skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must be fun to hang around with.
I've read if wind, solar, and/or nuclear were subsidized even a fraction as much as oil is, they would be equally cheap. Is that way off the mark?
Or...you could very carefully hire the right people in the first place, people that are motivated to work on their own and believe in the mission of the company, and would be doing the same thing regardless.

Vetting hires for temperament and internal qualities as well as skills makes this much more possible.
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circleci would be wonderful Dima!
The problem with allegories is that you can use them as a way to say something in a way that both belabors the actual point and uses some bad metaphor that really doesn't have much to do with what you're actually talking about. That's why they're kind of hard to do.

Instead of stuff like this, could you just say what you're saying? Tell us about your actual experience. What's your product? Who are/were your competitors? How did you slowly add features to your product whilst holding onto customers in the face of much more well-funded competition? I'm assuming that, as a founder, you have concrete stories to tell, here, that might be quite helpful. As is, it's too vague to be of any use.

Otherwise, this post would have the exact same informational content if you just wrote:

"I took things slowly with my product, but it's getting better bit by bit, and I'm okay with that."
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In contrast with the other niche. The anti-Apple PR machine that self-believe are more "independent" minds because are agains it (I don't know you so no take it as for you ;) )

However, I prefer when somebody already acknowledge his position and preferences than when pretend (or worst, truly believe) is more "open minded and fact based". I think is better contrast two opposite positions than two almost-equal ones, but fighting for a narrative, after all.

Is better to start with a clear understanding of our own position then push to improve things.
Would add that students should "open source" showcase their work - especially CS students - host your code on github, participate in open source projects, participate in stackoverflow... so you can showcase your real working code to employers rather than writing code on whiteboards during interviews.
GitHub offers and enterprise offering that you can host yourself. It's no better/worse than hosting your own version of JIRA, Confluence, and a git repository. That way you're not 100% dependent on github.com actually being up. As far as changes, you're right, but the changes are true with any product. At my last company, we did a JIRA upgrade which ended up being a nightmare for process because lots of things changed and were configured incorrectly. I guess I'm trying to say that what you're saying is true for any SaaS product you use and doesn't take away from trying to use GitHub, maybe not necessarily github.com, to run everything.
There are some excellent deals here. I'm not a business owner, but I know a few people who use these tools and love them.
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For example, I run my own 'github' instance just for me on my personal server. A company can host an instance on their servers and, if they implement the protocol, I can use my instance to submit a pull request on a repository they host.

Yeah, and that'd be really nice since you could see all the issues you submitted to different repositories/companies in a single view, which should receive updates from the remote tracker.
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Sometimes it's fun to write a story, rather than a lesson. :)

I've written more about my startup experiences here with less prose and more instruction:

* http://blog.limedaring.com/why-im-an-entrepreneur

* http://www.limedaring.com/the-worst-enemy-to-my-startup-is-d...

* http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-learned-django-a...
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Like this way of getting things done. Geeky! I may translate the post into Chinese later.
It's not only about reduced visual clutter. It's about speed. You tend to use certain mobile apps dozens of times a day. A light, fast experience is crucial in this context
How does circle compare to Travis?
TylerE is correct.

Each application is its own unique snowflake, admittedly, but I encourage web developers to profile their applications to understand where server time is actually consumed. Furthermore, I implore you to realize that time spent in the ORM is not the same as time waiting for the database. If your profiler conflates ORM machinations as database time, you are not seeing the correct data.

Modern databases are extremely efficient at fetching data from well-indexed tables. They are in many cases not the bottleneck although conventional wisdom would have you believe otherwise.

In our experience, slower platforms consume an impressively large amount of time doing things unrelated to the actual database queries. Under load, the database server can be nearly idle while the application server is falling over itself in its slow ORM, its template engine, or helper functions. Meanwhile, faster platforms mean faster frameworks, faster ORMs, and faster templates. These platforms can easily saturate the Gigabit Ethernet connection to their database server without the database server hiccuping.
You could also use the GitHub Issue API http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/ to backup the issue data
The promo mentioned here was in the 90s and there have not been any of the "500 mile" coupon promotions for AA in years. They now cap any sort of promotional EQM (status miles) at 10k on a credit card that requires $40,000 a year in spending and a $495 annual fee to receive.

