skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to forget about the infinite number of photo sharing apps and social media aggregators you would also have. And the infinite amount of monkey groups that invented monkeycrunch and the infinite amount of monkey startups that read monkeycrunch religiously.
this positioning makes the rules clear: you must _always_ stop before a red light. no exceptions.
* Some of the traffic lights in some European countries.

This is not the case in most of England, also in France there is often another set of lights lower down on the pole positioned for the driver in the car in the front of the queue.
I'm happy to see [Substance](http://substance.io) work (Tim's OT) to spread to other related project!
You could use something like greenplum for doing BI with postgres. Unfortunately they do not list prices, which leads me to believe it's not cheap. I wonder how it compares in price to a similar SQL Server install.
What Google's WebKit Fork Means for the Web and Web Developers
Acting on Analytics
Ada 2012 features in GCC GNAT: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_rm/Implementation-of-Ada-...
Must haves to live a life worth living
Thanks for the info.

We are taking appropriate actions. We have some of the best on our side :-).
I know, but then you should do the same for pedastrians.
Lot's of people who made a lot of money are good at exactly that. Making a lot of money. I guess following childlike creativity and aptitude to make a lot of money don't go hand in hand.

Fortunately internet happened and a lot of people who would suck at making money in any other circumstances made a lot of money anyways. So we have Elon Musk, Larry Page and hopefully we'll get more of them in the future.
Why Knowing Your Audience & Nailing Your Brand Matters Most
can't say that for most of the -50 I know either.

The undiscussed metastory aside from the opinions about good or bad, is probably that neophilia, or STEM fixation, or citizen science, or whatever you want to call it, apparently does not correlate with wealth. Not an amazing cultural observation, I'm sure any starving PHD student would tend to agree, the world's full of ramen eating phd students and $25K/yr nontenured postdocs. Academia/STEM-ish workers have replaced religious orders as the cultural place for vows of poverty, with a couple rare exceptions such as applied science (especially CS). Also lots of managers, who work at STEM companies, and perhaps may have even started as STEM people long ago, get confused as currently being STEM people.

There is an interesting effect that is also not being discussed which is most of the billionaires are paper net-worth billionaires. Most of them don't have a billion cash equivalent on hand, for example if they sold 50% of their company stock, the stock price would crater enough because of sudden volume to take their net worth down quite a notch. Its quite possible to end up in a situation where you own a billion sized fraction of a multibillion dollar company, but you can only sell a couple million per year without cratering your net worth. Your net worth does not necessarily equal what you can spend today.
Open letter from developer on yay-sayers and the failure of a project/company
I remember finding a couple of years ago an open letter written by a developer on a failed project. As I recall, it was a high-profile project in a rather famous, but now dead, company. The main reason for the failure was a culture of promoting yay-sayers and suppressing the people with a realistic view on what could be done in a given time frame.

Does anyone know the letter I'm referring to, and where I can find it?
The Tao Of Programming, Chapter 2, section 1:

Thus spake the master programmer:

``After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.''

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
I'm not familiar with WhatsApp, but from their front page blog article[1], it sounds like they could be at loggerheads with Google over privacy/advertising. You can't buy an ideologue.

[1] http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...
Unfortunately, the past few days many EFnet servers (and more are following) have had to ban an entire ISP, which has not happened in over a decade, if not longer. Naturally, something extreme must happen for this to be even considered. [... and the extreme thing is ...] the email also contained sensitive information about who this operator was, including nicknames

This is ridiculous. Why would an IRC op want to keep his/her nickname from becoming public? On IRC, even IP addresses are public. Hetzners reaction seems entirely reasonable to me, especially if the server in question was "mots likely hacked".
You really have to have a terrible case of tunnel vision to write this post. One Elon Musk? Sure, I only see one guy named Elon Musk on the list of billionaires.

What is the requirement here?

A space company? There are several of those.. Jeff Bezos (worth 23b) has Blue Orgin.

He says "cool sci-fi shit"...

What about self-driving cars? Those aren't sci-fi enough for you? How is Tesla's battery powered car MORE sci-fi-ish than a self-driving car?!

Look, I wish the best for Musk... but the author needs to take a look around at what other people are doing.
Unsure if we are impacted, but doubtful.

No need to have a backup design IMO. This is just our marketing site.
Is it based on etherpad?
But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Here in Germany as well, but then it gets really confusing. My favorite example is this intersection:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=K%C3%BChlwetterstra%C3%9Fe,+D...

It has three lights, only two of them positioned at the stop line.
I think people who hype on and on about his personal life are just grasping at straws to mask their own insecurities.

