skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...Now 33, McFarland has a 3-year-old and a newborn and no longer has to think about his student loan: His company has US$17.75-million in venture capital investment. While he doesn’t consider himself retire-now rich, his piece of the company affords him what he calls “breathing room” and what other people might call wealth...

...Scribd took off and now has millions of dollars in funding...

I know this has become a meme, but it's being done here much more blatantly than I've seen in other articles.

It doesn't have to be said (but I'll still say it): Venture Capital funding does not by itself mean that either A) the founders are millionaires or B) that the company is successful.

It's a vote of confidence. It's a chance to be successful. And it's exciting and can be a great step along the path of success.

But the notion that "raising VC is the goalpost of startup success" is a notion that probably does more harm than good.
Forget carpet, colors and textures. The functional aspects of a new building are critical and guaranteed to heavily affect everybody, so you cannot think enough about them and always get tons of input.

Otherwise, you end up with nice bathrooms but outside secure areas that eat minutes from everyone's daily routine, burning sun instead of natural light, not enough conference rooms causing excessive environmental noise, too many cubes next to HR but not enough for the development team, teams who are split across floors because you planned the space poorly, unused kitchens because they are simply in the wrong place, a lobby with standing room only, having to escort visitors inside secure areas to use the bathroom because you forgot one outside, only one AV-capable conference room but half of all meetings require a projector, and a late realization that the receptionist desk should've been at the bottom of the stairs to greet lost visitors and the fedex guy instead of running up and down stairs all day to answer a call box, etc.
Huh. I hadn't thought to be accused of manufacturing a dispute, and I note that you seem to have done just fine responding.

I suppose my point was that there is an underlying cause here, of encroaching authoritarianism in American jurisprudence that I find both alarming and surprising, but if you feel threatened by that, then by all means feel free not to take it as delivered to your address.
I've used Mailchimp's transactional service (Mandrill) on a number of projects and it's been great. If you're looking to set up the AR yourself at some point and want insta-respond, give it a whirl.
Stuck on "Awaiting network consensus"
Damned if they do, damned if they don't?

That is a convenient position to hold. You can't be wrong!
What are the correct titles for various ages in your opinion?

I'm trying to figure out how to advance past senior developer myself.
Old news in a new context is tantamount to fresh.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post for $250M
Smoke point is another good thing to know about (you can saute in olive oil but probably don't want to double-fry french fries in it) but you'll degrade the flavor of a good Greek olive oil way before you hit 160c.
i was expecting to see bentleys, cristal, and 100,000 usd hand bags, boring ;)

career freedom seems to be the major theme.
Well designed and very powerful product for my use case. Had to throw a responsive landing page quickly and Webflow made the job so much easier. I kept iterating on my page design using your tool (I was going off a really rough mock) and kept losing my iterations :) but in the end it worked out quite well.
There are also other German e-mail providers whose addresses don't end in .de - for example, GMX.net!
OpenCV is about tinkering with your future career. With OpenBR you should open that beer and see where it gets you.
UCDavis does a lot of cool food science stuff.
Just because it sounds like an explosion doesn't mean it's an explosion, especially to initial responders.

True that. I live near a busy intersection and they closed one lane of a main road that's also a freeway feeder for most of last year while they were upgrading light rail tracks. There were a lot of accidents thanks to the combination of impatient drivers, fewer lanes, and temporary traffic lights in a different position from usual - about one major crash (ie with at least one car on its side) every 6-8 weeks, so I learned more than I wanted to about being first on the scene of an auto accident. A high speed impact makes a hell of a bang just by itself; it's a big, big uncontrolled release of kenetic energy even if there's no fire.
Or blow up.
Awesome list, very useful with patio11's article that gave a boost of motivation to A/B test more.
As a diabetic, I try and not over-dose on syntactic sugar...
> He might even figure out how to do something he hasn't done at AMZN and that's turn a profit.

You mean like the $645MM profit they made in 2008, the $902MM profit they made in 2009, the $1.15BN profit in 2010, or $631MM profit in 2011?

Or is all that nullified by the $39MM loss in 2012 (due to LivingSocial)?
I hope that some business model survives to ensure the production of long-form journalism like this. I fear the longer-term effects on society if journalism like this disappears in lieu of purely user-generated content or blog posts that earn $50 for the author.
In Australia an online counselling service had a privacy breach and was shut down by the potential amount of legal action that followed http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2010/03/sacked-depre...
It depends on tone. If the cop starts aggressive, that's when you start using flat refusals. My suggestions were for the more common case: where the cop is casual, friendly and trying to lull you into a false sense of security. There can be value in playing a little dumb.
On Linux yes, it doesn't exist on osx though. My point was that the author could have written his tool as cross platform without relying on an 'ls' every 100ms, by using the platform tools availble
I haven't had to deal with UEFI yet, but there appears to be ways around secure boot, as the Fedora Project has been working on it for some time now.

