skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solution to your problem is relatively easy. You want something different, but your wife won't sign off on it in advance, because she's reasonably concerned about making ends meet.

The solution to this is to get the opportunity lined up before presenting it to your wife, and without quitting your current job (which by the way, has a time bomb sitting on it - your boss had to convince you to stay so they might be lining up a replacement for you already. Really depends on the nature of that relationship and company.)

If you really want to work for a startup, find some well funded ones, go interview with them (take long lunch breaks or a few personal days) and get some job offers at %120 of your current salary. Your wife will have trouble turning down a raise from a company that you really want to work for.

Most companies want "recommendations" but this is a legally dangerous situation anyway (even a positive recommendation opens the recommender up to legal liability for not being positive enough.) Most people will understand that your current employer cannot give a recommendation and when they ask about them, don't badmouth your current employer just say they're good but they can't give you what you need.

Anyway, that's how I'd approach it. If working for a startup means you'd have to move somewhere else, then you might look into the possibility of getting another corporate job, but in a startup hub, relocating there for a few years before making the switch to a startup.
Pushing messages + iOS = APNS
IBM Expands Its Analytics Portfolio By Acquiring Varicent Software
Maybe not, though if this project is successfull it will certainly increase his value. Eventually allowing him to earn more money!
Do you think it is possible to do this in a generic fashion, or would you have to port games one at a time?
Works fine here: Arch x86_64, Chromium 18.0.1025.142, Radeon 4850 w/ xf86-video-ati.
I did not know this. History even in software is interesting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(computing))

I wonder why the built in code repo did not become a feature - unless this another part of the project history I am unaware of.
In case people here didn't convince you yet with their spot-on answers here's the good source: http://cdixon.org/2010/06/26/competition-is-overrated/
Right. To elaborate, the benefits he enumerates are really things that he thinks will be easier after a complete rewrite into a more modular design.

Based on his description of the current CS compiler, it looks like the meat of the compilation from CS to JS is done in one step. After it's parsed into a CS AST, the AST is walked, and each node knows what JS it corresponds to. It prints it out as a string, and voila, you have JS.

A more orthodox and more robust design would parse the CS into an AST, and then push that AST through a series of stages. Each stage would transform the AST and have a narrowly defined purpose (flattening, uniqueification, etc), which should bring the AST closer and closer to a JS AST. The last step would be walking the AST and outputting strings.

So, one benefit he mentioned is that you can "define multiple sets of (CS)AST -> (JS)AST transformation rules for multiple compilation targets." What this means is that since the entire transformation won't be done in one step, this will allow the modularization of stages. So, suppose there's some stage that's making the JS more IE friendly, but you don't care about IE. No problem. Remove that stage, swap in something else.

Having multiple stages will also decouple parts of the design, and lessen the need for special casing. So, hopefully less bugs and more extensibility.

He also wants the JS AST to conform to some Mozilla standard, so existing tools will be able to operate on it. In fact, it sounds like his strategy for printing the JS AST into JS concrete syntax is to use an existing project that operates on these mozilla ASTs.
"Just the first pictures were enough for her to conclude that the two paintings had been produced in tandem. After that, it was just a question of watching the evidence pile up."

Confirmation bias anyone?
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction
between his work and his play;
his labor and his leisure;
his mind and his body;
his education and his recreation.
He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing,
and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing.
To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
- L.P. Jacks
Sure, those are fine examples of use cases that fall outside the general category of applications which don't require server-side data validation.

You're using "security" to mean something totally different now (protection of your data from other users v. prevention of you modifying your own data in unexpected ways). My point before was that most applications just don't have that concern of limiting what users can do to their own data, at least for the MVP, because in most applications that will only affect the user herself.
Yes, this is what we are thinking of focusing on ... also trying to take advantage of trouble we expect they will face being mass-market. The trouble comes because the mass market we know. Most of us instinctively do. The potential niche/specialist markets are quite unknown quantities at this stage ...
Flat 15% discount on minimum purchase of Rs.1500 by Myntra
For Canada everyone is in 151 Front st toronto

You have lots of options

dacomtech.com is run by a friend of mine - and I am sure they could work something out for you. They are located there.
Depends on your market. If this is a new and growing market don't worry about it. I've made the same mistake couple of times. I let a competing site get me change my plan. I became more focused on the competitor than on the market and how to let my service and product match the market needs.

If you believe in the service you are providing and the market is big enough, then double down. But keep your eye on beating the house and not the guy with the bigger stack of chips next to you.

And remember most first-time buyers of this service are not going to know who has more funding. So when the bigger guy starts to spend money on marketing, you just ride along on their wake.
Okay - that sounds good. Although, one thing I forgot to mention is - if you can - please stay away from angel investors who are non-value added.

