skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age 10, me: "I want to be a professional baseball player." Others: "Get serious, you'll never be good enough."

Age 16, me: "I want to publish comic books." Others: "Get serious, that's no way to make a living."

Age 22, me: "I want to teach math." Others: "Get serious. You'll never make much money that way."

Age 30, me: "I want to publish my own software." Others: "Get serious. No one will buy yours over some big company's."

Age 35, me: "I want do a start-up." Others: "Get serious. You're too old. You have responsibilities."

Age 40, me: "I want to be a stand-up comic." Others: "Get serious. Only the top 1% of the top 1% make any money."

Yesterday, me: "I want to sit in a cubicle all day long and maintain someone else's crappy code." Others: "Get serious. No one could possibly want that."

Today, me: "Since I spent my whole life listening to people who never mattered, now I'm going to really "get serious" and do what I want: surf Hacker News and write cool software." Others: "".
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That is a very tough question. I think there could probably have been space for expansion on that particular thought. It seems… Odd for someone to say that when they are happily married. Perhaps he is using the broader definition of love that includes love of friends. Still, he does use the singular: find someone to love.

Yeah, this part's got me a little confused, too, not gonna lie :p
I signed up for the 'build a web browser' class. Sounds like a fun challenge to write a HTML and js parser
I moved to this project after a horrible experience trying to mash together two different projects (one for drag and drop, and one for opening a file dialog on any button click). I was able to replace weeks of frustration in about 45 minutes, and haven't looked back since. I highly recommend it.
I almost feel as if it isn't fair. My university offers none of these things at the undergraduate level -- compilers isn't even offered at all. Although I am an advocate of this paradigm shift taking place, and am happy to be alive during a time where radical changes to education are surely to be made, these courses being offered make me really have second thoughts about putting all my time towards my university's summer courses to graduate as soon as I can. I hope they don't start charging by the time I finish undergrad.

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>Zimbabwe, Africa

Off-topic, but it really shouldn't be necessary to provide a continent when naming a country e.g. Japan, Asia.
That's a good idea. Michael, you should look into doing a run of CoffeeScript coffee mugs. These ones were much-loved and are no longer available: http://www.etsy.com/listing/93595042/coffeescript-mug
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Maybe it's just me, but when I see a product that claims to do something seemingly impossible without explaining how it works, I tend to be highly suspicious that it doesn't, and I feel a little bit patronized. I think the main description should at least give a hint.

I see "webcam" mentioned in the testimonials now, but I would make it more prominent.
Likely in this case. I just wonder what position they started from...looking for evidence to support the particular hypotheses, or were they open minded about it...
TPB is also blocked by IP address in NL.

The dutch pirate party had a specific proxy running which they were ordered to shut down so they're now running a generic proxy.

If you're dutch and haven't donated to the "Piratenpartij" yet, please do so now if you think these issues are important: http://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/lidworden/doneren/

I'm saddened that wrt to the internet and censorship my supposedly progressive[1] country can now be added to the list of China, Iran and many other oppressive regimes.

[1] it hasn't actually been that for quite a while now
Isn't the Hague just for trying Africans?

http://www.france24.com/en/20120315-lubanga-kony-icc-african...
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I don't want to trash this essay but I found it disappointing. I think the reason why is that the author had a great theme -- flip common advice around backwards -- but then let it take over his argument to the degree that the substance was really poor. Very unusual for somebody who is a litigator. It is an example of style over logic.

Life is not fair and you should do something you love. Birds also sing, mom is a pretty good person, and be sure to wear clean underwear. This missing piece here is that life is about how you choose to interact with it. It does not exist without your perception of it. Instead of wondering whether life is fair or not, you are the entity that should be fair. Instead of wondering how something might or might not feel to you, realize that you are the entity responsible for your feelings. You should be able to learn to love things you might not initially. If this were not true we'd all be stuck playing video games or taking drugs. The feeling that something initially gives you is not a very good indicator of how much you might or might not deeply love it over time. Learn to take orders and follow directions and you can be exposed to more things that you might like. Don't do that and you'll never know what you've missed.

This entire line of thought the speaker espouses is like that: half-formed and glossy. You should do something that is meaningful and other people might not like, but don't use their hatred as any kind of indicator of the worth of what you're doing. That's backwards. Sounds good, but it's backwards. It also skips over the most important part -- how to know if what you're doing is meaningful and important. Using other people's hatred is not going to work.

