skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of your pages is broken on your site, this is you I'm guessing from the npt: http://startupworkaway.com/nick-tommarello but it's returning a 404.

What noobface is saying is that you don't participate in HN apart from to promote this, but that's not a big deal.

Seems like a cool idea. Did any companies emerge from the last one?
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Have to agree -- the only one I can think of (not used by myself) is Grindr -- and that has a narrow, specific audience.

The rest can't beat actually going out and meeting people. Easier than many might imagine.
That makes it difficult to provide progressive enhancement though. If I use a prefixed property, I have the ability to make sure it works fine without it, and I can assume that in the future, if the semantics of it change when it becomes non-prefixed, it'll either disappear (i.e. if it was a -webkit property being rendered on firefox) or still work (i.e. if it was a -o property being rendered on opera).

If I use an experimental non-prefixed property, how do I make sure future browsers that might implement it differently render it usably?
How One Kitchen Table in Brooklyn Became a School for Coders
The Linux version of this is horribly wrong in so many ways. For one, you're downloading a shell script and running it with root privileges. A shell script that loads someone else's key into your system's database of trusted package signing keys, and then installs a package that can do just about anything to your system, including `rm -rf /*`.

And beyond the immediate security issues, this tramples both on the system git packages (because I doubt that Heroku uses so many advanced git features that they need the latest version) and on however you or your distro use RubyGems. Really, it would be far better to link to a page that tells you:

sudo apt-get install git-core rubygems
sudo gem install heroku foreman
I imagine it must feel horrible interviewing smart people who would do great at work but whom you are unable to hire due to arbitrary hoops set up by your own company.
How is there not a second Facebook? Isn't Facebook the second Google the second Microsoft, etc. ?
"eee_c: Geez ppl, there is no Wireshark SPDY plugin. It wasn't working 6 months ago and it's not working now. Silly HN."

https://twitter.com/eee_c/status/167697122823639040

I can't confirm this, but @eee_c wrote The SPDY Book, I'm inclined to trust him.
IBM spins ultrasharp nanomanufacturing tool 100,000X smaller than a pencil tip
Going public is incredibly expensive and is only worth it if you're needing to raise $50million+. A small company therefore doesn't have access to the public markets nor do the public markets have access to the small companies that make this country strong.
Missing tassel in this puzzle IMHO: Something like Codea (iPad app, incredibly cool to learn programming to children) but as a web site, with a similar interface and "visual" objects, language Javascript.

After you create an app you should be also able to "name" it, so that <name>.this-site-name.com means instant-deploy of your app.

This is the thing more similar to BASIC of C64 that I can think, in terms of easy access, and ability to build something that you can actually distribute/show.
Gulf of America not Gulf of Mexico, in Mississippi at least
Are you sure? Do you remember entering your name on a touch screen in order to get your visitor badge? Yeah, there was a legal document in there. Probably should have read that.
Okay, I have a decent amount of introductory functional programming experience. I agree with most of the article, but this sentence makes no sense to me:

When done correctly, recursion increase a lot readability and avoids using cumbersome control structures such as loops.

In my experience, recursion makes things much harder, mainly because if you have a bug, you can narrow down the location in an iterative process but a recursive process is too interconnected to do that with easily. Also readability suffers a little for mathematical people like me, and a lot for anyone else. I agree that replacing loops with map/reduce/filter increases readability, but replacing loops with recursion?
Electrical impulse headset makes people walk like a Zombie
If you buy 16 ounces of gold then you have a pile of metal. 5, 10, 20 or 50 years from now it'll still be a one pound pile of metal. Bonds essentially offer the same deal, only you trade a pile of money now for a slightly larger pile of money in the future.

Investing in stocks however buys a piece of a growing entity. You buy stock now and the company buys a tractor, a truck, a robotic assembly line, researches some new polymer, hires staff, invests in its own growth and actually produces goods. As time goes on the company is always trading in current dollars.

