skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle with this from time to time.

I'm building a business that I plan/hope will allow me to have the freedom to do whatever I want with my time at some point in the future.

Today, however, I work. I work a lot. 12 hours is the low end for a day. I've put work ahead of lot of things.

If I were to truly close my eyes and do what I feel like, I'd be headed to a river/lake or getting on a plane. But I have clients, whom I've promised deliverables on Monday & Tuesday. So I'm going to work today.

In addition, we're generating a lot of sales leads from our website but our sales process isn't as effective as it needs to be to justify hiring a dedicated sales person to handle that task. Once I can improve the sales process, put in place the tools necessary for a higher closing rate, revenues will increase and I'll hire someone to manage that aspect of the business and move on to a different/higher quality problem. So this weekend, I'm going to be working on the sales process (emails/pdf brochures/demo video/etc) as well.

Yes, I could just go have fun and maybe I get to the same goal, just in a slightly longer time... but at least I enjoyed the journey more. Right? Maybe, but I don't see it that way.

If I don't work my ass off today, I perceive that my chances of "making it" are going to be much lower. I'm not sure if that perception is true or not, but can I really afford to take a chance? So this weekend, I'll work. I'll put in the time and hope that the small successes will build up to a mega success and make all the sacrifies (like leaving cousins birthday party after a quick drop-in or skipping out on a date) are justified at the results (money and freedom to do spend a lot of time with people.)

I don't know if that's the right call or not. I struggle with it all the time, particularly when friends are taking vacations 2-3 times a year.

For now, I'm placing my bets on "work now. enjoy later."

PS: I do make time for the absolutely critical things in my life like talking with my sister every other day, talking with my parents, keeping in touch with friends and more recently, taking my health a bit more seriously.

PS2: Two of my deepest fears: 1) not trying hard enough, 2) succeeding and realizing it wasn't worth the sacrifice. I don't think they are likely to happen.
I never saw the point of procedural generation in games like Diablo. Seems to me something only programmers would be interested in. What would have been wrong with getting a level designer to do it? Then gamers could talk more about shared experiences.
Ridiculous - This is pointless has nothing to do with that year it is. Companies who need students who know differential equations or linear algebra have always had these requirements (even before computers or programming languages existed). There is no way a humanities student knows this stuff and no way a company wants expend the resources to have them to learn DE on the job...

He applied for a job where knowledge and/or experience in complex mathematics was required and did not get the job because he lacked the qualifications. how is this interesting or even news???
Would you agree that adjusting expectations might also be a way to get there, at least partially?

"Financial independence" isn't just a measure of wealth, it's also a measure of one's own personal burn rate.
I've worked for a lot of startups and observed two primary causes of startup death: 1. VCs forced bad decisions on the startup. 2. Founders fought, resulting in bad decisions.

I think co-founders are an improvement over single-founder, but I think there should be a primary founder, the leader, with whom the buck stops, and with whom all of the co-founders are willing to defer if they don't reach consensus. There should be a chief and indians and even if everyone starts at the same time, the relationship should be discussed and understood in advance.

Much of the drama I've seen is inherent to the "Everyone is equal" perception.

If you're willing to be a cofounder in this environment- where you're NOT the leader and NOT equal to the leader- then from the beginning you've agreed to subordinate your ego to some extent to the founder, and so this should remove the ego driven need to defend yourself on things that really aren't that relevant which seems to be the cause of a lot of the drama.

I think PG echoed very similar sentiments in a recent interview with TC where he said he looked for teams where there was a clear leader. This fits my experience.
Isn't this something solved by CSS media selectors? Choose the images via CSS ("background" images, appropriately sized) within media selector criteria such as resolution and density.

As an aside I despise any separation that even brings up the word mobile. My smartphone has a higher resolution than many desktops...coupled with a higher network performance than many high speed connections. The days of treating these mobile computers as gimpy halfwits is long past.
Unfortunately it was developed by former Google cleaning staff, not Google engineers.
This is pointless has nothing to do with that year it is. Companies who need students who know differential equations or linear algebra have always had these requirements (even before computers or programming languages existed). There is no way a humanities student knows this stuff and no way a company wants expend the resources to have them to learn DE on the job...

He applied for a job where knowledge and/or experience in complex mathematics was required and did not get the job because he lacked the qualifications. how is this interesting or even news???
Software Defined Networking – The next big networking wave
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> What's the worst thing that could happen if you fibbed

Well, the worst thing would be if it was a trap question designed to weed out the people who lie at initial recruitment selection.
> Sun Microsystems?

+ Apple

They contribute back only whatever they see fit, and that's in perfect accordance with the licence.
When they finally arrive you'll see that no, they do not.

They are just blossoms here and there, not a mesh of grass.

