skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone said that passion is "love and anger together". Passion originally meant to suffer.
It seems that passion (motivation) causes action, but it happens the other way too. You act, making some progress, and then you feel motivated.
Any worthwhile accomplishment involves suffering and sacrifice. Maybe passion isn't the only way. Maybe even deciding to suffer doesn't matter, provided you do it.

Every moment we do not spend ourselves in a worthy cause is simply a moment not spent in a worthy clause. Each moment we are given, we get for free. It is up to us how we spend it. Throughout our lives, no matter how we spend it, we are given another in the very next instant.

Some startups weren't based on a specific idea. e.g. Woz and Jobs first had a go at blue boxes. HP and Sony began trying a few different products. The motivation was more like: to make something cool, make a business work. If you like, the "idea" had a wider scope than a specific product. I think it's fair to say they were passionate - as in crazy motivated - about that. e.g. Woz loved making cool electronic stuff; Jobs loved making a business out of that.
It's not a specific idea; though I suppose you could say they were passionate about each specific idea in a general class.

I feel there are two parts to my own passion: (1) that there's an opportunity (problem, need, cool new idea) that would make a difference; and (2) that I could do it.
That second one is very important. If I don't think it's within my reach, I won't feel excited. Maybe I'll even feel a little depressed and inadequate. That's why confidence (aka faith, hope, courage) is so important. pg noted a few times that not knowing how hard it is can be a blessing - that some very capable founders would have thought their achievement was beyond their ability if they knew the obstacles involved.
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Another good one (from someone who worked at Amazon) is Pat Helland's "Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion" which details more generally how a system might work without a global transactions. Part of which boils down to delivering idempotent messages to services.

I thought it was interesting because there are a lot of parallels with how REST works but also service orientated architectures.

The paper (and presentation) can be found here (which I'm sure has a few more gems on the page): http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2007/program.html
Zen Coding [1] gives you some of that advantage, by turning many complex constructs into 3-4 character keywords, and placing the caret automatically at meaningful places (some textmate bundles do this too). The approach works really well for CSS and HTML.

1. http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
I think ungiven credit is also probably due to the parents, though I'm not writing off anything she accomplished.
Thanks for wasting pixels on my screen ComputerGuru...
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[http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page]

What is Namecoin

Namecoin is a peer-to-peer generic name/value datastore
system based on Bitcoin technology (a decentralized
cryptocurrency). It allows you to :

Securely register names (domains for example), no
possible censorship!
Trade and transact namecoins, the digital currency NMC.

Read more about Namecoin.

What is Dot-BIT

Dot-BIT, the first project using namecoin, is building a
domain name system (DNS) using the .bit TLD. Our goal is
to spread .bit domains by providing resources and tools
to the community, from developers to end users.

[Edit: Perhaps this is being downvoted for not providing any extra information myself. If you truly want a resource that can't be taken down, then it will require some technical effort on your part AND your audience: either .onion hidden services or .bit names, OR just a static IP address.]
Google Search just got whole lot more social, with Google+ features and more
Related: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-resources-for-learni...
That is a really nice supplement, thanks
> Node does everything that RoR/Django/Nginx* can do, does it better, and does it with less complexity.

That's quite a statement. Do you have anything to back it up?
In your case, to comply with the GPL you must give the sources to those who paid you for your theme. You also cannot stop your costumers from giving those sources away for free if they want.

You are not forced to spread the sources around, to publish them on github or similar things. That would be nice but is not needed.
Typing speed usually isn't the limiting factor, but being able to touch-type (really touch-type, which allows you to keep your eyes on the screen instead of going back and forth) is extremely valuable: it makes text entry much more natural, and allows you to catch typos.
Your point of view is kind of understandable in isolation... except, the slogan is a based on the economic fact that the vast majority of the wealth and income of the US is held by a mere 1% of its population.

The implications of that are many but the first and direct is that the US is a plutocracy. That is, the movement is not about (not) "becoming rich" or achieving the 1% (which as you imply would ultimately be a contradiction) ... It is about the nature and sustainability of such a society.
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I guess he wanted it low-key, but distinctive.

What bothers me is that the html is 69429 chars, to deliver 11392 words of text. Not even counting linked CSS and JS (which will be cached), that's 6 html chars for every char of content.

