skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you will. Not a free lunch to be had when writing portable code.

BTW, I never said those toolkits were better than HTML/CSS, just said that it is doable. In general, the more you depend on the native rendering engine for your widgets (be it the browser's or heavy-weight controls in your native toolkit) the harder it is to get consistency. If you use something like FLTK (which looks kinda gross, but renders every control) then you get consistency at between platforms, but not with the platform.

In other words: meh.
Yes, the point is that in most cases, at some point these companies will raise institutional VC. But whereas in the past couple years, I've seen founders blindly take seed capital (in some cases very large amounts) because the market offered it, I see founders now thinking more thoughtfully on sizing and whether to take it at all until they can show real growth. Once they can show that, they can make a better and more educated decision to hop on the VC treadmill or not. Mainly the point is that I'm seeing more mature founders question the funding environment and realize some of the negative implications of overfunding at the seed stage...
And I wonder if that happened automatically in their yield-management software, perhaps triggered by sales data showing that Bay Area stored got completely cleaned out on a regular basis? :-)
I say fade. See what happens.

You already know what happens if you don't fade.

You fight every second of every minute of every hour of every day until one day you die. It'll be exhausting and possibly not worth it.

Maybe fading will be some totally cool experience? Of course no one else would ever know, but screw em.
I don't have a voice in my head. When I learnt from reddit discussions that most people experience their inner thoughts as an inner monologue, I was flabbergasted. If I heard a voice, I would think I was going insane.

I think that's pretty normal. A quick poll of the other three people in the room reveals that none of us experience an 'inner voice'. It's more like a stream of associations, some of which might involve vocalised words, others might involve images, sounds, or recalled emotions. Sometimes the associations are sequential, sometimes they are parallel. Steven Pinker refers to this as 'mentalese'.

Edit: also, this: http://xkcd.com/610/
JAX-RS is really nice for building APIs and I actually prefer the way it works to Sinatra, especially if using it with Groovy.

But, this isn't Sinatra vs EE6, its Rails vs EE6, so its not a proper comparison.

To compare with Rails you've got to look at other parts of EE6: JSF + CDI + JPA, which is an awful mess. JSF by itself is enough to kill its usability for many modern applications, the amount of state JSF carries around is ridiculous.
They work three hours because Goodyear cut the production by ten in that factory.
What a fascinating chap. I wish I could write/speak with the sort of clarity he has, even in such short comments.

I realise he mentions that this clarity comes from heavy editing, but he also seems to have a very clear and organised way of thinking (perhaps from all those years of sifting through law...).

My favourite writer has always been Douglas Adams because he managed to combine effortlessly clear prose with comedy. I highly recommend "The Salmon of Doubt", a posthumously published collection of his short essays/articles.

My favourite is about Frank the electrician, in which rants in tandem about the his tangled mess of computer wires and his electrician, who has a delightful habit of destroying newly plastered walls and cutting the power off at inopportune moments.

As an example of stream of conciousness comedy writing (with an underlying, clear, message) it is peerless.
You're trying to paint the picture that everyone else thinks the same way, but you're completely unique and think your own way. Would it not be more likely that everyone thinks in their own way, based off of their own experiences?

We all have the same hardware - amazingly complex/simple neural links. We all have different inputs, which means we all think differently. This isn't the important part - the important part is that you can communicate with other people and learn from them - from their different ways of thinking.

So I agree, I never said you were normal. I never said I was normal either, or that anybody else was normal. The idea of normal is something you're forcing on the world. Others are trying to force their own idea of normal on the world too, and yet others are trying to change themselves to match someone's idea.

Throw that idea away and live your own life.

Also, there is a lot of acknowledgment and research in education into the different ways different people learn and how to identify and teach different people. Unfortunately, it's a wicked problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
This is bad advice. Being a nice person is almost always the right thing to do. Nice people are pleasant to be around, so others want to help them. And if no one wants to help you, well, at least you were a nice person.

Being a jerk gets you nothing. The jerks who achieve success do so in spite of being a jerk. (There is more to life than your affect.)

People who say things like "nice guys finish last" are not actually being nice, they are being martyrs. There's a difference.
Fluxcapacitor: spoof Posix time functions
You're a friendly one.

Edit: Parent comment was a snarky elitist "doesn't everyone know that?" comment, and I'm getting downvotes (on -2 right now). There really is a lot elitist bullshit on this site.
High quality photos of the Russian meteorite's entry and explosion
An interesting, and foreseeable, response from the French minister: “In the meantime,” he added, “rest assured that you can count on me to have the competent government agencies survey your imported tires with a redoubled zeal.” (From the NYT story, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/business/american-executiv...)
Vanguard supports contributions to accounts you don't own, so that still falls under "nicer UI".

