skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said that.

I realized my world was divided into: places I could walk to, places I could bike to, and places I could drive to.

Where I live (downtown Palo Alto), driving is a hassle because of traffic and parking. Driving is annoying, boring, frustrating, life-wasting... basically I hate driving and use it only as a last resort.

Walking is great, but it's slow. It's really time-consuming to walk anywhere beyond a few blocks.

Biking is pretty fast, but still a bit of a hassle because I have to bring a heavy U-lock and worry about my bike. "Where is my bike and is it OK?" is always in the back of my head, which makes it harder to enjoy whatever I'm doing. Also biking doesn't leave any hands free to carry things.

Now I have a Boosted Board with a 6-mile range. For any trip under 3 miles, it is:

* Faster than walking, biking, or driving.

* More fun.

* No extra hassle, nothing to worry about.

* Leaves 2 hands free to carry stuff like groceries.

So it's opened up this whole 3 mile radius of things around me that I previously wouldn't go to. Now these places feel like they're at my fingertips. It feels like my world got smaller.
We'd be happy to consider you for our Rails class. Let me know if you're interested in that course, and I'll transfer your application over!
The premise is false. Developers change jobs roughly every three years, that's actually high compared to most other professions.
That would be cool. Since most services actually expose an API, there are many interesting ideas to explore around the idea of being able to post all different kinds of things to a dispatch, including GH issues or tickets in other issue tracking systems.
Optimizing for a goal less likely to fail sounds like a good idea for young entrepreneurs that don't have any significant net worth or previous successes.

After they are financially setup for life, more seem to gravitate towards the really big, risky, transformative ideas.
Open sourcing npm.net, a .NET library for the Node.js package manager (npm)
Dumb name, but I agree with the basic point. Mock objects are a deceptively good strategy, because they work for the toy examples used to motivate them, but don't scale up. The more sophisticated your tests get, the more you rely on real object behavior that isn't mocked accurately, and you end up spending too much time discovering this, or improving your mock object, (and likely introducing other bugs that your real system doesn't have).

Mocking a database is a really bad idea -- it is too easy to get transaction behavior subtly (or vastly) wrong, as mentioned; but also, there are subtleties involved in transaction isolation, sequences and auto-increment behavior, data types (especially fixed decimal and date/time), and functions.

Mocking distribution may be even worse. The failures simulated locally aren't quite the same as the real thing, timing is different, and it's easy to get subtle errors due to updates to shared state (that wouldn't be shared in a real distributed system).
In fact, Less Neglect would be perfect for a large scale installation like this where you could really see benefits from the data crunching we do.

As far as pricing and details, if you can shoot us an email, we can chat offline and see if we can come up with something reasonable. support at lessneglect.com
Zuckerberg's harsh words are a mixed blessing for HTML5. Some people will get the wrong message and just dismiss HTML5 altogether, which isn't what he said. His main point is he regrets building native apps with HTML5, and with the benefit of hindsight, he is right.

The good thing about this is the browsers and standards people need a wake-up call. See the comments in Paul Irish's recent thread about this [1].

There are people who are content to plod along and debate the finer points of one attribute or another, while native APIs are steaming ahead. Quotes like "We burned two years" and "Betting completely on HTML5 was the biggest strategic mistake Facebook made" from Facebook's CEO are the kind of evidence that should get people to wake up and smell the coffee, if they still haven't done so.

1. https://plus.google.com/113127438179392830442/posts/fR3iiuN4...
It appears the guy he hacked was not chosen at random. So why was he chosen?

If you start something like Project Honeypot and then Cloudflare does that suggest you want to play "good guys, bad guys"? It's very subjective stuff. Is that sort of "business model" inviting trouble?

Not to imply there are no "bad guys" on the web - of course there are - but who would want to play with them?

"Good guys?"

The social engineering stuff is disturbing. It makes you not want to sign up for anything online, not even web mail.

But when you run websites that purport to label internet users as "good" or "bad" based on spurious evidence and numerous inferences, are you not opening yourself up to even more attention from "bad guys"?

Is it possible to run an internet business without messing around with these types of characters?

Honest question.

As for your question, marquis, I think it's simple psychology: If you go online and assert "You can't hack me" or "Our system is hack-proof" to an audience that includes people like the teenager in the story, then it's perceived as a challenge. And as we continue to see, both of those assertions continue to be false. The Wired stories always follow the same plot: In the end, the teenager is arrested, but the damage has already been done.
Good Pain, Bad Pain
Windows Store accepts app submissions from developers in 120 countries
I apologize for my mistake. I am thinking of another country in South America that had public waterworks privatized briefly.

