skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just meant, if you have a spouse, then you need their support. If you don't have a spouse, I think you can still pull it off, but as I have never done a startup under those circumstances, any advice I'd give would be purely speculative. Practically speaking, you'd still have nights and weekends to work on your startup.

Are you doing a startup with a cofounder? I'd be worried, from an emotional standpoint, about doing a startup under those conditions without any moral support (from either a spouse or cofounder). Everyone is different but the dark secret of startup life (especially bootstrapped on the side) is that it's tough, and you can get depressed easily for a number of reasons. Having someone in the trenches with you is a great help, emotionally.
It was proved safe in the US trials. It was also proved ineffective twice. That's why the FDA "flunked" it.
Salesforce to acquire Buddy Media for $800 Million
liked this, and also felt it had a tinge of HN appeal.

Reminds of also the cultural world changing impact of another thing related to privacy/public space: Air Conditioning.
> I'm not sure Ms. Meeker is aware, but we are at war right now. For most of that period, we were fighting multiple wars at once.

This speaks to how little the wars have affected Americans as a whole. No significant cuts in programs, no higher taxes to pay for the outlay, no draft of young men and women.

For probably 99% of the population, the only effect the wars have had is something extra to hear about on the TV. So little an effect that it makes people think we're in peacetime.
NoSQL is giving up FAR more than ACID. It is giving up the ability to consume the stored data in a beautifully concise and expressive manner.

edit: 'the ability to'
Absolutely spot-on. I fall more on the non-technical side, but where I fall on the spectrum of tech skills really doesn't matter. All that counts is whether I can articulate my idea to a team (preferably by using my ancient coding skill and some ugly wireframes), work with them to make it a reality, and get shit done.
1 million media files uploaded using Wikimedia Commons Upload Wizard
Not too much more difficult , reverse proxying with apache is only a few lines in the conf file.
With that line of argument you could only establish that the US has a decent legal system. But how do you go from there to say that the US system is a better deal than those other countries, who might be even better for you?
Like Phil said, it doesn't take more than an hour if you're feeling lazy about it. I've automated it with Chef, but I haven't timed it or anything. Less than 10 minutes for sure.
It is unfortunate they are both scary companies. They both know too much about their users, and their users connections.

Even if you don't have a Facebook account, there is probably still some evidence of you in their system. Unlike Facebook, it would be pretty hard to not use Google at all, but it's at least possible to use their services and remain unidentified.

Photos are over-rated, but tell that to the ~500 million people stalking each other on Facebook. Glass is an incredible vision into the future of computing, or a chilling vision of the future where there is no disconnecting from the web of surveillance.
(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
There's really two dimensions: relational and ACID. The relational aspect is the R in RDBMS: if you have relational data, you can interact with it in mathematically defined ways. The ACID part is the MS: in the past, when we wanted to store and ask questions of our data, we also wanted it managed such that we had guarantees on it.

Depending on the project, NoSQL solutions can relax both of those dimensions. I typically refer to "NoSQL" as non-relational databases.
Quite right. Clearly not enough coffee. Updated the article with better wording. Thanks!
"Merely the most popular"? LOL. It's the only formally proven, mathematically correct representation and querying of data sets.

Not that most RDBMS conform to the relational theory 100% (or even 90%), but everything else is mere re-invention of the wheel badly.

As in: "Hey, let's trade ACID, security, uniform access to data by all apps" for cheap speed and ill-thought developer convenience.
> We need to do a better job helping new(and old) redditors realize the thousands of communities they could be joining for a diverse blend of content that interests them.

As a long-time redditor and sometimes-user of "the other guys" (Fark, Slashdot, Digg), I do have some suggestions. I'm fully aware that none of these could "just happen" and the team may have discussed and discounted these ideas many times, but for the purpose of starting a discussion here on HN:

- Some subreddits seem more like "tags" than communities. /r/pics is a perfect example. So is /r/nsfw. These seem more like attributes of a post. I think reddit could be a little more orthogonal with these types of things. It would be nice to create a post and check (or have reddit detect automatically) the "pic" checkbox. Then you'd still need to pick a subreddit for the post to go, but hopefully things would be more targeted than just to say it's a picture. This is already in place for NSFW, and I know people have been asking for NSFL as well. Making this attribute system more generic and allowing "virtual" or "filtered" subreddits to be generated from them would be cool. The main point of this suggestion isn't to help users discover new communities, but to modify the signal-to-noise ratio of existing ones (given that what counts as "signal" is subjective).

