skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most important aspect of a web product business is to actually build it. (build, test/feedback, ducktape) As the business-oriented guy you have to do whatever it takes to get this idea into v1.0, whatever it takes!

You need to be sprinting at this idea with all the passion and energy you have, focusing on implementing it. Spend time to learn how to hack, learn to read code, even if you never contribute a line to the project. You will learn a lot in the first 50-100 hours or so. GIJOE - "trying is half the battle", which is what attracts hackers. "the other half is actually doing it"... where they come in.

With the idea that implementing v1.0 of the idea as fast as possible and getting it out into the marketplace, you need to get the best programmer you can in your environment. This person does not need to be a founder, but it should be someone you can sit down with face-to-face or over facetime/skype if need be. A rockstar hacker will not join your team right off the bat (unless you are really lucky or went to elementary school with her). After getting v1.0 out the door you can market the shit out of it using your business knowhow, this is very important. If you are a marketing/business rockstar you will attract good hackers because you can pull your weight getting people to use the fucking product.

A great way to find great hackers is to be in an area where programming is only one part of their life. You don't have to be in SV to start a startup. Attract people that also like rock climbing (in my case) and make a connection on that level. Use local talent, most of the rockstar hackers come from towns from across the US and world and end up in SV.

I was in your position and I just kept marketing myself and the business idea. Last year one of my ideas was voted the TOP 10 MOST POPULAR in the GE Ecomagination challenge out of over 5,000 worldwide (top 0.02%). This is marketing my marketing. The hackers I work with are great at hacking and their ears perk up when I can demonstrate I can market the fuck out of something and get users.

my $0.02.
Skype sold at $8.5 bn to Microsoft
I'd be interested in a link to that benchmark if you have it.

I assumed that you're talking about http://ziutek.github.com/web_bench/, but that makes no mention of PyPy (other than a HN comment that PyPy takes 2x the memory) and Go comes out on top in that benchmark.

Either way, when saying Go is faster, I wasn't talking specifically about it's http library or io system (I assume both are similar in speed to Pythons). I more meant that if you're going to be writing custom CPU-intensive code to run on App Engine, assuming the same algorithm, Go should be faster. It has better constant factors, and it gives you better control over allocation.

I don't know PyPy well enough to say in what situations it outperforms Go (especially considering that I don't know what kind of VM warm-up you can expect on App Engine), but since GAE doesn't run PyPy, it's not relevant to the discussion of Python v Go on App Engine.
We ourselves are "told" what to desire. Our genes gives us drives to eat, procreate, survive, etc. We could potentially program an intelligent being that had no self preservation instinct and had an utmost reverence for human life.
Off-topic. Reddit fodder.
Minification still offers a substantial savings. The following file size stats are from jquery 1.6.0 just now pulled from google's urls:

Uncompressed (normal:minified) 232651:90518

Gzip -6 (normal:minified) 66778:31610

Gzip -1 (normal:minified): 81986:36633

gzip -9 only saves a few hundred bytes on each vs default compression level of 6.

bzip2 and xz do not achieve dramatic reductions of the readable jquery code either; the normal:minified ratio is slightly improved, but is still approx. 2:1.
repoleved is unwinding all of your work with a single messageboard comment?
Our Senate testimony on protecting Android users’ privacy
Michael Ossman gives a great presentation on exactly that:

http://www.shmoocon.org/speakers#ubertooth
http://www.shmoocon.org/2011/videos/Ossmann-Bluetooth.m4v

The project page is here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/ubertooth-one-a...
The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
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Don't mention other offers - it looks like you are selling your loyalty, rather than asking to be paid what you are worth. Just present your data on being underpaid and ask for a raise.

If your dream job comes through, just tell them it's your dream job and move on.
Why would you want to know Morse code?
It heaps on a lot of theoretical musing without providing either empirical evidence of practical relevance or providing a theoretical guarantee along the lines of "as long as the model is within delta of [something intuitively verifiable] it will have [useful property] with p>1-epsilon."

