skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For the lower-tier accelerators, however, it might just be a waste of time and equity."

Is it? First of all the equity only matters if you are a success. The time only matters if there is an opportunity cost of the time (unclear with the "18 to 20" year olds). Hard to believe someone that age is going to not get some benefit from the mentoring that is worth the equity and psychic benefits. And of course we don't have good data and controls to compare non incubator startups either.

I would argue that, similar to "psychic income" there is a certain "psychic bump" to feeling that (even wrongly) you are on your way to something because of the structure of the incubators. Something similar might be companies back in the day (not sure if this is done anymore but it was in the 80's) who would take groups of laid off workers and have them show up at an office to work on resumes and look for jobs. Being in the presence of other job seekers apparently did some good for them in terms of their self esteem and how they approached that task (as opposed to doing it from home). (My first hand experience with this was as a vendor to a company that became the leader in this field, Manchester Career which landed large contract after contract and expanded greatly because of what they were able to achieve).

So I would question that there isn't some benefit to the lower tier incubators that is worthwhile to experience and I don't believe that has been proven out in any research of them and in fact there is this story which was widely discussed here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/04/30/top-tech-i...
Ask HN: Beginning web development language for a non-programmer?
I have a few ideas for some rather simple, fun websites, but I need to learn a language so I can do the backend. I know html/css, but pretty much no actual programming languages. I've done some research but really I'd just like some personal opinions here.

I'm going to be honest and say that I'd prefer an easier language to learn over one that's faster / more efficient and such. Though I think PHP is out of the picture because apparently PHP is terrible.
I don't plan on becoming a career programmer, but I'd like to be able to execute my ideas, which is why I'm going for ease of learning / use.

I've heard of Django and Rails. Everyone loves Python, and Rails seems nifty from when tryruby.org (vague opinion of it, I know).

Anyone have any languages / frameworks to recommend? I realize this question has been asked before but I'd like to be able to discuss with someone about it. Thanks.
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5-8 seconds isn't a problem at all.

It's Analytics, not an online database for website authentication or something.

It competes with datawarehouse solutions where the typical reporting models involves submitting a job, waiting an hour and then getting a report.

I'd expect a lot of the most useful applications running on this will use queries that take many minutes (if not hours) to complete.
I say we all just start defaulting anything that isn't bleeding edge IE to the mobile experience. That'll sort em.
Actually, it's only an exercise for folks who can do the other parts of the relevant work, no matter what the peanut gallery concludes. My brief list was a small part of that and was intended to suggest that the supposed benefit doesn't matter. As I pointed out, a non-profit may actually be at a disadvantage.
2. Do you use 2-factor authentication? I do, and so I'm used to seeing this on applications that don't fully support the 2-factor authentication, which is, I assume why it was asking.
Their book value is more than $19. Even the liquid assets minus all liabilities is $6.60. Are you saying that all of their property, patents, and future revenue (decidedly non-zero) are worth less than $1.10?
Yeah exactly. If you're not too materialistic you don't have too work too many hours to pay the bills and that leaves you with a lot of time to work on your own ideas and/or just enjoy life.

Vietnam is very cheap. I can live quite comfortably here for about $1000/month and I could squeeze it down to about $600 if necessary. I'm currently renting a big, comfortable house within walking distance of the beach for about $350 a month. If you're at all interested in the hacker commune idea you could easily fit four people in a house this big and basically live for peanuts.
Because the company is and always has been lacking in any kind of vision or ambition. They have a middle management dominated corporate culture and follow the traditional hardware company pattern of treating their engineers like replaceable pawns. Exactly the wrong kind of configuration to compete in today's high tech culture.

Honestly I won't be sad to see them go, by all my friends' accounts it was a soul-sucking place to work. They had the early lead in the smartphone market and completely squandered it.
If you have no stake in the argument then it's usually best to just distance yourself from that type of person. Don't allow yourself to sink to their level.

If you do have a stake in it (financial or whatever) then there are books on the subject, but you can get started by searching "how to deal with difficult people"
Corporate: the only reason for this is because web apps and sites are written for a particular browser, and not based on standards.

Awareness: when sites don't work, they'll be aware of the problems. The truth is, most users at getting more educated about browsers all the time. It can't e helped that Microsoft has tied browser innovation and standardisation to their operating system.