Not that you can't make a service around wrapping a nicer UI on top of something that many people legitimately find complicated. I just wondered if TrustEgg offers any services that Vanguard doesn't offer at all, or if they just provide a user-friendly face on a complicated but working process.
I have yet to see any competition that is better. What do you think is better?
Ok, I get the complaint, and I understand and sympathize with the author. But just doing a simple search for "spring 3 hello world" was enough to remind me to stay away.
To the uninitiated, perhaps.

It's the first step to wellness, but people (especially the types that are drawn to technology) put way too much weight in analysis. "Getting better" stalls, more often than not, in analysis. It's why your friend or cousin or mother or whoever tells you they went to therapy for 10 years and accomplished nothing.

The root cause is this: feeling bad about yourself is easier than the pain of actually doing something about it. So if you can stay in analysis mode and take a couple hesitant shuffles in some direction, that's good enough. You'll never get better, but at least you don't have to change.

That's why the author should get into therapy today. With a good therapist, and some willpower, he can begin actually changing his life. As it stands, I expect a couple more blog posts and another existential crisis sometime around Thanksgiving.
That article links to 'Dirty Coding Tricks'[1] - extremely interesting and well worth a read!

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_tr...
Some of the better known ones are Songkick, A Thinking Ape, Vidyard, Lanyrd, Upverter, GoCardless, and Directed Edge.
The race for secure low latency Hadoop picks up more speed
In my experience it's usually the heads offering a token amount, like $1000, for successful referrals.
No, I've bult dozens of projects by myself. Remember the Hacker News Karma Tracker that was made the front page a few weeks back? That was me. I wrote that in 2 weeks. I've also built a web framework, and a dozen python libraries. Trust me what I say that the majority of companies out there don't give a shit about programmer competency. They'd, on average, rather hire a clueless "cool bro" over someone like myself who knows how to get stuff done and has a track record of getting things done.
> My pet project is giving it a saner command line.

Is this "pet project" still in the planning stages, or is it published on Github? If the latter, can we have a link to it?
This is step one.

Step two I imagine would be car navigation equipment connected to city traffic controller. Kind of like SDN in the networking world.

People tell where they need to go and the system fills the streets in the most efficient way (or other criteria) possible.

This could route traffic away from schools during certain times etc.
The new "nerd chic" is real enough, but there's still a line most people are not comfortable crossing, and not respectful of others crossing, and I think Google is in danger of finding Glasses to be on the other side of that line. Even if that isn't actually the case, I think it's fairly clear that Google fears it could be, and the company is trying its best to prevent that.
White House warns of dangers posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, other 'hacktivists'
Why would the French minister respond in English to someone who insulted his Country?
It's been a while since I looked at grails, but it was clearly worse when I looked. Some examples, rendering an action as json, XML, or HTML. Using mongo. Etc.
I love it when they're actually in-sync. I'm not sure of the cause, but they always seem to de-sync after a period of time. I remember we used to have a set speed, I think it was 26mph or so, that if you held, you'd cut right through downtown if someone didn't get in your way.

I'm with you on the surface streets, 45 at the Pierce Elevated (and 10 feeding into it) is its own little hell.
How to read sounds
Chef Server and Amazon Auto Scaling Groups
He's talking about installing the web server, not deploying the application.

Deploying an application can be done with 1-3 commands in any language, since it has little to do with the language itself. All you need is a build or deployment script, which can be written in Bash or whatever.
Market Categories - iPhone vs. Galaxy S
They also want half the business, despite the fact that I'm the one doing all the work, pulling the long nights of coding in.

No, you aren't, not if you're planning to build a real business out of it. In addition to simply having "the idea" somebody has to talk to customers, solicit feedback, do market research, evaluate and establish pricing, develop a marketing strategy, write datasheets, whitepapers, blog entries, press-releases, etc., somebody has to talk to journalists and manage PR, somebody has to track down and woo investors (if you decide to seek outside money), somebody has to sell the damn thing to somebody, somebody has to do the legwork of tracking down partners, resellers, and possible "joint venture" participants, somebody has to file the legal paperwork to create a legal entity for your venture, open a bank account, get a DUNS number, get a EIN number, etc., and etc., etc., etc...

No, the programmer really is not doing "all the work". NOW, it may be the case that the erstwhile partner who is wanting to work with you can't (or won't) do all of the things listed above. Fine, in that case, if they can't code and they aren't putting in any money, don't work with them. But you should probably know whether or not they are a coder, or a legitimate "business person" (as opposed to "Just an idea guy") before you spend any substantial time working with them in the first place. These are questions to ask up front.

