skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say this is not only for non-technical co-founders, but even for people with technical skills, starting with service, but the type of service whose value is not measured by hours. Then just come up with the engineering to automate said service. This approach has several advantages:

1. You will be working with real, money paying customers from day 1 - right there you are ahead of 90% of startup projects.

2. You get to work your customers to understand their pain points, needs directly, without annoying them - they will actually be delighted that you are trying to understand them better!

3. You have revenue coming from day 1.

4. When you launch your product, you already have a group of people in your target audience, with whom you hopefully have already eared trust.
the problem is that it is a ton of work to raise money... friends and family is a lot easier...
> Knife has an edge actuator that, when pushed (by your thumb, the table you're leaning against...you know, anything that pushes on it), causes it to kinetically open. I think most of the people around here are fairly intelligent and can see countless accidental deployments scenarios, notwithstanding your endless cries of "bullshit!".

You have clearly never used one of these knives, you are just pulling shit out of your ass. I can imagine absolutely no scenario in which you might accidentally open one on a table, let alone with your thumb. It requires very deliberate action, with enough force to leave an indent on your thumb (seriously, if you accidentally do that you have nerve damage and should see a physician), and only becomes "kinetic" (barely, it clicks into place with enough force to lock itself) when it is already past 90 degrees open. If you are somehow accidentally doing this with a table edge (how???) your greatest danger is the fact that this knife is probably going to fall onto your foot. How do you survive in modern kitchens if you are so hopelessly oblivious?

> Knife is by Smith & Wesson and is called a SWAT knife. Totally a "tool and home improvement" section. At this point I think you must be just having a laugh.

Who cares what it is called, or who makes it? Seriously, how does that effect the functionality of the knife AT ALL? What are you going to do next, complain that it is black?
Nobody deserves death threats. But that issue has nothing to do with PyCon, women in tech, or software development.

It is simply current reality that whenever anyone posts things online, other people are able to respond by anonymously sending death threats. The fact that there are people who choose to do so sucks, and is a problem, but this is a well-known fact. You, right now, could click reply on my comment and send me a death threat. I would have no recourse.

Richards knew that people who didn't like what she posted publicly may respond in that manner, and she decided to take that risk when she posted a photo of other developers to twitter. If she did not want to deal with anonymous death threats, she could (and did) handle the situation in a less public manner. She chose to make the situation public.

The developers she posted a picture of had no way of consenting to that publicity.
Audiobus Will Democratize Apple’s Proprietary ‘Group Jamming’ Feature
How Will Google Glass Change Filmmaking?
Given that you can communicate two ways with terminals using escape codes, you might be able to run your remote shell with something like

tyserver bash

and tyserver could then say replace escape-w-h-path with an escape-w-h-file-descriptor-n which would then allow the remote side to async query for the contents of fd-n with an escape-read-fd-n-bytes while you continue to interact with the terminal.
OK, I'll bite: how would you store the array of words in memory across requests in PHP? As far as I'm aware, the runtime deliberately doesn't provide a way to do that.

The closest you could get is to store it in $_SESSION, but that's per-user rather than global, and it still has to read the data from your session handler. Which by default just uses flat files, so we're no better off than we started.
Backbone Boilerplate Vs. Rails Asset Pipeline - The Shine Technologies Blog
Is it that necessary for another mail client? I find that Thunderbird works just fine myself. I'm not sure if I need something that's "beautiful".. All I need is when it gets the job done and thunderbird does that quite well.

Any use cases that I'm missing perhaps?
Please do, I'll update and edit as appropriate. I wasn't aware a trivial way existed of storing a persistent variable in PHP between existed. I bet I'll feel dumb when I find out what it is, though.
I don't think the keywords are relevant. The policy is "if you sell any weapon-knives, then you can't use AdWords at all" - nothing to do with keywords. The point being that Google would stand to lose a lot more revenue by enforcing an AdWords death-penalty against Amazon than they would against a much smaller business, like the one in question here.

I don't see a conspiracy here, either - it just looks like the huge advertisers like Amazon have a lot more leverage in their relationship with Google than the tiny ones do, so are less likely to have the rules enforced as strictly against them.
weird. he uses a mocro framework for the others but doesn't do so for php.

overall I think I prefer the python example.
They appear to be using Bootstrap (slightly modified).
By any chance, did you try Sparrow?
Yes, trees bow on windy mountains (or even next to the ocean), but since when was this a bad thing and/or a sign that the trees were not healthy? This article is like saying "don't put plants on your balcony". True, it's more windy but many plants, especially trees, are created to be more durable.

