skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Evernote. It has changed my life. Before, I didn't have anywhere to put all the ideas, insights, jokes, and stories I had in my head. Now, with one key from anywhere I can get it out of my head and the feeling is incredible.

But, fuck the CEO of Evernote. How dare he tell people not to start a company? Not only is it idiotic (I mean, first and foremost, he did it so he's a hypocrit; but secondly, someone started every company that exists. So if people actually followed his advice we'd be stuck with the current crop of companies...forever) but it's downright evil. To discourage people from starting companies is to discourage people from building, from creating, from giving form to their dreams. And that's inexcusable.

tl;dr Evernote is great; the CEO is a fuckwit.

EDIT: I got my first downvote, but I don't care. Discouraging people from creating is evil, and when confronting evil there's no place for 'nice'.
Probably aren't for everyone but I don't think most of the value I get from a conference comes from the talks but the collection of like minded people.
I would point you toward Jitsi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi

But, it doesn't support the Skype protocol, and it runs on Java, with which some people have an issue (but also allows for cross-platform compatibility).
> Try it some time, that's livin' ;)

Or so you hope.
BTW - did you join their team?
C++ Functional Style Tips
The symbol of the thing is not the thing: people (should) care about the thing. You don't need a degree to get your head around algorithms. If you can write a simple binary search, for example (arguably the most fundamental algorithm), that's a plus. Therefore a good interviewer will get you to write binary search (the thing) on a whiteboard without saying "binary search" (the symbol of the thing) and see if you can reason your way through it. They will be much more interested in your thought process than whether your syntax is correct.
Definitely. Your brain just gets so saturated and you feel pulled in a bunch of different directions. "I want to work on this! Oh and that! Wow that other thing will help our app here! But first this!"
Kinda crummy article to mention that SPDY is actually present in earlier Firefox versions, but just turned off. How about telling us how we can turn it on?
If you are trying to change the world for no specific reason, you are probably megalomaniac. You have a much better chance to change the world if you are doing something you love rather than actually trying to change the world, plus you got the "bonus" of being happy. I believe you can do something only for money, just don't waste all your life on it.
That final statement is unfounded. If you have all those things, you're far more likely to make more money (and faster money) by building your own business.

You cannot escape this simple fact: if you're an employee, you are only getting a portion of the value you can and do generate. The only remaining question is whether you have the resources and environment to capture the value you can generate directly, without being the employee, to receive a larger slice of the value. (If you're, e.g. a doctor it's much more difficult than if you're a software developer; good thing I'm the latter.)
"Some US police departments have set a maximum IQ score for new officers (for example: 125, in New London, CT), under the argument that those with overly-high IQs will become bored and exhibit high turnover in the job. This policy has been challenged as discriminatory, but upheld by at least one US District court. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

If there are factual inaccuracies there, please point them out. However just going by the "whiff" of something seems like you're opening yourself up to rejecting parts of reality that do not fit your worldview.

Edit: better source: http://www.aele.org/apa/jordan-newlondon.html and here is an interview of the man by CNN: http://www.postroad.com/news/2000/20000912-new-london-police...
What a fantastic judo move service. Almost feels counter-cultural.
I don't have this problem (even though I don't use bash) since the first character in my prompt is a newline. I think it makes things easier to read in general.
I love how this came out of the Null threads comments. EDIT: link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900727
You might want to look into inline installation for the chrome extension:

https://developers.google.com/chrome/web-store/docs/inline_i...
I looked it up: In Firefox 11 and newer, punch in about:config in the URL bar, then find network.http.spdy.enabled and turn it on.
Dear Startup: I'm not going to create an account to send you my resume
The last thing I'm going to do is create an account at some 3rd party HR/JobAd site just because you're too lazy to handle the few resumes you're likely to get for a $high_demand_position.

Some of your companies sound interesting at face-value, but the fact that you've succumbed (I'm assuming) to the sales pitch of Captain Recruiter, JobVite, or whatever parasite service tells me you don't have a very good understanding of friction, and therefore by your use of these sites I assume your company is not viable at the least, and at most the interview process would be similarly cookie-cutter. Good luck.
Yea, they got screwed over by the Unicode Consortion, don't go blaming programmers for that.
>This seems rather un-self-aware. Yes, "class Food { etc. }" feels more intuitive to you than how it works in JS because you learned on the classical inheritance pattern. But classical inheritance is not fundamentally easier to understand than prototypical inheritance.

Classical inheritance IS easier to understand compared to how prototypical inheritance was implemented in Javascript --and it's obvious from the examples he gives, and all the workarounds to use prototypical inheritance correctly in all the major JS frameworks.

