skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is _amazingly_ expensive to start building a network.
There's about 4 vendors providing the gear needed for a large scale cell network. And they're not bothering talking to you unless you want to buy a lot of gear.

Then you need spectrum licenses. And since you're placing cell towers around, you're either going to rent rather expensive towers, or build your own, which requires permits and a lot of civil engineering.

It's a bit easier today, as there's more infrastructure in place - but you may very well end up needing to provide the network backhaul from a cell site, somehow get power lines to the cell site. And that cell site might need backup power, which require refueling and maintenance every now and then, you might need to build a small cabin to house the gear, and you might need to hire helicopters to fly in that gear.

When you get this far, you need a marketing department, so people can actually buy connectivity, refill cards, sim card distribution, and similar.

At some point you might need roaming agreements with others as well. If your're lucky the government requires you to have agreements with other operators in your country - important enough, cause unless you have greate coverage people won't bother if they can't use their phone. If you want your customers to use their phone while abroad, you get to make individual roaming agreements with all those other operators in other countries.
The templates section is nevertheless useful https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/
> With donor funded nonprofits the "product" is fulfilling the donors' wish to see money spent on X

I disagree. With donor funded nonprofits, the product can be to fulfill the donors wish to see their money achieving outcome X, not seeing their money spent on outcome X (it can also be as you present; different donors have different motives.)

I don't think that necessary challenges your conclusions, but I think it is an important distinction.
You keep throwing argument, please back it with facts.
Exactly how much research have you done to buttress that "should"?
Google of course has decided "copy link to" shouldn't work.

There's an addon for that.
Actually, by virtue of being on U.S. soil you are also fully protected by the 4th Amendment, despite not being a U.S. citizen.

That's why the NSA is generally careful to refer to "U.S. persons" instead of "U.S. citizens" when they talk in technical terms about things like minimization.
When you say:

"(2) stick to standards (e.g., using HTML now instead of XUL)"

and

"(3) if your system isn't getting traction, retry in 10 years?"

It sounds like you are claiming Mozilla is promoting the use of XUL as a mark-up language for web apps, which is completely, unequivocally, 100% false. Hopefully this is not what you intended, because it would be an unfortunate case of FUD-spreading.
Yeah, I think this is about right. Your target demographic is the intersection of:

- People who like Ubuntu.
- People who can't install it themselves.

I think this intersection is pretty small at the moment... trying to simultaneously create a significant market and also create the product is going to be super hard.

Sorry... I've been looking for a cheap replacement for my current Ubuntu desktop, but this is not very attractive at that price point. It either needs to be much nicer, or much cheaper and I don't see that happening without backing from a big company like Google.
Wait, you mean the builders don't pour plastics out of their limbs? Thanks for the clarification.
Great! I'll be happy to know how it works :)
XUL is/was the language for the entire Mozilla app UI. So it's not like they invented it specifically for third parties to use- or even with them in mind.
This is the kind of ad hominem attack used by middle school debaters to avoid refuting an argument.
It's a sensationalist headline, but the problem is one that needs to be addressed -- whether it's acceptable for the kernel to just assume that the RDRAND instruction does what Intel claims it does.
Syrian Decision May Amount To the Propensity for Perpetual War
Obama, Kerry made Iraq-like reasoning for a Syrian strike. But, they are not genuine reasons. Instead, keeping the military on their toes and the war industry productive may be the underlying reasoning for action against Syria, however limited it may be.
Why do you say the Volt is a piece of crap? You ever drove in one? I actually really enjoyed it when I had one on loan for three days.
Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying
But the 5 helper functions are all very reusable, making the code specific to this particular usage shrink from 7 lines to 2. With a handful more usages like this, they can have a huge decrease in code size.

And later on, seeing "map ... map ... each", it is immediately obvious that we are iterating over the entire array, producing new values, and then doing something with each of them. With the explicit for-loop, the unique logic is mixed in with boilerplate iteration code.