Everything will not be simply programmable: it would be flexible, changing. Your wall would not be concrete with some software. It would be software with some concrete.
OP mentioned revenue was via Google AdSense. So he'll need to get that sorted out as well.
Valve is on the list of companies I'd work for if I weren't doing a startup (along with Apple, Palantir, Square, Sig Arms, and anything Elon Musk is attached to in any way).
you really need to set your expectations lower...give it at least 24 hours to hear back from them
This is correct. For example, German law is based on the concept of 'Urheberrecht', ie 'creator's rights', instead of 'copyright'.

This is the reason why copyright notices (which were mandatory in the US until 1989 according to Wikipedia) were never necessary in Germany and why there's no direct equivalent to public domain:

As soon as you create something worthwhile, you gain creator's rights, and as you remain the creator no matter what you do or what usage rights you grant to others, you can't give them away completely. There's a somewhat recent, rather embarrassing quote by German politician and lawyer Volker Kauder, who claimed to have acquired creator's rights to some images he used on his homepage without having the appropriate usage rights.

Anyway, you need an explicit license like http://pdclib.rootdirectory.de/wiki/License or http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ if you're German and want to add code to the 'public domain'.
If I read it correctly, the thief is now using his own AdSense Account. Consequently, Google is paying a thief, albeit unintentionally. I suspect Google might be persuaded to respond, but I wouldn't take that route right away. It has only been two hours since the registrar was contacted and it is their responsibility first. Google "customer service" is notoriously bad. If the domain theft is resolved, I could see you ending up in a position where Google somehow closes your account, thinking you were the thief.
i think the problem can be more complicated ... you should check security of your computer/email. Becase in my opinion atacker must have access at least to your email . Without it stole domain is almost impossible ...

Regards
"Lua OS - An operating system around LUA"

I think that is a bit backwards. It is actually a LUA GUI around a C based Linux kernal.

I would think that the performance of LUA is too poor at this time for this to be viable. I may try it when this has improved.
Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Govt Has Copies of Most of Your Emails
Ask HN: Android-friendly hosting?
I am on a tablet. My current webhost is not Android friendly. I expect to dump my hosting service anyway for other reasons. I have tried setting up a Blogger account or two and am having issues. So I searched for a free webhosting account and set up an account with a free site and cannot edit the home page. I have also had problems editing my various Wordpress sites, so I doubt that Wordpress.org is a viable option. My expectation is that my current websites will likely be abandoned without backing them up as I currently have no means to back them up. I am trying to start something new and not related to my previous work.

Anyone know of any android-friendly hosts (preferably free)?

Thanks.
That's awesome; I'm glad you've come back with an opposite viewpoint.

I think the takeaway is that different things work for different people. It could be that you would spend your life intensely happier if you just let go right now. And equally I could spend my life much happier if I took a grip.

If anything I'd say let go of the regret - you've picked this path so live it and love it :) And if you can't, maybe my way might be worth thinking about.

I guess the only way to find out is in 10 years time.

> but can I really afford to take a chance

You can always take a chance. always. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you different.

You're taking a chance on yourself right now by pushing hard at your goals.

Most of all; good luck!
What's so bad about being a cog?

I work 9-5 for a large company (100,000+ employees). I clock on each day, they pay me a great daily rate and I enjoy the work that I do.

Work doesn't define who I am and I am definitely not unfulfilled. I take French classes, dabble in photography and build the occasional web app. Once a month I take a 3 day weekend and go somewhere I've never been before. So far this year I've been to Switzerland, Belgium, Iceland and I'm shortly off to Madrid. I also enjoy cooking and going to fine restaurants.

The only reason I can afford to do these things is because of the money I receive from my work as a cog. Sure, I could try and grow one of my web app ideas, work a bazillon hours for the small chance that it takes off and I become a millionaire.

But what would I do then? Most likely the exact same things that I am doing now.

I'm not advocating working in a job you hate and avoiding following your dreams. I'm saying that working as a cog allows me to afford my dream, so don't be so quick to bag it.
Judge Alsup has a B.S. degree and apparently planned to be an engineer before he got interested in civil rights: http://www.fedbar.org/Resources_1/Judicial-Profiles/Judicial...
That list is now in my .plan
Aggressively Probing Ruby Projects
You can interactively play with a basic Voronoi diagram at http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/voronoi.html. The yellow polygon on the mouse shows the polygon that would be there if there had also been a point underneath the mouse cursor. That demo helped me get a feel for how they work.

