skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need logic, set theory, Turing machines or any meta-mathematics to build practical software.

When I was ten, I had no idea about any of this stuff and yet when somebody showed me how to do arithmetic, variable assignments, comparisons and goto in QBasic (pretty much equivalent of Babbage's machine) I was able to write a simple drawing program and tic-tac-toe which checked whether one of the players won.

Add some IO and I would write a program which reads series of transactions and computes your bank account balance. Tell me what a matrix is and I would implement LAPACK for you.
The only thing happens to be every thing, and once you replace it the whole point becomes moot.
The key thing to remember is that Steve Jobs was more of an "investor" and an "advisor" at Pixar. He played no day-to-day role at Pixar. He certainly did not involve himself in any specific product development or management.
I think you're mixing two things up: the rich start out just like us... they went to college, got a job worked their way up and then instead of doing a lot private sector spending they went out and put that money in bonds and other securities, which over time matured and provided rich dividends and returns which were again used to buy more stock/bonds after a little more time if they played it right, most of their money is coming from "Capital Gains" and their income is secondary.

All it takes is a little restraint and elbow grease.

Edit: I'm not saying that this will work 100% of the time or even 95% so any anecdotes about how you saved and ended up poorer aren't interesting. they're just stories of your own personal failure that if examined properly would probably shine a light on some of your more profound errors.
Garbage collecting stop the world for about 10 seconds in Go
The Future of Debian GNU/Linux
Think you are missing the point, the women in question are not "booth babes" but women dressed in street clothes doing promotional work. My gut tells me that the pool of applicants for these jobs skews attractive female.
Kernel Log: Coming in Linux 3.9 (part 1) – Filesystems and storage
Because here is what VCs do: they forward some money to you, they sign the investment agreement. Done. They don't need to do any more work except get progress updates from you (basically they read a single email) once every couple months. If they're on the board they'll meet with you for a few hours every month. That is not a lot of work per startup.

A founder needs to put in at least 8 hours a day for a single startup.
It works in Firefox 19.0.2 and Safari 6.0.3 but not in Chrome 26.0.1410.43.
come to think about it, it's more like they're giving you a ride to the bus station, while you complain that they're spying on your travel arrangements. I know the purchasing and delivery patterns in the aggregate constitute valuable economic information, but free same-day delivery has a non-zero economic benefit as well.
I just wonder what the practical effect of Apple's online store being down is... it looks bad, but does it actually cost them any sales?
Better, but still a long way before it's factually correct.
I attended one of the schools in the Chicago suburbs. A public school. I think that my high school experience was pretty good; even comparable to some of the Minnesotan "miracle school" experiences. I'm just saying, before you move away from Chicago, check out the suburbs, where all the privileged people have fled to.
Here's the problem.

Humans of any gender perceive women to be less of a potential threat, and therefore more friendly, than men. This is why onboard computers for US jet fighters, and the American version of Siri, have female-sounding voices. And it is why the employment of women for promotional purposes will no doubt continue: if you want to persuade someone to buy your product in a way that comes off as friendly, hiring an attractive and friendly-seeming woman to promote the product is an easy and effective choice to make.
And you don't think they were storing that delivery data for mining and optimization purposes?
Hashtags considered #harmful
I think it's safe to keep bringing it up as long as issues keep existing. The culture IS changing, but slowly, and requires constant pressure.
I like the idea. Doesn't seem to support multi-touch on Windows 8. Nothing in IE 10 renders at all.
1. Learn about what's going on in the world.
2. Make a list of the most interesting things you might want to change...
Because, first of all, insurance and state law requires an licensed driver to be present.

And second, the human has to deal with the exceptions -- cases where the data is wrong, etc.
“with Reader the thought probably was "we will aggregate online content created by others and will add ads to the result. Then profit!" This was replaced with "we will aggregate social content, the add lots of ads. Then profit!"”