I do agree that it's a more challenging environment than a forest, but if the building is willing to cover the costs of maintenance, I don't see why not have them!
Since the time this article was written, audiobus has been opened up to all developers, and the big news this week is that apple just added audiobus support to GarageBand -- essentially giving it the Apple seal of approval.
Could use Dropbox as the backend here as well, then you get caching, versioning etc for free as well
It happened to me, and I understand the panic it causes. I joined a startup after college, got paid less than the minimum wage (no kind of equity in the company either) because I found out the financial situation of the company had been misrepresented to me by the co-founder, and I left with the work I hadn't been paid for as collateral (knowing they were going to let me work the month out and were unable and unwilling to pay me). I had my suspicions and I found this out by looking at their conversations on a forum on the server (which I had the root password to).

First thing they did was call the cops for "computer hacking". Cops laughed it off obviously. Then they went to their lawyer. They were desperate for money and thought they could exact revenge. Lawyers really know how to write scary letters and make it seem that you're in a world of trouble, I hope you're aware of that. Really what they're doing is trying to get you to reply to everything they throw at you, so that something can be used against you. They want an admission of guilt, and then they can force you to settle.

I sought free legal advice from a local charity, but they only operate once a month so I had to write back before then. I defended my actions and made allegations against them. Their response was always short, they would never address what I said to them, and they would always try to trip me up on what I said (poorly might I add, based on their poor understanding of technology). One lesson I learned from this is that nothing you say in those letters in your defence goes in your favour, it is only fodder that can be used against you.

The lawyer told me that when writing back to them I should put "without prejudice" on the letters, meaning the letter can't be used as evidence (this was not in the USA however!). Eventually I threw enough stuff at them about wages, their taxes and their activities, threatening to take them to the labour court, that I just stopped hearing from them. In the end they walked away with probably a $1500 bill from their lawyers and nothing to show for it. (good enough for them!)

In summary, don't panic, the lawyers are relying on you panicking. Get a lawyer. If you live in a sane country you can find a free one.
You can do it with APC, but beyond that, no, your solution is the PHP way to do it.
Very true. I don't think the distinction is clear enough that ember-data is a completely different repo, and I think that's definitely a problem.
Armies don't typically fight unarmed opponents in close quarters. If you're unarmed and the attacker is within a few yards of you, a knife or a gun are not that different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9igSoJHEdUo
About five. I've yet to make a single dollar with any of the projects I've made. Right now I'm working on something super simple and focused. It's called Monkey Bar, it's just a web app that lets users create a bar that goes onto the top of their website in order to increase email signups. I'm hoping by focusing on a narrow niche, Mailchimp users willing to pay to grow their emailing list, I'll be able to finally get a sale.
Yeah, tmux remotely is great, but for terminals on the desktop I don't really feel that it's that useful.
"Pitching me directly for 30 seconds is a completely fucking ineffectual way to get my attention... and usually destined to fail miserably."

Hilarious quote, but also incredibly honest. Great stuff.
VNCing into a full GUI on a server just to run Synaptic seems like a waste, although I guess Windows admins do the equivalent. But as ridruejo said, most Web apps still require significant and often arcane configuration after you've gotten everything installed. (Arguably this is the app's problem to solve...)
This Whatsapp Redesign Concept Is Ready For The “Flat” Next-Gen iOS
If there's one thing Whatsapp falls short on, it's the design. German Designer Julian Kraske created this Whatsapp redesign concept and it is gorgeous.

Here comes the more interesting part: it's no secret that Apple has been considering a more "flat" design for future versions of iOS, and among all of the concepts I have seen before, this Whatsapp Redesign has the most success in capturing the essence of what the Cupertino giant is trying to do, without looking like the Windows Phone OS at all.
Well perhaps I open them wrong then. I flick my (not assisted) boxcutter open with my wrist but open my assisted opening folding knife exclusively with my thumb on the thumb-bar. As I see it, not having to use your wrist is basically the point of the spring assist.
I think you've shifted the meaning of king in the parent comment to tyrant. After that you go on to give Google the benefit of the doubt. Google isn't a tyrant, but we are all beholden to Google. Due to cognitive dissonance, we have the tendency to minimize or excuse any instances of abuse on the part of our benevolent data custodian.
And there's no mention of the cost of the trash cans themselves. I've found that governments are fond of flouting operating cost savings while incurring massive capital costs.

For instance, my local transit agency purchased several hybrid-electric buses that cost $200,000 more each than a regular bus, but only improve fuel usage by 0.6 miles per gallon, saving at most a few thousand dollars per year. The agency of course pulled a full court press on how much fuel was being saved but wouldn't discuss the additional cost of the bus itself that made the purchase a complete waste of money.
But first they'll try to sue a bunch of people.
Thank you. I just updated my code and it's really within half of native speed now... (benchmarks in the README, if any of you are interested)

asm.js is very exciting technology!
Nesting terminal multiplexers is wonderful :)

It kind of sucks if you accidentally use a hardstatusline in both the nesting and the nested muxes, and it slightly sucks if you use the same escape key for both/all levels of nesting.