What's worse is that after a while all these commencement speeches just run together. All the same pablum about not having to follow rules, make life a game, follow your heart, stick it to the man, and so on. Enough already.

It's not that these things are not true, it's that they are watered down, feel-good bullshit phrases that really don't give you much chance of actually doing anything useful from what you've learned from the speaker.

I can understand why people like this essay. If it were the only one of it's kind I'd like it too. Hell, if there were only a hundred like this I'd still like it. But at some point I feel that we're doing a great disservice to college graduates by telling them a bunch of stuff that they would be inclined to believe anyway, just in a more clever format. Sometimes, maybe only once in a decade, somebody should tell these kids something that's a bit more practical.
Thankfully, the internet is a distributed network full of computers. You can block the road between the user and his destination, but all he needs is another computer to forward the traffic for him and the block is useless. The ISP's knows this but they simply comply with the law because they have to.

Some ways to get around their silly blocks are:

Proxy servers (tons of these...too many to list)

VPN providers (https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-ano...)

Unix shell accounts with port forwarding (you need one simple command to set up port forwarding: ssh -L 8080:thepiratebay.org:80 your_shell_server.com)

Seed boxes for downloading, sftp to grab the loot from them.
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> Or socialize purposefully - building relationships and allies sort of speak.

I would probably agree with this a couple of months ago but I don't know any more. I just love meeting people, everyone is so different and interesting.

Your approach is great if the only thing that's going to make you happy is money and success but I've realised, only just lately for me, that it's not everything.

Just do what ever maximises your happiness and feeling of self-fulfilment. I'm sure money and success are great and can even be a source of happiness but I'm know if I was a millionaire tomorrow, I wouldn't feel content.
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I don't think this is closer to OLPCs goal of providing a laptop per child. OLPC was, literally, "batteries included," they even had a charging solution for the batteries. The OLPC device as a tool for kids to learn about computers and programming was just one facet of its intended use. It was also a notebook, and a textbook and a communications device. The RasberryPi needs a screen, a keyboard and power, and even with those things, a Kid isn't going to be able to carry it arround and use it anywhere they want.

None of this is a criticism of RaspberryPi. I think cheap computers that kids can screw up and fix is a very good thing. And often, less is more.
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> "Sadly Objective-C is only available on Apple platforms."

Is that true? I'm not an Obj-C programmer, but I swear I remember Objective C being a part of most standard Linux distros well before OSX came out.
What's really nice about the compiler being in JavaScript is that you can run JavaScript anywhere: in the browser, on any OS, embedded in any major web framework. If the compiler were written in any other language, you'd have to worry about dependencies.

This applies to HTML and CSS preprocessors as well: I'd advocate Jade over Haml and Stylus or Less over Sass, simply because Jade and Stylus/Less aren't tied to the Ruby ecosystem. JS is the real deal for "Write Once, Run Anywhere."
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It would be interesting to have a controlled study of how much where great entrepreneurs go matters. Perhaps it is a similar argument to the one that says a place like Stanford or Berkley are not great because of the actual schooling that goes on, but because of the kind of people it attracts. But I am not sure how you would design such a study.

The summaries are pretty nice though.
Take udacity/coursera courses during the summer instead?
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> So I could see Kickstarter considering it a violation
> of the "Don't post obscene, hateful, or objectionable
> content. If you do we will remove it and suspend you."
> guideline.

I hate speculation like this. If Kickstarter considered it in violation of that part of their TOS, then why not explicitly state so rather than saying that she was 'encouraging spam' and that spam is in violation of the TOS? Chances are that they did not consider it a violation of those terms.
It's not true. There just isn't great library support on other platforms so doing anything nontrivial outside of OS X or iOS is a pain, although there are projects like Cocotron that are trying to do something about that.
While very few standup comics make Louis CK money (and don't forget how long it took him to get there) there are tons of working professional ones you've probably never heard of. It's very similar to music in that way. If you're willing to work hard at it you'll probably get to where you can make a decent living within a couple years, even if you never end up with your own HBO special.
Good job so far getting it up and running. Apply some kickstrap[0] and you will have a much cleaner looking website overnight. If you can get some better design going, your traffic should increase more.

[0]http://ajkochanowicz.github.com/Kickstrap/themes.html
Oh, but the things you can do without a monitor, a mouse and keyboard :)
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did not quite understand - did the author make any working site with php before switching to python,

or he basicly jumped to python early on as an absolute beginner
I was actually thinking the other day. What would happen if Instagram applied for YC ? (May be they even did :)) Some of the characteristics don't look so good. Shall we see….

