skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What do you think when you hear "I just need a tech co-founder"?
Specific to programmers and based of the Quora post - https://www.quora.com/Startups-and-How-Important-Are-Ideas/Programmers-what-do-you-think-when-you-hear-I-just-need-a-tech-co-founder
Yep, exactly my thoughts! I was rubbish at that game.
Too bad, I really liked getting cheap servers from them and their customer service was actual real people not script readers. You'll be missed.
Robert Scoble interviews Koding founder Devrim Yasar [video]
The way Yasar talks, Koding is a platform for distributed world domination masquerading as a social network/productivity booster for development teams: "Free software has changed the world; free computing will give life to it."
If your college education for becoming a developer didn't teach you a lower level language it failed you. Even at my small liberal arts school we use multiple languages (they may all be really, really similar, but they're different languages), and work on low-level things.

I'm aghast that a CS education wouldn't include at least Java, especially considering that a large number of schools switched exclusively to Java at one point.
Life is cultural. We're embedded in a culture. Cultural positives are not any less "true" positives.
I didn't see a link to their site in the article, so I thought I'd include one here - https://ooomf.com/
Checking that the determinant is below a threshold is not a valid test for conditioning. Take epsilon*Identity, for example.
Incorrect comma usage, actually. You can't omit the Oxford comma (the comma before an "and") with a list of exactly 3 items. If you do, the middle item in the list can be parsed too many different ways, as happened here.
That's a gross oversimplification.

I actually agree that rich kids will rebel with cocaine and DUI, because I've personally seen it. I have to say that most of them are useless when it comes to working with them. Time will change that, not me.

I don't know any poor kids that hold up convenience stores, but I'm German, so maybe it just doesn't happen here as often. If they do rebel, it's usually based on noncompliance with authority figures, minor theft and drinking/drug use.
What about the F-15 Silent Eagle?
Google Integrates SoundCloud With Google+, Search
Why Business Is 100x Harder Than Pro Sports
In the US, labor laws are pretty clear about when an internship can be unpaid. The position needs to be an experience similar to an academic class for the intern and can't displace a paid position for example. That Facebook post is asking for several specific skills as if it's a job posting, which is a red flag in itself.
Free electricity for life for only $100 per head? Sounds like a good deal to me
The Arduino library provides a lot more flexibility compared to the bare AVR + libc, but at the expense of performance. Notably using digitalWrite() can be up to 50x slower than writing to the port registers directly.
I am not sure but I've heard Costco is much better at treating their employees compared to Wal-Mart and other stores. The salaries are higher than the minimum wage.
> This guy is making a fatal mistake of talking to the press.

Naw, the interview was on the forums and via PM. I'd be more worried about his book club entropy than the interview
Language popularity is a pretty fickle thing. It was not too long ago that you'd be laughed out of the room if you suggested using Javascript for any kind of serious work. Perl, once the king of scripting languages by orders of magnitude, is now viewed as being something close to COBOL: a few old guys know it, but none of the cool kids will touch it.
Not everything Intellectual Ventures does relates to patent trolling.

Intellectual Ventures also has an applied science laboratory that's even spun out a startup, Kymeta [1], in which Bill Gates invested.

Kymeta is a very cool company; they're developing revolutionary satellite transceivers using metamaterials [2].

[1] http://www.kymetacorp.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterials
The strange, sad anxiety of Jason Rohrer's game, "The Castle Doctrine"
Even your own provides full privacy?
Did anyone find details (or have an idea) on power consumption?