These promotions died specifically because of these long tail passengers.
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Your concerns about landing page are valid and we are working on them.

I'm looking into the password box issue - thanks!
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Bugs Everywhere was an attempt at storing issues and bugs inside the git repository itself. Maintenance activity has been on a down slope for Bugs Everywhere, though..
Ask HN: What forums/communities do you frequent aside from HN?
It could be any community around any interest. I'm trying to broaden my horizons in terms of communities.

I reminisce upon old days of forum browsing. After awhile it feels like your home on the internet. You know most users, you get personal with users, you develop a community. On websites like Reddit and HN it's hard to establish that level so I'm looking to get back into foruming.

What are some cool communities out there?
Why aren't you asking them for their qualifications, then?

Don't need to, checked them as they posted their names and all their research is online. http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605

They also posted the math behind it (which went over my head) unlike you. Next time, if you want to be taken seriously explain yourself better and try to be specific. If you know what you are talking about, of course.
I never understood why people are so proud of a company having significantly higher margins than their competitors. Unless I owned _stock_ in a company (and then refused to buy their products), I'd rather buy my stuff with as razor-thin of a margin as possible.

But thanks for the link, I'll be using these statistics in future debates against the iCult.
When they're released from prison, would you rather they still be that baboon or be less likely to reoffend?
Yeah. And Racket suits programmers of different levels well.

For beginners, it's an easy to learn language with an easy to setup programming environment.

For advanced programmers, there're a lot of advanced features available as 6cxs2hd6 mentioned.
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Here is the pdf version.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/amy-brown-and-greg-wilson/the-archi...
That sounds great, would definitely save some time.
Different series, different rules. Auto racing is a wide and varied world. I see no problem with car switching being part of a series. It might be heresy in F1, but this new series will come with its own interesting kinks.
And dploy.io is a Beanstalk's deployment engine set free.
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> Any job you take, you can bet there's a relational database back there somewhere.

My experience is a little different:

- Current job: Mongo

- Previous job: Mongo with a custom REST wrapper / ElasticSearch

- Previous job: AppEngine Data Store

- Previous Job before that: SQL only ever accessed with Django ORM

Not that one shouldn't learn SQL if needed, I just don't think it's a mandatory part of modern web apps like it once was.
I seriously don't agree with working for free for "exposure and experience". Didn't HN just have a couple of posts recently about the serious negatives of unpaid internships?
This reminded me of the Hoover free flights promotion [1] in the UK back in 1992.

Hoover's UK division tried to clear excess stock by offering free air tickets for purchases of over £100. The promotion was so popular that Hoover was unable to supply the tickets to all the participants, resulting in years of legal actions.

Hoover UK eventually admitted that the exercise had cost it £50 million. Three executive directors were dismissed and the business was sold to an Italian company.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion
I think the decent thing to do would be to give everyone not convicted of an offense US citizenship and a chunk of money by way of compensation.

Of course, that's not going to happen....
Obama's consistent meta-policy has been: push the smallest change that will pass. If he figures he can get unlocking without having to fight Disney, he'll do it.
Paper here: http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf
I have been using the betas and the GM, and I noticed a decrease of battery life. I have my phone (iPhone 5) tuned to the best battery saving settings, and still the battery drains faster than it did when it was on iOS 6.
That seems to be the same POV that the Librarian took in not renewing the exemption (link from elsewhere in thread): http://www.eweek.com/mobile/fcc-suggests-congress-create-a-b...
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> Democrats are hypocrites as fascist as war mongering right

Pretty much every politician in any country is a hypocrite as they bend with the current interests that keep them in (what shouldn't be) a lifetime job. That and their secondary obligation to generally switch views if the other party ends up agreeing with something mutual (more so if the opposing party controls the executive position in the country). There's a saying that one should be worried if all parties and outside interests agree on something, as it's likely to not be beneficial to anyone else or end up costing taxpayers a ton of money wasted on things that don't benefit them.