The implementation details of prototype inheritance should not leak to the language, but in JS, they do.
boost has an elegant solution that I like, inherit from boost::noncopyable.

class Foo : boost::noncopyable
{
// ...
};
ESPN has this pretty interesting commercial about having the same name as a celebrity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxBBN3ZnYeU
Intuit to Acquire Demandforce for $423.5 Million
I don't follow this logic as a valid reason not to become an entrepreneur.

1. The 90..95% definition is stupid. Projections are irrelevant other than for purposes of planning, appeasing investors and roughly determining whether the business model is viable. Depending on the entrepreneur's goals, actual long-term ROI is all that matters.

2. In that respect, 70 to 80% failure to generate projected ROI is not bad. I've never been in the 80-percentile of anything of I've done, therefore these statistics are actually pretty encouraging to me.
My first and last names are the same (probably you can guess what they are without even googling...), and Facebook around 2006 also rejected me. I don't remember if I emailed them to resolve it or just waited and tried again later.
Thanks! That's great feedback :-)
Japanese computer systems are often not using Unicode but are based on other encodings like shift-jis.

Even if it wasn't for historical characters that aren't part of Unicode, this will probably stay that way because of the inefficiencies of encoding Asian text in e.g. UTF8.

That's part of the reason the ruby programming language didn't have proper Unicode support for a long time (and now supports arbitrary encodings for its strings, not just Unicode ones)
There is another point to be made: with the enormously rich language ecosystem that runs so well on the Linux platform, why limit oneself to the subset that runs well on Windows?
Yeah, it takes a LOT of posts with that unusual word to initiate a permablock of the whole word. Before that, it just counts against your dupe score, I think.
Even if carriers don’t like net neutrality, their investors should
I believe that ISO2022 allows for the full set of japanese names (and has some sort of process for introducing new kanji). That's probably a big part of the reason that Ruby's strings are bytes with an encoding attribute, rather than just being unicode.
>That's your opinion.

No, that's an objective statement, on which the creator of the language and some of the greater gurus of it, agree.

>My opinion is that prototypes are simpler than classes.

Not in the way prototypes are implemented in JS.

The creator of the language was apologized lots of times for it's many warts (due to lack of design and time constraints plus limited initial scope for the language), and the greatest of its' gurus had to write a book called "Javascript, THE GOOD PARTS".

Someone who cannot see the flows of Javascript's implementation of prototype inheritance, seriously cannot assess good and bad software design.
This is what bounties are for.
Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief
Before signing up, it'd be great to know what services you "support."
I absolutely love it! I don't know what else to say.

I'm guessing there are plans to increase the number of different sound types?
Why banned?
If the DoD had tried to purchase DVD distributions rights, Hollywood would have insisted on some sort of DRM so the DVDs could only be played on military-owned computers located outside of the United States. That would have been, er, doubleplusunconvenient.
Don't know why people are voting you down. I'd rather hit middle-age penniless but full of experience and no regret, than look back and say "Well, I sure managed to scrape by in life without taking any chances or attempting any of my dreams!" There are plenty of stories of people who didn't start successful business until their 40s but the net effect of the preceding 20/30 years gave them a massive boost (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Bannatyne).
A few years ago Facebook banned a fake account that I created for deploying a Facebook app for the company that I worked at. With the account banned we couldn't get access to the app to support the tens of thousands of users it had. Luckily Facebook did end up reinstating the account after we appealed for a couple weeks, though they did force me to change it to my real name.
RE Least Authority, awesome!, thanks for the link!
Honest question, why is it scary?

My IP resolves to a location ~20 miles away. I don't see why having a Skype contact and knowing a 20 mile radius where they live is anything to worry about?
This is awesome .. have been waiting for this.
There is also the guy who owns bar.com which received alot of mail to foo@bar.com, its worth a read if only for this paragraph.

I MX’d the mail over to a friend’s spam-detection system for about 4 hours one time, but the volume crashed his server and he asked for relief.
If you love Kap Slap you'll love 3LAU:

http://soundcloud.com/3lau/sets/top-10-downloaded-tracks/
Mining Quarries Millions Of Miles From Earth
Great tool for individuals AND could be seriously useful to businesses tracking team usage across several services. Very cool.
There's nothing stopping you from hedging your bets. I work full-time and put away 60%+ of it. This is capital for whatever investments I make, including into my own startup that I work on when I get home. Fact is I get paid what I do by the corp because I'm worth at least that much. As a single, unmarried software developer there's nothing stopping me from exploiting my value generating capabilities directly, so not attempting a startup is nonsensical IMO.
"Feminized" isn't the right way to put it. I just threw it out there. As you correctly point out, women in other cultures are quite assertive. I should point out that I am not the one to coin the phrase:

http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_100/142_dating_advice...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

Walking in front of a car doing 50mph might be OK in West LA. Please don't try it in another country unless you want to experience their intensive care facilities.

On the point of crossing the street with fast moving traffic, you don't really need to do what you are doing. It's a dance. If you've ever been to Manhattan you know what I am talking about. Cross a little, wait, one more lane, wait, etc. No big deal if you know what you are doing.