Of course there is risk, but If I buy gold now I'm only ever going to own that much gold in the future and the price is entirely based on some other gold-buyer willing to buy a hunk of metal to sit on himself.

Buffet says it better right in the article though which I think people here failed to address. "Our country's businesses will continue to efficiently deliver goods and services wanted by our citizens. Metaphorically, these commercial "cows" will live for centuries and give ever greater quantities of "milk" to boot. Their value will be determined not by the medium of exchange but rather by their capacity to deliver milk."
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So what did come out of original StartupWorkaway?
Anything other than beach lounging with 20 geeks?
Show HN: Github for Designers
Landing page for my potential startup, Minute Favors. Is there potential here?
The first sentence is related to policies of the device maker and the second is to M$'s policies
I believe that his speculation argument against gold holds for the stock market as well. Investors create feedback loops when they buy stocks that then creates even more demand. Buffet believes in the S&P and so he will naturally encourage others to do so.
Apache Giraph, large-scale graph processing on Hadoop, hits 0.1 milestone
Kickstarter Fundraising Record Broken - over $1,000,000 pleged
I'm in complete agreement that holding something like GLD is only valuable as a hedge against market volatility.

As for owning gold rather than "gold", I find appeal in being able to put $30k in my pocket in the event that credit cards or ATMs are temporarily out of service, which could happen well short of an "apocalypse."
If Flash were around in 1999...
I think a lot of people are already using Google Docs as the mythical "G Drive." I use it for that purpose and store all my photos, videos, docs, etc. up there. In fact, it will even stream your videos like youtube (I cannot speak to audio as I am not a big music person).

My complaint is not that is cannot store anything you want, but that it is not integrated with their own products. If I am storing something, like a photo, in Google Docs, I should be able to publish it to Picasa or Google+, or even attach it to an email (either from the email or through Google Docs). Same with video, except this time youtube instead of Picasa.

Instead, I have to download it first and then upload it to the appropriate app.

I don't use DropBox, but I have heard it is great. But, I do use a product: https://www.insynchq.com/ to back up and sync my Google Docs locally. I don't know if that is the same.
Being unable to program on a whiteboard means you don't really know the language you are using.

This is nonsense. I have a degree from MIT. I've spent the last 15 years programming in C++, Python, Scala, Lisp, Java, SQL, and JavaScript, etc. I've worked on compilers, space telescopes, and brain surgery software, and I know all of these languages fine. There's no way that I would be able to program on a whiteboard without a lot of practice, however. Most likely, I wouldn't be able to remember my own name if you made me stand at a whiteboard to program in an interview situation. Fortunately when I interviewed at Google they let me use pencil and paper.

Btw, I use Emacs much more than an IDE, and much of the knowledge I have for syntax is built into my typing fingers.
Its post like this that make me sad to be a .net guy living on the east coast, even though I have 10 years of web app experience.
It seems crazy to me to put so much effort into a blog, when you can get very very very close to 100% uptime by just using jekyll + amazon s3 + disqus.

That's what I do with abtinforouzandeh.com and it has been able to handle 50k+ requests over the span of a few minutes while maintaining sub-second load times.
30-33 countries had the women's vote before the US, from 1 year before to several decades.

Not to mention how many countries had abolished slavery before the Civil War time.
I think it makes sense to mention the potential influence of raspberry pi on education here, it's potential that is to provide far greater accessibility to a superior coding/learning platform in education. The next few generations might just be raised as linux users.
I'd like to nominate private subviews as a pattern.

(function(){
var myPrivateView = Backbone.View.extend({...});
app.views.Foo = Backbone.View.extend({
/* use myPrivateView somewhere in here */
});
})();
Principles Of An Indie Game Bottom Feeder
> Leave room between the lines so you can add stuff.

Startup idea: a device on which you can write code which you can subsequently edit by inserting, changing, moving around, and erasing lines
If you try again, it should work. I had to tweak Apache config files to keep the site up.

