunch, and removed myself from most hardcore tech activities. I spent it renovating the house for the kid. It was still stressful but my mind rested from the startup.

At this time I started exercising again. I was out of shape but my injury recovered enough to do sports again.

I then had my child. And while it was a new addition in my life that required a certain amount of time there was a certain (re)birth in my desire to restart/continue my startup.

Now I'm working harder than ever and motivated. Yes, it's tough and when I think about all the ways my startup can go down in a ball of flames (or a whimper) it gets stressful. But the other 90% of the time I'm really excited and can't wait to work more.

The ultimate lesson, as stated below, was balance. The startup ended up being a longer haul than I thought. Like Mark Suster says, you can't ignore health and family as those two things are things you can't get back once they've left. They also have a way of keeping personal morale up which helps you continue your arduous journey.

I'm working as hard as before but setting aside personal time without feeling guilty about it. I find myself happier and working more efficiently.
Sure you could use a scripting language, python has tkinter built in and 3d party bindings to all the major cross platform tool kits. Ruby is probably similarly capable. Is it a good idea? Depends on how heavy an app it is going to be. If it is just a rich interface to your web services it is probably a good idea. If it is going to be a heavier app that might need some native modules for performance I would be a little gun shy. The whole distribution and support chain would be new to me. At that point it might make more sense to do it in java.
That is 63% that don't do code reviews. I think it is put together oddly because I thought that as well at first but later in the description they talk about code reviews.
And, you'll be increasingly coming across Mercurial, since it's been adopted by Mozilla four years ago, by Google in 2009, and is preferred by Windows, Python, and Django developers. (89% of our respondents have heard of GitHub and 62% of its Mercurial sibling BitBucket.)

"Adopted by Google" here seems a bit disingenuous; they offer Mercurial as an option for developers that want to host their OSS projects with Google, it isn't as if Google's in-house source control has moved to Mercurial.
May someone well-versed in the dark art which is French elaborate more on this program? Is it open only to EU members? Would a startup without millions of capital might really be eligible?
I am sure SELINUX will block these kind of buffer overruns. Unfortunately most people are disabling SELINUX in their machines.
Ask HN:  How to do disk backup?
What are the better options for doing disk backup of a large PC up to a small Web server farm?

Some of the issues: Media, software, techniques, restoring, online, relational database, bootable drive partitions, full, incremental, disk to disk (all internal, on same computer or a different one), disk to removable media, speed.
Thanks!

Agreed, Picons are great.
Nguyen ly hoa thuy tien vang - Bai hoc ve long kien tri
Câu chuyện này cho chúng ta bài học về lòng kiên trì. Chúng ta thường đặt ra các mục tiêu để thực hiện, nhưng không phải ai cũng đủ kiên nhẫn để hoàn thành nó. Chúng ta nản lòng quá sớm. Nhưng nếu biết tin tưởng và kiên trì từng bước một thực hiện, chúng ta có thể thay đổi cuộc sống của mình. Và hơn nữa, khi nhận ra điều đó, hãy bắt tay ngay vào công việc của mình.
Entrepreneurial Funding is Not an Entitlement
While it's not fair to define a new generation of computing by its isolation and exclusion of the previous generation, people have been taking a pop at the iPad because a PC (or a Mac) is required before your iPad will work. At all. I'm pretty certain that the Apple II didn't need to be sync-ed up to a minicomputer via iTunes before you could turn the thing on.
My advice to you is... try as many small ideas out as you can, see what does earn a bit. It's not that hard to get something earning a couple dollars/day, just doing it again and again is the hard part.
Mubarak Loses Appeal to Keep Stolen Cash
Thank you very much for your review! All of your points will be addressed.
I don't understand .. explain?

EDIT: part of not understanding is I ran it in firefox 3.5 -- not good. works better in chrome.
Yeah, it's not the usual stuff for HN.

Thanks anyway.
E-Discovery not exactly a "breakthrough" (re: NYT 3/4/11)
Cinema Redux
I always wonder that with the fast past of innovation and the emphasis on being first to market to "win", so to speak, companies may not think of their responsibilities in society or if they even have any responsibilities to society. The movements in Libya and Egypt have noticeably demonstrated the immense impact and social good that services such as twitter or facebook can bring, yet the companies themselves are noticeably absent and are not proactive in promoting a commitment to free speech. Is there a role for corporate social responsibility in technology? Or is it possibly a hindrance to progress?
Hacker News Up Votes by Word (Yahoo Labs)
Bazaar is conspicuously missing. My guess is that "other" is mostly Bazaar.

Aside: would've been neat to see a "version control by OS" pie chart for GNU/Linux.
Fair play - I stand corrected.
GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life
>...allow a new population of non-expert users to use the product more cheaply and simply.

More cheaply? I would say you can get more powerful laptops/netbooks and desktops with more storage for less than $500.

There is so much hot air expended on essential meaningless PR terms such as this, especially when it comes to Apple.

All of this is just posturing for the media and general public and does not hold up to technical scrutiny more than the previous claim about the iPhone running the 'full OS X'.

I am more worried about the 30% tax on services that seems to tag along with the so called Post-PC devices.
nope, air has api available for reaading / writing files + other normal stuff a desktop app would be allowed to do
Immersion releases SDK to put haptics in Android
The idea for the popover is that it is a members only shopping site so you have to sign-in to continue shopping. That is why we did not include the Close (x) button. It needs to be refined, but that was the idea.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rule+110

Personally, mind == blown. That is awesome.
Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator
Let's adjust the figures to suit your additional facts:

EU Population: 500 Million

EU Population eligible to live & work in Ireland: 470 Million
All You Want to Know about Peterhouse Essay Competition
The Peterhouse essay competition is an excellent essay competition if you are thinking of attending college. As with all essay competitions there are rules and regulations which need to be considered. Understanding these rules will help students to know more about it.
I'd like a more complete description of this.

My first thought is "no it's not", because you are encoding a fixed-sized grid in the HTML, which is then the total extent of the program. While no real machine has an "infinite tape", I think requiring the tape be embedded in the program itself is strengthing things a little far.
Ron Rivest on the History Growth of Cryptography