skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This applies to our own industry.

For those of us that have been in it for awhile -- keeping abreast of what is going on, reading about "new paradigms" and how they may just be new incarnations of what we have seen before, continuous learning is key.

For those getting started, battle stories can be interesting and provide insight.

Don Melton's blog - http://donmelton.com
JWZ's blog - http://jwz.org
The * at Work series (Coders, Founders, etc.)
Usenix archives on the subject of choice

Are some that come to mind. Others are there, but it's been a long day and I am a bit burnt.

What do others read for their history lessons?
I was a bit confused by that part of the article. It mentioned "Rolex watches and expensive cars" as examples of the things bought to launder the money. But both of those have unique identifiers (rolex S/N, car VIN) which in both cases is recorded on sale. Surely that makes them terrible ways to launder money? Am I missing something?
the viewer you made for the announcement is awesome! love the ALL slide -> individual slide view toggling
>In reality, combining interest and hard work can lead to more fulfillment than simply drudging in and out of an 8-hour work day to collect a paycheck.

And how will that work to fill societies needs for waiters, garbage disposal guys, cleaning ladies, supermarket clerks, miners, clerks, accountants, etc etc? There are tons of jobs where almost nobody has a "passion" for. At worst people follow them because they need to feed themselves, at best because they feel they can do that line of work competently and make a decent buck. No passion involved. They still need to be done.
> Endorsements are largely a popularity contest.

That's the way I've been looking at the entire web these days - and not just social media. The Google page ranking algorithm really boils down to a (potentially high stakes) popularity contest.
Bruce Sterling on startups' role in helping the global rich get richer
Why is that? Are there rules against adult-only content? I checked the FAQ and guidelines for that sort of thing but couldn't find any mention about that.
To clarify: Ruby has public and private. You can control visibility all you want, you just don't have to use a separate header file.
For one, you are HN "dead". And rightly so from what it seems.

Second, you are rude.

Third, what you propose is called "blame the victim". It's immature, rude and equally bad as the bullying itself.
As one of this years new fellows (Who happens to be 17), I would say $100 is not something that alone is going to help me do something interesting, but is going to help a lot. A lot of people that do not know the fellows and other finalists don't realize that we have gained a lot of knowledge and experience in our fields prior to applying for the fellowship. I've had three years experience in hardware prototyping and development at MIT, and have been hacking and tinkering for a much longer time. The $100k is there to allow you to follow your dreams... both as a safety net and a way to cover personal expenses. A lot of us hope to or are in the process of receiving Angel, VC, or some other form of funding to better cover our projects.

As for whether it is a responsible thing to do, a large part of what the fellowship is is a "life accelerator", as the money is virtually "no strings attached" (Well, there are quarterly "check in" review meetings, with review forms.) There isn't a temptation to spend all the money at once as it is given in monthly payments (Though you can ask for a larger sum as long as you give a good reason.) While I suppose you aren't able to trust me due to my bias, I would say that myself and a majority of the other fellows would be "responsible" with the money we receive just on the fact that we want to succeed. I take great pride in my work, and want to fulfill the cliche of "changing the world", and I will continue trying. I think my sense of responsibility developed just like anyone else (even if the average person typically only becomes what society considers 'responsible' during/after college)... if you want to achieve something, whether it be to launch a product and start a company, get a job, buy a house, or have a family, you find a way to do it and try as hard as you can to do it. I hope that the other fellows and I are able to show that young people are able to do these things, and these "life lessons" can be learned at a much earlier age than most people think, and that we can truly change the world...with or without a piece of paper telling us what we know.
The easiest thing is to do what you know. Find a problem you have, and probably others have that problem too - though then it's a matter of finding if there are any worthwhile solutions already existing for it. Even if there are, maybe you can build a better version?

What are you goals? Long-term recurring revenue? Want to make $50,000 a year? $500,000 a year? Etc..
This is the same Mattis from (fictionalized) Generation Kill: http://youtu.be/fTXzcILPPp8 .
Their payment button could use a little more styling... seems a little bland in comparison.
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Except you can't kill a battery with a can of Raid.

Maybe large insect repellant purchases will be enough to get a warrant.
Show HN: Fast, but coarse, reverse geocoder
Another thing to maybe realize is people who really know their stuff, who have ideas they know will work and have thought through their idea thoroughly, won't likely be willing to do 51/49 split.
The idea that:
"By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men."

Is so utterly important when lives are on the line that it seems difficult to refute, and I'd be interested to see someone try in fact, but let's take that premise, and add to it:
"Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun."
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"Alex the Great would not be in the least bit perplexed by the enemy that we face right now in Iraq, and our leaders going into this fight do their troops a disservice by not studying (studying, vice just reading) the men who have gone before us."

