skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While reading this, I was reminded of the following excerpt of Makers by Cory Doctorow (which, btw, is absolutely one of the best books to read if you're into tech startups):

> “What? I thought you’d be happy about this.”

> “I am,” Perry said. “But you’re misunderstanding something. These aren’t meant to be profitable businesses. I’m done with that. These are art, or community, or something. They’re museums. Lester calls them wunderkammers—cabinets of wonders. There’s no franchising op the way you’re talking about it. It’s ad hoc. It’s a protocol we all agree on, not a business arrangement.”

> Tjan grunted. “I don’t think I understand the difference between a agreed-upon protocol and a business arrangement.” He held up his hand to fend off Perry’s next remark. “But it doesn’t matter. You can let people have the franchise for free. You can claim that you’re not letting anyone have anything, that they’re letting themselves in for their franchise. It doesn’t matter to me.

> “But Perry, here’s something you’re going to have to understand: it’s going to be nearly impossible not to make a business out of this. Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.”

> “Tjan, I want you to come on board to help me create an octopus,” Perry said.

> “I can try,” Tjan said, “but it won’t be easy. When you do cool stuff, you end up making money.”

> “Fine,” Perry said. “Make money. But keep it to a minimum, OK?”
My only recommendation to learn vim is vim tutor. Slightly tedious, but fast and effective.
Assume your solution exists and I can sign up for it. How do I answer the following email:

"hi I bought bingo maker on my mac at school. I want to use it with my home phone number but it says it is in free trial mode. help!!!"

(She means "email address" not phone number, she doesn't know that it is irrelevant how she bought it, and you can safely assume she is incapable of finding the original email she got when she purchases the "bingo maker", which may or may not actually be the product I sell.)

Or, more worrisomely:

"sucks I can't make birthday cards with this. Give me a refund. - Cindy (bob@example.com)"

You really, really want to capture customer details with payments.
He actually outlines how to become an "expert" on any topic in "The 4-hour Workweek". :)
Jekyll is OK for static websites, not just blogs.
Rails 3 has an asset pipeline that does the same thing as that W3 plugin: gathers js/css assets in one file each by default. I can't emphasize enough the "by default" part. It's a very nice default.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried Postbox?
http://www.postbox-inc.com/

Just wondering if any HNers have an opinion on it? I will probably use the 30-day trial they offer, but getting an email client setup the way I like and adjusting to it can take some time, so hoping for some reviews.
The article does not say want to make money at any cost. It just says want to make money. I want to make money doing things I love. For any job I am willing to do, I want to make sure my pay is as high as possible, for that job.

Lots of people saying how many jobs does not add value to society, and so people who want to make money are evil. That's not what the article is talking about! If you want to make money and don't want to do those jobs, then make money through other means!
I was there, at the PCW Show at Earls Court, when the Spectrum was launched. Well, it was actually just a brochure that was launched IIRC.

But it was incredible; the 13-year-old me and hundreds of other people all just sitting where they could on the floor around the margins of the exhibition hall, reading about this incredible game-changing computer.

Of course my dad got nagged to death for days afterwards, and eventually an order was placed but, when the end of the school summer holidays came round in September and it had still not arrived (I was up early every morning to meet the postman, just in case) we eventually cancelled the order and bought a Dragon 32 instead. That's a different story...
Having to find the right key for the BREAK keyword was especially interesting (you couldn't just type out B-R-E-A-K).

I started programming without even reading the manual: having all the keywords laid out there made me think 'just what is POKE anyway?'. Great way to pique interest.
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I've got same impression. It was really funny to read this.
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"...Slightly tedious..."

This is core problem with learning VIM, many people are off-put by VIMs complexity.

I think this game does a great job of letting the player explore vim commands, while complete objectives that are common to many video games.

What makes this game great isn't the fact that it's a video game that lets you learn VIM as you play. It's that it simply incorporates VIM commands into a game that could appear on any popular flash game site.

Very well done, keep up the good work.
I am trying to get a sense of how popular its clones were back then.

I owned a TK90X (16kb RAM) - brazilian produced clone. I lived in Argentina back then. Any other clone owners?
Are Hybrids Here to Stay?
I read it as G+melius /dʒiˑˈmɛliˌ(j)əs/, roughly like Gmail+ius /dʒiˑˈmeɪɫˌjəs/.
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It's ok to want to be rich, but wanting something you won't get is unplesant, so people often rationalize they are there just for fun.

