skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VC connects wealthy investors to nerds. There are few alternatives. You can self-fund by consulting and by setting aside money for your venture. That doesn't work.

Can you elaborate on this part? Is this a pattern you noticed in many entrepreneurs?

I can recall at least one successful startup that had to contract early on in order to get by. They were in my YC batch and they're now doing pretty well.
I had written a Wifi based LTSP for Linux sometime ago.
http://www.sarathlakshman.com/2010/03/14/wireless-ltsp/
The server would know it came from the correct device because of the initial setup of the key like in any two factor auth app.
You may be interested in the Matasano crypto challenges: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/

They walk you through cracking some basic codes, and step up from there.
> So to get the best deal, you have to buy in early.

Thanks for the advice. I wouldn't want to give any more to the EFF, Child's Play, or Watsi than I absolutely have to.

OK, apologies for the sarcasm, but, well— advice on how to pay as little money as possible, while usually great, strikes me as being in poor taste when the money is going to charity (and/or the indie developers, in whatever proportions you specify).
Have you considered just using pyjamas-desktop? They already did all that work for you... plus it avoids the Qt dependency.
People usually have that brilliant idea about an useful service while making a sandwich

How would anyone know this?

A handful will actually do something.

What you're saying is 'execution > idea', which is not in contention. It doesn't follow that the idea is worthless.

The act of choosing is the beginning of execution

This seems like semantics to me now.

And if the point is granted, you seem to be arguing against the proposition that 'ideas >= execution' which nobody is proposing.
You are right and as I said, I have no qualms with his logic but Putin here is playing international politics. His arguments are not new and here on HN I'm sure few people drink the war on terrorism Koolaid. This article is only notable because his name is attached to it and it is only there for the purposes of international politics, regardless of whether he really cares for peace in Syria or not.
"I agree." -- Attilla the Hun
As attempts to piss on my parade go, that was very tepid and half-hearted. I suggest more spittle; that always gets attention.
This is not really what ad hominem means, especially in the context of a NYT byline.
you might be interested in reading this :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6370230
Many of the indie games at Steam are DRM free. It is just hard to find that information.
This article seems a bit naive.

... and I just saw that it's written by Putin. Wow.

Does he think we are stupid?

Nobody could give a rats ass about Syria other than those who are part of the Iran vs just about everyone else game of regional influence.

International law is like the Pirate's code. It's is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. It's convenient to use it to validate kicking some ass. And it's ignored when you need to kick ass regardless of the circumstances.

Yes, Putin, this new turn of events is great for making Russia look like a big power, but the only reason the U.S. is even looking at this is because we really, really don't want to bother with Syria. In fact, we kind of like that Assad is weakened by the civil war but still strong enough to stay in power. That means he is well occupied, but we still know who it is that we are dealing with.

Unfortunately, Obama screwed up with that red line thing. He didn't have to say that. He could have made his case regardless if he really wanted to. But chemical weapons are certainly a problem. We don't want those things coming back at us. And even if the Assad regime were to go down, we would probably need boots on the ground to secure those stocks. So, giving the chemical weapons over to international control is a slice of pie handed to us on a silver platter.

We doubt that you can really pull this off, Putin, but we thank you for trying. At best, this would help ease one of our biggest worries, and at worst it allows us to kick the can down the road a bit farther.

Thanks!
Root against Microsoft all you want - I just think that stack ranking is too convenient a scapegoat. Valve and Google stack rank, too, but that doesn't mean they're not great companies. Also, Wikipedia's not necessarily an infallible source; see [1] for evidence that stack ranking dates back to '96 or so (at the latest).

[1] http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2013/08/30/microsoft-review-tim...
Again: I'm a graduate student. $15k/year USD is most of my annual income.

Mind, about 5,000 NIS/month netto is a pretty reasonable lower-middle class salary for a grad-student in Haifa, but it's not "save up for retirement and kids" money.

So let's just assume your post applied to everyone who actually does have a full-time development job earning nice huge sums of money and somehow finding low rents somewhere.
Gas masks don't even protect you from sarin, skin contact is deadly.
The official RethinkDB drivers are licensed as Apache 2 (see https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/next/drivers/COP...), whereas the server is licensed under AGPL.

We strongly recommend all community drivers use a less restrictive license like Apache 2 (or other license of choice).

Also: dkhenry, thanks for all your hard work in helping bring RethinkDB to the Java community!
The content is nothing new, the author is the only interesting part of this article.
I would argue that for heads of state, ad hominem attacks are perfectly valid. Even if Putin's logic is correct, it's reasonable to question his motives based on his character and past actions.
looking at the comments, few programmers even understand MVC yet. Maybe it's just a lack of understanding that causes people to think it's time to MOVE on...
What are the chances Putin didn't write the article?
Is that why physicists (vs computer scientists) are no longer recruited as actively for quant trading roles?