As someone who grew up not spending that cliched ooey gooey version of "family time" that we always see on television and someone who has been married once, I'm fairly sure it's a lot more complicated than "oh always working, and doesn't care about his family? --insert underhanded "I'm better than you statement here"--. My parents worked hard to take care of me and my sisters. Did I see them all the time? nope. Was I bothered? nope. At the end of the day whenever I needed them they would drop everything and show up. We never had dinner at the table, as a matter of fact I pretty much up and moved out when i was 17. But we're a very close family. As for my marriage, despite how hard we tried to maintain it, one can't control feelings, and eventually we realized that even though we were comfortable with each other, we couldn't get those feelings back.

Now, I don't know Elon Musk, and quite frankly I think there's a bit too much hero worship surrounding him - don't get me wrong, he does some crazy stuff, but he's not as much a sage entrepreneur as we make him out to be. Having said that, the reality is that life is a lot more complicated than what it looks like on Little House on the Prairie. A "close family" doesn't have to sit around the table and chat, a close family doesn't even have to have members who live in the same country - I'm a case in point. So people talking about how he's some bad father as if they live with him or know him personally should go focus on their own personal lives. And to John Battelle's, quite frankly rude statement at SXSW, well he works at a media company that hosts conferences, not running and re-imagining two pillars of heavy industry.
1000+ BTC
100-999
10-100
Suntech stock up almost 50% on Warren Buffett buyout rumors
Why is there only one Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, etc... Because people are not made in a factory with a cookie cutter.
Out of curiosity, how comprehensive is your test suite? For one company I worked for, we actually found PostgreSQL was outperforming Oracle and because of how comprehensive our test suite was, the lead dev connected to PostgreSQL and got 80% of the test suite passing in one evening. A strong test suite allows you to instantly find out where your app breaks down.

Side note for those who don't believe PostgreSQL can outperform Oracle: we needed a custom data type that we were aggregating over. The projected table size was over a billion rows (last I heard it had reached over 4 billion rows). As I recall, in Oracle, you were limited to writing user-defined data types in SQL or Java (now you can use C). PostgreSQL, being open source, allowed the leave to implement the custom data type in C. The query we needed in Oracle took several minutes to run due to the need to constantly serialize/deserialize the data over the aggregation. The PostgreSQl version returned in a few seconds.

We even hired a well-known Oracle performance consultant who did wonderful things to all of our queries ... except for this one custom data type which left him stumped.
Here in Germany they are at least overhead and to the right on the pole, the latter easily visible from the first car. Additionally some intersections have them on the left side on a pole as well.
That's a strange restriction you put on yourself? Today you have to have a good reason for your product to NOT be web-based.
UK Lulzsec hacker Ryan Ackroyd pleads guilty
It's Official, Google Fiber is making it's way to Austin, TX
Retro gaming on Raspberry Pi
I'm wondering how a blog labeling itself "Advanced persistent cybersecurity" does not know this.
Could you elaborate on how Katja's idea in the OB post might be used here? To me, it seems like it supports the OP (quite nicely, actually). In particular, Elon Musk shows that Tony-Stark-ness (as you've correctly defined it) is pretty darn visible. If there were more Tony Stark's out there, I'm now more likely to expect expect that I would have heard about them in the same way I've heard about Musk. This increases my confidence that there are not many Tony Starks compared to my pre-Musk assessment.

And then, of course, the question is: with so many billionaires out there, why?
More and more sites are accepting bitcoins, making it more useful as an actual currency. I detail some of the sites in a book I wrote for Bitcoin Beginners.

http://www.bitcoinbeginner.com

If you (or anyone else) would like a free copy, just email me: john@bitcoinbeginner.com
Ask HN: Which marketing agencies do SaaS companies use (if any)?
SaaS companies have pretty specific marketing demands. Are there any out there that are known to work with established SaaS companies?
I think you need to test the netinst Debian image, the iso is only 180 mb, there's even a biz card version which is 50 mb, I generally use this for testing.
No it's based on [Substance](http://substance.io) OT library, but uses CodeMirror instead of the [Surface](http://interior.substance.io/modules/surface.html)

(Substance Team member here)
What's more importing preserving a marriage or flying to Mars?
Poll: How many Bitcoins do you have?
Given the steady stream of Bitcoin stories being posted here (guilty!), I'm interested to know whether the HN crowd has literally bought in or if it's just a technically interesting topic.

What's your involvement, in order of decreasing BTC support?
10-99
0 - interested to buy/mine
0 - not interested
0 - no way. It a scam/bubble/sucker's bet, etc.
Are you frustrated with the high cost of filament for your 3D printer?
Is there an example with backbone requirejs and karma testing for yeoman out in the wild?
I think it's more of a thought experiment; just an interesting idea to entertain even if we haven't reached the limit. The more immediately applicable point is that of a cognitive limit moreso than the suggestion of a technological limit.
Doesn't Google Talk qualify as the messaging app included by default? Not sure I see the droves of WhatsApp users migrating to that, sadly.
I'm interested too. Is the browser environment which bugs you or the web "platform"? (you know, HTML and brothers)
tl;dr: keeping sockets open only uses very little memory and no CPU when idle.

dr: http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/how-erlang-doe... ff.
Well, that depends. For those of us doing the "bootstrap while working a dayjob" thing, yeah, it basically does become a nonstop grind. Well, nearly nonstop. Everybody has to take a break sometime.

