skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good to know HNers react to the same class of stimuli as the average google search user. I might try some Cialis-entitled posts
I got the details from Paul Ford, he is one of my mentors and is on the panel. Also, Doug Rand confirmed this at the GAN conference.
Why not use windows 8? It has lots of small improvements to windows 7 (better task manager, better multi monitor support, new keyboard shortcuts, integrated cloud storage...etc) that's enough for me.

Plus the new Windows runtime APIs looks very nice, and most are usable in desktop or metro apps.
Windows: for lower level, C. like Linux and Mac OS X. For higher level development, C++ or just go with C#

Firefox/Chrome: C++ looks like a good choice, still, there's a lot of JS behind them as well if I'm not mistaken. Now, Go may be a good choice

LLVM has interesting requirements, it needs to be both fast and needs a lot of 'flexibility'.

I would probably try making the next LLVM version in PyPy (which uses LLVM itself), so it maybe bootstrap itself using CPython first, hence bringing us one step closer to Skynet.

But in general Go/C#/PyPy may be steps in the right direction (Java is too afraid of new things being added to C# like anonymous functions, so it's behind)
There is definitely a big difference between an inexperienced developer and one who is experienced and follows rigid organization practices. But even these latter people probably debug a lot, you just don't see it from the outside.

Debugging is as close to experimental science as we get in computer science. It is the act of understanding a complex system, and even if we built that system entirely by ourselves (unlikely), it eventually "gets away from us" and takes on a life of its own. It is impossible to understand everything, and debugging is a great way of allowing us to forget details and uncover them later.
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Any iOS dev worth his/her salt could make a well-polished fart button app in under an hour and for less than $100.

But no iOS dev worth their salt is gonna' do that.
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I don't want to criticize, but if getting to the first page is that important to you, I don't know, but it doesn't seems very healthy. Revenues and products are more important than bragging rights.

Ok competition is good, hacking is good, but doing that just for HN sake seems like overengineering for something not important at all (I mean, not central to most business)

However, making a product out of it is something quite different - and it's a great thing you did!
This seems to be nitpicking a bit. Many things have pros and cons, and whether they are right for you depends on your priorities and personal context. Entrepreneurship is not right for some people, but it is the only way for others.
I'd assume it is because it is so short rather than because it is any more significant than other historical works.

268 words total.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I like how the title claims to explain how to found a business solo and then does nothing but explain different ways to build your team, why investors care about the team, blah, blah, blah. You aren't explaining how to build a business, you're just taking about different ways to assemble a team.
> With the exception of the Gettysburg Address I can not think of any speeches that should be included verbatim in a high school social studies textbook.

Quite possibly not there, due to space considerations, but there should be freely-accessible online sources of all major speeches. It's absurd that the "I Have a Dream" speech shouldn't be freely available to everyone.
>Except you subconsciously have. All display sizes are sold in inches.

I'm in a country that uses the metric system, and have never cared about learning the exact equivalent of screen sizes. I just intuitively know, (from using and looking at them in the office or the store) what a 13", 15", 24", 40" etc screen is like -- and I never bothered to do the conversion at all.

It wouldn't even really help, because even if a knew the measurement in metric units, it would mean very little to the actual feeling of the screen, especially considering the variety of aspect ratios and that the display size measures the diagonal.

>The trip computer on your car will tell you miles per gallon.

All trip computers I've even seen can be set to show metric units.

>Even if you ignore speed limits, your speedometer gives you your speed in MPH :)

Still no need to do any conversion. I've travelled thousands of miles in the US (Route 66 and coast to coast several times), and I never wondered "Hmm, how many km/h are 70 mph?". I just needed to keep an eye on the speed limit signs to keep below that, and drive as fast as the car/road called for. Intuitively, not by translating to metric units.
Seems to be a very old list or it might tell you this: If you start a new project, don't use C++.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/ tells you everything.
Tech has a gender problem, and it doesn't get better by not talking about it
It may be a bold claim, but he is making a falsifiable statement.

(yet IMHO he is right - things are quite messed up in Europe at the moment - in France mostly)

However matching french Guyana launch site geographical advantage and infrastructure, and European funding, to Elon Musk ships could be a winning move.
Something ML-derived perhaps. Strong typing, mostly functional, but practical.

