skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A raw, introspective recap of why I left my last startup. I hope it helps some people realized what I did - that it is not worth it to do something that you don't love. Would appreciate any feedback!
Oh, another complex conspiracy theory. Rolls eyes...
That is an interesting new definition of "out", where telling a reporter doesn't count, but the reporter's story does.
I joined a weekly hiking group.
It's nice that there's a third party option (yay for open APIs) but it's pretty weird that Google still hasn't bothered to make a Linux Drive client themselves. This is basically the only reason I'm still using Dropbox primarily, though I'll probably start moving some files to Drive when the bonus space I got from their college competition thing expires.
I think there is some validity to this, but a lot of it is, for lack of a better word, inconsiderate. Not all startups will IPO, even the successful ones. Founders are left with a choice; sell the company and be rewarded for the 40 years of work they just crammed into 4, or stay on the current path, stabilize, and just exist as a private business (or fail, some startups aren't built to last).

I don't like the complete loathing some people have towards founders that want to "get rich." I'm completely against people whose end-all be-all is building for a quick flip, but the reality of the world is that money solves a LOT of problems. It helps you pursue your dreams, it lets you travel. After 4 years, maybe you're just sick of working on your startup and need a vacation!

Money lets you pursue your dreams, and sometimes your dreams change. Not because you've given up on them, but because you've changed as a person. People shouldn't be faulted to that.
I agree. A tiered pricing plan would really benefit OP. Adding a forum to offload some of the one on one support would be great as well.
Dreamhost Under Attack
One possibly unexpected use is for business consulting and accounting. I picked up a copy today to give it a whirl with a few side clients. My firm uses an enterprise solution with many similar features but the usability is horrendous and it doesn't offer online pay options, a project feed, or integrated document filing. The current price was low enough that I could afford to try it out without stressing.
"Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics."

Forgot to add: a "pea shooter" would be a lot better description of the US rifle/carbine that's been issued since the '60s, especially with its FMJ ammo.
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I'm working on a clojurescript project right now that compiles to 80K lines of javascript (using the most basic compilation level during development). In my actual workflow I've found that the compilation takes under 250ms each time. I have it auto-compiling every time I save the file using the lein cljsbuild plugin and it's near instant as far as I'm concerned.
Google thanks for scaring the shit out of my cat.

Note to others who've not clicked the link yet: check your volume before you do.
What a crock! Just another way for a country aching for money to attempt to strategically milk other countries corporate architecture.
Entrepreneurship Changes You; Not Always for the Better
Just a quick rundown from my perspective as a founder. Don't consider any of this the final word, of course.

Above all, if I like it, see the benefit and have the money for it, it doesn't matter how you approach. Be straight up about describing it and the benefit to increase the chances of this happening.

a) Cold call/email -- call will probably go to voicemail and I might not get back to you. Email will be read and I will reply with a "no, thanks" or with interest (please note I am not at all behind on my e-mail like some people are.) I much prefer text-primary e-mails to "newsletter" type e-mails that seek to educate me before describing the product. I really like it when someone's e-mail says that they won't e-mail again if I don't respond, but it doesn't influence my decision.

b) Yes, if you meet me you should obviously describe what you do. I will want to hear more and probably make suggestions even if I am not interested.

c) Sample will work really well if it's something people want. Information without a sample has a chance of getting binned. Putting a very visible offer on the information would get more attention from me.

d) Bad idea. You don't know enough people to make this go. You need feedback from strangers.

e1) Look for partners complementary to your business. For example, if you do fresh flowers, get in with an office cleaning company who would sell your flowers as an add-on. They'd get a cut in exchange for you not having to sell.

e2) Also, despite what I said about annoying "educational" newsletters, you should definitely do that on your website/e-mail signup on your website. Some people will definitely find you, even if it's a new product category without a popular search term yet.

