skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This data's been collected across the VC industry:

http://www.vcconfidential.com/2009/02/josh-lerner-on-serial-...

Among VC-backed entrepreneurs, 34 percent of successful entrepreneurs succeed in their next venture, as compared to 23 percent of failed entrepreneurs and 22 percent of first-time entrepreneurs. This would suggest that yes, there is something about the entrepreneur that influences success, but it only improves your odds by about 50%.

(Note that there are a number of confounding factors in the study, like it only looking at VC-funded entrepreneurs - total success rates are likely much lower, since very few prospective founders get funding - and that repeat entrepreneurs have many external advantages like better access to funding, a name in the press, a better reputation for recruiting, and a pre-existing network.)
Honestly, I thought the original comic was spot-on and loved it. The dickwolves thing didn't get past my rape joke barometer. Still doesn't.

Of course, I'm a mostly-white, cismale, upper-middle class programmer who's never been sexually assaulted so I'm skewered by all kinds of privilege here.

But I'm talking about PA's reactions, about what came after. So's the post on Wired. And it seemed clear to me that he was trying to bait me by throwing my words back at me without context without contributing to the discussion.
The style of writing is suited to its purpose. This isn't a news report; it isn't vital to impart maximum information in minimum space. Rather, the writer was conveying the feeling of the situation in which he found himself. "Dave" is ridiculous and disjointed, so it is fitting that prose devoted to him would be as well.
Thanks for the feedback!

Actually, schema can express arbitrary constraints. Your example translates to schema as:

{String {(s/required-key "product") [String]
(s/required-key "type") (s/enum "type1" "type2")
s/Any s/Any}} ;; allow any other k-v pairs
Great, looking forward to seeing it.

My system uses peer to peer software to synchronize each container's public keys and IP address/port information, as well as a mesh network VPN. This allows me to easily join a new node to the VPN cluster (using ENV variables to specify the port and public address to listen on, which is then used in the Docker container creation) and still have minimal latency between any two nodes.

I'll probably have to write up a post myself describing the system and how Docker is used to create new containers and add it to the cluster.
I'm initially inclined to dismiss this as ugly and distracting, especially with the default colors being very similar to the traditional link/visited HTML colors. It would be worth exploring further if the claimed improvements are true.

I'd especially be interested in exploring ways to incorporate this into better designed color schemes so that it doesn't look so much like a unicorn vomited on the page while preserving the benefits and usability.

I'm also less inclined to dismiss improvements like these after misinterpreting the occasional email from colleagues lately. I don't know if it is assuming I know the full contents from the 3 line summary on mobile devices, processing too much email, or simply not paying enough attention but I've had to slow down and make sure I get things right.
Highest proliferation in emerging countries - Interesting to see where the US fell in those rankings.
Have you used one? I ask because I thought the similar thing but recently purchased the Dell XPS 12" and one of my coworkers bought the Yoga. While I agree, I don't often times flip my screen around unless I'm reading a long article of some type I do touch the screen a lot and the screens don't move like you'd think. In fact I'm so used to using the touchscreen (and I've only had the dell for about a month) that I find myself trying to touch my screen on my macbook now as well.
Yup, we have a shared helper in Firefox OS on top of IndexedDB that all the apps use (localStorage is as close to banned as it can be) (https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/js/as...)

However thats fine when you are building your own apps, but I meant as a long term solution to the web platform, if localStorage needs disabled on one platform in favour of a propietary API, maybe its best to replace it with a non proprietary web api
> The "unless you use deep links" parenthetical kills the entire article. Not providing a call to action that allows your customer to make the purchase is just bothering the user to no effect!

Not exactly - deeplinks done well take you right to the check out page, where all you have to do is confirm the purchase. Most push notifications for the moment open you into a random page into the app, which, I agree, doesn't really add value.
Ok, how? I thought Monads required closure returns and some sort of future or deferrence?
I'm not convinced that we can map the ethics used with situations involving the military chain of command to situations involving informal mobs.

Now, we still have concepts like "inciting imminent lawless action" that are fairly non-controversial, so clearly there is at least some sense of blaming people who tell others to go make a mess, but I don't think that is nearly as clear-cut as your example.
Their policy is fundamentally incompatible with IndieGoGo's model. So why do they accept payments for IGG campaigns in the first place?

