skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really. Really? Running a business has nothing to do with...um...running a business? No, no it's not radically different. Only in the minds of those who have no idea what's involved with business, MBA programs, or what the definition of entrepreneur is outside of these articles begging you to buy books, and web services, and promising that if you sit in your mommy's basement long enough putting up $10 web sites you will be a billionaire. Only with people who can't take ideas and education and use them as the springboard for something great, but instead can only get by regurgitating the thoughts of those who have actually been there and taken the time to know WHY things are the way they are and WHY those things have to change and WHAT has to change because of it.

First, there are many many things wrong with Mr. Blank's deck at slideshare. Not the least of which is that only start ups are scalable and agile. That b-plans are static. Maybe in the "old days" when he was cutting his teeth. When education was unobtainable. When companies ran by the rules of companies like GM and Chrysler. I assure you, whatever you know of a company externally, or from some grunt, is not what is going on internally in the C-Suite.

Second, there is such a diluted idea of what entrepreneurship is. As I said, it's not sitting in mommy's basement knocking out crappy, templated websites hoping one hits. To be an entrepreneur you have to have skin in the game. Entrepreneurship's definition includes the word "risk". Registering an $8 domain and putting up an app using the free service level Google App Engine doesn't carry any inherent risk. Putting your house up to grab a loan, hiring staff and remembering that if you fail, these people have no jobs. People with families to feed. Having nothing much to fall back on. This involves RISK. It might be stupid to do, but it can force you to make more calculated decisions.

And finally remember that people like Mr. Blank and the older VC/Startup/Entrepreneur set usually cut their teeth at larger companies, or in the presence of those with degrees in business, accounting, finance. This is mostly where they learned the trade second hand. As many old timers did. This is where they learned how to balance books, the basics of marketing, the rules of finance, that they used to forge paths in their futures.

And as some background to me, I started a company with a friend 17 years ago, grew that company into a multi-million dollar firm with several divisions. I ran one division of the company with around 25 ftes. I ran that place for 12 years before finally going for my MBA, and then moving on to work at a large healthcare organization.
Well, you see, this is where you are wrong. Playing victim is a mechanism that has certainly won its place in today's struggle for power in the Western civilization. Guaranteed results! Even better when you have real disadvantage on your side. Some people have made it into careers, entire new markets, and stable revenue streams. White guilt is a studied sociological phenomena for a reason, after all.

If you refuse to use it, I salute you.
I like the thinking that go into efforts such as this, but like other commenters I do on occasion end up wondering about the fragmentation that this leads to. That worry noted, the thinking is the important point and CoffeeKup is very cool.
Do you mean to reinforce that the language is not
beginner-friendly, or are you really asserting that
makes the language poorly-designed?

I was seeking to account to ramidarigaz why his CS classmates didn't understand pointers.

I think poor grammar is poor design - i.e. part of the type affects both variables (int), the other part doesn't (star).

The other issue is use of star to in one place to mean create reference, in others to mean dereference. That was the focus of my first post.

from a design perspective that may simply be a
tradeoff for some other advantage.

I've yet to see evidence of any. What sort of things were you thinking about?
I suspect that happens a lot more often in movies than in the real world. In the real world you have to figure out if you will be able to make a living off your passion, raise a family in the near future, save some money and tend after your parents in their last years (depending on your culture YMMV).

Of course, every once in a while you hear about somebody who did exactly that and it worked out for them. It that an exception or the norm?
There are arrays. C defines types. When you declare a variable as an array of int, C knows that variable is of type "array of int" and treats that differently than if it had been declared as "array of pointers to int" or "array of char" or "pointer to array of pointers to pointers to int".

I spent many years believing it when people made exactly the assertion you have(see my other posts on this article), but it wasn't until I tried to build a C compiler myself how wrong it is to think of arrays this way. Yes, C gives you the power to reference memory in a more or less arbitrary way. That does not mean that the arrays you declare are not arrays.
A parallel, multithreaded MySQL optimizer
You could probably get away with just:

Message, Name, E-mail
I'm even younger to give out advice, but why not try talking to your superiors and finding a compromise? If they don't see the value in keeping a senior engineer instead of a bored manager, then go find something else :)
I don't think many people try.
It's not unusual for me to browse the web from my wife's iPad. An email link doesn't work for me in that it requires me to use her account.

For a while I didn't have email set up on my iPhone, but I'd still often surf the web. Again, I'd be out of luck with only an email link.

What about website visitors at public terminals like the library?

Without forms you're adding email as a dependency on the device to initiate contact.

As always, the likelihood of those use cases is dependent on the audience of the site, but I think a contact form should be available in most cases as a last resort.