e3) Please promote yourself on Hacker News. What is this product/service? Tell us about it, and leave a way to contact you.
I agree that in this case it's stupid, but for some data it can make sense. But I think people use bezier curves and higher order interpolations on these types of demos because smooth lines look more visually appealing somehow.
Is there anything positive for you about being in the public with your story? If it were all negative, why continue with it?

edit: this might sound judicial, which is not what i intend. What I want to say is: you do continue to be in the public - what is your motivation to do so?
How do you feel about general whistleblowers like Peter Van Buren[1] and Gregory Hicks[2]? Neither have been prosecuted, but it's hard to deny they have been persecuted for their positions.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/obama-whistleblo...

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57582929/official-we-kn...
Good stuff!

The groupdate lib's really handy for quick visualization of data. Nice!

For more complex visualizations, might want to check out GoogleVisualr which I created http://googlevisualr.herokuapp.com/ but that only works with Google Visualizations.
Hey come on, I'm sure patronizing prostitutes does take some of the work out of dating!
> and instead is a leadership and reporting position.

You're absolutely right in that the specific technical skills associated with having a PhD in, say, physics, or math, or even (heck) engineering have little to no bearing whatsoever on what the person at the top of the organization will do during their tenure.

But there are more things learned during a PhD than a bunch of technical skills. You might learn something, e.g., about the very nature of scientific inquiry. About the nature of the challenges of collecting and analyzing scientific data. About explaining complicated research to a lay audience. About trying to convince higher-ups of the scientific merits of a project even when said merits are subtle. About why something qualifies as "science" while something else doesn't -- and knowing the difference between the two decidedly does matter when you're in a leadership position.

"'Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value,' John McDougall, president of the NRC."

... I don't think John Holdren would have said this. Indeed I think one would be hard pressed to find anyone with a PhD who would say this.
As a U of ND alum, I quite happy this is about Go. :)
"Joe Sixpack" isn't using this software. This is a self-hosted project management tool. "Joe Sixpack' isn't in this equation. They call a pro. By your logic, WordPress is challenging to install without Softaculous, and even hard to understand by "Joe Sixpack" with Softaculous. Keep it in perspective of who this is for.
By acquiring Lucky Sort, Twitter is officially a data company
you know, you can ask girls out in real life.
he said earlier, updates are free.
Viva la testing revolution
^ or me
The CIA assumed in the first half of the '90s that Aldrich Ames burned her covert status, so she was withdraw from that role long before any of this happened. Just another desk bound "operative" in McLean, Virginia, where there's a highway turnoff sign to the HQ.
Do quantum states offer a faithful representation of reality? [pdf]
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Perhaps, at least, someone in attendance will present a Gopher server/client written in Go?
I don't see how this theory is either complex or a conspiracy.
MacroPy now works with the CPython REPL:

PS C:\Dropbox\Workspace\6.945\Project> python
Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 07:43:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import macropy.core.macros
0=[]=====> MacroPy Enabled <=====[]=0
>>> from macropy.macros2.tracing import macros, trace
>>> trace%[x*2 for x in range(3)]
range(3) -> [0, 1, 2]
(x * 2) -> 0
(x * 2) -> 2
(x * 2) -> 4
[(x * 2) for x in range(3)] -> [0, 2, 4]
[0, 2, 4]

It's somewhat hacky, but it seems to work pretty well. I went through the examples and most of them work perfectly in the REPL, except for those whose have blank-lines-in-class-def confuse it
I certainly did. I was almost tempted to go :)

EDIT: Maybe we should organise one. I'm not really sure what we'd do there, though. I don't usually go to conferences.
yeah!

those grapes are probably sour anyway.
> Not surprising that the drama bomb meta subreddits are the biggest connectors (TrueRedditDrama being the largest graphically).

The meta subreddits that are prominently featured are only so because the subreddits that have a high degree of interconnectedness were intentionally removed:

> Removed nodes with a degree greater than 75 (this was enough to get rid of every sub in the top 20 subreddits (by subscriber). Since these subs are likely to link to a wide variety of topics, an association with one of these subs is not particularly interesting to us.

