skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither is strictly good or bad. Too much inflation is very bad.
Taylor Mock and I are the authors of the article. Here's why we wrote the article. And why we suggest an alternative to using the Unix shell to set local environment variables.

The rails-stripe-membership-saas example application [1] from the RailsApps project has become very popular. I've been getting lots of requests for help stemming from problems setting local environment variables. Personally, I prefer to use the Unix shell to set local environment variables such as email account credentials and API keys. Always has worked for me. Apparently some people have trouble (perhaps complications with rvm or just plain ignorance). Anyway, telling newbies to school up is not a solution. So Taylor Mock came up with a trick to use Ruby to set local environment variables from a Rails application without involving the Unix shell.

It has some advantages. If the variables are set in the shell, the code just works. If the shell environment is a mess, the developer can use a local_env.yml file to set the environment variables.

There are several other valid and appropriate approaches (a .env file, a dotenv gem, etc). Also, there is a whole mini-industry of clever gems for setting constants and configuration variables in Rails. This is different. This is just intended for variables such as email account credentials and API keys that shouldn't be hardcoded.

I describe the motivations for the article in a RailsApps blog post [2].

[1] http://railsapps.github.com/rails-stripe-membership-saas
[2] http://blog.railsapps.org/
It looks like roots is using Bower to manage client-side packages. Bower is Twitter's "front-end JavaScript" package manager. Bower does indeed manage and track dependencies for you, see http://twitter.github.com/bower/
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Hey, that's pretty neat! Unfortunately, I accidentally logged in with an empty email address field and it seems like I'm logged in as everyone, with no way to log out. Or something... The "your stream" page takes like 30 seconds to load after that.
Raynes, I see this as a good move - the modular library style fits Clojure well. I hope it can be a drive to get some solid documentation behind tying the various pieces together.

I recently had a delve into Compojure / Ring and found the documentation for getting started wonderful.. but the "next step" guidance a little thin. There are a lot of blog posts out there from 2010 but not a lot of recent examples.

I realize the google groups is quite active, but it's quite time consuming (and daunting) to try and find the "right way" in a scattered collection of gists and example projects. There are a lot of repeated questions - eg. How do I get sessions working? - which could use a central resource which moves with the code base.
I sometimes feel like a crash could help solve things too, but the reality is that destruction and chaos causes more problems than it solves.

We should care about each other and take care of each other first, then obey laws to care for each other second, then third have freedom.
I respectfully disagree. In the first place, Harvard (and other prestigious universities) have excellent financial aid, and OP will only pay $58,000/year if his parents are wealthy enough to afford it.

Student loans suck, but I think it is very wise for OP to seek out the best education he (or she) can.

I think it is premature for OP to seriously plan for the future, except to know that time spent in the library that first year will really pay off. There are a couple of people who can figure out their future when they're 17, but when I was in high school I certainly wasn't one of them.

One of the great things about university, especially at the best places, is you'll meet ambitious people who have goals you'd never contemplate before.

And Ivies are not just about name recognition. I know people who went to Harvard and Princeton. They learned soooo much. Perhaps as much or more from their peers than from their classes, but it's still worth it.
Drop %6.95 to renew your membership for 3 months. Just enough time to export them all to OpenPhoto :). https://openphoto.me
Lately Harper's Canada has been heading down the wrong road when it comes to progress and justice.

I am proud at least that it didn't participate in this ITU farce.
This kind of company (if things work out reasonably well) could easily sell for $10,000,000. After an investment of $15-20k for 5+% of the company, that is a return of $500k or more. Twenty-five or more times your money is a pretty good return.
Interesting they call this "live" now, TechCrunch has been running on WordPress.com's "VIP" platform since early 2010.
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Out of genuine curiosity, could you explain what makes the startup scene vibrant? It might shed some light.
The energy is electric here in KC right now. The KCSV has stirred up quite the buzz. Finally, the old school nicknames of "cowtown" and "flyover" are being put to rest. Welcome to the 21st century frontier, y'all. Saddle up! Errr, make that Fiber Up! :)
Tintri’s Kieran Harty Brings Virtualized Storage To The Enterprise
I'm sure there's plenty because of the overall population, but as a % of the total? I doubt that many.
I hope you're not serious. Not about the second part, that sounds like a great idea.

About the first part. You need for your business to be successful in order to have any chance of attracting a patent troll. Most businesses don't get successful enough to warrant a shake-down.
>>I think that the mathematical ignorance and, more generally, anti-intellectualism of our industry is its downfall.