www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-windows-8-uefi-and-fedora/11187
i could see it useful if you had a situation where you need to programmatically generate a regex, but i don't really see myself using it much at all.
LinkedIn is now taking things to the next level by asking people to vouch for other people's expertise with keywords like HTML, CSS, Design Patterns and best of it all 'Product Specialist' .
States consider regulation of drones in U.S. skies
The WaPo is just a prominent member of what Joe Sobran so elegantly called "the Hive"--people who all think pretty much alike ("enlightened liberalism", in their own minds), know only other members of the Hive, and only read each other. (The NYT being the other major member.)

And nothing will change.
>Also, things like selecting office location are so deeply political that decisions about them invariably creep to the top.

I'd argue that /moving/ an office is almost always going to cause rancor because moving your house is expensive and difficult, and, well, obviously you had an acceptable commute before. Commute times are huge;

I'd actually like to see some numbers; my gut would be that when you move the office more than 10 miles, your turnover goes through the roof for the next 6 months or so.

(the interesting thing about a commute is that especially for younger workers, it's not always obvious how brutal the commute will be. "Oh yeah, half an hour each way, I can deal with it" - 6 months later? your view is dramatically different, especially if you have been working long hours at the office.) So yeah, moving the office, I mean, more than a few miles, is a huge deal and absolutely needs management involvement. Potentially you could lose some really key people.

I'd argue that deciding, you know, about shit like carpet, on the other hand? the only time that should move up the ladder is when it's still a business run by 'some guy' - and even then, it needs to be a recognized bikeshed.

(the cube/office decision might also be worth the time. There's a real difference. but picking out carpet? yeah. leave that to someone who doesn't have anything better to do, or outsource it.)
Hastings' "own baggage as a recovering drunk/addict/screw-up"[1] is free cover for late night car crash to not be properly investigated.

[1] http://trueslant.com/michaelhastings/2009/04/28/a-case-of-th...
If only they really were spending money on intergalactic travel.
In Julia:

julia> @time sum(1:1000000000)
elapsed time: 1.4527e-5 seconds (88 bytes allocated)
500000000500000000

@time is a macro that prints the code's execution time and memory usage. This is inside a VM running Linux.
At least the paper millionaires of the last Silicon Valley bubble had somewhat liquid publicly traded stock.
Isn't Arizona the state where anyone that looks non-native may get harassed by the police? [1]

No thank you.

---

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070
The primary issue is that the design is very obviously driven by the goal of monetization. On my laptop, the top half of the page is dominated by the navigation bar at the top (starting with "Premium Membership") and the "Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs" box, featuring a giant "Go Premium?" button, which ends up being right in the middle of the page. I'd estimate that <20% of the space above the fold is useful content.

In addition, there are a number of polish issues that exacerbate the spammy feeling caused by what I described above. There's an escaping bug in the title of the login widget on the right side ("YOU\'RE LOGGED OUT"). You use a number of different background colors (the search widget has a blue one, the "What's new here" has an off-white one). There are too many groups of social media buttons (on the left of the main container, under the search box, under the video clip). There are a lot of horizontal and vertical separators, and they have differing styles and amounts of padding.

Hope that helps!
A Painting Robot?
It is only huge step backward for you. Because you are a developer who wants a snappy desktop (and not that half-poisoned koala that tends to go to sleep and do some power saving all the time).

But you are a developer. So you can tweak a few things and get a nice, snappy system out of Ubuntu. Here's a start:

* install linux-image-xxxxxx-lowlatency;
* boot it with idle=mwait intel_idle.max_cstate=3
* #disable ipv6:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
* # less swappy than default 60
vm.swappiness = 1
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50
* install latest graphics drivers to support that 3d desktop monstrosity;
* disable all desktop effects;

Do that, plus a few more tweaks, and you will have it out of Ubuntu. On a fast modern box your terminal window will finally stop lagging ;)
Thanks to Paul Graham, I've understood why starting a company with one co-founders is absolutely essential. This is because a startup idea is a vector (see the vector section): http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Starting a company solo is worse than starting it with bad co-founders because you don't know at start that your co-founders are bad and then you still have a chance.
What do you think of WxWidgets? Better designed than QT? Seems to have a broad range of users. http://wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm

Python & QT could be an option, but the whitespace is annoying (I shudder to think what Linus thinks of it) and in general, I prefer using Go over Python, but the creators have said they will not put any resources into developing official UI bindings, so any efforts are purely third-party.
App installer redirect?
Sounds like unreasonable seizure to me. The search didn't sound all that reasonable either.
Incredibly backwards politics and laws are some good reasons not to.
Why Murdoch wants Rudd to lose the coming federal election is not merely political, it is commercial. News Corp hates the government's National Broadband Network (NBN). The company has formed a view that it poses a threat to the business model of by far its most important asset in Australia, the Foxtel cable TV monopoly it jointly owns with Telstra.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013...
Also, the death weather and the very sketchy water situation.
Bezos Buys Political Power
It's a relevant point.