Of course, by now,

for (var i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
/* something with i */
}

is a common pattern for us, and our brains skip right over it. Fundamentally, though, terms like "map" and "each" are much closer to the way we approach the problem. Do you really tell yourself, "OK, I want to start with i set to 0 and increment i to match each array index, then for each of those, I'll use i to extract the ith array element, then..."? There is a lot of extra baggage going on (WTF does i have to do with creating a bullet list?), with a lot of room to make a mistake; we've just trained ourselves to overlook it.

That's a huge benefit of functional programming IMO: replacing a bunch of repetitive, error-prone patterns with a higher-order function call.

On a side note, it's really unfriendly to call a comprehensive, helpful example "shit code." If you can relate your opinion in a slightly more respectful way, people will be more apt to listen to you.
General Purpose Decimal Arithmetic
Verbosity is not a net negative except to robots. The Awl hires writers who can write with the kind of style that aficionados of well-turned prose can appreciate.
You know what's beautiful about the mail example?

Who delivers those letters? In the U.S., and many other countries, it's the government.

You're literally handing your letters to the government and asking them to deliver them to the intended recipient without peeking. In short, you are trusting them to do the right thing, because they certainly could look inside the envelope if the really wanted to.

Legal safeguards are your only defense against the government here, but we the people generally consider it a solid safeguard.

But if it were to even be suggested to send email using government-provided networks (even encrypted email) you'd be laughed right out of any hacker con you attend.

It's a pretty surreal difference IMHO.
Ask HN: Implementing reward points between unrelated merchants. 
Say I want to create an app in which users can earn points for purchases at different, unrelated coffee shops in town. What would merchants need to get on board? It seems like a separate scanner or special software would be necessary, or maybe the ability to print scannable codes on receipts.

I'd like to build something similar. If anyone can point me toward resources or products I can look into that help make this possible it's much appreciated.
Really? Okay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BlEICvj6iA
An eyeopener for me was reading parts of the discussion how the new namespace seperator was chosen: http://pastebin.com/2iJP4Qhx (from https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator)

If you read that IRC log and truly believe that a multi-million/billion dollar ecosystem/environment should be ruled by what reads like kids between 12-16 chatting, then go ahead. I won't. Apart from that there is enough rant on PHP on the internet already ;)
Because it reveals more information to other bidders, as eBay auto-increments. So by bidding early, you get zero advantage. Another bidder might see 2 hours left for a cheap item, and put in a minimum bid, hoping to win. If you auto-bid them up, then they might further increase their bid. If you snipe them, you bypass any response they have.

The system works if all bids were kept secret until the end, but that lowers pricing, and isn't what people think when they hear "auction".

Meanwhile, as-is, bidding early benefits you nothing and possibly harms you.
I ignore it because it's not even close to relevant to my point. Even if terrorists are blatantly launching missiles from elementary schools, that doesn't change the fact that drone strikes may create new terrorists faster than they can kill them.
Sad that this PSA even needs to be written, but alas:

* NO, open web apps that run on Firefox and Chrome are in no way linked to non-standard markup languages like XUL. *

Please disregard any users who have made this fallacious assertion.
You can export a notebook as a .py file, or you can save segments of your history into a .py file. But it would be nice to have something a bit more convenient as you're developing code in a notebook, when you find you want to move a couple of functions to a module but keep using them in that notebook.

We also plan to have a simple text file editor so that you can work on a module in the same environment. We're not going to try to build an entire web-based IDE, though.
This came up in the Z80 and calculator threads, basically some folks care really really deeply about precision. I met Mike Cowlishaw at a conference and used his Java code in building a toy CAD system which could very accurately represent room sized things with a precision of 1 nanometer. (18 digits, 9 ahead and 9 behind the decimal point). Surprisingly it is not too bad carrying around theses 36 digit fixed point numbers.
It shouldn't need an addon though. I'm often on Google's side on debates but this is just ridiculous.
I haven't tested it on FF... I really developed it with only iOS in mind, so many CSS properties are prefixed and there might be other bugs...
There is a Ruby with static typing---it's called C#. Seriously, even though my background is all in non-MS stacks, I did some C# work a few years ago and found the language surprisingly nice, and with a lot of the features I love from Ruby. It even has type inference like Crystal. (The libraries are not nearly as clean/consistent as Java though.) For folks in the Ruby/Python/Java world, it's something to look at.
That's Pynchon. You're describing Pynchon. At least some of the time, and FWIW the reviewer definitely seems to get him & his style.