For the kind of human scalability our industry is currently demanding, there is no other choice but to see this as a inevitable consequence.
This is how I feel about Facebook and much of the internet now.
Automating Backbone 0.9.9's listenTo. Another step in the right direction.
Dropbox is easy to copy, right? Virtually no lock-in. There's SugarSync, Google Drive, and SkyDrive. Funny thing is that I've tried them all out and I still like Dropbox, even though it offers less free storage. Dropbox is the fastest out of all of them and has LAN syncing. Google Drive threw up during syncing several times (where it couldn't sync a file).

Not so easy to copy after all...
but does it blend?
Anecdotally, no. IMO, Twitter is half social engagement, half narcissism. You can make your account private, but that would void the narcissistic half.
I agree with you on the 'faux startup' attitude. I don't believe it's intentional though. I think it's the result of executives and managers from P&G, Kroger, etc. taking their experience and making that work for start ups. I've talked with these folks and I always leave a little bit dumbfounded.

I just don't see how that works though I'm always happy to be proven wrong.

I'm not saying nothing great is happening in Cincinnati. I do believe there are probably some great start ups. I am specifically talking about the environment.
I think you could say North America has that one.. ;)
You can set your Twitter feed to be private - meaning only those who you follow will have access to your updates.
Is this Midnight Commander 2012?
So far that makes 3 confirmed interns, it would appear microsoft has recruited half the comp sci department.

I used to live a few hundred kilometers away from Seattle in the same temperature area, I can say for sure I'm looking forward to this summer!
As much as I usually love native apps, why can't we just have a web version of this? A new type of "web portal."
Rails Developers Should Take DCI Seriously
There is not enough details here. How early, how many key employees and founders are there already. Some of these factors will influence what the typical average are given. Also what location.
Deferral is not rejection. Yeah, I know very few people get rejected outright from EA, but I also know people at Harvard right now who were first deferred.

Care to share stats? Have you had your essays looked over by successful admits or other strong applicants? Most teachers are useless for evaluating college essays at top schools.
You can fuse Flickr into your file system already.

Here is one of many implementations:

https://github.com/patrickjennings/FlickrMS#readme
I enjoy the idea of Flutter and the technology it demonstrates is quite impressive. I will say, however, it just doesn't seem like something that I could actually use on a day-to-day basis as it's faster and better on the battery to just press the play/pause or next/previous buttons on the keyboard (provided you have them). In fact, when I downloaded it, the only times I turned it on were to show my friends for novelty's sake.
I hadn't thought of the "residency arbitrage" problem at the state level. Presumably it would work a lot better at the federal level as a result; we already have lots of effort put into both becoming a citizen and determining who is and is not a citizen.

The other benefit of a negative tax (negative consumption tax or negative income tax) is that we could then get rid of virtually all other benefits and entitlements -- just increase the base subsidy. There's no reason to administer a food stamp program if you just give everyone a $20-30k/yr income. Same thing with student aid; why give someone subsidized loans when you can just give them $20-30k/yr and tuition/etc. costs $10-40k/yr, so a feasible part-time job (or private scholarship) covers the cost of going to school at Harvard, and you can actually save money if you instead go somewhere cheaper.

I'm not 100% in favor of giving everyone free stuff, but I'd far prefer to just give everyone free stuff vs. build an expensive bureaucracy to administer a program which incentivizes poverty and disability (a huge fraction of the SDI payments are to people who are basically employable and functional, but who can't get jobs; if they had an independent $20-30k income, there would be nothing to discourage them from doing $5-10k extra in legal work.) Obviously services other than pure transfer payments would still be needed, but the majority of welfare programs are about the transfer payments; counseling and other support could be charity, commercial, or funded separately.
> Nothing prevents you from representing yourself.

If you have foolishly decided to conduct business without creating a corporate entity to protect your personal assets from lawsuits, then yes you may.

If you have created a corporate entity it may only be represented by a licensed attorney.
They discontinued the free-zone a month or two ago, so passengers can now get off the bus at the rear exit.
Question: why would a private person (as opposed to a business) need a Gigabit internet access?
Agree with this, except for you telling him what schools he should be applying to. You don't need to spam out applications for undergrad like you might for certain grad programs.

People on here do not understand how strong financial aid at top schools is (or how sharply that aid falls off as you get outside the very top tier), nor do they realize which doors are opened to you.
Can you please respond to the accusations of spam, above? I, too, have suddenly started receiving email from Fab even though I've opted out repeatedly.

I really hope this is a mistake and not part of this third "pivot".
Unfortunately, on the web, browsers can be a limitation for something like this to work well & fast.
What's the browser support situation for PATCH?

And yes please for Events.once support.
Sometimes the "one foot in the ground" is only the team, as they chase a completely different product and market.
We were looking for experienced Senior Java Developers. I'm talking about people who have 10 or more years of experience on their CV, working for well known companies - large banks etc. We give the CVs a fairly good going over before deciding to get someone in. They've also responded to a short questionnaire about their experience with agile methodologies. (And of course, the job agencies have supposedly already done some sort of filtering.)