Feel free to bury your head in the sand.
My Reaction: Three Cheers for Jeff Bezos
Or, to really be a hipster, running Linux was never "hip" to begin with.

*BSD is where it's at.
Ask HN: Should ValleyWag still be banned
ValleyWag recently was relaunched (April '13). It looks like it is no longer peddling the awful gossip stories of before(Sort of). Should it still be banned on HN?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valleywag
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+living+portland...

I will stick to Portland for now.
Care to share any specifics?
As a hispanic developer on an H1-B, I didn't attend to JSConf last year with my team out of the feeling of contempt I get from the immigration policies of that state.
>And even then, you'd have to wait for evolution to take its course and produce (well, perpetuate) whatever DNA is required to produce a bigger brain over a millennium or even longer...

the previous 2M were spent on this extensive option - increasing the size (that was enabled by meat eating), and i think we pretty much exhausted that venue. The next step
is increasing the intensity of using that big brain. We use only small portion of it, and prolonged sustained thinking activities are very exhausting to our bodies in particular because it consumes a lot of energy. Evolutionary biological changes increasing brain efficiency would take long time (btw, it is very educational to read about specifics of Enstein's brain). This is why in historical short term only increasing of energy intake seems to be a viable option.
The chemistry behind the printing process is pretty amazing. It was invented by some ex-Polaroid people. It has a very powerful drawing program embedded in it, or running on a smartphone for the headless version.
Some suggestions from someone using AngularJS in a significant sized commercial project, which manages pages with complex DOM structures with tens of thousands of nodes on some pages:

* Don't modify the DOM with anything other than Angular, not with jQuery, not with anything. You will create a maintenance hell for yourself if you try to do things Angular isn't good at, but if you work well within it's strong areas you will achieve bliss.

* Make everything a directive if possible, Angular performs much better when you are dealing with much smaller scopes contained in directives.

* Angular watchers (including ng-repeat) can be very slow when handling large complex data sets. Create a $watch on the set length, and use that to create a flat index and ng-repeat over the index.
WiFi Pineapple Penetration-Testing Tool Sells Out at DEF CON
Ubuntu hath not a good parallel server distro? It's quite suitable imo.
Does that make pypy platinum?

time pypy -c "print sum(xrange(1000000001))"

is 2.0 seconds on my Mac; a C program with 8-byte ints (long or long long) takes 2.6 seconds.
Thanks for posting this. In addition to his children's books, E.B White's letters and essays are all wonderful. He was a big contributor to the New Yorker for over 50 years. Reading the thoughts of such a great observer of the world always picks me up when I'm feeling depressed.
I left Ubuntu/Debian/Mint for Arch and haven't looked back. True it's a ton of config more to deal with than Mint, but the documentation via the wiki and the community are solid. I've learned a lot thanks to diving head first into Arch.
Can recommend their "Robust Flavour" line. Really quite nice, fresh and olicey.
While in Phoenix on a business trip, an associate I was working with who lived in Phoenix was driving us to lunch. He said "You know, the nice thing about this place is you never have to worry about weeds or yard care. Nothing here is alive unless it is being actively kept alive."

Also, no matter how much water I drink in that city, I can only manage to pee about once per day. Kinda dry there, is what I'm saying.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/45814/27304
Machine Learning Course Materials
The real moneymaking tools in this space are going to be a class of utilities that can broadly be described as "assisted design"; everything from object editors that know about pleasing proportions to linters that will tell you that you laid out the plumbing wrong and you should fix it before it gets printed.

The printers themselves will be commodified quickly; although multi-material printers will buck that trend for some time. Feedstock is already commodified and I can't really see anyone making a play on a printer/feedstock combo that required you buy only genuine branded feedstock.

The basic design tools ( Meshlab, Blender; etc.) are already free, but require real expertise to understand and use.

So the main market opportunities are going to be:

1. finding talented designers/architects/developers and matching them with the demand for design services.

2. parametric design adapters that can take a common set of parameters and produce an individualized design ( from clothing to buildings )

3. Assistive design tools; tools that help you realize your designs while ensuring that they remain within the bounds of manufacturability and are pleasing to the eye and hand; without requiring that you become an expert in whatever field you are dabbling in. ( Think of a jewelry design application that knows about both physics and proportion, and suggests alterations to you. Or a habitat builder that can show you a map of where mildew will happen in your design...) The basic premise of this class of application is that you could hand it to a bright fourteen year old and she could design a successful and functional instance of the target class of object.

