skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You see that as a downside. I see it as an upside.

I'm in the same place as you (42/20), and I've always loved working for startups. Just make sure they're paying you by the hour (contracts are best) and let them suck as much of your experience out as they need. And be sure to charge accordingly, since the thing you're selling isn't your butt in a seat, but the 20 years of accumulated knowledge and that giant \code\ folder on your hard drive with the solution to every problem they could conceivably have solved half a dozen times for previous gigs.

Incidentally, "2 years, then dodge the door" is a great way to get one's self acquainted with tons of technology and stay up to date on the flavor of the month while always having a good explanation for moving from job to job. Better still is "6 months then straight into the ground", having build something big and cool from a green field and watched the kids burn through their VC while buying you and the dev team fun toys to play with.

I guess it's all about outlook. If you look at it as them taking advantage of you, well, maybe they are. If you look at it as them needing you a lot more than you need them, well, that's a pretty fun (and lucrative) place to be.

Edit: To be clear, in the above scenario, 40 hour work weeks (or whatever makes sense for you) are non-negotiable. They are free to work 60 hour weeks if they like. Your contract should include the understanding that you don't plan to follow suit. Extra hours should be rare, on your terms, and well paid.
Very nice. We need more of this.
That's just a reflection of the average human, not Twitter.

Twitter just allows them to communicate publicly.
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Personally I think the term startup is overused. I regularly see simple premium membership sites paraded around as startups in all the startup news feeds.
... or just to chop off the victim fingers ...

Outside HN context, people in general are not that literate when it comes to tech. Maybe I underestimate it but judging from minimum data around me, there's a very good reason why only a select-few companies are known by the majority of the world.
I don't get the whining either; I was just dispelling a myth.

That said, I don't find your arguments compelling; there's a difference between supporting and just not artificially preventing the software from running, and I don't see how doing the latter would make OSX stop "just working" on officially supported machines.

In fact, it's not like they don't anyway, and I don't see how have Hackintoshes diluted the experience of OSX on an Apple machine.
The author mentioned before that NewsBlur won't be supported as the service works in a different way compared to Feedly, Feedbin & Co. - I imagine this could be related to NewsBlurs constantly live updating nature, but then again I only tried NewsBlur briefly, so maybe I just got that wrong.

Anyway, happy feedbin user here.
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It's not too hard to embed it yourself; here's a quick proposal I did when the idea of embedding CSV in a custom element was being discussed on the WHATWG list: http://ephemera.continuation.org/csv.html

The issue of fixed headers is a styling issue, not an issue of what embedding types are supported; and that is solved by the "position: sticky" CSS attribute that this link discusses. There has been an experimental WebKit implementation of this for a while, this now adds an experimental Gecko implementation. Hopefully this will be standardized soon and available in non-experimental form.
Now this seems like it would have been a legitimate use for patents at the time!
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Sure. But the "right thing" hasn't been done yet, so why are we sitting here praising (!) Apple for not having done it yet?

This is the kind of stockholm syndrome that drives me crazy in the iOS world. People have internalized that Apple is a "good guy" that supports open source projects and uses an open source compiler, so suddenly when they don't there is this need to rationalize the behavior. Just stop.

They shipped a closed source compiler. That's not immoral but it's not praiseworthy either. They promise it will be open in the future, and I trust that the developers are sincere (though often management has other priorities attached to their time). When it happens, that's when you should praise. Doing it now is just encouraging poor development practices.

And let's be clear: from the perspective of open source this is poor practice. It certainly doesn't have to be this way. Itanium and x86_64 both had working gcc implementations months to years in advance of hardware availability. ARM did their part releasing the specs (again, well over a year ago). On the other side of the fence Linaro et. al. have done great work porting gcc to the architecture.

But LLVM/clang doesn't support it yet, because the implementation is an Apple-proprietary closed source compiler. To repeat: very much not praiseworthy.
Haha, sorry about that..
I guess we are better at Clojure than Angular.js!

Working on a fix now.
Greenlight Trading (Chicago, ???)

We're one of the many, many HFT startups in Chicago; on the developer side, we're looking for C/C++ people with significant networking expertise or those with hardware experience.

We're also in the market for individuals with general HPC/networking expertise on the IT side of things.

Drop me an email if you're interested: green at glt-llc.com
My gf wants to make a mobile app that helps homeless/impoverished people share good dumpster eating locations.
It's a great app. I've been using it every day for the past 2-3 years. The transition to Feedly was fairly seamless. Happy to to throw in 5 bucks to help keep the updates coming.
I'm not arguing that punishments for hacking are fair or proportionate to the crime. All I was saying is that the hacker who carried out this hack will have known that punishments for this sort of thing are very severe, and, consequently, I don't feel sorry for them. When you commit a crime, regardless of whether you think it causes damage or that the punishment is fair, you're still accepting the risk of receiving said punishment.