If you're skimming, don't miss this article's Flash demo linked at the bottom, http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/....
Would also be interested in more information.
I think that financial independence is the definition of retirement. It is only seen as a mismatch (and early if before the age of 60 or so) because the conventional path to financial independence is working for 50 years. Someone who has spent 50 years working and is now financially independent will not want to do any more work ever again. Someone who is financially independent at the age of 26 or 30 though will probably keep working. This doesn't mean that the latter person isn't retired; an unconventional path to retirement leads to an unconventional retirement.
Advice I accept, experience I truly appreciate.
That lowercase /t/ in their choice for the body font is really annoying.
Gated communities are exclusive by definition, so whenever a site posts up a message saying essentially 'get with the times', I feel that basically treats no-script users as a community that's being excluded. It's largely a semantic/communication issue at this point, but there is a difference between helping someone out by pointing them in the right direction ("oh hey, it seems your javascript is off right now, but if you turn it on for us we can offer you these cool features..."), and saying they aren't welcome here ("why is your javascript off? every modern website uses it!"/"you're taking away from our ad revenue!").

Now I'm not a huge 'graceful degradation' advocate by any means, since a lot of sites (or 'apps' rather) would become totally useless without js, but all those no-script users decided to block javascript for a reason and they know very well what blocking javascript will entail, so I see no reason to be condescending towards them or give them anything more than a simple reminder/value-proposition so that they can turn js on for our sites.

We're probably on the same page, I just think the case against people who block javascript is overstated; these users are a minority, and they can evaluate it on their own whether your site's functionality is worth enabling javascript for.
5 most common regrets reflect what most people do.

If majority of people worked as entrepreneurs not cogs they would have different list of 5 regrets. But they would still have list of 5 most common regrets. Only different ones.

I think that people when they die usually regret the way they lived because they all dreamt about something different.

The only way not to regret anything is never dream and be happy with whatever hits you and with whatever comes out of your efforts.
I think you're massively overestimating the quality of education in the U.S. Simple arithmetic of two digit numbers is already in the 90% mark for adults. Branching logic is completely, completely out of scope for >2 branches.

It's funny you said eight year old; the US average adult reading level is 8th grade. That's a skill most use to some degree every day, just for reading signs, billboards, and text on TV. Can you imagine how rusty arithmetic must be?

Completely made up, but probably generous.
I wonder a few things about this...

1) Is it a given that our regrets, when death is close, are wiser than the choices we made when death seemed further away?

We clearly choose to do things like move away from our family and friends, to follow spouses, chase careers, have different lifestyles. And that keeps us occupied for decades.

If we chose to do none of that, or less of it, would be feel like we were in a rut all our lives? Maybe you'd still feel alone when you were dying, because you never set out in the world to find people who really understood you.

Maybe you always feel alone when you're dying and there's nothing you can do about it.

I'm just exploring this idea for the sake of testing it; actually I do not doubt the article's wisdom so much here. But my next concern, I believe in a bit more.

2) I wonder how many of these regrets are due to the systems we live under.

It seems to me that even a few hundred years ago, "I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends." would be absurd. You'd be sick to death of how close your friends were (in the 1300s, perhaps literally). Americans are particularly likely to move long distances, though.

And as for living a life true to oneself, and expressing oneself -- would you even think of such things if your horizon was one town, or one tribe? Maybe you'd have to be far more discreet, without the refuge of a large city, or other forms of anonymity.

As for not working so hard, that seems to be the most tied to whatever our political and economic systems are.
The new law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups...
In "objectively bad", I'm talking about competence.

I've met 5 times as many unethical people as incapable people. Easily. The unethical people should be fired once found out, but that's a given. The problem is that unethical people are usually impossible to spot until after they've screwed you.
I'm not sure what your point is. What part of rwj's argument don't you like? Do you dislike RAII? Personally, it's one of the few things I think I would miss from C++ if I went back to low-level programming. Even if file handles, etc are technically easier to handle, do we really lose anything by using a general tool to manage them, at least sometimes?

I feel like I'm missing something. Please explain.
It took me about 30 min today to figure out why when I started Chapter 5 your Application Controller had different content than mine (missing the blueprint, etc). Would you recommend the 2nd edition although I am halfway through the first edition?
I do but it's just not as efficient.
Legalese is the underlying factor in both, while SOPA clearly denoted its intention to target the biggest players in so called IP battles clear, CISPA still tries to achieve the same (State sponsored and enforced Corporate protectionism) using less defined, broad and wide spread powers.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/04/12/expert-new-ci...

Consider that protest has now been classified as a low level form of 'terrorism' according to the DHS. How easy will it become for someone who is sharing a leaked rip of the next upcoming 'blockbuster' a cyber criminal? (It will likely be an issue raised by all the proponents of SOPA and PIPA whose IP/Hollywood lobbyists are wine-dining as we speak.)

You make the deadly assumption that they intend to enforce the letter of the Law as its 'clearly defined,' and nothing more. You also clearly neglect just how tightly bound Corporate and State alliances are, I would argue they are one in the same, you do realize that insider trading is legal for Congress/Senate members, right?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323527/congress-trad...
Twin Brothers face litigation in the US over $1.2m Stock-picking robot Scam
For the majority of people this is unobtainable. Which is where your theory breaks down, I think. Because if a huge proportion of people adopt this attitude and strive for independence, most will fail and be ultimately unhappier for it.