Let's take a jump into the hacker news/YC/Lean Startup milieu and apply the same lesson: You should learn from those who have gone before. Study their decision making processes, study their customers, read whatever you can read to find the people who have done what you are doing.

Chances are the business that you are creating (even if it is going to "disrupt" some industry or another) is still dealing with the same issues that have always been issues. It's going to have HR, marketing, leadership, operations and a million other hassles that are similar to those that have come before. Similar because people haven't changed that much.

If you are a startup person, working 100 hour weeks and learning by doing, you should still find some time to read and learn from the mistakes and triumphs of those who came before. Don't burn the investors cash relearning the lessons that someone else already learnt, save your runway for iterating on the true unknowns of your problem domain.
> Complain to Mozilla that Fox won't display it.

That is probably what you should be doing, not complaining to me.
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I grew out my [male] hair from when I started in the valley at 22 to about 35, when it became too much of a pain. It started out as ego, but progressed to being a low-pass filter for people I'd have issues with.
I'm not bullish on Yahoo's movements of late, but people are getting catty.

Who is this article meant to help? Yahoo investors that aren't aware of how SV works?

The whole article reeks of jealousy and hatefulness. Good to see that our industry merits TMZ-esque content, albeit not to the same circus-esque depths.
This is extremely, extremely cool.
Short term goal, is to learn how to get people to pay me. Long term goal is to quit my job with in the next 1-5 years, and taking in my current salary from my own company.
Even their reviews of Apple products?

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/11/consumer-repo...
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The video is hilarious. That's a fact.

He needed to have a sense of humor about himself, and it would take the sting of the attacks away. As long as you try to fight it and hold on to the belief that people are wrong to laugh at your hilarious video, then you're going to lose. Because you're wrong.

He chose to record himself acting like a jackass and then left the video laying around. Yeah, a lot of dickheads acted like dickheads in response. But that's going to happen in life. Rather than getting bent out of shape because some random stranger told you to kill yourself, take it for what it is; someone displacing their own self hatred on an easy target.

I was hoping this article would have him saying something like:

"On reflection, honestly, the video is hilarious. I can laugh at it now. It was embarrassing at the time, but I am glad people got joy out of it."

Oh well. Hopefully one day he'll grow as a person and find some self respect within himself rather than blaming others for his own lack of self esteem.
Glad to know that magnet isn't where I thought it is.

Yeah, I've heard of the magnetic finger modification. I promptly was concerned about it, not quite sure why but favor caution; sure wouldn't want one given the possible consequences. Since earbud magnets are enough to warrant concern, I'll avoid what is likely more powerful.

Woolrich has a line of shirts I want which feature magnetic "button". Can't convince myself they wouldn't be a problem.
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Honestly, I think you need to check your distro's emacs setup. Most of the time the crappy slowness comes from all kinds of badly written elisp modules that you really don't need (which is the wrong way to do it anyway). If you just load the pure emacs image, it's VERY zippy.
Twitter Buys Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo
Every single client we work with has an executed NDA. If you're going to consult professionally, you need to be able to sign reasonable NDAs.

What that probably means is, you need to get a lawyer to do contract review for you. In other words, every NDA you sign is going to cost you a couple hundred bucks.

Early on, you might eyeball NDAs and then sign them (D.C. Toedt's resource posted crossthread being one way to do that), but once you have an established practice, the risk/reward on freelancing your own legal review stops making any sense at all.

Anybody who tells you consultants never sign NDAs is someone who doesn't do serious consulting. How could it even be possible to consult seriously without signing NDAs? You'd only be able to work on and with public information for clients. I get the sense that a lot of this "never! no NDA!" sentiment is a mix of two things: (a) confusion over the fact that venture capitalists don't sign NDAs (though maybe they should) and (b) the fact that a lot of people who call themselves consultants are really doing one-off freelance work for tiny companies, which, sure, if that's your cup of tea, but...
Yes, the Crockford argument. Just because he said it doesn't make it true, though.

I don't forget it, because calling a function and creating a new object are 2 totally different things. If one can't distinguish between those, then they should probably be tutored in programming 101 because you're going to end up with a lot more serious problems than a ctor accidentally called as a normal function.

Also, and I'm going out on a limb here, but I'd hazard a guess that a majority of programmers using JS will have experience with at least 1 other language (if not many) which use the very same paradigm of creating objects. I can think of a handful off the top of my head, with several of them having a virtually identical syntax (C#, Java, PHP).
It claims my browser (Firefox 20.0.1) is out of date :(
What kind of clients do you work with? I'm trying to understand who could be engaging consultants who would be free to post to Twitter anything they learned about upcoming business plans or software releases.
Didn't work very well for hairs

http://i.imgur.com/g16qR4J.png
> But they're already elected and already regulating.

