skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a fellow founder, I experience the ups-and-downs of the start-up roller coaster everyday. One of my favorite quotes from Founders at Work comes from Joe Kraus, one of the creators of Excite:

“The hardest part in a startup is that you wake up one morning and you feel great about the day, and you think, “We’re kicking ass.” And then you wake up the next morning and you think “We’re dead.” And literally nothing’s changed. You haven’t made some big deal, you haven’t sold something new. Maybe you wrote a few lines of code over the course of that last day. Maybe you had some conversations with people, but nothing’s really moved. It’s completely irrational, but it’s exactly what you go through.”

It's easy to let yourself get down in the dumps by what other people say. One bad though of defeatism can ruin you entire day. It's also easy to combat it in a few small ways:

- Commit code everyday - If you do this, you'll see your small gains adding up, have a record of what you've learned, and everyday feel like you've made at least some progress. Even if it's a small change (changing a color on a button you've been looking at for weeks), nothing makes you feel better than commit and deploying code.

- Find a great cofounder - If you're serious about starting a new start-up (or just learning more in general), find someone to go into battle with you. You'll feel off each other's energy in a ying-yang sort of way. When you're bummed, their natural tendency will be to protect you and pump you up. When s/he is bummed, you'll do the same.

Find a rock - Not many people talk about rock's as a necessary part of starting a company. To me, a rock is someone who you trust greatly, is a good listener, and is removed from the business. It can be boy/girlfriend, husband/wife, friend, mentor, practically anyone. The key to a good rock is they are objective, a good listener, and won't even judge you.

Just start - There's nothing like finding out whether you should go on the journey than to take a few steps and see how you feel.

If jumping back on the start-up roller coaster is what you want, then enjoy the ride.
Very true - this is what old WML based devices use to do - WML got compiled to WBXML or WMLC (depending on who wrote the docs :), and that got sent to the device, making much easier to handle parsing for the device. There were really big speed ups both computing wise - but (especially in those days) also transport.

I don't know how Amazon is doing it with Silk, but I'm guessing they're seeing enough of a speed up to make it worthwhile.
You are crazy rich. You have millions to burn on some VC. You have an idea for software that is actually legitimately useful and world changing. Screw a startup. Just start an open source project. Changes the world, makes people's lives better, creates an organization of lasting value, isn't a startup.

Why do all these commenters seem to think you need a for profit company in order to make things? The Internet is nothing but billions of things that have been made for free in people's spare time. I want nothing more than infinite spare time to make whatever I please as I please as I relax in a tropical paradise with the people I care about. Startups are the opposite of that.
So very happy to see forward progress being made on this, I'm not really a fan of the way the code folding works right now, but I imagine in due time, it will get to the point where pointing and clicking on the actual UI will get folding/unfolding to toggle instead of having to use a menu selection.

Also, are there any plans for intellisense stuff ... for javascript/html etc at some point?
In these days of 30" monitors with ridiculous resolutions, you may want to use a lot more than 999em.
One of those pairs seems backwards.
Used to live in Ottawa, still love the place. Where's this?
Two Guys on Mobile - Episode 27: Amazon's Fire and Silk + GigaOm's Mobilize
There's a few sites out there where people share their ideas to be judged. There's also the "weekend project" sites if you're looking for someone actively working on their site. There's also exactly what you did here, talking to fellow HNers!

Personally, I find all of it interesting (tech, business, politics), but have no tech expertise, and would like to learn more of the hustle.
Embracing "The Friend Zone": Dating without dating in the year 201X...
Sorry. I've read your comment a couple of times and am unable to make any sense of it. Win32 is a (dated, clunky) API for writing GUIs (in part). "OS-layer" is babble in this context.

And yeah, i would stop signing your posts - it comes across as conceited somehow; like each comment is a big deal.
Right now I have a hobbled together iPhone meet car stereo set up.