<selfishPlug>
I'm the maintainer of nitrogen (http://github.com/nitrogenjs/service), which is a node.js based project to provide web services and client libraries for devices like this. Check it out if you are interested in devices like this!
</selfishPlug>
Anyone with a tinkerer's mind would not have a moment's trouble picking up Lua particularly if they already knew Javascript (or any other scripting language for that matter).
Useless speculation: Hyperloop is a red herring meant to distract us from the rocket that will get you from LAX (not Sylmar) to SFO in 15 minutes!
Honestly, this the best comment on this thread.
word2vec – Tool for computing continuous distributed representations of words
As someone who did graduate work in Bayesian methods for a statistics master's degree, I take offense to saying machine learning is not a concern of statistics and data mining (but not really)! The hesitance towards Bayesian methods seems more related to the discipline, and it seems that places that call what they do "machine learning" tend to be less hostile towards the explicit subjectivity of Bayes (I would highlight the word "explicit" in that sentence--Frequentism has it's fair share of subjectivity as well).

There was a great post on Stats.SE a few years ago about the difference between statistics and machine learning[1]. Leo Breiman once argued that statistics tends to focus more on model fitting and checking, while machine learning looked at prediction accuracy. The exchange between Andy Gelman and Brendan O'Connor is pretty funny. It has been my personal experience however that many people that apply a method that they brand as "machine learning" are not as bothered with assumptions as my fellow conservative statisticians.

But statistics and machine learning are quite similar in foundation. Barring the differences in terminology, as a professional statistician, I find I have as little difficulty read machine learning papers and algorithms as I do reading statistics ones.

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/6/the-two-cultures-...
Ask HN: Why aren't you working on a startup?
So many people get sucked into their jobs as developers for someone else's dream. Why are you?
That just accentuates his curious vagueness about the baseline he varied from.

A "serving" of alcohol is considered 0.6 fl oz, or 14 grams, of ethanol. People tend to overestimate what constitutes a "serving" of any food/drink, with consequences in line with the withdraw effects he experienced.
even LGPL would have been preferable.
That was the theory in Vietnam, then jammers happened.. reality intruded and Mig17 with a cannon savaged far more advanced US craft that outnumbered them by orders of magnitude. oops. Drones are even more fun, notice how Iranians took control of one and got in perfect condition. Want to be defending your carrier then realize hmm I dont think we have concat with our toys oops indeed
TempleOS is reading HN today...
Any chance you could point out a couple of good resources that cover the "strict set of conventions" you mention for Javascript?
I've been dabbling in Javascript projects for a while now, and one of my biggest frustrations has been that I haven't been able to find any great resources that cover best-practice code design (above the level of style guides that cover mainly syntax issues). It would be great to have a couple of resources that cover the "right way" of doing things.
The way Yasar talks, Koding is a platform for distributed world domination masquerading as a social network/productivity booster for development teams: "Free software has changed the world; free computing will give life to it."
Stripe Webhooks Down
"Please do all the work while I act like a diva about the vision."
I would think so, but its all I know. I started this whole crazy entrepreneurship/bootstrap thing the week my 3rdcomputer daughter was born. No time like the present!
Mysterious magnetar boasts one of strongest magnetic fields in Universe
Because I'm not that good.
> it will increase the value of the overall ZFS knowledge base (like this post).

Joyent uses ZFS on illumos exclusively. Not Linux
I beg to differ. I don't see how an oxford comma would fix this confusion. In fact I think without it his statement is easier to understand. We can easily see he means three people. If he used the Oxford comma the second person would look identical to a preposition and would make your parents comment more valid.
I am not, I work at startup . I think primary reason behind job is the financial security.
Politics generally block these type of deals. I bet Finland also have similar requirements, but they went and purchased F-18 instead than whatever SAAB had to offer.
It's not about good or bad , I think it's lack of enough motivation .
Autosave to Skydrive in Windows 8.1
I stopped for a few months several years ago (to study for the GMAT, of all things). Granted, this coincided with me actively practicing puzzles and trick questions (essentially this is what the high end questions are) but I felt noticeably sharper. Like I'd gained 10-20 IQ points. Prior to this I drank quite often over several years (college plus a few post college years). This break (and my awareness of its effects) caused me to really curb my drinking. Now I drink sparsely and mostly to appreciate a nice wine or beer or well made cocktail. I think there's a balance to strike. Enjoyment in life might be worth a marginal IQ point here and there. I dropped out of bschool but learned this lesson getting myself admitted. Thanks bschool! :D
"If/when"? Cisco is already acquiring companies at the rate of about one every month or two [1]. Having been on the receiving end of a rather large one, the striking thing was how routine and well-oiled that process is.

