skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right: they're children.

*Edit: Okay, sorry, "children" is a little harsh. You get what I mean. Of course we all want financial independence, security, and the means to not have to worry about where we eat for dinner every night. Great.

You can have that, and do more also. Look at pg—in addition to I'm certain a comfortable life, he also invests in all of you and helps create things of value.

Look at what Elon Musk is doing: SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity—they're all a means to advance civilization in leaps and bounds. Fucking awesome. Will he make a lot of money in the process? Probably, if he's successful at it. But I guarantee you that's not why he's doing it (incidentally I think that's a huge reason he might be successful, also).

If you're not doing big things like that, you can. Why not? You need a bankroll to do big things. You don't get there by vilifying money and just wanting small things for yourself—even deep things like happiness or self-respect or spirituality. I feel that is a somewhat childish self-centered idea. You're saying "what can money do for me?" The answer in this article is "You don't need money to get those things you want for yourself." Well, buster, it's not for me: it's for the world, it's for advancement, it's for creation. Money gives me no great desire in itself, but the advancement of society certainly does, and it clearly does for others too, and that's a good thing.
I think it's great advice; remember, the advice is: Stop Validating Email Addresses __With Your Complex Regex__. Remember that new TLDs are added, and that john@tld can actually be entirely valid.

If you want to prevent "john@gmail", then use a real RFC-compliant e-mail address parser, and attempt to resolve the domain component MX/A records (and remember, it might be an IP address).

If that fails (or your regex fails, or whatever validation you use), ____SUGGEST____ to the user that the address appears to be invalid. There's no reason for an overzealous registration form to refuse to accept the user's actual e-mail address.
I'm arguing that you and I believe Katy Perry has different objectives. You believe she's trying to be an excellent musician, and you're irritated that she's much more popular than superior musicians. I believe she's trying to be popular, and music (err...just performing really) is the tool she's using to make other people like her.
How do you go to the toilets?
Why do a startup?
Yeah. An IP address is 32 bits long. It's usually represented as four 8-bit decimals (74.125.227.40), but it's perfectly valid to represent it as a single 32-bit decimal (1249764136).
Interesting idea. I've experimented with putting non-functional buttons and widgets in the app and register how many tap on them versus how many who complain about it not working. I believe you also have to ask the data, not just the people.
In the Hacker Dojo
Choosing the best tool for the job
I liked the reels but they made scrubbing difficult and hid the podcast image.

If they could keep it as one of the views that could be cycled through it would be great.
Yes, it seems very close to actors but I guess that's not too surprising if you're trying to converge on "ways to do concurrency which don't suck" from different languages.
There are times when it is good business to stand on principle, and then there are times to just help your customers a little bit. Email signups are definitely the latter IMO.
You sound burned out, not desperate.

I personally would take a breather and get a full-time job doing something I enjoy and revisit entrepreneurship in a 18-24 months.

I'm only a few years younger than you.
Think of Pinterest as a content marketing channel, not a social media platform
> It seems they'll use open standards only as long as it serves them

To be fair, how did XMPP serve them? They weren't really benefitting from it, they did it mostly for the good of the community.
38 is still very young. I am 43 and still working on my start-up. You might want to check out this book:

Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the 19th Century

http://www.amazon.com/Goodyear-Story-Inventors-Obsession-Str...

If you compare your situation to Mr. Goodyear, you will find out that you have much more than what he had. I hope this can help you recover from your depression. Just don't give up on your dream.
It's more readable in all caps, which is why they and the military do it this way. If it were all lowercase thing like Is and ls and 1s would get confused.
Sigh. This shit is frustrating. You don’t get it, do you? How can you be so blind? How can you have this weird view? This is batshit insane and completely mystifying.

No one ever with a clear head could assume that display size = diagonal. That works if the aspect ratio is unchanging (nowadays 16:9 TV screens are competing with 16:9 TV screens) and there is no problem doing just that. It works less well with variant aspect ratios, though it still is a sort of reasonable proxy for screen size – but if you explicitly write that some screen is larger than another one while it very obviously isn’t – using the diagonal as a justification – you are just insane. Nothing else.

Plus: You are confused about the actual content of the document you linked. (In general I also have no problem with the diagonal being used in advertising. It’s not ideal but I won’t get mad about it. I will get mad about it if someone defends outright lying in ads.
Why are you yelling Kim's name?
This is actually a very good idea. But most users have a throw away email address for registrations and one for personal use. And for me for example, if i click a mailto link it will open the mail client with my personal email so I'll have to copy paste all that into my gmail throwaway email that may not even be opened. So I'll have to open the browser, click on........ But is indeed a good workflow alternative to consider for email verification.
The Web Manifest
Fact:
If you think that everyone who wants money wants it in order to "create the biggest impact possible," you are either incorrect or have an unusual definition of "biggest impact possible."