- Crossposting is common and the [X-Post from /r/foo] notation has become de facto. It might be nice if posts could belong to more than one subreddit. You could add new subreddits to an existing post if someone from that subreddit saw a post it thought might be a good fit for it. Additionally, if someone found the post while "in" a particular subreddit, an additional type of comment flair could indicate which subreddit he or she was commenting from in a "multi-homed" post. This would help people in larger subreddits discover smaller ones.

- Many people have made "reddit guide" sites that attempt to list subreddits and help people find new ones. It would be nice if there was an official reddit guide that used, as much as possible, the metadata for each subreddit.

- Building on the previous idea, you could "tag" subreddits with optional but standardized metadata. I can see things like "appropriate age range", "predominant gender", "political affiliation", "religious affiliation", "special interest topic", and so forth. If subreddits filled these in, you could actually offer a "questionnaire" that users could fill out. The output of this would be a list of subreddits the user might like (and ones they might hate!). EDIT: Or just use it to make a recommendation system based on the subreddits they already have subscribed, the ones they visit most, the ones with posts they comment on most, and so on.
There is surface water on the moon that is constantly replenished when the sun rises. Not loads, and most of it gets boiled off again as the sun gets higher in the sky, but it is there. Is formed by hydrogen ions in the solar wind reacting with oxides in the rocks.
Public API vs Open API
Chat With Your Apple Facetime Friends On Android Using Fring
Static Analysis: Following Along at Home with Hopper’s Decompiler Feature
It feels good to know my situation is not unique. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, thanks. I keep forgetting that _asterisk_ is used for italics in this markup.
Sotheby's to auction off rare working Apple I
In my denomination (http://www.opc.org), an elder is a servant of the congregation, teaching, administering the Lord's Supper, providing counseling to members, and generally overseeing the work of the church, among other things. Elders work alongside pastors. Here's a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_polity#The_Elder
Galaxy S3 Arriving In Canada On June 20th, US Is When?
A business plan should not be a requirement for an accelerator, certainly not a traditional one. A Lean Canvas on the other hand would make perfect sense.
It's pretty cheap to host your rails app on a server such as Heroku and that takes minutes to deploy.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what%27s+an+elder
Urban Airship offers rides in an actual airship at WWDC
Social Media Marketing Etiquette: How To Be Successful, Not Annoying
Very off-putting link title. Location has nothing to do with it.
Preparing for nonvolatile RAM
Kevin Rose’s Next Move: Partner at Google Ventures
Mass High Tech Names PadMatcher a Top Five Startup Company to Follow
Problem at my workplace - need suggestions.
I am facing an issue at my workplace. I am not able to get along with few of my coworkers. It annoys me and I don't know how to cope up with it.

Bugs in code are inevitable and the challenge I think is to resolve those issues as a team (I don't mean by sitting together all the time but just to approach it like a team player). Fun is to treat the code as if it belongs to everyone equally.

Quite lately, I got into a new project with a new set of coworkers and I find the approach of those coworkers a bit strange, at times annoying. Problem is, if there is any bug related to the piece of code that I wrote, few of my coworkers treat it as if its totally my responsibility to resolve it ( even if it means to change a line in properties file ). For instance, today it so happened that my coworker found a bug and she saw the error message in logs coming from the class that I wrote. Immediately without taking any efforts to debug the code, she turned back to me saying I need to get it resolved and get her moving. It gave me a feeling as if I am being a roadblocker to her. I didn't feel like we were looking at the code as a team. She raised hands as if 'that bug belongs to me and I should get back to her when its resolved'. As it turns out in the end, it was a small fix. It was not really a problem with the code but a change in the properties file she had to make according to a path on her machine. I almost feel as if I am spoon feeding my coworker.

Not sure if it made any sense to you but if you were in such a situation before then let me know what you did to cope up. I tried telling my coworkers in a calm manner but they don't seem to get it. This behavior has been repeating for couple of months now and I am finding it difficult to get along with others.
Dart VM gets C/C++ extensions
Shell scripting: Calculating Day of the Week
vasi, thanks very much for writing pixz, I've had a great experience working with it and it sped up my code very significantly.

The only thing I wish for is more documentation and inclusion in xz-utils (which I know is not up to you, but I'm hopeful).
"My experiences working with this committee were completely positive, but there was often a two-month lag before I got an official reply from them." -- he's describing the situation where they own everything you do if it has anything to do with them.

I have a pet hypothesis which is that these non-competes are strangling innovation in the Valley (and beyond). I know I personally made sure to shut off the "ideas" part of my brain until I was free and clear lest they try to claim ownership of things I would later invent.