The 8th paragraph in there is an excerpt from the new book, you'll notice it is 3 sentences, and the 3rd sentence begins about 10-15% of the way in and the 2nd sentence is a mere 8 words. This is typical and there are times where you will stop and take 5+ minutes to review and unpack and digest a single sentence of his when he's really digging his heels in. The payoff however can be absolutely immense.
You do understand that Pakistan, Yemen, and Palestine are all different places, right?
Software written in Russian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_l...

> In English, Algol68's reverent case statement reads case ~ in ~ out ~ esac. In Cyrillic, this reads выб ~ в ~ либо ~ быв.
The adversaries are us.
Francisco D’Souza of Cognizant, on Finding Company Heroes
Any car in this price range is as much or more a fashion statement than it is anything else. And most reviews of "Tesla vs. Car X" seem contrived to illustrate a preconceived conclusion, whether it's Top Gear who somewhat artificially highlighted the very real range issues with the Tesla or this review which highlights an acceleration capability that you really can't use unless you're on a track.

Operating costs of these cars are meaningless to people who can afford them, so until there's a Tesla in the $20,000--$30,000 range I don't see that as something that's going to factor into a purchase decision for most people.

I personally would never spend more than $10,000 on a car, and I'd have to be having a really weak moment to even spend that. I still find Tesla to be interesting to read about, they are quite clearly the best effort yet at an electric vehicle, but for me they will likely always be just a curiosity, sort of like a Cray supercomputer. Amazing, but really special-purpose.
You can opt-in to other themes here http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/options.html :)
Addon to what?
Interesting indeed!
I would imagine BCD was useful as a bootstrap for a poor ASM programmer's bignum library (especially when 'bignum' was >16 bits).

Also would be useful for 7-segment LED displays.
And the overwhelming majority of those apps probably experienced a particularly nasty and expensive bug that was due to state (i.e. one that would have been very difficult or even impossible to replicate in a primarily functional environment).
XUL is only used for the external chrome interface of the Firefox desktop browser, let's be clear not to commingle the technology used to build the UI of Firefox with the standards-based technologies that power web apps/pages ;)
We tried that in Egypt (just sending multi-billion checks every year). It wasn't exactly a resounding success.
This was what I was thinking, its like "uh, yeah how many would you like to buy?" If you buy more than 100 I'll sell them to you for $300.
Are you asking someone else or posing a straw man argument?
I've been helping a family friend bootstrap her nonprofit, and let me say that it is darn near the purest form of bootstrapping to start a nonprofit. Not only did she have no income to start, but she has no expectations of personal financial gain. She bootstrapped for pure love of her cause.

Funnily enough, in her struggle to get her nonprofit off the ground, I got my idea for my "startup". Bravo to YC for taking an unorthodox step here.
There's a nuance to asking about cost-effectiveness for nonprofits that doesn't exist for for-profit corporations -- and that is that a nonprofit can be wildly successful by every metric except helping people.

There are charities who take in millions of dollars, keep some, and spend the rest to send bibles to Africa. By every measure, they're "killing it": they have a well-paid staff, a happy donation base, and they send out a heckuva lot of bibles. It's an easy business model to copy, and an almost-guaranteed smash-hit in terms of getting returns on investment. But, here's the rub--do you think there's any evidence that sending people bibles increases their quality-of-life?