For me, I allocate damn close to every hour I have outside of my dayjob to working on Fogbeam Labs. Take out sleep time, and time to eat (plus occasional diversions like grocery shopping, etc.) and it's basically:

1. get up and go to the dayjob

2. leave the dayjob and drive to Starbucks or Panera Bread

3. sit there and work on the startup for 4-5 more hours

4. drive home, eat, sleep

5. lather rinse repeat

6. Except Sat. and Sun, which is pretty much:

7. work on the startup all day

Fun? In some ways yes, in some ways no. Healthy? Probably not. Necessary? Well, I think so or I wouldn't be doing it.

My cofounder, on the other hand, doesn't go to quite the same extremes I do, which is fine. I tend to be a little extreme by nature, and I don't really expect anybody else to do the crazy shit I do. :-)
And used effectively in the Battle of Athens, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
Sweet! This will be fun to integrate into Wikipedia for editing...

/me plots
Learn Python or Die Tryin'
I was not expecting Tea-Party-Guy to have anything good to say, but his analysis of Bitcoin is both brutally honest and accurate.

At some point in time - a point in time which is probably in the past - the government is going to lock a cryptographer and a forensic accountant in a room together and tell them to develop a tool to unroll bitcoin networks. They will (have) done so. The tool will, given a couple of known transactions, create a graph of every activity ever that is in any way related to those transactions. Each known transaction or account added in will fill in the graph further. A handy printout will correlate all the intersections between graph 1 and graph 2 for any two individuals the government wants to link together.

"Says here on November 3rd you sent another $7,500 to the opium dealer from Hong Kong. What were you buying?" "On the advice of my lawyer, I refuse to answer."

The first people the federal government decides to take down who have used bitcoin in their financial shenanigans are going to be facing 1000-count indictments and 500-year prison terms.
It's not that bad a mere 2^(8 * 32 * (1024^3)) cards can get you there.
"Could you elaborate on how Katja's idea in the OB post might be used here?"

Exactly in the way you describe. I was indeed using it to support the OP and not myself: "I'm not sure which of us is right, quite possibly the author and not me - LINK".
Could smallpox really be turned into a biological weapon by terrorists?
I wish I could upvote you more than once. That laws (not technology) are the enduring limits of culture is an insight that a lot of very smart engineers seem to miss.

There are a lot of people active on the Internet who think that if they just invent the right crypto archive, the right chat system, the right social network, the right mobile app, they will free us all from oppression. But there is no getting around the power of the law.
I got an abuse mail from Hetzner once (they mistyped my ip).

The original complaint was something autodetected by their own system, mailed to themselves. The original complaint was attached, header and all. Something about malware on an IP similar to mine.

Also, when will this be in effect, the server i tested from had no problems connecting.
If you're in the US you probably don't have to go to Europe to experience this. Just go to another state. Despite federal standards there's a lot if variation in traffic signage, road markings, lane widths, and allowances.

Many regions of Michigan, for example, do not have left turn lanes. You're expected to make a right and then a U-turn.

I work in San Diego, but my employer is in Buffalo, NY. After spending a few weeks driving in Buffalo I've quickly come to appreciate how much thought has gone into SoCal's roads. The smart lights alone make me never want to leave the region.
Yep. The WP.org guys explain the reason for removing it:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-know-why-social-me...
I agree in the sense that I don't think there's going to be a killer new programming language or language paradigm that's going to overturn the existing languages within the problem domains they're suited for.

Since the current high-level languages are so extensible, the new paradigm seems to be moving beyond programming languages to a higher level of abstraction based on frameworks and DSLs. We're not just "writing code," we're always writing code that writes code (that writes code, and so on, of course, until it's a stream of 0's and 1's.). We do this because working at a higher level of abstraction is usually more productive. The recent crop of programming frameworks are just another layer on top of this. Next I guess we will have some sort of meta-frameworks on top of those. So the specific language choice will only matter insofar as it's a part of the framework stack.
I don't care a lot about government loans since those are a pain to get, I rather get a proper investor community, how is Toronto's?
Compare a multi-hour bootstrapping process of Gentoo with the under 10 minute installation of Ubuntu. When you are trying to quickly bring up a new server (especially as the old one is failing), this counts.