For what you're trying to do, there is a relatively solid baseline, namely doing something trivial to first-order logic (e.g. assigning a dimension to each Herbrand formula or ground term or whatever) and e.g. turn generalized quantifiers into tensors (with some mathematical plumbing required). This would allow you to reuse model-theoretic semantics with a serving of tensors and vector spaces on top, and it would do at least those things that generalized quantifiers can do. You could then argue empirically for some kind of finite-dimensional approximation to that, or expose neat theoretical properties from a formal viewpoint.

As is, you don't do any of that. It's more or less like going into a hardware store, getting some pipe and toilet bowls and making an abstract sculpture without ever talking about the house for which you want to provide the plumbing.
"Much easier to eyeball 1/3 when it's laid out in a rectangle as opposed to a circle."

Maybe for you, but certainly not for me, and I'm guessing most bakers would agree with me. Bakers are used to circles because of pies. I can eyeball a third of a circle, but I'd have trouble eyeballing a third of a rectangle that I couldn't fold.

Further, the baker often works by feel, so an exact is not needed in these circumstances.

"Did you just call the set of symbols evolved by mathematicians for thousands of years mindless?"

Perhaps a better word would have been arbitrary, but there's no fundamental reason we pick y=mx+b. Y, M, X, and B are picked arbitrarily, and we do pick them without questioning whether these are optimal for initial learning.

I grokked math as a kid, but it was precisely because I was able to make the leap that the language of math was arbitrary and substitutable while other kids were stuck not understanding the meaning.
In Chrome 12.0.742.30, I get this error in my console,

> NaCl module proxy failed: could not initialize module.
It's become pretty popular these days to devalue asian immigrant culture, but most of the commentary misses the point. The intro piece to the article states exactly the facts that "Tiger Moms" are concerned about: Asians are more educated and make more money on average.

Asian parenting is about downside management. Yeah your kid might not end up a top CEO, but he's also less likely to end up as a plumber. There are worse things than ending up in middle management at IBM making six figures...

Also, as someone who went through the whole "asian education treadmill", I'll make two observations:

1) The point about Stuyvesant is dead-on. My high school was also a public magnet school and the culture was the same way: the people at the top were both pretty and smart. However, the take-away isn't really what what the author makes it out to be. The popular white kids weren't gunning any less hard than the asian kids. They socialized then went home and studied just as hard. The problem isn't that asian parents emphasize hard work in lieu of socialization, it's that they just emphasize hard work, largely b/c coming from a different culture socialization isn't something they can really help their kids with.

2) The PWC example is also dead on, but again, the takeaway is different than what the other concludes. In a law, accounting, financial firm, you don't get pigeon-holed for being a hard worker. The white guy who makes partner (or managing director or whatever) works every bit as hard as the asian guy, but plays the politics on top of that. Being "too good for bitch work" is a sure way to get yourself fired at a law firm or an investment bank. At the same time, schmoozing with a partner to get better assignments is absolutely not at odds with working hard and being the guy who can get things done.

These articles consistently manage to misunderstand both asian culture and american culture. Succeeding in America does not require rejecting asian work ethic. Americans work as hard as anyone. That high school football star has a dad who pushes him to practice just as hard as any "Tiger Mom" would. Succeeding in America does require a forthrightness and social perceptiveness that many asians choose not to develop, but that is absolutely not at odds with an asian upbringing.
All indications are that Honeycomb was a rush job in an ill-advised attempt to beat the iPad 2 to market. There's probably a large amount of refactoring needed to support phones, and of course there will be new functionality as well.
The thing with Quirky is that they're still gatekeepers. I've got to go through some pretty significant game mechanics. What would be useful is self-serve small run manufacturing. Or a lendingtree.com model for manufacturing, where you have a prototype and manufacturers bid on the project.
Poll: Want to live in a hacker house / co-op?
I live in Berkeley and have some money to invest in an income property (preferably a house with 8+ bedrooms).

