skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that very same social environment can be an impediment at least as well as it can be a motivator.

The overwhelming majority of my formal education (through high school and most of college) consisted of classes where most of the students either didn't want to be there, or weren't interested in the course beyond its impact on their grade and future transcript, and so were disruptive to the learning process.

And I doubt I'm alone in saying that.
Ah, of course. Well in that case, I can see why Vim is a massive upgrade compared to what he was used too. Sort of reminds me of a time when I used Eclipse for a while, horribly slow editor that tonnes of people used to use (still used widely for Java development, specifically Android).
That's a great question.

They make it so easy, too:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/reddit-install-script-...

and a VM, ready for VMWare / VirtualBox (it's a vagrant setup, actually): http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/qnuxp/pycon_prepa... (about a year old)

For anyone interested in more details, there's a subreddit community about it as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
In a marxist perspective, workers in the developed countries are being exploited too. In a free market perspective, Chinese workers are choosing to leave their farms and go to factories because it's a much better alternative for them, which has raised their wages and standards of living as a whole.

What exploitation are you referring to?
To sum up a work day.

Standup, planning meetings, discussions, speeches, emails, phone, IM, wikis, surveys, internal blogs, and now Reddit.

When am I supposed to do actual work?
I'd love to see a language or even a library that would make no-surprise fixed point and/or arbitrary precision math first class citizens, like what Python did with integers.
Unfortunate. I'd like to be with you, and I'm straight. :-P

(Thought I'd take the opportunity to make a lame joke.)
Happy to see that these powerful little things are getting more affordable. What does those expansion pins do? Can they be used for I/O like button and LED?
Who want kill the Bitcoin?
Does anyone know how I can get into this business? I'm a full-stack developer and love to build MVPs, but I don't really know where to start finding new clients? Is it really only elance and odesk?
Unlike the current situation with piracy where pirated copies are for all to see and get only hours before the official release.

The piracy while a legitimate problem is a relatively minor one. The first is visibility, the second is quality. Getting to the point where someone bothers to pirate your stuff and the majority of people that download it install it and play trough it is a mark of success - doing something right.

And with sizable proportion of the gaming community in their 30s - you will be surprised how many people have desire to support the studios. We learned our lessons with Shadow of the colossus, Psychonauts and the fate of Black Isle.
I was really impressed by this, but is it actually a game, or just walk around and check out this cool thing we made?
Haven't eaten here, but if this is true, it's a tragedy. There are so many ways to do an Indian burrito right.
Yes, that was the background. Vim vs Sublime just boils down to personal taste both are awesome editors.

But... when you compare either to VS ... well startup time is not its strong point, just launched my old VS 2010 copy and it took 5 seconds.
Today, with everything available it's become easy for small companies to bootstrap their way through all stages of growth without any conventional investment.

Can you name a large startup that hasn't taken investment? Oculus, maybe.

Begin with personal savings and maxing out credit cards to allow a tiny handful of founders to build an MVP that gains credibility and perhaps even generates some revenue.

That's incredibly risky. If it doesn't work, then you won't be able to make another attempt for years while you try to recover. The value of VC investment is that it insulates you from those risks. I've seen firsthand just how ravenous the effects can be when the "avoid investment" philosophy is taken to its extreme. So the question becomes, why not take VC investment from VCs who aren't interested in company control?
Chinese Hackers Steal Info from top secret U.S military data
Are you ethnic Chinese?

There are entire parts of Boa'An that you will be told not to venture into. I have had taxis refuse to take me there, I thought it had to do with the SEZ red/green class restrictions, but we were once told to turn around a private vehicle, ca 2006-2007, fwiw.
Yeah when I read the title I thought this is what they had done..
You mean HoTMaiL?
china has a one-child-only policy since 79. I thought that this is known http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
The key is that burnout doesn't prevent progress in all areas.
Look for its original ROM online, if you didn't back it up. Install that again, and then you should be able to get whatever updates B&N is sending you. But I think you should be able to get them even with root, unless you've already installed a different ROM.
Until they hopefully outsource it: Reddit in 10 lines of code. http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/26/reddit-in-10-lines-of-...
Asm.js is pretty damn binary-like. Good luck debugging that.
Yes, the solution would be more along the lines that the owner or one of his direct descendants has to live at the site. Then hurting the environment hurts yourself.
Thank you for the link, but the benchmarks at the bottom of that page show that JTransforms is almost always slower than FFTW, and in only a few cases is it marginally faster. Benchmarks are always questionable, and I really wish they had compared single threaded performance, but I think this shows that Java still has some catching up to do before anyone should be called foolish for thinking C is faster.
Knuth's books, i.e., TACP, are plenty
easy to read: Mostly just skip the
details of the math. Why skip? Because
working through the details can take
a lot of time, and for just using the
algorithms the details usually amount
to little down to nothing.