I don't post much content, but I read HN like 50 times a day, and upvote a lot. :) I post this because I feel it's the coolest thing I do that relevant to the HN crowd.

About half of the crowd there had existing companies, and the other half hacking on stuff. Apps were finished, but no new companies were formed.
To be more precise, FDR increased the price at which the government would buy gold from foreign buyers. The devaluation occurs in terms of foreign currency exchange. I don't think it's quite correct to put a 1:1 correspondence to that and "eliminating 50% of the value of everyone's savings". Maybe eliminated 50% the value of everyone's savings in Francs. Domestic purchasing power would be negatively affected for foreign goods, in theory it would create income in terms of increased exports.
I was thinking first "what an ass, makes us curious now when it is almost a year away".

Then i remembered how you write dates.
Great work guys.
Latvia also suspended ACTA ratification today.
Remote work can be a possibility for the right candidate -- there are a couple devs who work remotely right now. If you're interested, it can't hurt to apply.
Hangout with scientists looking for the god particle
This is a great idea! Often when doing work for clients I've wanted to show them something more than just the finished PSD. They've hit upon the idea that with design the through process is often as important as the final result. Pixelapse will definitely will help me extract more value from my time.
"The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond." -- Warren Buffet

He doesn't mince words, does he?
I know reddit has a "cool story bro" meme, which means the opposite. But this IS a cool story!
I'm trying to open http://wpengine.com/pricing/ and the tab keeps loading (it seems i cant connect to their cdn.wpengine.com)...

NB Patrick's site is ok

EDIT: now the pricing page loads
How an awesome API can attract friends, make you rich, and change the world
I checked the pricing page and the rates seemed steep. What level plan do you have, Patrick? It looks like the pro account runs about $1,200 a year, but caps at 100,000 visitors. Is that more than you see in a good month of blogging?
User feedback: "Materials for topic area X is poor compared to your flagship content."

Employee response: "It's good enough/better than even worse options."

That's a poor response, and not what I would expect from a team with the culture to make a great product.
Those aren't really comparable links.

The Backbone link goes to a "who is using Backbone" page. Which is nice, and quite convincing that Backbone is a serious library used in some huge projects.

The Knockout link, however, goes to a "how do you use Knockout" page. Which is also nice, and a very useful documentation source that Backbone is sadly lacking.

But as a new developer, if anything, the Knockout link is a better reason to pick it. Good documentation goes a LOT further than knowing that Groupon has selected the library, in my book.
This is pretty good for work e-mail, but I 100% disagree on not using filters in personal stuff. I get a lot of notifications - forum replies, twitter follows, upcoming concerts, facebook stuff - that I absolutely don't need to see in my inbox.
I think you and David have different definitions of a "startup," or at least different ideas of how fast and how big they need to grow. I think he just means something like "a small, young company with some ambitions of growth."

Your definition is certainly the usual one, especially in Silicon Valley, but I think David just wants to remind people that that isn't the only option if you have entrepreneurial ambitions, so he's using a less common but broader sense of the word. He even says as much at the end: "It’s almost like we need another word. Startup is a great one, but I feel like it’s been forever hijacked for this narrow style."
I thought I'd be smart and use Blogger to host my blog.

Oh what a fool I was.

I'll be completing my hack to make it work properly sometime in the next few weeks with a full report on what I went through just to fix it.

In hindsight, I should have made my own blog engine or something.
Gorgeous app and well done! I really like how all the images scroll together when you are comparing multiple images.
I know you're heavily invested in gold, but what you say is simply not true. The Gold-Oil ratio has fluctuated from upwards of 36:1 to 1:8 over the past 40 years.

Further, if it were true then in 2009 when oil plunged from $140 to $50 a barrel, the value of the dollar should have shot up significantly. When gold dropped 20% last year, there wasn't a corresponding increase in the purchasing power of my dollar.

You only have to look as far as the sleazy companies selling gold to old people on tv and charging 20-30% markups to know that speculation is driving this market.
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Gold is an universal store of wealth. Canned food and bullets not so much.

