skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm not wringing my hands, and I don't think you really have the ability to comment on my body language. Let's keep this debate focused solely on the contents of the talk.

The ubiquity and deployability of the web is not an inherent quality of the design of html, css or javascript. The ubiquity and deployability seem to me to be largely due to the internet which is one of the comments that Kay makes. People confuse the workings of the internet with the workings of the web. Right now we send documents that are interpreted, but there is nothing to say we can't send objects which are "interpreted" (or JITed more likely). But his point in the talk I posted was that the amount of accidental complexity that is piling up on the web as we speak (and which will only get worse and worse) will eventually collapse upon itself. You can already see the complexity of things like javascript and css increasing as the web attempts to offer applications, not just documents, and doing this by having a committee standardize high-level behaviour like layout seems to be a poor approach in the long run.

Most of the talk is focused on thinking in the long-term as well as working to decrease the complexity of the software edifices we are currently creating, before they become too large to improve in any revolutionary way.

Who knows, maybe the next web will be built on top of the web, the way the web was built on top of the internet. The point of his comments in the talk is that we should explicitly think about the design of what we are building before we rush off to pile up code.
Red meat chemical 'damages heart', say US scientists
There is a fix that will go live in the future at a predetermined date. All users are being encouraged to update their clients or patch their clients' config files before the impending deadline.

I'm not sure what will happen to clients that don't patch or update.
You screen-capped the front of the bag. Check out the back of the bag.
Wow, my experience has been a bit different. Every Java project I've worked on has been an exercise in frustration... Though a lot of the .Net projects I've worked on I can say the same.

I think that NodeJS + MongoDB has been the least resistance I've seen so far... though some of its' limitations are really frustrating (non-indexed result limitations). I like Postgres at least as much as MS-SQL Server. And the Entity Framework generators have been close to a blessing. That said, I'm much more of a fan of the DB as dumb storage, and not a big fan of SSIS. So changing from one DB to another is mostly transparent when things are how I prefer them.
You would have to be a rather rich individual in an unusual locale to license a new TV station in an area developed enough to have a cable company, but undeveloped enough to convince the FCC to issue the license without interference with existing stations. This is not a "new tech startup" model, at least not now. The goldrush was over about a quarter century ago.
Firefox 23 will block non-SSL content on SSL pages by default
I was impressed by Paddy Ashdown's comments on her - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/what-did...

"I opposed almost everything she did (but found myself following many of them when I tried to get the Bosnian economy going by lowering taxes and freeing up the market). Though there will be many who saw her as the author of much destruction that we still mourn, much that she pulled down needed to be pulled down."

"She was better as destroyer of old tired institutions and lazy ways of thinking than she was as the builder of new ones; better at defining divisions than building cohesion. But probably that's what Britain needed then. Had we on the left not grown so lazy about our addictions to the easy ways of state corporatism, she would perhaps have been less successful at so cruelly exposing their hollowness."

"If politics is the ability to have views, hold to them and drive them through to success, she was undoubtedly the greatest prime minister of our age, and maybe even the greatest politician."
You're completely right. I had forgotten this was expressly prohibited.
I can understand blaming booze for alcoholism, but apparently that poster appears to be a psychological addict.
Hopefully I haven't messed any of the numbers up:

$11 billion per year for 20 million homes or roughly $550/home/year or $45/home/month

And, for perspective:
From 1936 to 1938, the Rural Electrification Administration spent $210 million ($3.37 billion in 2012 dollars) to connect 100,000 rural farms to the electrical grid at a cost $950 each (over $15,000 in 2012 dollars).

Edit: Per the title update from "annually" to "over 5 years" the above, non-historical numbers are off by a factor of 5. The costs would be $110/home/year or $9/home/month over 5 years!
Just yesterday I would have rather used Bitcoin instead of a credit card to buy a game on my nephew's PS3 over the Playstation Network. The process of entering my contact details took several minutes. Afterwards, we had no idea how to remove my credit card from the system.

Simply checking out with a QR code and sending the Bitcoin from my phone would have been easier and not required any of my personal information. Instead I had to enter everything required for identity theft and to make fraudulent charges. It was the only way to pay and it was a hassle.
You also described the situation in Sudan/South Sudan. But without the genocide.
I've toyed with this idea before, though I had considered Lua due to its specialization in embedded environments and relatively simple sandboxing.

Interesting choice, here, in going with Ruby. Ruby is not exactly intended for embedding, and I imagine that a veritable mountain of holes in the script sandbox would need to be plugged before anything like this could see mainstream adoption. On the other hand, people are likely to be a lot more excited about native Ruby support in a browser than they would be about Lua.

