skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Maybe the best way to meet your goal is starting a non-profit or going into politics.

I'd like to know whose, or which, goals are better met going into politics.

Politics, at least in America, are a machine that eats good ideas and shits murder, and anybody with half a brain and the desire to change the world should know, from even casual observation, to steer clear.

For example, Elon Musk and entrepreneurs like him have done more to move the world away from fossil fuels and towards alternative energy in the last decade than the U.S. government (at any level) has in the 25 years they've been aware of climate change. Musk is inventing the future, and in Congress they're still arguing over whether climate change exists or not. And that's just how fast things move in that arena. It's unavoidable.

At this point in history, even if you don't care about money at all, even if hate for capitalism runs deep in your blood, starting a business is the only means available for make a positive impact in the world on a reasonable time scale.

And I should also point out, going into politics or non-profits means you would actually be spending more time raising money than you would if you were running a VC-backed startup. So, if your goal is to get really good at raising money, the author's sentence makes sense. For any other meaning, it doesn't.
Apple Has Purchased 9 Companies Since October
...in HTML on GeoCities, because I wanted to make something cool.
DuoLingo For Android
>I'm the greatest white-hat troll on the most interesting Internet forum in the world

Wrong. And that's because we don't give you access to it, because of your puerile ego-driven behavior, kiddo.
DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 2: Shared Libraries in D by Martin Nowak
Really? It's impossible to downvote submissions? That's ridiculous.
Elon Musk: Tesla network to triple by July, cross country travel by year’s end
Ubuntu: Restoring the Community Link
The article doesn't say it's a country and an appropriate comparison is one that puts things into perspective, which this graphic definitely does.
Off topic. But does anyone know why it seems like countries and even states (like Florida, I'm from there) seem to have worse economies as they get closer to the equator?
Original source at edge.org, from 2010: http://edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/high-r...

The other maps in the collection are also interesting http://edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/
Ditto. Why isn't HN supporting persona? :)
Relevant West Wing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
You certainly wouldn't have learned that from that infographic. :-)

Even if comparing countries to continents were valid, that map completely omits the two largest countries in the world, and only includes three of the top nine (#10 is an African country).
I could write a big essay and I almost did, but I'll shorten it.

The world will never be open source. But, lots of awesome tools, libraries, programming languages, and servers, are. Get a job working on web applications, because you'll get to use lots of free and open technology that way, and likely contribute back to projects.

Open source is not the answer to every problem. Proprietary software beats it in several ways and will never disappear. Anyone telling you something else is ignoring the overwhelming mound of data called reality. OTOH, I love open tools and prefer them over proprietary ones by far. But, there's not a damn chance in the world that the next big thing everyone uses is going to be developed bazaar style.

Open source might produce some better software, but companies are the most efficient beast for producing anything. Companies will only open source things when it benefits them (logically), and since open sourcing code will not benefit companies 100% of the time, the primary producers of software (companies) will prevent this open source utopia from ever existing.
I feel the exact same way! The geek in me would like to know what they optimized and what they brute forced!
Well, if Google acquired them that makes it half (okay, much less than half half) right.
Do you know how many liters are in a gallon? How is that question any more relevant to HN than the OP?
Yahoo touts Flickr redesign and 1TB free storage upgrade
I agree. Who ever said, "Boy I wish I could manufacture that in my house"? Plastic goods are already cheap, so what does this save me? 2 days waiting for my Amazon order?

Revolutions happen when you drastically reduce costs, or increase functionality. 3D printing does neither.

F.Y.I. The next revolution will be in robotics.
> starting a business is the only means available for make a positive impact in the world on a reasonable time scale

There is a great deal of validity to what you say, but blanket statements like this are absurd. What capitalist venture is going to make an impact on gay marriage? What was the business model of MLK Jr.'s speeches?
Hey thanks!! That last sentence just made my week! As for the time constraint, it may seem a little gimicky but I do believe there's value in keeping the audio clips short. Only time will tell
Actually, you always want to provide your own numbers first. That's what they call `controlling the document' in the legal profession, and `anchoring' in Psychology.
Government passed a bill that gives a sizable tax refund to those that buy electric vehicles. They also loaned Tesla 451 million dollars (that they eventually repaid, sure). Those actions have helped Tesla exist as a business.
Could Apple be crippled by the end of Moore’s Law?
I noticed that as well. He basically answered nothing even though they were taking a pretty hostile stance towards Tim.
And then again.. you didn't get the point.
SSH and Telnet do the same thing, but nobody killed off telnet by getting everyone to use their implementation of it, then kill it and propose SSH as alternative.

Thats what Hangout does. Name 5 of your friends without a google account who use internet & mobile phones. See what I mean?
They were using XMPP. Everyone could talk to them using XMPP.
Not anymore. Wanna talk to them? Gotta use hangout, no way around it.

