skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They look at patterns. This is what VC does."

Yup, again, they don't have effective criteria.

"You have a content business." Wrong. You are misinformed.

"Also, if you conduct yourself in person like you do here that is probably another issue."

What I do here is fine. What PG wrote is a bit far from what VCs do, and I called BS.

Generally people want to suck up to the VCs and get all excited when they 'receive a round of funding'. No, what they did was just sell a huge chunk of their business and put themselves under the control of a VC Board under some really bad terms. I won't suck up to VCs.

Entrepreneurs, including in IT, and on HN, need simply to observe that the US, border to border, is just awash in entrepreneurs who start successful businesses on Main Street with no contact with VCs. The people I've seen in yacht clubs were mostly successful on Main Street, and there wasn't a penny of VC equity in sight.

My mention of a pizza shop is dead on the center of the target: Now a Web site serving a few dozen Web pages a second takes much less in capital equipment to get started than a pizza shop. And the Web site has some advantages, e.g., once the site is up, mostly just lean back and let the servers do the work, 24 x 7, and that beats the heck out of all the food handling, kitchen cleaning, floor washing, worker supervising, customer interactions, etc. at a pizza shop.

I and likely nearly all of us have neighbors in big truck, little truck businesses, fast food, gas stations, rental property, various trades, etc. They make it, buy houses and new cars, get their kids through college, etc. without a big failure rate and without VC. A Web site can be a better business, still.

Since on average, as reported by Mark Suster, VCs are not making much if any money, I have more respect as businessmen for a guy running a pizza shop, especially a guy running several, than I do for VCs.

For technical expertise, maybe in all the US a dozen IT VCs have some significant technical qualifications, and otherwise they would be at best just dead weight in an IT startup. So I can't respect VCs technically either. VCs commonly have a LOT of trouble handling their e-mail; NOT good. VCs commonly want others, lawyers, CEOs, bankers, etc., to 'filter' entrepreneurs for them; NOT good. VCs commonly assert that they have wide 'networks' -- mostly not among well qualified technical people! Nearly none of the VCs are anything like the people I respected in math and physics in school or like the people I respected, say, at Yorktown Heights.

VCs need entrepreneurs more than entrepreneurs need VCs. So, I'm not here to suck up to VCs. For what PG wrote, I call BS. So be it. There's nothing wrong with that. HN is for 'hackers' who should not be sucking up to VCs.
When Indie game development gets a black eye
Well, I think it would be useful to make a distinction. There are a few kinds of wealthy. Moderate wealth requires maintaining and wisdom. However, there comes a point where you have so much money you could spend like a fool for the rest of your life and never run out of money. I could see $100 million teetering around that point.
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Very nice, I like the clean design. One suggestion: auto-loading when you hit the bottom of the page.
Right, and of course most (if not all) of those app icons came after Apple announced MobileMe.

Apple released the first iPhone SDK beta on March 6, 2008. [1]

Apple announced MobileMe on June 9, 2008. Both MobileMe and the iPhone App Store launched on the same day, July 11, 2008. [2]

So there was a 3 month period in which some app developer could've independently come up with a cloud themed app icon identical to the one used in MobileMe. I doubt that happened, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_SDK#SDK_release_history

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileme#MobileMe
A Touch of Understanding
Well, yes, you wouldn't want to base a whole parser around this feature of the language. He was just saying that it gives read and show enough power to act like a simple parser. For full-fledged parsers in Haskell, you'd generally want to use Parsec, which is much more complicated and appears at first to be built entirely out of funny-looking combinatorial operators.
Four Kinds of Stuck
It sounds like he moved from Canada initially, which implies he is a Canadian citizen who can always move back and get universal health care if his health becomes a concern
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I totally agree. That's why I was interested to see if you had any ideas. I find this sort of thing interesting and while I've played with ideas in the past, I always come back to the standard patterns :)
Someone just has a very different relationship with "worry". As someone who's net worth is currently a tiny fraction $2mil, I will observe that the only times I have ever worried about my finances were when my net worth was negative AND I was unemployed.
(5+5*sqrt(5))/(5+5) .. 5 is everywhere!
Wikipedia defines retirement as follows:

Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely

Obviously not what the author of this article did. It seems that the author's goal was to get out of the IT industry. Why? Was he unhappy? Whatever the case, he seems much happier building houses. That's great!

Personally I love software development, and don't really want to do anything else. Sometimes, when the stress gets to me, I find myself imagining doing something else, but it's usually just a phase.

If you want to change your line of work, then by all means do it, but it's not retirement.
This guys have been working very hard and in less than 54 hours they have a pretty solid idea. Keep it up!
The trouble with "voting with your dollars" is that it doesn't, and can't, work.