And why didn't they just do that? They gave no explanation whatsoever. Google Reader has/had millions of users, surely Google could've capitalized on that.
Does your car use OnStar?
So, I'm an Australian. We don't have OnStar but I've heard about it via the net.

I keep getting emails for 2 different people's OnStar accounts to my Email address... and OnStar won't do anything about it.

I have a pretty short Gmail address because I signed up early (6 characters), and Gmail's autocorrect/fuzzy email receiving means I get emails for all sorts of people that have mistyped their email and mine is "close" to what they typed.

To give you an idea of how bad this OnStar situation is:

- The emails have all the personal details inside each one. Name, home address, car make/model and various ID/registration details, home phone number, etc.

- It gives me full access to the cars maintenance records via monthly emails with EVERYTHING in the email relating to the car, INCLUDING LETTING ME EDIT IT via a link.

- It gives me a link directly to their OnStar account, and the password is the persons postcode, WHICH IS IN THE EMAIL. There's quicklinks to access the full account, change vehicle details, remotely access various aspects of the vehicle's features, etc.

- I can send directions to their GPS from my browser, which comes up on their screen.

- ... lots lots more "could" be done if I was inclined.

I've emailed OnStar support about it a few times, they don't reply. The closest I get to any form of reply is an automatic message telling me to call them on a "toll free number" (not free for me to call from here!)

PS, Mr Buchner, your 'tires' on your GMC Terrain are low and your oil needs changing urgently. It's overdue by months.
We're talking about advertising where visual appeal is a key part.
>Based on the media hype surrounding asm.js, it really sounds like mozilla fits the description

Wait, what? I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here. If you seriously think Mozilla has payed for articles about themselves, you've gone off the deep end.

I know that I personally became aware of asm.js because of an offhand comment Eich made on HN. I posted that link on both reddit and HN, which I guess was the start of the hype, so if you could let me know where to collect my Mozilla money I'd be obliged. :)
Catalyst too please.
Or if the output was gzip without encoding header. The FBI will be all over your place the next day with a warrant for the encryption key :D
The project is flexible enough to provide support for all media types-- video is definitely where the majority of your savings will be coming from. For a first-time demo though, we decided to just transfer a small image.
One thing that the article did not touch upon is that there seem to be health advantages for children who are born of young parents - they have better telomere length [1] and possibly greater longevity. When you add to that general issue of gene damage over lifetime and how it can impact the children we conceive as we age, it seems that nature favors young parents.

The problem is that our economic system favors delaying child-bearing in an unprecedented way. I wonder what it would be like if we inverted incentives and encouraged people to have kids very young, provided social and economic support, and a ramp up to high impact careers as their kids approached their teens.

[1] Paternal age at birth is an important determinant of offspring telomere length - http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/24/3097.long
Men don't pay attention to supermodels, are you sure?
I can only speak for myself, but I was done with Google a long time ago.

The 180 on net neutrality, the anti-privacy stance combined with downright illegal (at least in the EU) activities, the pro-active pandering to the copyright mafia, the anti-anonymity policy, the increased geo-tarding or services etcetera.

All of these are not just "things I don't like", they are things that go against the values Google suggested, if not outright proclaimed, they stood for.

Google has turned on the hacker community quite a while ago.

What I find particularly galling is that Google abuses the notion that they stand for openness and global internet freedom as PR-fodder, whilst being one of the most powerful forces in achieving exactly the opposite.

Even Microsoft only went as far as to proclaim their tactics were about "innovation". Google is far more cynical.
Never stop blogging about it, please. Did you see the post the other day from the woman who works at Game Informer (http://meagan-marie.tumblr.com/post/46396481491/what-would-y...)? Her experience at PAX East was one thing, but her work stories were even worse. I'd recommend it to everyone here.
Still speculation because these are startups. Had these been stable companies this fund would not have such high ROI potential. Calling it investments has people think there is some sort of security here. There is none. Well, only for the "market makers".
It's not free if you have fork over $80. But nonetheless a great service.
Fair enough, I've removed the first line; I agree it was a toxic comment. I just felt the need to vent.
I don't think you really understand how FundersClub works.