It seems like all the low hanging fruit has been arbitraged away. I've worked with a Math PhD from Princeton before in prop trading and he always lost money.
I'll give it a go when I get home. I'd really rather use something that already exists than roll my own.
One general and universally true law:

To comprehend responsabilities and "who did what" you just have to look at the situation with critic eye, ignore all the politics (and propaganda that comes with it, the US are masters. Just calling it with a different name: PR and Marketing) and just look for the side which is actually gaining anything from ongoing events.

I bet that 99% of the people reading this know absolutely nothing about Syria. And you all probably know nothing about Russia too. Everything you know is from news (which honestly, aren't a good source for understanding a culture) and - maybe - from a bit of literature.

That said, my very pesonal opinion is that Assad is an extremely culturate person with very close western connections. He has a degree in medicine, studied abroad, has chosen a wife which lived almost all her life in England, etc.. Surely he isn't an idiot and knows perfectly that the only thing he needs to do to stay alive and (maybe) win the war is to NOT provoke the UN and Western countries. An outside intervention is the only actual real chance of victory for the rebels, therefore they are very very likely the people behind the gas attack.

One very last thought:

Let's talk about Fallujah, as a general example. Iraq War 2003 [1] where the US Army used White phosphorus on unarmed civilians to "regain" the control of the city after a few tens of insurgents killed 4 US contractors. Bitch please.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah
Also ironic: the only reason this strike would be "against the law" is because of Putin's own veto (and China, who is probably just following suit on this one). He conveniently omits this point, because the moment the focus turns to his motivations, it would be immediately obvious how self-serving the entire piece is.
Yeah, the hypocrisy is astounding.
I'm old, yet not old enough to be that bitter and/or cynical.
It's very cool, but some complaints:

- I shouldn't have to know advanced database management to do AJAX or user authentication. Seems like a dependency bug.

- The tree emphasizes jQuery effects to an odd degree (three levels) and it doesn't depend on JS mastery. Seems obscure and out of place.

- There's too much specificity in a lot of the descriptions and links. I'd focus less on tools and more on skills. For example, instead of "You can use frameworks like Ember.js,...", say "you can build a complete, highly interactive SPA". Instead of "You can use mod_rewrite", say "You are comfortable deploying, configuring, and maintaining high-traffic sites in a complex environment." The User Testing and Prototypes skills are much better in this regard.

- I'm not sure I love the Web Development Mastery skill, because I'm not sure what it captures besides "I checked off all the other boxes".

Edit: removed use of "just" that makes it sound more critical than I meant it.
You may be right. As I said at the top it was just my humble opinion. I still stand by the statement that execution is vastly more important than ideas.

Besides, I gave up rooting against Microsoft years ago. I just don't care about any of their products anymore.
I'm not the biggest Apple fan around, but if this is meant to be some kind of expose of wrongdoing, I completely disagree. First, under the BSD, they're under no obligation to do anything with their improvements to LLVM, which is exactly how supporters of permissive licenses (like me) like it, even though we often also encourage users to contribute back if they can.

Second, although they're under no obligation to contribute back, they're going to do so anyway, because they 1) understand that this is probably in their best interest, and 2) presumably want to help support and foster the LLVM community.

Merging in all this code -- necessarily done in private since it was a confidential company project -- is likely a major undertaking, so they want to be sure to get it right. And yet they're giving the LLVM community heads-up not to spend time working on that particular solved problem.

All in all, nothing to see here.
Putin is certainly playing to his audience and is guilty of more than a little hypocrisy in this piece, but I tend to agree with his central argument. If the world has any duty to those inside Syria, it is to safeguard the lives of the innocent. How will rocket attacks accomplish this?

The second U.S.-Iraq war and the subsequent occupation proved that state-of-the-art precision air and rocket strikes are still a very blunt instrument that cause a lot of civilian casualties when used. More innocent people died during the U.S. occupation than under Hussein! A big reason for this was the U.S.'s over-reliance on technology. Instead of using foot-patrols and talking to the locals, who might have been inclined to point out that they'd seen rebels planting IED's, U.S. SOP was to ride over the locals (and anything else) in tanks and hummers and call in air-strikes if they felt threatened. Forces from other nations, such as the UK, proved the effectiveness of foot-patrols, but the U.S. still largely ignores this. Technology has transformed the face of war, but the fundamental fact that boots on the ground are what let you hold territory has not changed one bit. The U.S. ignored this in Vietnam, ignored this in the first Iraq war, ignored it in the second Iraq war, and continues to ignore it in Afghanistan. You can't cower in a fort, blowing things up with rockets and drones and expect to actually provide security!