Interview nerves are one thing but even if you're nervous you should still be able to do the equivalent of multiplying 5 * 10.
The same reason we need more than 640K of RAM, maybe?
Nope. PUT sends a full representation of the resource to the server. PATCH just sends a patch (the updated parts), naturally.
Belltown is "dangerous" only for people who have never lived in a city with a real dangerous neighborhood. I have never so much as felt even uncomfortable walking around Belltown alone at night. I can't say the same about most downtowns of other cities I've been in, let alone sketchier neighborhoods.

Maybe I've just been desensitized, but I really feel like there is no cause for alarm in Belltown.
Maybe I meant "that guy at the phone shop". My understanding is that jailbroken phones are widespread in, e.g. China.
generic = corporate/mainstream appeal. they're not marketing to hackers anymore. as a github user, how many times will you be looking at their homepage?
https://www.cueup.com/

YC Company
Here's a list from a less bonkers source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator#List_of_dictators_in_...
True, but money you can plan for as a cost of doing business. Unlike shakedowns, which hit at unpredictable times for unpredictable amounts.

It wouldn't be the solution, but it could be an improvement for small and medium-sized software vendors.
A Technical Co-Founder in an Enterprise Software Startup
(psst: text only communication is a really shitty way to convey sarcasm. Sarcasm on the Internet is fundamentally Broken)
I remember this exact same feeling when I got rejected from what I thought was my dream school at the time (MIT). I felt physically tired and just laid in bed for several hours right after getting the news. It's a pretty natural reaction to the situation.

The good part is that it does pass. Give it a few days or a week and you'll wonder how you felt so bad now.

Also, this may be too obvious to need saying, but there are a number of other schools where you can learn as much and make as many good connections as Harvard, and it sounds like you're likely to get into at least one of them. In my case, I ended up going somewhere where I'm pretty sure I had a better overall experience than I would have at MIT. It's very possible the same will be true for you.
It shouldn't be, but that's the tone people have when talking about it.
Smoke hashish.
Why would you need a terabyte hard drive? Why would you need 8 GB of RAM? Why would you need a Core i7 processor capable of over 80,000 MIPS?

Step back and think about what you do with a computer or mobile device today. Most of what we do involves the Internet. We don't "need" Gigabit internet access any more than we "need" the things above, but when they're present, we're free to find innovative new ways to use them.
> Is cloud-based file selection something that should be offered by a web developer, or by the OS?

You're hinting that it should be handled by the OS, and I certainly welcome that sort of change. That's the kind of thing that I think could set ChromeOS apart, so perhaps Google will make the first move.

That said, one of the reasons why the Web kicked Windows and MacOS's collective asses in the developer platform wards is that this sort of thing is often left to the developer on the web. There's only so much a centralized team at Microsoft of Apple can do. Tens of thousands of web developers constantly trying to one-up each other just have a MUCH larger creative output, and there's a strong natural selection programme at work. And so it's the Web where you've seen interface graphic design flourish, where you've seen leaps forward in the interfaces for sharing content, etc.

So part of me wants to say yes: let the developers play with this stuff. Build out the low level APIs in the browser (cameras, native data structures, etc) and let the best ideas duke it out in the marketplace. Good developers copy good ideas and standards emerge.
Cool! Here's what I would really, really like to see as part of a file manager re-imagining: a unified, programmable activity stream for my actions across both my local machine and the Internet, stored locally but accessible via API.

Imagine this:

I save a photo, with Photoshop, to my Pictures/2012 folder. It's immediately added to my local timeline. It's private to me.

I copy the photo to my Pictures/Web folder. Again, this is added to my timeline. I've programmed the timeline to also send the photo to Flickr when I do this.

I copy it to my Pictures/Clients/John Smith folder. It's in my timeline, but here I've programmed it to send it privately to John Smith via a web service.

I'm on a company network. I copy a file to a shared drive. It shows up in the timelines of all the other people who have access to that drive (although some of them may have chosen to filter these actions out). A couple of them have actions programmed in; they automatically copy the file to their own private folders, or to their mobile devices, etc etc. One of them decides to leave a comment on the shared timeline.

I can search my timeline by type, person, action type, etc etc. And do the same even when I'm disconnected from my computer and network, although not all of the files are necessarily available.
Or Philly, or Balitmore, or DC.

NYC has it beat, but how could it not?
We indeed have a bigger vision.

That said, this is the first niche use case that we wanted to solve. Actually, we have significant number of daily & weekly active users who use this product everyday. We've tracked (through analytics) 25M gestures already. We have 5 star rating on mac app store, users in 150+ countries worldwide and large number of users (more than many mobile apps)!