Thank you for the links.
You take your MBP with you when you go mountain biking? Have you ever taken a look around at the amount of broken glass at trailheads? Leave it at home bro.
I think the point was the parent post was saying you'd need 100k views w/ a 5% conversion which would be challenging. Evbn was saying reddit could get the 100k views.
tl;dr - currently Supply < Demand.

Back after the dot com burst a whole lot of developers would have loved for recruiters to bug them.
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I'll agree it's so crazy its brilliant! I have been trying to self train and make it into mobile platforms for over a year now and its not as easy or speedy as I originally expected. I have very little programming experience and am looking for a more specific career change from IT break fix to mobile dev. I think this model is the perfect way out of the current long term schooling or upfront high cost boot camp that may or may not deliver. Experience is the key and this style of class seems to have lots of hands on experience. It's the perfect mix of intense focus as far as I can tell.
Which HN members were able to grow a site from 0 to a Million unique visitors?
I would love to meet some hard working HN members who were able to grow their sites from 0 to 1,000,000 unique visitors a year.

What is your site?

What did you do to get that traffic?

How long did it take?

What would you do differently next time?

Thanks so much!

Dave Craige
www.tugboat.io
It is a very specific definition of business - the problem is that the equation in most employers head is as little pay for the most amount of work done and Ive found that this typically is a poor way to think when producing software that really thrives on creativity and quality. In otherwords, treating it like a factory line with cost spreadsheets typically leads to bad things for the business
Tell me the limits of a miter saw as they relate to project X without ever touching one...

I don't actually think suits need to learn code either but the knowledge is worth its weight in gold if they can.
Moody’s Says U.S. Faces Aaa Cut Without Budget Deal in 2013
You raise some good points. At one point I've indeed fallen into the trap where I continued improving the mock object until it was a system of its own that was beginning to have bugs that had no relation to any real system the code was to run on.

The mock thus became more of burden than a help, and after reading some posts of this "NoMock" movement, I realized they actually weren't even helping me.

What's in a name, but what name would you suggest? :P
I know... I was talking about the optimizations which JVM does on fly.
I agree, but feel that with Facebook's resources there was nothing stopping them from building a native application and a counterpart web application much like Twitter. Using a friend's device? Opt for the web interface. Using your own device? Native install.

These things can live in harmony, not exclusivity.
Thanks for sharing. Working with the same concept for the last few days. Cube (mongoDB/nodeJS rest server), http://square.github.com/cube/, really gave me a kickstart on simple datacapture and quering. (I use highcharts for the visualization).
The story is crap, but I frankly I think a number of people would be interested in buying an iPhone 5 in kit form. Granted with modern circuitry it would be pretty insane to have neophytes try to hand solder BGA package-on-package chips but if you look at the phone from the iFixit perspective (just the major assemblies) that would be fun.
theres http://opentsdb.net/, most the time I think people just write a custom thing on top of cassandra or equivalent though.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/884525/err141.pdf

page 8

(page 13 could start a riot)
As others have been pointing out feverishly on Twitter: the problem wasn't them betting too much on HTML5. Their problem was developing piece of shit apps that happened to use HTML5. They tasked amateurs who didn't know what they were doing into building a hybrid native app container which in turn embedded HTML5 content. Plenty of other developers (Instagram and LinkedIn come to mind) have figured out how to do that right, and in a way where it is seamless to the end user and for all intents and purposes feels exactly the same as a native app.

I'm not saying that it's an easy problem. You have to find the right balance between which components should be native or not. It's clear from the other problems that Facebook's been able to solve that they know how to hire top-notch developers. They just failed to do so for their mobile efforts, which just reinforces the stereotype that they don't "get" mobile.
This would be a great Quora question. Why don't you go ahead and ask there and post a link here?
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They're expensive, but keep in mind that almost by the nature of the product, the customer base is going to be mostly 20-something urban professionals -- i.e. folks that make $1000 in two working days and are less likely to have a family cutting into their gadget fund.
If this is funded, why is it also on KickStarter? I can't help but feel KickStarter is used mostly as a hype building machine in a lot of cases. People go on their with money burning a hole in their pocket.
Zuckerberg to Come Out of 'Shell' at TechCrunch
The reason is because the skill appears as magic to others, whereas business skills are something that anyone can at least imagine themselves doing. This is completely orthogonal from how difficult these jobs may be under varying circumstances.
> I don't think I advised anyone to quit one's job

You should change the title to "Why you should be a founder" (or "Why you should think like a founder") rather than "Why you should quit and be a founder". Just as I suggested that changing the title is something you should do, your article title suggests that quitting one's job is something one should do.
This is more accurate:

Typically, households classified as having very low food security experienced the condition in 7 months of the year, for a few days in each of those months.
I wouldn't mind an autonomous squirt-gun that can distinguish between crows and cardinals, and can keep the former out of my bird feeder.
How do you consider .NET and C# built on top of Java? They're certainly designed a direct competitor, with C# + .NET built to check every box that Java + JVM does, but most of the things in common between the two weren't new in Java.