You can't have it both ways.
The Whole Food Fallacy
I think the author is assuming that the readers know exactly what happened in 2008. The crisis is referred to implicitly here: "Markets that were closing 20 referred deals per year in 2006 turned into 1 or 2 closed deals by 2009."
It's very distracting for me personally. I'd prefer a subtle gradient on the margin to help me keep track of the area where I'm at.
I love this. Thanks!
I like your driving analogy. It's very true. Those who talk the most shit often are shit, like how some men call women bad drivers even though women are actually less costly to insure.

Bad driver stereotypes piss me off because they often work under the assumption that cautious drivers are bad drivers and aggressive drivers are good drivers. Hell I bet Asian women are really the safest drivers.
Hang on, learning from experiences? They talked about how they would've persisted with the offensive merchandise. How is greater insensitivity becoming a better person? I was happy to read his comments about trans stuff, but it seems to me that he's still a shoot first, ask questions later person. In fact what prompted the trans apology originally was more deliberately incendiary commentary.

He's not a villain but I don't really see this as anything except a very slow process involving a cycle of deliberately offensive commentary followed by recrimination followed by apologies. It's just sad to see that in this case it seems he wasn't all that sorry after all. So what's next? Another "not sorry" response regarding trans folk?

I would restate the first point as follows: the trolls have the same view as Mike/Gabe. And that particular view is that, what, social censure is censorship? It's not an uncommon view among the angry (predominantly white) male gamer crowd. @teamrape is just one particularly good example of a bunch of people organizing behind this principle.
Understood - for flash sales though, a large portion of the demand is driven by the fact that the items are only available in limited quantities. As a result these pushes generate huge spikes of traffic - it's spammy if you don't care that the selection quickly shrinks, but if you're a compulsive shopper (true for a large swath of the shopping population) then you depend on it.
This entire incident could be taught as a textbook example of what not to do in public relations. You have everything: a demonstrated lack of empathy, attacking the victim, continued engagement over a long period of time, over-the-top antagonizing behavior (t-shirts? really?).

Had he upset a more powerful and organized group and had the same response, PAX would be finished.
Really the name belongs to a bivalve and everyone else is ripping off an entire species. I'm tired of thinking people are going to be able to pay for their tube fare with a mollusc - only to find out after reading it's really some silly smartcard!
It's pretty clearly laid out here http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/20501826-when-to-expect...

The gist is: For flexible funding campaigns the amount given via PayPal are transferred directly to the campaigns PP account (minus the fees obviously). For fixed funding campaigns the given amount is transferred after the campaign meets the funding goal. Money given via direct Credit Card payment will be cashed out after the campaign reaches its deadline and should arrive within 15 business days.

Mailpile is a flexible funding campaign, so the first rule applies and funds are directly placed in their PP account.
Perhaps the problem is that hackers don't do much reading apart from man pages. Literature...does not compute.
> The trend is not towards HTML5, but actually away from it. Quite honestly the Chrome Mobile team are swimming against the tide on this.

That's quite a statement. The average Android app is already a UI nightmare that feels foreign to the system, I don't see how HTML is going to be somehow worse (especially when there would be a full set of HTML5 components to use).
If I say something that offends a certain religion and those people burn down a building in response, and I knew they would do that, am I responsible for that?

I used to think so -- if I didn't do X then bad thing Y wouldn't happen, so I could stop it, right? -- but it was some liberal friends of mine who convinced me otherwise. All you can be responsible for is yourself.
A Map of Who's Got the Best (and Worst) Internet Connections in America
Your site is blocked by McAfee as a source of malware, btw.
Having attended every PAX on the west coast, I can safely say that taking the opinions of twitter trolls as a barometer for the culture of PAX is a grave mistake. It's a very welcoming community that generally looks down on trolls, misogyny, and sexism. Many people say that when they get to PAX they feel like they've finally come home. Many of the panels are chosen specifically to encourage a culture of acceptance. Just from this year, see:

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/hey-vasquez-you-ever...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/everything-we-know-i...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/achieving-gender-div...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/gays-in-love-with-th...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/press-xy-presents-ri...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/you-game-like-a-girl...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/political-correctnes...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/its-dangerous-to-go-...

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/gender-diversity-in-...
A perpetual motion machine
I read it to completion. It certainly did hold my interest, though I don't claim to have any insight into yours.