Keep in mind though, that the non-coder has plenty of value to bring to the table (and if they don't provide any of these things, walk away): connections with customers, connections with investors, deep domain expertise, marketing / positioning / biz development knowledge, sales closing ability, etc., etc.

- Does anyone else have this problem?

I don't think the problem you are describing even exists, as such. The whole premise seems rooted in a lack of awareness of the importance of all the "other stuff" besides coding that goes into building a business.

- How did you deal with it?

See above. I'm a developer who has forced himself to walk on the "business side of the fence" the past few years exactly because we don't have that "business guy" to lean on. So I'm not just talking out my ass here... I've learned first hand, this stuff is fracking hard and is easily just as much work as the coding and is just as important.

- Is it illegal to just "walk off" with someone's idea?

Depends on a lot of details, most likely. But it's somewhat of a dick move, whether it's legal or not.
A professional psychiatrist or psychologist would never presume to diagnose someone based on something they wrote, and I doubt that your armchair psychology is any more accurate.
Ha! Perhaps try calling them back on the 1st of the month rather than the 27th when they're trying to make quota :-)
COMPUTER! Run sex offender search on current target!
I wonder when the Hitachi 7K4000 4TB 7200rpm drives will hit $150 in quantity 100 or less. I think they were $180 on Black Friday 2012, and $210 recently.
You can try it out for yourself here by loading this URL with Chrome: http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
I am pissed that dropbox makes me pay 9$ / month to have 100gb that I don't need. I do not want 250gb, absolutely not useful :(. I would love a 5$ /month plan with 50gb
Single servers tend to use the total usage model. If you're buying space by the rack, you're more likely to use 95th percentile. CDNs often offer both methods and let you sort out which is better.
fyi:
This requires django 1.4. I ran w/1.3.1 and got this error when running the helloworld example:

ImportError: No module named wsgi

I updated to 1.4.5 and it worked fine.
History suggests that the place where the factories are placed eventually becomes a place where goods become consumed.
I dunno - if you've got things set up so you can run 100 of them simultaneously…

(And I'd guess there's a bit of VC-like speculation going on too - people trying to not lose too much money on the 99 "failures", but making up for it with one single 4 or 5 order of magnitude outlier success.)
What use case is there for "multiple Ruby versions" within the same app?
The HN conventional wisdom:

People who only contribute ideas are losers and even bouncing ideas around is probably a waste of your time. Actually partnering with such a person sounds like a total waste of time. There's much more to making something work than just the idea and the code — who's going to do the "business" stuff like marketing or customer development? If you want to do that part yourself (patio11 style) then you don't need a partner. If you don't just want to do the programming, find a business partner who you trust and who has skills then start brainstorming ideas.
Green Card Policy Could Blunt U.S. Edge in Startup Innovation
Heh. Everyone did that at the time, because the colos didn't know better. I had a small 300ish installation in a tier 1 provider in the Northeast, and at one point in 2004 they had to tell me they couldn't provide the power for my new racks because they were literally out of circuits. Violation of contract, but they had no choice.
OpenCL* Design and Programming Guide for the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
I still don't think that Xamarin 2.0 has the ability to compete with the native applications produced in Objective C
> Further, there is significant loss/waste as you push electricity across the grid.

Trucking hydrocarbons around to thousands of endpoints doesn't actually compare favorably to line loss.
Fascinating quote from the Wikipedia page: "In the UK, in 2009, it was revealed that the Department for Transport had previously discouraged green waves as they reduced fuel usage, and thus less revenue was raised from fuel taxes" :)

I wonder if any of the planners have been thinking the same way about this project.

EDIT: let me guess.

Burn 1 US gallon of petrol = 17.68 US pounds of CO2 (see http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=11) = 8.02 kg. 1,000,000 tonnes is 1,000,000,000 kg, so 124,688,279 US gallons of petrol (so 471,996,258 litres, or 3m barrels, or something like 0.04% of all US annual consumption).

The California petrol tax per US gallon is $0.36 (http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/spftdrates.htm), so this amounts to $44m. (Don't forget my calculations are quick and dirty.) So that's hardly nothing, but compared to the rest of the budget, a mere drop in the ocean, and probably worth doing if it speeds traffic flow and if reduced spew of noxious poisons and greenhouse gases is a policy goal.

(The same calculation run across the whole of the UK would probably produce more compelling numbers, suggesting that the green wave is a poor idea for the government - but reduction in greenhouse gases is a current policy.)
Your comment is very misleading. Families can invest in any of the same investments you do, directly via Fidelity or Vanguard, and save an enormous amount in fees. You may add value by being a nicer UI/wrapper around these existing services, but at least be honest about that and what your customers are paying for.
That's not the point.