The problem with non value added investors is that they may or may not know what you are trying to create (and how difficult it is or will be) so they will get impatient very fast and will run for shelter at the first sign of trouble. They are known for running start-ups down!

Instead, find a technical invester. Having an investor who is technically sound and who understands your concept well will be much harder to convince but in long run you will have great return from him/her.

There is nothing better than a technical expert committing money in your start up. It will instantly validate your idea and I think that is the first step to a great success.

In my humble opinion, you should leaverage you leaving your job based on an investment from a technical investor.

And, trust me - I know how difficult it is to have a technical investor commit their seed money but also trust me that if you can pull it - you will be a very happy founder even after leaving your job.

Best of Luck :)
That is certainly true, I just pointing out the coincidence. That said, Rachel Haywire does have a history of creating drama within communities. I don't want to blame the victim, but every state has a cyberstalking protocol and if this has been going on for 10 years, I can't help but think there's a reason why.
Yup. I've used a separate browser for YouTube ever since Google required me to link it to my 'Google account' (that I use for GMail).
I am very convinced, it is quite hard to ensure your approach is balanced when your "human" part is worried, your ego says fight and your gut says be smart. Great link btw!
Don't worry about competition, especially un-launched competition. Most startups die due to suicide, not murder.

A major competitor of ours launched 3 weeks after we started our company, doing the exact same thing as us. They were a bunch of big-name executives from a huge successful internet company, raised 10x the funding we had, and were already live with the most prominent customers that we were going after. We were scared, until we talked with one of their customers -- turns out their technology wasn't accurate at all, and the customer hadn't even integrated it into production. We kept heads down for the next 6 months and built something that works, and now have no problem finding customers.

So ignore all the hype, and just focus on making your technology work and your users happy.
It's way too early to know whether you're really at a disadvantage. That's just your lizard brain freaking out.

Your biggest risk is failing to execute. Both you and your competitor have a thousand ways to screw up long before you have to worry about the impact of competition with each other.

It's like obsessing over the danger of shark attacks while failing to wear your seatbelt. Deal with the risks that are orders of magnitude more important.

You don't even know if they're going to pivot in response to some other real or imagined competitive threat or opportunity.
Did the times when you didn't force a differentiation or change of direction due to competition turn out well for you?
I really like this idea. How an issue is framed is crucial to the battle because this may eventually make it to the public.

I am also bothered by the lack of proper due process afforded to these bastards. Don't tell anybody, but I am secretly a little sympathetic to the cause of protecting copyright. But that can be abused and without a strong set of guidelines for making a case it most certainly will be abused.
Hardware is not the goal of OLPC. But it's an important component and a Raspberry Pi is not in the same ballpark as an XO laptop.

A kid in rural Peru is not going to have access to monitors, keyboards or the power required to run them. Nor will they sling a monitor over their back on the 5 mile walk back to their village every day.

I'm not sure what the purpose of this sort of comment is?
Kickstarter allows me to add rewards after the project has started. What kind of rewards would you like to see?
Psst..

var xhr = $.ajax({ type: "HEAD", ...
xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-Length')

I wound up using Silverlight. Sigh.
Reminds me of my first ever programming class -- http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/handouts/karel-the-robo...
Apple Should Not Include USB Power Adapter in it Mobile Devices Package 
USB Power Adapter should sell separately and reduce the price of iPhone, iPad and etc. I guess there are hell lot of people already have extra USB Power Adapter out there.
This can save the environment by reducing rubbish.
Good to mention market transparency after demo day. I hadn't thought of that. Though, once you build the prototype, you'll be looking for funding anyways.

Maybe it's just the most efficient form of presenting? I feel like the benefits at that stage really outweigh the risks.
Summary: We want to be able to turn over any information the government wants without being blamed.
Recent college grad here too. Strongly suggest that. Work just enough to get by, pay the bills, eat, etc. Dedicate atleast 2-3 hours, completley focues and uninterrupted, to your passion,purpose, craft. Or socialize purposefully - building relationships and allies sort of speak.
Looks like those image urls resolve on the fastmail.fm domain, but not the beta.fastmail.fm domain:

https://beta.fastmail.fm/pages/fastmail/images/fmlogo_horiz_...

vs.

https://fastmail.fm/pages/fastmail/images/fmlogo_horiz_320.p...
Awesome port und JS/browser/canvas/webgl tech demo.

I think the gameplay is ok for a casual game (kind of doubledragon style and fun) but the overall style, the topic, the enemies, the beard, the story is not on par with the tech
Python FAQ: Equality
All steps on my list are either fully automated or optional, so it doesn't cost them more.

Google has a lot to gain from people entrusting them with their data, that's why they provide a free email service in the first place.

