skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it's not all bad - otherwise I would've high-tailed it out of here already. I feel that SF is a city of extremes - on the bad side, it gets really fucked up. But on the good side, there are things here that you won't find anywhere else.

As impendia brings up elsewhere in the thread, there are a lot of world-class people here, in startups and otherwise. I'm a part-time photographer on the side, and I've been able to find a lot more creative, ambitious, and talented people here than anywhere else I've been.

Though I wish I could get to these places/people without wading through the cesspool that is the rest of the city. SF is a city where you can attend an art show opening by incredible artists... but have to walk through crackstab-row to get there. You can learn dance from world-class instructors... but have to step over a few prone, immobile bodies lying on the sidewalk. There are unique shops you won't find anywhere else... and you'll be accosted by deranged crackheads the whole way. You can enjoy great, sunny year-round weather in the park... just watch out for the needles in the grass.

It really is a city of extremes. Personally, I'm not moving out of here anytime soon - though I would wish that people stop wearing obvious problems like a badge of pride. No, it's not cool that you live on a street where people get raped all the time. No, it's not cool that you have 5 crackheads hanging out downstairs blocking your building's entrance every morning. In other cities people would see these things as problems. In SF it's "ohhhhh it's just SF! Reminds me of how lucky I am to be here!".

The standard response to bringing any of these impolite topics up is either:

- hur hur. You're obviously not cut out for city-living (right, because I've lived in more major cities than most people have in their lives...)

- Well, I've never seen any of this! (unless you stay in the very furthest reaches of the Richmond or Outer Sunset, yes, yes you have).
> Riak -> Actually a key/value store with link walking, you can just write map reduce for that document oriented feel! Again I won't bother writing a map-reduce job just to fetch out document with particular values.

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/

Quite apt.
I would write the check right now if this was passed into law. Plus I already paid the US the tax on earning the $100k net (ie more like $150k)

Also, this is what it costs just to get an E2 visa right now.
On Jean Bittingham: "She’s an author and an academic. Of course. She has no idea what life is like running a startup, so she thinks it’s a good idea to tell other women to do that while she writes books."

That's how it's always been. There are the talkers (they're usually the academics as well) and then there are the doers-the ones that don't scream their opinion every chance they get, but if you ask them for advice they'll be full of real world experience to share with you. This article does raise a lot of good points though. I usually ignore posts with opinionated titles, but I'm glad I read this one.
I like Patton Oswalt and also Chris Rock, but both have gotten schtickier as time has gone on.

The same undercurrent of respect for comedy- as- craft runs through Patton Oswalt's stuff though, which even if that doesn't automatically make him Bill Hicks, I still very much enjoy hearing about.

Louis CK is also excellent live; if you're seeing him live in a given year, you're basically guaranteed to be getting an entirely new show.
What?

That's nonsense - look at the hours of merchandise promotion across dozens of channels. Toys is billions of dollars per year.
PG, there're a LOT of REALLY severe PC mods here on HN.

Looks like HN is a safe zone for all media BS, no matter how bad.
This is in part my motivation for http://hubski.com, which is a sharing-based aggregator. I think that news that comes with crowd-sourced analysis is infinitely more valuable than the MSM formula, and that's where aggregators shine. However, curation is something that doesn't crowd-source as well. IMHO curation gets stale if it's completely crowd-sourced, but it also gets stale if it's left up to the individual. The solution I'm trying is to allow users to put their curation in the hands of a group of select people. It's easy to see who is contributing what, and if someone isn't providing value, you swap them for someone else. -You basically build a curation group.
For men, the startup legend is one they would like to fulfill

Ah, but why do you think that is? It's not the really legend they are chasing, for the most part. Men are competitive, driven to be successful, make lots of money, and driven to take risks because women reward decisive, winning, wealthy, successful risk-taking men with more attention than losers and boring, predictable guys. This drive to succeed is partly biological (higher testosterone, for example) and partly social conditioning reinforced by the behavior of the women they have known in their life.

In contrast, men aren't especially attracted to success. It's not unattractive, but they care more about beauty and personality. Most women know this, which is probably one reason why people turn to outside "empowerment" and other paternalistic encouragement and positive reinforcement to affect female behavior. Meanwhile, women are choosing fields and careers that interest them, like psychology, biology, and education, or that will result in a high-status profession like law or medicine.

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, evidence points to women caring about male attention and caring about having children and a family.

[women] are also capable of building...

I think that by now it is more or less conclusively proven that women are capable of a great deal. Humans are highly adaptable and throughout history both men and women did whatever they could to survive and raise their children. The question is what do women really want? What will make them happy?
Twinkle, twinkle electric star
What part of Austin are you living in? There is great public transit here, and the city is very pedestrian and biker friendly. I know many many people who don't own cars in Austin. If you're driving everywhere all the time, perhaps that is a lifestyle choice you made.
Genuinely speaking the following works for me:

Calendar: A moleskine. Based on the amount of times I haven't had access to "the cloud" or my phone is DOA (less of an issue now I've downgraded to a Nokia 6303), this has saved my ass over and over.