Familiarity: really fairly bogus as an argument. There is really not that much different between the interfaces of Opera, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox these days!
The simplest way for keeping who you are seeing updated on your ETA.
I believe the web applications thing only applies to those that have been added to the homescreen through Safari -> Add to Home Screen.

As mentioned in the original comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662093) it doesn't apply to UIWebViews which Chrome uses.
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I'll bite - how often does a belief in intelligent design instead of evolution matter?

For example, does it matter at all to a particle physicist? How about a chemist? How about materials science?

Newton thought that he'd be remembered as an alchemist....
Such an awesome explanation on making the jump.
I've just been told yesterday that a banking/financial software web product we're supposed to use works only on... firefox! actually the guy who said it to me didnt know if it worked on chrome/safari/opera, but he was 99.9% sure it doesnt work on IE (infact they had to deploy firefox everywhere). I was quite surprised, I think the financial sector is not so open to technological changes (I still remember talkin to a large fund corp no more than 5-6 years ago and they had security policies that said that they cannot use VPN (or FTPS/SFTP) on the internet and they must use CDN or ISDN with callerid verification for transferring operations) but if this vendor is still alive, it means that probably its product is good enough to make people install firefox (let me add that it's a tiny vendor for small financial entities, so you wont deploy this kind of software in large banks, but it's still quite odd for that market).
I thought Safari implemented multi-process a long time ago, not on mobile?
So the UI responsiveness updates that were implemented in Jelly Bean, I shouldn't care about those kinds of things?

Wanting an updated OS != obsession over OS updates.
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I'm working on something similar, but for customers. It's called customers-as-a-service. Basically, it provides on-demand paying customers for products that have none. It's quite simple and only charges a 10% premium on your base price.
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Of course on the other hand there's a lot more uncertainty and you have to hustle all your own clients and deal with billing etc. But the payoffs are substantial if you can make it work.

I think the only thing that would make me consider a full-time salaried job again is a family to support.
Actually it's entirely possible to work at a startup and live overseas. I work for an Australian startup and recently moved to Guangzhou, China.

You'll find that a lot of startups will be very flexible to your needs, the worst you can do is ask and see.
The bureaucracy, Spanish, and lack of connections to US investors and entrepreneurs make it a lot less attractive.

I wonder if a US state or AU/NZ would do something similar someday. English would be a big advantage, and if they outsourced the management of the program, they could deal with the bureaucracy, selection, etc. a lot better.
Good point.

BTW that could be written like this:-

[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('p'), function (el) { console.log(el); });
You're right, I forgot that there's such a distinction in Java.
Microsoft now has, IMO, the most interesting design language of any of the big tech players. I guess it remains to be seen if there will be any reward for them in the market for this but, as a developer, I find this a lot more appealing than anything Google or Apple are doing and C# kicks the shit out of Java or Obj-C.
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OVH has proper API for provisioning hardware. They have many machines ready to go only waiting for automatic OS install.
I beg to differ. It is extremely hard to support so many browsers. Try testing your website on 8 versions of Firefox, 5 versions of Internet Explorer (Mac and PC), 3 versions of Opera and 5 versions of Safari. Ironically, this is what jquery insulates you from to a degree, but at the same time it tends to stifle new features.
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> I just don't get why people ate this up. It honestly felt ridiculous to me

How about because it's the only gadget demo ever where the experience has not been entirely insular? When's the last time a gadget product announcement has not been something happening on a screen? A 24" screen, a 10.1" screen, a 7" screen. Steve Jobs holds up an iPad and shows what it does on a screen. Sinofsky shows Windows crashes ... on a screen. Xbox... on a screen. Flicking games on and off, showing the latest version of iPhoto, whatever.

Glass demo? People actually doing awesome stuff and bringing the entire audience into it... live, in Hangouts.

Yes, we know this is a demo and not entirely honest. So what. Glass is a vision product. It's time to break away from being in front of devices, slouching in a chair or with our neck at a 45-degree downward angle looking at an iPhone. That's why people are excited.
I've said this before, and I'll say this again. RIM's issue isn't engineering ability or know-how. It's the lack of communication, which results in product delays and market failures.