It would be a mistake to think that trust is linear. You can't just treat a few people very badly without risking a major backlash against your business model.
It's a neat idea, but I really want to hear an experience report on the results. I don't want to throw cold water on this, because I want it to work and I think it might, but I have a fair amount of experience here[0] and can think of a number of reasons why it might go poorly as well. All we see in the OP is, "here's an idea that's cool (and it is) and I'm optimistic that it will work."

[0]I have taught courses where intro-level students write Scheme interpreters (in Scheme, in Java) and courses where students implement interpreters for higher-level languages, and courses (well, one so far) where they implement an actual compiler (for a subset of C).
This was an awesome documentary, even though I am not currently writing anything for the scene I still like to watch what they do and I generally try and tune into streams of the parties. Fun times
Thank you, you are exactly right. Working on CoffeeScript is my passion. I don't need any financial incentive to do it, I just need food, a place to live, and some cash to hold off my student loan creditors.
A Guide to Applying Predictive Analytics
I think the word 'work' is loaded and negative. I think of work as trading your time in exchange for money. I like to use 'produce'. Or 'creating'. That's what you want to dedicate your life to.
I don't know if they're blocking it at the DNS level, or if there is some way of blocking the actual site. But that's the IP address. Why couldn't someone use any generic proxy to visit Pirate Bay?

Some pirate bay censoring schemes do block it at the IP level (e.g. the scheme used by Eircom the largest ISP in Ireland). Just using the IP address doesn't work. Even pings are blocked.

I just don't see how governments can actually block websites

Courts can force companies (ISPs) to do something, and the details are up to to the companies. Since the Pirate Bay is hosted externally, all the ISPs have to do is block their IP addresses.
Why are you in stealth mode? Is there technology that is hard to duplicate, or too easy to duplicate? Building in a bubble is not a good sign whether you have competitors or not.

> Most startups die due to suicide, not murder.

This is true, and it could easily happen to you (the OP) too.
Graphite Script for Hubot
/sigh

With the caveat that I have no knowledge about how hiring works in sales, finance and, well, every area outside of engineering, if you want to get hired in engineering, almost none of this is relevant.

I don't know who perpetuates these myths but they're simply not true.

Interviewing as a software engineer will involve being asked questions that demonstrate your ability to formulate a solution (and turn it into code), test your knowledge of fundamental algorithms and test system design.

Questions about being shrunk to a penny and other such obtuse brain-teasers have never, to my knowledge, been part of engineering hiring. Individual interviewers may stray into this territory but they're not following (current) protocol if they do.

Of course, I can't speak to how things were years ago (before I joined) but it's not relevant now. Ignore this advice.
Seems unlikely to be a true comment in this case.

However, She is a very odd cookie - and appears to have said some strange things (including engaging trolls) in the past. So I would believe Kickstarter if they said there was more "engagement" than Rachel lets on.
You can already buy ARM based dev kits from Nvidia, TI etc. They're much more powerful and suited towards that sort of goal (and more expensive).

Edit: for eg http://pandaboard.org/
Google hasn't been asking riddles in interview questions for years now. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're outright disallowed.

Similar articles have been written many times over, here's a thread with all that is relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130984
If it were, everyone would be doing it.
Remember that it is a tv show - the pitch and presentation is MUCH longer than what we see on tv. Also, I still wonder how many of the deals actually ever close.
Tbilisi hotels - Sharden hotel
Tbilisi Sharden hotel is located in the historic and cultural center of Old Tbilisi. The geographic center of the city is here and this is where the tourist’s path begins as well, towards the Narikala Fortress built in the 4th century and the old Christian churches. The Synagogue and Mosque are right next to the hotel.
As others have commented - competition is good. Every time I find out about a new competitor to my niche software product I break out into a sweat, but my sales never went down yet. I would be more worried if you had no competition (no competition usually means no market).

Anyway, I'm guessing the competitor doesn't feel as invincible as you think they are. More staff = faster burn rate. Market buzz = greater expectations to fulfill. Better funded = more VCs breathing down their neck. Geographic advantage = more local companies to poach their staff.

I would work out what you can do better (or just different) and focus on that. Maybe concentrate on a smaller market niche than them.

But if you really, really, feel deep-down that you have lost already. Then you have. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thanks for noticing!

Some posters here have very weird perspectives. Yes, if someone wants to extrapolate some straw man, based not on statements in the article or evidence from the real world, but built from whatever feels easy to criticize thoughtlessly, then sure, it is easy to knock that straw man down. Whatever.

For what it's worth, I liked The Stanley Parable and had a nice chat with the author of the game at PAX last year. Why would anyone assume that something like this is not the case?