[1] http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/corporate_deve...
I had this thought was well. As as physics major and an EE major, it's a (somewhat humorously) terrifying concept, at some level.

Now this has more or less been discussed to death in the threads above and below, but while I don't necessarily think running JS on a uC is a great idea, I don't see a problem with letting non-hardware-versed folk write low level code. People who know hardware will probably not use it for anything critical, and if it makes someone's life easier without endangering others or utterly diluting the community (knock on wood...) then so be it. There's no reason to be elitist about low level programming.

At this moment my workspace consists of a bit of code for an 8bit microcontroller, a FPGA layout + VHDL, and a mixed signal high speed PCB layout I've been laboring over for the better part of two weeks. Take that, "low level" C! Now I could go off about how superior and/or necessary my low level methods are, but my friend who's working on an ASIC design might say something similar to me. There's always a lower level. As always it's a little bit about preference, and a lot about using the appropriate tool for the job.

I might have a problem if web developers started cramming JS onto arduinos and calling themselves competent hardware engineers, but (and I think most people in the field would agree with me) I suspect the likelihood of that happening is negligible. It becomes apparent very, very quickly when someone is pretending to know how to hardware.
By the same token, missiles and stealth are not fail proof either.
I like it. It was the first language I learned because edu materials were more accessible (to me) than Perl/python/Ruby
It's the gaping holes in their knowledge base, reinforced work-arounds in place because they didn't know there was a gap or that it could be bridged, which I find glaringly problematic. Formal training strives to ensure everything has been covered to an appropriate degree, and subsequent self-teaching is done with an awareness that such thoroughness should be sought. The self-taught know-it-all (as contrasted with self-taught humility) does not grasp the vast fabric of knowledge, instead equating "good enough" with "that's all there is".
I prefer Tech News Rumor Insider

http://tech.rubbercat.net/2013/05/i-went-a-year-without-pint...
Both sites use twitter bootstrap with a few font changes, among other things.
The nuclear triad always seemed a bit circular to me. We have three main means of delivering nuclear weapons, so it must be a good idea to have three different means of delivering nuclear weapons. I don't see it. With geographic diversity and at least one delivery system that is mobile and easy to hide we should be more than capable of asserting a second strike capability.

What's really needed from a modern bomber is a high munition capacity, a large combat radius, and long loiter times. Cheap to build and operate would be great too. Super stealth as well as high speeds and maneuverability are simply expensive distractions.

For the rare situation where we need to deliver something like a conventional bunker buster deep inside of territory that we don't wish to first completely destroy the AA cababilities of first -- i.e. an Osirak type mission -- we still have 20 of those $2 billion B-2s.
I wonder how long until someone launches an app for couples seeking unicorns and vice versa?
Successful invasion of Taiwan? Most likely mad boom, total economic and political dominance of Asia would do that. Not to mention internally it would cement the government for a generation or two
And the world took a step closer to the promise of the tricorder.
If you think someone else's idea is a good idea, there's nothing shameful about working for "someone else's dream." Your motivation in anything you do should be that you are doing something that will make the world a better place, whether or not it was "your idea."

If you think someone has a great idea that you want to happen, then join in. Your motivation shouldn't be making yourself famous.
I don't think anybody mentioned Octopress
http://octopress.org/
Rich, good looking actor suggests he got to where he is today by working some menial jobs as a teenager, continues to give trite motivational speech where he equates sexiness with intelligence and generosity, suggests the constraints of life all imaginary.

