skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's PHP.

They want the wordpress crowd.

I think it's a very smart move. In the real world, outside of the startup bubble, there is a need for a simple, scalable php hosting that never gets slashdotted.
Check out this new Phusion Passenger 4.x series. It has much, MUCH improved performance, stability and features that rivals that of Unicorn, Puma, etc. It's used by the likes of New York Times, Symantec, AirBnB, etc.

The main reason why people use Phusion Passenger is because of its ease of use. The way it integrates into Apache and Nginx is unlike other app servers and saves a lot of administration time and effort.
Lecture notes from his CS183 Startup class was about similar subjects. If you found the talk interesting you'll like the notes as well.

http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
The generalizations are really horrid and without a working knowledge of history so he has these stories built on other stories that makes it painful to sit through.

This talk is bad. It's bad for a number of reasons, but primarily because it is one man's (evolved) generalizations of reality that fit to what has happened in hindsight...if you can even say he asserts anything other than "this is how I think of it".
The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC
Startups are not disruptive — The global rich get richer
Mainly for historical reason, as Java was touted as a replacement for C++ for the mainstream object-oriented programming language.
Great, but interested in why it still loads up pages only marginally faster than PayPal? Seems to have kept the same page load performance this despite all the news about better servers etc. I know we don't want this place to become Reddit[1] but is there also a built-in delay implemented?

[1] I can only imagine this is why the pagination still appears completely broken (unknown or expired link).
It would seem to me that you want ACTIVE unemployed candidates, not ALL unemployed candidates, right? I mean, who wants candidates that are convinced they won't find work and unwilling to engage?

That said, one passive method is to start linkedin groups for your targets. You could start vertical groups, targeting the specialty (biz dev, finance, etc.) or a broader "corporate career finding tips" group that might catch some outside your defined targets, but generally hits your mark.

You could also contact the professional groups that these people generally belong to and ask for either a targeted list to communicate with. Granted, more expensive than the previous idea, but faster to implement.

You could also use this group (and others like it) to mine for candidates:
http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?companyId=1134279...

Cheers!
Digging out a linux threading regression
Its interesting that those sites are flooded with "create" but never "update". Version 0.00001 of "a copy of ebay with facebook integration" (true example from getacoder) will only cost $5K... What is the site for "OMG we need version 0.00002"? Oh we already have those, they are the established $500/hr contracting sites.

There's a Hollywood movie trope rolled out every 2.8433 years where a rich guy goes back to university and tries to buy his way past projects and tests. I always kind of imagine some rich kid in "Web Programing 317 section 7" contracting out his final project. Now that tuition is so expensive, $5K for a final project sounds more or less reasonable for a kid who just wants the credential and not the education/training. There should be some kind of ethical filter where if you're obviously trying to contract for a stereotypical final project around the end of the school year...
Did you read the date of the article?
I'm usually not a fan of Peter Thiel's ideas—always seemed quite a bit on the extreme side of the spectrum to me—but this talk is fantastic. I have a new respect for his viewpoints, and a renewed zeal to work harder.

I still think he discounts the effect that random chance has in your ability to succeed, on many counts, but he at least seems to understand it extremely well and speaks about it in a way which seems to indicate he respects the complexities involved. Quite good and thought-provoking to watch regardless of how you think of success.
They do mention that it allows for using cheaper silicon, but doesn't actually quantify it e.g. a potential x.xx% cost reduction. I'm not sure if this is because it's based on PR from Suntech, who obviously doesn't want to indicate how far prices can come down by.
Thanks for posting this. I've been showing the video from woodgears.ca to my classes for some time now, and despite having spent a fair amount of time on Evilmadscientist, I'd never noticed the Digi-Comp.
Planning on a very specific other company wanting to buy you out isn't actually a business model. A business model is something that will keep the business self-propelled.
The country was practically founded on "get filthy rich quick," and the idea has never really gone out of vogue, for better or worse.
Can someone explain how it works? How does it add something like 5 and 4? (What do you put in, when, and how do you interpret the output?)
Favorite part:

"Since the only computer language Richard was really familiar with was Basic, he made up a parallel version of Basic in which he wrote the program and then simulated it by hand to estimate how fast it would run on the Connection Machine."
I'm sorry, if it is a duplicate post.

http://gizmodo.com/5994837/whoa-did-google-maps-just-reveal-...
It's not easy to hire top talent with either primarily equity or primarily salary anywhere in the world: in the valley, the former is at least possible.
i think a more common problem is people taking flippant comments way too seriously.
I always figured that this was because a developer ran into a situation where the concept was naively applied and it ended up biting him. So, instead of staying quiet, he let people know the problems he ran into so that others don't get bitten as well and approach the problem more carefully.
To me, the disappointing thing about this spoof is that it treats the engineers on this platform like "code monkies."