(Personally, I prefer a simple contact form in most cases. It keeps me on the page without the delay of opening the mail client or the potential distraction therein.)
You only live once, don't be bored, ever.
His point is that even if you face your destiny in the best possible way (to put it in your terms), if your destiny does not include Harvard professors that move to the World Bank, there won't be any articles in the New Yorker about you.
I love CoffeeScript but I don't understand this. HTML / HAML / SHPAML are document languages. CoffeeScript is a programming language.

An element that contains another element isn't a function. I don't see any reason to make it one.

If you want a templating language, why not use one, rather than having an unnecessary 'space dash greater than' to indicate elements are contained within each other?
Having a family to support certainly makes things more difficult, but if you're unnattached I believe you can just go after what you want. You'll survive.
Ask HN: I'm looking for a self-managing bookmarking service
Hi, I'm currently using Google Chrome bookmarks which sync themselves over multiple machines. They are not ideal because they are too much work to maintain and search through properly.

I would like a browser integrated way of managing bookmarks, without having to worry about creating folders or meaningful names but still finding stuff with fuzzy search terms.
I continue to "lose" a lot of interesting bookmarks, and I have to delete a lot of the lesser ones because they would clutter my folders even more.

Example: Switching from a big game development project to a web project. My bookmark folder is now riddled with stuff that pertains only to game development.
Managing this mess, tidying up folder and sorting them is very inefficient and also error prone in search.

I do not want my bookmarks to be publicly shared, which seems to be the default for all the web based services out there. Adding a bookmark has to be as simple as clicking a button in Chrome, just like I do now.
The bookmarks have to be cached locally, I absolutely do not want to wait a few seconds each time I open my bookmarks browser like I'd have to with Google Bookmarks. (: not the same as Google Chrome bookmarks!)

Why am I asking?
Just now, I was again looking for a css framework (something with "super simple fluid grid layout" or similar in the name). I know I saved it somewhere, but I can't find it anymore. It has classes like .threecol .fullpage
I'm pondering that but the current situation in Europe (I'm European but don't work in the EU) worries me that I might not be able to find a job one year down the line.

Are there any engineers out there that did a complete career shift and went into the medical field or law? For some reason that tempts me but soot it might be too late to make that change.
Maybe comic books and graphic novels, like Watchmen? Just as people subscribe to RSS feeds for news, I don't see why in theory people wouldn't subscribe to a a novel that releases new chapters via some syndication method.
This is why I'm going to setup my own mail server. I don't want to wake up some days and find out that all my emails where deleted or locked because of any stupid or not stupid reason. Emails are quite important. They hold very important/confidential information. Your email is also the key to remember forgotten passwords, your conversations with clients, and many other things.

I have purchased the cheapest Linode VPS for this particular reason. I tried Live Mail (the Windows Application) with IMAP and it's really cool. The editor is also better than the Gmail one. I'll miss some features, but it's okay.

Seriously, if you don't want to get hurt, get a VPS or a dedicated. It's not expensive. You host your emails, websites, repositories and everything. You do scheduled backups to Amazon S3 and you are just fine.

I'm going to write about how awesome a dedicated server is, once I complete setting up my server and create my blog.
It is a bit of a mind game, yes. I don't think it's healthy to do things because someone else might admire it or think it's right. But I think it's fine to aspire to be like others who embody your own principles and values more effectively or faithfully than you do at the moment. That kind of emulation is healthy.
Looks fantastic.

With the traction Coffeescript is getting I wouldn't be surprised to see it eventually execute directly inside v8 or similar, bypassing the javascript compilation altogether.
Actually, I was originally of the same opinion, but then I read some lecture slides from Simon PJ. He has suggested that laziness was perhaps not the best default. It is hard to reason about space leaks with laziness. Likewise for typeclasses being inferior to ML functors.

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/%7Egmh/appsem-slides/peytonjones.pp...

I personally disagree. I'm pretty sure laziness has made it much easier for me to try out an idea. If it works, then I'll test that I didn't space leak. The notion of it almost makes me feel dirty. ;-) :-P
Punishment? Since when is fulfilling your basic voluntary agreements "punishment"?
You can get a room here for about $4 - $5 per day. This doesn't include utilities but if you only run a fan and go without cable and internet then utilities won't be much. You can also get meals here for $1 / day.

There are other costs that you can't forget. Transportation can easily cost you another $1 / day unless you walk everywhere. There are places where you can get free wifi but if you can't do that then an internet cafe will charge 40 cents per hour. The killer is the visa, which runs approx $60 / month.