The details of the math might be quite
good as examples of math techniques for
evaluating the execution time ('computational
time complexity') of some algorithm not
covered in Knuth.
A friend of mine who lived in China from 2004-2007 said the off limits places were due to crime, and that foreigners were not allowed because they were likely to be targeted.
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It smells like crap? No, it smells like you have a thing against self-help books. I've never heard about this before but it strikes me as a potentially useful way of looking at personal life a bit more systematically than a simply stated "work-life balance" that everyone uses rhetorically but is rarely defined.

Maybe instead of indignantly demanding "how dare this guy attempt to define me according to his own pop psychology metrics!?" or "this clearly does not work for everyone so it's utterly useless crap!", you could suspend judgement for a few microseconds and discuss the actual content.
"Today, with everything available it's become easy for small companies to bootstrap their way through all stages of growth without any conventional investment."

Try building a bridge or an opera house or a car factory without outside investment. There is a whole world outside our small bubble.
I didn't count the ones where you're in the mirror, you got off easy.
Interesting. May I ask you - did you get a lot of emails from otherwise experienced candidates (e.g. 8+ years C++, etc...), or maybe the noise comes from the people who plan their first language to be Go?

Thanks
Since i am using a Win8 Workstation as well i am interested in the tools http://16154060.r.cdn77.net/images/desktop.jpg

What terminal client is that ? Could be cygwin ?

Also looks like hes running a local ubuntu VM for dev !? I wonder how he syncs it to the laptop, if he does at all.

+ some other Tool icons i cant really make out :)
Why not pligg?
You cannot know the carrier because you can keep your number when changing them. I'm with Vodafone and have a 0176 dialing code carried over from my previous contract. But as others pointed out, in the US mobile numbers get normal landline dialing codes so you cannot see a difference.

So, in a way, yes, it's possible for some customers to automatically detect that, but then you need to question how many of them come from countries where there is a difference and whether it's really a good use of your time and money to implement something that might only benefit a percent of your users. As for me, even though I'm conscious of UX, I wouldn't care much if I had to classify my phone number once. What they described in the article already goes way beyond what most other signup forms do.

(Fun fact regarding area codes and figuring out a city from that: The village I lived in previously was pretty much halfway between two smaller cities and it had the area code from one but administratively belonged to the other. So not even that is easy ;-))
Can you name a large startup that hasn't taken investment? Oculus, maybe.

37signals? Craigslist? Fog Creek? Many app companies?
A reasonable heuristic. In which case, what was the ratio of sentences read to ignored in this particular instance?
But still, the stuff that people are making here looks like the stuff of late night infomercials and there's nothing advanced about any of the components mentioned in the article. It's fun and cool, but not enough to move the human race forward.
I agree to certain degree, but the indian pop.growth is just not sustainable.
Closing the eyes doesn't make it go away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India-demography.png
I hate how DRM is being thrown around as a "turn-key" solution against piracy, because it's simply wrong. What's stopping anyone from selling copies of heavily DRM'ed - but cracked - games right now? Nothing.

Actually, WebGL games would be a lot more secure from piracy, because they would be online, and you could easily stop 99% of the piracy by requiring a login for the game. It's basically like the Diablo 3 model, only better. Because Diablo 3 should be easier to crack and play on private servers (not sure if even that has happened yet).

Making an "online game" instead of a native "PC game" is the best way to stop most of the piracy.
That link is misleading in the context you present it. Those are microbenchmarks, which a JIT can optimize relatively well. But if you look at the very next slide at http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/#/28 you will see that for a larger application, non-optimized asm.js performs abysmally, as does JS in general. A performance penalty of ~1000% of native is what you should expect for a nontrivial JS application, and asm.js does not do much (if anything) to alleviate that unless you run odinmonkey.
I am no longer afraid of easily made A.I. coming into being but I'm not keen to work on it. I don't know. This topic doesn't haunt me like it used to.

I think modestly useful things can be discovered. That's okay, I guess good, in fact. There is not really any discovery I long for in science. Fusion, perhaps, but even that could be scary.

When you get old you want one thing -- no change. You have to scold yourself.