One of the biggest gripes from top tier engineers is that they hate being treated like animals by jerky business guys, and here we have a group of people mocking these engineers and the platform. It all seems disrespectful to me.

describe 'My experience, ->
_.map ['amazing','awful'], (quality) ->
_.map ['engineers','business guys'], (role) ->
_.map ['Brooklyn','online platforms'], (place) ->
assert "There are #{quality} #{role} in #{place}."
that's a really impressive argument!
This is one of my favorites do to its extreme simplicity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zELAfmp3fXY

Examples in Little Big Planet:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lbp+calculator

Not digital stuff but still neat-o, wooden gears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcqJ5HdxA4
You can also bound time. For a web site / web app, end users aren't going to wait around for 5 days after they click a link... merely spawn your "Halting Problem Tester" and if it doesn't terminate in 10 seconds or whatever your metric is, lie and call it an infinite loop. Yes this is an epic fail from a computer science perspective but its perfectly adequate from an engineering perspective.
I thought the same thing, particularly since I had a really hard time getting a readable captcha. It is somewhat ironic that google invented a device for automatically digitizing a book and then prevents people from automatically downloading them. I'm less concerned about their front piece - they do deserve credit for the preservation effort. I also don't mind eg, the Internet archive framing their web archive.
"It is interpreted at run time (byte code) rather than compiled"

The bytecode is complied to native code by hotspot after a few runs but C++ still has a big advantage with direct memory management and numerical functions. Though for most applications these aren't a necessary requirement.
Some questions for you:

Do you run your own company?

Do you have employees?

Co-founders?

Have you ever received funding from a VC?

Have you ever solicited funding?

Were you accepted?

Rejected?
Wow, it's as complicated as setting up a bare bones linux install.
How is this a breakthrough when SunPower has been selling 21.5% modules? http://us.sunpowercorp.com/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&...
http://us.sunpowercorp.com/homes/products-services/solar-pan...
Looks like the same talk as was transcribed here: http://blakemasters.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels-cs183-...
We used a screenshot collage in one of the screenshots for our app, and I think we used it tastefully (though I'm biased). It's the second screenshot here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codea/id439571171?mt=8
I much preferred Josh Williams' (former Gowalla CEO) recent blog post [1] on the Foursquare vs. Gowalla "Check-in Wars" and how it was Instagram who ironically emerged as the "victor". Much more informative and insightful than this Vanity Fair piece.

[1] https://medium.com/work-education/6152adc41de9
There is no reason at all to use MySQL: MariaDB
Are we really falling for this again? How many times do we have to go through this.

Ignore all articles regarding solar breakthroughs unless:

1) they have a sticker price on their web site, for sale immediately
2) they don't need investments to get a business off the ground
3) they have links to all research and patents that capture what the breakthrough is all about.
You assume that logging has happen to disk. It does not. Look at Varnish. For every request it can log as much as 400 lines. Because the logging is done to memory the cost of logging is more or less zero.

And since it is a circular buffer the memory cost is fixed. Since the memory is shared and available through the filesystem the log stays around if the application crashes.
Makes you realize in part, the clever name of Instagram, is just a name that now people associate with filters - though wasn't popular until its advent.
Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this
Selling company stock is not a business model, howeverr great an exit strategy it might be for founders. It does mean that someone substantially values the company, but doesn't say anything about its role in the economy outside that one transaction.
> But let's not pretend you, or the founders of Instagram, are destined for success

That's not what the other poster said at all. They were making a remark about their potential attitude towards "cashing out", not about their perceived likelihood of being offered $1bn.
In this case, can they take actions for blocking the website? It seems like a more logical solution to me.
Can you share why you want to reach them? Give a little, get a lot.
Greater programmers don't waste key clicks writing snide remarks on HN. They are too busy writing code. ;)
I really hope this isn't true, I've yet to find a replacement for fireworks either open or paid
You can log to a shared memory segment. You'll need a mutex on it and a writeev call to log to it. And it will survive an application crash.
Of course. Hence the title says "Was" and not "Is"
Genius in Helsinki
I've managed with Potatochop for the past decade just fine...
That's crazy. Why would Adobe want to do this?
If the phusion passenger people built a plugin for cpanel that gave easy installation and configuration of ruby/pythons app, I really think it could disrupt the php monopoly on cheap hosting for mid level web devs.