I've documented my own issues with them here:
http://www.xitijpatel.com/2012/06/a-desktop-bridge-too-far/
I made a point of listing relatively few of those. And the requirements for those types of positions vary by jurisdiction; in many, the apprenticeship includes and accommodates the requirement for formal education (i.e. allows you to do supervised work while training, and pays enough that you can afford the education). Nonetheless, the list I gave includes many other jobs with no such requirements.
OVH also offer this feature but I use puppet so it is really a moot point for me.
In particular, to legally do so under the supervision of an expert while training.
I tried watching your video: http://vimeo.com/29003525 and all I heard was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N05WL2NlLo
For beginners, Python is not what I'd suggest.

I like javascript for beginners.

It's not tightly typed, meaning you can experiment with variables of different types without worrying about what types they currently are. It's very fast, browser based (mostly), and it's really easy to learn.

Additionally, you can learn regular scripting (non procedural), procedural (where you define the functions and call them as needed), and object oriented paradigms (I like Class.js for this).

You can use tools like CodeRun (http://coderun.com/) to write and test code online without needing any OS based tools.

Finally, it's probably the most documented language on the planet because it's so widely used.
Ask HN: How can I self-publish talks like InfoQ? (Software question)
There was a recent submission to HN on a talk Rich Hickey gave. It can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854

Once in a while, I give presentations at local meetups. I would love to be able to pre-record my presentation, and post it on the web in the sort of format InfoQ uses.

I'm referring to the format whereby a slide deck advances along with the video of the speaker. Are there any off-the-shelf software packages that have this sort of functionality?

Thanks!
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What, nobody uses Windows update?
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BB6 and later use webkit which is a huge step in the right direction. Judging from the scores on html5test.com, they are taking the browser seriously these days.
FYI: you didn't mention any numbers like you promised.
With Facebook you are not their customer, you are their product. If anything, if Zuck would like a way to monetize better without alienating users he should add some kind of Facebook Premium/Gold account upgrade. Where users can choose to throw a few bucks at them each month or year, whatever, in exchange for some cool extra features, and/or to be exempt from advertisements and privacy shenanigans. Money is money, so they shouldn't care exactly where it comes from. But if you give the opportunity for each user to decide for themselves whether they wish to be a product or a customer, I think it will lead to a better situation for everyone involved. Also better fits that market divide between the folks who want the cheapest experiences versus the best experiences.
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why do you consider RIM and Nokia to be viable when they're deep in the red?

Not the OP, but both RIM & Nokia had excellent sales channels (much better than Motorola, Sony or LG) and Nokia especially had fantastic scale to for their logistics chain. Nokia could build and distribute any phone cheaper than anyone else in the world. In the post Tim Cook world Apple may well have surpassed them there now though.
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Wow, the level of delusion is just amazing:

In a conference call with analysts,
Heins said getting the new system
right was more important than doing it quickly.
“I will not deliver a product to the market
that is not ready to meet the needs of
our customers,” said Heins.

These guys are sitting in the armory of their castle, polishing their weapons, and the barbarians have already stormed over the ramparts, smashed through the walls and set fire to most of the village. But no, it's more important to get those weapons "just right".

Or to look at it another way, if BB10 is in such a parlous state that after all these delays it still cannot be shipped then there are huge, enormous problems with the technical competency inside RIM. And if that is true then we can assume that it will never ship in good shape because time is not actually a solution to such problems.
Interesting way of looking at it. Except that is about 70% of browsers that will work with jquery 2.0. Puts it into perspective!
Amazon has Elastic Beanstalk, which is the same idea as App Engine: total abstraction of underlying resources.

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I mean in terms of functionality.

To be worth shifting away from the jQuery ecosystem to something new, the latter needs a compelling advantage and it needs to not have any deal-breaking disadvantages. Nothing I've come across so far myself seems to meet both criteria.
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You're right, Peter. I am a very early employee, but even considering my equity stake, this was not a good move if the only measurement is personal net worth.

What I failed to convey is the feeling of accomplishment from personally contributing to the company, and the notion of ownership in the company. In a huge consultancy, you never really feel like you're personally moving the needle of the enterprise. You're paid for your work and you get bonuses based on company performance, but that's just one form of compensation.

