skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely, other than calling them rare exceptions. You can't quantify the rarity of these opportunities until you know how big the gap is between your current knowledge and what you'd learn.

The bigger the gap, the less money you are likely to make but the more you'll learn. If you get paid nothing, you're basically there to learn (to the value at least the salary you would receive).
I like this - it sounds like it's just adding transparency to get rid of the legal mind-games and intimidation. I had feared was that the plan was to effectively stop honoring patents under certain conditions. Although that would certainly be great in this specific situation, it presents a scary idea that rights or property* can be nullified after you've paid for it.

More transparency and openness is good - not only in this case, but in almost all others.

* And yes I know the meaning of the term "property" in IP is frequently debated on HN.
I don't find that interesting at all, I find that question to be very scary, because I don't want a government that is in the business of telling people what is right and what is wrong. I want a government of people smart enough to themselves realize what is right and what is wrong and to ensure that the government follows these things.

A government that runs Guantanamo and puts people in jail for smoking joints isn't an entity that should tell anybody what is right and what is wrong.
Don't forget you can specify environment variables when you start a new process from bash,

> APXS2=/usr/sbin/apxs2 ruby -e 'p ENV["APXS2"]'
"/usr/sbin/apxs2"
Sorry, yummyfajitas was being sarcastic.
The search part is good, but I want to then put that search to good use to allow me to subscribe to "seasons" of shows so that when I turn on the TV, I see a date-descending list of shows (and their watched status). A la DVR. If the Roku had that I'd be all over it. But it still sticks to the silo app model at the end of the day. Just not my cup of tea.
Thank you, this looks exactly like the book I need.
I meant a conversation that consists of symbols movement only.
Totally with you on ::just get something going instead of waiting for a technical co-founder::, but honestly if you're passionate w/o all the skills to make your business, it's not hard to find someone who can be passionate about it too.

I remember some quote about a guy who asked a VC, "How do I find engineers to help build my product?", and they said, "I don't know, but the best entrepreneurs always do".

There are technical people everywhere - plenty of them are bad at raising money, making money, etc., but would jump at the chance to work on an idea they love. Help liberate a great technical person.

At my company, I focus on the mech. eng./ business side, while my co-founder does all the software. It's been great so far, and we both get to work on something we love.

If you have an idea you love, don't sacrifice it because you don't have all the skills - you rarely will. Try to do some small version of it as fast as possible. This will show your co-founders-in-waiting that you've got the chops to run this business so they feel confident in having your back technically while you have theirs on the business end.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.

I happen to know for a fact that I did not fart at a party in 2001, but that's not generally accepted as true.
Total waste of time.

Lanier is obnoxious and comes off as a total clown.
Paxman is not really interested in the topic.
Scoble is just a Glasshole.

I'd like my 10 minutes back.
They are just design principles; I did not claim to have a well-planned design ready to go to market. Some operating systems make it harder to hide software than others; GNU/Linux makes hiding software more difficult than Windows or Mac OS X. Some computers are easier to reimage than others (e.g. special key sequences during the boot process will cause a "factory reset").
Yeah, it's an example of government as envisioned by the founders working as intended - when someone at the state level overreaches, a federal court strikes it down (I'm hoping the same thing happens to this absurd law regarding dealer sales). This happens in more places than just Texas.

Doesn't change the fact that your first statement is not factual anymore. Given time I think we (Texans) can eventually stop / vote out all these morons who think legislating morality is their job - we've been headed that way last few elections anyway.
This doesnt contribute to the OP's discussion but i thought i'd mention it anyway.

Texas love executing people. Since 1976 Texas executed 498 people, the state in second place is Virginia with 110. Also, their supreme court does not hear criminal matters, only civil, because it makes the appeals process for executing people faster.

But yeah, the law is a strange thing.
"Media" isn't a collective noun, in the same way that "apples" isn't a collective noun. It's the plural form of "medium".
To be perfectly frank it was a throwaway comment - I was being facetious.

I don't consider accusing someone of naivete to be particularly pejorative but if you are offended on his behalf, I suppose I would qualify the comment by saying he strikes me as the kind of bloke that would pay full price at a market stall rather than haggling. As do lots of Americans :-)
1. It's a run-on sentence. There should be a period, or at least semicolon, before “however”. Using a proper conjunction like “but” is possible too, but then the comma following it needs to go.

2. Putting both “also” and “too” in the second clause is redundant.
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> Why do mathematicians do this?

My other FU-money idea is to fork Wikipedia, then take the 100,000 most important STEM articles and give them i) rigorous fact checking & ii) Including an introductory paragraph that explains the concept to anyone. (At least, anyone with an IQ of about 100 who's prepared to put a bit of work in).