Overall, I wish this project much success. It will be a long road, but I hope Ruby is just the first language to be supported in this way...
thanks for the clarification.

didn't like the downvotes for a question but whatever. i by no means want to see artists ripped off, i was just asking about an alternative explanation and its plausibility.
Why are you assuming sweatshops usually turn less profit per employee (and hence are willing to pay less for access to adequate labour) that companies that "really need talent"? Would you care to elaborate on what type of companies would fit in both of your categories?
"adverb adjunct noun verb adjunct noun"
Isn't that checked in like .gitignore? I'd rather not put stupid local stuff into a file that the rest of the team shares. And if I don't commit it then I'm stuck with a local file that always has changes, which is also begging for trouble. It also implies that I name things in some consistent way or that I add a lot of files into the ignore file.

I guess other people just aren't as messy as I am?
As a follow-up since it's too late to edit the original: I had forgotten this was expressly prohibited by the guidelines; my apologies.
So ... we create a TV that shouts every day "we need no government, government is stupid, freedom, laises faire, WAAAAAAGH" ... and then we run to the government like the little crybabies that we are, when somebody does the things we preach ...
Inflation is considered a bad thing however, it doesn't necessarily mean that it’s a bad thing - if it's anticipated or unanticipated and it’s the sign that an economy is growing (although too little/much inflation can cause issues).

What I'm arguing about Bitcoin is a potential liquidity trap because these new injections into the market may fail to stimulate economic growth (especially as Bitcoins can only add 25 new Bitcoins to the market every 10 minutes which is being halved every 4 years from 2017). I believe that, there is potential for the Bitcoin economy to run into the problem of a limited money supply & the Bitcoin-hoarding because; there will not be enough currency. Since a long-run inelastic and fixed supply currency is not useful for a real world economy, the result will be a recession and due to the limited money supply it will evolve into a depression. This is the opposite of what happens with fiat currencies as I highlighted with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009[1] government spending and lending can have a positive impact on the economy in particular through kick-starting the multiplier effect.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestm...
If you'd like a bankrupt pension system to weigh down your state's economy, there are plenty of Blue States that would like to trade: http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-best-life/2012/11/08...
"Save as CSV" produces text encoded in the users ANSI codepage which is atrocious, Excel 2007+ at least has "Save as Unicode Text" which produces \t separated UTF16 output.
TechStars selecting Two NYC BigApps 2013 Winners to be TechStars Finalists
Would it take less energy to grow meat (in lab) or grow plant?
Animating Text Background (with SVG&CSS3)
Animating a text (or link) background with SVG (text clipping masks) and Css3 ...
this advice is pertinent even within excel, especially for those who rely on any of its summary features (pivot charts, data analysis, etc). essentially an illustration of the benefits of separating content from presentation.
Someone that thinks like me! I'm not alone!
No, we are. You are talking about gathering, modeling and summarizing data. To claim that those skills "really haven't been universally understood and effectively applied to problem solving" is ludicrous. What do you think scientists did prior to the advent of "data science"?
I don't think your test is meaningful. There are already lots of items which cost much less than a penny. Individual squares of toilet paper, use of a cafe wi-fi for a few minutes, that sort of thing.

You just buy these items in bulk or make them free with other transactions. Right now I just "paid" for these items by buying some expensive bottled water in a café. It seems sort of crazy when you think about it - I paid for the thing that falls from the sky in large quantities in the Pacific Northwest, in order to obtain a manufactured good and access to advanced technology.

Also, the expected value of a bitcoin isn't dependent only on the number in circulation. Basically, it's related to "demand" and that depends on how many people are hoarding, how convenient it is relative to other currencies, and who knows, there may even be competing cryptocurrencies in the near future.
The fundamental flaw is not with bitcoin, but with people. At the beginning of march, I told all of my friends that Bitcoin was worth more than it was selling for, for many of the reasons listed in the post. It's essentially inflation proof; supply of bitcoin is not going to outstrip demand. I reasoned, then, that long term, the value is likely to go up. This is great if you're planning on spending any bitcoins as currency on silkroad or any of the numerous other websites that now accept some sort of payment in bitcoin: if you know you're going to want to buy in the future, it makes sense (generally) to buy into them now. This creates a broader base of unique users, giving more validity to the currency.

However, people see that the value of something is going up, they think "IT WILL ONLY GO UP" and then buy them with no intent to use them for a 'real' transaction. That's the problem identified in the post. But hey, guess what: Bubbles pop. At some point, the value of bitcoin will drop, and many of these speculators will sell off. This will devalue the currency for the people who wanted to use it for legitimate transactions, but sometimes you bite the bear, and sometimes the bear bites you.

The important thing to remember is that this currency is not inherently worthless. The housing bubble was catalysed by complex financial packages that disguised the fact that they were garbage assets. The Dutch tulip craze[1] was about fucking flowers. They were being purchased by people who had no desire to plant and grow the flowers. But Bitcoin is different. As long as people will still accept and trade in bitcoin, Bitcoin will never be as susceptible to collapse as other historical bubbles.