As a FundersClub investor, you are buying shares in a fund, where the fund only holds assets (either convertible debt, preferred equity, or common equity) of the specified companies. Your money invested in the fund goes directly to the companies (minus fees).

It's really no different from investing in the companies themselves, except it wraps the multiple investors to a single fund which itself makes the investment.
Lol, opposite reaction here. He said pretty much what I thought of this and what I've been telling some others on other places. And in the last few paragraphs he said something that announced the coming of the really juicy stuff, but then it was about the exchanges which I already knew about :(
Problem is, you see an attractive woman at a booth, assuming she is wearing regular business or casual attire.

How do you know if she was hired because she was attractive or because of other skills/attributes or a mixture of both?
This is highly interesting!

Things I could notice: First, wildlife just ignores radiation, also nature is quick to take back whatever we are not using.

Second, Japanese architecture is interesting, no building is ugly, both the modern ones (like the waterfront building that did not got smashed) and old ones (the traditional-looking houses). Maybe excepting schools (that are just rectangular boxes filled with windows).

Also, Japanese are very organized, even seeing debris scattered and destroyed stuff, the town still looks more organized and clean than the stuff I see here in Brazil for most part.

Good to see that someone left a message on the blackboard, making explicit how he liked the school.

Also, interesting to see that some stuff held well against the tsunami, the damaged graduation hall for example still has everything in place except where the floor collapsed, and still looking good.

The cars littering a field for some reason to me look like grazing cows.

Good vending machine that one supporting a building!

And it is dreading when I noticed that the most present animals are crows, not other sort of birds, it is like if most of life left, and death decided to remain.

This town also looks the sort of place I want to live in the future when I can (of course, without disaster...)
How To Pitch Your Tech Project
If funky and homemade is your thing, there's always librarything (which also has a real business model, so not likely to get swallowed up any time soon.)
I'd love to see a todo app that was not the same linear list of things, but a tree of subtasks. I input one thing, then it asks me "Can you break this down in to subtasks?". To which I type in subtasks, then it continues to ask me for each iteration until I can break it down no more. Then, it presents a list with the smallest-unit item first.
Sometimes you need to show people using the product etc.
Unless you mean advertising that is literally pictures of vaginas?
I didn't say they were dumb, just that they aren't very knowledgeable about their product. They don't work for the companies they promote and don't get much training. They work for an agency that is hired by the company. They're given some talking points and then told who to point anyone to who needs to know more.
No.

I remember listening to a guy talk to Jack Dorsey. This guy said "I'm working on 3 startup ideas." Jack said "that's two too many."

You might think that some people can pull it off: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey come to mind. But keep in mind: Elon Musk started two successful startups (Zip2, then X.com, x.com later merged with paypal) and he did both of those one-at-a-time. Only after he had lots of experience doing startups was he able to work on multiple startups at a time. Are you a veteran entrepreneur known for working 12 hour days and who has already started two successful startups? No? Then don't think you can do what Elon Musk is doing. Same for Jack Dorsey. He started Twitter, and only after getting forced out did he start Square. Later he returned to Twitter (under its new CEO, Dick Costolo).

Also note that Steve Jobs did not really do anything at Pixar while he was at Apple. His role was closer to that of an investor/advisor.

Running a startup requires focus and tremendous effort. Investing requires due diligence, sure, but after you sign that check you don't really need to do much work.