It's a different kind of value.
No, I'm not making any argument that "this time is different".

I'm making the argument that the dollar is not going to increase in value over the next 10, 20, 30 years. Rather, the dollar is going to continue to lose large amounts of real purchasing power. Gold priced in dollars will rise accordingly.

Just calculating entitlement costs alone, the Fed will be required to massively devalue the dollar over the coming decades to keep a mass social panic from occurring due to defaults by the Feds on paying SS or Medicare et al.
Why do I buy this instead of Layer Vault?
If we can't censor at the dns level because of protesting, maybe we can get some tsa like government agencies to oversee internet security. Start it simple and meaningless, give it a nice name like "sharing" and "information". It will pass.

Then we'll slowly build its power and establish its rightful duty to preserve the security of the internet, loyal to the Federal reserve and Congress. Thus establishing ownership of the global net. Then we can tax the hell out of every imported and exported byte we don't like.

Sigh... Its an improvement over sopa at least!
Nice idea.

Try and chose a 2 syllable or a less tongue twisting name.
The only things buying gold from the US government were foreign national banks. The government never offered to sell gold to individuals after the gold clause abrogation.
Instagram Co-Founder’s Girlfriend Learns Python to Launch Lovestagram
This approach makes a lot of sense. I tried something similar with an iOS app and was surprised to find that Apple frowns upon this practice. They'd prefer that developers do usability testing beforehand instead of native A/B testing in the wild. Does anyone know if Apple has clarified this position?

It would be much more developer friendly to encourage this and would ultimately lead to better experiences for users.
Ask HN: Long Term Preparation for the Aspiring Entrepreneur?
What long-term assets, skills and mindset should a person work on developing over the earlier course of their life in preparation to being an aspiring entrepreneur.

In retrospect, does anybody feel that there are key attributes that are worth sharpening to be a more capable and successul founder, public-speaking, networking, more money-minded?
Your point is valid. My stand is that recursion forces the programmer to think about the edge cases first, which would make a bug less likely to appear.
I ran some numbers, and gold seemed to add value to most portfolios over the last 83 years, with modest real return and low correlation with other assets. (Of course, it was legally problematic to own in large quantity in the US for a large part of that period, although you could own jewelry etc.)

The last 30 years of disinflation, stable growth were not a good time to own gold.

http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2012/01/gold-as-part-of-long-...

http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2012/01/are-long-term-asset-c...
I'm trying to come up with something more interesting to say than "Wow". I've wished I had this a few times.

I think the only thing that you lose here is access to an actual "diff", but visually, you get most of it.

Grats on a fantastic achievement.
Actually that's flat out wrong.

2011- 1,100 seeded startups.
2004- Year Facebook formed.
2012-Facebook's valuation: est. $100 billion.

If you say that 1,100 companies are seeded a year (which is not true, only 885 in 2009, 850 in 2008) and multiply that by 8 years (2004-2012), you get 8,800 startups to invest in. So EVEN IF 8,799 of those companies failed, if you invested in every single one you'ld have a 250% return in 8 years during a down market. That's amazing.

But those 8,799 didn't fail. If 1% succeeded you'ld have 88 companies still left in your portfolio IN ADDITION to your Facebook stock.

This is why we need crowdfunding so badly. Without it, wealth is pumped to people who have so much wealth that they can't spend it all. With crowdfunding, capitalism works to spread that money around to people who can spend all of it. We're talking an explosion of wealth in this country and it wasn't from some stupid government debt plan.
The misleading title is disappointing, but 3d-printed body panels are still cool - imagine designing your own customized body style and fastening it on! (and/or watching an novice's poorly self-designed body rip apart on the highway)
"he confiscation of gold was done to eliminate the best (and popular) store of value."