I do think that demanding some actual, demonstrable financial cost be presented before a hacker can be tried is an extremely dangerous precedent, though. A real world analogy would be if I pick the lock and enter your house without your consent, stand in your room watching you sleep, then leave, all without causing any damage. I haven't caused you any financial damage, but I should certainly be arrested and charged for it.
Twitter. I'm not joking either. It is the stupidest startup idea I've ever heard and yet...

Seriously I'm probably the worst person to ask. Almost every startup idea sound ridiculous to me.
Most folks work hard at any job, in this economy. Why not a startup, where you share equity?

There's a lot of FUD about startup life, but really its just work, except with ambitious peers and cool projects. Sure it might fail at any time, but so can any job (speaking as a guy laid off from Dell when Dell never laid people off).

I like this fable: we're surfing, swimming, diving off the coast. A big boat comes by, and the people lean over the rail and say "Hey! Get out of the water! There are sharks and fish and pointy coral in there! And you're getting all wet and hot! You will probably drown!"

You can laugh, and try to explain that is pretty easy to swim, and you're all looking out for each other, and sharks don't really attack people very often, but you will never ever convince those dry people on the boat that its ok, really, and actually pretty fun out there.
That's not really a terrible idea. Well, except I'm too selfish and would be pissed if I had to give my birthday gift to someone else. I bet corporations would love that though. It LOOKS like they're giving the employee a birthday present but it's actually a tax deductible donation. Win-win.
Very true! I'm surprised there isn't some well-known trick of scientific process to screen this out, actually.

One that comes to my mind pretty quickly: after the first test to collect people's "novel" results (the one that'll be used as input for the final score), have them take 2-5 more tests with the same tasks (enough so that the questions are utterly non-novel by the end.) Show them the correct answers for the problems on the test they just did between each session.

Now take the scores from all the tests (including the first one), and fit a curve to them. The second derivative at the point of the first test then (might!) represent the novelty they were experiencing at that point. Now figure out how much extra novelty they experienced compared to an average member of the population, and use that as a coefficient to the final IQ score from the first test.
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I'm very interested in working with this, despite being a full time web developer. I have a couple ideas I'd like to execute, but neither the time nor attention span to build them out in the evenings. This gives me a good base app to build from, and if I need to get fancy, I break into the django code and do so.

I'm really looking forward to getting started!
I think more so than this is that founders know that if they fail, they can land any great job they want.
i don't get the difference between them. isn't startup IS a small business?
Square for homeless people. You can never again say "No, I don't have any change."
It's a good example of how you can make the usage of a tool a political issue, but the tool itself is agnostic to its use.

A tool does not care why it was created. A hammer won't refuse to bash in a skull because "that's not what it was built for".
That depends a bit on how one measures difficulty. Brainfuck is hard to read only because its operators are so limited, and is not that hard to write; for a Turing machine, it is fairly powerful, and it has [ and ] to jump around.

Intercal, IMO, is more difficult, but it would not be that hard to improve on it. For example, one could bring back the joy of delay line memory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory) by having some metric for the complexity of a statement, and having the computer skip some statements depending on that complexity. Ideally (for the goal of complicating the language), the complexity of a statement would depend on the runtime values of variables. For example, 'A = B * C' is easy when C=10, a bit harder when it is 11, and harder still when C=13, unless, of course, B equals zero or one. Similarly, 'IF A > 7' is easy when A is <= 3 or >= 20, but hard for intermediate values. Of course, a true language would not use such simple notions of complexity. The complexity of 'A = B * C' should also depend on the number of binary carries (better yet, use a mixed-base number system), and, of course, the delay of 'OUTPUT X' depends not only on the length of X, but also on the question whether this flushes the output buffer.

And, of course, the only way of control flow should be something like Cobol's ALTER, all statements should be executed probabilistically, and the language should be a funge in some weird topology (while at it, change the topology when certain conditions apply (number of statements executed modulo 34567 equals 325, number of 1 bits in variable memory is a prime, it's Monday morning, but not a full moon, etc)
Also, how do the people HN enjoy using java as a webserver (lang-wise, scaling-wise, etc)?

