skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read that link? It would only be unconstitutional at the federal level, and even a federal wealth tax would be constitutional if the revenue were "apportioned among the states".
First, dikes tend to be earthworks, not concrete. Second, the forecast for 100-300 year is 5, not 35 feet. The Dutch were building 5 foot dikes 1000 years ago.

To protect a built-up area like NYC and Long Island, you'd probably build a chain of artificial barrier islands some ways out to sea. That's a simple and comparably cheap earth moving operation.
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Windows 8 sales flounder as critics pan clumsy interface
I think until you can make objects out of super strong material that yet somehow you can easily manipulate in a 3D printer, there is going to be a crippling technical limitation.

But it will always be useful for prototyping.

Now in 100 years if you can print something molecule by molecule out of titanium, well then society is either going to become insanely great or insanely warmongering since it can build horrible weapons and surveillance machines like candy. Given human tendency, I fear for the latter, there is too much profit from war.
I need a child. Anyone got a spare one for me? :-)
Does this also apply to women?
>Prop-30-happy California is also home to "dont-you-dare-to-raise-taxes-on-my-mansions" Prop 13.

Mansions? Hardly. More like "Don't raise taxes on my tiny tract home through the roof based on ridiculously inflated real estate values."
Please, let's all stop this cult of parenting, and cult of personality. Let's assume that Patrick and John had played with legos, and that their parents taught them programming. What would that teach us? That we should teach our kids Programming and let them play with legos? Certainly not.

Much respect to John and Patrick, I hope that they continue to do impressive things and that a few years down the road they'll look at the things they did in their 20s as 'merely setting the stage' for whatever else they'll be doing then.
My thoughts exactly, if we would focus only on computing industry than I'm pretty sure the avarage age would be much lower, and because the avarage age of getting married is near 30 (at least in US), the number of married entrepreneurs, let alone with children, would be also significantly lower. Another thing is that industries such as aerospace or electronics are much harder to break through, you need much much more experience, and the knowledge isn't as easily obtainable as for computing.
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Please don't use such words as hackable when discussing immigration policies, and please try to look at the situation from the perspective of an immigrant.

I have experienced it on me and know what it's like when your wife cannot work, it's fucked up... If you're an american living in US then you will not understand how difficult it can be for the wife and husband. Look at it from another perspective: if family members are allowed to work then they 1. learn the language 2. better integrate into society 3. grow their career 4. become useful for the economy. You should also consider that wife is not husband's property (also true for the reverse case). If she's not allowed to work than she becomes overly dependent on the husband.

I mean com'on I'm so tired of this high-level discussions on immigration, these are people's lives you're talking about. Would you like to lose 5-10 year of your twenties, thirties only to obtain better visa? Would you like to be in the position when you're in a foreign country for multiple years and you cannot break up with your spouse only because of the visa, unless you're willing to go back to your "home" country that is not home to you anymore?

EDIT: My point is, if you let person into your country don't put additional barriers. If it's a family you're talking about then benchmark all the family members and then decided whether to let them in or not, don't create second class citizens.
> Most of the time, it turns out to reduce to group theory

I'd be really interested if you could justify this! Sure, group theory has a huge number of applications across mathematics, but to say that it reduces to group theory "most of the time" seems completely implausible.
Thanks for [1]. It has some good points.
If it helps, I upvoted your other comment :-) If I had a cafe, I'd love to try the referral thing. There has to be some solution for the future that makes it possible to go to a shop, pick a nice book and sit down with a coffee.
How 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become excuses for bad risk management
My impression was that he had published some material on IUT before, but nobody had any reason to read it.
As a Unity user, I'm just happy in my own little world.
Does anyone else feel like SSL certificates are a giant scam?

Companies like Microsoft are king-makers so they essentially get to pick and choose who gets to be a "trusted" certificate authority, and therefore we wind up with a competition-less market.

Many of these companies claim this excess cost (over the technical costs which are low) are the result of having to verify people are who they say they are. But in my experience, from buying certificates, certificate authorities never do this (or at least don't manually do it). In fact Amazon did far more verification when I signed up to AWS than any certificate authority ever has...

They also charge more for different kinds of certificates (e.g. like this "sale") even if their costs are identical. This is just a nonsense way to up-sell a product that already has a markup likely in the thousands of percentage.

Honestly any SSL certificate which costs more than $5~10 is a rip-off.
> Nearly 70 percent were married when they became entrepreneurs, and nearly 60 percent had at least one child, challenging the stereotype of the entrepreneurial workaholic with no time for a family.