You are not at work to "enjoy working with" a person (at least as far as Stripes' hiring policy goes) - you are at work to be inspired, create a gelled team, push each other further.

To use your analogy, there may be many women(!) you would enjoy dancing with, but you should focus on the ones you could reach the finals of Strictly Come Dancing with.
I've thought about this, too. Certainly much communication on the modern internet is realtime, so arguably a protocol based on realtime communication makes more sense than a protocol conceived for asynchronous communication. A system that allows a conversation to move between the two seems ideal -- look at how Facebook collapsed the distinction between IMs and "messages". Trying to have a realtime conversation over email (even with a thread-aware, modern client like Gmail) is still an exercise in frustration.

The core support for the concept of presence in XMPP is also pretty compelling -- especially in remote collaboration settings, where transparency around another person's comings and goings can significantly reduce conversation friction.

That being said, the current XMPP protocol, even including the large set of approved protocol extensions, still falls very short of what would be needed for it to serve as a viable email replacement. As others in this thread have mentioned, the core protocol doesn't include any specification for how to handle messages directed to offline users, and while XEPs have been developed to address this, implementations still vary widely between implementations. Limited by the structure of JIDs, the protocol extension for multi-user chat ends up being a clumsy hack. It looks like there are also problems with large binary data transfer (see http://metajack.im/2008/06/10/binary-data-is-xmpps-achilles-...).

Obviously, a lot of these problems can be resolved with additional protocol extensions, but this risks creating a hodgepodge of conflicting standards and generating a menagerie of different implementations before drafts are settled on. The fact that the core XMPP RFC makes no allowance for offline messages, which is essentially the core of email, makes me think it might be unwise to try to hot-swap the two.
I find it interesting that a person who has shunned all outward social connections, tries to then make a social connection via the internet in retelling his story to us.

Humans, whether you like it or not, have evolved to be a social species. Even if one wishes to withdraw, they can only do this in practice with the tacit permission of the society they live in, at least unless they're prepared to give up all worldly conveniences and just go live in a cave somewhere. I also find that interesting, though I'm not sure what to make of it.
Others have argued that there's no room for the idea guy: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-i...

I don't necessary agreed 100%, but a good read.
I don't disagree with any of these things.
It'll be an interesting test, Estonia can get bitterly cold.
Similarly, in several states, it's illegal to enter an intersection when the signal light is yellow.
Yes, less personal contact, perhaps a less meaningful job at the time meant more time brooding over everything due. Now that I do something people depend on and no longer live alone, I haven't felt the need to reminiscence.
Anyone else get the sense that this article is, intentionally or not, a huge ringing endorsement of the YC model?

I.e. much more focus on providing super early-stage startups with guidance, emotional support, and the world's best network while providing the bare minimum of capital up front (avg $17,000) to keep founders lean and mean.

My only gripe with YC is that despite how successful they've been and how many copycats they've inspired, there is still a huge drop-off in quality outside of YC, and yet pg and friends seem to have no plans whatsoever for any kind of domestic or international expansion, which is a shame.
"All established websites" sold over the two-year period of 2011-12 amounted to "almost $30 million"?!

That's less than three Chipotle Equivalent Units (CEUs).

"the price of CMG stock pre-earnings was valuing average revenue per store at $10.5 million" http://seekingalpha.com/article/756011-you-mean-to-tell-me-c...

* View-source to read the text of the article. Note the comments about "googleoff" and "googleon" :-)
I realize, but that too is a constant per platform. It's about the same amount of effort per web server per ecosystem, since in our we case we reverse proxy to the application server.

If we're talking about shared hosting, that's a whole different ball game.
When I clicked on that title, I honestly expected a parody.
"...this is not a failure of the Council itself..."

I'm calling bullshit. The council should make a law that says all legal code stays in the public domain no matter what. Then a legal case would set up, and then all cities would have resolution on this.

There's nobody else but the council. We don't elect lexis-nexis, and council members are the only guys there that represent our interests.

Yes, it's certainly fair to say it's a complex issue, and there are good reasons why it's not available, but make no mistake: the council here is the only party responsible.
It is just beginning. It will be much more drastic than we can ever imagine. An iPhone on Star Trek would have been too unrealistic a few decades ago, and the growth is exponential.
Reaver drop was not invented by Zileas, he only popularized it.
I think social complexity scales non-linearly with size and population density (like code complexity), and also scales with things like the number of people possibly affected by one person's activity. Our society is easily millions of times more complex than ancient Babylon.
New York Times is selling the Boston Globe