Opinion:
It's almost nice and idealist for you to think this, but you ruined it by being generally sour (on my interpretation).
"Money wears out those who just did not have it"
Perhaps a periodic page refresh would work around the issue. Then that brings up another question, is any part of the gif cached by the browser or downstream proxies / web accelerators?
A map of every street, town, and city Bob Dylan has ever sung about.
Clooj: a light-weight IDE for Clojure
Mailcheck looks pretty interesting - I'd been considering adding some sort of client side validation for email addresses for my personal projects, and this looks pretty solid. There are a few cases that it doesn't catch that I wish it would, but it appears it would catch a fair percentage of simple mistakes.

For example, it catches foo@gmail, but it doesn't catch foo@outlook. Of course, gmail is going to be the more common case. Still, it looks good overall and an improvement over no client side validation.

Edit: Actually, I see you can define a set of domains to check against. Very nice.
Calling people children because they want different things out of life than you is rather, well, immature.
As someone who still continues to love his 3GS, I have to agree for the most part. Some apps have me considering whether the developers know they run/load that slowly, or whether it's because of my device.

For the most part it is very responsive, but it does get bogged down here and there. For example if I get a text from someone while I'm typing a text to a different person and click the notification ribbon, the phone will hang for a second or two before switching to the other person's text. Is that common on all iOS devices? I'd always imagined it should be much faster given that the Message app is already loaded and active.
Someone leaked top secret information that may have led to the death of a high level North Korean administrator that was a US intelligence asset.

1.) Should the person be prosecuted
2.) Should the journalist who facilitated the leak of that information be immune to legal search warrants
3.) Should the journalist who facilitated the leak be prosecuted.

I believe 1, 2 are yes. 3 is no.

I have no idea about recent history, honestly. I don't really care, either.
i saw a site linked on HN that was using that kind of technique to siplay public camera feeds, if anyone remember the link , would be great to share it again.
Seems that MS will achieve the impossible - to make the piracy on the consoles more compelling than on the PC (where steam and gog have made great strides in reducing it). Good work.
I'd consider myself slightly left of center, but I
Think the best part of slashdot during my time
Was that it was home to all views.
We do something similar via text saying "if you want X, get in touch via the feedback form" before implementing features.
If you put 'histcontrol=ignorespace' or 'histcontrol=ignoredups' in your ~/.bashrc file it will not record commands that begin with a space [1]. I believe that 'ignoreboth' is the default on many Linux distros.

[1]: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-bash-history-more-...
> And no, you won't win us by shoving that awful chat box down our throats, like in GMail or in Google+. You have to do more and be more than Skype currently is. Because you're late. And you won't win with consumers either, because consumers are already using Facebook's video chats, which is integrated with Skype. And you're late to the party all over the board, even though putting moustaches on people's faces is kind of cool.

Free group video chat and Hangouts on Air (free YouTube exporting, basically) are enough for me to seriously consider Hangouts over Skype for most interactions.
UCLA Live-Tweets Brain Surgery, Posts Vine Videos
I wouldn't bet against you on this!
One way to improve my Instant Background Uploader app [1] and make it actually instant would be by doing just that. Generate the image URL right away and start streaming it while the upload continues.

Instead of waiting for upload to finish before giving you a URL.

But you'd need control over the image hosting backend cuz ImageShack won't let you do it.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/InstantBackgroundUploader_OS-X https://github.com/shurcooL/InstantBackgroundUploader_Window...
Novus in NYC uses scala and open sources some libraries (salat)
Cool, but I can't find any pages that mention this, can you provide some links?
From the article: If people without families to support are brutally honest with themselves

So you are not the audience.
Congrats on the startup.

I'd lose the enter site thing. Im already there, and its not porn right so I don't need to consent.

Design and copy. You need both. Best of luck
I had one investor tell me, "Patents are for losers." What he meant was that if you succeed, you don't really need the patent, and your time is better spent building your business than starting patent fights. If you fail, then at least you might be able to sell or license the patent. I'm not sure I agree, but it's an interesting perspective.
The bonus with that regex is that it kind of looks like a dead clown.
Sure. "more popular = better" within certain contexts.
I used to work for DESCO. Some seriously smart folks there and especially in the DESRES group.

That's the thing though. The top engineering talent goes to financial companies in New York because that's what's fashionable there. There's an actual cultural difference.

There's one other big cultural difference that has an affect on who wants to do tech startups. In SV people care about "What can you do?/What have you done?" where in NY it's more "Where did you go to school?/What's your pedigree?" and in my experience, Ivy Leaguers are generally funneled into Finance. There is a lot of money spent on recruiting them, so it's easier to just take the hedge fund job out of school than go work for or found a startup.