When the vast majority of consumers simply consume without consideration of their own rights, there's no way for those of us with the wisdom to stand up for our own rights to gather the critical mass we need for "voting with our dollars" to be more than a blip on balance sheets. There simply aren't enough of us that are critically-minded to make a difference by simply not buying.

People are too accustomed to the status quo - consumers expect things to not work as they want them to. Their expectations of the norm must change before they will join us in rejection of the status quo.

The core of this problem comes from bad legislation. Until that changes, and until those laws are fixed, we can't even begin to set things right.

Simply avoiding bad products is not enough.
Sound Very Interesting, i want more info..
" most sophisticated piece of AI to ever to see the light of the consumer market"

Huh ? So no other consumer-facing product's AI can match a smart STT? Google Search, Kinect, handwriting recognition.. nothing ?
I can understand if this is a personal project that you'll eventually release for free, but the day you begin accepting/taking money you need to be more responsible.

In this day in age there are hundreds of options available whether it's backing up online, storing on an FTP, emailing it to yourself, or copying to CDs, DVDs, thumbdrives and storing it elsewhere (security notwithstanding). The last step would have even worked onsite because people are less likely to steal the little stuff like this.
The key thing for me was that he was able to clinch such big pay-rises. Not complaining or anything, but I wonder how universifiable the abilities/opportunities are which made that possible. He just mentions them almost in passing.
You Are What You Meme: What Maru the cat says about us.
Good idea, if game users don't see ads and I can monetize, I want to know more about it.
Partial application with a lisp syntax threw me for a loop, it looks weird.
I'm installing (among other things) backup systems. People simply don't backup, unless they've suffered an important data loss at some point. Sad state of the matter.
It's not salt but brine - water with a high concentration of salt. If put on land it would kill all plant life excepting a few highly salt tolerant species.
Time zone database has new home after lawsuit
Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

appear not to be on your interesting and informative site?

After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder why the listing wouldn't be exhaustive and perfectly ordered by karma. Please let us know what technical (and social) trade-offs you are encountering in this interesting project.
Lorax: a parallax scrolling library for web maps
plus you have to pump your own shit and piss regularly.

In every RV park I've seen, people normally use the shared facilities toilet and shower facilities. Same thing with live-aboard slips at marinas. It's more like living in a dormitory than a studio.
I think this may be kind of a question of definitions. Agda and Coq at least are more like DSLs for constructing proofs than general-purpose functional programming languages. I'm not familiar with Epigram, but assuming it's similar to the other two in the list, I think you're redefining his terms for him, which is a little bit unfair.
(disclosure, I work for Opscode.)

To be clear, those dependencies are required for running your own open source chef server.

You can use chef without the server, as chef-solo, or let Opscode run it for you in the form of Opscode Hosted Chef. We do make it easy to install Chef Server through Chef Solo itself, or with our Ubuntu/Debian apt repository.
I dimly recall trying to figure out how to make modern(ish) conveniences, like flashlights or televisions, under D&D rules. An imaginative person (i.e., not me) could probably use the "building technology on top of a magic-based world" theme as the basis for some good stories.

Of course, there's probably some corollary of Rule 34 for fictional world-building, meaning there's already thousands of books out there with this theme. If anybody knows of some well-written ones, I'd be interested in having some new (good) fiction to read.
alt + f will also skip the song you are on and play the next one.
I think this is assuming you don't work. If you exert any effort to support yourself, you are by definition working class.
Chef is becoming more declarative as it grows.

The main difference with Chef is that it has imperative structure (i.e. ruby-based scripting) to fall back on, whereas Puppet forces you to go out to a script if you want to be imperative.

In the long run, it's arguable that a strict declarative structure has more interesting properties when dealing with query of status & handling changes or drifts rather than "stamping out a server".

Puppet has been great for me to detect and correct drift, for example, all the while ensuring pre-requisites are executed in the proper order. The tradeoff is that you have to think through the various dependencies at a detailed level, which can be difficult. An extreme analogy would be programming with a logic language vs. an imperative language.

My experience has been Puppet is growing in popularity with enterprises, not just web companies, and it seems Puppet Labs is targeting this audience more than Opscode is, comparing customer lists. I'm not quite sure why this is - could be attitude - Chef is more about "get it done now", Puppet more about "get it right for the long haul", but even that is a caricature.
This technique is quite common for generic conversion from some low level serialization (like XML, JSON, binary, etc) to more high-level typed Haskell values. And this is certainly considered to be good practice.

The true value comes from the fact that it only works, as explained in the article, when the type of the return value is known. This makes it very hard to make mistakes.