EDIT: This could be tricky, because we sometimes lie when introducing a subject just so that people can get their heads around it. See, for example, the speed of light, and then refraction.
Great article which really needs to be "stickied" at the top of places like HN and Techcrunch and the like. Semantics aside, the general point about there being business success and life outside the Silicon-Valley-raise-VC bubble is so important, and one that so many new and promising potential business-people completely miss.
CXO titles in any small business look ridiculous. I worked at a small company where the 'IT Manager' over 3 people (developer, junior developer, system administrator) called himself the CIO. Why? So he could demand a salary that (along with the owner/CEO, the accountant/CFO and floor manager/COO) crippled the company and so it would look better when he moved on. Of course, now that he was a CXO level, he just sat on his ass, drank coffee and made promises to the company owner that everyone else had to make happen, so he looked good.

CXO positions being grabbed at small companies is a sign of a group of dysfunctional, self-congratulating morons looking to ride this to other places willing to pay them even more to be called CXO.
Was there a mistake in the article? It said that the legislative body would not meet again until 2015? Also, I wonder what affect Big Oil had on the outcome?
The TPM and "secure boot," which you brought up, are cryptographic. That is what I was replying to, sorry if that was not clear enough.
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It's also highly illegal. If you're performing valuable work for a business, they have to pay you, lest they get a visit from a deeply unimpressed Department of Labor.

Internships are almost always paid now. Even where the internship might qualify to be unpaid, it's cheaper to just pay minimum wage than try to prove you're not extracting value from the intern's labor.
The Missing Metric: how many Android phones are visiting the Play Store?
Great idea. We can call these bits: "states"
You would be surprised about how many people don't realize that or who choose to ignore it.

My aunt for example really doesn't understand that the government has any limits on their funds at all. She proposed to me that shopaholics should be given money by the government to found their addiction.
Relevant data-visualization when talking about data-visualization (it's served me well):

http://img.labnol.org/di/choose-chart-type.jpg
I love the "getting things done" message and think it applies to so many endeavors. A good GPA and "getting things done" are not mutually exclusive.

I worked hard to produce stuff at school (good grades and projects). I tried to establish respectful and mutually beneficial relationships with professors and other students. I gambled on hard (for me) classes when I realized they would sound impressive to others. I went on co-ops and internships. Then, at the end, I realized schools would pay stipends for you to go to grad school (a revelation to me, a first generation college student). Awesome, off I went.

I'm a little too rant-y with this, but what I'm really trying to get across is that a good GPA only happens by getting shit done. I agree that we could all use a little more resourcefulness these days but hope hackers remember that there so many ways to demonstrate that trait. I hope I'm never unimpressed by either the great github of profile of the self-taught hacker or the perfect GPA of the math/CS double major.
That doesn't make any sense. Are politicians born with a magic birthmark that allows one to differentiate them from non-politicians?

Politicians adapt themselves to the carrots and sticks of their environment, just like CEOs, blue-collar laborers, and everybody else. For better or worse, they are a reflection of their constituency.
Can you waste money on alcohol and baseball? If you're going to ask me to audit for a living you better take me to a game now and then or I'm out.
Who knew that Texas was French deep down :-)
Reader-funded journalism
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Ah, I see what you're getting at now I think - an exploit would not be required as you are blindly running the go code anyway (e.g. in a web server it could read/write files etc just as the web server process can). Might being able to cause heap corruption let the code affect server operations in unexpected ways though? For example bypassing restrictions on an app plugin in some sort of CMS, bypassing restrictions on something like db access or passwords in memory, or bypassing a sandbox like that on play.golang.org.

I don't think Go is especially vulnerable in this regard, as you noted below ruby gems are also mostly unsigned just now, however I think there was a move to have those signed after the recent problems, and Go's pkgs don't have metadata or a facility to do this AFAIK. So that could be seen as a weakness (though one shared by many other package management systems).
I've been spending many weeks reading articles and books about building a RESTful api. There are a lot of 'ivory tower' guidance articles and books on REST that make little sense in the trenches.

That article sums up exactly my own distillation into practical terms of all that information out there. I wish I had read it first.
Having observed quite a lot of startup founders at incubators, networking events, and of course online, I think there definitely are "startup founders" who are not entrepreneurs. They are looking for a job that happens to be CEO of their own startup, rather than to create a business that meets a need and makes some money.

Totally agree with your other points though - you can shift from one path to the other, and back, both as a person and as a business. As a person, I myself was certainly a "startup founder" on my first two startups, as I considered myself a startup founder and entrepreneurial but I actually had zero clue about how to create a business.