It does not matter if its based on the same _code_ what matter is that it offers the same functionality AND kills off the previous product by using their market share.

That's the freaking concept.
Cyber Kill Chain 101
If Ellsworth and Johnson are on track, CastAR augmented reality goggles could be a fun little thing.
Something really cool you can do is functional unique indexes:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_fidx ON foo (lower(a));

Will reject values of "a" that have the same lower-case value as something that already exists, even if the values of "a" are different. Exclusion Constraints[1] can make use of this, as well.

Also, you can do partial indexes, which have a WHERE clause. You can combine those with unique indexes, too:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_idx ON foo (lower(a))
WHERE b <> 0;

Exclusion constraints also accept a WHERE clause.

Additionally, if you do a partial and/or functional index, then postgres will collect stats specific to the function and predicate, which improves plans even if the index isn't used.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createtabl...
> "Optimize something"

I may be the only one, but knowing what the 'something' was is incredibly valuable bc we all, as people, pick 'something' and not everything in any sort of bullet is created equal.
Evolution Story of Magento By CSS Chopper's Infographic
"Puts it into perspective" how?

Africa is a heterogenous continent, with vast numbers of different cultures, languages, natural resources, climates...

Treating it any kind of unit doesn't make sense. It definitely doesn't make sense to compare it with unitary countries on any level, and even less sense to compare it on the basis of geographic size.

Canada is a huge country, but that's not why it's wealthy. The Netherlands is a tiny country, but that's not why it's wealthy, either.
"Yet, there is no enduring formula for creativity and rebellion."

This is a fine sounding statement, but it's false. We've been accumulating and refining techniques for having new ideas for centuries, at least. Leonardo da Vinci mentioned several in his writings.
Here's what I see @ karma 579: http://i.imgur.com/eKkzXgL.png ... perhaps I get down arrows for submissions at a certain threshold? I don't know.

Edit: The answer is "there are none". from http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

"Why don't I see down arrows?

There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold."

So I guess a collusion of puppet accounts in some script that automates upvoting can be used to game the system pretty easily without the story falling from grace for a while - as there exists no mechanism for the community to do so.
I still consider Game Maker to have the best standard library for actually making 2D games of any engine I've encountered.
GNU imposes arbitrary burdens and restrictions upon use, too. There are licenses and the underlying logic of intellectual property rights remains unchanged as well as claims of interest in derivative works.

TANSTAAFL
Agreed. This time next year: LISP IDE based on subtle brain wave manipulations! Hehehehe.
Personally, I never answer those account "security" questions with any kind of information someone could find out easily via a social network, random public documents or even social engineering attacks.

"What is your mothers maiden name?" "correct horse battery staple".

As a side bonus, it also makes support calls very amusing.
yeah, that disappointed me deeply too :(
Steve Sammartino likes talking about "Startup Guru" Steve Sammartino because Steve Sammartino knows that he, Steve Sammartino, is a brand and must be advertised accordingly. Although Steve Sammartino doesn't code, Steve Sammartino knows about "startups" and "entrepreneurship". And like all marketers, Steve Sammartino is an expert on something Steve Sammartino cannot do himself. Like a race car driver who can't drive Steve Sammartino has no problem taking credit for work Steve Sammartino cannot do.

Steve Sammartino is what's wrong with the internet.
You are far from the first Mozilla employee that has responded to my complaints about Firefox, but you are the only one thus far that has been civil. In fact, just a few days ago, I was trolled on twitter by a Mozilla employee over my responses here.

So, I just wanted to say thank you.
It's possible that there are undiscovered ore bodies out there?
Let’s produce HTML5 games with a serious approach
Not being "in" or simply suggesting to follow twitter. It's just that when it comes to social mediums I blaze through things as fast as possible to get gists. And the vibe I got from the front site is that this is about gists (45 seconds or less).

If this was presented more as a curation of best audio submissions, probably with nice subheadings and short descriptions, then I'd probably spend 1-3 minutes enjoying each piece like how I do when I'm reading curated articles.
I used the word mentor incorrectly. What you want is peer teachers, not mentors. Mentors by the corporate definition are largely useless. You contact them 1-2 per month at best, which is pointless.

What you want is a person that observes your code, behavior, interactions, demeanor, etc., and tells you how to do better. It is impossible to have perfect introspection. You need to find a guide more than the corporate definition of "mentor". People need apprentice masters more than mentors, I wish I had used a better term.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rhQc666Sg
> For example, Elon Musk and entrepreneurs like him have done more to move the world away from fossil fuels and towards alternative energy in the last decade than the U.S. government (at any level) has in the 25 years they've been aware of climate change. Musk is inventing the future, and in Congress they're still arguing over whether climate change exists or not. And that's just how fast things move in that arena. It's unavoidable.