Contact management: My phone SIM in my Nokia 6303.
Perhaps - I'm on OSX. Tried it in Chrome on the same system and it works fine, so it's definitely an OSX/Firefox issue. Ping me here if you make changes and need someone to retest...
> Could you hold off on the calling me petty, snarky and passive-aggressive

Well, I read it as petty, snarky, and passive-aggressive...

> and just explain which part of my two sentence summary was "incorrect"?

See, that's it. You could just say "My summary was accurate" if you thought so - but it wasn't. You're getting caught up in trivial details, and leaving the biggest parts out. And then you say, "Show me what's not true!!"

Again, it's just not a good style. You could do better.
Too late for what? It's a programming language, not a racehorse.

Dylan offers something very different from the languages you mentioned; even Clojure, a fellow Lisp, rejects OOP while Dylan embraces it. There's definitely room for Dylan in the language landscape.
In this discussion startup = hi-tech/software/web. But if you step back and think profit making business, women are not under-represented. An article linked to in the original post says that 44% of all business are partially ow wholly women owned. If you include part-time profit making business, I suspect most are women owned.

Some anecdotal data points from my family: my ex runs a daycare that provides her a nice income. My older daughter works for her but has a side business making tutus for babies, which is an absurdly small business. She says it gives her something to do while she watches television and pays for her Starbucks addiction. However, it is real. She had to learn all about selling internationally. My sister is a traveling consultant in theater costume design. My partner is an artist.

I have done several startups. My son started a hardware startup and his share of the exit was in the high 6 figures. Our startups were hi-tech, but overall we were outnumbered by the women.
ah, there's the missing piece of information. Now I got it, thanks.
It's hardly a surprise that people don't know how Copyright law works. People don't understand any major aspect of our legal systems. The rules are so incredibly complicated that even lawyers who specialize in these areas may not understand them and may even disagree on what the rules are (this is is where at least some litigation comes from, people disagree on what the rules are that applies to the situation).

I'd be surprised if most renters knew what the laws about renting are, despite most of the rules being written out and not squirreled away in court cases (re: case law) and renting being a major expense they incur every month.
"* Impact

There are few professions where I can have this much impact from my living room. If I build the right product then my efforts right now could impact thousands or millions or billions of people."

Get over yourself, it's (usually) a website. Fun, but ultimately forgotten. Unless you work in a research lab or something in which case I apologize.
How I wish this were true. For example, lack of Objective-C and Foundation in NaCl is my primary barrier to using it.

https://developers.google.com/native-client/faq#ProgrammingL...
Heh, that's easy to answer - it's because I was an idiot!

Of course I should've prevented the whole situation in the first place, but I wasn't on the ball enough to realize it was a problem. I wasn't consciously trying to shape company culture at all, which is why it developed on its own in a suboptimal way.
Why was it done pro bono?
I second https://paperlex.com. I was at GA/NYC a week or two back when they publicly demoed for the first time. It was very impressive. Think markdown for legal documents. The most interesting thing about it, imho, was not the structured templating but the counter party signature mechanics. All done online and driven by the data in the document.
The US spends as much on rail as Europe
I wonder if WP7 is going to help Microsoft in regards to this..

"US MP3 Player Retail Sales, by Brand, February 2007 (% market share)

Apple (73.7%), San Disk (9%), Creative (3.3%), Microsoft (2.3%), Samsung (2.2%), Other (9.5%)"
That should be SOP in any case. Just takes a few clicks to make Thunderbird sync everything from IMAP (Account Settings -> Synchronization & Storage).
What placeholder?
Product Review: Kinesis Advantage ergonomic programmer's keyboard
I'm pretty sure this has been done. I remember seeing something extremely similar while going through several of the umpteen python web frameworks and thinking "well, it's just html with parentheses rather than angled bracket and an additional leaky abstraction on top".
I think you are generalizing a bit too much. Yes, the details are always complicated, but that’s not the problem. People do understand the broad strokes of the laws against killing people or stealing. People do not understand what the basics of copyright law are all about – and copyright law is so complicated that it’s even hard to find those basics.
Query related to web development
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I am planning to build one web application for my own .But not able to decide which cloud should choose.
I thought about Google App Engine .
Here i got the doubt about running some complex query in database of gAppEngine.
is google app engine support below one.<p>1. No ad-hoc query
2. Non-relational DBMS
3. restricted runtime environment - no writing to files, no sockets,
and so forth
4. once on GAE, tough to move elsewhere.<p>Question:- Which Cloud based Platform to use? GAE or EC2 or Azure or else.
Need to cover -Development (Most Important)<p>Deployment<p>Scaling<p>Pricing<p>Features.<p>Regards
Rudra
I think this could be interpreted as missing the bigger picture. That is, that with all the upheaval in the business, the music industry is not hurting economically.
Oh, the many, many things I don't know about cannabis.