I think it will be a big plus to my investment if I can also turn it into a hacker house where coders and founders would live and work together.

For meals, we can get bulk order groceries, which saves a lot of time and money (I currently have this setup and swear by it).

The rent here is around $600-800 per room (a lot cheaper than San Francisco). A food plan is around $140 per month (healthy food too).

I just want to get a straw poll to see where would be a good place for such a house. I appreciate other suggestions too.
Yes, in San Francisco.
Yes, in Berkeley / East Bay (cheaper rent).
Yes, in Silicon Valley.
Yes, in North Bay.
Only if I can ... (leave a suggestion in the comments).
I also need help finding a remote job
So I saw the other posting and decided I should post something, as I also need help finding a remote job.

What I do:

I'm a *nix systems administrator (14 years of experience now) who worked for the past five years at sphere.com. Been through an acquisition and all that. I've lived for the past 4 years inside puppet's DSL automating services in puppet rather than in perl or python.

What I've done

Scaled sphere to almost 200 servers; saved us additional ops hires by implementing config management early (10 minutes from box delivery to operational); and saved something like $1.2M over 4 years in additional webserver costs by implementing varnish cache and tuning it to get an 82% hit rate.

What people say about me:

“Mike joined Sphere as one of its earliest employees, right before our first public beta launch. Mike has an impressive grasp of a wide range of technologies and keeps abreast of new developments. His constant drive to optimize kept Sphere running smoothly and cost-effectively during that first beta and throughout the many subsequent product launches and steep growth.”

“Mike joined Sphere during the early startup days as one of the first full-time employees. He juggled activities spanning a wide spectrum of system administration tasks. Mike impressed early on with a high degree of dedication, essentially responding to emails or phone calls at almost any time of the day, while maintaining a can-do, problem-solving attitude. He made significant contributions to our success.”

“I worked very closely with Mike at Sphere, designing our production infrastructure and stepping back to let him run with it. Despite our steep growth and continuous development strategy, Mike was always on top of our needs. His attention to detail, willingness to tackle any challenge, and aggressive pursuit of better solutions not only saved us many times, but laid a solid foundation for the company's success.”

Why I need remote:

I live on a farm in rural Oregon, about an hour out of portland. I'll commute there if I have to, but I would rather give the commute time to my family.

Why I'm looking now:

Sphere was just spun out of AOL over to a new place, and they had four SAs already, and I'm nearly done with the transition assistance. I've been looking for remote gigs, but haven't had luck finding opportunities. In the mean time, I've been doing a bit of outside extra consulting to keep the skills sharp.

I'll happily send a resume out if requested.

Thanks!
It's nice to see that a journalism degree is universally applicable.

What you describe is basically an inverse pyramid news article.

Hook
Lead
Background
News

Putting it into 5 sentences is where the art comes in...
New UI, new app framework, all those Android at home API's (I think, if they're not in Honeycomb 3.1 already).
More continuous deployment with Bamboo 3.1
I'm here just to cause a 25% increase in the number of comments in this thread.
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They still have a free version though, which is probably $9/mo worth of service that you get for free, so you can ramp up under that umbrella.
I bought a Mazdaspeed 3 on the recommendation of some people here a couple of years ago, and I love it. I actually prefer it over the other 2 "fun" cars I had before - a BMW 330i and a Nissan 350z.

FWD does take a little getting used to though.
Hidden Jewel Of A Down Economy: Exit Alliances
Yeah I know they have Zune subscription, I should have clarified that, but that's why I think Netflix would fit with them well. Having music+movies and giving a discount for the more services you bundle like Comcast/AT&T's double/triple play deals.
10 handy jQuery mobile tips and snippets to get you started
As with any new technology, getting started is often the hardest part. With this frustration in mind, we have put together some of my handiest tips, tricks and code snippets related to the jQuery Mobile library.
Mad Men are watching you (Innovation in online advertising)
As someone in the comments on the article pointed out, oxygenaccelerator.com is scraping the top link on Hacker News, so they're actually linking to this article on their homepage. Hilarious.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/GCYCG.jpg
You can use a rel:nofollow link. Then search engines won't take it into account.
فساتين زفاف 2011
> I suspect the vast majority of people wouldn't kill someone even if it benefited them and they knew they would never get caught.