I have been using a nested screen setup for ~3 years at home and it's great. My outer screen uses ^Z as its escape key (I ^Z very few commands) and the inner ones use ^O.

It works wonderfully, and I never have a problem remembering which screen has what because of the different escape keys. It's sort of like the finger memory that you develop if you use multiple workspaces (esp in a WM that supports tagging windows) and always keep the same things on the same workspaces.
What would be interesting is if the project would have randomly picked one of the codebases to load so you could end up taking a spin on each.
ah, silly me, thanks
I'm not sure how to port color/font config from my urxvt config to xterm. Googling only seems to tell me to how to change background/foreground, not the individual colours.

Also, Is there any reason not to use just urxvt (without the client/daemon setup)? I've never had a crash that has brought down all of my clients, however.
It surprised me to see Clojure had the longest example and PHP had the shortest.
You know what he means.

Also, if we're to pick a definition of "natural" that means something more specific than "exists", cities seem like a good candidate for the "unnatural" end of the spectrum.
I have a number of problems with this.

First off - the project itself is just not worth the effort in my opinion. There are a lot of email clients already in the FOSS world and most of them are pretty good. Not perfect, sure, maybe lacking polish - of course. But they do their job and that's really all I want from email. (And for a lot of things - like conversations - I actively try keeping them OUT of email.)

They try kinda-sorta hard to pretend that I'm living in a dreary pit of begrudging acceptance using Thunderbird on Linux, but that only works if that's actually the case. It's not. Search could be a tad faster, conversation might be neat, sometimes, and there probably are exotic cases where you have dozens of imap accounts open that things get sluggish. None of these are killer features that sell me on this project because none of these are out of reach for the applications that already exist. (And again, as an actual user, I don't really care.)

The video was... confused. I think they realized that you do need to "sell something" when you do a fundraiser like this, but all they came up with were minor features that felt lukewarm - both in the technical sense and in the way they were presented. There is very little about what their passion point is in all this, except "better" and "faster" and... kinda more like gmail and mail.app. FOSS Projects usually start out with pain points that need to be addressed and with passionate people who care very, very deeply about them. I don't see that here.

The telltale is when the project lead goes for the "we've come so far". And then lists... conversation view, an html composer and connecting to multiple accounts. And then we arrive at the point where he almost starts explaining why they need our help. Where they want to go with this. What will make this so amazing in the future. Why I should feel passionate about it and for them. Why I should want to give them my money.

Nothing of that happens, he just stumbles into the final sentence. Please donate to Yorba today. And that's really all there is.

Finally, I don't really think lines like "bring you software so good, you don't know it's Open Source" (and a lot of further weird stuff in the same direction) is anything but carelessly smug. I'm not sure they have any idea whatsoever what kind of audience they're selling to.

Sorry guys, but this is not how FOSS works. You can't piss in the river and then ask people to pay money to follow you further upstream.
Hey everybody! Let's play "whose offense is more morally justified"!

Please.
Considering all the annoyance around the startup visa (myself included), this actually seems like a pretty sweet deal.

Are there any negatives that people might miss? Would love if someone could field a few questions...

Can you travel in and out of the US as often as you want while on this visa?

What would be the standard criteria for having the visa renewal approved? Would they need to see revenue growth? Would a stable stream of revenue be sufficient?

Can you start other companies while on this visa?

Can you invest in other companies on this visa?

If you have existing employees from non-treaty countries, can they come?

While on the visa, can you hire new employees from your home country and get them visas?
Ubuntu has links to non-free-opensource software/company which gains the ire of people like Linus and the community around him.
>Kings had to gather and maintain support; some of them did this through shutting down dissenters hard, but many of them never did, or did so with the full support of "the people".

If the king has to do what the subjects and lesser lords want or he'll be overthrown, he's really serving at the consent of the people. That pretty well breaks the analogy: If the only sort of king people can criticize is the sort who doesn't actually have unchecked power then using "people are polite when criticizing" as a heuristic for unchecked power has the relationship inverted.
64 Rasberry Pis turned into a supercomputer
Why is this sort of post even on HN, not to mention the front page? and why is this thread dominated by idiotic language about "evil" and "kings" and incoherent babbling about politics and democratic representation?! and suddenly everyone is a law scholar.

I blame Matt Cutts' occasional appearances for the subsequent flocking of SEO sorts here. This post doesn't belong on HN, certainly not on the front page.
I'm curious, approximately how much money are we talking in legal (and other) fees?
> If an angel loses all of their money on their prior round of investments, they will have no more capital to invest in that "single best investment"

Agreed. That being said, putting all your liquid capital to work in one round is pretty imprudent, no?
Would love to get some dialog going about better ways to accomplish this, any thoughts?
I was replying specifically to the question in the comment asking: "What harsh conditions are there in the side of a building that don't exist in nature? ([...] it would be nice for him to specify)". Whether those specified conditions are actually too harsh or not is not for me to say, I don't grow trees and I don't analyse weather patterns on skyscrapers.