What I am talking about is the total absence of the external appearance of awareness. It's one thing to cross the street and stare a driver in the eyes. It's quite another to cross the street while looking at the ground. I teach my kids that if there's no eye contact with the driver they don't get in front of that car. Plain and simple. They've also had some "training" in Manhattan and parts of Europe. You'll never see them cross a street without looking.

To be clear, being masculine does not mean being a complete asshole. In fact, quite the opposite, in my opinion. It's a balance. It's being a gentleman while remaining assertive and considerate. It is yielding your seat in the train to an older person. While, at the same time, not bending with the wind when it is important. It's about a balance that I can't fully define. All else being equal, I don't think it has anything whatsoever to do with language.
> lumps of asteroid aren't exactly known for being aerodynamic, making reentry calculations pretty unreasonable.

As long as you're cutting it, you could make it somewhat aerodynamic. However, you have to remember a lot of the time you want reentry vehicles (or rocks) to be round so that they get down in good condition.

In addition, you don't need to just fire it off into earth; you can attach a computer and small rockets to it so it can subtly and cheaply correct its own course. The energy you would need for this can be arbitrarily small: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Belbruno
But is no different than just send them a link where you save their IP when they open it (and with little social engineering you can trick anyone into clicking a link)
Thanks for sharing this Colin, I originally wanted to do something more fun & pg-like for the iPhone as well but I decided against doing fancy stuff in favor of actually prepping for the interview. I actually only published the app to the AppStore quite a bit after our interview.
Given the long start times in Clojure due to the JVM, it's nice to see it being ported to other back-ends that start quickly.
Porter Robinson's new single, Language, is phenomenal. Thanks for these links!
Honestly, this is great idea. But I'm not going to forward all my bills to some random service. If it somehow worked automatically (ridiculous, I know), I'd absolutely use it.

I just don't want all the overhead.
It does look nice... and it does raise interesting questions. I'm particularly intrigued as to John Kerry, John Edwards, and Joe Lieberman's presences in that anomalous 108th Congress. Can you tell us any more about how you define an "agreement group"?

Visually, the result reminds me of [http://xkcd.com/657/] - is this sort of diagram a recognised concept in data presentation, or a new idea?

[edit - hmm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th_Congress]
> One unexplicable point remains in the data and that is the presence of 18 Democrats in the Republican group of the 108th Congress.

Dude, check the dates. Two words: Iraq invasion.
>>your participation will always limited to that of spectating.

Only because you choose to. You can join groups that align with your beliefs to help influence the legislation process. Don't complain that you are just an spectator when you don't even want to play the game.
If you're in it to be rich, then you're in it for the wrong reasons.

Bullshit! Altruism doesn't involve calculating how much equity to give employees while unsteadily watching your potential valuation numbers.

If you're in it create an amazing product and be impactful on a stranger's life, then you're in it for the right reasons.

That's called open-source, and you don't charge for it.
god damnit nicholas cage!
If you're wondering about the process, look at this link.
http://saasly.com/confirmation

Not sure why you wouldn't want to put that front and centre (instead of making me enter my email first).
IMHO the article misses the best part of the talk (in the middle somewhere). Ironically, given the "don't do it" bit.. Libin makes the point that now's a better time than ever to be an entrepreneur, and among the usual OSS/StuffsCheapNow points, he concludes that today the best product is more likely to 'win' than it has been in the past... Especially in the consumer space. Further pointing out that this essentially creates a meritocracy for people who are good at making things (even if they suck at sales/marketing).

The talk is definitely better than the flamebait title.
Sure: I understand your proposal to be that they should—after getting it to Earth—use the platinum to manufacture and sell products (rather than just selling the raw platinum) so as to maximize the value they extract from it. But that assumes that the platinum is worth (massively) more to them than it would be to the existing manufacturers of the world. Which would seem to only be the case if they were particularly skilled with manufacturing using platinum—and had the designs to do so—in some way that every other manufacturer isn't.

To put it another way: there's a reason that most of the world's terrestrial mining companies sell raw materials to manufacturers rather than manufacturing end-user products themselves.
You mean, of the browser? You could try uzbl; the core part doesn't even have an URL bar: http://www.uzbl.org/
I use it to host http://livepost.in since last month. Pingdom reported some small downtimes but other than that it was ok. You get what you pay for, but I think burst.net is value for money.
I've been watching the storage industry for years as a hobby-passion. Adam pretty much hit all the major points. The storage space is still open for disruption but is hard with high risk.

It's not like building a website. You need serious funding for hardware. You need people to manage the hardware. You need complex software to manage the data and ensure security. One serious breach early on and you're done.

Competing with Amazon is especially hard since S3 is well established and entrenched. If you use EC2 you're going to use S3.