The question is if that's more or less than the national average.
>Personally, I don't care if the wealthy pay higher taxes. In the recent election, 8/10 of the wealthiest counties in the US voted for President Obama, and his stance on tax rates was clear. If those voters are willing to pay higher taxes, I'm fine with that.

That's because they don't expect to pay higher taxes. When you have enough money you can route your income through offshore shell corporations and paper banks in the Mediterranean. Taxes are for the little people.
Well, then you have pretty much defined all B2B SaaS as B2D since building it in-house is always an option.
Another (oft-cited) example:

"What did you bring that book that I don't like to be read to out of up for?"
Hating on bad customer service
It takes good people to help people
Time spent fretting about time is time misspent. Stop misspending your time worrying about misspending your time so that you can stop misspending your time and

start living.
One thing I'd suggest is having a big 'sounds off' toggle somewhere. Aside from that and the unfortunate thing of shouting "You're spelling things wrong" due to UK/US deviations, I thought it was quite nice.
I like the tutorial. One thing that catches my eye though is the unnecessarily complex example from the beginning:

d3.selectAll('div')
.text(function() {
var index = Array.prototype.indexOf.call(this.parentElement.children, this);
return (index % 2) == 0 ? 'Even' : 'Odd';
});

No need for calculating the index variable - it's already provided as the second argument of the function passed to the text() method:

d3.selectAll('div')
.text(function(d, index) {
return (index % 2) == 0 ? 'Even' : 'Odd';
});
float x;
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float xxx;
float xxxx;
float xxxxx;
float xxxxxx;
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float xxxxxxxxx;
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lol

this guy has some serious patience, check out 2923 -- 3391
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& How should I interpret the fact that you've created this account 19 minutes ago for the sole purpose of posting this comment ? What does it say about your mental sanity ?
I'm not saying WebOS is not good, or that it worse than any of the high-volume platforms out there. The same goes for Hurd.

What I am saying is that both missed their shot and will never see high volume pickup and large marketshares, in the way Linux, Android an iOS do.
I believe you're overreacting, this has nothing to do with social mores or whatever, it would be the same as saying that close to 95% of these founders are straight and concluding that non-straight people cannot open a new business, this is not a good way to read the data.

If in addition to these 60% that are married and have children and some more 10% that are married but without children I would not say it's pointless. It shows a tendency which we could try to search for a cause.

If you see the link the industries cited depends on individual who have good skills and some years of professional experience in the same industry to be managed, this probably means this kind of person just matches the above pattern for founders, meaning that if you define successful founders in the cited industries the same way the researchers did you find probably something not distant from what they found. Just that.
Don't Underestimated Survivorship Bias
See mjpa: For most cases this should be covered by SubjectAltNames [1].

That means for simple cases you might even get away with free StartSSL certificates (ignoring the limitation to one year). If you ask for one for 'www.example.com' you'll get one with SubjectAltName example.com. Maybe (not sure) some $#^@# clients don't support that, though?

For personal stuff I'd still stick to this solution instead of shelling out $50.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5935369/ssl-how-do-common...
Responsibility: why coding standards are a good thing
> challenging the stereotype of the entrepreneurial workaholic with no time for a family.

Researcher's personal bias? Someone can have a family and yet have no time for them.
Like I've repeatedly said, as far as LISPs go, scheme is very simplistic and friendly. For things like this, basically a DSL for package-definitions (or other declarative data-formats), a simple LISP like scheme seems pretty optimal.

I see no reason not to look into it. It should take you less than 5 minutes to get started in a repl.
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Amazing guy, inspiring and at the same time, depressing...
> However by the author's same reasoning it is not important to be happy either. After you have died it will not matter how you felt while you were alive.

But being happy does matter in terms of how you feel now or while living. I think one point is that it does not make me happier to worry about how big my legacy is in regard to contribution to the world in financial, technological or social ways.

If I can make this world a better place, that's great, and a worthy objective. But as the goal posts are always changing, and because we are inherently limited in how much we can achieve, it is good to take time and make sure to enjoy life (as happiness not only feels good but enables greater achievements).

So, be happy and do as much as you can instead of doing as much as you can and always feel bad because it will never be enough.
So, I'm starting to read this and I'm thinking he's making some good points. My inner monologue goes "Maybe 35 isn't too late to reassess and turn things around?" Then I read:

"I’d have nagging thoughts such as these: ‘Oh god, I’m 25 and I haven’t..."

f u c k . . . .
Fun fact:

When I was editing this comment, Google Chrome helpfully asked me "This page is in Galician, Would you like to translate it?"