Also, assuming you meant "you" as in me rather than "you" as in "one": I am quite far away from being a native New Yorker, and I don't appreciate the implication that I am "extremely unsophisticated".
#ifihadglass SPAM - please report this Twitter account for spamming nonsense
Omitting his/her name probably won't save him/her from a verbatim quote, if that email came from his/her corp email.
I think it's meant to be a training program that you graduate. Military guys will tell you when they graduated A-school or what ever is applicable. Welders graduate from vocational school. "Graduation" is applicable for any training program, not just university.
Don't you typically run up against traffic limits though? Seems like I've run into suspended pages more than a few times.
What killed my inclination to visit Philly was the Bill Burr rant (Google Bill Burr philadelphia incident). It may not be the same now, and that was a few years back, but just the thought that such a big crowd can be such jerks -- and I know the relative sample size is small and skewed (drunk) -- just destroyed my urge.

The big reason I wanted to visit was the history, and also (this might seem silly) because Bill Cosby is from there.
I was working forwards from the Ruby example for all of these, so I may have implemented the Clojure one in a weird way.

PHP cheats a bit to be the shortest, since it just looks up files to execute and renders stdout as the result, removing the need for routing.
If you consider ad-tracking cookies set by sites {A,B,C} to be read by ad-provider X all "one cookie", then the numbers balance out. (Which I would--tracking cookies, semantically, should be considered to be stored in the ad-provider's "bucket", as far as allowing them/purging them goes.
>The whole retroactive thing strikes me as incredibly wrong and should be illegal.

if you want to make duly passed state laws like this illegal, you would need to take a time machine back to May of 1787 and try to add "no ex post facto law shall be passed" to the constitution.

if you do can I come with you just to see the look on your face?
I used to do it more than I do now, but I still have a "DarkStorm" (server) and had a "LightStorm" too (yup another server). My laptop had two names "Lappy" and "Ghost" (Lappy atm) my desktop now is named "LightStorm" since I killed the the server with the same name, not much more naming than that.
PHP is the only one of them that doesn't need it.
The top comment is the most batshit comment I have ever read on HN. Interesting crowd shift going on.
Google is committed to Go. We already run a bunch of stuff written in Go, and continue to throw more engineers at improving the Go ecosystem inside the company. But Google's relationship with Go is not the same as Sun's was with Java.

Sun made Java a core part of their business strategy. With Go, Google isn't getting into the language business, but rather supporting an ambitious open source project that suits Google's needs internally.

As an open source project, Go has been quite successful so far. While the main driving force comes from the team at Google (we are employed to do this, after all), there are now more committers to the Go core from outside Google than within.
you should add undo, u, to the app. Also, make dd work as delete instead of just d.
Most companies of 30 people do not have as a major logistical problem, "Open envelopes filled with cash fast enough." eBay did.

I personally respect her. But eBay was on a path to success even before she showed up. And the eBay culture that developed has some notable imperfections.

More recently her tenure at HP has been disappointing. I personally am sympathetic to the theory that the depth of HPs problems were not fully understood by the stock market, and a period of severe disappointment was inevitable before they got back on track. But I can understand someone blaming that on her. (And indeed, unless something positive happens with the stock price, I'm not sure how much more time she'll get to right that ship.)
I've been wondering that as well. Am I missing out on some premium reserve of frustration? I really gotta try harder to feel disenfranchised.
Yup bigger problem is getting the 100k investment in the first place. Most entrepreneur (even highly skilled ones) don't have that kind of luxury / investment to start-with (in developing countries).

Also on this list : http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_3726.html

Iran is repeated twice is think it's a typo. Iran in EB1 and India is EB5
I am about half way through 'Dreaming in Code', Scott Rosenberg's story of the early days of Chandler. I thoroughly recommend the book so far.

As soon as I saw this it felt like how OSAF might have started Chandler if they were starting out today, it has a similar clumsy feel to the goals and rewards.
The only BIG Negative is : The investment has to be made by the people applying for the visa.
On the "reading the bubble tea leaves" front: what does it say about the startup world when even full time investors are sick of being pitched?

I'm watching this all from the outside, in a stable salaried job outside the bay area. But it just feels like the end of a road -- the community is eating itself. Making stuff people want is a distant memory at this point.
That report is pretty damning.
It was promising (i loved it), but sadly it was abandoned before it was completed (still fairly buggy, high cpu, etc).
Evolution is abandoned? You might want to check the git commit log and planning page:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/log/
https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Planning310
Mine name themselves:

ifconfig eth0 | awk '/HWaddr/ { gsub(/:/,""); print "LTS-"$5}'