This skews the graph towards subreddits (potentially, but not necessarily, meta subreddits) that are just under the arbitrary cutoff point. So all the very large, interconnected non-meta subreddits are missing, giving a skewed picture of the actual graph.

Because of this, even among meta subreddits, notable, extremely prominent ones are missing, like /r/SubredditDrama, /r/ShitRedditSays and /r/bestof.
"nice simple perk" ?

As @redspark says: "Give us more details!"

It is notoriously difficult to assess the value of a "perk". So this perk costs me $10 / employee / week ? At first blush that seems "cheap" but how much time is it taking away? How much tangible productivity gain does it give us? Do the employee's really want it? Will they use / partake after the novelty has worn off? Like after 2 weeks???

So answer your question ... "Make the effort to find out our HR person's name and details. Send her the information and business case, after a reasonable delay follow-up. Don't get upset when she tells you that it's so 'ho hum'"
Why am I not subscribed to Forrst? Oh, right. They’re missing an RSS feed.

Let’s fix that: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=4fa38ba24cb2d5459...
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Outing a covert agent also risks outing other resources in the area, or sources and methods. In any case, it was clearly not a good idea for Scooter Libby to reveal her identity to Bob Novak.
I'm probably entering the most lonely stage of my life at the moment, having my 3rd alcohol related arrest has really pushed me further down the hole.

Despite all of my legal problems, I'm still holding down the same job, but I feel at my age I've really done myself in. Obviously booze is a problem of which I've completely eradicated from my life over the past 2 months. The really sad part is I'm well adjusted otherwise and I graduated from a top CS program. I've wanted to work abroad but I feel I'm trapped now by my past and I'm really out of options to socialize on any meaningful level. I don't really know what to do at this point. This article spelled out a life of doom for me.

For what its worth I'm 28 and have 2 duis and a public intox charge.
Greenspun appears to be a moderate Republican. Sorry, but that hardly qualifies as "extremist ideology" anywhere in the world, let alone here in the USA.
Wow. I can't tell whether this is a parody of a stupid response to exits, or actually sincere. When I first read it I thought "wow, neat parody of the overly entitled rageout". Now I'm not sure.
I like the post. I'm always concerned that then next product I like will get bought and shut down. I don't fault the founders for wanting to make money, but do see the type of "sale for IP/Team" jobs as a failure not a startup success.

One think on HN that I always see are comments like: "If the service is supported by advertisers, you aren't the customer." What I like about this post is that it hits home again where, "If the service is supported by investors, you aren't the customer." Unless the startup can achieve profitability and "payoff" the investors, then a sale--either to keep the project going or for IP/Team--is the startup catering to it's customers.
I guess business are just run for fun and for the benefit of customers.

Unless your company is a non-profit I don't see any validity in this at all.
There are no reference types in Go, everything in Go is passed by value.

When you pass a slice, for example, you are passing a structure that has a pointer to the underlying data by value; you could think of it as a reference BUT its not what you think it is. What you are passing around is actually a struct that is passed by value:

type SliceHeader struct { //[1]
Data uintptr
Len int
Cap int
}

1: http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#SliceHeader
The moral compass that led us to slavery, the genocide of the Native Americans, and Japanese internment camps? The idea that the USA was formerly moral but has given it up lately isn't really supported by history.
Replace all: "technical founder" to "founder".