Certainly for me it works that way - if it's hobby project, I can't fail at it. If it's business I do to be rich, and I'm not rich in 5 years, I've failed.

Having fun seems to be easier to achieve than commercial success, and for some people (like me) it's easier to do sth, if it seems achievable.
Is Kevin Rose worth one billion dollars?
That's basically what I said I think? At least what I tried to say, but yes, exactly.
Open Source != Free Software
The UK figure is inclusive of VAT. The US figure is exclusive of sales tax.

So the ex-VAT figure would really be about $62. So only about $12 on top - and a chunk of that 12 will disappear dealing with hedging exchange rate nonsense.
Bitcoins already are simply enough
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Even accounting for VAT@20% this is still a £9 price increase over the US price. It's not that hard to put the 'u' back in color.
Wow. Then it'll be great.
What I find makes it slightly worse is they're asking for donations.
Sounds reasonable. My experience (native polish, almost native english plus ukraininan and russian) says brain is rather unable (or it's not used) to use multiple languages at the same time. So if you think in foreign language (I mean: language you don't usualy think in) brain hasn't enough words (or is too lazy to look for them ;)) to make big analysis of problem so It doesn't do that.
Ask HN: Which large websites are still using dedicated servers?
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Wow. I've been aching to learn Vim for years, struggling through the rare occasions I have to use it while SSHing in to a machine. I've picked up more in 5 minutes with this game then I have in all that time. Very impressive!
+1 for Tika. I've been using Tika in conjunction with SOLR for a job search engine I built (www.neekanee.com) and it's really useful for extracting text from PDFs and .doc files if you're not overly concerned with the structure of the document.
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Are commercial GMail add ins permitted?

Convert to Google Apps (there's a free plan) and you get a full marketplace: https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
I'm happy with the existing GMail UI, and the fact that people are experimenting with custom modifications is a good thing. It's disturbing though, that the first improvement touted is the removal of ads. For a free service offered by an an advertising company, the GMail ads are about as unobtrusive as they could be. And hiding the ads doesn't do anything for privacy concerns. If it's ad-free email you're after, you really should be looking to pay for the service from someplace else.
"The DoE challenged firms to develop a design that gave out a warm light similar to that from an incandescent bulbs but was much more energy efficient.

Philips was the only entrant for the competition and its design underwent 18 months of testing before being declared a winner."

Uh. There have to be at least a dozen companies capable of developing this sort of technology, right? Why did only one company enter the contest?
Nice, but as most people who make cool stuff will attest, making money is a mostly orthogonal activity...
On a side note, several times when playing through the game I noticed that my motions weren't working, and traced it back to this: that for me, the home row is jkl; and not hjkl. I don't know very much about vim -- is there a reason that you have to put your hand in the "wrong place" on the keyboard?
Readability is good exactly because of well executed "design".
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It depends on what you want to make that money for. To live a stress-free, comfortable, happy life and help your community/world in return with that money? Or to just spend all of that money on yourself in expensive cars, big houses and drugs. It all depends on what you use the money for...
Yeah that's what worries me when reading all the stories here; it seems that we shouldn't care about the bottomline in startup mode. In my, maybe old, mindset, I try to break even as fast as we can and THEN start growing.

I see a lot of exceptions where this way of company startup would not work, but a lot of them should do it this way imho. The funding => jumping too high method is too much slot machine for me. Especially if you are not doing consumer services/products, it is almost always possible, if your idea has merit, to run a profit even before you built anything. Then funding is a much safer bet.
Adobe launches CS6 Introductory Pricing : Why it is Smart for you to get it
maybe they are just keeping their communication private by using encryption.
There's a few things to object to in the plugin (like a comment below I find that removing ads together with asking for donations a very distasteful combo), but honestly, what value does your comment add except trying to put down the authors?

There are ways to critique something without calling it "really useless".
I learned how to use the controls of VI decades before I actually learned that VIM existed, through Hack/Nethack. I thought the controls were ridiculous, but I was a kid, so I just accepted it and learned them, little did I know how useful they would become later on in life.
I  want to attend college but i most probably wont be able to.
I don't really feel that the sight of one company in fifty thousand cashing out for one billion dollars has a profound influence on the career decisions of a cancer researcher. One thing that even beginners in that field understand is elementary statistics.

