skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...given just $20,000 by the incubator, and after the four-month program ended, the money was gone...

...after pivoting and focusing solely on letting teachers share lesson plans, Simons said he was able to score $50,000 in seed funding from Ulu Ventures and Silicon Valley VC Paul Sherer.

Now, Simons said, he's looking to raise an additional $500,000.

So is Simons just a kid with a particularly honed entrepreneurial spirit?

Exactly when did the definition of entrepreneur change from "build a sustainable business that provides value to its customers" to "survive long enough for the next round of investment"?

I admire Eric for his tenacity (most others would have quit long ago), but I'd much rather hear about when he actually sells something.
The main attack is reading the full disk encryption key from the RAM. If you manage that, then you can decrypt the full disk.
I believe you're referring to http://investors.dressrush.com/
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Doesn't work on chrome on mac, many images are broken, some slides are doubled.
Unfortunately, this approach will not work for clients using Internet Explorer (save for IE 10). WebSockets and EventStreams are fairly new, and not supported across all browsers (both for mobile and non-mobile).

This is why socket.io and its contemporaries have several layers of fallbacks, even going back to infinite iframe/JSONP polling.
"Ajax" is listed under Technologies. May as well include "computers" and "internet," too.
This is my first account, I just had to create one to respond to what was probably one of the most moronic things I've ever read in my short existence on this earth.
It'd be nice to have someone from GitHub comment on how these rankings are calculated. Raw LOC? Percentage of projects with at least one X language file in them? Percentage of projects that have a plurality of source code in X language?
That is not nearly as backwards compatible because you are adding markup. Will the picture element inherit it's style from the inner img element? I don't think so. Now you have to go mess around with the CSS and have two different pathways for the style to be applied based on the browser.

Also, <video> fallback doesn't really work. If you have an h264 video, there is no good way to make it play in all browsers with markup alone (Firefox won't fallback to flash).
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If you ignore the fact it takes minutes to display anything beyond a blank page, yes it is nice.
My suggestion:

For some language X where Y “compiles to “ X, Y is a new language if it introduces new semantics. For example, pure functional semantics, or object-orientation, or pattern matching, or method flavours, or static typing.

One easy test for this is to ask whether compiling Y to X can be done in small chunks or whether it requires “Whole program rewriting.” For example, transforming a program with continuations into CPS requires whole-program rewriting. I would call any language that adds continuations to JavaScript a new language on that basis alone.

CoffeeScript is almost entirely local transformations. I think of it as JavaScript.
The argument isn't that the labels "must fail", it's that they must give up trying to create artificial scarcity. The problem isn't the labels, it's their behavior.

People implicitly (or explicitly) believe that changing this behavior will cause them to fail, but the main point isn't about their failing. In fact, the best outcome would be the label's succeeding despite giving up on the current business model.
Our corporate nannyware (websense) associates this site with "nudity". I could not make heads or tails of the site on my Nexus Galaxy.
Near the bottom under Advisors the "role" of the two advisors is reversed.
iStock Photo / Getty Images and Flickr/Bitly should be swapped based on the description of the two men.
Why would my posts not show up on the new list?
Just curious why my posts might not show up on the "new submissions" page on HN? i can see them when i'm logged in, but when i look as an anonymous user, i can't see them. but i can see other people's submissions. I've checked with friends, and they can't see my submissions either. Any hints? advice? user error?
Hmm, I keep getting Internal Server Errors when I try to register or log in.

Edit: Chrome / Ubuntu anyway, worked fine for me in Firefox.
> We joked at Google that they really did want you to live there

I heard from some Googlers that the company had considered building an apartment complex on or near the Mountain View campus. We joked that was Google building a "company town" and would pay employees with scrip that was only good at the company store.
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That's why it's a "safe 4% withdrawal rate" -- you can do better on the stock market in nominal terms (8-9% or so) but you lose some of that to inflation.

Of course, if you're stuck in bonds and savings accounts then inflation (including exchange-rate related inflation) is, in fact, robbing you. Way to stick it to the retirees, Bernanke! :P
Another thing he might consider is setting multiple rounds on the SHA512-crypt hash used by default in Ubuntu. Something like 'rounds=512000' would be sufficiently strong for now. That would cause a perceivable delay during logon. Probably about 4 to 5 seconds, but on a single-user laptop that would be just a slight inconvenience. Also he should use an extremely strong/long password that passwdqc approves of.