I use this form of value based polymorphism a lot in practice and wouldn't consider it fragile. Especially in combination with generic programming it allows you to write (or even derive) very concise conversion functions that are very safe in use.
UNESCO E-platform domain got hacked by Fatal Error Crew
so, what are the criteria for the list? doesn't quite correlate with the leaders list. is it based on comment only score?
I only see the leaders link on the top bar when I am in the leaders page. There are other magic pages like new poll. Is there some comprehensive list?
IPhone 5 was Steve Jobs’ last big Apple project
Dear Successful People: Occupy Wall Street
Hat tip to Ian Griffiths who points out that the BBC Weather Service beat all of us to the iCloud icon, kind of...over 30 years ago. ;)

Except that BBC cloud icon looks nothing like the iCloud icon.
OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family
FWIW: I'm not sure I trust the listings: Living in Iran, nationality is Korean and the only language listed is English (and no gender specified). So I'm not sure that information is trustworthy. He/she might actually be American. I have a hard time believing someone is Korean (nationality, not ethnicity) and only speaks English and also lives in Iran but only speaks English. The hodgepodge of answers might indicate "I desire to protect my privacy" more than anything else. (And the writing sounds "American" in style to me. I didn't notice any expressions typical of, say, Brits or Aussies. Many foreigners who speak English as a second language speak/write British English rather than American English.)

And I suppose I found the post rather grating as well. I'm annoyed it got my goat. I wish I hadn't said certain things in some of my posts, regardless of what this individual's nationality turns out to be, presuming it can ever be realistically determined/verified.

Peace.
I find it interesting that people strive to retire from their work by living frugal (or cheap!). I have always enjoyed what I do and don't mind working till I am in my seventies if so allowed. I still save a large portion of my income and have a high net worth, accumulate little material possessions but still do not feel like a slave to the machine.
> the chief technology officer ... of a tech startup ... might own a golf membership or two at fancy clubs, costing $300,000 each

Really? This strikes me as rather implausible, and makes me doubt a lot of the other claims.
Germans Condemn Police Use of Spyware
IIRC, I read this (or something very similar) in Don Norman's book "The Invisible Computer".
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This presentation sumaries the capstones of design nicely.

One point I wildly disagree with: That design is not nearly half cultural pulse. To ignore the very real pull of culture, and to do your own take on it, is to build unsellable design. Moreover, customers hear this cultural leitmotif and respond because they get the reference. This is the true balance of great designers. Finding their part in the chorus.

Imagine we're talking about clothing design. It is a large formal event, a wedding or professional conference. Everyone wears the same thing out respect for the idea. If someone were to come in with a red tuxedo it may excite a few, but the last thing you'd call them was a creative visionary. Moreover, this event requires pants - and to not do so is bad news.
And, most likely, this guy is now going to have his life ruined.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
It was possible even before iOS 5 with "find my iPhone" from "mobile me" (tracking is free).
A lot of us are entrepreneurs or at least work in entrepreneurial settings. The banking system used to support us. Now it gets in the way. Posting here because I don't really know what my position is other than: do something.

Is it just that I want commercial and investment banks separated again? Or does it need to go deeper?
Taking the Training Wheels Off the Arduino
Why Nintendo makes Apple look lax: $2,000-10,000 and a physical office
California, tech, TV pay tribute to Steve Jobs
"You seem to mainly address universities, which were out of scope for this article. OECD PISA is measuring 15-year-old students. There is a huge difference in the level of teaching at compulsory schools and universities in Finland."

Actually the opposite. The university system follows pretty much the same paradigm of equality and fair quality. There really is no shitty universities (at least within the institutions which claim the label...) nor spectacular ones. You get average quality. The university rankings tend to have an apex-fallacy (we are only interested on the ones at top), whereas the primary-education studies focus on national averages.

E.g. US has some spectacular private primary education facilities and some amazing higher education. But the quality varies highly across institutions. Finland has a very few private schools and even the best ones do not really perform significantly better the worst ones. The same is apparent in higher education. You get about the same degree from any university willing to give the education.

And whereas I used to think like you guys on catering for the individuals and the talented: I'm no longer quite sure on how it should be done. I've seen a fair share of different systems and products of those systems - some of which claim to address the problem of the gifted better than others. Yeah, you could do better to give greater challenges for the gifted. But there are so much other good and useful stuff people-who-get-bored-in-math-class could be doing. If you got the capacity, usually you end up using it, despite on how you are instructed to behave. You could be doing vector-calculus on the first grade: or you could be assisting your friends with the standard calculus. You could qualify for deeper math in high-school, but you could also spend your extra-time with arts, philosophy, student activities or just living your life if you don't have to worry about your school performance.
I regularly use my ~20mw laser when teaching astronomy to my kids. It's really useful and travels so far in to the sky that it feels like you're 'touching' the stars.