I wasn't referring to individualized, but rather to large-scale violence. And, having read a bit about history, I must disagree. The extreme enthusiasm that is sometimes displayed in regards to wars (e.g., in the initial stages of the US Civil War and of WW1) shows that we are more than capable of wishing, and striving for, the death of out-group members.

The main reason that large-scale wars have been avoided for the last 65 years has been exactly consequentialist: the wiser among us have learned the bitter lessons of our bloody past. As the Milgram experiment (not to talk about the experience of conscript mass armies) has shown, the vast majority of people are more than capable of killing someone.
My apprehension of the top tabs—about, guides, docs, community, and blog—leading to completely different themes (a la "we updated the front page, but didn't get around to the rest of the site") was completely alleviated. Nice work!
anyone who thinks he knows exactly what he's told all his programs to do hasn't programmed much.
Your comments (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530234) are repetitive, devoid of real content and so don't add much to discussion.

If you believe that this submission should not appear here, feel free to flag it.
I wonder how it'll work with regard to the "phones have the four hardware buttons, tablets don't" thing.

Also: in the Apple world, many apps look/work very differently between their iPhone and iPad versions. Can anybody say anything about what guidance is given as far as when an Android app should "switch"? In other words: suppose I make an app that runs great on my 3.5" phone, then I make a more tablety version of the app that runs great on my 10" tablet... which version should run on a 5" or 7" screen?
I install pretty much nothing on my Android phone any longer. I wouldn't trust some binaries from a random site on the internet offering software, why trust the Android Market? On a desktop OS, would you browse through awesomefreesoftware.example.com and install anything that caught your eye? No... so, why would I do that on my phone? Google doesn't appear to do any sort of quality control other than perhaps responding to reports. Clearly Apple's method, while onerous in many ways, has advantages.
Y Combinator Accepts Record 60+ New Startups For Summer 2011
Nerdify the world, and the women will follow
in cases like this, i always tell people to write like a news article: open with your conclusion!

nobody wants to read through as you try to explain all the reasons for your conclusion. if you can't draw them in in the first line, you've lost them
They need to do more. Not having to think about updates at all on iOS devices is absolutely huge for adoption. My mom doesn't care about "Gingerbread" or "Honeycomb." She just wants something that she understands and won't confuse her later. Right now, the only mobile platform that will handle that elegantly is iOS.

Google still has a long way to go if this is all they've got to announce.
GitHub Mylyn connector for Eclipse
> It's possible to emulate every aspect of an organic brain. It's also pointless (unless you intend to become immortal through backups)

it may turn out to be easier than writing an intelligence directly. uploading requires only sufficient capacity and scanning resolution, writing an AI from scratch requires new insights.
Google App Engine Now Supports Go Programming Language
I really liked Griffiths. I thought it had struck a great balance between explanations, mathematics, and examples. That book had great examples and homework questions, which I find the most useful anyway.
Basing a whole argument upon the extensive use of the term human will not do much good, unless it's very carefully defined first. What exactly do you mean when you say AI won't be human? After all, a mere 70 years ago the ability to play chess, for example, was considered a quintessentially human attribute.
I'm having a hard time understanding why they want the money back if they're taking so much equity. If the company is at all successful the 6% equity will be worth wayyy more than £20,000. If the company fails they get nothing, not even the loan repayment.

I suppose it protects them against so-called "lifestyle businesses" that never have a big exit.
Why I (Actually) Want to Shadow David McClure
It's compelling, but it feels like catchup.