I made a souped-up C64 -- didn't really break any new ground, but maybe it enables A.I. or robots. CIA made everything clusterfucked. I don't like clusterfucked environments to work with -- that hell... nasty. Maybe a nonprogrammer doesn't understand what clusterfucked means for programming environments.
Upgrade your graphics drivers.
Those things aren't startups, just construction. Construction works on traditional lending, which provides an incremental rate of return. VC investing is about getting a small company off the ground and snagging a piece of it in the process, in the hopes that it will become a huge company in the future.
Illegal aliens get exploited because government protections don't apply to them (they're less likely to know their rights and they're unlikely to go to authorities to report abuse). If it were legal for them to work, the government would protect them and they would be better off for it.
So. We got so many of these products on the market. Why though?
Does it also affect Firefox and LibreOffice?
See, that's why these benchmarks do no good, people jump to quick conclusions. Also i suspect that it is not properly configured in OP case ( there is a ticket submitted https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/23...).
Also, Drupal will not use symfony2, it will use some of its components.
Sure, a strong professional association might be better than a labor union then. Point is, though, if you're looking to HR to represent your rights and interests, you're barking up the wrong tree.
> That's untrue of some schools of economics that advocate free markets, e.g. Austrian.

I took the term "free market 'idea'" to be specifically talking about those for which it's true. That seemed to be the point, and the site linked to was Austrian. Both articles make the assumptions in question about the ability to self-regulate that assumes rational actors. So yes, my statement was not true of all schools, but it seemed like those types of Austrians were not in the scope of the discussion.

> That's an ... interesting ... claim. Care to justify it?

Subjective opinion. I read economics news and neuroscience news because it's interesting. Comment threads, especially here, frequently have two types of subjects that start the vocal libertarians arguing and proclaiming: government regulation and the phrase "humans are irrational".
It astounds me how many American's don't realize this, and instead attribue global dominance to "the American dream" or some crap.
List of sites to promote your app
I got these two links from a friend. You guys might find this useful. And of course if you know of any sites like these please post them :).

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/31787/are-there-any-blogs-or-websites-introducing-new-website

http://productivewebapps.com/blog/list-of-places-to-submit-and-promote-your-startup-or-site/
Adapt according to preferences.
"Investors have won" sounds a bit premature. If the SEC didn't drag its feet, we'd have lots of new people entering the startup market on the investor side, and presenting much more supply of investment money (and competition from the investor side).

People at the SEC, however, (such as Mary Schapiro, who since left), are concerned about protecting non-accredited investors who may be affected, and the agency has even taken heat from many members of Congress for taking so long:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/11/us-sec-jobsact-idU...

If they would at least drop the ban on general solicitation -- as they were expected to do last August -- then many entrepreneurs with large user bases could solicit investment through messaging those users, and inviting them to introduce their rich (accredited) investor friends to the company.
Jolla gets new CEO and board
The aspect that worries me about this is that links to child pornography websites concealed within transactions could make it theoretically possible for people to share child pornography in a somewhat anonymous way. Given the anonymous nature of the currency it appears it could be used to transmit highly illegal content within the transaction.

Although having said that, the same could be said for the Tor network and onion addresses contributing to the same thing. That's the name of the anonymous game, people will do illegal and questionable things that's just the way it will always be.

How would these injectable pieces of data be removed from transactions without exposing transactions to attacks?
The author seems to pick surface level similarities between completely disparate things and claims they are the same.

>>The transformation of fund-raising activities from genuine negotiations between evenly matched parties to “pitch cultures” that hew to ritual “know your place” expectations on the part of investors

Someone invite Venkatesh to a YCombinator demo day so he can get an idea of what the real dynamics are like. He fails to understand that there are still genuine negotiations between investors and startups but instead of having 1, 2 or may be 3 possible investors as founders did before demo day, founders now have potentially 500 possible investors. What impact does he think that has on those genuine negotiations? Who does he think has an upper hand now? The idea that founders have been degraded and must "know their place" is such utter bullshit.

>>At least in the early stages, investors entirely run the game.

Nothing could be further from the truth. If he looked below the surface at what the standard investment templates actually do for example, he would realize that entrepreneurs now have more control than they ever did. If anything, early stage entrepreneurs now have more power than they have had in a long long time.

Disappointing.
I run a local Ubuntu VM for dev, the terminal you are seeing is gnome-terminal running tumx. I have a cygwin X Server running on my Windows box (startx). I then ssh -Y into my Ubuntu machine to get a proper terminal allowing my to fire off gvim and other X apps.