There's no reason for a normal person to have a 300mw laser but banning it would be stupid. I'm sure there are civilian uses that don't involve downing aircraft or blinding people.
That might work for him running a small business. How do you think those images you 'just spin up' at a cloud provider are made? Who makes sure the boxes that run those images you've just brought up have power and run smoothly?
There's not really a line between parameters and values in Haskell. Static values can just be thought of as constant, zero-arity functions. The heart of this is, to me, more generally thought of as polymorphism on the return type.

Read is a great example of this working very well. It's, as you say, not really robust enough to work at the API or program level, but Show/Read provides a pretty quick, everywhere available serialization for many values. It's vital for debugging at the REPL.

Probably the most notorious example is the newbie-killer Regex library which uses polymorphic return types to dispatch what kind of result you want from your match, such as the match index or a list of group matches. It seems really clever since you just call the match function and affect whatever kind of pattern matching you want in order to pull values out, but it has always smelled to me since it's very hard to discover the functionality — the polymorphic return types aren't opaque, but are burdensome — and seems quite a bit too magical.

So I wouldn't personally go wild with return type polymorphism. It's obviously necessary in order to write things like filter, but unless the return type is simple and easily inferred by both compilers and people it can get hairy fast.
let's not call UMTS w/ HSPA+ 4G. let's call it ~3.75G.

4G LTE will use ODFM.
Maybe, but they were indigenous to the PCC version of the game: "pico" and "fermi" were responses indicating whether a digit (symbol) matched or not.
1. We are working on making the search more performance and use less memory.

2. Chef definitely does not discourage declarative configuration. Chef recipes include declarative resource for configuring your infrastructure. Since recipes are an internal ruby dsl, there may be nondeclarative code in them.

3. Chef itself doesn't have a remote trigger mechanism because the. Her run is all about configuring the local node. Nothing prevents you from using the ruby language in a recipe to hook up some kind of remote trigger though. People in the chef community are doing this with projects like Noah and Pylon.

Github.com/lusis/Noah
Github.com/fujin/pylon
Why is it so hard for people to understand that the iPhone 4S IS iPhone 5! The next iPhone will be the 6th one, if that's what they mean. There's zero chance the next one will be called iPhone 5.

It's annoying to see this everyday, and it speaks a lot about the state of the tech blogosphere, where most are just quick to copy each other rather than think for themselves. It's not even a hard concept to grasp.

It's even easier than the one where they also erroneously called the next iPhone after 3GS, the iPhone 4G, when AT&T didn't even announce a LTE network or even a faux "4G" one, and Apple never named their iPhones "2nd or 3rd gen". iPhone 2G and 3G were named that way because of their 2G and 3G connectivity.
Hi. Thanks for noticing. The reason is that standard Hacker News profiles don't have photos or real names. Therefore I focused on the 1000 Hacker News profiles that have such data (by stating their twitter profiles).

Notice that HNSearch API limits the amount of responses to 1000, but this has nothing to do with the current limit (you can hack this limit by sorting ascending and descending). But the limit was not reached, so I did not need to cheat.

Twitter profiles were focused as not many people mention their github/facebook/stackoverflow profiles.

The reason why the list is similar to the leaderboard is because data is sorted by who has the most karma.
Steve Jobs, Atari Employee Number 40
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 blocked from sale in Europe
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 blocked from sale in Europe
Meanwhile Apple seems to have moved to another competitor Slash gears Motorola and Apple have been drawn into a trial for months,
Yes, but those procedures will become increasingly automated and each sysadmin will manage orders of magnitude greater number of servers.
I'm not completely sure that I agree. While this might be great for small startups, once you get past the growth of needing more than a few dozen servers, your cloud and other computing costs are going to be exponentially higher than what they would if you had actually purchased the hardware from your favorite hardware vendor, hired a competent sysadmin, and managed the hardware (and storage/network) in-house.

Currently, at $DAYJOB, our database is growing by about 1GB/day, and our storage is growing about 4GB/day -- in a downward housing market. If/when the housing market kicks up, I expect to see those double, if not triple. Having someone in house who can keep the right people informed of the risk (of running out of space, of buying the wrong equipment) who is focused on keeping of the needs of the company balanced with the needs of the software is critical -- do you honestly think your cloud provider cares if your customers can't access their data during an outage? If you're a small fish...probably not...

EDIT: Spelling/grammar change.
and when she's pissed at you, you look like a clown at work? :D
I wrote about that it the previous post, see her http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2011/10/puppet-vs-chef-fi...
Early Retirement by Philip Greenspun in February 2006.