So my comment in Galician apparently is:

float x;
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float xxxx;
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float XXXXXX;
float XXXXXXX;
float GRAPHOPRINT;
float xxxxxxxxx;
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Weird
Yes.

Most Linux distributions I've used recently come with a pre-configured self-signed certificate called 'snakeoil'.

I'm not sure if the 5-10 number is really okay for a _decent_ validation process, but I'd argue that it's really, really a sign of a crappy industry if only StartSSL offers a free/cheap way to get a simple, low-trust certificate for your site.

If we leave the scope of ssl and enter code-signing I'm even less happy with the trend.. There was a nice write-up on the Windows 8 'market' a while ago which complained about that stuff, among other things.
The cynic in me has to ask: what does PG&E stand to gain from making houses more energy-efficient?
Sounds like one I heard (in jest) about water, that it's a gateway substance for marijuana addiction.
We need to replace certs with DANE

DANE is basically SSL authentication via the cert in DNS

Get rid of third parties.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dane/charter/

Problem is it needs DNSSEC, but we are going to need that sooner or later anyway.
Although somewhat newer, TypeScript ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/) is not included.
Did you guys give a try to Unity on Ubuntu? I guess Canonical can give commercial support for Ubuntu.
If the real reason was 'developers, developers, developers', Microsoft would not have created the walled garden, a clone of iOS App Store.

'Developers, developers, developers' want open, bazaar-style platform, like Win32, they do not want curated cathedral-style shop where Microsoft can kick out the competitors from.
"Although only 51 percent of American adults are currently married, 72 percent have been married at least once." [1]

Tricky number. Roughly three out of four of people get married, but as we know half of those marriages end in divorce. The number of entrepreneurial americans is "somewhere in there" (within +-1 std) so I think it's safe to call it a push.

About 0.34% of people start businesses, a small enough sample that it's hard to draw any sweeping conclusions [2]. It's probably safe to say that starting a business doesn't have a serious impact on the prior or posterior probability of marriage.

[1] http://www.livescience.com/17462-record-number-americans-unm...

[2] http://www.inc.com/news/articles/201103/entrepreneurial-rate...
did a fork where i'm adding a "geek mode" for generating images based on the XKCD map http://xkcd.com/1110/ tiles , but it's gonna take a while
It wasn't really directed at the author, it was more a general comment on this type of thing. So for that I apologise to the author.
Amazing. Accurate, and that's tragic on so many levels.
Off topic, but that was a nicely written bio. Vonnegut's life was a lot more complicated than I had imagined from reading his books.
Only 60%? 60% isn't really that high of a number to make a point here.

Depends on what the reader's preconceptions are :-)

I know I encounter a fair share of idiots who think I'm too old to start a new company in the tech sector because I'm in my forties.
Tech Co-Founder...?
I have an idea for an app. I think it is "the next big thing" but then again who doesn't right? It's been so so hard just to find a developer and I was wondering if there were any experienced programmers out there who's crazy or just bored enough to give my idea a shot?

You can email me at s.aalbar@gmail.com - I can shoot through diagrams and mock-ups over if you're interested.

Cheers!
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The Founder's Lie About Comfort Zones
I really love Hallo.js http://hallojs.org/
It's based on contenteditable and it's very lightweight
Course Corrections Every Startup Should Memorize
Yep, that’s exactly the arrogance I’m talking about. You are completely blind to alternative moral worldviews. You cannot even conceive of them.

I suppose your thinking on this is parallel to mine on the death penalty. I cannot conceive of a worldview that includes the death penalty. I’m arrogant about that.
Ok, stripe's wonderful, but... why is stripe wonderful?

It's a payment service provider. An expensive payment service provider. They have an API. It's nicely written - but a nicely written API doesn't make a product. They're available in the US and Canada. OK, but there's a whole planet out there.

So, yeah. What exactly is it that's so amazing about stripe?

I work in eCommerce, run and developed a little platform that does a few £bn a year through it, so know my PSPs, and fail to see the differentiation.
The DRM-free is nice, and they get some large amount of points for doing so.

But ads in hacker news, masquerading as an article? Can we keep commercials out please?

(interesting to see that people are not contesting that the link/title is an actually an ad, but that people are arguing that ads should exist because they are useful. The role and appropriateness of ads alongside other content looks to be a controversial subject.)
PDF context on cia.gov: "Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage'" https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
It might go a long way to explaining why I don't come across many Italian Unix sysadmins, and the few I have come across coded their system scripts in php.
I can't remember the exact figures, but Bjorn Lomborg has argued that during the 19th century sea levels around New York rose by tens of feet, to no great impact.
Here's the summary: if the passage of time makes you anxious that you aren't doing enough in life, consider that no matter what you do, there will always be more to do and possibly many other better and interesting things to do. So, relax and choose to be happy irrespective and in spite of what you are doing right now.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_sea_level#Potential_to_E...