I once wrote a large part of a CSS+HTML renderer in OCaml (think: the very core of something like Firefox), and the ability to match over data structures and use trees naturally was a huge advantage.

ML was devised as a language to write compilers in, so LLVM is covered.

For an operating system you really want a lot of different languages because it's a huge undertaking that covers many domains. MirageOS is an OS written in OCaml, so that's a proof that it's possible at least.
Part of my scepticism about something beyond Bluray is whether there's a commercial driver for it.

VHS to DVD was a massive jump that was an improvement for anyone. DVD to HD / Bluray is certainly an improvement but I know a lot of people who have been pretty lukewarm about it because while DVD isn't as good, it's good enough for them (certainly given the price differential).

I wonder if Bluray to something else will suffer the same problem amplified - an improvement but not one that many people are willing to put their hand in their pockets for. Yes I'm sure there's some market for it among home cinema fans but is it enough to make it viable? Or will most people be happy just streaming 1080p?
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I do, but I've worked with much people that don't and didn't have any slight knowledge about data structures and ended up being the CTO. If you spend the 4 years of college socializing instead of actually studying, you will get a bigger output of money, if that's what you are looking for. Knowing what a big-O notation is doesn't mean shit unless you work in a engineer/comp. sci ruled company like Google.

I live on a third world country and those big companies in the US like Facebook or Google got only sales operations here, so... I kinda regret getting the degree for now. But maybe the future will show up something that makes it worth every penny spent(and time!). ;)
New guys starting a startup that want to make their website "viral" look at this post, and learn. Give something of value, something that I can really learn from, maybe even not directly related to your startup, and people will give you credit. Not everyone can write a good post, but when you do be sure that I will check you website to understand what do you do. Also a couple of suggestions, your logo should take me to the website landing page, not blog home, this guys did a fine job by putting both links. And don't be ashamed of starting with something like "We at ZippilyBooppily(link) do.." this is perfectly fine, I know that you want my attention for your startup, and if you have something interesting to say I will check it, that link helps and tells me about you. Last and maybe most important, don't spam me, or HN or whatever, write only when you have something to say.
Huh, an interesting concept. I wouldn't be surprised if, for certain products, HN hits are higher-quality hits than the average (higher conversion rate, possibly higher engagement rate after sign-up).

Of course, this is the sort of thing you need to be measuring. If that's not the case, you absolutely shouldn't be spending your money and, more importantly, your time on vanity upvotes and hits that don't result in a tangible benefit.

As an aside, I'd love to see a blog post from a generous individual willing to share how HN referrals as a cohort tend to perform compared to other traffic sources for their product/service.
While there are many scenarios in which things come easy, I've yet to find myself involved in one. I've either had to build on the side while working full-time, or work 60 hour weeks, nights and weekends, in order to keep money coming in. In either case, while I've not been sleeping in hotels, I've seen much less of my family than I'd like. I think it's equally dangerous to purport that entrepreneurship is simple and easy going. That's the same myth that make money entrepreneurs/bloggers promote in order to sell ebooks.
He's not been to Soho for a while....
>This principle is likely the reason imperial units stick: they're fantastic for fast fractional math.

As opposed to multiples of ten, in the metric system? Huh?
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An Israeli site reports that Groupon says that there is no danger for credit cards. They were stored on a different server.

http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3588115,00.html
I guess it's somewhat interesting that AdWords can confirm what are good titles and what aren't but I could've told you at the outset that the first two titles are vague meaningless titles that won't draw anyone's attention. "The last frontier in payments"? Really? I know I wouldn't read that because it sounds like marketing BS.

Also, reaching the front page on the weekend has a lower barrier to entry. I see posts with 13 votes hang around for hours.
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I think you underestimate how much attention HN can get you and overestimate the effort of doing what they did here. Seems like a great time investment to me.
I submit when you're changing careers you typically don't have the luxury of picking and choosing your employer. If you're between jobs the landscape is making rent, career fulfillment doesn't even factor in.

Incidentally while the company was a total sweatshop the job turned out to be a fantastic opportunity. I was able to work with a broad array of technologies in a professional setting and build my professional network. I am now a senior developer for a fantastic company that's helping make the world a better place.
Based on my personal experience, here is a two-step guide for getting a blog post to #1 of HN for 2 days.