The voice isn't unfamiliar to me (I read it with the diction of a good friend who has an Australian's Australian accent) and I found it compelling throughout.
I'm working on http://postcardsocial.net/

I'm building this for a couple key reasons:
1. I wanted a better way to directly get social content on my own website as I blogged less and less and used social media more and more.
2. I wanted to develop an open API protocol for social networking communications. The mobile app uses this protocol to communicate with WordPress sites that use the plugin component but ultimately any web server implementing the protocol could work.

I'm actually now looking for people interested in beta testing both the WordPress plugin and mobile app so please sign up on that page if interested. I'm also keeping a blog with more information on everything http://blog.postcardsocial.net/

Great idea for a HN thread! I'll visit frequently and comment on others' shares.
Oh whoops, he does say "as the housing market collapsed" there. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I skipped a line because the text was all the same color.

It does seem like it wasn't as bad for them, seemingly because this was in a non-bootstrapped phase. So clearly, that's a classic example of when having investors gives your company much-needed shock absorbers.
No. Were you to retain Matasano, you'd discover that our relationship would be governed by a series of contracts. If you were of any significant size, those contracts would be scrutinized on your side by your counsel. If you were a typical client of size, your counsel and management would likely have questions or concerns about those terms, which would then be the subject of negotiation. Our risk tolerance and cost structure would very much matter to those negotiations.

Regarding the label you used: what makes it absurd is the notion that Patrick would be motivated by an urge to justify the actions of a 3rd party business he's barely engaged with. Here it pains me to cite Paul Graham's "Things You Can't Say" on the semiotic significance of deploying labels to make arguments.
Just don't check the 'share my genome with 23&me/participate in their data mining shenanigans' button. Otherwise it's a cool service.
Well, this looks interesting, but doesn't work with HTTPS.
Which is a problem.
Google says that "packaged apps are written in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS" but the first one they show, Pixlr Touch Up, is actually written in Flash. New breed, eh?
All-you-can-buffet movies/tv and now books is done. That same for home renting, car renting, vacationing, plane flying, private schooling, food eating needs to be done. Huge profits for hackers that can do it.
You're presuming IGG and PP have the same risk calculation. IGG might be more willing to take on risk than PP.
Time to show what you can do with Google Cloud Platform
I see what you're getting at, but I'd like to point out that "not a big amount of system administration work" isn't worth money. Have you actually figured out how much it costs you to write many python scripts?
I think the point is that fat can pass through the body without being absorbed easier than glucose. So calories from fat are less likely to become fat on your body than calories from simpler sugars. That's really the best I can come up with, but the article sounds like mostly nonsense.
Some people are working in that direction, see https://people.gnome.org/~alexl/glick2/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/562138/ Because this stuff is older than Docker it tends to be Dockerish but not actually Docker.
Wow... I tried reading with the Kindle app on my Samsung Note. I couldn't do it. The 7 inch tablet on the other hand...
What I meant was - most emails don't include deep links. Take LinkedIn for example - if you click a CTA from a LinkedIn email, it takes you into a browser (even if you have the app on your phone).

Most emails still function this way. It doesn't work because while the user might be logged into your iPhone app, they're likely not logged into your website in mobile safari/chrome.

Emails are a good way to notify you, if you want to still go search/navigate. They don't take you right to checkout though, which is negative for conversion.
I take back what I said about him not being sorry; I just had the chance to read this, and I think it's fair-ish.

http://penny-arcade.com/2013/09/04/some-clarification

I think pulling the merchandise might not have been good for PA as such, but I think it was better for the PA brand overall and as a peace offering. It demonstrated some amount of respect and contrition, in a very tangible way.
You can't opt out of Facebook's Facial Recognition if you have a profile photo
> They were reacting as if they were defending their free speech, and they weren't incorrect in isolation, the problem was they thus enabled other people to act out in more extreme ways.

I think this was the real issue for Gabe, and I'm glad to see that he seems to realize that himself.

In essence, the dickwolves went off-message quickly, and what he thought he was defending against wasn't really the point of contention, and what he and Tycho were trying to say with the comic itself wasn't really what all of the comic's supporters had in mind.

I suspect this is what it might feel like to learn that a favorite shirt suddenly became a polarizing insignia within a gang battle you hadn't even known was active on the streets. The shirt means one thing to you but something completely different outside your front door.
Depends what you have in mind, I guess.

You could run most essential system components (syslog, ssh, cron...) inside containers, and bind-mount /home when it makes sense. Since those components need elevated privileges, I don't know if containers would be that useful... And then systemd already puts services in cgroups; it's a nice approach (IMHO).