Deployment would be vastly eased to the same php strategy of "just ftp the files to the server and visit the website".
What do people use Fireworks for?
Logging has its place, but I'd argue it's far more important that great programmers write code that fails fast. In his example, he didn't have instrumentation in production to determine why a module was returning null. If null isn't an expected return value, then an exception should be thrown to avoid the system moving forward in a crippled and unpredictable state. A well tested system that stops processing and fails fast with a descriptive exception greatly reduces the need for time-consuming and resource depleting logging systems.
It's always been that way. You don't think the gold rush or the stock market crash happened because people were looking for stable, honest work, do you?
This isn't new. If I fire a gun near the English/Scottish border and kill someone on the other side, I will be tried under the laws of the other side, as although I fired the gun in, say, England, the murder is considered to be a Scottish matter. (Of course, in this example, I'll have also committed a firearms offence in England, so could be tried for that under English law!)
Hmmm, it's interesting to compare that to android permissions.
I feel that android permissions are much better in terms of being readable.
Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
I agree. Ruby would be illogical seeing as they already have Python which is pretty similar. PHP would bring in a totally different crowd.

I do think there is enough an overload of PHP hosting though, even good php hosting, so the competition will be fierce.
If the OP I replied to don't scream of jealousy I don't know what does.

That said, you are very right: Most startups fail, or barely break even. But without the inspirational properties of the likes of Instagram, would SV be the same? Would so many flock to Silicon Valley to try their luck? Probably not.

There are many many hard working entrepreneurs who never make it, that is fact. I do not, at least not yet, count myself among the hard working entrepreneurs. I am under no illusion that I will succeed in my future ventures nor that I am special and will automatically succeed where others have failed.

Of course there is always hindsight bias and the iOS market is more unreliable than the bitcoin price. My comment regarding building Instagram is meant as: If I had the right circumstances to take advantage of my 'unfair' advantage as a white, privileged male I would. The Instagram founders did and got lucky.

Lastly, I hope that your own startup venture is successful in the future. You seem to have done more good for the world, via volunteer work, than I ever have. I hope that you are not too disillusioned by the future to stop being an entrepreneur. Sometimes we just get that bit of extra luck that we need and hopefully that will turn out true for you as well as for me. (My apologies for kinda stalking you, I could not resist checking out your profile)
Similar book is "Computing Mechanisms and Linkages" by Antonín Svoboda from 1948. He worked on anti aircraft artillery sights which would track moving aircraft. This is probably first book dedicated to practical construction of computers.
So I wrote a JSON API Framework and the Framework was the Least Interesting Part
Your articles stand out due to their information density.
To Catch an (Almost) Thief
I can't believe this. Photoshop is not meant for web design, we only have Fireworks for the task.

A simple task like selecting a layer in Photoshop makes me want to cry.
Somewhat makes sense to me. I haven't used Fireworks in a long time and I'm not a designer, but it seemed like it was a user friendly hybrid of Photoshop (for raster) and Illustrator (for vector.) It seemed that together Photoshop and Illustrator could do everything you needed for the web, but that required a lot bigger payment, a lot of controls you didn't use, another software program and there were some minor things that weren't quite as smooth for web (aside from the UI.) I'm surprised Fireworks has lasted this long.
Bootstrapping Your Way To Failure
Yes, that was my intention. Turns out I need to work a bit on my English, I can be a bit unclear at times I fear. English isn't my native tongue so at least I can blame my shortcomings on something :)
Promising fluid simulation algorithm
Sorry to hear this news. First Google Reader and now Fireworks! The writing has been on the wall for many years, but it is still quite upsetting. I've been a heavy user of Fireworks since version 1 since it really gets the job done vs. Photoshop for layouts, slicing and exporting. The workflow for web design just feels faster when compared to Photoshop. The combined vector/bitmap flow is unparalleled and Photoshop layers feel quite slow for simple web workflows. I can go months without opening Photoshop and it feels like a beast when I do. Hopefully, Adobe can make a "Fireworks"-friendly or "Web Design" workspace in PS.

Fireworks fits an excellent niche, which is probably why Adobe likely won't sell it. I really liked some the new version 6 features, such as instantly turning designs in CSS3.

Sorry to see you go FW.
I know companies can get profiles of people looking for jobs through certain job search websites. Can you try and get them?

Are you looking for an easier way out? Or a more 'mass' method?
We used to have customers who would do that. They'd call every number in the company until they found someone who'd say "That sounds do-able." Upon which they'd demand a price reduction because "Your product doesn't do what you said it does."
Yes I agree that jumping to start a project without some planning can be devastating. I can´t find the PG essay where he talks about minimize expenses and try to have infinite runway, but after one year and a half of entrepreneurship that is the way I going to try next (first I have to fail this one ;) )
If you work on a Mac, Sketch is a worthy replacement: http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
I'd say he got the broader point right.