How would his speech look if he instead was never successful in acting (this is essentially a lottery), wasn't born good looking, didn't have the money to live life free of the constraints that poor people do?
6 days ago, we launched

http://sideprojectors.com

I wouldn't call these projects "failed", but many developers abandon, pause, stop their projects for various reasons.

So far, we have had more than 50 projects posted and as of this morning two projects have been sold.

Loved the approach that Sacha is taking as suggested in the post, sideprojectors could be another way of saving an interesting side project that could benefit others!
Because it was done in pen and paper by Gauss 200 years ago :)
Clojure: Thinking in Hashmaps
No more +1s — Bitbucket Issues now has voting
Raising the IQ of smart windows
Life Inside Brewster’s Magnificent Contraption (The Internet Archive)
I see the same thing crop up on HN so often - this whole "I taught myself and it works, therefore we should abandon universities and all self-teach". Here's one of these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176222
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Black Diamond and Patagonia:

> My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-06-19/yvon-chouinar...
Why aren't you working on a startup?

I am.
and the flipside is it's unfair to those who want to earn skills even if it means they don't get paid.
At my company, this is the algorithm:

take on interns before graduation
if graduating within a year
make hire/no-hire decision by the end of the internship
else
make re-intern decision by the end of the internship

Summer internship is a great recruiting channel for us. If we pay them well (not quite at entry level, admittedly), give them a good experience, and a good evaluation, everyone wins, and their full-time destiny is in their hands.

Hopefully fresh CS graduates are not taking contracting jobs with Bigco! From where I sit, they are in a seller's market and shouldn't take so little.
Yep, sorry I mis-remembered this tweet: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/366959032625405953. Sales chart: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month.
What a bunch of pompous bullshit. From what you've said it seems you've never met a talented JS programmer.
The language of the title is overloaded.

Sometimes circumstances of survival force individuals to develop hustle, while others are content with following.

The key is perhaps rebellious temprament, from authority, whether parent or employer, to seek independence and freedom despite risk.
Most of gcc is still written in C. Only a tiny amount of new code is in C++. In my opinion, that's the worst of both worlds-- inconsistent code, plus C++ overheads.

I work with some fairly recent version of both compilers-- gcc 4.7.2 and clang 3.2. I also know a developer on the LLVM team. clang is way ahead of gcc in many ways, and the gcc devs know it.

We still ship software built with gcc, rather than clang, because gcc is still better at optimization. (gcc also supports more obscure targets, though that's not our biggest concern).

We also make use of llvm's ability to dynamically recompile code on the fly in Cloudera Impala. More information here: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/02/inside-cloudera-impala...

This would not be possible with gcc no matter how much work we did (license issues-- Impala is Apache 2.0, gcc is GPLv3).
Nerdbox
Here again I will posit:

Secure programs should rely on /dev/urandom, to the exclusion of other CSPRNGs, and should specifically eschew userland CSPRNG engines even when they're seeded from /dev/urandom.

This Android bug is another in a line of bugs in userland CSPRNGs, the most famous of which was Debian's OpenSSL CSPRNG bug which gave up everyone's SSH key. CSPRNGs have bugs. When you rely on a userland CSPRNG, you're relying on two single points of failure: the userland CSPRNG and the OS's CSPRNG. Failures of either aren't generally survivable.

There are people who are smarter than me (notably 'cperciva) who disagree with me on this, but this is an idea I got from DJB's NACL design paper; it's not my own crazy idea.

I got to eat dinner with Dan Bernstein the other day, by the way, and it turns out NACL is pronounced "lasagna".
Very cool, too bad they listed the melting point temperatures in Celsius instead of Kelvin.

It would be interesting to see it tipped over as a 3-D bar graph (in K). Some of the rows have little dips in them (not just mercury), not just a hump (with carbon at the peak)

[edit:]

Oh (via few seconds google) http://www.webelements.com/_media/periodicity/tables/cylinde...
Breakthrough: Scientists have built a fully-functional mouse heart
"rrrruuuunnnnnnnnn"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_tempera...