I mostly like Java, and find a lot of the criticisms to be somewhat misguided, or reducing to quibbling over minutiae. But the Java ecosystem has a lot going for it, and despite how some people think "enterprise-y" is a pejorative, a lot of those "enterprise" features are actually very handy when you're, well, building a serious enterprise solution. Sure, if you're building the n thousandth MVP of a new cat-picture-sharing site, you don't need Java. But if you're building Amazon.com (the ecommerce side, not AWS) you might just find that JTA, JMS, JMX, JAX-RS, and some of the other "enterprise-y" stuff in Java is pretty fucking useful.

From a scalability standpoint, using modern appservers, Java scales horizontally just fine. And since Java runs on just about everything from watches to IBM zSeries mainframes, it also scales vertically pretty well.

All of that said, I prefer to do my actual coding in Groovy, as opposed to "pure" Java, but Groovy is almost a strict superset of Java, just with nicer syntax and some new features. But whether you're using Groovy or Java, everything I said above still applies, since you're still part of that overall JVM ecosystem.
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'Lets put qr codes on "welcome to $town" signs than when someone scans them with their phone, its loads a website advertising various things you can do/buy/participate in around town.'
Agreed.

Edit: Maybe that came off as rude, but I really don't get the idea. You pay somebody for something you want to see done? What?
Ruby, Python and Perl... So nothing strong at the moment?
Same here.

It never occured to me that celebrities would start using the platform. I still don't think that Twitter would be anywhere near where it is now if not for the endorsement by many celebrities.
Mine: Rate your barista

You would be able to snap a picture of your barista, put in where they work and rate them on things like:
Skill
Speed
Attractiveness
Friendliness

It all started to feel kind of creepy, because I knew the "attractiveness" would become the most important thing, then you'd have guys using it as an excuse to be creepy. Anyhow, there are barista competitions so it seemed like something worth measuring. Also, a lot of times the quality of the coffee in many places is on an even playing field and the person making it starts to become more important. Never went through with it though.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. That exposure to hardcore porn online is okay because it's better than being raped as a child? Or it's okay because we can adapt to its negative influence and come out alright?

What if I want something better than "ok" for my kids?
I actually feel like there could be significant value in something like this.

Imagine a platform where restaurants, bakeries, anyone with excess food that would otherwise go to waste, could get "points" for availing that excess inventory to those in need. It might be similar to the model used by Shelter Partnership (http://www.shelterpartnership.org/).

In a nutshell, they solicit donations from major manufacturers (think Johnson & Johnson, et. al.) for totally-usable products that can't be sold on store shelves for whatever reason - i.e. a typo on the packaging. They provide some receipt giving J&J the opportunity to seek some tax benefit for the donation at a discount of the retail-price, and needy people get the products for free.

I don't see a compelling reason why something like this couldn't work in major metro areas. Bakeries could get some off-set for donating bread; grocery stores could get some off-set for donating otherwise-spoiling fruits and veggies, etc.
That guy on Dragons Den that wanted to save his cucumber ends from drying out... WTF

http://uktv.co.uk/dave/article/aid/635224
If I punch you in the face, the black eye will go away in a few weeks, and you will not have any financial damages you can demonstrate. So I should only get a warning for punching people in the face?
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Let's let the upvotes decide, isn't that what we've been told about that Other Topic Which Shall Not Be Named? If enough people agree with you maybe this story will be flagged into oblivion.

But I think it's a very interesting riposte to Mr. Putin's essay in the NYT from this week.
The author also doesnt mention that "open desk" and round the cloack hackathons doesnt necessarily devlop the most creative or stable software. I've seen good stuff written at a more measured pace.
Sorry for shameless plug - I am working on this windows app to be released soon which will have social, rss feeds, Email and weather. The app is called - OnTop because it helps you to stay on top of things that matter most to you.

It is accessible at http://stayontop.co/
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App that you use to report empty parking spaces. That earns you karma points. You can then spend the karma points to get reports of nearby parking spots when you need them.
Really? Not for me, and I' m on Nightly. Perhaps we are talking about different things.

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Cool idea.

However, some feedback:

It seems the time span involved could cause problems. Consider things like changing financial circumstances, expiring credit cards, closed accounts, deaths of backers, forgetful backers contesting charges, etc.

How will you prevent fraud? A dollar buys a vote, but the dollar goes to the winner... so just register two accounts and contribute enough to unilaterally decide that you yourself (on the other account) are the winner. Get your own money back plus everyone else's.

Similarly, what's to stop a backer from pledging some huge sum to get someone to develop something and then withdrawing their pledge at the last minute to get the benefit of the finished development without paying for it?