When Jeff Bezos, who used to work for DESCO, founded Amazon, he didn't do it in New York.
Interesting. I read this on my G2, which by no means has an uptodate browser, and it rendered fine, including zoom.
Forging mail headers is easy enough to do that I wouldn't consider this approach to validate an email address. Sending a validation email is much harder for spammers to bypass.
Public cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?
Good lord why? There are so many other tech hubs where housing is reasonable. How are you supposed to do your most inspired work if you can't get a decent night's sleep.
Before you get the money, your goal is to change the world and make the biggest impact. When you get it, your priorities change. You sometimes realize it takes more than money to make an impact.
You may still make a difference but not the way you had planned, and but without money you would still be dreaming unrealistically.
You still shouldn't enter these kinds of commands on a multi-user machine, because anyone running 'ps' will see the commandline arguments.
Netflix: Dystopia as a Service
For context, the BBC got £3.7 billion from the licence fee in the 2011-2012 financial year. £100M over a few years is certainly poor, but it's not disastrous.
Don't build a Galapagos product
Just use the right tech for the job. Javascript is not new cool, its already cool.. its just the pitch you're getting.
Well, its hard to speak for average due to a lack of data. I will say from my anecdotal experience, every partner at our firm is a former entrepreneur / operator. The other high profile firms I know all seem to follow that model for the most part.
How many people, even among entrepreneurs, plan to never have a family?
In this world? No.

(I am older than you by a little bit.) This is what you do:

D. Take a contract with a fortune 1000, spend a year digging yourself out of a hole, and move on.

Does it mean that somewhere early along your path, you need to pick up some Java or .Net or Oracle? Sure. But you have decades of productive coding ahead of you; a few years is not going to kill your dreams.

Look: not every portion of your life is going to be glamorous, save for the very lucky. It is possible to learn something from everybody, even a "25-year-old who only knows half a programming language."

I think what I learned most from spending some time in the developed world is not to be so self-righteous about bullshit like this. You could be parking your ass in front of a subway line telling people, "God Bless you, please buy a packet of Kleenex."
This happens to me constantly. I aimlessly wander around the store muttering to myself, "Doesn't anyone work here???" Especially prevalent in big-box situations. Ordinarily, I am delighted when I am approached by an actual human being.
I have bad hosting with good software. Ran flawlessly with 8-15ms generation times on #3 of the HN homepage for a couple hours, only the network latency went up to at peak ~1.2 seconds (got less than 1mbps upload here). The page also executes multiple database queries for each pageload, just like Wordpress. No caching needed for me, it's all about optimization.
might I remind you one of the reasons why Apple have posted record profits over the last decade? It's worth nailing the UX experience to be as inclusive as possible.

It's also worth considering that one of the biggest generational markets (baby boomers) include a lot of those people you're telling us to ignore.
> I'm referring to the sort of asm.js that comes out as a result of compiler output

That Gist - what is visible from "View Source" after beautification - is not compiled asm.js code. It is not the result of any compilation. It is the result of minification. Most minified code is as illegible as that.
I was indeed confusing the two! Thanks!
I don't know if that line makes much sense... just about everyone will have a family to support at some point. Why not plan ahead?
I really want to try the functionality of this, but I don't have npm... I might just have to get it. :(
Unfortunately .yu ccTLD expired.
And there's "languor" and "lackadaisicalness".
Money is just a symbol of value. Who doesn't want to be highly valued. People love coming up with grand reason for justifying their desire for massive amounts of money. I suspect most people, deep down inside, just want the secure feeling that having tons of money provides. It's your license to freedom.
Favorite Hacks in Emacs
When you look closely, C is a very academic programming language, and its academic influence can be seen in its design-level decisions.

For instance, why does C differentiate between for loops and while loops? Because mathematically there's a natural partition between the two: for loops correspond to primitive recursion, and while loops correspond to total recursion.

Here's another one: why are unions called unions? Because, if types are interpreted as sets, the C union is directly equivalent to the set theoretic union. Similarly, structures are directly equivalent to the Cartesian product (although they are not named appropriately).

K&R were geniuses, not only in practical programming, but in the egg-head understanding of the mathematical theory behind programming languages.
Excellent. Although that can be set to not do that. I've explicitly set it to "ignoreboth" for so long that I'd forgotten why, so it seems new to me today. :)

From man bash:

HISTCONTROL
A colon-separated list of values controlling how commands are
saved on the history list. If the list of values includes
ignorespace, lines which begin with a space character are not
saved in the history list. A value of ignoredups causes lines
matching the previous history entry to not be saved. A value of
ignoreboth is shorthand for ignorespace and ignoredups. A value
of erasedups causes all previous lines matching the current line
to be removed from the history list before that line is saved.
Any value not in the above list is ignored. If HISTCONTROL is
unset, or does not include a valid value, all lines read by the
shell parser are saved on the history list, subject to the value
of HISTIGNORE. The second and subsequent lines of a multi-line
compound command are not tested, and are added to the history
regardless of the value of HISTCONTROL.
YumeWe an app ecosystem for touch-less displays
Hi HN fellows, Here is my recent project that took me more than ... well lots of time.