If you're hungry for good ideas; there's a fairly rich vein of common items that people will want a customized version of, but won't necessarily be wanting a bespoke or personal design. That would be point 2. above.
http://pebbleroad.github.io/jquery-taxonomy-browser/dist/

Gives a 404 when JS turned off.
This post inspired me... to remove 40 connections on LinkedIn. (Mostly recruiters.)
The fancy slides are burning my cpu.
I don't believe that I would like to live someplace where someone like Joe Arpaio has a successful career in public service.
Interesting domain choice; .az is supposed to be Azerbaijan and .az.us is for Arizona.
Amulyte website has a typo: "The device is equppied" :)

looks like a solid offering, best of luck.
Most people who are passionate about writing, for any kind of writing (code/text/music/etc), do it because they can't not do it; it's a compulsion, a need to tell a story. E B White was a master of his craft.
Very well made website, I really liked the coherent design.

Opinions of your state (which I have none, but large swaths of the American population probably do) aside
There is a problem with this idea: A mobile phone, especially a smartphone, is a personal device. It is all about your SIM, your text messages, your Google account and other accounts, etc. The whole Android ecosystem is built around your identity. Android can store multiple identities. The UI for multiple users is usually only exposed on tablets. That's because they have not figured out how to share the SIM and the mobile service contract.

Cordless phones, on the other hand, are not personal at all. Pick up any phone and use it. It's assumed the landline account is for the use of anyone in a household. Creating the right UX for that and blending it with Android's multi user capabilities is not easy.
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If you do a bust with half a million dollars and a stash of drugs and guns, it should be quite easy to show the cash is criminal. You don't need a lesser standard.
Is it similar to thermal printing or something different?
This is eerily similar to what happened with seo: people started to realize there was more money to be made teaching people how to make lemonade than there was in actually selling lemonade.
Couldn't agree more. I've worked for small companies and now work for a very large company with lots of leverage. Conservatively I would guess that we have 1-2 years of advantage over a startup when competing for the attention of large component suppliers. Just getting the lawyers on both sides to agree on a NDA can be a big production.

On the other hand, when a mega company joins up with another mega company, e.g. phone manufacturer and processor supplier, there's a lot of risk aversion on both sides due to the large investments. There's a crack in the system somewhere that small innovative companies can take advantage of but I don't think open reference designs do much more than documenting the state of the art. That's great for hobbyists but makes little difference in the high-volume commercial space.
Has there ever been a story where Gawker Media's shit-peddling rags were the best source?
Ask HN: Is a blog really the best "Learning Application"?
I see a ton of posts about "Learn X framework by making a blog" or "Make a blog from Y in 20 minute!". Is this really the best application to use as a learning platform? What are the pros and cons of writing a blog as compared to other apps?
Profit-driven Engineers Create Robots that Save Lives
Matt Wright, is that you?
Stop writing Regular Expressions – Express them with Verbal Expressions
"The sad thing is that people on both sides of the political spectrum complain only about the other side,"

False, many people are willing to criticize both sides. If you look for zealots you will surely find them on both sides the same way it's always been.

"Consequently, a party that weakens itself with its own values, will always fail against a party that strengthens itself. "

This is not a problem. This is good because extreme, ideology driven agendas are generally suboptimal.

"Additionally, when the backlash from Bush's increase in government became too severe on the right, Obama stepped in to increase the size and reach of the government on the left."

This is, as they say, not the whole story.

http://www.hamiltonproject.org/images/uploads/thp_image_uplo...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/01/t...

"This is the issue of our generation: the gross overreach of government"

There are many important issues of our generation, if we have to pick one I'm going with inequality and the destruction of public education.
I see the purposes of the internet serving content-rich web apps and the purposes of TOR as different. They may have compatible protocols, but if GMail ran on TOR nobody would even use it. Why bother? It's slow and it's gonna leak information like a watering hose.
seems they are "sold out" now
Hubble Finds Fireball Following Gamma Ray Burst
N = 2.
Before dinosaurs could fly, some had flight-ready brains
I left Ubuntu for Fedora, because It offers a better GNOME Shell experience, I still try Ubuntu GNOME every new release, but till now Fedora feels faster and more stable.
Seems safe to assume he is talking primarily about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070
Very nice, this will help a lot for a project I'm working on :)
Here's a code for 10% off: http://onemonthrails.com/signup?discount_code=rEEvPf
I've clicked the link out of curiosity. Ended up chatting with one of the listeners for 2 hours... Well, actually almost all the chatting was done by me, listener was...listening. :) Man, it feels good to spill it out!
Great service, thank you!