Which sounds like I am recommending resigning oneself to never achieving.

But really what I am saying is this; figure out realistic goals, add a little bit, then head toward them. Also, enjoy yourself on the way.

Most successful people to my observation fall into two camps; ridiculously talented and "lucky". The former have realistic high level goals anyway. And the latter are, by definition, random.
The Rise of Smart Mobile Services (Not Apps)
How much value could a cofounder add for you.
Why not just SSH into vim?
Easier touchscreen scribbling hack
How would you use CSS media selectors with dynamic content?
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." --Ayn Rand
Experiences from an IPv6-Only Network
Google will have to display Android's relevance via the difference between implementing an API into a piece of software vs. the open and free use of an API's concept, which in this case is mostly a set of [37] "best practices" for a programming language. I suspect the latter is where Google will try and grab some ground in the copyright debate in the days to come.
pg, you should definitely learn something about cultures that are not so self centered then the american one. Your post reads like a prove of a mathematical system that only uses parts of it's own system. Of course it sounds logical.
I can't think of any regrets that I have. There are things that seriously annoy me about my life, like I am deeply in debt, homeless and trying to declare bankruptcy/find some solution for my financial problems. But I got into this mess by getting myself and my children healthy when the world says that cannot be done. It annoys the fool out of me that there is no support for what I have done but I could milk the system for scads of money if I took the conventional course of treatment. It just makes no sense. It is so not right. What I have done is both cheaper and more effective than conventional treatments. And no one cares, neither about my plight nor about how to replicate my accomplishment for others. The whole thing makes me crazy.

But regrets? That would suggest I made the wrong choices. Given the hand I was dealt, I cannot think of a single thing I "should" have done differently.

So no regrets, in spite of wanting to spit nails about my situation.
I would highly recommend Stanford's iOS programming course:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-...

The professor is very good, the lectures are current as of iOS 5, and they've made the slides and code available as well.
Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases
How about a solution for primes below a number using Sieve of Eratosthenes:

template<int H=-1, typename T=void>
struct tl {
enum {head=H};
typedef T tail;
};

template<>
struct tl<> {
};

template<int N, typename Then, typename Else>
struct if_c {
typedef Then type;
};

template<typename Then, typename Else>
struct if_c<false, Then, Else> {
typedef Else type;
};

template<int N, typename SoFar>
struct is_prime {
enum {value = N%SoFar::head && is_prime<N, SoFar::tail>::value};
};

template<int N>
struct is_prime<N, tl<>> {
enum {value = 1};
};

template<int N, int C, typename SoFar=tl<>>
struct prime {
typedef typename prime<N+1, C-1, typename if_c<is_prime<N, SoFar>::value, tl<N, SoFar>, SoFar>::type>::type type;
};

template<int N, typename SoFar>
struct prime<N, 0, SoFar> {
typedef SoFar type;
};

template<int N>
struct number : prime<2, N-2> {
};

template<>
struct number<0> {
};

template<>
struct number<1> {
};

template<typename T>
struct print {
};

void main() {
typedef print<number<300>::type>::type type;
}

Here is result from Visual Studio 2005:

c:\console.cpp(113) : error C2039: 'type' : is not a member of 'print<T>' with [T=tl<293,tl<283,tl<281,tl<277,tl<271,tl<269,tl<263,tl<257,tl<251,tl<241,tl<239,tl<233,tl<229,tl<227,tl<223,tl<211,tl<199,tl<197,tl<193,tl<191,tl<181,tl<179,tl<173,tl<167,tl<163,tl<157,tl<151,tl<149,tl<139,tl<137,tl<131,tl<127,tl<113,tl<109,tl<107,tl<103,tl<101,tl<97,tl<89,tl<83,tl<79,tl<73,tl<71,tl<67,tl<61,tl<59,tl<53,tl<47,tl<43,tl<41,tl<37,tl<31,tl<29,tl<23,tl<19,tl<17,tl<13,tl<11,tl<7,tl<5,tl<3,tl<2,tl<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>]
Man has traditionally (going back 10 thousands of years) not had the type of interaction that you mention. Civilization brought man close together in this modern era. Tract housing, public transportation, ETC.
History shows us that is more in mans nature to be largely isolated except for a small group of people. Even when living amongst other people - traditionally people were much more spread out than now and did not interact with those outside of their small group very often

It is clear that man prefers to travel with privacy or cars would never have succeeded where alternatives exist. The convenience factor is huge too.

I prefer the freedom to go wherever, whenever and without some crazy person screaming at me on some bus or subway somewhere.
I'm looking into that suggestion. Thanks for the advice. :)
I can imagine Woz sitting there thinking, "I can do this in 2 chips, 8 transistors and ..."