Basically, I'm hoping here that PG is getting into the nonprofit sector because he wants to help people--not just to become (more) rich by looking like he's helping people.
... not to mention that off-by-one errors and other confounding bugs are really common when you loop through the elements of an array manually. That's all but impossible with map, filter, and reduce.
http://f.cl.ly/items/3Y203B2A3f0r3Y221T3j/appz.png

If you install the app from its detail page, there is a message telling you where the app now lives. The "Free" install button becomes a "Launch" button that opens the actual executable.

On the search results pages, we don't add any messaging. I've filed an enhancement bug to consider exposing this to users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913728
There is no financial benefit to us. And incidentally a lot of venture capitalists do give a lot of money to nonprofits. E.g. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/25/andreessen-horowit...
It is in your Applications folder.
Actually, I don't think JS can really compete with native, that's not the point I'm trying to make in this article.
Nonetheless, webapps can be an acceptable tradeoff for small apps, that are not too resource-intensive. In such cases, I think HTML, CSS and JS can give good enough results.
Finding Molly: drugs, dancing, and death
It sounds like Square doesn't use 10 mac minis but rather EC2 spot instances....
In fact, I'm sure there are many things both worlds can learn from each other. More diversity within the groups will be a good thing by itself, even if just for the for-profit's sake.

That said I'm also excited about it being non-profits particularly - this way YC can help solve problems in which there's no money to be made.
Ask HN: Where to talk about ideas for new languages?
I'm thinking in build a new language (my first ever).

I wonder if exist a forum or community where is ok to talk about the ideas of it and have feedback (ie: Not stackoverflow).

I know about http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/, but look like is more about the heavy theory than the handcraft of it.
No it won't. There are so many problems with trying to get a dynamic language like ruby to be in the same order of magnitude of performance as C.

Garbage collection, inlining virtual calls etc.
The problem is the mailing list is open to anyone and the majority of people on the list should be providing input.
lol. very good sir.
It varies, but it's often server configuration as much as language version. You'll still find servers with magic_quotes enabled and a bunch of features disabled.

VPS is a better alternative, but at that point it's just as easy to use something other than PHP.
The Follies of the American Education System
Yahoo Fantasy Sports, now on IFTTT
Suggestion:

http://www.alibaba.com/products/F0/i3_cpu_ssd/CID701.html

Don't see something you like send three of the manufacturers your spec. $200 - $250 all up with 4G memory and 128GB SSD. Drop shipped with Ubuntu pre-installed no problem, you buy now?

Seriously there are a bunch of these guys who have family members in the Bay Area at least trying to sell me machines for the office. I like to give them a challenge like "mini-itx form factor and 16GB of ECC memory under $300" drives 'em nuts.
No straw men here. I get that you're passionate enough about this point to make an entirely new account to iterate it over and over.

I'm just trying to get a handle on where you're coming from. The article was about Pakistan and Yemen. My comment was about drone strikes creating terrorists. You made a comment about elementary schools and when pressed for evidence, you provided a video from Palestine.

Is your point that because Palestinian terrorists launched a missiles from an elementary school, it's a good thing that drones kill children in Pakistan and Yemen?

Do you think that citizens of Pakistan and Yemen will be less outraged by drone strikes because of what terrorists in another country are doing?

Are you trolling?
They get it as soon as they finish the paperwork. It's automatic if companies incorporate in the US. (I believe there may have been some companies that chose to remain Canadian and thus didn't take the YCVC money, but I'm not sure.)
I enjoy reading about the progress Tesla is making, but I will not consider buying any electric car until the price is < $30k and I can at least drive from the bay area to Tahoe and back for a ski weekend on a single charge.
Impressively honest at least.

Calling it "inside baseball" is definitely sour grapes though.

The whole post seems to say that rewriting a press release and then doing a crappy job of trying to "dig deeper" is a small thing rather than a complete inability to do what you promise to do by calling people "reporters".
They might be a hindrance in the USA but not in most of the world, where pre-pay and rolling one-month contracts are common. It means there's a big market for good cheap phones among people who won't or can't pay $700 or $900 for an iPhone 5, and still want this year's model.