It's only when I started GrantTree, and I took on the role of creating all the pieces of the business around my cofounder's sales abilities, that I learned to be an entrepreneur. Before that, I had a job whose title was "cofounder". My thesis is that's the case for many "startup founders".

PS: We can of course disagree on this, and that doesn't make your or my opinion any less, but just thought I'd restate in case I was unclear.
Nice work - I'd also love to see your spiffy stats dashboard code opensourced!
Not exactly. I'm back to mainly just using RSSOwl on the desktop. I haven't invested a ton of time looking for a new online reader, and it isn't a super high priority for me. If anything, since one of our products has elements which overlap with an RSS feed reader, I may just move it more in that direction, or fork it and make a dedicated reader, and just run an instance of my own thing.
Apple Menu->About This Mac->More Info->System Report or /usr/sbin/system_profiler from the Terminal.
The problem with limit is the programming overhead in frontend and backend.

If you want a performance advantage you must parse the limit-params and select only the needed fields from db and send them to client. But this make the backend complicated.

If something is misspelled (frontend/backend) you need more time to find the error.

It is easier and cleaner provide some additional calls for specific data (like lastLogin).

If you use something like Backbone in frontend, you are happy to access all needed data so easy, why restrict them?

Ok if you have an heavy used performance critic application, you can start optimizing. But why, welcome to the cloud, add some processes ;-)
I'm not sure what your point is, whether you think go is simple and powerful like lisp, or the new java, but simply quoting "The Blub Paradox" makes you sound pretentious (on a site where the largest percentage of readers are probably already familiar with said essay nonetheless).

I don't think this is really applicable to the article anyway, since it's an article commenting on two very different languages and programming styles, not about being satisfied with a Blub.
"Yes, I sometimes wonder what a veteran of the American Revolutionary War thought when he first saw the Gatling gun."

Compared to e.g. canister shot from canons I don't think it would have awed them that much (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canister_shot).

Since at least the Napoleonic Wars, which followed shortly after our Revolutionary war, artillery has generally been the biggest killer on the battlefield.
"How can I possibly start my whimsical high-risk venture if I have to pay my employees enough so they can afford food and shelter? Why does everything have to be stacked in favor of those greedy minimum wage earners?"
"Good, maybe it's time for me to do something useful with this personalmainframe.com domain I've been sitting on."

A cloud of Hercules emulators that instantly spin up multiple MVS systems on demand for RJE? I donno what VTAM would think about that. Or a linux on S390 SaaS provider, I guess.
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Other car manufacturers can't sell directly. Why should Tesla get special rules?
Texas has a part-time legislature. There's also no need to go looking for pantomime villains; car dealers are hugely powerful in local and state politics. They're the rock that Tesla will founder on.
This isn't just a car issue, it is a "protecting local business" issue. Every state has some industries that they mandate a middle man. They either do it through licensing or just straight up saying the manufacture cannot sell direct.

Shallow articles like the link don't really help the situation. We really need to start looking at removing the government from business models when there is no actual public safety aspect(1). This is a much wider problem.

1) I do believe Florida is one of the state that licenses interior designers on the theory poor interior design could kill someone. This too should be revoked as it is among the stupidest safety concerns ever.
OK Glass, climb this mountain
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Funny how you single out Texas for doing this. How is this different from other states?
I've seen it many times before, and it's always been amusing, but looking at it within the context of "clever code" is brilliant. That's exactly what it looks like some people have done (figuratively) to produce the code that they did.
I prefer PDF simply because usually PDFs have better typography than web browsers for reading sessions. Frankly the chapters and fonts from the github page look ... welll... bad in Chrome anyway.
Does that mean we get a HN JCL API?

:)
So did this ever blow over or are these upgradable chips still on the market? Did anyone ever hack the upgrade mechanism?
'Imagine if every single post on HN about the success of some company included comments like, "it's not really their success, since they used public roads and electrical infrastructure, oh and that whole Internet thing started out as a government program!"'

Errr... I don't really have to imagine. That happens pretty frequently. I sort of agree that it's a grandstanding distraction either way.
I think the article is interesting, but they make the claim that the box may have helped lower infant mortality. Is that supported by any data? Would love to see a study, maybe pair Finland with a close neighbor country that does not provide the box etc.
What does Tesla have to do with Louis CK?
It wasn't obvious from the context that he works for Google.