The pitch is: Developed for interaction via depth cameras. Designed for the living room, for interactive advertising, or in-store web presence in retail.

Can be incorporated in kiosks or DIY solution in a all in one pc.

Your thoughts ?
To be clear, I was talking more about how it was perceived at the time, not about how it actually was. (And of course, what was kitchen-sink-worthy in 1960 would be seen as ultracompact today.) But in any case, I bow to someone with actual experience.
One of the reasons I discuss stuff like this on Hacker News is that the rule of law and stability are important to the kinds of things we do (look at what the end of the IPO exit has done in the last ~ 10 years). If the Republic truly falls, it's going to have serious knock-on affects to startups in the US, whatever the path that follows, e.g. tyranny and/or civil war.

All the productive action in the PRC tells us the rule of law not as critical as many think, then again, there are limits to what they're achieving, and it took the ending of the period of endless "revolution" for all that to get started (Mao/The Gang of Four being replaced by Deng).

There's also this detail about investing and doing business, from Richard "Wretchard" Fernandez (http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/05/16/the-lying-kin...):

"[...] The president may not realize the cost of reducing the trust content of his actions. Perhaps they teach that lying has no cost in Chicago, but in reality trust’s absence exacts a very definite price.

"The first thing to remember is that trust exists for very good reason, even among gangsters. In ordinary commerce its value is obvious. Many products rely on trust: the security of our communications and data storage; the integrity of accounting; the impartiality of the public institutions. Whether we are using Office 360, email, or Google Drive, a medical storage device that stores our sugar levels and blood pressure numbers or files an income tax return, the presumption is that the information we generate is reasonably private. Once that expectation is destroyed, once we are certain that a political hack whose principal qualification is snooping has been appointed to head Obamacare, then an economic cost is inevitably incurred.

"Lying isn’t free.

"One of the reasons that the United States has remained the last refuge for money fleeing instability abroad is that those investors trust its institutions. They believed — reasonably until now — that in America the rule of law reigned supreme. They thought — until the administration cast the question into serious doubt — that America was not the banana republic that the possessors of those fortunes sought to flee. That’s why the money comes to America and not, let us say, to the Congo."
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You're obviously correct, but as Michael Arrington not long ago said, "Oh come on, Bloomberg doesn't count." And I feel like 90% of HN would agree w/ that sentiment.
AFAIK, in bash/zsh you have to do

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace

in .bashrc or .bash_profile for the above trick to work.

fish, OTOH, seems to do this by default.
I like it. Just remember if you use this in production, save $("#progress") in a variable in the ajaxStart function to improve performance (this will call Sizzle one less time usually).
They registered it just before Postrel stopped handing those out. X11 has X.org.
Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines for Great Works of Literature
I couldn't help but notice that the original SSH key was encrypted with AES-128-CBC and the "more secure" one mentions 3DES in the ASN.1 structure. This makes me question if the "improved" SSH key really is more secure.

I'm not an encryption expert. Can someone else weigh in on this?
So think bigger: call the world your family. How can you support them? Might need some money to do it.

It might not be your goal, but you can't deny it would be a noble one.
This analysis is tragically incorrect. The Times legal department in no way represents the Times newsroom or the developers who made Snow Fall. Reporters and developers love tools that let them tell stories like Snow Fall more quickly and inexpensively. There is only one reason the NY Times hasn't made another story like Snow Fall in the last 5 months: It's too damn expensive and time-consuming to replicate in a one-off way.

I work with hundreds of newspapers and a dozen or so have contacted me to ask how they could use Scroll Kit's technology in the past few days. In fact, one of my larger top-100 newspaper clients signed up to use Scroll Kit this week. They won't be the only ones.

In case you haven't noticed, newspapers need to find new ways of making money. And they needed it yesterday. Folks trying to monetize newspapers aren't worried about someone copying their article to demonstrate a use case (hell, this event probably drove meaningful traffic to the original), they're worried that they're not going to be able to stay in business. If you were like any digital director around the country, you didn't give a shit about copyright infringement. You only salivated over all the cool things you could be making and monetizing. Since most newspapers have no way of creating a Snow Fall type of article themselves, they'll use Scroll Kit, they'll use it at scale, and they'll sell premium ad units to monetize these articles in a more effective way than normal content. From my viewpoint, that's a real positive for those of us trying to keep journalism alive. All the surrounding conversation about copyright infringement is just so completely missing the point that it might as well be arguing about the right way to polish the brass on the Titanic.