Also from my years of using Gentoo, you had to babysit a large portion of the initial installation.
This is exactly what happened to me.
I started using Yeoman, loved it, then I started to need more flexibility, I learned how to use Grunt, and set up my own build and preview processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillan...
Fashion Project Raises $1.8 Million
Its not working
If you're looking to understand either (1) why there's a dearth of Elon Musks (like the OP) or (2) whether you and I should want to be like Musk (like edw519), then the complete man's life seems very pertinent. The thing that makes analysis of celebrity personal lives in tabloids such a waste of time is that it's done for titillation and emotional shallowness (i.e. I can feel good about myself because this supposed big shot can't even keep his marriage together), rather than thoughtful analysis.
Okay, I'll bite.

> The ironic part is I'll probably receive downvotes for bringing this to light.

Of course you won't because you made a well thought-out observation.

Contrast that to this generic, baseless statement:

> Arabs and Muslims will blow the fuck out of each other's sons and daughters without a second thought.

That is a not only a very simplistic view, it is also incorrect. It puts blame on some inherent personality trait of Arabs and "muslims". Anyone with a minuscule ability to critically think can see how this parallels statements like "black people have less intelligence". The OP is not bringing a new opinion; they are trolling.

I would be more interested in seeing a thought out analysis by the OP, that takes into account the complex geopolitical landscape of the last 100 years, including armament of these so called terrorists by the US, drone strikes that kill Afghan and Pakistani children, etc.
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Announcing pinitto.me an open source infinite virtual corkboard for collaboration. Instance running at https://pinitto.me but code on github. Feel free to give it a try and provide feedback.
By your logic we should also build bridges and tell people to drive over them and see if they collapse.

There is a time and a place for analysis and trying to understand, a priori, the failure modes of a system. As the potential for loss increases, the importance of "pontification and postulations" (hopefully more of the latter than the former!) also increases.
In a sense, that's what a good optimizing compiler is. You were probably thinking of something more abstract, but I submit that the difference is more quantitative than qualitative. We already have the kind of thing you want; you just want a better one.
Gosling is a senior employee of Liquid Robotics, joining four years after it started. He didn't found it.
Cloud66 built a status page with high availability for less than $1 per month
Was Eddie Lampert ever serious about turning it around though, from a retail perspective? From what I recall his actions showed that he simply wanted to bleed Sears and KMart dry. He slashed capex and refused to make any tangible improvements to the retail experience, his whole focus seemingly on liquidating assets and reallocating capital away from the stores.
If you end up in TX, I'd really like to pick your brain sometime.
If you have a PC with a constant bitcoin address installed on it, yes. But if you're using a brain wallet with a livecd OS, for instance, it seems unlikely that it could be traced.
The homepage turned into a giant chat room
It does not, read exactly what I've written above - there are three users in total: your ssh login-account, the (user-unique) PHP account (suphp or similar solution used for this) and the user-unique FTP account.

So, if you set up the ACLs and permission bits correctly, the webserver has no write rights, only you and the FTP user have.
Ada Lovelace: Software Optimizer
"The order in which the operations shall be performed in every particular case is a very interesting and curious question, on which our space does not permit us fully to enter. In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selection amongst them for the purposes of a Calculating Engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation."

From Note D: http://psychcentral.com/classics/Lovelace/lovelace.htm
Open Source IAM Solutions Maker ForgeRock Raises $15M
This seems like a ridiculous overreaction to me. Not only do I not see much wrong with an ISP forwarding abuse e-mails to the admin of the hacked server (who is probably a victim too), but I also find a bit hard to believe that the nickname of an operator is enough to "derive a home address".
Meanwhile, the author of the blog post runs a porn website. I find it amusing that all of these advocates of tackling "big issues, that matter", "building world-changing technology" are very far from walking their talk.
Silver: The Natural Hedge Against Bitcoin
What’s it Like to Have Your Company on Shark Tank
To become a better [noun] leave your [comfort zone].
touting as a feature that allows them to measure ad exposure based on floor vibrations that suggest you walked away during a commercial.

Ok, now that's creepy. Time to get a Jack Russell Terrier & a tennis ball.
mattt has a ton of useful gems that interact with Apple's products. https://github.com/mattt/cupertino is another one that interacts with the Apple Dev Center
> The street signs are in weird spots, or are non existent.

(Disclaimer: I haven't been to Ireland, but I do live closeby in the UK).

I find this interesting, because I found exactly the same thing true when I first went to San Francisco! It took me months to understand where to look for street signs (and I'm still fairly sure many junctions are missing them). I'm not sure if there's some pattern, but they often seemed arbitrarily placed... looking back, I also wonder if they're positioned more for drivers, whereas street signs here could be seen as more for pedestrians (whether this is true, or which is correct, is a topic for discussion).

In any case, I feel the author could expand their article by trying to think like a foreigner driving in their own country, and how that may also seem wrong! I personally think that this is perhaps a case of 'everyone has the wrong design', held together only by learnt habits.