- A single founder…at least to begin with (they had a 80/20 split because Kevin apparently committed earlier) http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/11/business/la-fi-insta...
- A non-technical founder: http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-forma...
- And the idea is for an app to share pictures in 2010. Even Facebook and Twitter had a really good mobile app by then.

I say their chances did not look very good. That said, they probably would have benefited much from being in YC.
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I thought so. I figured the OP is probably referring to the lack of Cocoa-like frameworks on other OS's but that one sentence just jumped out at me, because some people would probably take it at face value.
Any opinion on Udacity's compiler classes versus Coursera's? There is a gap of one week between them, so we can try both and choose the one that suits us, but still, any gut feel?
Isn't it strange how, whenever that phrase or something similar is transmitted, inevitably drama ensues?
If i build, will they come?
Almost all of us in this community has built something and at some point we have either succeeded or failed. Some of us are trying to build something as well. The question here is how to gain recognition by the people and gain active members for what we built. If i build, will they come? How? I know that "build, they will come" is just a metaphor however there must be a way to spread it. Spreading like a virus or one by one each day, the speed does not matter at all. The outcome is what matters. I honestly do not mind if i have 25K users in the very first day or month or year.

How did previous entrepreneurs do that in the last 5 or 10 years? What were their strategies? What they didn't have at their time and what do we have now and vice versa? What should be our spreading strategy? Social networks? Social media? Word of mouth? How does one trigger the spread? How should we use our imagination or should we? Are there any proven methods? Which books should we read about this? How should we educate ourselves on this matter?

Let's discuss this. Thanks in advance.
I did not like the Dragon book either. I feel like it taught me nothing and was difficult to read and comprehend. I had to find other sources of explanation at times when I was doing this. It seemed to be more a thought and theory book if I remember.

This was at least 6 years ago though, so my memories are a little cloudy.
You would think that. But I saw a posting from someone on Reddit (and I think maybe HN) that was on Shark Tank and they said that it's pretty much exactly what you see.

But you're right, even if they get a deal on the show, it doesn't necessarily mean it will go through.
See, this blew my mind.. I haven't owned an OSX device in some time, but recently picked up a mini to do some iOS work.

Now... I gotta give it to Apple, MOST of the interface is very slick, and sexy.. But.... I feel like they treat more heavy users as second class citizens. (And developers as 3rd).

Things like NO New File and NO easy way to copy the path out of finder drive me up a wall. I mean, thisn't new stuff. I shouldn't have to install a separate script to add a file to the directory im at in finder. This is -slash- should be stock in finder.

/rant
(In my mind, only markets tend to be winner-take all. are there other examples?)
Again: that form of information sharing isn't just already lawful under the 1986 ECPA, it's explicitly written into the 1986 ECPA. If anything, CISPA --- particularly the second draft of CISPA, but even the "horrible" first one --- is more restrictive: it narrows the circumstances of sharing to "cyber threat" scenarios, limits who the information can be shared with (ECPA does not), and suggests anonymization.
Yep, you can compile Obj-C on linux using gcc.
I'm not sure I fully understood your second paragraph, but I found David Foster Wallace's commencement speech to hit the practical advice nail on the head. The story about shopping after work? Pretty brutal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
Set up your own domain name for $5/year or less and use the free email aliasing that comes with it,

e.g. paul@wvenable.me would be aliased to paulharris@gmail.com at your DNS provider.

Then you only ever pass around wvenable.me addresses. If you get a good provider, they will give you unlimited free aliasing (though they may not allow catch-all address for free, which redirect anything@ to some default address, due to spam potential).

Combined with monthly backups via IMAP or export from your actual email providers, you will never be dependent in either identity, contacts or content with any single provider.