Seriously, HTML is turning into .doc.
I used Posterous for our blogs for Mugasha and they were great. Highly recommended if you want to avoid self hosted.
Well, in a market with perfect information, enough people and organizations would organize to donate money to fund the innovations :) (actually, I think this could be a better model for funding certain types of innovation, e.g. drugs for particular diseases, than patents). Of course, the market doesn't have perfect information, so there is not a 100% certainty on the return on these potential innovations. We must therefore discount them. But they are still valuable; and companies still have R&D departments that do blue-sky research, and we also have government funded R&D. Which you could argue Sputnik and reaction was about. I think these are also market behaviours.

So why do you think there is still a shortage, when there is in fact funding for innovation? Do you think the returns would be worth more investment, diverted from other current investments? If so, you should be able to convince enough other people to fund it. If not, does that not prove the weakness of your argument? ;)

(I'm arguing this with a hat on. That is, I'm taking a position that's actually somewhat more extreme than my real position, to see how it feels. I'm actually opposed to the market in many cases, but not because of quibbling over supply and demand, but rather because it is amoral - not immoral, amoral - as in it has no moral content. There is no intrinsic fairness in it. It just is, a machine driven by people's consumption, without consideration for whether their tastes are right or wrong.)
Now this is really interesting. I can think of about a dozen use cases off the top of my head.
Hi, I'm Jeff.

I'd like to get into a job working with media, maybe writing to some degree (maybe your company produces in-house videos like KickStarter awesomely does? Or needs podcasts?)

I've five years of experience in journalism, producing a local TV news show. In the process of getting a two hour show ready for air every weekday, I wrote (news stories, teases, promos), filmed (news stories, promos), and edited others' written work/video. I was the guy responsible for everything on air and the station's website while I was on shift. If someone else didn't get their work done or messed up, it was my fault.

I attended college for computer science years ago, but ended up working in journalism instead. I may not be on your level, but I'm not a family member asking for help installing a printer, either.

If you'd like to get in contact, Jeffool at gmail is my "real" address, though I've got a more professional one at JwBridges at gmail, if you prefer.

Also, my account was created 1337 days ago today. Neato.
I didn't get this notice so that means my information wasn't compromised? Wouldn't bet on it.
On the other hand, when I'm looking around for a service and I' trying to figure out whether I should spend cash on a company, I do check out the blog. A blog that goes down, in my head, is a service that goes down, even if I know it to be untrue objectively.
I dunno, it's definitely part of their brand. I would sort-of think twice before trusting a company that couldn't even keep a simple blog up-and-running. 3rd parties don't necessarily know or notice that it's hosted by tumblr.
I have been trying to find one of these for "the other 5-letter named editor" What did you google to find it/can you link it? Thanks
Page gives me :
"We are so sorry – we are currently not accepting international traffic. If you have any questions please email us at help@zappos.com"

Anyone could paste/screenshot/... what there is to see ?
More money is generally better (up to a saturation point of about $100k a year). But if you are time poor, and cash rich, the choice should be easy.

Obviously, some people just like work, and money. Marx was right - people can accumulate cash simply for the sake of accumulating cash (or the security it brings), not just for pure consumption.
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On another note, if the motivation is due to SOPA, then SOPA targets all foreign domains (not able to take your server down, but prevent other American's from resolving your domain name -- and I should also not that this was before today, where they seem to have taken that part out of the bill).
Yeah, I've always been surprised that people consider Tumblr as a platform for anything except hosting short posts (pictures/videos/clips/quotes/etc.) The brevity it [to me] encourages (plus the social features it has) places it somewhere closer to the Twitter side of a continuum between Twitter and Wordpress or Blogger. This is mostly in my head, of course, but I just didn't realize others felt differently until somewhat recently.
I use google plus along with a simple tool I made for a really simple blog that's hosted on my domain: https://github.com/lylepratt/Plusify
I don't see the problem with sticking with Tumblr. What most of the trouble with my Tumblr-powered sites seems to be is the use of Tumblr's Static Media uploader (http://www.tumblr.com/themes/upload_static_file) which is used for js files, external css, images, etc.

Sites (in my experience!) with a lot of these links have way more loading problems. Simple sites that rely more on markup and CSS3 than images and a lot of JavaScript have only dropped out a few times in my experience.

Just my two cents, maybe somebody can comment and verify this.
+1,000,000 to rand's presentation. Here's the link in case you missed it: http://hackersandfounders.tv/RDmt/rand-fishkin-inbound-marke...