I didn't say you couldn't do it. I said you would be barely squeaking by. For some that is okay (easy even) but for me it's difficult. I have tried to live on that budget and it's not fun. We might call it backpacking, others call it poverty. ;)

Maybe at first you can take this as a personal challenge to live cheap. In my experience that eventually wears thin and you sort of bounce back to wanting a decent life again. I suppose that's the point where it became not fun for me. Fortunately, I didn't have to keep living like that, I simply quit taking it easy and did more work.

However, point taken. You can live very cheap if you choose to, and that gives people an idea of where the bottom would be for a foreign visitor (many Filipino's live on far less.)
Google has opportunity to oppose Huddle's application for trademark
Permission denied: /.htaccess pcfg_openfile: Unable to check htaccess file
You may get following error while browsing your site:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
That might be a little on the difficult side for a 10-year-old to set up.
Sounds charming, but I'd say money is better invested on a business that will make a difference. NGOs have a lot of overhead.

Plus you're investing your time too, so it's double the effort.
Curious that Apache call it "Google Wave", if it's no longer part of Google. (Or is it?)
Not sure that's contradictory to my point about the backend storage. The overall points in the article are correct but its note about how MySQL stores its DATETIMEs is strange, and I'd hate to make people think MySQL is a bad database because of incorrect information, instead of things like the lack of transactional DDL.
rephrase - un-necessary abstration.
In Brazil every kid knows how to lie the date of birth in order to create an Orkut account.
Dancing Stars in Flash without ActionScript
In this Flash tutorial you will learn about Movie Clips, working on Guided Layers, use of Tweening Properties, working on different layers. So we will be making Dancing stars using a single star and without using Actionscript. Hopefully it will be having a lot knowledge for you to learn Flash.
Think very hard before enrolling in a 4 year (?!) diploma course at age 20... you will likely end up twice as lost at the end as when you start :)

My recommendation is spend those four years working in as many different fields as you can get your foot in the door. Just try a dozen things in two years. Guarantee you will have a much broader view of what is possible than holding a diploma. Plus, you'll get paid for doing it. PLUS, you'll meet (and build relationships) with a lot more people. Particularly if you aren't good at just striking up a friendship, working alongside people is a great way to get to know them.

Your milage may vary.
No not really. What's really going on is that A has been declared as an array of 16 ints, while aa has been declared as a pointer to int. Those are different types, and C treats them differently sometimes (but not all times).
It would be an interesting public relations decision if Google did decide to oppose it.
You need lots of patience for such a shift, esp. with medicine; think twice about it. You sure you can't find another discipline? On the other hand, it's never too late (me i started a PhD in neuroscience at 29). I would definately not worry about finding a job in IT in a year.
I sort of like the idea, but think I'd rather just have a CoffeeScript version of EJS. It's hell on my shift key but I still _like_ HTML as it is, after all these years.
It's not exactly sudden, you know. We're not using punch-cards anymore, for example. I've haven't done much debugging, since Haml/Sass/Coffeescript write better HTML/CSS/Javascript than I do, but you can always look at the compiled code if you need to.
A pattern I've observed (for a few guys who've gone through YC) is that they pitch a larger vision, but the process and/or Graham team leads them to implement only a stepping stone to that vision, at least as a first release.
It boggles the mind that this was actually implemented. Some poor schmuck had to sit there and write the code to delete little kid's emails.
The problem with exuberant cries--otherwise gratifyingly progressive--to import this tactic into the US is the implication that such policies can be transplanted hermetically, in an acontextual (and perhaps ahistorical) way.

The feasibility of successfully recasting habitual hard drug use as a medical problem would, in reality, depend on a huge constellation of other independent features of socioeconomic policy and culture. I think these features are not present here as they are there, or in the necessary proportion.

For one, without a government healthcare sector and universal coverage, a question will immediately arise in the US that does not arise quite so readily or with such urgency in Portugal: "Who is going to pay for these addicts' treatment?"

I think that's just one example. There are many other things about the somewhat more raw and brutal existence in America as a mentally ill--or otherwise chronically ill--person that might yield unsuccessful, or at least orthogonal results.
I love ipython - if you still use log statements to debug things, you should give ipdb (a mashup of pdb and ipython) a go.

Just:

import ipdb

ipdb.set_trace()

And you can now inspect and change any part of your code, right in the middle of your app. This includes prototyping variou fixes to your bug. I wish it was a standard part of Python, it's truly awesome.
Intriguing story, but more detail would be nice here.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection—Butler Lampson

...except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.—David Wheeler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer
I like to use start of epoch - 1970-01-01
Video Backgrounds
While that might be the answer for you, it's not a usable solution for me and I guess for most people. Having my mail available from everywhere is an important feature. I guess I could set up my own webmail, but I'll be hard pressed to find something that matches the quality of gmail. Oh well, it's not like RMS didn't warn us ...
try pinboard.in, it's great.