The different organizations have different exact definitions.
It doesn't even seem like Sheryl knew about this internship/volunteer position.
In fact, one might say that an entrepreneur is the best kind of felon!

(I'm not sure what one might mean by such a statement; nevertheless, one might say it.)
Battleships can survive close hits by airburst nukes. To defend against this, the opponent must either use massive overkill, or use underwater bursts near their own coasts. Either approach has dreadful economic costs.

War is the art of making the opponent's costs exceed their resources. One way to create costs is to make weapons that are unreasonably durable—the battleship is the extreme end of the spectrum.
A list full of startup platitudes dressed up in pedantic rhetoric. Did you really learn this o'wise oracle, or did you just plagiarize a bunch of wisdom, rewrite it in your own voice, and claim it as your own? Elements of Style you are not because there is no great sense of consistency. And who the hell are you anyways?
That's a great idea. Maybe I should submit http://thetoolbox.cc/ ? I still like that project but I don't have the time to keep it up to date…
In my experience the manager will not fire their manager friends; they will tend to settle political scores. Guess who is to get the boot? those who cause 'trouble' by speaking up, now all to often these are the guys/girls who care about their work and who are good at it.

My advise: if you interview a person who has been fired from big corp. then don't form any preconceptions against that person based on that fact alone.
Why does it matter? What's the utility of determining whether or not a particular topic qualifies as part of another particular topic?
Yes. After 2 weeks, I didn't feel handicapped. After 4 weeks I could type as fast as before (75-80wpm). Now, about 6 months later, I can type 95wpm on a good day.
I'd be curious to know how he pronounces Google's NaCl. ;)

edit: for those unaware, the NACL 'tptacek is referring to is [0] - which long predates [1].

[0] http://nacl.cr.yp.to/

[1] https://developers.google.com/native-client/
I thought OpenSSL's default code already pulled from /dev/[u]random at initialization?
That would be super. :)
The Gift of the Drift
This is the best comment in this whole thread:

>Modern fighter aircraft need to:
a) not be seen b) be fast (time to target is still important!) c) carry a decent payload of weapons.
Ideally target selection should be provided by AWACS, and missile-sensors provide the final kill guidance, allowing the fighter (AKA missile-launch platform) to remain stealthy. In the absence of AWACS, the fighter will need to carry it's own sensor suite.
Modern air warfare is all about sensors, ECM and stealth. The airframe is almost inconsequential.
Steam already sells several pieces of game-related software, such as Cakewalk and GameMaker. A 3D modeling package fits right in.

Blender is pretty much the only choice of 3D package for Valve's portfolio, being multi-platform, stable and costing less than $3000.
Fairness is an issue for the have-nots, not the haves. It isn't unfair that a person who can afford food doesn't receive food stamps, for example.
What's the CS part of CSPRNG?
This is exactly what I thought as well. An interesting twist is to think whether we'd consider our entire universe to be alive - perhaps like an egg with an embryo in it. There you go, you have the "hugest" thing possible :)
Modern fighter aircraft need to: a) not be seen b) be fast (time to target is still important!) c) carry a decent payload of weapons.

Ideally target selection should be provided by AWACS, and missile-sensors provide the final kill guidance, allowing the fighter (AKA missile-launch platform) to remain stealthy. In the absence of AWACS, the fighter will need to carry it's own sensor suite.

Modern air warfare is all about sensors, ECM and stealth. The airframe is almost inconsequential.

(This comment is copy+pasted from demallien's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6213619 )
Cryptographically secure.
cryptographically secure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseudo...
Equity compensates risk. Earlier employees take more risk.
(cross post from other article)

I thought OpenSSL's default code already pulled from /dev/[u]random at initialization?
I'm not sure this will solve the issue. Google Code has a similar concept and popular issues still suffer from a deluge of +1s.