We will be releasing volume gestures very soon to complete basic remote gestures for the app. We are also working mute, like, and scrolling gestures.

Flutter is product driven research company. Meaning that our mission is to take Computer Vision research and use engineering to turn this into real usable apps.

Use cases that real users have send us emails about:

Dance Teacher - playing/pausing and replaying song from distance while practicing.

Surgeon - Listening to music while doing a medical surgery.

Architects - Listening to music from distance while building your models.

Students - listening to music while reading from bed or while laying down.

Father - using Flutter to control music while rocking his baby.

Usability is in freeing you from your computer!
Abuse of anything is bad, but I am with you on the alcohol versus marijuana debate. The destruction wrought by alcohol is more obvious to me year to year. Friends and colleagues caught up in its abuse and the damage it does is terrible to watch.
Here's another UofC admissions package

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726157

I liked the UofC, but I think I liked Harold's chicken more.
Browsers can send it over XHR. It's more of a question of whether your backend webserver can (or will) respond to it.
On average our app uses about 5-7% of your CPU and cameras are very efficient in terms of power consumption so impact is same as keeping your browser on.

App is free because it is incomplete (i.e. lacks few gestures). We will start charging for it once we add all the gestures!
Thanks for the typo. Fixed.
> it's location

"its location".

You're 16, there is still hope that you can be a good speller, as opposed to most grown-ups :-)
"data = " + str(data),

should probably be

"data = " + repr(data),
i stopped reading after the first line, sold right away.

should fix all those ghost view events right?
They could just cut a deal with Google for search, the the way Firefox did. You could potentially eek out a couple of dollars per user per year if you can get people to "live" more in this new "file system"
Ok, I see your point and @jiggy2011's, too. But I still love JavaScript as it is :)
I much prefer the ENV method because it keeps private keys and passwords out of source control.
Good software idea as you're going after a market that existing cloud vendors cannot (in terms of interoperability) in fear that it might cannibalize their own market share. In the end though, I can't see this being much of a consumer app, but rather a power user app. In the consumer world, I see whatever file manager and eventual cloud system that's baked into the OS ruling.
Economics of Assisted Suicide
Wow, there really are. This guy http://www.indyprops.com/pp-gdiary1.htm has way too much time on his hands :-)
I used TotalFinder until I discovered xtraFinder just yesterday. Giving that a trial run now.

http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
The problem is that you don't allow using normal commenting options (with Open ID or Persona) in addition to Facebook (if you need that one). So why can't it be called extreme? It's rather irritating to see sites requiring to have Facebook to comment (I don't use it). OpenID and Persona are the most flexible options.
Found it, just tap and hold a spot on the map to get sharing options and streetview
Is this not Nautilus/Eazel all over again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel
Did you make an account to say this? Thank you :)
Outside of winter (November -> March) the rain is really light and doesn't interfere with wandering around outside. But I'm a Seattlite =).
Since half of YC's portfolio is in a company that was considered "a feature" by Steve Jobs, I don't think he needs to justify these investments to anyone.

I have this argument at my job all the time: should we be worried, when consulting with clients attempting to build startups, about the giants in their industry stealing their ideas? My answer is always no: worst case scenario they'll try to buy you in order to copy you. Next worst they'll try to copy you once you're already becoming successful. Neither of those are bad scenarios.

Big companies don't try to copy unsuccessful ideas, it never happens.
I recently submitted an essay to "2600" documenting Occupy's model for organizing a generic TAZ.

Autonomous zones are alive and well in America.

As I posited in another thread, more and more people use the Web as a tool and do not care about how or why the technology works.

Seems like a lot of these sentiments are being published lately. I wonder if an astroturf campaign has been funded to attack social media...
I have worked in or around Belltown for years. My feelings are...mixed. There is a lot of minor urban annoyances. Panhandlers, junkies, drug deals, public urination, etc. I don't feel unsafe (in daylight hours) but it does feel sort of bleak and depressing.

I respect that other people have different tolerances for urban annoyances.
Little known fact - income derived from sales to people outside WA is no subject to B&O tax. An Internet startup will likely have only 2% of their users in WA, and so only that much is subject to B&O tax.

This is not a tax advice, consult a competent accountant.
Is there anywhere you detail your methods? I'm currently finishing up an appearance based hand detection method for a class and would be interested to read about your methods.
1. do not use Go Daddy, they are evil

2. do not host a dB on a registrar's webhosting infrastructure
This seems really cool. How is development coming?
How are you "powerless to defend yourself or even understand the process?" There is nothing magic about the legal system. You can pick up the crucial aspects of the patent law probably in less time than it'd take you to pick up a new scripting language. And since it's federal law, the rules of civil procedure and evidence are written in very easy to understand English.