Or you could use containers a bit like virtualenvs. If you're a Python developer familiar with virtualenvwrapper, you probably use mkvirtualenv when you start working on a new project (or on a different setup for an existing project). Containers could be used in a similar manner with some clever wrappers.
I read the article but I wish these kind of articles had tl;dr. Too many things with the real content(what the company does or how it's going to solve the problem) buried deep inside.
The documentation says chrome.usb only works on Chrome OS, are you sure it works in the actual browser?

Last time I looked into this stuff it's nontrivial to let arbitrary user-mode applications manipulate arbitrary USB devices on Windows, so I'd be impressed if they got it working in a secure fashion and deployed it to the open web.
GoDaddy Revamp
Keychain isn't an iCloud product like this password manager is. iCloud has been a QC fail since back when it was called iTools (in 2000!).
Agreed. The apps are getting better though (and have to - a lot of businesses are seeing 30 - 50% of usage/revenue coming via mobile). It's not a preference for businesses because they've spent a decade investing in the web and now mobile is coming along, but its driven by end users. If you don't adapt, your competitors will, and they'll eat your lunch as a result.
Can you access wordpress? I'm just using a re-direct.
I suspect it is because many hackers find themselves in the same state as the author of being disillusioned / burned out and looking for meaning at some point in their life. I'm not sure if spending a week with Dave would be the best solution if you are in that position.
I believe the whole story and comments can be summed up as:

1. People want paypal to act as a big dumb money pipe from point A to point B

2. Paypal refuses to act as a big dumb money pipe from point A to point B when the risk is high that point A may want their money back, and paypal cannot shift the loss allocation to someone else.

3. Their risk mitigation strategy in the case of #2, while not atypical of the industry, upsets a lot of people who are not familiar with this type of thing occurring, and seems "unfair".
From their CEO:

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One of the clearest lessons we've learned is that the one word to describe you best is 'courageous.' You go after what you really love, you chart your own course, and you create something (often from nothing) that usually makes the world a better place. Whether it's a neighborhood pizza shop, an organization to help those in need, or a company poised to launch a new industry, you believe where others don't. You have the guts to strike out on your own to make your dreams — however bold or humble — a reality. That's courage, and it's worth every ounce of support we can give.

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I don't disagree.

It seems to me that many people involved in this situation are purposely being imprecise to cause drama. Specifically there are two waves of people who got offended; the people who were offended by the comic, and the people who were offended by the reaction to the first wave. It seems like people like mhurron are purposely conflating the two waves to cause strive, though it is possible it wasn't intentional.
The grandparent post implied the geek connection was drawing comic strips.
Why Businesspeople Should Learn To Code (But Not Write Software)
I do that all the time. I live in Poland and bought hundreds of things from the Internet. Buyer always pays first, and there are no such things as chargebacks. And yet most people are okay with that. Only US people take chargebacks for granted.
The logo does not guarantee success or failure. Lots of huge companies have horrid logos...
Then why does PP work as Payment Provider for IGG if they are so risk-averse?
Having recently looked into speed reading a bit, this seems to do a quite good job at filling the role of a pacer without actually requiring any manual interaction by the reader. Nice work! Easily beats trying to pace yourself with the mouse cursor or text selection at least, while actually preserving pages mostly as-is.
To be fair, this is half a solution for getting a quick overview of a server. You still need thew collector/visualizer, which, at least now, is proprietary.

You could, conceivably, make your own collector/visualizer, but that seems to be the hard part here.
Adjusting to something like the "Blues" color scheme seems to make things a bit nicer.

What I'm worried about is comprehension.
And don't forget that even though it's a niche and you probably have some awesome skills in the niche that are needed for running the business, BUT if you structure it correctly, you are also building up equity that can be sold if you decide to try other things or simply want to cash out.

For a recurring revenue net of $250k, it's not unreasonable value it at $750k to $1.25 mil depending on how likely you are to keep that cashflow going and how much ongoing investment is needed. (DISCLAIMER: this is napkin math, nothing more.) Although, after tax that doesn't sound like all that much, it is life-changing for most people. If you can for example pay off your mortgage and other debts, your lifestyle changes overnight.
When speed reading, this doesn't seem particularly effective. Perhaps a dot at the end of the line with a particular color that corresponds to a dot of the same color preceding the following line would be better for those who minimize eye movements.
The style reminds me of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea.