skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to strongly advise against nanoc and recommend middleman[1] instead.

The problems with nanoc unfortunately only become apparent after you've invested significantly into it and your site starts to grow in complexity and/or size (file-count). I've been there and it wasn't fun at all...

The first problem is the obscure Rules DSL. It feels somewhat elegant in the beginning when you're mostly working of the canned examples. But once you divert from the beaten paths it quickly turns into a hairy mess and you find yourself with a >300 lines rules file, various workarounds tacked into the 'preprocess'-block, a conglomerate of "filters" and "helpers", and a rapidly fading memory of "How did all this fit together again?".

The second problem is performance. If your site contains auto-generated parts (e.g. API-docs) then the number of files may quickly grow into the thousands. Nanoc doesn't cope well at such sizes. In the end the compile-phase took 10 minutes(!) for my ~9k file-project on a beefy machine.

That said, nanoc is okay for smallish projects, just beware the constraints.

Middleman has been a more pleasant experience here (after the porting pains). It's a much more straightforward design. I can come back to it after a month or two and be immediately productive again. With nanoc this always involved a lot of pain re-learning the Rules-magic and interdependencies...

[1] http://middlemanapp.com
Do you know anything about Go? It's very OO indeed. Certain polymorphic bits aren't there, and no C++ type inheritance. But otherwise very OO.
Great read, if you pick the right market, it's easy to become profitable very, very quickly.

In our case, we picked "Developer Recruiting in SF" as our initial market after years of personal experience dealing with incompetent recruiters, expensive job board ads that didn't produce results and talking to hundreds of founders/CEOs/CTOs who where all complaining about the same thing.
Ask HN: could someone send me an invite to Lobste.rs?
This site was posted a week ago under another meta-HN thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891238

It looks interesting (filtering topics by tag), and I'd like to join. Can anyone send me an invite? My email is in my profile.
I am 100% serious. Though I probably should have left out that aside about Linkin Park. It probably didn't give the right image. (I was already thinking about things, and it reminded me of the song, as I remember it.)
One of the many significant issues with the MBTI is that it's a typology: you're an E, an N, or whatever else; it's all-or-nothing. As anyone who knows even a little bit about actual research psychology can tell you, people don't work like that. Any decent system of examining human personality NEEDS to deal in spectrums and grey areas.

If anyone is curious about an actually valid personality measurement construct, check out Costa and McCrae's Big Five Personality Index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits). It was designed based on decades of experimentation and research (rather than the other way around), and it's been experimentally validated time and time again. It's basically the gold standard for personality psychologists researching trait theory. It's a whole lot less sexy than the MBTI, and you won't walk away being able to say "I'm type XYZ!" (which is a major appeal of the MBTI), but the things that actually work rarely are.
"Outcome: The problem was fixed. He became more subdued and never threatened to run away."

What other goal would there be? The idea of corporal punishment is that child fears getting hit enough that they will stop acting on the motives they have which conflict with those of the parents. In other words, they will submit to the motives of the parents.

Common sense aside, the fact that beating doesn't produce good outcomes for children is common knowledge in highly educated societies.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says:

"First, establish a positive, supporting and loving relationship with your child. Without this foundation, your child has no reason, other than fear, to demonstrate good behavior. [...] If you feel discipline is necessary, the AAP recommends that you do not spank or use other physical punishments. That only teaches aggressive behavior, and becomes ineffective if used often."
"Be prepared to adjust the binoculars as go -- you may discover a market existing where you didn't know one existed. Like teachers needing bingo cards."

Why do teachers need bingo cards? Because they need easy ways of making interactive and attractive games and puzzles for their students. And they will pay for stuff, but not huge amounts. You might get a monthly fee for a Web based authoring system if the figure is low. We have to be careful about putting students on Web sites, so probably not a fully Web based membership system.

Plenty of room there, UK has around 600,000 teachers, US must be 5 times that. Similar for Europe and other continents.
"No known bugs" is a must have in all self-respecting Release Notes :)
The future of streaming video – four predictions for 2013
A few decades is spot on. The Bush era lies/media complicity to march us into Iraq were eerily reminiscent of the Gulf of Tonkin lie LBJ used to get us into Vietnam. It was so obvious to me. One of the things that spooked me out is that anyone who challenged the prevailing push to war was marked "unpatriotic" and "unamerican". Shut up and support our troops. I thought such sentiment could never take root in a country that had even the slightest clue about 20th century totalitarian history, particularly with regard to 1930s Europe.
I'm (sadly) pessimistic about advances in superlongevity. Even though modern medicine has greatly increased average life expectancy and the number of centenarians, maximum age has not increased. The number of centenarians over 110 has increased ~10x over the past 50 years, but the number older than 114 is pretty flat. There seems to be some biological "brick wall" around age 114.

The following site has some interesting charts about centenarians and mortality: http://www.grg.org/calment.html
CloudSigma may be worth a try. You can tune CPU/RAM and HDD/SSD storage as you see fit, and they give you 7 days for free to test all the weird things you can come up with. It's based on KVM and you can install anything by uploading an ISO.

Full disclosure: crazy CloudSigma customer running FreeBSD with ZFS in the cloud :)
Sorry, I was about as wrong as is possible!
I talked to a development economist once (well more than once, but the other conversations are not germane) and he claimed that if you ignore infant mortality decreases, populations in Africa (and other poor places) have approximately the same average life expectancy as we do. Kinda summed up modern medicine for me.
A few randomish thoughts:

The U.S. (and Australia, which was a penal colony) likely has a higher than average (at least for Europe) incidence of what I will call "maverick" traits -- gene based traits that make people less able to go along to get along, for some reason. They aren't necessarily bad traits, they just aren't very conducive to "domestication". The tend to be some of the same traits necessary for activities like exploration and other risky behaviors -- including founding a start up. One of the things YC asks about on its application is rule breaking behaviors. Folks who are too compliant are not well suited for doing groundbreaking work. So I don't personally think that breeding these traits out is necesarily a good thing.

The reason America has higher rates is because a lot of our ancestors left Europe (or other countries) when they just could not fit in. Many left to seek the right to worship as they saw fit -- in other words to think and believe as they wished. So it looks to me like Europe already tried to get rid of these genes and, instead of extinguishing them, mostly exported them, thereby concentrating them in a couple of countries. People with these genes tend to not "go quietly into the night". They tend to go kicking and screaming. So I do not think criminalizing people for having such traits is a good policy. It is better to find ways to help them live constructively with certain traits and to carefully distinguish between traits, which are value neutral, and outcomes or behaviors, which are not value neutral.

I usually do not say this publically, but if Joan of Arc were alive today, she would likely be in a psych ward having her meds adjusted, trying to make the voices stop, instead of playing midwife to the bloody birth of modern Fance. I have also read that Alexander the Great was likely bipolar. Again: I am not so sure that our desire to rid ourselves of people who aren't "normal"/adequately compliant or "cure" them of their differences is such a good thing. I think there are better ways to deal with peope like that than simply trying to break them. I think the goal of breaking them is likely a loss for both the individual being broken and for society. Take that too far and we lose important human traits, like adaptability.

I have a genetic disorder. It is more common in populations which historically were subjected to high death rates from a particular infectious disease (though I don't recall which disease). In other words, carrying at least one gene was likely protective against dying from this infection. Thus this deadly genetic disorder became more common in cases where it helped you survive in the face of worse things. The same is true of Sickle Cell disease, which is protective against malaria. Viewing genetic variations of that sort solely as defects and not as adaptations misses the big picture. If they weren't adaptive in some situations, they wouldn't be selected for by evolutionary pressure.
I was the person who started the link referenced in the article, "Can we brainstorm a list of sites like bingo card creator", and admittedly the post was either a poor idea, or at the very least poorly phrased.

Coming from a business background, I just assumed that any idea people would put out there would have been small solutions to small problems... not "sitcom startups". I guess I was wrong. Really the only thing I was looking for were problems that could potentially be solved with minimal capital, and only 1 or 2 people. I wasn't looking to bypass market validation, or solving poeple's problems.

So, going back to the underlying question of starting businesses, how do you go about finding a market, finding problems, finding solutions to those problems, and finding paying customers? Preferably all without wasting a ton of time or money?

I hope Patrick replies to this thread and walks us through his process. Did Patrick start with the teachers market because he knew some teachers? Did he ask them what problems they had? Did they complain to him that were dying to play classroom bingo, that the existing solutions are terrible, and that they would pay him if he provided a solution?

I know some people involved in trades, some in education, finance, and consulting. Several of these people are either the business owners themselves, or have the authority to pay for software solutions to their problems. These are primarily offline markets. How do you suggest going from here, to paying customers? Asking them outright what problems they have? What problems they have that software might provide a solution? What problems they have with current software solutions they use?
Case in point - the uk "contactpoint" database - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContactPoint - a database mandated by MPs that should contains all information about every child under the age of 18. Anyone excluded? Yep you guessed it - MP's children.
The Hunter and Gatherer Future of Technology
Philip K. Dick called...
my friends and i did a pretty decent scale mario in college [0]. it got decent coverage and was actually pretty cool. that said... these obviously blow mine out of the water. :)

[0] http://www.njit.edu/features/sceneandheard/mariointhesnow.ph...

edit: did i really call it "great fun"? everyone do me a favor and skip the text.
The CSS change is only visible in the screenshot that introduced the background image. In that screenshot, a white glow effect has been applied to the main header.
Show HN: A Different Kind of Scoreboard
The following article (in croatian) states that the project is worth 7.5 billion euros. The inventors are saying that they want to keep the project in Croatia, but that there's no interest from the government or anyone else here, so they're forced to look elsewhere for investors. They claim that one particular european country has already shown interest and considers the project important to protecting its national interests. The project was also exhibited in London and on Google's campus.

http://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/doznajemo-hrvatskoj-iz-ru...
https://cooperpress.com/

It's not a blog, but a collection of weekly email newsletters.

At the risk of sounding like a shill (because I'm pretty sure Mr Cooper posts to HN), I have to say these are each brilliantly done. There are separate newsletters for JavaScript, Ruby, HTML5, and Dart (but sadly no Python).

Great way to keep up with changes in these areas once a week, and pretty much the only third-party emails I not only look forward to receiving, but actually open and read.
Email, Facebook and Twitter. Not yet Google Plus.
The main differences would be the overall integration and the "Vagrantfile". I.e. you can slap a Vagrantfile into your project (akin to a Rakefile) that defines what a dev-environment should look like.

Some other developer can then just check out the repo, run "vagrant up" and vagrant will take care of downloading the required OS disk-images (*.box-files), launching any number of VMs and triggering your provisioning procedure (puppet, chef, shell-script - whatever) on each.

It's still a lot of work to properly integrate into a project/CI without frequent hickups (e.g. keeping up with ever-changing server-configurations). But it's definitely a solid baseline to start from and saves a lot of work that you'd otherwise spend scripting all this yourself.
I think some schools don't even teach cursive any more.

I wonder how those kids write their signatures.
You realize the US will likely be waging wars for the foreseeable future, and that being a soldier will likely pay more than minimum wage, certainly up to past the age of procreation (I like to think of this as the event horizon for evolution; evolution only "sees" up your youngest child; if you then die, you gave still made the right evolutinary choices).

The military will have need of sociopaths and killers.
Wikipedia apparently used out-dated data for Switzerland. The latest official statistics on gun deaths is available for 2010:

http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/19/03/02/...

According to this document, 24 persons were killed by gun in Switzerland in 2010. Switzerland has about 8'00'000 inhabitants, i.e., the there were closer to 2 deaths per 100'000 inhabitants and not around 6 as indicated in your diagram.

Independent from the statistics, gun ownership and gun deaths have significantly decreased over the last 20 years. I take it for granted that wide availability of gun leads to a more often use of guns. In Switzerland, the reduction of the army's and tightened gun ownership legislation probably led to this decrease.
According to croatian news portals, there's a fully functional smaller scale prototype.

More in this news report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKyRy43NxQ
Hey far_far_away,

I feel for you. I've been battling depression every single day for the last 14 years. And most people don't realize this when they see me as the happiness guy in the room. But the analytical-startup-side of me has kept a log of every day, of what works and what doesn't work to change my behavior and mood. Here's what I've found and I hope this helps:

When I'm happy:

- It's when I've written up some code, and feel accomplished

- I've had realistic expectations (of when I finish a project, what I expect from social gatherings, etc)

- I'm not so stressed (and this comes from sleeping on time, doing things in moderation)

When I'm close to being suicidal:

- I have high stress levels

- My plans are not working out as expected (read unrealistic expectations)

- There has been no balance of work/play (say I oversleep, read HN all day and feel unaccomplished)

What to take away from this:

It comes down to stress and expectations. Sleeping early (even though I'm a night owl, and produce great code at night) makes a difference. When you live in the suburbs and no one's there to talk to at night, it really does suck, when the whole town sleeps at 6am. I've gone through several therapists, but the analytical side of me wants to figure out this challenge for myself. It sucks, I know. But maybe for now, write down all that you're thinking, watch a movie, play some video games, and take time to yourself, to enjoy, to be happy. And set your phone's wallpaper to "Life is good. Be happy." (I emailed you the wallpaper). It's just one of those life hacks when you wake up, when you retreat from the world, and decline to answer someone's phone-call, you see your wallpaper, and it rewires your brain into associating certain actions with a positive mood. Know that the change won't come overnight, and know that your actions affect everyone around you. I started looking outward and praying for others, when that put less focus on me, less stress on my startup, and less stress on relationships. Sorry for the rambling. Remember the power to bring change to the world is in any one person's hands - it could be yours - you can see it as a burden or an opportunity - take care of yourself and be easy.
>>What other goal would there be?