OK, this hyperbole stretches reality much too far in several ways...but let's just examine its scientific and economic assertions. Is Elon Musk's Tesla car the best thing for the environment in the last year? 2 years? OK, let's just say "yes".

But in the last 5 years? Obviously not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_emission_standar...

Better fuel efficiency standards is decidedly less sexy than an electric car. But small improvements across a fleet of millions and millions of vehicles easily outweigh even the best case scenario for electric cars in the foreseeable next five years.

And before you say, "Well, Tesla's achievement will inspire an unquantified amount of innovation, etc. that will lead to something even bigger"...well, I can counter that the economic impact and consequences of even small changes to fuel consumption will drive just as many, if not more innovation.

And Jesus, can we really use Tesla as a prime example of independent innovation after the recent news that it paid back its federal loan? And yes, they did pay it back early, but are you going to argue that they took a half-billion low-interest loan just for the fun of it?

And how do you think that loan came about in the first place? Politics. It's not a stretch to say that Tesla's future was pretty shaky before that loan.

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Anyway, not to be a negative Nancy...the can-do and fuck-the-Man spirit is not something to be squelched. But it helps no one to be oblivious of the many nuances and tradeoffs we make when we organize ourselves into civilized society. And it's arguably detrimental to society at large to imply that politics and non-profits is the realm for half-brained nitwits...unless you're totally unaware of the concept of cause-and-effect.
It's a cute story, but my 8 month old thought I could make things appear from absolutely nothing and make them disappear again.

I'm not surprised that a 3 year old is interested in having another piece of weak, brightly colored junk around the house and is uninterested in its provenance.
Rapidsoft discloses the amazing uses of PHP
Tesla is planning "a dramatic acceleration of the Supercharging network"
I've always found it kind of pointless to label packed/obfuscated binaries like that. Especially because the antivirus softwares themselves are usually packed in a similar fashion. In addition to that, a LOT of mass-market apps use at least some form of packing/obfuscation: game clients are often packed, things that are statically linked are sometimes packed, etc. In the end, this just ends up making developers' lives harder, not affecting malware distributors at all, and diluting the average user's definition of "malware" (because there are so many false positives and warnings).
I don't think tracing values is very important when they're immutable.
No One Else Does This
It's all relative. I live in California, US. I know how big the US is relative to Cali... so I know how big United States is. I have a point of reference. Comparing Africa to USA gives me a way to mentally model what the difference in size means.

Comparing a continent to a country makes sense the same way that you might compare the size of a child to an adult. They don't have to be the same. You just know which of the two you are and get a sense of how big the other is.
Any of these Mac apps has that typewriter sound? I kind of like that sound.
Meaningless unless you know the false positive rate. A technology with a 1% false positive rate over the US population gives you a Minneapolis of people to investigate.
And as iTunes and Amazon Music have demonstrated, if you make paying the easy solution, having DRM is either irrelevant or a net negative.
Open Sourcers wipe the floor with Apple Genius
Heh ;)

For clarification, I was meaning pure C.
You must have missed the part where the NASDAQ bug caused about $60MM in losses whereas the subsequent price decline has destroyed $40B in market capitalization. You can lose your shirt in the stock market, but that's been true since long before we started using computers to trade equities.
The owner of the (small) company I work at has 55k+ unread in his inbox. I suggested a few weeks ago he move to the priority inbox in an attempt to deal with the crazy inflow he manages.
Yahoo Mail Tops The List Of The 15 Most Popular Windows 8 Apps
I also want to know where they got "China Part 2" [Electric Boogaloo?] from.
>2. while it may be useful for some, it is another clear step toward throwing in the towel on e-mail as a platform for serious discourse.

I'd love to hear you expand on this, because for me it seems like the exact opposite. By taking extraneous and superficial emails out of the main view, doesn't this make e-mail better suited for serious discourse?
I would argue that Khan Academy is doing more to correct disparities in our education system, including of the kind caused by centuries of institutionalized racism, by making high-quality tutoring available for free on the Internet, than any modern-day legislator or activist.

Large companies like Google are able to set standards in their industries around things like health benefits, which, while not providing the social recognition many gay marriage advocates are after, does provide one of the material benefits of marriage without waiting for the government's blessing.

And meanwhile, the systems that our government uses to suppress movements like King's (in his day it was COINTELPRO) have gotten frighteningly more effective. The Occupy movement was subject to a massive, coordinated campaign of extreme police repression before it even started.

Given how bad police repression of the civil rights movement already was, imagine what would have happened if anything as pervasive as the Patriot Act or computer-assisted social network analysis had been available.
So is a lot of oil.
I think it's much better now, although id't test that with your audience and ask them what they think this page is about, i.e. in their own words.

Don't confuse that with a market test - i.e. even if people say they would buy the book - it's easy to trick yourself into thinking like that.