I was just thinking I want Spotify in my car and the ability to talk to my car to play any track (Ford already has cars you speak to start listening to iPod music).

When Spotify or another has created this feature/service then it's worth the $10 per month. Until then I'm using my hobbled system to listen to tracks on YouTube and Vevo for free (Pandora too which lately has tons and tons more commercials then it did in 2009 and 2010).
Here's what I wonder, though - how often do people watch movies at home on a 7" screen? Don't they have a better (larger) option? The reason I ask is with no 3G and only 8GB of storage, the Fire doesn't strike me as being all that great for watching movies on the go.
Apparently, aerobic exercise has been shown to have a positive effect on mental performance:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/what-sort-of-exerci...

I don't know of any studies showing that anaerobic (e.g. weight lifting) can have a similar effect.

My ideal workout regimen would incorporate both. My actual regimen is just going for a 10 minute walk then coming back to read HN. Damn you HN, why are you so interesting!
Of course they're wildly successful: they're selling a number of copies they otherwise wouldn't and make a good chunk of change for the devs and for charity. But that doesn't mean I can't be sad at the low averages as well.
NSA Gives Scholarships to Breed Future Cyber Warriors
What exactly is the advantage of this vs http over sctp?
Opening physical Amazon stores would trigger a sales tax requirement in every state where it operates, regardless of whether or not Amazon is able to negotiate a federal override of the state right to collect taxes on e-commerce.
Other -- and this is important. Lack of connections and willingness to use people is something worth considering. I know a lot of people, but not a fan of nepotism. However, I wouldn't mind someone believing in me, but would never ask. So I've heard, your first startup isn't really about the idea. It's about "you" or your character. That does not preclude me from building something. I just rather assume it's a project until certain milestones have been reached.
The Toughest Little Bird You've Never Heard Of : Krulwich Wonders...
If you are not worried about strain and injuries you are not doing this for very long.
I'm surprised the number isn't zero. From the Google strategic point of view this device is not Android.
Not really a "bundle" when you just have one game. I hope that the Humble Bundle people don't make a habit of this, the inconsistency will diminish their brand significantly imo.
The post suggests the name DeviceReady, not DeviceBridge.

Though as a commenter pointed out, the deviceready.com domain is already taken.
Allow me to share a dirty secret. If your startup makes a product that customers actually use, there will be maintenance.
Seems like a waste to me, especially since he's in the same city (DC). I am down at Affinity Lab (coworking space) and it only costs $325/month compared to his 1000$/month on coffee. Plus the internet works, you get to know a bunch of people, has more facilities than a coffee shop and it's definitely comfortable enough to leave your stuff. I've left my stuff for hours unattended and never worried about it.
I do agree that the risk is very minimal if I had asked someone to look after my stuff, however I could not risk loosing the data on my laptop (loosing the laptop itself is not a big deal). And yes, I used Dropbox to backup most of the important stuff.
It astounds me the number of people who are here with no idea for a startup. Are you guys hackers, hustlers, "idea people", or am I missing a contingency?

Mind blowing.
I'm not on YC for the startup talk, though I find it interesting now and then. I come here because it has links to thoughtful tech articles; I started reading YC when people from Digg started to flood into Reddit.

OTOH maybe I am involved in doing a startup - just not the kind of startup YC talks about all the time. I'm an artist who spends most of her time hanging around her studio (or occasionally out in a coffee shop with the laptop) drawing weird sci-fi comics and trying to build a large enough audience to make a sustainable living off of my art. Somewhere way down the line there's the big brass ring of "movie deals" but I ain't holding my breath.
Kindle Fire, and the tricky business of chasing scoops
Extending "Windows 8" apps to the cloud with SkyDrive
The antidote to coffee shops in Silicon Valley is Mountain View's Hacker Dojo. Drop-ins welcome.
Marco Arment on the new Kindles
Mac OS X is a kind of Unix.
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is ‘hardly an iPad killer’
I think it makes perfect sense.
Especially when you take into account, that anyone can do 6 months of strength training but doing it forever all your life without pause is quite hard at least for me.
That really depends on what you're using your laptop for. For some people it can.
The point I was making is that what Marx believed is called Marxism and not socialism. They differ in a number of ways.