The simpler explanation is that any programmer -- COBOL for bankers, CRUD apps, even "maintainer of Office installations for the IT department" -- commands a salary larger than that of a decently-paid Ivy League postdoctoral researcher. With minimal effort at steering one's career, the multiplier is two; according to rumors coming from the general direction of (e.g.) Google, if you've got talent and experience the number is a multiple of three.

You don't have to win the lottery. You start winning on the day of your first paycheck and you never lose, relative to research, because programming is a safer career than research.

Be careful about cherry-picking Wall Street and Instagram when choosing examples: Those are just the sensational ones. If Wall Street disappeared tomorrow, and venture funding with it, plumbers would still make more money than the average researcher. (Remember: A lot of research work is done by grad students, whose salaries make postdocs look pampered.)

"The very best students and researchers don't have trouble finding funding" - this is like saying "talented farmers have no trouble growing food". First, you're selecting a group of winners and then looking for evidence of winning. Lo, you found some! The second problem is that this statement doesn't account for effort: Farmers work hard and take risks for the money, and researchers do as well. As a researcher who wants to succeed you must have grants in the front of your mind one third of the time, and in the back your your mind most of the rest of the time, because success is measured in grants: Your pay, promotion, rate of progress, and reputation are directly contingent on the amount of grant money you can raise. Unless you're Einstein, maybe, but see above under "winning the lottery".

Face it, society doesn't value research as highly as going concerns. When you think about it, why should that surprise anyone? Businesses are a sure thing by comparison. You turn the crank, profits fall out. Often, happiness and human health fall out, too. Nursing, for example, saves lives. It saves them one at a time, but they get saved, and it's a sure thing: You don't need to make a bet against long odds. Change a bedpan, make someone considerably happier; notice that the patient has stopped breathing, save a life. Turn the crank. Turn the wheel the world has given you.
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Everyone in Russia had a clone, mine was built in Romania IIRC. This was late 80's - early 90's, way after Spectrum became irrelevant in other countries. But nobody in USSR had money for real computers like IBM PC. The rich kids had a Commodore, the rest of us Spectrum clones with tape recorders :))
The Post fails a young blogger
Looks great but please don't remove the ads. I dislike ads as much as the next person but it should not be the role of this plugin to remove them, if you really don't want ads people can find another way to do that but it seems wrong to bundle it in with this.
Why would you want it?

I'd suggest if having more money doesn't motivate you then the difference between your life now and this hypothetical life you might have isn't that great.

Lots of people are motivated to make money for different reasons, some good, some bad but if you're not one of them you're better off focusing on the things that do make you happy.
*The following is your unique fingerprint on the web:*

*loading...*

I'll bet my fingerprint isn't unique.
Gmail should borrow two features from this - Attachment Icons and Auto-Scroll to top of inbox.
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I think you have that backwards. Using a pirated copy of Photoshop means it is part of their toolset and if they get hired by a legitmate company that is what they will want to use. By the way does YCombinator encourage the use of pirated software?
Web Video Sucks, But Here’s How It Can Be Great
I have built a project (http://substancehq.com/) which is like jekyll in the way that it provides you with a configurable layout, And being a hosted app, I regenerate only the content which has changed. I have used jekyll for more than 2 years now, but the minor editing stuff was the last straw. With jekyll when you edit minor things because you don't have the right markdown syntax you have to redo the git commit -> git push steps.
HR process, yes, but there's a huge difference: most (not all but definitely 90+%) of recruiters are simply searching Google for buzzwords and forwarding you over to HR (for this, they expect large amounts of money - typically 6 months of your first year salary). HR usually filters again and ships it through to the actual group which is hiring.

Having a friend on the inside avoids two potential filter failures without having to actually change the HR process - it's saving HR the cost and hassle of a recruiter and essentially assuring them that they're not going to get flack for wasting anyone's time if they forward your resume through to the actual hiring manager.
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The payment platform should have communication and refund supported via the API or their website?

So for each buyer, there will be a 'Payment support' button that will be displayed on the Bingo Maker page. When someone uses that, the website owners will see a unique number, and a message. The unique number can be used to check/reverse payments made through the solution, and to respond to the message.
Although I agree that both terms are not exactly equal as they emphasize different aspects, those differences are totally irrelevant to the argument at hand:

If you advertise your project by stating you are convinced of the "power of Open Source", but don't make use of that "power", how much credible is that?