On my mac laptop its a simpler setup, but same thing works I 'ssh -Y' into my ubuntu vm. Effectively giving me 3 monitors.

If you are interested in a slightly simpler Windows setup you could look at http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
Startups don't fail, engineers pivot... I spent my time building skill and a particular tech, not concentrating on a market. I can attack a variety of markets soon and working has not required much sacrifice, launching self funded this summer will be enormously gratifying. Applying to yc on a particular idea was one of the best things I ever did - I got advice to open source a portion and that is clearly correct. Also to be completely honest, while hunting for a cofounder after that rejection I found one and decided to marry her, so sorting that out delayed our launch a little...
The author seems to prefer Quora,
Reddit, etc. to the famous text
books. Not so good. E.g., tough
to find better authors than Knuth
and Sedgewick.

It happens that recently I posted
an answer to his question in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5631365

It appears that the author regards the famous
texts as too difficult to read? No, they
are mostly easy enough to read, especially
for the material the author seems to want to
learn.

The author seems to suggest that without a
good university course, learning that material
is difficult. However, programmers long learned
about, say, AVL trees or heap sort from Knuth's
TACP or just journal articles -- I first learned
quick sort from a journal article -- instead of
university courses. The material is not very
difficult.

As I wrote in my post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5631365

can get an overview of the topics so that know
what is more versus less important and
then use the famous books just as reference
material and not try to study all the contents
from cover to cover. For the overview, a few
good lectures would be sufficient, but lists of
the more popular topics are easy to find and
mostly good enough.
Ah, I wish this were so easy! Perhaps it's a certain lack of kahunas, but I never felt like it would be appropriate to ask the recruitment agent if I can swing by... plus, now in my consulting gig (sub-contractor) I get a call, hop on a plane, and go work someplace. (That said, no interview...)
Hmm, ok. Intel recommend avoiding it pretty strongly: I guess they overstate their case. One cycle in (and one out?) isn't exactly crushing.
There are three parts to this essay, He doesn't explain this point adequately until the end of the second. But you still won't get what he's saying unless you're already a follower and have digested the ideas in his blog.

Venkat trades in big, hairy concepts. The one he's using here is legibility. It's when information is structured in rigorous ways, defined by those using it as an instrument of power. It is the primary tool governments use against the people. An example is making every person have a current address listed on their driver's license. Governments stack these legibility requirements up so as to control commerce and extract rents. (taxes)

Venkat's argument is that investors won the game by forcing founders to be legible, reducing the information advantage they enjoyed historically. While it may look like founders have never had more power, in reality they've lost a crucial ability, to hoard critical inside information. It's really the only advantage they have, without it, they're at the mercy of investors. The ability to dictate terms is really inconsequential, more a function of fashion than actual power. Who cares if you get 2x the money you should have gotten? With information asymmetry, founders could easily wrangle 100x.
Agree that tech is myopic... or perhaps it's just a segment of tech - there are a lot of tech people working happily for those large PS firms you mention.
Nook are clearly trying to revitalise their product offerings, perhaps clearing out old inventory? They're currently selling the nook simple touch for £29 here in the UK... which is an absurd price for an 800 MHz TI OMAP 3621 with e-ink display, RAM / Storage, WIFI, Battery etc.

It may be based on an ancient Android 2.1/Linux 2.6.29 but £29 is an insane bargain. Get root and a shell on it and you've got a great piece for general use kit for next to no money.
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Finally, I can accept the proposition :-) What about a Drone aimbot? https://github.com/paulhayes/copterface
> waiting for an editor to load doesn't really make sense to me given the fact I use Sublime Text Editor and it loads instantly

I just timed it here on Windows; 5 seconds to load with 2 unsaved tabs open. That startup time of Sublime Text Editor is the bane of my life, a long time when trying to hold a thought in my head I want to jot down.
I think you and Venkat agree. Venkat is saying that the current balance of power has tipped towards the investor class, and we are seeing the emergence of a new middle class while the old one disintegrates. He's not saying that this new balance is permanent, and in fact spends a lot of time developing the thesis that these shifts are always happening.

I guess I don't see your point.
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Indeed. Often latency measurements are clumpy.

You might have one clump of fast responses when no GC occurs, another when some GC occurs, and a smaller clump where a stop-the-world full GC has occurred.

In such a case average is not meaningful.
I've not quite had this experience, but similar, and agree - if you've got what they want, then they'll be happy to receive your call. (As long as you're polite about it!)
This is not about being anyone's friend: they're merely trying to keep their head above water.

If this makes linux more popular as side-effect, so be it.