'Best' no, 'popular' yes and that was crippling the economy.
Ask: what is the best language/way to teach kids programming?
I've been thinking about teaching my kids (7 & 10 - both boys) how to program but I'm not sure where to start. Is there a 'kids' programming language and/or IDE that is ideal? Also, what language? I was thinking of HTML + JavaScript and maybe structuring it around writing a simple game.

Just looking for feedback, or any practicle experience other HN Dads have had.
Why interviews are a lousy way to judge candidates
I hope that if I ever have kids, I'll be able to educate them as well as I can in (in no particular order):

1. Basic programming & general computer skills
2. A foreign language
3. The ability to learn by themselves

I have no desire to hothouse them of course, nor is it anything to do with improving their career prospects etc. I just look forward to sharing the fun of learning with them
Long distance travel is the primary reason I have not wanted to buy an electric car. I only have one car at the moment, so I need it to be good both for commuting and long distance.

I can make a 12 hour trip from SF to UT or 7 hr SF to LA. With an electric you add in 3hrs * 2 going to UT and 3hrs * 1 going to LA. That totally changes travel plans because I'd have to stop for the night or else push through on nothing but uncomfortable naps in the car during the charge cycles. So electric is out.

If I had 2 cars (if I didn't live in a small apartment complex, and if I had a bunch of kids so I needed a separate van or something) then I'd have one electric for commuting and one gas for road trips.
This is a great article. I wish he had explained three things in more detail:

1) that you can only count on this over longer timeframes (15+ years)
2) his argument assumes an inflationary environments (versus a deflationary environment like Japan and Europe)
3) if you don't have the skills to read a Exxon Mobile or Coca Cola income/balance sheets once a quarter and find it fun you should invest in index ETFs.

These three things are why average investors should have a mix of stock and bond index funds in their portfolio that is based on their timeline.

Shameless plug: I'm bootstrapping a startup to help average investors manage their portfolios. If you are interested in getting started with or managing an existing index oriented asset allocation investment plan, I'd love to help you at https://azul.io (free of charge to folks signing up before I get Stripe integrated)
Kaitlyn learned Python to build this as a Valentine's Day present for her boyfriend, Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram.
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Thanks for the feedback!

We made the script a link so you could check out what's going on before running it.

The heroku-toolbelt .deb actually depends on system git-core and ruby1.9.1 so we shouldn't be trampling anything.
Seed numbers: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/crunchcrunch/
Uh, the Fed CPI does include food and energy prices. The government does have a separate "core" inflation number which excludes food and energy prices, but the regular CPI number includes food and energy and has forever.

Specifically, the CPI-U includes food & energy, but economic analysts and policymakers like to use the CPI-U for All Items Less Food and Energy because of the volatility of commodities.

The CPI-U however is still available and was last sitting at 3% for 2011. Again, that's with food & energy. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

Not only that, but the numbers that exclude food and energy make inflation look higher than when they are included.
Do you hire people from other countries? To work from remote.
I own zero gold. I'm being objective about what it does, and does not do. It's a store of value, that's it.

I'm heavily invested in my self. I own a business.

Which is also why in one of my posts, I said the best investment you can ever make is: you.

Tracking lines on oil and gold requires that you do so over an actual duration, not on select spot prices. Over time, oil and gold have tracked each other extraordinarily well.

Ultimately the point is really simple: check out a graph on oil and gold prices since 1970. To the moon. Why? They're priced in junk dollars.
Now that I think about it, if I said "Pixelapse" out loud, I bet most people would hear it as something like "pixel apps" or "pixie laps".
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of languages. Yes coding is important, that's the point of this thread, but natural languages as much as programming ones are integral to a good education, especially here on the other side of the pond.
like Google Tasks
That's really cool, thanks. But I don't think it includes OCR. The best FOSS OCR out there is Tesseract, which we use through DocumentCloud, but it still leaves a lot to be desired compared to commercial solutions.
Thanks for the kind words, Andrew. I'm not sure if you found it but you can compare multiple revisions side by side and also overlay revisions to see what's changed.