1.One is the Marxism is derived from the Hegelian German tradition of a dialectical view of social change.

2.Marxism argues that socialism is a possible, but not necessary step between capitalism and marxism. The more revolutionary the more likely this step should be avoided.

3. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism and notice how they use socialism and in what context. They use it in opposition of Marxism and Communism.
Yes, yes, yes. I almost always click on the cached link, because the highlighted search terms allow me to find what I'm looking for so much more quickly. This fundamentally changes the way I use the web. Thanks a lot, google :(
Indeed. It is extremely annoying to have my arrow keys hijacked for no apparent reason. I know how to scroll a page and click on links, thank you very much. I tend to look through a page before scrolling, and use the arrows to scroll down and reveal more stuff.
Use the up and down keys to page through the results. When a result is highlighted, you can press the right key to show the preview.
>why are such people coding in C now?

Everyone who learns C starts somewhere, and its not like people don't have to learn C anymore.
> The Fire will be the first successful Android tablet

I think credit for this should actually go to the Nook Color. Anecdotally, I actually know more Nook owners than iPad owners.
Other.

I don't know what this would fall under, but I have a full-time job and also sell things that I write/build on the side. It's not a startup. I sell tutorials and apps and make pretty good money (I could quit my job, but my job is a lot of fun) from it. It's odd that this build-products-and-make-money-on-the-side avenue is skipped over in these and other discussions.
Might be nice if the map didn't hide part of the world (Australia, New Zealand etc)
what was the startup you sold and to whom? just curious
And ADB is already an acronym for Google's "Android Debug Bridge" utility.
What would you suggest, Nick?
I'm kind of annoyed by it as well but I've learned to click on the top left logo every once in a while and start over from page 1.

So it seems like there's some real UX concerns expressed below re: auto redirect to homepage w/o sufficient error messaging. One solution would be to render the error message on the top of the homepage "Sorry, articles expired like milk so we brought you back to the homepage for fresh articles.".

I would actually prefer an infinite list of stories with stories moving up and down in a clean AJAX'ed way based on live votes so at any given time you are seeing the most up to date list of articles.
I have this concern also. I'm imagining the really ideal use cases - chilling out at a coffee shop, waiting for a flight, etc... and all of the above have shaky/low-bandwidth WiFi at best. Really, it's only at home where you're likely to get the amount of bandwidth necessary to stream a movie at acceptable quality.
Public library + mifi
Amazon Kindle Fire: First Impressions [video]
I've failed at marketing 2 games, and then formed a company with other people, one of whom knows a few things about marketing.

The key is to do something that makes you stand out. For the big players, it's easy enough to do by throwing your weight around. For the small players, you have to look for a hack; something that nobody else is doing. Something crazy that makes people look up from their humdrum lives and take notice and say "hey, cool!".

Marketing is a continual task that never ends. Unless you manage to capture the mythical "virality" (which 99.9% of products don't), your sales will always be tied to your continued marketing effort.
>Nobody wants to give me money because they know that as soon as the check clears I'll be out the door never to be seen again.

vs.

>Most are just doing some advertising, social nonsense, crappy games, or something else completely trivial and useless as a money-grab.

>But I would only make things I cared about, at my own pace, and for free.

vs.

>Also, anythign I did build would be something that would make the world a better place.

It's like you waver between taking a self serving "Take-the-money-and-run" attitude and complaints that others are in business solely for greed.

I don't know if I'm more blown away by that, or your cynicism toward startups. Ideas that are trivial and useless are not going to make money. However, ideas that YOU find trivial and useless could very well make money.