Prior to DropBox, no one did care about file synchronization, because the solutions presented thus far were largely "architecture astronaut" solutions. Rather than providing a simple, straightforward way to synchronize files (such as what DropBox provided), technologies like Hailstorm always focused on way too broad a feature set - it wasn't about "your files are always available", it was about pervasive cloud architectures that revolutionized the way you use your computer.

It wasn't until DropBox simplified the problem to "put files in this folder, and then they're synched" that file synchronization tools took off in any significant way.

Joel isn't complaining about file synchronization per se, he's arguing that the Microsoft approach of attempting to revolutionize computing every year with yet another failed omnipresent platform.
The perfect combination of vector and bitmap editing. I love Fireworks. My guess is that Adobe just couldn't figure out how to make it better. It was already pretty much all it needed to be by about Fireworks MX. And it remains, to this day, a very different codebase.

User-friendly but quite powerful behind the scenes. I could never get the hang of Photoshop or Illustrator. Sure, Photoshop may have features or Illustrator knows how to do text flow, but if you have creativity and you know what you want, then Fireworks does everything possible to get out of your way yet is even intuitive for beginners with the same UI. Everything is discoverable, all the features are quite orthogonal to each other and it throws open how ridiculous the need to choose between vector and bitmap everywhere else really is.

If this turns out to be true, it's a sad day.
I think it was failing to explicitly acknowledge the potentially negative effects of the ad: by trying to protect children, it actually causes some harm (distress) to them. It was like you said that anything with positive effect should be done, regardless of the costs.

Obviously you know better. But many people just get blinded by the halo effect and merrily shout "yay!" to anything that looks like it supports their cause.
Watch the video on the page.
Actually, this time they seem to want to crank it out in three years:

Funding to help commercialise the technology will total about $15 million over three years, with the UNSW seeking support from the federal government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency for part of that sum.

Most of the time these articles are very vague about any real application.
> Hopefully, Adobe can make a "Fireworks"-friendly or "Web Design" workspace in PS.

This would make sense, but I doubt they would be able to pull it off with the UI. Maybe they have decided that they have the market and people will just have to migrate.
I do hope this isn't true, Fireworks certainly had its place, Photoshop was overkill for designing web pages.

I suppose it only fitted a small niche but it still did a great job!
Says the guy who won the lottery. I'm frankly more interested in the guy who blew up during the dot com boom and who is currently some random employee at some random company, with a past filled with mistakes - frankly you'd learn more from his actual failures, than from Thiel's failure masking success.
A quote right outta the old manual:
"clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning"
It boils down to if its not causing distress, leave them alone, which sounds like a reasonably libertarian outlook on life.

Its also a classification system, not a theory (why it happens) or a treatment plan system.

The best computer science analogy I can come up with is its something like "a list of sorting algorithms and how to identify them" rather than a history of each, or implementation guidelines. So if you see an algorithm that sweeps thru an array sequentially and swaps adjacent items if they're outta order, and keeps doin it until it can't find anything outta order anymore, then you're probably looking at a bubble sort.

Nothing to do with how someone who read Knuth or wikipedia would laugh at you, or how to avoid 0/1 referenced array bugs (and at the other end, running off the end of the array) or how to use (or not use) pointer arithmetic, etc.
Could someone that has used shelly cloud in production share their thoughts on stability and service of it please?
Totally agree with you. I take exception with the statement "Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application."
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I've been using Fireworks for years, back to Macromedia Fireworks 4. It's much better/faster than Photoshop for web design (rounded square corners come to mind).

If you work on a Mac, consider Sketch by Bohemian Coding : http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ It's a great app, is updated very frequently and has come a very long way and could almost be seen as already superior to Fireworks CS6 in most ways.
Why are these people wasting money on 'norton secured' and can't be bothered to pay for an SSL certificate??

(That is, considering they're paying for the Norton thing and not hotlinking the images from Symantec)
It's definitely wishful thinking on my part. The UI in Photoshop would make this difficult. I might just have to switch to Illustrator for more of my layout work since I dislike the bitmap-heavy workflow of PS. Everything besides editing photos or building composites in PS feels non-intuitive.
That's a good point. I'm young(ish) and tend to race my past self (while following traffic laws). On one hand, what's the point of biking if I can't get to work faster than by bus? But on the other, a more leisurely pace would surely leave me less sweaty while still providing some exercise benefit.
5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery
I've been looking for a good alternative for years, but keep coming back to Fireworks. I am not surprised but still disappointed.