You guys do know that the subjects of articles you read on the internet are other real people also on the internet, right? Why would a poster here assume that I am some kind of inert punching bag rather than, you know, someone who's been on HN for a couple of years and involved in discussions?
And if you're interested in running it yourself, give this a try.

http://ibm1130.org/sim/downloads

The IBM 1130 system emulator with APL/1130. A Windows executable that provides for IBM System 1130 emulation via Hyperterminal and a custom APL font included.

It should run the GOL APL code nicely.
Instagram is not worth $1 billion to Facebook
I was hoping the blog will have some links from times past, talking about how it was going.
+ You want to have rewards in lower donation brackets. Right now there's nothing between $25 and $200 — if I were to donate, I'd likely donate more than 25, but less than 200. You probably want rewards at the 50, 75, 150 levels.

+ Most projects offer tangible rewards (posters, booklets, figurines, keychains, tees-shirts etc.) that are just cool to have for any self-respecting geek. Unfortunately you're a software enterprise so it's not that evident for you, but I'm sure you can be creative in that space.
Looking after your Body Jewelry - Shopping - Jewelry
When these courses started coming out I was very excited. Now that there are so many of them, I find myself being interested in too many and being paralyzed by excessive choice, to the point that I've gone back to good old books for my self-learning.
The Most Secure Mobile OS Is BlackBerry 7
To all saying "Ugh no time!" At this point, there are still 7 and a half hours remaining. You can easily qualify (20 points) in under an hour.

That being said, #4 is the only one that tripped me up - I'm think the solution is very simple and elegant but all I can think in my head is something along the lines of ray-tracing. Back to the drawing board!
1. His app spend estimate is for his entire household, not him individually.

2. He isn't just talking about buying things online. Note mentions of Square.
This reminds me of playing RoboRally (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/roborally).

RoboRally is a board game where you have to program your robots next 5 steps with instruction cards (turn left/right, move, ...).
Ten Twitter Suggestions to Fuel Your Seo and Customer Relationships
Possibly. Or a writer adding flourish to an act of intuition and judgement. And the evidence does seem very very strong. Guess this would be a true positive case of confirmation bias?
Funny how technology has made "professional player" a zero-income occupation. It used to be so profitable.
For the past 5 years or so, I've been spending my summers teaching kids how to program, build robots, make websites, videogames, etc.

I usually teach algorithms without using a computer as well. I put kids in groups, and give them a shuffled deck of cards. How can we sort it as fast as possible? Can they come up with their own techniques? Then we have little challenges to see which group sorts it the fastest, and they explain their "algorithm" to the others.

It's an intuitive way to introduce many concepts (including parallelism, yay) without using a computer. I think it's critical to show that this elegance in computing transcends the machine.
Didn't work here.
Arch x86_64, Chromium 18.0.1025.151, Intel Mobile 4.

Even starting with `chromium --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist`.

Worked fine on Windows though. Good job porting it to the Web, very funny game :)
The BBC video is great. It reminds me of learning Microsoft "Extended Basic" on a Tandy Color Computer (aka, the CoCo) with a TV as a monitor around 1982-83.

Except back in the day, I had to deal with cassette tapes and only 4K (subsequently upgraded to 16K) of RAM.

30 years ago, I learned code by typing in hundreds of lines of (sometimes buggy) BASIC source code found in print magazines that came out only once a month. Today, all a youngster needs to do is a pull (and in just about any programming language) from Github. Progress is amazing!
Ms. Jaeger:

It has come to my attention that Rachel Mendelson aka "Rachel Marone" aka "Rachel Haywire" aka "Transhuman X" may be allowed to use kickstarter again only 2 years after she took $3,000 with a fraudulent kickstarter effort. People are angrily posting on this page even as of a few months ago, and she has no plans to print the CD or to make any of the charitable contribution percentage she promised from this project. Please do not allow her to make any more kickstarter efforts, and defraud more people. Here is the page and the comments from people who never got their CD from her. By kickstarter's own rules, she should be required to return the donations at this point, not start a new fraudulent kickstarter campaign. She is very likely to start a new kickstarter account called 'Rachel Marone', be aware she is abusing kickstarter for financially fraudulent purposes.

Here is the link to the project that never did anything but take money:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machinekuntrecords/sanit...

where you can see comments of complaint from its backers:

"If you’re a backer of this project, please log in to read this post.
3 of 4
View Previous Comments

Fb_profile_picture.thumb
Erik Roy Tomren on September 26, 2011

so when is this coming out? the hard copy version, not the download.
1.thumb
Cat on February 24

It's a year after this posting, almost two years after this was funded, and I have yet to receive my hard copy of this album. Very displeased. :/
Fb_profile_picture.thumb
Steve Cross on March 15

Is the hard copy ever going to appear. A further update would be nice. I am not very happy!!
What do you think is stopping demos from taking off as a serious commercial art form? Just culture, or something more fundamental?
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/#Object