No matter if you find this argument convincing or not, it has nothing to do with the difference between Open Source and Free Software. It's just about adverticing a proprietary project with "power of Open Source" versus advertising it with, say, "power of Vim".
Dropbox Sharing Gets Ridiculously Easy With Links
Simply resizing my browser window before pasting the second url seems to thwart this (But I don't have flash installed). Without flash, it falls firmly into the "kinda-works sometimes if everything goes perfect" camp.

So its another demonstration of flash being ridiculously insecure. These guys did it better, even defeating tor to reveal the origin IP. http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/0610-advisories/Practical_...
Hey, as already emphasized, all the features can be enabled/disabled in the extension's preferences. You're of course perfectly free to not remove the ads.
I read that as "cheap self driving cats."
> You really, really want to capture customer details with payments.

Also Visa/Mastercard dont really give you the option to not capture the address unless you're a big reliable merchant.
Yeap and: open source != Free software != Gratis Software
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i think you missed his point..
Say what!

Everyone knows this. It's the no-brainer of our generation.

On the developer-side, everyone who has had the misfortune to integrate a payment provider [other then stripe] knows that the current ecosystem is not just ripe for disruption. It is begging on its knees to be extinguished.

The holdback is not the lack of fancy photoshop mockups. The holdback is the astronomic barrier of entry.

Stripe managed to partially fix the system for one country. And I've been told it took them many years to get a foot down.

There's still a lifetime opportunity here, sitting on a golden plate.
A lifetime opportunity of Tolkien proportions, mind you.

The reward will be substantial for the fearless who can slay this Dragon. He who prevails will not only get the gold and the princess. He will also take the payment-crown to his lineage for many generations to come.

But beware. Countless perils, from raging paperwork to ravenous lawyers line the path of whoever dares to embark on this journey.

So. Better bring a couple dwarfs and a mage. Perhaps the cuddly mage of the sandal could be convinced to cast his mighty "umm" and open a portal for you.
Not sure, but I know that since the company I work for has switched to AWS, hosting costs have gone through the roof and performance has been reduced massively. Reason that I mention this is that the only clients that have actually benefited from the move are the larger, very high traffic clients, though even with those the difference is negligible for the huge increase in costs.
G[melius] to pronounce like Gmail+ius. "melius": better in latin.
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The main risk of advertising is that it will be ignored. It comes with the territory.
I'm giving my honest opinion and I'm saying that I really love Gmail the way it is without any extra plugin. I think it's feedback that matters to the authors, maybe they will find that some of their potential user base find no added value in their plugin and they will try to come up with other features that will attract users such as me.
Money is not inherently evil. What really matters is how you make it, and where you spend it. If you make money making people better off, and spend it making people better off, there is nothing wrong at all.
Unfortunately some people make money making people worse off, which is where money might get it's bad reputation. This might happen if the people think maximising income is more important than anything else (which might or might not lead them onto a path detrimental to other people, but immoral practices are often so profitable).
The people who make a lot of money making people happy on the other hand probably care about their income, but also care strongly enough about other things for it to influence their decisions.
I don't trust people who start businesses and say they're not interested in money. Money is one of your best gauges of whether you're doing things right. Not being interested in money when you're working on a for-profit enterprise makes me worry you're either unserious or disingenuous. That said, hardly anybody only cares about money. We all trade off money against other things -- free time, independence, and so on. I care about money, but I'd rather make a little less working on a project that'll genuinely make the world better than a little more working on something unimportant.
Early on there just weren't cross compilers and "real computers", at least not in the British "back bedroom" games scene. I didn't write on the Spectrum, but certainly on the Dragon and the C64 it was a case of write, save, execute, reset, load, write some more.

It was this sort of tedium which provoked at least one of my more able chums to write out his assembly in longhand and then produce pages of handwritten hex to type in instead.

After I made a bit of money I upgraded to two C64s and two floppy disk drives, so I could write on one and test on the other. That would have been about 1985.

And then a while after that a miraculous invention called "PDS" came along, which involved a hardware connection from a PC to the target system, and simplified everything greatly. You wrote code on the PC and just squirted it into the target's brain. Oh how I wanted to use that, but by then I was out of programming...

The Oliver Twins have written reams of background about the early days that touches on this: http://www.olivertwins.com/history
ZX Spectrum: the legacy of a computer for the masses
this is 4 years old, and has been this way for quite a while