What you might be able to do is to work on several side projects; when one of them starts to get traction/users/attention, then you'll need to focus on that one product.
Point taken, thanks for the explanation.
Security Awareness: To Train or Not to Train?
How To Become a Teen Millionaire: Be an Insufferable Startup Brat
I love what Google has done with Street View. Taking the technology indoors just does something completely different for me than outdoor shots. In this place it lets you look at intimate details of what used to be other peoples' every day lives. There's so much to explore. Can any one read this blackboard? http://goo.gl/maps/zWAqm

I'd love to see a hack that lets one walk around in first-person inside an environment using Street View imagery, like a video game. Maybe the imagery is sufficient for that if used right.
I'm not OP, but something like:

public static int ToInt(this BaudRate baudRate)
{
switch (baudRate)
{
case BaudRate.BaudUnsupported:
return 0;
case BaudRate.Baud1200:
return 1200;
case BaudRate.Baud2400:
return 2400;
case BaudRate.Baud4800:
return 4800;
case BaudRate.Baud9600:
return 9600;
case BaudRate.Baud19200:
return 19200;
case BaudRate.Baud38400:
return 38400;
case BaudRate.Baud57600:
return 57600;
case BaudRate.Baud115200:
return 115200;
case BaudRate.Baud230400:
return 230400;
default:
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("baudRate");
}

Not exactly the best example (and not necessarily the best way to do that), but it's a quick one.
> make sure you're setting higher GC limits for the Ruby tests

Could you elaborate on this, or point me in the right direction? I'm learning Rails and curious.
GDC badges have your job title on them and the size isn't tiny so it is readable. You can generally tell if someone is technical or not that way, though it's not 100%.
How do you deal with a pessimistic co-founder?
The title kind of says it all.

How do you deal with a pessimistic co-founder? You can't get rid of him because he's vital - and he's a friend.

But every conversation with an investor or advisor or etc. is taken too literally by him. Sure, the positive is absorbed but the negative equally as much.

Everyone has an opinion, there will always be the naysayers, the doubters, the idiots... but that shouldn't dissuade someone from sticking to the core vision, to the belief and the journey of making great things. It's tiring and stressful (not to mention depressing at times) when dealing with a co-founder who has to be put back in check after someone mentions a small problem or issue to him... I don't get it.

It's a product of upbringing and how he was raised, and I do value people who are very grounded and more "reality-based" than some of us dreamers and people living up in the clouds. And you need that for a successful company.

But what do you guys think.

Sorry if this seems like a rant, it isn't, I just wanted to hear some thoughts from people who have or work with people that are too negative and pessimistic for their own good...
In general, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're knowledgeable about things they purport to be knowledgeable about. I don't think that's so different from the instant situation here.

Walking a crowded expo floor is a chore in and of itself (maybe more-so for introverts like myself :) ), but the '10 GDC I attended wasn't particularly challenging in this regard.
Thanks! Hopefully sooner than later. I got all fired up trying to search for a car part, an area of the web I mostly avoid and was surprised to find so many sites still getting ranked highly for doing this.
>better for consumers than OS X or Windows

I didn't mean to imply that. I just said it looks nicer, but I guess it doesn't appeal to some people. I like a desktop-style workflow more than a mobile one, but I guess it may be worse for normal consumers, but that's not what I am.
>It is our biological imperative to reproduce, but with humanity we can rise above our animal imperatives and impulses. I choose to avoid many things which push the biological buttons.

Somehow, this line reminded me of Huxley's "Brave New World".
Ask HN: Instagram just changed/broke their API. How do you handle API changes?
Instagram changed their /v1 API by removing a nested hash in their JSON response for images causing a lot of clients to crash. How do you handle API versioning?
Creative Thinking, by Claude Shannon. (1952)
Point taken: you're a 1337 user, but seriously? If you can't see why people want a distro to be _usable_ out of the box then maybe you haven't given much thought to the whole thing.
And what would the smart way have been?
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

Mark Twain
I don't use Cake, so don't read this is a defence of Cake.

Lazy loading seems to me a kludge trying to fix poor SQL querying. If you can filter at the app layer, why not pass the information down and filter at the DB layer? You'll be transferring less data and may even read less data from disk (with proper indexes)
"I'd love to see a hack that lets one walk around in first-person inside an environment using Street View imagery, like a video game."