I think it's important to consider the viewpoints of others and perhaps while Farmville brings no joy to your life, it doesn't mean it can't be a fun and rewarding experience to someone else.
Measuring/parametrizing vocabulary richness [and a python implementation]
It takes for granted that people understand, for instance, what's a filesystem and how it is basically organized. I don't think it'd be very useful for a beginner.
Yes, I did see videos of rooted nook, and you could use android apps to view PDFs, but the problem with that is, of course, rooting the device.

I think Kindle 3 is better for PDFs than the Nook Touch, because you can zoom in. It is clunky, but at least you can do it. On the Nook you can only change font sizes, and that reflows the PDF and messes everything up.

The solution, as I see it, since they have a touch screen is to implement something similar to ezPDF, which is my favourite PDF reader for Android. Just a double tap on a section, and it'll zoom exactly on the section of text you want to read. You don't have to fiddle with fixed zoom settings and clunky movement to try and fit the viewport to include the portion you want to see.

Of course, they probably aren't interested in doing this at all, since they'd be very happy if you only read books bought at their store.

PS. The Kindle DX is probably the best for PDFs, but its price and size are big downpoints.
Amazon Kindle extinguishes the fire of learning
Yes, I'm far more interested in Silk. It's a caching layer over the entire web. That is nuts. I'd love to know more about the internals of it. Do they only grab static files or is their some dynamic content caching? What's the threshold of requests before moving a page/site into Silk? Is there a way to opt out of using it if you have privacy concerns (sending every one of your requests through their system first will be a big issue for a lot of people). This may not seem that groundbreaking since Opera has already done this, but Amazon seem to be doing it on a much grander scale.
movingahead's comment started with "From a student point of view...", and that was the area I was discussing.
As much as I've come to enjoy and appreciate the various start-ups whose mantra was "We're Heroku with Python/Django capabilities", it will be interesting to see which of those survive the next 8-12 months now that Heroku officially supports that stack.

It'd be a shame to see ep.io and Gondor go the way of the dodo bird, but what sets them apart now?
I'll point out that if everyone took the leap then you would have no one to hire as your business grew. Not everyone can be the founder just like not everyone can be the CEO. As someone who has started companies and worked for others I can tell you that both can be fulfilling.
I would STRONGLY recommend AGAINST bouldering to start, because of the HIGH likelihood of injury from falling.

If you are not used to taking impacts from jumping from high places (e.g., typical sedentary person), you will almost certainly sustain a severe injury.

Broken and dislocated ankles and ligament ruptures are alarmingly common. Dislocations are especially bad, because the ankle's blood supply isn't great to begin with, so a severe dislocation is like yanking a plug out of the wall; if the blood supply doesn't happen to get re-established (which even microsurgery can't do anything about), you are looking at avascular necrosis. Imagine a dead coral reef crumbling away.

It's even worse in climbing shoes because your toes are crammed together -- imagine landing on your fist.

Rock-climbing (roped) gives your feet and ankles time to strengthen as you support your weight on tiny toe-holds, which is a slow process because ligaments and tendons have poor blood supplies compared to muscles.

Looking at elite climbers bouldering is like looking at elite gymnasts -- you don't see all the ones who got seriously injured along the way. You see them taking 20-foot highball drops and think, how bad can 10 feet be? Or 5 feet?

Even a drop of a few feet can result in a severe injury if your foot isn't flat; when you are jumping off backward onto a lumpy bouldering pad, if your foot lands inverted slightly, the impact can force it inward 90 degrees.

This probably happens twice a week at popular climbing gyms with bouldering areas.
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Well at $199 with that kind of integrated experience there is little room for complaints! ($300 would be a different story.) Plus it supports Flash and most Android games/apps from Amazon app store.

If people put up a better email client on Amazon store for decent price it would be even better. For someone who already has Prime but no tablet - this is a no brainer.

Thinking of all this - I think this will eat into the iPad sales. There are going to be many people buying this instead of the iPad - price, weight, integration etc. Q4 iPad sales would be worth watching.