This "delay for long enough to kill it" thing happened to a friend of mine. I wrote about it here: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/16/squashed/
Not sure, but I wonder how he can be considered "elder" at 29...
Thanks. Someone has generously written me privately to give me a clue or three. This article, the blog, additional research...etc ...ate my day yesterday. As someone said to me recently: It made me think and that's always a good thing. I am off to examine my belly button and record my thoughts on the matter for my own edification.
Fair point, however I admit I am a bit of a cynical bastard and so suspect that most politicians would swear the earth was flat, if they thought for one second it would extend their time in power.
Building the human transcendence economy
Personally, I use RES and block a ton of /r/ and keywords and content.

I think the best test is to put all these blocks in place, then add a block to imgur - then you get a lot of good content.

Also, stay off the main page.
I'll do some additional testing to see if the results are affected by caching.

Not sure why you're surprised that I used .tar files for the compression testing. As I mentioned in the article, most of the time I'm creating bzipped tarballs from directories of files, so it made sense to use what is, for me, a common real-world use case. Your mention of tar.bz/.tbz makes me think there's some misunderstanding, since clearly I wouldn't want to test compression of already-compressed files. But perhaps it's I who am misunderstanding your suggestion. Please feel free to enlighten me. :)
I think I understand what you're saying.

I disagree, though, that startups have binary outcomes. In fact, one of the big problems in "investing" in startups (cash or labor) is the misalignment of incentives. It's common for the founding team to pursue outcomes that will enrich them but zero out common stock holders, and it's common for investors to push back on exits that would enrich everybody but not satisfy fund goals.
A ghost story
$20k per month sounds like a good problem to have for two people with little overhead.

I'd recommend getting out of town for a few days without an Internet connection to just rest and get some clarity. You sound scattered.

It's difficult to give you specific advice without knowing more about the ins and outs of your business. However I would suggest answering a few questions for yourself:

- Which of your three products is generating income? If it is the moble app then start there. Drop the others and focus your attention on what IS working. Read PG's article on ideas. To summarize PG you can only focus on one thing at a time. I think he is spot on.

- Why are you receiving late payment? Do you have to manually collect payments each month/year? If so, that might be your problem. Anything scalable should require little human interference, especially when collecting payments. For example, you want to download an app, you pay immediately with the credit card Apple already has on file; you sign up for a web app, you enter your credit card info immediately so when the free trial is done your account automatically gets debited. Any business where you must hunt down payments is not scalable. Perhaps that is what is stunting your growth. Not "features" per se.

Lastly, talk to your customers to find out what what you are doing right and wrong. This can't be discovered in a survey because it is too open ended. Call them, email them, whatever. Just tell them you wanted to see how they liked the product, how they use it, what they don't like, etc. if you do this enough you should see a trend.

Hope this helps.
Same with my FJ. Why can't we have a diesel FJ Cruiser? Diesel seems like a natural fit for the FJ.
McClaren (the guy in the original article) works on F1 race cars. They regularly have collisions at greater than 100MPH with out any injuries to the driver. (and yes some of them are into fixed objects like the track wall).

Here in California there is a wealth of data on injury and damages in collisions between 50 and 100MPH [1]. In general, when all applicable safety systems are employed (seatbelts, nothing obstructing airbags, Etc) the injuries sustained are rarely fatal and for the most part don't required a hospital stay. We have a condition called "Tule Fog" which is a dense low hanging fog that can occur rather suddenly, which every other year or so results in the collective colliding of anywhere from 3 to 75 vehicles at speeds from 10MPH to 60MPH. Again, people don't die in these pile ups generally unless the passenger space of the vehicle is compromised (like being shoved under the trailer of a semi-truck for example). In their table of 'injuries and fatalities' for 2009 [2] out of 201,660 collsions there were 2,594 with fatalities so a 1.3% rate.

[1] http://www.chp.ca.gov/switrs/

[2] http://www.chp.ca.gov/switrs/pdf/2009-sec3.pdf
It might be exaggerated a bit but the point is valid. You've got enough things to worry about. Do you really want to be sysadmin too?

Of course Heroku and similar services get you most of the way there, but there are plenty of client-side devs who would rather not deal with backend code at all.
The Canvas getContext() Mistake
Agreed. To be honest I don't see why he left...from his description it would almost make me want to work there.

Java and C++ have their problems, but in general they work very well. If I was in charge of software development at Google I wouldn't be using some obscure language.

I agree with his comment about bugs...Google's products seem very buggy, and they don't seem to give much of a crap about fixing them.
I ran into a toxic mentality on the East Coast where there was a class division between "thinkers/leaders" and "doers," and doing automatically placed a person into a lower class. The idea was that execution is for little people and ideas and "leadership" are for big people.