The South Korean government banned contracts for being anti-competitive, which gave a big boost to Samsung and LG. Now Chinese firms like Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE are benefiting as well.

This is why Apple has no real choice about doing a cheap iPhone. Contracts mean it can dominate the US market while making huge margins, but the rest of the world is going Android.
That would simply depend on how sleazy the individual or business in question then, right? I don't see commission as the biggest factor of importance when deciding investment vehicles.

Your family doctor may get commission on prescription drugs prescribed to you, but that doesn't necessarily mean your doctor is unethical or only self-motivated.
Ask HN: What to wear to job interview for biz dev position?
I have an upcoming interview with a nyc startup for a potential business development position. I'll be meeting with the head of biz dev and possibly the CEO. I'm wondering what to wear to the interview. I had been in the office previously meeting with some other people and the culture is casual. Previously I wore dress pants and a shirt and felt fine for the situation. However, I was there meeting with technical people and it was more of an informational context.

I'm wondering whether I might want to bring a jacket and/or tie to this next interview. I figure the guys I might be meeting with are more likely to be dressed up themselves since they meet with potential clients, funders, etc.
> However, it is nonsensical for a non-profit startup founder to accept close-to-zero salary.

I've volunteered for a non-profit organisation where even full-timers didn't have a salary, including the founders, though their most direct expenses were taken care of by the organisation. These people didn't want money from the organisation because they didn't need it to stay alive and they knew it would be better spent directly on achieving their goals. It makes sense to me; you don't (and perhaps shouldn't) work full-time for a charity you're not passionate about.
Company Claims Google Ripped Off its Glass Logo
I am the spied upon Other, because I'm not an American. I don't have a voice in your debate, no representative, no senator, no amendment. My only hope is that privacy becomes a generally accepted human right.
If you are applying to YC and need advice, help on the application, or just want to chat online or at Startup school, email me. aj at instantcab dot com. I was rejected from the first YC batch, started up anyway, got to ramen profitability and was accepted for W12. So I can give a perspective from both sides of the fence :)
A US Senate panel has approved the use of military force in Syria
The reasonable solution to the problem of terrorism is creating more terrorists.
So I've just left a startup that I'd spent far too much time on and am looking to regroup. I'm currently validating a new idea and wanting to take all the shit I've learned and really make something work.

One thing I've learned is that anything that allows focus is good (i.e. YC) so I'm casting my eye towards SF and Startmate in Sydney. The problem is I'm based in New Zealand so it's hard to try and meet anyone involved beforehand and work out more about the program than what people say on here. Has anyone got any tips for reaching out to people involved with YC from a distance? I'm assuming PG's inbox is flooded, but I just want to discuss the program with someone who's got experience with or is involved with it in some way so I can form a better idea of it in my head and work out better prepare myself should I actually fluke and get in. Thanks :)
How to negotiate salary
I'd say 90..95 percent of the companies they profile, had raised money. Occasionally, there would be an unfunded/boothstrapped startup - but those are exceptionally rare (less than 1%). I remember those figures from doing basic keyword analysis of their articles a year ago.

But then again - that's expected. You don't expect to see a natural bodybuilder in Muscle Mag. They are the Jersey Shore of startup coverage, and raising a massive round is the only kind of success they recognize.
http://static.tinyletter.com/ben/2e3214dc-b891-4f73-b622-878...
Its worth taking a look at samples of the data.

Education: http://www.dartblog.com/images/CHE%20Salaries%20Ivies%20Comp...

ART/culture: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/26/arts/salaries....

Sports/NCAA: http://www.philsteele.com/blogs/2012/Mar12/DBMar15.html

Charities/Misc: http://www.charitywatch.org/hottopics/Top25.html

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sample: Robert J. Mazzuca, Past Chief Scout Executive	Boy Scouts of America - N.O.
$987,412