Doing this would protect against the scenario where he happens to leave a root terminal open and the maid copies his /etc/shadow to a usb drive and gives it to some government agent to crack... well good luck to them.
Huh? The product is right there.

Honestly: I'm not qualified to judge the prospects of a photo sharing site. I mean that sincerely: I have no f'ing clue of whether a photo site is worth $1 or $1Bn.

I'm in the exact same place as 'tferris: as a company operator and likely future again-founder, I have a somewhat visceral reaction to overly intricate investor courting rituals.

It might be a totally reasonable response to say "You're crazy, this is going to be super effective, they did exactly the right thing here." Awesome! I'll have learned something new. Fire away!
older programmers that were mediocre (these are usually the ones still using only the language they started with, programming specific types of apps in the niche industry they started in).

This is one of the reasons some folk think older developers get worse. The mediocre young developers very naturally end up using the "cool" languages - because they're the ones that are popular and fashionable at the time they move into development. Their rigidity only becomes obvious as the years go past and the world moves on without them.

(Not that there aren't good and valid reasons for sticking with "old" technology that just works. I have to admit I'm kind of looking forward to the point in five or six years time when the Rails folk have to start justifying why they're not using the NewCoolThing :-)

I don't think you can pigeonhole this demographic any more than any other, but there is at least one thing to keep in mind -- the exceptional "old farts" are really exceptional, because they have the same passion as any other passionate programmer, plus a boatload of experience

I think it's even better than that. Experience can help turn a mediocre developer into an excellent one. I find the idea that some people have that experience makes people perform worse somewhat bizarre.
This certainly doesn't sound like very much fun. You slave away for 15 years to get your $500k stash. And then, once you've gotten there, you retire, and end up cutting back on expenses by driving a shitty car, quitting your gym, etc. Now, you just "sit back" and wait 30 years for your $1m to roll in. Then you're 65 and practically dead. (Oh and don't forget, inflation is ignored here and has probably eaten well into your real returns.)

Better to save up enough money to live on semi-comfortably for a year or two (say, $200k) and make a leap out of the ratrace. Start a business that has the potential to generate a large amount of income quickly with low startup costs and be sold as equity for a high price after some time. Fail, and repeat for the next two years. Hopefully at some point you will get cash flow positive and will not be forced back into the rat race. If you've played your cards right your incoming cash flows will largely be passive, leaving you the freedom to expand into new areas in the quest for high growth. One can imagine that after 5 years of being out of the rat race, you will end up stumbling upon a high growth business that can start bringing in serious cash.

After 5 years of effort you will hopefully have $1-5m. You almost certainly will have more than the $250k you started with. Provided you have been smart and not increased your standard of living as you earn this money plug it into safe, income generating investments like bonds, CEFs, and dividend value stocks.

Congratulations, you can now kill off any income streams you may have had that were taking up time (and were not passive) and can decide if you want to live on the interest or continue searching for more growth, to get you to that $10m point where the interest starts being "I think I will buy a new car today" levels. You're also probably in your late 30s early 40s and can actually still enjoy life.
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No doubt. This list isn't supposed to be indicative of what's being written in general-- it's about what code is on github.
When you outlaw cookies, then only the outlaws will have cookies. I tend to hold the belief that consumer protectionism laws don't really protect consumers, in that it lulls consumers into an inattentive stupor when it comes to things they best educate themselves on instead.
Let me rephrase> Is it legal to put a pitch deck aimed at private investors online for all to see? I know this is a grey area in the past, and recent legislation has changed things, so I ask again, in hopes of actually getting an answer: Is this legal?
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I wish that we could rely on the companies that are increasingly controlling semi-public commons like social networks and software repositories to have some integrity and respect for the roles that they are playing in this regard.
I try to stick to food products that existed 200 years ago.
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Yes, there are many 30 year old programmers writing sloppy unstructured code that would have been drummed out of the freshman programming class I had to take, longer ago than I should admit :-)

Uh, which skills? organization, or enterprise hoo-hah buzzword bingo???
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>I could argue it both ways (theft and non-theft)

If the district attorney's office in Santa Clara County wanted to, it is more likely than not that they could get a conviction for illegal lodging (misdemeanor).

If I were the district attorney, I'd tend to let something like this slide when the doer is as young as this guy is. It bothers me a little though that he is speaking openly about it to the press because that suggests that he has no shame about it. If he really has no shame at all about it, I would prefer that he be dragged into court.