Further, with bitcoin, all news is good news. Any press that gets more people interested in bitcoin is good for the bitcoin economy in general. There will, of course, be some speculators who jump on hoping for a big payout. But there will be some people who look and see the inherent value of a decentralised currency and begin to accept bitcoin.

A lot of people can peg their bitcoin prices to more stable currencies: 4chan pass sells for $20 usd, but you can pay in bitcoin. I'm under the impression that Silkroad vendors do something similar. This means that, regardless of the current price of bitcoin, it's still useful for its intended goal.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
< 1% in the USA? Big deal. Our biggest client is still stuck on IE6. Luckily, for everything else we've convinced the boss that we're only doing IE8 and above.
You should also glance in your rear-view mirror to verify that the car behind you follows the same rule before you commit to stopping. Simple rules about traffic safety usually need a little tweaking IRL...
That's for variable names, not run-of-the-mill text. Variable names (and, in certain situations, dictionary keys) generally can't have spaces, so if you're generating code off of the data set, having to generate variable names (or dictionary keys) without spaces is an additional step.
looks like 50% chance
I had zero idea of what that company was about and only clicked on it out of idle curiosity that it made the front of HN.

Seriously, that was one of the most inspirational things I have read.

In another thread, someone mentioned the idea of a "valuable problem." Find one of those to solve and you will make money. And dahyum what that company solves is a valuable problem and how he started was so low-tech that it should be embarrassing to everyone who thinks they must have X-Y-and-Z to go.

Napoleon Hill said, "Start where you are with what you have." That guy did. And killed it. Good for him!
mruby[1] is aiming to be an embeddable version of Ruby. Still a massive WIP though.

https://github.com/mruby/mruby
Even scarier is how fast their servers fall over :)
> Who would want to live on Mars?

The number one historical driver of wealth and geopolitical power: proximity to resources. On Mars, you're several times closer than Earth to the majority of the resources in the Solar System, on a planet that has terrestrial mineral resources and the ability to support agriculture. Also, not being at the bottom of such a deep gravity well, you're also at a strategic advantage.
Maybe the thought of investing a bunch of time and money on a possibly fruitless lawsuit is less appealing to her than spending time doing art. Yet, she may feel a moral obligation to her peers not to let Disney's behavior pass; placing her in a position where she feels powerless. Or maybe she just engaged in a bit of hyperbole.
I found the message in the talk persuasive, but the presentation of it sorely lacking. Her delivery was stilted, probably because she was either very nervous and/or hadn't practiced her presentation nearly often enough to sound natural. On top of that, the talk was way too long. It could have been easily cut in half, at the very least.

In a Boing Boing article[1] (which also, incidentally, calls her presentation a "tour-de-force"), her points were summarized in these quotes:

Hard-to-parse protocols require complex parsers. Complex, buggy
parsers become weird machines for exploits to run on. Help stop weird
machines today: Make your protocol context-free or regular!

Protocols and file formats that are Turing-complete input languages
are the worst offenders, because for them, recognizing valid or
expected inputs is UNDECIDABLE: no amount of programming or testing
will get it right.

A Turing-complete input language destroys security for generations of
users. Avoid Turing-complete input languages!

Ok. I got that. Seems reasonable enough. It didn't take me 40 minutes read that, and it shouldn't take 40 minutes to present basically the same thing. Maybe half that if you thought you really had to fight hard to make your case.

A more concise presentation containing just the important/interesting bits would have been less painful to watch and probably a lot easier to prepare for.

That said, the Q&A period at the end was good. She seemed a lot more comfortable there, and there was a lot more interesting and informative content there than in the presentation proper.

[1] - http://boingboing.net/2011/12/28/linguistics-turing-complete...
at a place I used to worked they aliased rm to rm -i by default. It was kind of annoying but we all knew why they did it.
How about this math 11,000 million dollars per year divided by 115 million households, divided by $70/ month, divided by 12 months per year. That's 11% percent of households to break even?

65% of adults already have broadband at home in the US. So will about 1 in 6 switch to 100x better for marginally more money?
A Simple Method For Converting Footage Shot From Orbit To 3D
What New York Does Right: Street Layout
I think in the uk the injury and fatality lists include those killed by a car not in it. Also the drunk drivers and drinkers hit by cars are not separated.
I think you're correct here. Postgres has had lots of optimization work specifically for Linux and Unix/BSD. The Linux kernel has also had some optimization done to improve hot paths that Postgres hits.

I'm sure the Postgres team has kept an eye on Windows, but I doubt it gets nearly as much attention as the *nix environments.
By the way, rm -rf does a lot more than rm+rmdir. You will probably learn this the hard way soon enough, unless you already know this and are just oversimplifying to show a point.
> grabs lapels you don't know what the TV here is like!!