In the years since, new C# features have diverged sharply from Java's.
> I have contacted the creator and informed him of the conflict.

Seriously, there's more than a lack of tact there.
But pg doesn't take money for this.
Prior art... other startups have beaten you to it already.
How did this poison pill work? Did you simply state it verbally or in an email? In a contract?
i hope this doesn't mean they will be forcing everyone into a native app. i ditched it long ago because their mobile site is quite good and 100x better for my privacy. same with yelp and youtube. gmail is good also, but i need the notifications there, so no choice but native.
Just loading the page. I tried it in Firefox and it works fine. Exact Chrome version is 21.0.1180.89.
I don't expect the new maths to cause a delay from learning so much as from verifying.

In some sense, proof-checking is a trivial linear-time operation: you check that each step follows from the last, and if they all do, the proof is correct. Proof checking is something that computers do well, except that describing a proof to a computer is usually non-trivial.

Where proof-checkers -- human and otherwise -- will get hung up, especially with the new maths, is that it may not be obvious how each step follows from the last.

What will happen is something a bit interactive: if the proof checker cannot intuitively see the logic in one step of the proof, he may first try to prove the lemma himself. If he can't, he'll go back to the original author of the proof and say, "Hey, I don't see how you go from step 518 to step 519. Can you prove it?" Sometimes the author easily can; he just didn't elaborate on that step in the proof because it was so obvious to him. Sometimes he can't; either in trying to prove that lemma he finds a contradiction, in which case the proof is incorrect, or maybe he just can't prove it, and the proof is ... incomplete.

It's this last situation which causes these grand proofs to drag out for so many years. At some point in the 500 pages, there is a jump which the author didn't notice, and it takes him another few years to prove that jump. The checkers have a much easier job, because they just have to try to follow the logic; if they fail, the burden is on the author to make the point at which they stick more clear.
"Donald Trump is a legend in his own mind."

I've been following Trump since before he built Trump Tower. Which opened in 1983.

Interestingly the wiki page on Trump Tower says this:

"He also renovated the Trump Tower in New York City and several other residential projects."

Of course didn't renovate it. He built it from the ground up, acquiring the land and pushing through the project much to the chagrin of his father (who developed other buildings). Trump learned much from his father (and he also graduated Wharton undergrad). He spent time on job sites and learned the construction business from the ground up. I remember when Trump Tower was built. It was a big achievement for someone his age at the time (and would be now as well). And it was done in NYC with red tape, unions and all the obstacles that building in NYC brings. This is not like putting up a small structure in the suburbs by any means.

While many, including you, might feel Trump is a "legend in his own mind" I respectfully disagree having watched him for many years. He's had his failures but he's come back. He's mastered the art of self promotion and I have to tell you he did this at a level nobody had ever seen before at least for real estate development.

Incidentally it is known in real estate circles that wealthy people will generally pay more to live in a Trump building than "brand x". That's part of the reputation that he has among people with money to burn. It's hard to believe that he is pulling the wool over the eyes of so many people and not providing value to them.

Oh, by the way as far as the casinos? Trump suffered a huge loss when he was starting out in NJ in that the man that he hand picked to run his casino business was killed in a helicopter crash prior to (or around) the opening. He was so devastated he named his 6000 seat arena after Mark. He didn't have to do that and it certainly shows the value of that person to the organization and knocked him off balance. I remember the news stories from that time.

Add: Mark Etess was the executive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etess_Arena
It's not about the code
don't they have freedom of speech there in the US?
This is the most beautiful circuit board I've seen since http://www.esarcasm.com/wp-content/01-geek-tattoos.jpg
Imagine how I must feel: They didn't support Windows ME, either!
I'm not sure kids with imagination get stuck on semantics like that.
For 99% of the people this is going to be just a toy. You can't expect general public to be riding these. I wish they would pivot to something similar to Segway for $1000.
The iOS app is still crap compared to the web experience. Users can't edit, or even delete, their own comments. The length of time for likes and comments to appear is unpredictable. Sometimes very quickly, sometimes users don't see their own comments for half a minute. Art is displayed oddly. It's almost always clipped at top and bottom on the page, requiring an extra step to actually see it. They seem to be under the mistaken impression that mobile users are like Twitter users, firing shots into the darkness, instead of curled up on their couches with iPads, composing little essays and looking at family photos.
Facebook has made a ton of mistakes, HTML5 does not rank anywhere near the top (it wasn't even the cause of their problems, there are plenty of well done HTML5 apps). Their app sucked, but was incredibly popular. Their new app sucks less and is still incredibly popular.