What the U.S. proposes to do is to keep their soldiers safe in remote locations while raining robotic death down on Syrian government positions that, if they weren't already hardened, probably started preparing for air strikes after the 2006 war with Israel (Note: Israel was attacking Hezbollah, but did far more damage to civilian infrastructure). Will air strikes have much of an impact on Syrian government forces? What security will Syrian civilians gain as a result?

There are ways to provide security for Syrian civilians, but all they require boots on the ground. A force could be sent to get in between the rebels and government forces, but they'd get the holy hell pounded out of them from both sides! Peace-making forces do not exist for a reason. If a cease-fire could be negotiated, perhaps peace-keeping forces could be sent in. This carries a lot of risk if negotiations break down. A third option is to occupy a portion of Syria or territory bordering with Syria, establish refugee camps, and try to provide ways for civilians to relocate safely.

It's great that the U.S. wants to do something to help Syrian civilians, but blowing stuff up like retarded cowboys isn't the answer.
The entire point of the UN and "the law" is that Russia gets to veto the same as the US gets to veto.
Ask HN: Multi-tenanted database that is shareable and embeddable?
I have struck a boulder here and I can't seem to find the right word to describe it.

Basically, users sign up on "the site", uploads data onto it, and generates a javascript tag which will fetch the data he/she uploaded on "the site".

The user will then put the

<script type="text/javascript src="https://thesite.com/user/23423/share.js">
theSite.insertTo('#dataView');
</script>

<div id="dataView"></div>

into their website which will generate an html table into the div of their choice.

I have no idea if there are services like this. Does google Docs have anything like this?
The prism by which this editorial should be viewed is the age old question: what does Putin stand to gain here? And Obama?
Accelerating Failure
>ad hominem

Except this is a political discussion, so the text isn't truly the subject. It is relevant that Putin is a KGB gangster AND that he's claiming the moral high ground AND that he's protecting a Syrian hand-me-down regime's use of chem weapons. The punchline is how badly the US has screwed the pooch post 9/11.
I got a polite and timely 'no' from them in the past. I felt they were honest with me and enjoyed meeting with them. Just one data point.
The New iPad (iPad 3) Blu-ray Ripper on Mac
Do you know you can watch HD videos on iPad 3? Yes, you must know this. But, do you know you can also watch Blu-ray movies on iPad 3? You may ask, aren’t Apple’s devices not compatible with Blu-rays? That is true, but, there is a way to rip Blu-rays into compatible videos that can be played on iPad with Blu-ray equivalent video qualities.
How to achieve that? We just need a Mac Blu-ray Ripper software, which you can find a lot on the internet, for example, DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. It can convert any Blu-ray to iPad 3 compatible video files.
It never occurred to me how perfect programming languages are for poetry. You have all these extra characters and whitespace to change how a piece of text feels or reads, and it becomes a visual experience too, like looking at art. Are there other program-poems people should look at?

The only thing I'd seen like this before was "Sunrise, Sunset" written in PHP. I know these things aren't new for many of you but I keep being surprised by the creativity I find.
He certainly does know his audience, and he certainly failed to mention a certain key foreign power supplying weapons to one of the sides...

>This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Yes this is essentially a civil war between the current regime and a multifaceted opposition. Putin is heavily arming one of those sides.
I am directly accusing the parent of sophistry by selecting to post a definition of "stalking" that required malicious intent if not violence when that is not the totality of the definition, is not consistent with Merriam-Webster or Oxford dictionary and seeks to excuse their behavior by the omission. .

But you knew that.
..except the positive value of the cash you need from a VC to survive.
Of course nationalism exists and is used in Russia. This is true for every country, but I honestly think, having experience with English, American and Spanish cultures, through their media and people as friends, that Russian exceptionism is the most self-denigrating I have ever experienced. On and on people go on how everything is better everywhere else, how everything is shit here in Russia and needs to be copied from some Western example.

Jon Stewart, arguably a much better and more intelligent comedian than Zadornov, makes much more ignorant jokes (vodka/bears/Putin) about Russia than Zadornov, whos jokes in part play on the fact that Westerners simply don't have to be smart about some things because they don't deal with 3rd world problems. A lot of people who like Zadornov know this and are crying through tears.
This is not a good poll. The answers are too weighted. I want less NSA news, but I don't want any topic singled out by the ranking algorithm. I just wish people would talk about the NSA elsewhere, by choice. My opinion is not represented in either option because you're forcing me to choose between "Less NSA news and a change to filtering algo." or "More NSA news". I want neither.
He is not the one talking about going to war.
A problem is that a lot of developers equate MVC with magical framework that does a lot for me and just happens to have folders named "models", "views", and "controllers" where they put stuff. This can be Rails, but is common in other frameworks as well (even if the names change)

I found working with a barebones MVC framework a bit enlightening. One is Framework One by Sean Corfield. It was originally written in ColdFusion, consisting of a single class (CF calls them "components") with very little magic. (it does do things like implicit views and queue up service/model calls with an event lifecycle, but in general, nothing happens that you don't have direct control over) He's also written a version for Clojure, though it's less mature

https://github.com/framework-one/fw1
https://github.com/framework-one/fw1-clj
Did you read your link?