And I can't see why Google didn't go farther. Whatever Apple's rebranded MobileMe turns out to be, it's almost certainly going to be more ambitious than Google and Amazon's services. Google has to know that. I just don't see why they didn't really act on it.
Bitcoin prices have a tendency to plummet, too. After they passed the $4 mark for the first time, the price dropped precipitously, as people began to worry about a bubble. I expect the same thing to happen now that the price has passed the $5 mark. (In fact, as of this writing, the price has already dropped from a high of $5.2 down to $4.95.) There are a lot of weird psychological factors at play here. Another issue is that the trading volume is far to small to see anything like a "real" price. There only seem to be a few thousand people buying and selling Bitcoins right now, and the majority of those Bitcoins are held by an even smaller group. Until millions of people start using Bitcoins, the exchange rates are based on the psychology of a tiny, tiny mob. This results in totally insane spreads like today, with $3.8 at the low end and $5.2 at the high end.

But here's the Catch-22: As more people start using Bitcoins, they become inherently more valuable. This causes the price to increase, bringing enormous, sudden profits to people trading on the Mt. Gox exchange. The new Bitcoin owners see this happen, and naturally get in the trading game themselves, since it looks like a great way to get rich quick. This drives the price even higher, bringing more attention to Bitcoin, bringing in more users, &c., &c. And so Bitcoins wind up being used for speculation more than as a medium of exchange.

The only way I could see this cycle breaking is if some merchant emerges that provides an attractive reason to spend Bitcoins on a large scale, instead of just trading them back and forth. The obvious use case (to me) is online gambling: An online casino or poker room that started accepting Bitcoins could then bring in U.S. players without risking prosecution for money laundering, since there is no bank intermediary they have to work with, and no way for them to know which customers are from the U.S. and which are from countries where online gaming is perfectly legal. Until a big institutional merchant gets in the game, Bitcoins are just going to be like baseball cards or Beanie Babies or tulips circa 1636.
Phone makers are slow to release upgrades because it takes resources to test and modify new Android releases (many of them are modifying the UI for a differentiated experience).

I don't see any reason why the likes of Samsung, Motorola, HTC would go through the trouble of releasing an update just for a couple of customers, ignoring the rest.
Balance the two.

Be direct in your requests, include enough details (pick the right ones!), say thank you, and cut out everything else.
SproutCore Launches Major Redesign
I'm not talking about open source or beta programs. What is VUPEN getting out of giving the fruits of their research to Google for free? They would receive neither more affordable software nor earlier access.

The 100% unhackable browser and OS... how much does it cost? I think the turnaround time is going to be infinite. I'm not sure what you're saying.

These companies have employees, who have a nice situation with a financial exchange of value. Let them do their own work. If I'm going to do something their employees should be doing, they're free to hire me or pay me as a consultant.
I am surprised they managed to get the loan via the Small Firms Enterprise Loan Guarentee scheme. I don't know any web based business that has succeeded yet, most bank managers authorise the loan as the guarantor provided you have enough equity yet in experience lack little web experience and equity in a property.

I am citing from previous experience, when pitching a travel startup to a Natwest 'business' manager his response when I expressed a point about Expedia was.. "who are they?". Enough said.
His first accumulate misses what is to me the most obvious way:

(defun accumulate-f (n)
(let* ((end (list (next)))
(n (1- n))
(start end))
(dotimes (_ n start)
(rplacd end (cons (next) nil))
(setq end (cdr end)))))
Sorry if it wasn't clear. To my understanding, "pushing the envelope" means just going a little bit further than anyone else has gone before. You obviously have a different definition.
People don't seem to be getting the point. If I knew where the submitters of links like this were, I'd pay them a visit with a 2×4.

I stopped reading Reddit because of noise like this. I get lectured by pedantic HN guideline-quoters a lot; getting lectured for improperly objecting to guideline-violating content is a new one.
Why Yieldbot chose Cascalog over Pig for Hadoop processing