You missed my point. You can't protect against every kind of malicious behavior. Therefore, whether you have regulation or not, people are going to die from doctors doing stupid/evil things. And your retort still applies: "You're fucked. Oh well." (I'm not saying this justifies freed markets! I'm saying this makes your argument bunk.)

This is the third and last time I'm going to say it: your appeal to emotion applies equally in both state regulated markets and freed markets.

> The theory goes, people won't go to doctors that reuse stitching needles vs. the doctor down the street who does.

That's a red herring to this entire discussion. You were criticizing the idea of "suing" being a bad solution and yet, you've dismissed freed markets for a completely different reason here.

The whole point of suing in this case is restitution. Just because you're dead because of a gross needle doesn't mean someone can't sue the doctor on your behalf. This gives doctors the same kind of incentive to treat you well in a freed market as in a state regulated market. (e.g., They do bad things and they have to pay a price.)

You're trying to discuss two entirely separate issues: 1) pressures on consumers aren't good enough to keep them away from bad people and 2) pressures on doctors aren't good enough to keep them from doing bad things. I recommend refocusing your argument to clarify what exactly it is you're trying to say.

And if you can't manage a polite response, then g'day.
PlayStation Plus: Good for Players, But is it Good for Developers?
I'm curious about the general profile of your consulting clients.
Too bad the whole war was an immoral travesty based on lies and at the behest of oil companies and Israeli interests.
That's it. Disconcerting, yes, but no better option - and I lived thru "needed to reset the implant right here and now" (150 BPM for 12 hours sucks; didn't want another 2+ waiting for a better protocol to arrive).
I'm nearly 21, and this is pretty much the case for me STILL. Friends I've known for 16 years of my life I still can't sleep over. Allowed to go out? I begged and was promptly banned afterwards (whilst I was in year 7) from leaving the house until after my HSC (AU, NSW's final hs exam, but this obviously didn't stick after a few months).

Drama? Sports? I was raised by quiet, somewhat anti-social Asian parents all my life, that was never a problem.

Computer games? If it's maths related then that was okay (and I put up with it because I was so intrigued with computers and the sums were easy enough after all those self-study maths books).

19/20 for a test? Why didn't you get 20/20? Your friend did. Begin silent treatment.

I started playing at 7 because there was a program in school and I wanted to be one of the kids who got to leave class for an hour. I loved it at first, and then was moved from the private class to a one-on-one with a specialised teacher. Again, it was something new and I liked it, but it increasingly became tedious and I hated it. I hated the boring music, I hated the scales, I couldn't even reach half the notes whilst playing broken chords. And then I began to despise it. It was only by a slim chance I found an amazing pianist and composer that I fell in love with the piano again.

Now that I'm in uni, life is better, and I've found something I love doing. My grades are better and I can work at the same time without it hindering uni work. My mum is definitely not a tiger mum, she's not that bad, but it does make me wonder if I would be excelling as much as I do now if I didn't have all that pressure growing up.
Basically, the point of the PDF is that fire deaths and response times are decreasing, even while the EMS call volume is increasing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_format_string
When I was at IronKey, we had the same sort of idea -- add security via two factor authentication. That second factor? A physical token, in this case a USB drive w/ on board crypto chip (think USB drive as a smartcard).

That pretty much went not too far.

Anything that requires you to carry an additional device is doomed to failure.
Which bootcamp? What would you learn at a bootcamp that you couldn't for free on your own volition?

Not criticising, genuinely curious as I've considered attending one myself.
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Most of the horrible individuals who bullied this kid in person or via the web will likely be serving his coffee and pumping his gas. I think we can all agree it was a funny video but laughing with someone vs at them and telling them to "kill themselves" are two entirely different things. I wish him all the best in his future and hopefully as a lawyer he can undertake some bullying cases.
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So dad's a heart doctor. Mine's a digital electronics engineer. No wonder my science fair projects favored computers and her's heart health.
You have a long run-way, so that's nice, though markets change - so you have to try to be a bit of a seer ...

a) Join a startup you could learn about / be part of marketing, while being paid to do different work than marketing
b) Learn about different business models in the meantime, along with how marketing works. Books on copywriting, marketing (Influence), etc..
I'm not sure exactly which accounts premium accounts can see have viewed their profile, but pretty sure all free accounts are included. Will get someone who has setting on anonymous to view my profile later and check, but for now there's only a couple of hidden names on there, looks like people who are more than 3 degrees away.
Ah. Maybe consider a FreeBSD jail with a union mounted filesystem if you can get away with using a non-Apple (GNUstep/GCC?) toolchain. The teardown on a jail is as fast as the chroot syscall. ;-)

Or even better, use ZFS snapshots as your sandbox. Copy on write kicks butt.
See: http://vocalbit.com/article/402/freebsd-jails-using-zfs-and-...
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Ruuttu - you got hellbanned because your VERY FIRST comment was unconstructive, mean, and negative. You were trashing somebody's creation. The problem with the world is that people aren't producing enough, not that they're producing too much. You're part of the problem.