Let me know if I should send you that karma for TVTorrents.com. They're based in the UK.
"we estimate the annual [capital expenditure] investment required to be in the order of $11 billion to pass the homes, before acquiring or connecting a single customer."

The statement is a bit ambiguous, perhaps the problem is that it costs $11B just to reach 20M homes, regardless of whether or not they choose to purchase the service, in which case they would be losing a lot of money.
4 dividends over 17 years, starting again about 7 months ago. Sorry for not knowing the latest news as all I've been hearing is that they don't. And what formula will give proper and accurate pricing on that many data points?

Don't answer that, this is getting silly. Have a good day. :)
Definitely worth going for . . .

Start listening to the archives for StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com great information there.

There are also some good talks on microconf.com from last years conference.

Mixergy.com has lots of interviews. Subscribe on iTunes. Andrew is a great interviewer and each interview has at least a few gems you can apply to your startup. Start with the Bidsketch interview lots of good information.

Amy Hoy has great advice as well.
http://unicornfree.com/30x500

There are a lot of information you can read through online and lots of interviews and podcasts to catch up on.

After you have caught up on all the information out there you can consider signing up for paid courses.

Consider one of Amy Hoy's one day conferences or her 30x500 class. I haven't signed up yet but I am considering it.

There is also Micropreneur Academy micropreneur.com that you could consider signing up for. Rob gives great advice on the podcast and his website. SoftwareByRob.com so I would expect good results from the academy.

I would recommend to find a mentor. Someone who's done this before to share ideas with and keep you moving forward on your business.

It is a process so depending on your runway you'll probably need to consult part time or work part time as you scale up your startup.

You should also follow Brennan Dunn at planscope.io/blog/ he has lost of good information/ideas.

Follow nathanbarry.com as well.

I have transitioned from my original career over the past 5 years to consulting full time and am currently building my first SaaS app.

This is the talk that inspired me the most start with this one.

David Heinemeier Hansson's startup school talk from 2008.

It's a little dated but very inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Good luck.
According to Wikipedia [1]:

Whether deflationary spirals can actually occur is controversial.

Now I'm not an economist, but I have yet to see a solid, intuitive argument as to why deflation is necessarily a bad thing for Bitcoin.

Suppose the value keeps going up, and a few years from now it's at $1,000 / bitcoin -- lots of poeple have been buying bitcoins wherever they can, and not spending them. Well, at some point people will decide that the price is ridiculous, because it's all based on speculation -- suppose it's $10,000 / bitcoin. And it will either stop increasing in value, or crash a bit.

Well, I don't see how this has prevented it from acting as a currency at any point in this, since it always has a value. There are always going to be some people willing to trade some bitcoins for some price -- and that's just the price, and whether you're dealing with whole bitcoins, or millionths of bitcoins, I don't see what further consequences this has.

And when you're talking about the macro-economic level, running a whole economy on bitcoins would be a separate issue, but there could be tools to deal with that too. For example, not denominating debt or salaries or goods in Bitcoins, but in a multiple of a consumer-price-index or something, that can change relative to current Bitcoin values.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflationary_spiral
Gumroad meets Twitter Flight
> Loans clearly have issues in a deflationary system.

I would think, even more than that, loans would have issues in an anonymous system.
I think Firesheep is more of a "Dark Firefox".
Minimalytics - "Send me analytics from GitHub and Stripe every week."
I totally understand your points in here - I have experience with both SQL Server and PostgresSQL. (+ Oracle, but that's not relevant in this case).

I wouldn't call myself advanced in both, more like an average user from DBA point of view + some more advanced BI things. One of the last tasks which I was doing on SQL Server was creation of a set of SSIS / SSRS packages to replace odd SQL queries scattered around dozens of utilities. I had chosen SSIS for the ETL tool as I had heard lots of positive things about this one and I must say it was really pleasant to use ... to a point when it became tedious trying to deal with wrong export formats of columns. Not mentioning the fact that when I was writing code for Script Tasks, sometimes the code was mysteriously disappearing, that signing of packages setting up agent tasks and all the boilerplate for that one to work was a task on it's own. I was blaming my lack of knowledge at that point about the whole stack - you don't usually master tool that big in a week.

Yes, PostgresSQL is harder to pick up, it's harder for your average and not IT-centric company to implement as a BI tool. Microsoft is providing a ready-made full-fledged and powerful Behemot which can solve most of your problems with a snap of a finger. Unless there's some magic happening and lack of capabilities to have total insight into the tools is driving you furious. Postgres has it's quirks - at least for me it was harder to pick up than other database engines, but I'm quite happy with all the additional features which it provides and additional understanding of the whole system which I'm gaining as I'm learning.