There was a TED video in 2010 doing almost that: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
I think the problem is her T-shirt/hoodie wasn't geeky enough.

I could see male booth attendants having similar issues.
Righting a project requires figuring out what the root of the problem is. A stakeholder demanding an unfeasible requirement may seem like the problem, but it could be deeper such as beaurocratic reasons or not having the tools / resources to pursue the right requirement. In the end you need to reset these issues to enable yourself to take a different path than the death march.

A recent project of mine was put on hold due to changing requirements and lack of focus. we waited for the client to bring the right people to the table. Then we redrafted all governing documents and got them reapproved, sometimes by new individuals. We made sure from the restart we had a feasible project with well defined goals.
Well, considering that it can often take 30 minutes to travel 2 blocks in SF, getting something delivered the same day might be challenging.

Unless you had self-driving cars with real time map data.
People will put up with a lot to get to a piece of content that's sufficiently compelling. This probably makes more money than a "smart" option.
The Play app uses MySql in a blocking way, while Nodejs uses mongo. It's not comparable.
I think Mark Cuban is a great inspiration. He is very humble, knows his roots, isn't trying to impress anybody, and is a "normal" guy. He doesn't have the flashy this or that qualifications, but what he does have is the most important; drive, commitment, and the ability to get shit done. That's an entrepreneur.

I also love the part at the bottom of paragraph 13:

"The place was run by this kid who was younger than I was. We sat down and talked for a few hours. I was really impressed by him. I remember telling him, “Dude, I think we’re both going places.” That “dude” was Michael Dell."

It's funny because I read about them meeting before. It just kind of shows you to remember and keep in touch with people you meet along your journey. You never know who may be able to help you, but you don't go into with the attitude of "how can this person help me"? You go into with the attitude of this guy is doing his own thing and snapping necks and cashing checks along the way. I should grab a beer with him some time. That is how business relationships are made, that is how you network. Not through forced, sleazy, cocktail meet-ups.

Great read.
Sure attractive males are cheaper to hire, but how does their ROR compare? I find it hard to believe they are not cheaper for a reason.
Ask HN: What reading does PG recommend for Marketing?
I wanted to ask anyone that has been in a YC batch: What are the resources that PG recommends regarding sales/marketing and gaining initial traction?

I imagine that many talented, ambitious engineers and entrepreneurs on HN follow the lean method, but still frequently end up with a solid product that they need help growing. Technology doesn't sell itself, and sales can be extremely difficult for engineers. So what advice/resources does PG provide to help technical YC founders land big customers early and start out strong?
"no one has the ability to make the distinction between a quack and real medicine" (paraphrasing OP)

What utter nonsense. If someone presented you with a homeopathic dropper [1] saying it would cure cancer vs a new gold nanoparticle experimental therapy [2], "no one" would be able to tell the difference?

While the new treatment may turn out to have issues (no one was suggesting experiments were risk free), to imply it's indistinguishable from quackery, is false.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

[2] http://bjr.birjournals.org/content/85/1010/101.full.pdf
Does that legal contract affect your happiness? In general, no. If your culture tells you so, perhaps.
I think the closest I've seen to something like that is https://workflowy.com/ or Emacs' Org mode
In 2009, my Great-Opa (1907-2010) asked me why it took my (then girlfriend) and I so long to decide to date and consider marriage, having met online 8 years prior and only 6mo earlier decided to start long distance dating. He met his first wife in his village around the age of 20 and was married 5 weeks later. And at his "advanced age" at the time, the village had been concerned he and his wife weren't going to find anyone to marry. She was 16 or 17 at the time.

Even at his advanced age, he had a great sense of humor. As we were leaving, he pulled my girlfriend aside and said with a twinkle in his eye, "Next time you come back, bring your husband!"