Your hellban predates and has nothing to do with the more recent comment about a porn site.

If you're going to be negative, you will not be welcome here. Read the HN community guidelines and internalize them.

P.S. Making bad stuff is the first step towards good stuff. It's a prerequisite - period.
"Never allowed to:
- play any instrument other than the piano or violin
- not play the piano or violin.”

you read it wrong.
And now you get into the issue that someone might end up with 50% equity and stop working - so then any and all work the other person does benefits the other one. :)

This is why I'm not a big fan of offering large amounts of equity to people that you don't know and haven't worked with before - so you know their value, and how well you get along.
Did you read the part where he lost whatever friends he had?

Not exactly something that would help you in life. I feel bad for the fella. Yes the video is hilarious, but he didn't "have it coming".

Public embarrassment is not exactly something you dismiss that casually.
Hackers Stole $45 Million From ATMs
Ask HN: What kind of events software freelancers should attend?
I have started working as a software freelancers. What sort of events do you recommend I should goto to get quality clients ? I've been going to startup events but people there seems to be more interested in either hiring fulltime or looking for a technical cofounder.
I did the ISEF as a kid (speech recognition on an original IBM PC). Seriously tough competition there.
Could you use GNU Objective-C on Linux VMs, e.g. on AWS or something?
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An Applicant’s View of 500 Startups and Techstars
A breakdown of both accelerators and recommendations for how your startup should thinkg about each factor.
Glad that I'm not alone in this. Though I'm no stranger to pedantry, this one is just being pedantic for pedantic's sake and really has no value, unless you really don't understand what JSON is....a string representation of a data-structure.

I think we'd be in a better place if instead of `JSON.parse()` and `JSON.stringify()`, we had something a little more familiar such as `JSON.serialize()` and `JSON.unserialize()` for example. In a perfect world we'd simply override `Object.toString()`, because that's really what it is -- and I've never really used `toString()` for anything else on an object, especially not now with to prevalence of robust debuggers. But I digress...
The programmer -> MBA track is a popular one, and unless you want to make a move into finance, I have not heard a lot of compelling good things about it. The best thing people usually have to say about it is that it's a networking opportunity.
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It's offensive for the same reason here in the US.
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Or better yet, get some like minded people together and go down to your Congress person's office and at least try and create the impression that there are actual votes at stake on this issue instead of just impotent e-rage.
Everything.Me Wants To Be The Google For Mobile, Hits 150K Downloads
"Don't re-invent the wheel, make a wheel that's better"

"Do what you know" - e.g. Work on what you know, via life experience.

What problems do you have and would like solutions for?

Is it big enough and would provide enough value that you'd pay if it existed?

I could go on ...

And I do need some RoR work done (along with javascript/CSS) that I was about to hire 1 to 1.5 weeks worth of work for. Maybe we could talk more and figure something out where I can help guide you in a more specific direction?
Cancer is such a weird beast that I'm actually not as alarmed by this as it might seem reasonable to be.

Only in the last year or so people have realized that how heterogeneous cancer is. A patient biopsied 10 times from different parts of the cancer turns out to have 10 different (but related) cancers. While such major findings are still occurring about the underlying nature of cancer, it is not surprising that studies are hard to produce; they don't even know which parameters need to be controlled yet to make them reproducible.
Yeah, late night typing on the iphone. Not an excuse, but I cringed when I read that the next morning. But, I won't edit due to comment.
There are a certain class of biometrics called "Revocable biometrics." You combine the biometric data with a password, and you can revoke it by merely forgetting a password.
An MVP is something that a customer will pay money for.

A POC is something that demonstrates the possibility of a solution, but is usually not salable.
Not even just those two skills, but anything to do with the 'real world'. I struggle to talk to people and have constant shivers even when I know I'm in a non-threatening environment. I just can't make conversation easily.

Even something as simple as when I took the train for the first time by myself going to uni. I was petrified I would miss my stop or something equally stupid, when the solution would be to just get off and hop onto a train that would take me back.

Again, I don't think I have a tiger mum, but she's awfully close.
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Might be old but it still works

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en&ei...
He was a teenager. Have a heart.