But speaking as an uninformed outsider – clueless, but also the target market of any mass movement – the hash brownie has the opposite problem: It's almost too inoffensive. It's famous as a way to hide marijuana from everyone, possibly including yourself. At worst, it's redolent of shame and fear, and at best it reminds people of things like pain management, which is not exactly a marketing winner.

Smoking may pose many difficulties, but it does have one big advantage: It's a group ritual that serves to advertise itself.

What cannabis needs is a recipe that suggests sophistication and good taste. Imagine if James Bond's favorite drink had had cannabis in it. Men and women of taste would be falling over themselves to blog about the superiority of original-recipe cannabis martinis. There would be tastefully lit Manhattan cannabis bars where your drink's ingredients would be fresh-clipped from live plants growing, hydroponically, in crystalline bowls suspended over each table.

I wonder if cannabis can be pleasurably served with coffee? The legalization movement needs to commission a crack research team of Dutch baristas.
Ask HN: Starting a non-traditional startup
I originally posted this a little while back but it disappeared almost instantly. I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting again. If it drops off again I'll get the hint. I won't be doing it any further times.

--

I have a few ideas I've been floating around in my head for a while now - some I've even got a fair amount of exploratory code for - and I'm toying with the idea of making a go of one of them.

I know "lifestyle business" can be thought of as a pejorative term, but to hell with that. I'm a little older and a little greyer than the poster boy rockstar-ninja founder and I have far more important things in my life than work. This doesn't mean I don't work hard, but it does mean I'm not sacrificing the things most precious to me for a web app. Paradoxically this could mean I need to work much harder within my constraints and I'm fine with that.

I have a few thoughts on how I could go about this - and they are only ill-defined thoughts at the moment, but I would be much obliged for any input this community has to offer.

Ideally I'd like to work with others on this. I've tried the sole founder thing before but I miss having people to bounce ideas off, share the workload, share the spoils or just without them knowing it, getting me through one of the dark days that are bound to come along.

I'd want to split things as evenly as possibly, skewed just enough in favour of the person who is best to guide things along (this doesn't even necessarily have to be myself, though I don't foresee it not being). When money comes in, we each take our split. With a little luck we've all got some walking around money without any of the burn-out inducing hours and load that can happen.

Which brings me onto my next thought: time. I see this as being a part-time venture in terms of the hours put in. We all work say 16 hours/week - as much as possible on a schedule convenient to that person. I haven't thought out the exact number too much yet but I think 16 is low enough to fit comfortably around a fulltime job, yet enough to get things done if there are at least a couple of us.

This isn't something to make you rich beyond the dreams of avarice, but with a bit of luck and a bit of time, maybe it will be provide a nice little income. Maybe one day it will turn into something worth going full time at (and compensated accordingly of course). If it all blows up, then fine, we go our seperate ways and hopefully everyone had a good time, at least got a little money out of it and can still go back to the day job.

Like I said, these are still-forming thoughts at the moment and I'm sure there are huge holes to be torn in my thinking but I do believe that somewhere in here is a system that can be made to work. It won't be for everyone, but your traditional startup isn't for me so I'd rather have likeminded folks on this anyway.

I may still be a little drunk from last night but I'm a long-time member of this site (even if I'm cowardly hiding behind a throwaway) and I value the insights I know a lot of you can offer.

Have at me! :)
(From experience:) You need to show where all money came from that you use towards meeting immigration requirements. For most uses you can't use the proceeds of a loan to count towards it.

$100k's pretty cheap for a professional - there's enough of a salary differential between the US and most other places in the world (especially once factoring taxes in - eg. pay is high in Switzerland but so are taxes) that it would not take more than a few years to make back the $100k.

Agree that it's shocking how difficult it is for smart, educated individuals to immigrate at a time when the country needs to be attracting global talent to maintain it's lead.
The US is only scary for Canadians and Western Europeans perhaps.
I suspect he means: 杨宗纬

Can anyone translate that to English? I know a smidgeon of German and French, can count to ten in Russian...etc...but there is no Chinese/Japanese in there (my brain, I mean).

Thanks.
Declaring a specific approach in C++ the difference between "flat programmers" and the enlightened higher-dimensional master-race is ridiculous.
I believe this is technically local code execution, not remote. It's not like you can do this unless you have access to the device (the browser apparently doesn't allow it, and I can't imagine you can remotely make the device play an MP3).
Way to miss the point.