Pricing would be a primary factor in competing. 3x redundancy is unnecessary. I'm not sure why services still do that. Reed-Solomon or similar redundancy algorithms can provide better protection and use less space. They have CPU overhead but CPUs aren't going to be the bottleneck for a storage service, bandwidth and hard drives will be.

Edit: This would be if you built from the hardware up. I don't think offering a service like S3 on top of other storage services would work as a business. You'd have to deal with too many vendors, too much variation in APIs / software / hardware, lack of control, latency issues, and much tighter margins. IMO you'd be better off starting with bare metal. You could do something like this for personal, smaller scale storage but growing it to scale would be a nightmare.
Try:

bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward
I have been waiting for this type of product
It's more than that. He's conflating personal motivation with business model validation. Yes your business model should be validated, but what's wrong with pursuing money?

My goal has long been to work on my interests without having to worry about money. But to do so requires financial independence. That's reality. So now I'm pursuing money and looking at ways of generating income without selling my time.

Is there any real evidence to show that people who pursue money don't end up successful? I doubt it.
Yep, inbox mining (via gmail oauth) is our first dev priority. I agree it's gotta be automatic for it really to be useful. Thanks for the feedback!
For what it's worth, I thought the gray background bars were far too light - it took me a while to find them. I also couldn't intuit what the branching lines were all about.

Also, Chrome had some difficulty with typesetting, though it's possible that's a localized issue.

*edit: I figured out why the boxes seem so light - it's because I view my screen at a slight angle. From a straight angle they show up fine.
I think his reference to Unicode code points was actually based on UTF-16/8 mismatches, as in "Don't assume one character == one 16-bit char", since the upper code points (U+10000 and up) actually use two chars in, e.g., Java's UTF-16 representation.

There's a lot of code out there that works fine with one-char code points but breaks on two-char code points.
I assume the smilies drive off of $? ? Interesting idea....
I don't think anyone is proposing 3 providers, who each store 3 copies. Either use one provider who stores 3 copies (Amazon) or three providers who each store one copy.
KeePass 1.22 released
Why the lmgtfy link? Why not just post a Google link?
Those three all voted to invade Iraq. There were probably a number of related votes for logistical and budgetary arrangements to start that operation.
Interesting article, thanks for bringing it up.
So basically https://nimbus.io/ on rented hardware.
A popular thing to do when you have the same name as a celebrity is go by a different version of your name. "Mike Jordan", "William Smith", and "Thomas Jones" sound like plain, common names instead of the names of celebrities.
I thought about that, but 12 of the 18 Democrats were fiercely opposed to the invasion…
So the actual failure rate is 30-40%, but start-ups are subject to the Planning Fallacy.
Ah, I see. I don't really know what's idiomatic in Ruby anymore; I haven't used it in anger for nigh on 5 years now :).
It's civil law; they only sue if they want to. Which is good, since a lot of times a lawsuit isn't the best way to solve an issue (for example, in GPL violation cases the FSF often gets the infringer to comply without suing).
It's 5 times slower than the PyPy interpreter, which is probably slower than CPython.
Is there any real evidence to show that people who pursue money don't end up successful?

I once read that the 2% of people in some defined group who set financial goals outperformed the other 98% combined.
Can somebody tell me who is considered "Gen X"? I thought I was, as a kid, but I believe I might even be too young.

Kurt Cobain was in Generation X, right? I was 11 when he died. Where does that put me? What about my 5 year old?

The whole idea of distinct "generations" seems wacky to me, but it sure does appeal to journalists.
Why do you think? This probably violates a few terms of use.
Yeah, hence my edited-in "hmm". When I first wrote that post, I hadn't yet hit that Wikipedia article, and, as a non-USian, I don't know what years which Senate sat for off the top of my head.

Makes more sense now.
I think he is just scared of others that might come up something thats better than Evernote.
Good stuff. Can you talk more about the algorithm?

Can you use this to detect issue clusters rather than voting clusters?

I have tried to build subgroup-in-graph detectors with only partial success.
Quite fully agreed. Capitalism repeats itself first as tragedy, then as Silicon Valley farce.
Control a browser game with your smartphone
Is GPL licensing in decline?
The last attempt to remove the GIL was just 2 times slower on one core, and it was rejected.
Google's Zerg Rush Easter Egg
I'm sure there are some flaws present in what I've explained - I've simplified out a lot of pain points for learners (like Haskell's IO system for side-effecting functions), and I'm still only a novice myself, so can't comment on what's considered idiomatic. I think the core idea behind it should be correct though :)!
You'd likely be better off with multiple processes then.

There's no reason to suffer 16 cores performing like three (assuming no contention), when you can get much closer to linear with existing, mature, and well-understood technologies.
If you're not currently logged in it still discloses the last IP you used. I can't think of any good reason for it to do that.