> Despite the above, the quality of the code is generally
> excellent...
Had the same complaints. It's cool, but I definitely qualify for a whole slew of skills that this doesn't cover that would have brought me to different results. And I agree about the JavaScript factor. For example, Node.js has opened up the back end in very unique ways for many programmers _of JavaScript skill_.
Actually, if I recall correctly, he explicitly said that he was not making bodily threats, merely that he would do what he could to destroy the reputation of the agent that he had an issue with.

The video speaks for itself. Unless it doesn't (my memory is far from perfect）
How so? It's a testable factual statement about the world. Things are worth what someone's willing to pay for them, and the market value of a good idea is within a rounding error of nothing.

It's not like it's impossible to sell an idea, and the world is full of self-styled idea men who are happy to do so, but buyers are thin on the ground.
VC Titans Tom Perkins And Don Valentine Articulate What Makes A Good VC
They're planning ahead for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
If you have a little spare time, the following things might help it seem not-dead:

* Add a tiny blog post so the date on the main page isn't May 2012.

* Add a "low-hanging fruit/wishlist/todo" to the http://www.uzbl.org/contribute.php page - I see "how do I get involved in XYZ" questions here and on Reddit all the time.
and of course, they have absolutely zero such obligation
Is evernote not a good replacement? OCR searching in notes etc
I believe they're talking about the post-Snowden bundles.
Theory says people will figure out ways to become qualified for those positions unless they are actively prevented from doing so (presumably by the government, which would be a market distortion). That's why the market idea is so seductive, things take care of themselves. I think there is definitely an argument to be made that the current education system could be considered distorted, but that's not the point. The point is that if CEOs are out there begging the government to intervene to increase the supply of worker type X, it means that they are either admitting that the labor market is fundamentally broken, or they are just trying to artificially lower the wages they have to pay (or prevent them from rising). In the former scenario, we've got a broken labor market, and in the latter scenario, those CEOs are trying to break the labor market. I'm not sure which it is in the case of the STEM fields.
Great article, ¿What are you using to measure your WPM in colemak?
He probably directed the writing of the article but I doubt he actually sat down and wrote it with his own hand.
Good luck! We recently launched ours - web app that turns multiple Internet devices into a stereo system; all devices play the same audio at the same time.

http://SpeakerBlast.com

I guess the downsides of a music start-up is when you get popular and then it gets costly?
Make a subreddit or something about NSA related stories. Maybe launch nsa.ycombinator.com or something. I'm done with seeing the same articles reposted here from reddit.
I have only one karma point, and my vote doesn't seem to count. However, for the record I think the NSA revelations are on-topic and should be welcome.
>O: Operations encapsulate everything that your application does.
>E: Events are used to join all these components together safely.

So my controllers are just there to work with the repository/service layers. This is just the next logical step after straight MVC and is already a pretty well established pattern.

My understanding of MVC is the context of web development.
Americans too have Zadornov type comedians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy for example.

>but Americans don't typically believe that they were chosen by god as special people.

very funny. That's what American Exceptionalism is pretty much about if you listen to the right of the political spectrum.
I would just say that it's unfortunate you're unable to concede that technical and political items can and will intersect.

Good luck in your quest for a binary reality and acceptance of the current state of affairs based solely in the fact that an ideal should be preserved for reasons of technical merit alone. Unfortunately for you political commentary will continue, especially along the lines of this topic, and if it is pushed into submission I would gather the majority would call it out for what it is.
He is wrong in the sense that something has to be done to stop the Assad regime that has lost the confidence of a majority of Syrians from continuing to murder and torture more civilians.
I totally agree.

Also sometimes I feel engineers spend WAY too much time worrying about architecture of CRUD. I mean, MvC, non-MvC.. who cares? Adopt one and run with it. Then spend the rest of your time about crucial technical problems(ie semantic analysis, machine learning, spam detection, whatever)
The costs have come down in many ways but one, labor, which is now going up.

For the last 5 years or so, we've seen a proliferation of startups that provide SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services to startups and other small businesses. However this ease of creating a startup has greatly increased the amount of competition in the market. As a result, you will end up paying more per engineer per year and you will probably end up needing more roles than 2 founders can fill on their own.

Gone are the days when a hacker and a hustler were all that were needed. Today, for many types of startups, you are also expected to have a solid designer, who either needs to be one of the founders or you need to hire.
Excellent! I will check them out and send off a pull request if I run into anything.