Otherwise perfect. A+.
I'm not clear on how Hicks claims to have been persecuted. Van Buren was fired after writing a tell-all book (which got him demoted to a work-from-home position) and maintaining a blog that linked to Wikileaks documents. I'm ambivalent about the prospect of being fired from a job for detracting from your government employer. On the one hand, you'd lose that same job at any private company where you did the same; on the other hand, in the public sector, detracting from your employer can be a public service. I guess I'd have to think about it on a case-by-case basis.
[author here] I'm not supposed to directly call out corporations for mistakes in public because then their feelings will be hurt and they won't be a customer in the future ;)

I was kind of expecting someone to tell me "Spacer" was too obvious and to obfuscate it some more, but they let it slide - probably because this is not a security flaw like I'd usually be dropping, just a general oopsie.
Italian artist who scrapes porn sites for phone numbers
There were in fact at least two GopherCons ('92 and '93) focused on the Gopher protocol. I worked at the time for CICNet, and we hosted one of the conferences in Ann Arbor.
Nah, it's just that Hoover did such a good job it makes FDR look bad by comparison.
I wish there were more built in replication options. Setting up Master-Master (data existing in multiple data centers) with hot slaves for example- I don't think you can do this with Postgres alone currently. Need to use something like Bucardo (a perl program) to make it happen.
I emigrated because there was no hope in my lifetime of the United States extending marriage rights to everyone (specifically, immigration-related.) I had no real choice other than to find someone else to fall in love with.

It's a fucking shitty situation, but I'm making the best of it, and I don't really miss my former country. Just some of the people in it.
A corollary for today's frothy times:

1. Put together team
2. Sell: get acquihired
3. No need to build anything later
Am I the only one thinks that Python is definitely not suitable for syntax magic? like Ruby or something else does?
You think it should be legal to steal people's phones and break them apart? Why?! Isn't that the "Finders Keepers Losers Weepers" doctrine?
Could be that an MVI is any idea that can be used to secure funding, in which case it would put the concept in league with a rather unsavory brotherhood.
I don't disagree with you that the U.S. is a very complex system with millions of variables, and like any complex bureaucratic system is extremely difficult to change. I also don't disagree that there almost certainly isn't an evil council scheming to make corporations more powerful (I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, and this particular conspiracy sounds especially absurd -- I'm not even sure that the corporations are getting more powerful in the first place).

However, while "it's complex" is the right answer, it's almost certainly never a good answer. I run a company with a team of eleven, and "it's complex" often comes up as an answer to difficult challenges. Well, it is complex and it isn't. Difficult issues are difficult by definition, but doing nothing is almost never the right answer. There is sufficient body of evidence to at least establish a pattern of civil rights being eroded in the U.S., granted for very complex and often perfectly valid reasons. That's what leadership is about -- cutting through complexity to guide the overarching system in the right direction. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that from our government.

EDIT: I also agree that the original argument smells unnecessarily of conspiracy theories and drastically oversimplifies the issues.
A search engine. From what I know, its the only engine using Go (aside from Google.) Blekko uses Perl, DDG uses python (I think), Bing uses unicorn blood, and all the smallr ones use Jva and/or C++.
Best comment of this article IMHO. Posting this just to catch the reader eye and maybe encourage 1 more person to read it.
Currently Drive just places a small json shim file on the disk, rather than syncing a usable document.

If you use Chrome its easy to get Drive to store docs locally (but not images pdfs etc) [1]

[1] http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
> If I were Chilean I wouldn't be outraged.

I did some light reading on this topic. How exactly were a large number of people saved from death? Did you misspeak? Because from what I've read, the overthrow of Chile's elected government actually resulted in a large number of people dying/being tortured/'disappearing'. I'm guessing the Chileans who you spoke to weren't from that group.
I would tweak your model just a little bit. I think splitting the bill is a nice default, but if someone wants to pay for the dinner than they should be allowed to without violating social convention.

If I suggest dinner with a friend, when I know they would probably not be going out for a meal, I'll almost always pay for both of us. if it's more of a mutual, "yeah lets try that new Greek place" type deal, we'll usually split.

The same applies if I approach someone and offer to take them out. It was my idea, I'll take care of the financial responsibility, especially since I chose the venue (which could be dramatically more/less expensive than the other party would want to pay).