Yes, the argument still applies with rape. Or murder. Carving "No murder intended" on a fresh body does not make it less murder, nor does writing "No copyright infringement intended" lessen infringement.
I do this quite regularly, mainly because it is a lot more convenient to "browse" in book stores and taking a look at titles that seem interesting than using Amazon for the same purpose.

I think that this is more of an UI failure on Amazon's part than an inherent advantage of physical stores, a failure that a competent designer or even someone who things rationally should be able to solve quite easily.

Unfortunately I doubt we'll see an Amazon redesign proving my theory as long as any brick-and-mortar store is still standing.
NZ citizens can work and reside in Aus, permanent residents cannot. But it's also worth noting that since a 2002 law change, Kiwis who make that move are considered temporary residents in Australia and don't have the same rights there as Australians:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/kiw...

http://www.indymedia.org.au/2011/04/21/help-appeal-for-a-fai...
The Kinetics of Recruiting
> Wouldn't it be more likely that they'd get a loan?

I'd love to see the terms on this kind of loan: people coming to US from the abroad do not have any credit history whatsoever. Now, if this will be some government-sponsored loan, I could only imagine the amount of bureaucracy involved and timelines for that.

If one were to look for better way for immigration problem resolution - Canada and Australia have decent processes of getting people they need in.
Anyone who thinks that SF doesn't have great weather, compared to the rest of the country, has clearly been in California so long they've lost touch with reality.

Do you really want to compare SF weather with Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Boston, etc?
> C++ is a standards based language

Technically untrue, C++ is a standardized language, the standard was created after the language. Ada is a standards-based language. So's haskell. The first C++ implementation (as well as "The C++ Programming Language") were released in 1985, while the first C++ "standard" was released in 1998 (ISO/IEC 14882:1998).

> available across multiple platforms and the other one isn't.

Objective-C is available on pretty much any platform on which GCC or Clang runs, actually.
Beer for charity
Nah, at NC State, D. H. Hill (the main library) is open to the public during normal hours. The "satellite libraries" are Design, Textiles, Natural Resources, and Veterinary Medicine, and I'm not sure whether those are open access or not.

I also don't know whether the new Hunt Engineering Library is going to be public access or not, but I hope it will be because it's going to be awesome.
For most people, what makes Objective C so useful though is the Cocoa core classes. The GNUstep stuff has a lot of that functionality, but is not quite what the Apple stuff provides.
That's the fact any seamless sharing reviewer should mention.

Others have figured out, the world doesn't end with facebook.
I think this is a failing of society (parents and schools) to educate children of basic ideas off laws that govern them. I don't mean that the copyright code should be explained in full for every child, but the basic premise that you shouldn't distribute anything you haven't created yourself from scratch.
Interesting article, and as a forty-year-old who doesn't use facebook, it makes sense to me.

But I wonder whether 20 year-olds who have been immersed in this kind of thing for 3-4 years would agree. And what today's 13-year-olds will think then they are 20, and this has been a part of their entire post-childhood..
> Once you know that 1e100.net is Google you never have to look it up again.

Actually, you should be careful about that.

There is malware floating around that connects to 1el00.net, le100.net, etc. (replacing the numeral 1 with the letter L, which looks virtually identical in the lower case you find in netstat etc.). I don't know what data it exchanges with those servers.

This is actually a really clever move on the malware-author's part. All of the "OMG! I have a virus." and "Don't worry it's Google" threads you see online add significant confusion.

Moreover, they seem to have used their bot-net to bury information about the malware in search results, as you can see by searching for "1EL00.net", etc.

The creators of this malware were actually pretty clever about it (there are more layers of obfuscation at play). I encountered an infected machine and once I saw the layers of trickiness involved, I went for the nuclear option and completely wiped the machine. They seemed to be smarter than me (and for that matter, existing AV software) about this.
Google isn't just a communication system, though. They're a very large corporation involved in numerous enterprises that often interfere with one another, and their actions are further modified by an even larger legal system that only imperfectly represents the collective will of its constituents.

Decisions are often (indeed, perhaps mostly) made without any consideration of individual people (even the people making the decisions aren't always entirely conscious of what they're doing). I don't believe that's a necessity, but a lot of people are pretty comfortable with it and it mostly approximates working. This sort of thing shouldn't come as a terrible surprise.
I'm not an expert on Objective-C, but I think this article was bad and dated even in 1997. It doesn't mention reference counting, uses -free instead of -dealloc, and seems to consider ANSI C as relatively new and optional, which means the author was either years out of date, or was arbitrarily ignoring some language features that he considered to be part of the NextStep system instead of the core Objective-C language.
> For most people born in India and China, the process takes significantly longer than 1 year.

A CTO of the company I'm working at is waiting for his green card for almost TEN years! The guy is a key person for the company, has two kids and bought a house, but is still on H1. :(
What OS are you using for the clients?