Maybe a little different than what you were asking for but I think you'll like it.
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Do not ever do this with outlook.com. A college I do work for setup student e-mail through outlook.com (the edu services were pretty good). One of the students put the current year her birthday. The admin account for the domain then became her "parent" and had to approve all e-mails. To fix this requires calling customer support and getting bitched out by someone from another country (I am not kidding). It was very frustrating.
The poor sales of the Linux EeePCs really only applied in the US: EU sales were 50/50 with no particular returns bias between the two if my memory of Asus' statements at the time is correct. Perhaps there was some difference in the marketing / choice of sales channels between the US and EU that led to the difference?
Well. You go do what you want. But you should ensure that you don't come back with your hands empty.

For example, you take one year off to study and experiment with JavaScript. You waste one year and burn all your expenses and makes no money but you made something amazing (let's say a popular JavaScript library).

Since you come back after that one year and your hand are not empty, you should probably find a good job at a nice company or startup.
But COPPA is a US law. There's no reason to enforce it on a kid who lives near Amsterdam.
well, for a start read the Big Kahuna epilogue, simple with a touch of humor http://www.makemagic.gr/node/312
It is not only a matter of law but also a matter of law enforcement.
i cannot wait
Ask HN: Braintree (payments gateway) alternative for startups outside the US?
Braintree is an excellent solution for American companies. We want to introduce paid accounts for our (currently low-volume) web app. Does anyone know what we can use, other than Paypal?
Angry Birds movie takes flight. You've got to be kidding me.
Well, this is awkward. (Check u/n)
I am unable to claim responsibility for this :)
weird that they are using a .org domain for a commercial service
Google is a pretty large and technically savvy advertising company that does search and a bunch of other things.

If energy costs are eating into their bottom line and they have the cash, why shouldn't they invest into new energy tech.
Seems like a good business decision to me
I did spend 10 minutes looking for more back-story but none to be found. I’m guessing the original chatter about this would have been on ESA intranet groups rather than out in the open…
Okay. You can cross the street and have an accident and be handicapped for the rest of your life. You can't make sure of anything. You can estimate the probability of happenings. That's what makes you feel sure.

Do you have a family? If not, go pursue your dreams. I'm dropping Medical studies to do... well...freelancing on the side and coding stuff. No clear idea, but I like to start something (a small project/SaaS) and get busy with it.

I only can say one thing, I learned hopefully after not so long time (I'm 20): Stop doing Shit! Go and do something you like. Period.
QTP Tutorials
While I appreciate the comment (I'm a fan of that essay too), I think you should read it in full, as written by Mary Schmich: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen
You may want to take a look at eliterature.org, for some ideas. I think there is something to be said that visual and interactive novels make up about 70% of game titles released in Japan.

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

An IF novel should do quite well as a mobile App. I've been taking a few stabs in the dark lately, adapting Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" into an IF piece, but haven't had much luck, really.
Iceland considers prescription-only cigarettes
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Making The NATO Phonetic Alphabet Work For You
I think this can only really be done safely with an addon/plugin.
Yes. Unless his father did it for him, this needs lot of technical knowledge. However, I'm targeting the HN audience with my comment.
I'd ask which country you are in? And what kind of red tape do you face for your taxes?
I think the video is really interesting but it seems strange that it is highly edited and sliced together? Whenever I see something so hacked together I question the context that some of the message was cut out to benefit someones agenda
Voilà: https://github.com/sstephenson/eco
My Facebook "friends" don't need to know my birthday if I haven't told them. And I don't give a rat's ass about them wishing me happy birthday on there either.
to this day I have yet to see any major UI problems -- and I have used Wave alot in real collaboration situations. It has worked excellently for just that, collaboration. Only thing missing is a gTalk chat window/which the original Etherpad has so I will probably move to that as a wave replacement.
Poland - not sure what do you ask me about with that red tape...?
apache can't read the .htaccess file. Why is this on here?
The Book Depository are great (free worldwide delivery!), often cheaper than Amazon. A shame to see them go.
Your son joined a service he wasn't supposed to, then joined an adjacent service that still requires an invite and that triggered a mechanism that kicked him out and he gets upset, you evidently don't think it's your fault for not reading the TOS and not being familiar with the american COPPA law and you think it's Google's fault.

Congratulations on proving that link-baiting works very well even on HN.
Interesting. I'll have a more thorough nose around that later. Cheers!
Do you have a medical background?
Dev tools or just for Linux? Asked both ways...

1. Qt Creator (currently supplied by Nokia).
2. Ye Olde Command Line.
3. Visual Studio (only for Windows, natch)
Looks really cool. This would be an amazing tablet app for children. +1 if there's a voice over option. Although it seems a LOT of work to put together.