We are big believers in making quality content at Parse as well. Interruption marketing is annoying and not nearly as effective.

Given that, it's pretty crucial for our blog to be up as well. (we're also on jekyll, hosted on our own servers)
I found this site recently and it has a nice set of recent distributed systems papers: http://www.systemswemake.com/

It's a good complement because it focuses more on system design rather than theory.
It's clearly not a detail. I'd guess the quality will be a little better than a $5-10 wash from a machine- a little more expensive because of the "we come to your car", and also because they cannot bring along the machinery and water recyclers that allow $3 washes.

If they are willing to break out the mitts and buckets of soapy water though, you could have a real nice wash there. Wash != detail, but leaps and bounds ahead of a machine. This is not outside the realm of possibility; I remember my local hand wash place back in the Valley was about $20.
We recently moved our dev blog (dev.anideo.com) to jekyll + github pages as well, not because of problems with uptime but because gist support is a major pita on Tumblr and we primarily use our blog to post code snippets.
.nz justly prides itself on a robust, cheap and fair disputes resolution service. It's based in New Zealand, a country which is regularly ranked in the top three least corrupt in the world, and currently number 1.

InternetNZ is an open membership charitable society that is the delegated country manager for .nz and has the objective to strive for an open and uncapturable internet.

They delegated the day to day management of .nz to www.dnc.org.nz, who also run the disputes service (http://dnc.org.nz/story/drs-home), while the register itself is delegated by InternetNZ to www.nzrs.net.nz. This structure was set up to ensure that these sorts of issues would be resolved appropriately.

I note that the new gTLDs (.whatever) will need to use ICANN's standard dispute resolution process, which is convoluted, lengthy and expensive. I do not know how these will fare under SOPA et al.

(I'm an elected Councillor of InternetNZ. http://internetnz.net.nz)
Cherry is the carwash that comes to you. Park anywhere, check in online, and we'll wash your car right where you left it. Just $29 per wash, tip's included.

But, what if I don't believe in tipping?
Another vote for Posterous. I also like the simple customization, and the fact that I can easily add new members/contributors - a nice feature for a company blog.
I'm still not discouraged... keep trying.
Since you can sync your contacts with your computer via iTunes, and then sync your new iPhone with your computer, I am genuinely curious as to why you "had" to manually type in this information. Having owned every iPhone except the 3G this has never been my experience.
I didn't receive the email yet either. Hmm... just changed my password just in case.
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> Love the fact that if a post makes the HN front page, we don't have to worry about scaling or downtime.

If you have to worry about scaling or downtime if a blog post hits HN's front page, then I'm afraid that you screwed up really bad somewhere.

Any server should be able to handle that traffic.
(From link in the submission) I like the way the MVP was done. I've felt uncomfortable about fake webpages that don't do what they say, but the way this was worded seems reasonable to me: http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

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This place is actually pretty legit. They've got a location in the Stanford Shopping center in Palo Alto, and its rather impressive. I'm sure the founder is exaggerating the "innovation" in his descriptions, but who says someone can't start a restaurant chain?
You're welcome. I've been following this news for a lot longer than most, so if there's ever anything I can help with, feel free to ask.

Ars & TorrentFreak probably have the most complete original coverage of this stuff if you're ever looking things up or want to find more meat to add to an argument.

Good luck!
Like most things, choosing where to host your company blog is a strategic choice that can't be boiled down to a categorical.

tumblr has a really amazing community. tumblr's downtime is a fact. The question is, does the community outweigh the downtime?

I think you make this decision based on the demographics of the tumblr community vis-a-vis your users / customers. And tumblr isn't just 14 year old girls -- there's a bunch of tech people on it (although that may be more NYC tech).

In the comments, people have mentioned the simple fact that you can have both a self-hosted company blog and a company tumblr, much like most companies have a company blog and a company twitter. I agree, although simply feeding content from the blog into the tumblr of course doesn't make best use of tumblr as a platform.

My startup's blog is on tumblr (http://blog.idonethis.com) and we get about 1/5 of the referral traffic of twitter and facebook from tumblr. (We have nearly 1k followers on tumblr versus 1.6k twitter followers and 2k facebook likes.) In other words, it's our 3rd largest source of referral traffic from social media.
Then I will posit that:

- You became an entrepeneur because you want.
- You don't believe that your programming skills are obsolete.