The goal for the drastic measures my mom took was to not loose her child. That he stopped being such a big brat was a bonus. He was still strong tempered, but at least he would no longer test my mother. And the threat of a beating kept the rest of us in line. We knew not to test her. All of my brothers and sisters grew up to be decent human beings.

In case you are wondering, my brother never beats his kids, is enough for them to see him mad when they misbehave for them to fall in line.

I concede, had he had a mental disorder it would probably not have worked. In this case though, I'm not sure the OP really had a mental disorder which is why I suggested the beating. Some kids will go to great lengths to manipulate you as much as they can.

Anyway, this is just an anecdote so take it as such.
I wonder whether this won't conflict with other user applications using the GPU.
I think you're making some assumptions which don't apply to the system I'm working on. We're getting pretty far to the right margin in this thread, but I would love to continue this discussion out of band (and it's entirely possible that I really have missed something, in which case I would like to know it sooner rather than later). My email is in my profile :)
The youtube video is in english.
OK. "Operator" runs amok with a nerf gun.

Slightly different outcome.

How again is the highly efficient killing tool not part of the problem?
Instagram Testimony Doesn't Add Up
I fail to see how personally identifying information from the OP would help you responsibly diagnose and treat illness over the internet.
I think while you are right you have to bear in mind that what you have commented on is their position in the market . The co's you mention are at the top end of their market, if I'm honest I know very little about these companies, I don't know if their current price/quality point is as it always has been or if its developed to that point.

As a beer drinker but not quite beer lover If I realized there was an opportunity in the beer market, then as an entrepreneur I'd deliver what the market wanted. If it was a a high quality drink then I'm sure in could deliver it.

Sorry if that point is fizzled I'm writing this on my phone. I'm just saying while I agree passion helps, I wouldn't say its an absolute necessity for delivering a high quality product.

Edit: I realize now your point is more about you even wanting to start the company as opposed to being able yo deliver it.

Personally I enjoy business and solving these problems and watching these solutions get used. What I'm saying is the buzz therefore for me is the process of business vs the space. I think what that means in practice is I don't have a list of spaces I will go into, but a list of spaces I will not.

Again, sorry, writing this in my phone has not been a pleasurable experience!
And that productive people continue to get amazing stuff done with all of these technologies, and that starting over from scratch in any of theses areas would be far harder than critics would like to admit.
I mostly dislike Jung's work, and I'm generally very skeptical about any IQ or personality test. However, after being convinced to try this one by a friend, essentially doing it so that they would stop asking, I found the results to be shockingly accurate, and subsequently found this to be the common reaction for people that happen to have the same type. In my ongoing skepticism, I've read explanations and definitions for several other types, pretending they were mine, to see if I could somehow relate to all of them, but failed miserably. The wording was never vague, as in the case of astrology, for example, and the descriptions of my type all precisely described me, personally. Up until now, I presumed that this would be the case for everybody, but I see a lot of dismissal here. I would conjecture that either those people did not actually find their MB type, or that the results only appear to be impressive for certain types, like mine. To be fair, this was the first time that I answered one of those tests truthfully. During school, I'd give the answers for which I assumed I'd be less scrutinized for; for work, I'd give the answers I assumed were more likely to get me promoted.

In any case, I found finding my type to be beneficial. The typical interview question "tell me about yourself" was always the one I dreaded the most, and finding my type has not only increased my awareness of who I am, but given me a way to explain it to others as well. The results have also brought me to see that I may not always be right after all, and that people who agree with me might simply belong to the same or similar category. Put differently, I now think that different types, while most of them clash with me, are necessary for the functioning of society, and I don't need to agree with them, or them to agree with me. Note that "live and let live" is apparently a defining characteristic of this particular type, which I got a good belly laugh discovering by reading another comment. It's funny to find out that you're a lot more deterministic than you'd be willing to admit.
Speaking of:

> some information "might seem more relevant later," says Mr. Joel

So, hindsight is 20/20, you say?
A few Heroku web and worker dynos.
Considering she explains in detail how she has had to take him to hospital multiple times with the assistance of police to restrain him, and further admits that pressing charges against him is perhaps the only last remaining option (which she indicates she is understandably reluctant to do), I'm having a hard time seeing what she isn't doing?

Could you perhaps elaborate as to what you would do to control a mentally ill child such as her own?
Yeah, like with a locked cabinet. They shouldn't restrict gun rights they should hold people accountable who fail to reasonably secure their weapons as if they had committed the crime themselves. Kind of like the father in this post put all his knives in a container and kept them safe.
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Statuscode and Javascript weekly are good for picking up technical news (new stuff, version increments) that you may have missed via Hackernews.
"And it’s impossible to predict what will set him off."

If I had to go to a school that had such ridiculous rules as having to wear black or tan pants I would probably be pretty ticked off too on a regular basis.