This isn't intended as my way of saying "you shouldn't do this", it's intended as my way of saying "don't get yourself into trouble by neglecting these issues."
Since I advise people that want to make new game companies, I hear A LOT of those, ordered by stupidity level (all of them are fairly common, although seemly the most stupid ideas are more popular too).

First place: Make the next World of Warcraft, with only 3 people and no money.

Second place: Make the next Unreal/Quake/Half-Life with 1 programmer, one artist and no money, for console, in 6 months. (yes, this idea is more common than you think).

Third place: Make iOS game and get rich quick, without no idea of how, and hating games in general actually.

Fourth place: Be the idea guy, and makes games only having the idea, and being so awesome with your ideas that programmers and artists will work to you for free and accept only 2% of equity in the end.

Fifth place: The same as above, but when said that he would be just a useless guy, he proposes to be the writer instead, the guy that make the rules (I still do not understood what being the writer has to do with game design... but it is fairly common! Even when the person want to make a soccer game, that has no writing).

Sixth place: the same as the two above, but knowing people won't work for free, want to sell his idea to Activision for 10 million USD, those are usually paranoid with NDAs too, and insist me to sign their NDAs before asking whatever questions they want to ask me.
Why not allow beating requesters the ability to offer a reward to be split by all those who accept the assignment?

or you could have beaters bid on the job...

this could be bigger than eBay!
Better Search Engine / Better Social Network - By definition, something that's better than an existing product that's wildly popular isn't stupid. I personally think that social networks are stupid, but by the time Facebook came out, it was obvious that most people didn't.

Seamless Sync and Backups - This is an obviously useful concept, we just needed to wait for the technology to arrive.

Short Status Updates - Agreed.

Animated Movies that Target Adults - Animated movies originally targeted adults. Also, in Japan they have targeted adults for decades. The small group of anime fans in America gradually grew into a billion dollar empire. American companies waited for the business to be lucrative before they started making their own. How is that stupid?

Online Book Store - Might as well say the entire eCommerce industry is stupid. Selling stuff on-line is about as obvious and sensible as it gets.
I'm surprised there isn't a "java" with some sort of coffee +liqueur.

or

Lua Kahlua.
How "open" is Wit? Open source or open APIs allowing users to modify your algorithms/training data? I assume there would be a significant cost to being able to run our own instance of Wit on-premise, right?

I applied for alpha access using the github username "marks"
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> All the nesting and redundancy come from Java itself

Hmm. How about:

public String GET_hello(Request req) {
return "Hello World";
}

The framework would use reflection to build the routing map.
I don't follow this area closely myself... but you sound like you are interested in the quantified self movement.

Check out http://quantifiedself.com If that looks up your alley, they have meetups every couple of month. See http://www.meetup.com/NYQuantifiedSelf I have no idea of the quality, since I'm out in flyover country but it looks good :)

-chris
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In Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2013), Santa Barbara, California, August 20-23, 2013.

@inproceedings{Becker2013,
author = {Georg T.~Becker and Francesco Regazzoni and Christof Paar and Wayne P.~Burleson},
title = {Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans},
booktitle = {Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2013)},
address = {Santa Barbara, California},
month = {August 20--23},
year = 2013,
note = {\URL{http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf}},
}
There's much lamenting about how people can't play the same game together on a shared account.

The much bigger issue to me is that a shared device can't play any of your games if you're playing a game. So if you're playing Borderlands 2, your brother can't play Borderlands 1. This seems nearly useless, if true.
Great article man! Love all the philosophy of mind references. During my freshman seminar I had to read Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett, ended up switching me from going to the business school to being a philosophy major and 'Learning how to learn.'

Now that I've started learning how to program and working building a product I can't thank that professor. Whether learning what customers want, learning how to sell, or learning a new programming language / framework - it's essential to be able to pick up stuff quickly.

I hadn't thought about philosophy in awhile so thanks for reminding me the benefits of being able to clearly articulate complex ideas and make meaning out of uncertainty.
I like the idea, physical distribution will be the problem though. Most stores don't mind donating things to the needy that would go to waste otherwise - but no one wants to have the homeless congregate around their store chasing away business.

There would be substantial value for this to exist in addition, or in cooperation, with food banks.
The result limit is in the HNSearch API for performance reasons and hacking around that limit will hurt performance for other users.
There are a lot of people who take for granted that they have a family/town to return to if things go really bad. I've got that safety net and appreciate it very much. My wife (before she met me) did not. It's taught me a lot and makes me cringe when people start talking about "risking it all".
This is oversensitivity. No one has ever tried to force the startup life on me and if someone tried to shame me into it I would laugh in their face.

Now, if this were an article about established companies treating their employees like they were in a startup, you'd have something there.