If your reaction to this report is to excuse the behavior because the guy is an entrepreneur, I think your reaction is no better than, "It's OK because he's a member of our club."
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I'm waiting for the day when the App Store (et al) become classified as a "market", in the sense of "shutting competitors out of the market". On a desktop, Microsoft can't get away with making a browser (for example) and then locking out all other browsers. That's abuse of their monopoly position. Apple should be living up to the same standards in mobile.

I view mobile as more of a game console than a PC, but if Apple wants to insist that they're fully functional and "post-PC", they have to live by the same standards.
Works fine in my Chrome 18, its way smoother in chrome than in Firefox 12
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There's a great infographic that pits human lifespans against this old idea - that investing in the stock market is always a good idea because it goes up in the long run. There were many, many times in the last 100 years where "the long run" was longer than a normal human lifespan.
scrollorama.js and impress.js are good starting points for that
If your first read of their presentation missed important facts, does that imply it's an ineffective presentation?
Note that I was not arguing for checked exceptions. Rather, I was arguing that your argument does not support your conclusion.

With that said, I think it may be reasonable to say "You may be able to recover from a missing file, but no one can help you if this pointer is null." It's the difference between a logic error in the program (null pointer exception, array out of bounds exception) and configuration errors (missing file, lost connection). Checked exceptions are typically explicitly thrown by the called function; unchecked exceptions are typically encountered because the called function itself had an error. In other words, checked exceptions are when the called function recognizes an error, and throws it up to its caller.

So, I am able to distinguish them myself. But I'd still rather not have checked exceptions. The mentality of "acknowledge all errors" makes more sense in the error-code model, as seen in C programs. In that case, if you don't at least check for and report all possible errors that can arise from calling a function, then they will never get reported, and your program will silently be wrong.
All you need to know wrapped in a beautiful design. The company, Finely, is certainly one to keep an eye on.
Had some trouble viewing the presentation at first in Chrome. I did go back and it rendered beautifully later. I suspect most people won't do that... which is a shame but the risk with using complex presentation style.

Not sure why there's so much concern with the time it took to make. Working on your startup is a labor of love... describing and pitching should be too. Very nice work.
I think those numbers also reflect something other than the obvious.

There's a huge contingent of…uh…let's just say "differently educated" developers who previously were making some delicious pasta in PHP and now want to build iPhone apps because they heard there's gold in them thar hills.

Objective-C is also a lower-level language than CoffeeScript and thus harder to use, especially if you're not used to working in a language where it's possible to free memory early or smash the stack.

So CoffeeScript is a very easy language that tends to be used by developers who are experienced in its domain, while Objective-C is a relatively hard language that has gotten a huge influx of rank amateurs in Stack Overflow's lifetime. Thus, the latter gets a disproportionate number of questions.

(For credibility's sake: I'm one of the top contributors to the Objective-C tag on Stack Overflow.)
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Beautiful, sure... But there's so much emphasis on the form that one hardly sees/reads the content.

Also, I would really appreciate if the site was a bit narrower, smaller fonts, and less flashy colors... But =, maybe it's just because I'm reading it at night.
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"visualize.me" is a spam site. "vizualize.me" (ow) looks interesting, but Eckler's name appears nowhere on the site I can find, nor in any news stories I could find about the company, which does have a web page listing its current staff and is clearly still operating (they have a Twitter account).

But this is getting nitpicky. You're right: I wrongly and thoughtlessly implied that they were a Pinterest derivative, and ignored the vizualize connection.

Thanks for catching that.
I think it's easy for software people to say this for the opposite reason: we are much less dependent on restrictive software than most people, and certainly less dependent on it than on similarly restrictive music or movies.

All the best developer tools (Linux, Emacs, compilers...) are entirely free. They even go beyond simply being free to access--you are free to do whatever you want with them, and, moreover, there are guarantees for a lot that nobody can take that freedom away.

It is completely reasonable to basically only use free software. The only non-free software I have at the moment is probably Flash, and that's becoming increasingly less needed every day. Additionally, a lot of programmers get paid to work on open source already--even my current internship involves writing open source software. Additionally, a lot of developers work on software that does not get distributed as a product--they're being paid to solve a problem for some business rather than being paid for a copy of some software they wrote.

So really, the reason it's easy for developers to ask this is because it works for us already.
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Mr. Money Mustache defines "retired" as being able to do whatever he enjoys, including work he enjoys. From what I can tell by reading his blog for the past couple of months, he has no desire to sit around on a beach or play golf all day.
So... yeah? I have no idea what you mean here. This just links to their blog, which gives me no warnings nor does it have any information.