Because of their other "mistakes", I will not allow their app anywhere near my devices. A general lack of trust is a mistake that Facebook can't fix.
Unlike with a traffic jam, bothering has a very small cost, especially as compared to the cost of reading "X is down" on the HN front page.
Then it is more like "I am an MBA and CEO of a startup"
Wrong. Trump's father did not bankroll his initial ventures. It was rumored that his father helped him out after his first bankruptcy somewhat. Trump's father didn't believe in the angle that Donald was taking much as any old timer typically does. Trump's father did not bankroll him and certainly in no significant way.
It's not like VS2010 ever integrated nicely with the look of other applications. I mean, blue...

That said, since they are diverging from any kind of standard look, making the colors customizable is certainly a good thing.
How to Make $104 Million from US Govt. while in jail..
Whistle Blower Award of $104Mn to former banker who helped IRS make case against his former employer UBS. All this while in prison.
Paul Krugman's Infuriating Post About The iPhone 5
"The stickers and t-shirts are meant as a way to help the project while still getting something in return - think of it as a donation with a perk."

I feel that's how we should think of most stuff we back on Kickstarter. Since at some levels the "reward" is the product itself, though, it gets harder to think like that.

That's why when you pledge to donate on Kickstarter you're called a "backer" instead of a "customer", I think. You're a customer AFTER you get the product, but till then you're a someone that believes in that project and wants to help.
Just Freaking Call Me
I'd say their biggest mistake is filtering the news feed by presumed interest. I talk to normal person after normal person who finds facebook increasingly more useless because this algorithm does not work correctly.

I sure am tired of hearing people talk about 'html5' as if the situation of native vs. browser apps is really any different now than it has been for the past 5 or 10 years.
Six strategies for building a great Chrome extension
"Donald Trump knows everything about how his company's physically operate"

My cousin had a property in the 90's that Donald Trump wanted to use for something. It was not a large property at all. It was located in Atlantic City. He was surprised that Donald handled the transaction directly with him and he met with him several times.

Trump is a hand's on person and has a very lean organization. He doesn't have a PR department and his office staff is small relative to what he does.
You've never had to hire a lawyer, have you?
It is always valuable to know how business works. As much as engineers deride the 'suits' I've known brilliant engineers who couldn't make a profit at a lemonade stand if their life depended on it.

A small anecdote. I talked with the CEO of a startup who was looking for a CTO. They were building a brand which they would leverage into an advertising magnet using crowd sourced content. "Great, but online advertising comes from Google, why would Google sell ads on your product?" was my response. They had a great product idea, and good execution, but the business of advertising online really was built around search ads, nearly everything else was remnants. The missing piece was fitting into the existing infrastructure in a way that could fund them until they could pull in advertisers directly.

Difference between thinking like an engineer and thinking like a founder. Where does your idea add value, how much value does it add, and how much of that can you keep after you give away enough to facilitate adoption of your product.
I assume that this will be targeted at whoever pays the bill.

The problem is that a lot of people especially families etc have more than one person using the internet even if you ignore issues such as other people breaking into your network without permission.

Another problem is that bit torrent traffic is very difficult to block without effectively crippling the internet connection since modern clients seem to be clever about using encryption and trying different ports etc. I've tried blocking bittorrents on my router using it's feature for doing so, didn't work at all.

This means that you might have a family with a shared internet connection where all of the kids are given internet access because they need it for schoolwork & keeping in touch with friends etc but maybe one of them simply keeps downloading copyrighted material despite being told not to. Identifying and preventing this behaviour might prove impossible and it's likely that the entire household suffers as a result.
Broken Windows and the iPhone 5
File-sharer will take RIAA case to Supreme Court
Backlift now supports handlebars, less and coffeescript
The fully qualified domain name would be "paypal.com.", not "paypal.com". You're just looking at subdomains of other domains, not something in PayPal's records.
But why did Facebook get away with it for so long?
This is awesome. How much will this cost down the road?
The odd part is not that they're willing to pay the recruiter, it's that they're not willing to pay the candidate.
They're really claustrophobic, no? The high-interest private ones are the worst, and the ones I take the most satisfaction of throwing hundreds of dollars at every month (above the hundreds in interest).
Necessary quote:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
"Disrupting the disruptors."

Not sure what the speaker meant but in my view that could mean upstaging these hollow throw-together startups with some sound engineering. No hype solutions to the same "problems" that "Just work better" (because they are designed better) and cost less.
I think it is easier to find money for these more hip startups than for a more innovative kind of company, where still some research time is involved. Maybe that is also one reason for the lack of innovation.