The new Kindles also seem to be blazing the new trail - high quality low price. $79 is just an awesome price and so is $99 for the touch Kindle. (Bezos took a jab at Apple in two ways - cabled sync/backup and companies that work hard to make customers pay more vs. companies that work hard to make customers pay less!)
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True ... misunderstanding isn't quite what I was trying to convey. When I read Marco's original accusation, it was pretty obvious that they hadn't just scraped the whole article. If you were intent on stealing it, why not take the whole thing? But I was confused by the lack of attribution.

I was more interested in commenting on their reply ... and I agree that it was overly long for what they conveyed. It could have been a lot shorter if they hadn't spent so much time trying to make Marco look like the one who was in the wrong. And I still don't believe he was ... whether or not he knew what he was looking at.

The other thing that struck me was that their technical solution sounded a bit hacked. Perhaps their developers are ham-stringed by poor architectural decisions. If not, then the article made them sound either incompetent or lazy.
I use an Ipad2 and I use it to read books and as a planner. But a tablet for $200 that can do the same?, I don't see why this wouldn't be a hit with people that don't care about details.
$ ls

app.py,requirements.txt,Procfile

$ git init

$ git add .

$ git commit -m "Init"

$ heroku create --stack cedar

$ git push heroku master

With that Heroku becomes the Heroku for Django.
Could someone help with the syntax on line 24:

g&&R(a)

I simply don't understand it as a statement and I don't get in the context of the for-loop
As previously discussed, SCTP does not pass through home NATs and thus effectively cannot be used on the Internet. Also, SPDY has very effective HTTP header compression.

Edit: I forgot to mention that neither Windows nor OS X include SCTP. (Unless you want Chrome to install kernel modules.)
It's a great incentive to pay more than average but it's nothing new. The 2nd bundle already included the 1st one if you paid more than average.
Source: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/12/Your-Humble-Bundle-just-doub...
I read Kelly's article and I get the new balance (and sketchers, wtf?) aspect. However, I have some of the best tattoos ever seen before coupled with nice boots and expensive tailored skinny jeans + a t-shirt. I call this my Power Uniform. This has taken me pretty far also. Regarding girls vs. work re: dresscode - girls would much rather fuck a dude wearing my Power Uniform than Your Suit. I don't need lady advice, but most developers reading that article might need more than a wardrobe makeover.
How not to do a captcha
Not a bad idea! Thanks for the suggestion.
Besides... "All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux."

Not completely true in my experience (Fedora 64bits) with previous bundle. I guess Linux support it's less important, and 3D makes everything more complicated :(
For those of you running chrome, browse to chrome://net-internals/#spdy in order to check out the SPDY connections currently open in your browser (probably at least gmail for most here.)
How is Amazon responsible for the fact that your government chooses to impose import duties? For that matter, why didn't somebody in Europe start Amazon? Could it have anything to do with the high cost of doing business there? I think your complaints are misdirected.
This is spot on. All-in-one devices inevitably have to make compromises on features, price, quality, or battery life, which make them less good at any particular thing. This is also why I think Paul Graham is overestimating how much special-purpose devices will be replaced by tablets.

People who actually care about photography won't be happy with a cellphone camera. Book readers probably won't. Mobile game consoles might, but it's not a given. Apple still sold 7.5 million iPods in Q3 2011.
SSL MITM FTW.
That's a $30 discount _upfront_. How long until Amazon makes that $30 back? Amazon is not forcing you to purchase the ad based one, but it _is_ an option. If that option is worth $30 to the purchaser then fantastic, they just got the Kindle for less.

No story here, just a whole bunch of FUD in which the author feels entitled to the Kindle at $79.99 without the ads.
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Functionally Inept Developer Survival Guide
"Functionally Inept Developer – a Developer who by all outward facing means gets their work done, however does so at the expense of code quality and robustness with little to no regard for the rest of the development team." -- Some tricks I've used to survive working with these types