I met a bunch of over-stuffed narcissistic and ineffectual big people who could sell like crazy and drum up endless interest by way of their ivy league social networks but would then fall flat on their faces when it came to executing on anything.
Presentation: Web vs. Native at Reasons to be Appy
Can you talk a bit about why you use Transloadit?
Review: Logitech solar-powered K760 keyboard for Mac and iOS devices
> Virtually all infographics are indeed terrible visualizations of information.

I do not agree. I've seen quite a bunch that – although obviously not a definitive source of information – give a good sense of perspective. Here's one [0] that came back to mind.

[0] http://mozy.com/blog/misc/how-much-is-a-petabyte/
A high level and theoretic NoSQL debate doesn't help. We know all the strengths and limitations of both SQL and NoSQL. And we know when to use what.

Moreover, NoSQL does not equal NoSQL—there're so huge differences between a Mongo, a Riak and a Couch. And there's much more than that beyond SQL (graph based DB etc.).

What matters: The experience.

I used MongoDB with Node one or two weeks ago for this first time and I was really impressed when I got it. There are many uses case where I wouldn't employ NoSQL or Mongo but there're as many where I would go w/ Mongo when usually relied on SQL.

Why: working completely without schemes and even migrations is awesome. Just save a record in Node/Mongo with the native interface and the system is setting up the respective table and even DB in the same moment if not existant. Schemeless is not always the way to go but if you want to prototype or to get quickly out of the door, it's an mind-blowing experience (and it's enough for many web projects). And with the JS interface it's just incredible and totally different to other NoSQL counterparts.
"Meeker's back" does not signal anything. She gives a similar presentation every year. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/mary-meekers-2011-presentat...
That link crashes Safari on my iPad.
Thank you, that's very helpful. Looking forward to the emitters and dashboard whenever they're ready - I suspect they will help drive adoption of Batsd and encourage development of additional emitters.
Managing changes is the key to a project’s success
Uber actually does this today if you have the app. You tell it where you want to go, it shows you where the nearest car is and you say "pick me up!" (big green button) and you're done.

What isn't yet done is that when you run the Maps app on the phone and you look for some place nearby, it 'up-sells' you an option to do what the Uber app currently does.
If they're ripping off his character and/or storyline, it could count as copyright infringement.
1 is definitely an issue, but has a solution. I posted an article about this a while back with a simple example of the problem and a possible solution. The example is a staged rollout but it illustrates the same point. If you change proportions of tests over time as there are independent changes, you can get skewed results: http://blog.avidlifemedia.com/2011/12/23/advanced-ab-testing...
Thanks for adding some real data to the conversation ! :)
Are you actually saying "one who has done nothing wrong has nothing to fear"? That looks little too naive in this world.
Doesn't stop the fact that I'd get more satisfaction out of reading the New York Times (or even the New York Post) than browsing the front page of reddit.

Oh look, a picture of a velociraptor with a caption. And someone's cat. A terribly-drawn cartoon about why console gaming is better than PC gaming. Someone else's cat. Another cat. I'VE SEEN CATS BEFORE, PEOPLE!
The subreddits are the real story. Took me a while to realize that, but now I'm hooked. I've learned so much the past few weeks from various communities.

Reddit allows subreddits a lot of freedom in creating local cultures. There is so much potential.

I may be over-excited about this because I just became the moderator of the subreddit in my niche. Previously I was building up a blog on my own, with some traffic, but little engagement or feedback.

Now www.reddit.com/r/LSAT instantly has 125 readers, and tons of engagement and trust. I'm so excited to think about what I can build it into.
U.S. News - Snake-handling preacher dies from rattlesnake bite in West Virginia
Hmm, I may have misunderstood adavies42 slightly here; I thought (s)he meant what would happen if a motion of no confidence were ignored, which has never happened and would be quite a shock. When a motion of no confidence is passed by parliament, either against the entire government or against one or more of its members, which has happened several times, usually the target of the motion goes to the queen to resign; the governmental parties then seek a replacement who has to be officially appointed by the queen. If the entire government resigns, the queen usually asks for advice from all political leaders, and then there are several options, all of which involve her, since she officially appoints the members of the government. In practice, power is in the hands of the political parties; she does have some possibilities to influence the process, but not very much.
Could you explain briefly why you chose to write a replacement for statsd, rather than improve on it? What aspects of statsd were you not happy with?

(I don't have a horse in this race, I haven't used statsd before -- but I am planning to deploy some sort of statistics gathering soon and I wonder why I would choose your implementation over Etsy's, apart from the obvious appeal of the 37signals brand.)
Firefox Vs The New York Times