Do you have something to share about this? Any commentary? Any more to show for people who might not be seeing what you're seeing? I must admit you've lost me.
You're missing the point of being "frugal". It's not about "giving up" the "good life" and punishing yourself to go without. It's about coming to the realization all that crap isn't making you happier anyway, so better not to go to work to earn money to buy it.

I drive a $450 car, have no TV or cell phone and have never been happier in my life.

> Now, you just "sit back" and wait 30 years for your $1m to roll in.

When you say "Sit back" what you really mean is "do whatever you want with your time". It's important to note that doesn't mean doing nothing - it means exploring your passions and dreams, which could be anything from volunteering at the homeless shelter to contributing to open source projects to building that deck on your house to actually raising your own kids instead of sending them off to expensive childcare. I sure as hell don't sit around and do nothing when I'm not at work.

> Then you're 65 and practically dead.

That's the whole reason you need to get out of work NOW! At this rate, you'll (everyone) will be sitting at a desk until they are "practically dead". At least if you get out of work now, you can enjoy the years between now and 65 doing whatever the hell you want to every day. And, of course, all the years that come after 65 too.

>"I think I will buy a new car today"

I actually have never bought a new car, and have no interest in doing so. If you actually want to buy a new car today, then you have linked happiness with money, and it will be very hard for you to live the frugal life which lets you go to work less.
It's a beautiful presentation. I'm jealous. We have products we're in the process of slow-launching; I'd absolutely pay to get a site like that.

Maybe the best way to put it is, skepticism over prospects of new internet site is inversely proportional to the quotient of (quality of application / quality of investor pitch).

And piccsy.com doesn't look bad at all! It's just, the denominator is so big...
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4% is a commonly used estimate for the average annualized real return on the stock market - so yes, a real return adjusted for inflation.
Which is why I said "somewhat". However, you can upload a picture from one app and interact with it in another, so that's... something I guess.
I've had one entertaining experience at a conference of having my opinion be partially dismissed in-person due to my age - only to have a guy bring up what this "Adrian Howard" dude said on a mailing list to back up my old-dude opinion (I hadn't introduced myself at this point).

I guess on the internet nobody knows you're an old dog
I'm not sure anyone cares but Arlo & Konfabulator ended up at Yahoo! and Konfab is the basis for their Connected TV App Platform

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If Apple likes your product, and they steal your features for their OS

AirTunes came out in 2004 and AirFoil followed a year later as a software accessory compatible with AirTunes.
True, but then the live-migrate feature would not be possible. Also, even in Xen, the ballooning can only be done in a range (I think not quite 4 times), so you can't set up 1GB and then balloon to 28GB, then go down to 1GB again.
It's worth noting that—annoying as it is—the soldered RAM modules in the MacBook Air make it resistant to cold boot attacks. Combined with FileVault FDE and the pmset command mentioned by "there," you get a pretty secure setup.
1) Living frugally doesn't have to suck. Being "I think I'll buy a new car today" rich doesn't actually make you any happier.
2) Retired means that you don't have to work if you don't want to. It doesn't mean that you have to sit around and do nothing.
3) Inflation is not ignored.
4) Most of the people here at HN probably can save $500k in 7-8 years, not 15.
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Yeah, the "Camera" thing was confusing. They later added a little white F in a blue circle to the bottom-right of the icon. But before that, I thought it was something my launcher had added, since there were two Camera and two Messenger apps.
Specializing is often very lucrative

Hell yeah. I knew a couple of folk who decided to go into COBOL in a serious way twenty years ago since they saw how the relative numbers of "lines of business critical COBOL" and "number of skilled COBOL developers" were going.

They both made out like bandits.
Right, that's what I'm thinking, but then one wonders: does "Ridiculously Good Looking presentation" start serving as a negative signal?
When I viewed the link (from the UK) I got presented with a popup asking me to understand and accept the new cookie policy. Perhaps you viewed the link from outside the EU? I imagine this relates to the new EU laws concerned with tracking users.
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If Eric goes on to create a billion dollar business, has he not created more value that benefits society by creating jobs and overall economic value? Would you argue all of that value creation isn't worth the meager amount that he got out of hanging around AOL?

Steve Jobs dropped out of college and attended classes free of charge. Would you argue that he should never have started Apple, despite getting a free ride on a few classes?
Stealing from someone just because they can afford it doesn't make it ethical.
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