I like that in a small startup, salary & equity compensation is just one piece of the picture. I like that I can increase the value of the company itself, and the company itself is important to me personally. I'm compensated tangibly in the form of salary & equity and intangibly in the form of pride.
There IS always the possibility that people don't really like the product... the top comment of this post is well thought-out and provides valid reasons for not being interested in the product. It's definitely not a flame. And I, for one, agree; I like a little bit of randomness in my day. I don't need an algorithm telling me what I should be doing/knowing at the very moment.
Oh, hai :)

So what's the criteria for #1? In broad strokes.
In the US, you have more legal options. IIRC (and I'm not a lawyer), in China you are unlikely to be able to sue for more than what you paid. Chinese law can seem a lot more laisse faire compared to US law, unless they think you are in debt (and then you get imprisoned). Actually, it's not always laisse faire, it just looks that way because some things aren't enforced, and other things are - it's different, and your supplier knows the law better than you.

From reading http://www.chinalawblog.com/, it seems one solution is to include an arbitration clause. You can take them to arbitration in the US, using US law, and get the decision enforced by arbitration treaties. But you'd want legal advice for this - if you mess up, the you can end up in a no-man's land where the Chinese courts refuse to see you (because you've specified a foreign legal jurisdiction), and refuse to enforce a foreign ruling because it's not in their jurisdiction.

Also, you want some things in Chinese. If anything gets used in a Chinese court, it gets translated to Chinese. If the other party manages to influence the official translation (or the official translation is just wrong), it's not going to be fun trying to change the courts mind.

Whatever the case, working with a Chinese supplier requires a good OEM agreement, written with the advice of a lawyer who knows the ins and outs of Chinese OEM agreements. It's not easy, but it's better than your supplier seeing you as an easy mark.
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There is a simple solution for that, add it to your bill / launch estimates. Every client I have had always understands when you say "It'll cost X to support that, or it'll bump your launch date 2 weeks". They may not understand the technical details but they will understand when you put it in their terms and ask them "Worth it to you or not?"
If you want to eventually learn web programming, pick up a language like Python (well documented, mature language).

It seem, though, as you don't see yourself walking down that path. In that case, learn PHP. it'll get you what you need to get done on the web, it's installed on nearly every server, popular CMSs are written in it, and it's easy to hire for should the need arise.
I know.

It is bad enough that we're so obsessed with web apps today that some people actually consider tools like HTML, CSS and JavaScript to be good for application development. But if native applications are going to look even worse...

Fortunately, they won't, because real people still have real work to do, and user interfaces that look like (and have similar power to) a five year old's toys are going to suck for that. Microsoft will want everyone to move over to Metro, just as they wanted everyone to use their new shiny technology last year and the year before that, but they'll still support the stuff that people write real applications with, for the same reason that you can still write native apps in C++ instead of using .Net and C# for everything.

In fact, most of Microsoft's own big money spinners don't tend to use their shiny development technologies, and they never have. Like the incompetence of politicians, this is one of those universal constants that brings hope even when everyone is saying really stupid things. :-)
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"Vast insights" was a joke because I caught my ego looking for a chance to prove how smart it is.

When I started meditating (10 years ago?), I wanted to make a wildly successful business to show how smart and precocious I was. Though things don't quite work that way, and even if I achieved big success, I don't think I would have understood my motivations. Now I want to create a productive creative life. It's the same goal, but focussed the opposite direction.
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For all the "just upgrade" comments:

Internal IT departments have no, no, no incentive to upgrade browsers. "Surfing the internet" is not a reason for IT departments to upgrade.
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UI is gorgeous, shows how much Apple has been dropping the ball lately in their mobile browser design.

I really wish Apple would allow Nitro on UIWebViews. It's making an entire generation of apps that rely on UIWebView (like... Facebook) artificially slow.
What's your visa situation like? What country is your passport from, do you have a tourist or work visa, and how long are you able to stay in Vietnam?
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If, like me, you're overwhelmed with complexity in software projects, you need 'Out Of The Tar Pit'[1]. This essay is so good, I've read it four times, gaining new insights every time.

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So if everyone is flipping shit about how outrageous it is to not support IE7/8... why do we let Microsoft slide on not supporting their own damned product?