1. Write lots of blog posts on various topics. Write multi kilo-word reviews of honest to goodness books with reference to the ideas therein. Really pour yourself into the work -- take as your inspiration Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Submit some of these. Watch them get, at most, a single upvote.

2. Write one (1) angry rant about a company well-known to HNers, with no goals other than to vent a bit. Add "sucks" to the title somewhere. Watch as someone else submits it and your primal screeching zooms to the top of the front page and stays pegged to it for days.

Optional step 3: cultivate cynicism about HN and your reasons for sticking around.
You seem to advocate the silencing of religion, a basic human right. Volunteering to be first in the catapult?
MySQL, though written in C++, reads more like C with classes. Even then, a large portion of the code is procedural instead of OO. They are slowly moving towards an OO style, but it will take a while before a reasonable percentage of the code base has been re-written.
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There's insufficient data here to show the new title resulted in the article score. It's a common trait on these kinds of sites, where an article's chance of "success" is massively improved after receiving only a very small (2-5) number of votes.

It's perfectly possible the original articles slipped down the new page too quickly before they got lucky and found a few interesting readers.
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I think that you hit it on the head and this is what took me eight years to realise. Growing the business is about building the team.

I always thought it was about great product, great design about moving mountains myself. It took me far, far too long to register that while you need all of those and you can certainly build a business solo, the key to growth is in creating a team. This is true on many, many different levels.

(Edited for consistency)
Can't we say "bitch" and "nigger" when we're talking about these words? It's really no different in my mind if we're factually discussing these words and their usage.
Is anyone tired of the PC brigade shitting on everything?

"Bitch Please" is a response to when someone says something stupid. A man or a woman can say this stupid thing. The phrase works just fine either way. The fact this was one guy responding to a blog post made by another guy further reenforces this.

It's tiring hearing this stuff so often. Its like the Ruby Conference news yesterday.. turns out the best speakers available for this event were white guys. Well, they are either misogynists or racists.. probably both!

Today.. people feel we need to protect and/or distance ourselves from a call of sexism before it is even made. Its a sad state of affairs.
Why is math useless
I think it's likely that this is untrue. Slashdot and reddit are the two examples that come to mind of a userbase who are likely to be filtering ads and thus greatly reducing the revenue of their hosts.
i think you make an important point: the entrepreneur myth that techcrunch/si valley perpetuate is not reality. and people who have gone through it (raising money etc, raising hand high here) often choose an alternative path. although i know i could raise money for matchist (new endeavor) im consciously making the decision to bootstrap to avoid this kind of stress/lifestyle. entrepreneurship is what you make it...entrepreneurshit is the myth
I think this just goes to illustrate that not only are non-self-synchronizing instruction sets bad for decoding, they're also bad for security. In point of fact you could use this method to execute one arbitrary instruction in a modern variable length instruction set like Thumb-2, but only one.
Most of the customer-facing stuff may be written in Mason, but more and more back-end services are written in Java. And there are a lot of back end services.

There was a time when Amazon was mostly C++, but it wasn't very recent.
> "Many political parties have their own News Channels where they twist facts and make own party a hero."

Your response to this would be to put everyone's speech in the hands of a select few who can filter and pick as they see fit?
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This list proves nothing. C++ is often used for performance reasons or even as a target language. Facebook's HipHop compiler converts PHP into C++. I would argue that it means that Facebook develops in PHP rather than C++.

Similarly Adobe's most recent product Lightroom was about 63% written in Lua [1] which they attribute to its rapid development.

What would be interesting is a table which shows what percentage of developers or projects predominantly develop in C++. I am guessing it would be a much smaller number.

[1]: http://www.troygaul.com/LrExposedC4.html
This is India, a country where rights exist only on paper. Rights materialize only where people have knowledge and power to defend them. Unfortunately India is a long way from there.
For the rest of us who are still puzzled at why this merits cheering or even any attention for that matter, this case and the response generated from the community - almost at will and on demand - illustrates the power of social proof.

One might even say, ill-congealed social proof.

At any rate, with little more than a website (incidentally hawking domain names to the tune of $100,000 a pop) and a plea (albeit a sizable karma locker to go with it), you've just witnessed how a feat of this order, spanning continents, could be nicely dusted up.