I think online dating might be a good model for splitting the bill because both parties are entering the situation ostensibly looking to go out for something.

Additionally, when I pay for dinner, most people graciously accept and then suggest that they'll buy the first round of drinks or ice cream or whatever we might end up doing afterwards.
I find it interesting that people used this because of its usefulness and security.
I second that question. Naming and shaming seems a perfectly appropriate way to discourage every vendor from similar future actions.

EDIT: I posted before I saw the author's reply to the same parent. The answer seems quite reasonable.
Spot on. I suggest to newcomers that they save od your coment. It is good intro to the Go biome.
What value does your comment have? If you don't agree, tell us why. Otherwise, why comment in the first place? To tell us we suck? Have you ever seen the comments on CNN, Yahoo, etc?

I find the quality of discourse on HN WRT politics is excellent, especially politics that have technological implications. HN arguably has the least partisan approach, and those that disagree tend to do so politely.
The HTC First, or “Facebook phone”, is officially a flop.
a better punch line would help, because the description is great. but too long.
>Put up picture-based landing pages on those domains....

I would have though this is a no brainer for Google to catch these days. I though text under pictures would be like white text on white and would set off immediate alarm bells.
1) You're (incorrectly) assuming that everybody who sells their company set out with "a view to exit". That is, quite honestly, bullshit.

2) Not everyone who is given the choice of a small exit is also given the choice of a follow on round of funding. If you're not making enough revenue and unable to strike a deal with a financier, you are going to have to shut down your product whether or not you strike a deal with an acquirer.

3) Your post has eliminated a "soft landing" from your startups' possible exits. If you wind up in the situation described by #2, you'll look like quite the hypocrite if you do anything other than die.

4) "I'm sure your investor's wallets think of your exit as a success" -- You'd likely be wrong about that. Your investors probably would rather you fail swinging for the fences.
If I were you I would be thankful that there were memory issues, otherwise you wouldn't even have discovered this malware! :)
Do you know how it compares with fuse-google-drive?
Demis Bellot took a crack at modularizing jQuery, perhaps there is inspiration there: https://github.com/mythz/jquip
The misdirected anger in this post makes any potentially valid points very difficult to agree with. Are you really that upset ?
Give Your Ideas A Chance, Or You'll Probably Rupture Your Spleen
The maturity of a designer can be measured by the importance they place on fads vs. solving problems.
Well, you voted in the elections, didn't you?
Spacer, spacer, rhymes with... dell?
IHeartRadio hits 30M registered users, but it’s a far cry from Pandora’s 200M
Though mostly candid, the shots look almost like she spent hours posing the models, setting up the lighting and set, getting the wardrobe and hair just right...plus there's an interesting pattern to the shots, how everything is just at a certain, interesting, inquisitive height, just a hair below the normal person's eye level (explained by her selfie [1]) nevertheless it asks the viewer to take on the role of a child, maybe 10 to 12, in an adult's world, looking up at adults, and down at very young children...her photography is astonishing in it's ability to draw you into the moment with this queer subjects that she's managed to find

1 - http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/02/18/found-at-auction-th...
"Fuck you and your shitty startup."

Yea, that pretty much sums it up. Now, please take your own advice.
First:

"In any case, it was clearly not a good idea for Richard Armitage to reveal her identity to Bob Novak."

Let's keep the established facts straight.

Otherwise, since you're ignoring my statement that she was no longer a covert agent when this happened, I'm not sure what's the point of your reply.
The Most Valuable Real Estate in the World
You test your idea on actual customers, you don't tell your idea to HackerNews. And even awesome companies like Facebook screw up when they test by running bad tests. Example: Home. Facebook tested Home on employees who usually use iPhones. Oops. If any of them read Robert Scoble or talked to a single Android fanboy, they'd realize Android is about customization. If a Nexus fanboy likes the Sulia widget or whatever you call it, said fanboy is not going to want to use Home when Home displaces Sulia.
Not a super professional tone.