Needless to say, all of the above is trivial to setup for a typical HN'er.
They totally borrowed "Actions" from Blueprint.IO! Guess I gotta go into stealth mode....
Thanks for the recommendation. I've been meaning to get the LAMP documentary, but will get both now. Things were so simple, yet complex back then.
Interactive demo-like things have been taking off lately, but mostly under the label "games" (which sells more), even in the case where the game-ness is pretty minimal. Not sure if they're explicitly inspired by the demoscene or not, but interactive-procedural-graphics-and-sound stuff like Proteus feels very much like a demoscene production to me (http://www.visitproteus.com/). Main difference imo is more focus on the procedural interactivity from an experiential perspective, and less focus on technical virtuosity.
"real-time" has a very specific meaning when it comes to software, don't dillute it please.
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Puzzle-based gameplay doesn't usually absorb me much. I tend to prefer much more open gameplay where there are many different ways of achieving ends. The "aha!" dopamine rush that puzzle type games are supposed to run on isn't very strong with me; the payoff is so weak that I lose interest whether I'm making progress or not. And it's not just games either, it follows through into programming and debugging.

Closest thing to puzzle games that I enjoy are stealth territory navigation games like Thief series, Deus Ex, Far Cry 1 & 2 (at least the way I play them), etc. But the rush comes from a plan coming together in execution; in much the same way that I best enjoy programming when designing a bunch of data structures that solve a problem nicely.
I actually found this uploader quite hard to implement with the dependencies and templates. While it works great as is, customizing it was so painful that I tore it out of my project.
Memories... This was the first programming environment I learned in college (RIT in 1983).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_language)
This article reads a lot more like "In praise of Cocoa" than anything specific to Objective-C, the language. The author clearly sees them as one beast when they are quite separate. It's somewhat reasonable to lump them together since developing anything in Objective-C without Cocoa is generally prohibitively difficult given the lack of other library support.

That said, nothing he's really talking about has to do with the language itself (save, perhaps, for the performance characteristics closer to C++ than Java). He's more praising what C# developers always praise: he's basically describing it as "Java done better than Java."
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I actually think YC would probably have picked up on them...Especially with the early traction numbers. It would be interesting to have a postmortem of applicants...but I doubt YC would ever release that information.
It's just American's anti-police, anti-government, anti-authority streak that cause them to rise up against it.

No, it's called the principle of individual rights. The founding principle of the US, totally unique for its time. Now, it's mostly out the window, but it's still in our blood to some degree, as it should be. Also, limited government.

And not only does the TSA totally trample these American principles, but as others have pointed out, it's a much worse unaccountable police force than can be found in most other Western countries.
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Something that you're forgetting to consider in your analysis is that while Instagram is a mobile first company right now, there is demand and a place for them to have a stronger web presence. There have been other media outlets to speculate on this topic but obviously before the acquisition they did not have the resources to dedicate time to a better web experience. Now that they will be given significantly more resources they will now be able to deliver such an experience. As you've noted web advertising is far more effective of a method and therefore will be an area for revenue generation. Instagram would also have the possibility of creating a platform for people to sell their photos or have them made into art like other companies do right now. Things like promoted pictures could be implemented much more easily to work with brands. In the same way that Facebook generates a primary amount of its revenue while leaving mobile untouched for the time being I believe the same can be done for Instagram. Mobile is the bread and butter for Instagram and still will be as it continues forward but a web based experience can greatly help the company both grow its user base and grow revenue.
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Indeed, many people went from the demoscene to the game industry. Case in point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedy_Entertainment
I have a CoffeeScript fork (based on Michael Bolin's work) targeting Google Closure's Advanced mode here:

https://github.com/lynaghk/coffee-script

The motivating use case for me is that ClojureScript (the Clojure->JS compiler) is built on Closure, and when I've wanted to integrate third party JS into my ClojureScript projects I've found it easier to port JS to CoffeeScript than to annotate the existing JS for use with advanced mode.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend me a modern US stockbroker?
I'm looking for recommendations and advice regarding choosing an online stockbroker, and figured HN would be a great place to ask. Since I last traded anything, several years have passed and I've moved from the UK to the US. In the UK, I had an account with TD Waterhouse - they had a passable web interface (for the time) but fairly high commission. I'll be making medium-to-long-term investments.

Since there's probably a fairly good baseline of trustworthy brokers with reasonable fees, here are some specifics I'm interested in:

* Great customer service, appropriate to my intermediate-level experience trading and limited familiarity with US tax laws, etc.

* Great web & mobile user interface - I'm a web engineer; it hurts to be forced to use something shoddy.

* Availability of an API - not a killer by any means, but I'd love to be able to write my own user interface. Not for automated trading; just for tinker value.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated!
They should start in mid May instead so students can finish their Spring semester classes and then take Udacity or Coursera courses over the summer. With the current schedule, I would have to start taking the courses near my Spring term final exams.