Selling infoproducts is a big topic, there are so many important things to it, such as building a subscribers base, all te inbound marketing in form of blogging/guest blogging, timing your launch, discounts to loyal subscribers etc.

I'd recommend studying successful use cases such as Nathan Barry, Jim Gay, Brennan Dunn, 30x500 course alumni in general - they seem to have nailed it.
Devil's Advocate: It is important to get them _right_, because postgres will cache the tar out of a IMMUTABLE function result, and <mumbling>something something optimize STRICT calls, maybe?</mumbling>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf8SZYXRufg
That still requires a heat differential to produce electricity, and thus works worse in the heat. (of course, having more intense sunlight will help make up for the loss in conversion efficiency)
Open-source office suite written in Java
I have collected my favorite quotes and talking points from this piece, Michael Church's "Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs", and Aza Raskin's "Psychological Pitfalls And Lessons of A Designer-Founder".

Here: http://www.stevenloria.com/disillusionment-in-startups-colle...

I intend to add to this list of quotes, and I also welcome others to email me related bits of wisdom.
I know I am addicted to programming. I have rather nasty chronic pain, and I have found programming to be one of the best coping mechanisms so far. The whole "spacing in"/hyper-focus/computer-zen-trance thing results in me not noticing the pain. I am at minimum addicted to the not-hurting caused endorphins of programming.

This has good and bad results. It means I not only can, but wish to code for long continuous stretches (about 40-50 hours has been my max before burning out, with a few 5-20min food/unkink/bathroom breaks) and I have difficulty programming for less then 5 hours in a stretch. It means that when I finish something, or find myself without an active project then I go a bit nuts: I tend to write a first few thousand lines of a GA or Chat-bot until I get my fix and can stop (and normally chuck the resulting code). It means I do a lot of "code-katas". It also means I am very frustrated in team scenarios where I have to often "come up for air" to communicate with teammates as this diminishes the pain-avoidance. It means I do not spend a lot of time on design and documentation, I just dive in and start writing code and actually enjoy the process of spending hours fiddling with things until they work.

In fact, my addiction to programming is likely a core factor in my choice of education and career. With this moment of reflection, I get to ask myself a question: Is the fact I do what I do largely as a symptom of addiction a bad thing? At minimum is a strike against my self actualization. Is an addiction that people will pay you to feed a bad thing?
The software is what's special. manufacturing of all types is getting cheaper. The magic comes from the design. The magic comes from imagining something and turning it into a physical object.

CAD is great for precision, but that's not really what's called for, it's something that will give good results with a bit of imagination. It's not minecraft, but whoever captures that freedom of creation in CAD will probably do really well.
RFP: Tech Specs for Single-Space Parking Meters and Management System in SF
To be fair, you didn't choose the old one either. Since, ya know, it was the only choice.
There are a few omissions that the infographic does. The more blatant for Europe is that they left out Scandinavia, and the European part of Russia, while the text states clearly "all of Europe".
We have 16 years at current burn rates to end fossil fuels, and there is 0 political will to do anything on the scale it will take to do that. The emissions standards were great, I agree, but in the face of the challenge they're meant to address, ultimately meaningless.

The emissions standards Obama proposed in the campaign were far more ambitious, and it went along with a plan to put a price on carbon that is 100% dead in the water with no chance of ever being revisited in the next 4 years, if ever.

Every little bit counts, but when you think about what's possible with the scale of the U.S. government, versus what's actually happened, it's depressing.
First off, I agree with much of what you said. I think there is a way to be insanely devoted to your craft and still maintain your relationships. Sure, you might not be the social butterfly who goes to parties every night, but if you can't maintain some small semblance of a life, what's the point? Unless you're some entrepreneur martyr..

"A startup is just a means to an end. Consider the end, and don’t seek to revel in the means."

-I disagree with this. The journey is often the most exciting, exhilarating part. Creating something from nothing is what I want to live for.
So you want to demand that Netflix provide at their expense a solution for every possible OS out there?

Don't like it, don't partake. I can't understand this mentality...
I passed from a NIT. In my current company there are many people from IITs and other places. Two of my colleague in my team have done their PG from IITD and IITKgp respectively - UG non-IIT. My lead is a IITB pass-out (2006 ECE), going for his masters to Columbia. My best friend has a combined MSc(5 yr, Math & Sc Computing) from IITK and a MS from UvA Holland. All of them have said just one thing, IITs are great for UG, but if you can, avoid the place for a masters.

Anyway thanks a lot for mentioning. Will sure check that design course they offer via CEED.
Developer Hacks Google Glass To Show All iOS Notifications
3 reasons why blogging is my best startup outlet (and can be yours as well)
>Judging by how they are forcing the new compose on everyone it is reasonable to expect that they will force us to use this as well.

Considering Google has already allowed users to choose from 5 different Inbox styles for years now, I don't really think your conclusion is logical.