Unless we got our sums wrong and the ice melts quicker than we thought.
Facebook will of course integrate Microsoft products with Facebook and vice versa. But that shouldn't stop them from offering Facebook to other platforms. And to do that well, they need to use and work with those other platforms. It wouldn't be a good idea for Microsoft to interfere in that department.
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Once could make all sorts of comments about the fact that this article currently appears immediately above the one on 'hacking my vagina' - but that would be too easy.
Being able to program is not that uncommon a skill anymore. Just as you might expect customers to have a certain degree of literacy and numeracy, you can expect a growing number of them to be able to program.
Here is the document (2009) they are summarizing: http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/researchandpolicy/thes...
Most Entrepreneurs are married - i guess is because they tend to marry first(the teen-age effect) and later on in life start up with some business; also i guess they have successful business(60% as above) as they tend to devote more time to business than family later in life.

I would seriously like to know:

1) How many entrepreneurs start up a serious business first and then get married - Do they prefer girl-friends over a wife ???

2) Having got married - are they able to devote the same time to their business

3) Are they able to devote equally good time for children, wife and parents(when they fall sick)

4) Are children, wife and parents happy with these entrepreneurs

5) Do these Entrepreneurs always have a supporting wife and supporting children OR are have their wives and children compromised on their own personal life for the success of the entrepreneur

Professional life and Personal life are two different things.. when you combine both; they together make up "Life" - or what accounts to as "Time of one's life"; and when one talks about both together; what one implicitly is talking about is one's "Happiness".

6) So, After 25+ years into entrepreneurship does the entrepreneur repent on having wasted life(time) OR is really happy thinking only about their business achievements.

7) How many such entrepreneurs having 25+ years of experience are truly happy with their professional life as well as personal life(wife, children, parents, friends). do we have any such numbers.
> "The fact that they had an idea, built it and executed their vision successfully enough that another company bought them out are the bits that matter."

As far as I remember, it was a "buy the team, shut down the company" deal.

The very fact that people in this thread are mistakenly saying that eBay bought the company, shows how well the spindoctoring worked.
Guys - OP here.

I know the article sounds like blunt rant but it's a topic very dear to me as i regularly mentor startups. Many of them hide in the mentioned patterns.

If you know good articles / links on how to prioritise your work and assess missing skills in your founding team please be so kind and share them here. I will add them to the article afterwards.

Thanks!
And yet you found time to comment.
How much quality time can you afford to spend with them if you are trying to build a successful business at the same time?

The flip side of that is that older folk are more likely to have had the time to learn the most effective ways to manage their own time, had the opportunity to get the kinks out of managing people, delegating tasks, hiring people, etc. Makes it a lot easier to get the space for quality time (and, indeed, realise that quality time is necessary for you to be the most productive in anything but the very short term).

So, for me anyway, the answer is "quite a bit thank you" (Helped by the fact that we run the business together ;-)

I always thought that starting a new company was driven by the fire of youth, but it seems like it is mid-life crisis that may also be responsible in many cases.

Or maybe it's having more experience in judging whether something is likely to be successful or not. I was much less nervous starting a new company this year than I was the last time in 1999. Large chunks of the fear go away with the addition of experience.
You misinterpret my conclusion. It's important to be happy because psychologically (because of the way our brain is wired and evolved over thousands of years), we must seek happiness. Even if it doesn't matter after you die, why would you want to live an unhappy life? However, the same conclusion doesn't apply to spending time on "worthwhile" activities. Evolution per se doesn't care if we strive to write a new compiler, go to professional conferences or work hard at a bank earning millions. All it cares about (apart from our reproduction) is our happiness.

Apparently, happiness is also linked to reproduction and many "worthwhile" activities are ultimately linked to happiness. But I'm digressing here... Brain seeks happiness and in absence creates discomfort that is by definition undesirable and that is why (so obviously) it is important to be happy even if "nothing really matters" ultimately.
Still though, I'd probably not have heard about it otherwise
I love the part on organizations & conferences. Seems like I have worked with many agents in the past:

(1) Insist on doing everything through
"channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken
in order to expedite decisions

(5) When possible, refer all matters to '
committees, for "further study and consideration."
Attempt to make the committees as large
as possible - never less than five.

I guess Dilbert might be working with the CIA after all.
Both work for me.
A more recent addition - Funscript(F# to JS)

https://github.com/ZachBray/FunScript/