And thus your article doesn't really talk about your actual experience.
It's ironic that this was just submitted to Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468974.

Aside from unexpected incidents (and limited offers), you'll be fine. But if something goes wrong, you don't want panic and misinformation to ensue.

It all depends on your kind of company, of course.
searched for `emacs theme editor`

http://alexpogosyan.com/color-theme-creator/

source code is available on github too.

Sorry for not giving links, my first search was succesful I thought it would be the same for everybody.

Emacs has a http server package, the editor could be pushed on marmalade ^^.
No worries - I appreciate the desire to keep HN submissions quality high :)
I thought more modern languages could be more secure, as they tended to have better overflow protections and so on. So should kernels, but I guess this would be one way to ease features into the kernel (which might be seen as a bad thing).

The short answer will be, it depends on how it's done, and what the scope is. You wouldn't want arbitrary code loaded in.
Color schemes like this look GREAT next to the photo they're derived from, but don't always translate as well on their own to a website/printout/whatever you're making.
If you're in the UK, this place was excellent: http://www.streetshirts.co.uk/
Through the magic of this advanced iPhone technology, people
will be able to enter a restaurant and emerge minutes later with a
hot sandwich.

You've gotta be kidding me.
I think it's ironic that I was meaning to post this to my own Hacker News test site (http://kruhft.dyndns.org) and I posted it here by accident and it makes it to the front page!
Interesting exploration of the business issues, and, for Microsoft, I can understand this.

It does contrast rather strongly, though, with the experience of Oracle and Informix trialing their first Linux ports. "We just typed 'make'" was the quote out of Oracle at the time. While I'm reasonably confident that there has been a bit of platform-specific tuning since then, the point is that writing code for a standards-based platform (UNIX and POSIX) made porting to a new target pretty straightforward.
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If he owns it and he"s incorporated, then sure.
This is always hard to do..but fun too.
Do you have a short list you're working from? Perhaps run a poll?
So I don't have to change the sites manually I check the date. Here is a snippet of php code to check the date and only include your .js on Jan 18, 2012:

<? if(date("Ymd")=="20120118") echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="hxxp//js.sopablackout.org/sopablackout.js"></script>'; ?>

Note: replace hxxp with http.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451893, scaling Wordpress isn't exactly easy, when running on shared hosting.
Hey kids, just say NO to programming
What happens if someone claims cherry scratched or left a ding in their car when they didn't. Couldn't someone pay $29 for a wash just to get something fixed.
Quora comes out firmly against SOPA/PIPA
I can't tell if you're joking or not. The point of speech-to-text is not necessarily efficiency, it's also for subtitling and/or recording normal speech (i.e. phone conversations, or TV screens in public areas)
I didn't get an email, but upon logging in - my password was reset and an email sent with further instructions.
Then don't use the service, or ask if they will do it for $0 tip? You might not like their answer though.
"A mistake people seem to make is assuming Tumblr is a blogging platform akin to Wordpress.com, it isn't, it's a different beast entirely."

From their about page:

"What is Tumblr?
Millions of people sharing the things they do, find, love, think, or create."

Even if you can do more than a simple blog with tumblr, at its base it is a blogging platform. It's perfect for a startup that is busy doing lots of other things... if it wasn't for the fact that it's always down. I hope they'll someday add a "Always Up and running, no trouble" to their "30 reasons you'll love tumblr".
Assuming this is only looking at 'income' and not capital gains / dividends, this is highly misleading because many wealthy live off the former, though it's a bit difficult to find numbers. Also if everyone is listing their occupations, it's only natural that many choose generic ones rather than "I live off inherited family money dividends" or equivalent
Correct. Not trying to toot my own horn, but after 10 years of getting better each year, I am solid programmer. I literally just finished working on SoundTracking.

However, I have focused solely on programming the last 10 years, and I believe my focus depleted from other skills that are highly necessary to balance someone out: product development, winning friends and influencing people, sales, marketing, physical builds, the arts and humanities, entrepreneurship and finally understanding and gettings your hands deep and dirty into real business experience:construction, food and restaurants, medecine, education, finance, fashion, etc, etc.

My intention is to help others not go down such a narrow path as I have.

Reading the Steve Jobs biography really lit a fire under me.