Before I further explore the sheer naivete of the intentions of HNers involved in this effort, I just want to note that my motives are nothing but pure. I have very little interest in the actual veracity of what is claimed so far. Just the array of potential outcomes(good or bad)that can spring in these scenarios. All other facts kept constant, there is nothing claimed so far that could obviate even some chances of foul play.

Without revealing a single identifying detail pertaining to the case, this Jacques Mattheij has convinced you that you should dutifully aid him in -- for all intents and purposes -- this illusory junket.

He has even name dropped PG in there some where although PG hasn't chimed in yet.
[ I'm assuming that none of you have checked with PG to corroborate what's been claimed here with the exception of those chosen few who claim to be in the know including this 'btilly' and 'swombat' fellows. ]

Here:

We all at HN, have no idea what the case is.

No, you are wrong in that. There are a few HN'ers that
know the real identity and some of the details behind this
(pg for one). And I'm pretty sure they'd agree that
keeping her identity a secret is of paramount importance
with respect to her safety.

How PG would vouch for a person without coming into direct familiarity with the facts himself, is an entirely different batch of cans we needn't open here.

The only consolation here is that this person (or others involved in this case) haven't sought any coin, just some yellow-page help. This might only be a consolation if you value your coin more than having your trust violated.

From the looks of it, nothing more will come of this.

We live in an age of elaborate human-powered ornithopter hoaxes [0], hipster grifters[1] and name-dropping hucksters[2] all plying their trades and advancing their conquests, largely online.

The old adage is increasingly relevant: "Look Around the Poker Table; If You Can’t See the Sucker, You’re It."

Be keen, not just singly but in herds as well.

At least don't be derisive of those who want to use their dose of circumspection. HN has been increasingly getting a lot less accommodating of the anti-herd view, even when that view is rationally argued.

[0] http://gizmodo.com/5894904/man-flies-like-a-bird-flapping-hi...

[1] http://gawker.com/5212970/meet-kari-ferrell-criminally-hipst...

[2] http://betabeat.com/2012/08/shirley-hornstein-shirls-credit-...
Haynes is intuitively convincing, but intuition isn't everything. If you buy his interpretation of his desiderata and buy his assertions (like: plausibility is a real) then its convincing to believe that his argument leads to probability---though I think Cox's Theorem as presented by Jaynes has been disproved? I think it still holds in another form though.

The dogmatism is not that we should forsake math, but instead that we should accept any One True Math. History is littered with the broken careers of those who did so.
They are more like C+ with C++ minus a set of features. And there are those who write C style in C++ for various of reason.

And everyone knew the huge amount of software in C++. Why the list?
Suster's article seems to say that sometimes it is glitz and glamour but sometimes there is also stress and suffering.

In reality, most entrepreneur experiences are frankly boring. It's just a lot of hard, sensible work mostly in a job that isn't terribly exciting to describe to strangers with growing financial stability along the way with maybe a few scary bumps in the road. Most software startups are more comparable to a food cart or the local nail salon than they are to nascent world-changing mega-corporations.
Fair point. It wasn't my intent to make it sound easy, and I should have been more careful with my language. What I wanted to communicate is this - Entrepreneurship can be stressful, but it doesn't have to be, and the kind of business you aim for has a large impact on how stressful it is.
Agreed. Also understand VCs are marketing what works best for them and what they see working for them - mainly so they can attract those people making their job easier. They're creating a bit of a facade for themselves that risk will be less; It's true though that 2 people can get more than 2x the work done than 1 person can, though a single person managing other people well - it just happens at the smaller budget size of startups the cost of an added profit margin that gets added on (plus other difficulties that arise) to outsourced labour, can be substantial.
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One option might be connecting the tablet to an external display and mirroring the screen on both, like a presentation mode. You could control the tablet directly while looking at the external monitor.
What do you think? Do you know OLinuXino - much like Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBone but has a lot more to offer!
This article is years old and no longer reflects current information.
That was a very nice post. Thank you.
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You're probably right, but he should have chosen his words more carefully. It's very easy to misunderstand him and conclude that starting a business is inevitably going to be shitty.
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Yes but the info is very old. I wonder if Adobe is still using it and would provide some sort of update. No Lua IDE from them as they have half promised, or anything i have seen they contribute back to Lua. Was wondering if they were using LuaJIT as well.