And it seems he actually works for Twilio: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stanleydrew

But I would say "core Google" is safe, it's just that Google investements/acquirement doesn't really mean any safety per se.
Agreed, I am just trying to guess where the author is confused and reply in a useful manner. I am guessing that too many so-called "REST APIs" return JSON response bodies without explicitly requesting them in the Accept request header. By simply using the Accept header how it is meant to be used, you can return HATEOAS, JSON, XML or whatever format you want specifically designed for the target client.
The linked blog post (above) is a nice write-up and elaboration from Stuart's Clojure/West talk this year: http://clojurewest.org/sessions#sierra
Tesla shouldn't get special rules. Instead, no car maker should be compelled to use dealerships.
Uh, it's been chopped up into bits since it existed as a country (currently 50), and they're all a little different.
"Okay, we're going to start with a simplified version of this concept first. Keep in mind that the reality is somewhat more difficult to grasp, but grasping this simplified and idealized version will help you to eventually grasp the real deal."

No problem with that.

But out of order explanations are unforgivable. I did get better in math when I figured this out and learned to find the meaning of the symbols first. But believe it or not, sometimes this wasn't easy. Sometimes I would encounter some esoteric mathematical notation and have to spend quite a bit of time digging through books or searching the net to even find a place where anyone bothered to explain what it meant.

By "what it meant" I mean what it meant conceptually. A bunch of jiu-jitsu of symbol manipulation is completely worthless without a conceptual understanding of what that manipulation is actually doing.

My first aha here was with calculus. After struggling really badly in high school and then college, someone finally told me that a derivative was a rate of change. After that, I completely got it and had no further problems with derivatives, integrals, or differential equations. It all made perfect sense. I also completely understood why calculus was invented, and its historical importance. The book did say a derivative was "rise over run," which I suppose is a maximally-obtuse way of saying "rate of change," but it never clicked.

How in the world do these people perpetuate their discipline?

But back to functional programming. I taught myself to program when I was four years old. It was BASIC on the Commodore VIC-20. In retrospect I think it was easy for me even as a 4-year-old because everything was explained in terms of "this statement does X," and then the more complex variant of "this statement makes the next statement conditional on..." I got that because that's how things work. Things work by, umm, doing stuff with stuff.

I think this is why procedural languages are so much easier to grasp. Procedural languages are explained in terms of what they do with stuff, which is how people think because that's how things happen in the real world.

Functional languages on the other hand tend to be introduced in this obtuse, theoretical, mathy way, with symbols and expressions thrown out before their function or conceptual meaning is adequately explained.

Introduce FP like this: language, semantics, and meaning first, then concepts, then immediately dive into doing things with it. Try that and I think FP will get more popular.
Tesla said it best: "Tesla will sell its cars the way it wants. If some states don't allow that, then Tesla will simply sell them elsewhere."

When a piece of a neural network becomes corrupt and entrenched beyond repair, (cancerous) the tumor or cancer fights to protect itself, there are two solutions to these kinds of problems.

1. One solution is what Musk is doing, treat the dealerships as a cancerous growth in the mind, and pathways are built to bypass it, route around it. Don't fight it, don't fix it, don't interact with it. Establish as many barriers to its growth as possible and starve it so it doesn't grow. Eventually the superior paths created by Musk are the preferred ones to use, and the defective paths are garbage collected. The cancer will seeks to prevent the growth of new pathways because it does not want to be garbage collected.

2. Remove the growth. When the surgeon finds a tumor or cancer in your brain, it doesn't try to coax it to become better or try to "enhance it" to be better. A hole is cut in the head, and lasers and scalpels are used to physically remove the cancer.

These are the only two options to deal with cancerous growths working only to maintain its take on the system.
Daniel defines "entrepreneur" as something that doesn't include startup founders, and then argues why startup founders aren't entrepreneurs. Err.. duh?

That's great, if, and it's a very big if, you agree with the initial and very limited definition of "entrepreneur". The fact is "entrepreneur" doesn't mean "someone who sets out to start a business in order to make money", which is Daniel's definition. An entrepreneur is someone who starts a business. It's that simple. Startup founders are entrepreneurs. They are often aiming very high, sometimes a bit naive, and occasionally downright delusional, but they definitely fit the entrepreneur mould. To suggest otherwise is wrong.
Great article. I wish you would have written this a year ago when I needed this info. I had to learn all of this stuff the hard way. I'm definitely going to use this as a first resource to give to people that I know who are building restful APIs.

I'm slightly a bigger proponent of HATEOAS, but if you don't need it yet, I think you can always add it in later. I've been the giver and receiver of bad things when it's not followed, but that is generally around massive projects.
Wow - he's a great speaker. Thanks for the link
In some states, Illinois for example, the dealership can register the car on your behalf and collect tax at the time of the sale. When you leave the dealership, you already have your permanent license plate along with the registration sticker and get to skip the DMV altogether.
Excusez-moi? It appears you're making a very, very poor joke here, or do you have some insight into the French car sales business we don't know about?