It would however be a disservice to point out the many flaws of Democrats in times of conflict and having control of the presidency without also mentioning that many Republicans have not all sudden decided renounce war and request the president "give peace a chance" in regards to Syria out of caring. At least a few of them were proponents of the conflicts carried out under Bush.
In addition to ensure they typed their email address correctly, I am happy with email verification as users seem to have taken my (short and sweet) address as their catch all email registration. And there's nothing I can do about these reminder emails apart from one provider as there's nothing in the email to tell them 'it's not me so go away'. They just tell me to ignore the email. It's just annoying I have to 'ignore' 100+ emails in my inbox that keeps popping up.

Another gripe I have is some of them don't even care whether or not you verify the address. I receive receipts and shipping status all the time.
I think the take away here is that although competitors may push a faster pace, they can fizzle out faster too. This is basically the startup version of the tortoise and the hare.

I appreciate the reminder that slow and steady is ok even though its not what you generally read about.
I don't think the equivalent in South Africa would necessarily have the same standard of living, but the emphasis on work opportunities, integration, etc would likely be emulated.
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> I've found that users really are idiots
> when it comes to typing that in.

They're not idiots. It is normal for people not to work at the level of precision that this sort of thing requires. Decades of work on these sorts of things have shown me that it is computer programmers who are not normal. The ability to get thousands, even millions of characters exactly right is extremely unusual, even with extended training.

Some people just can't do it, and user interfaces that expect them to will lead repeatedly to unsustainable levels of error.

Your anecdote only serves to support this. You can't assume that 10% of the people are genuinely idiots. They are real people with skill sets that don't match yours.
Cool - thanks for that - I will have a look at Svgjs as well.
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In the United States, Congress controls the so called "purse strings." The House, where all spending bills must originate under the US Constitution, passed a bill denying any funds being used toward the closing of Guantanamo or the relocation of the prisoners. This has been happening yearly in the National Defense Authorization Act since Obama took office.

So Mr. Obama's hands are, in fact, tied, by law from "issu[ing] orders to soldiers in charge of a military facility."

This does not, of course, preclude him from using the so called "bully pulpit" to make a case to the American people. He also could take the more drastic measure of vetoing the NDAA, but he would then run the risk of leaving the military unfunded. The first option is plausible (and he has, on occasion, taken to discussing Guantanamo in his stump speeches around the time the NDAA is moving through the lower chamber), the second would be an incalculable political risk.
Here's what Engadget's review of the original iPhone had to say about the camera that, as you say, wasn't upgraded for another two years:

"..it's still a lousy sensor by even ultra low-end dedicated camera standards, so we'd recommend this not be used in the field for anything but the occasional candid shot"

Ars Technica compared it semi-favourably to low end camera phones, but:

"..Another glaring omission is the lack of video capabilities in the iPhone's camera: something that many very basic (and much cheaper) handsets can do"

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't anything special, lacked many features found on much cheaper phones and again wasn't upgraded for two full years. By that time it's camera capabilities were woefully behind even the most basic camera phones. Here's what Macworld said about the 3G:

"For a product as on the cutting edge as the iPhone, its built-in camera is an embarrassment"

IMHO the reason they didn't upgrade the camera on the 3G was that they didn't have to. They were selling as many of them as they could make and being in a class of their own had essentially no competition. As I said, they kept improving this feature in reserve for when they needed it. This isn't really a criticism, I loved my 3G, but this is Apple's modus opperandi.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/iphone-review-part-3-apps...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/07/iphone-review/11/

http://www.macworld.com/article/1134482/iphone3g_review.html...
$29+/mo for something as trivial as web-configurable {git pull,hg update,svn checkout} && {rsync,git push,s3cmd sync}; {mailx,curl} pipeline that runs on external notification event or from crontab?

Never thought someone would sell this as a service.
That I agree with; it's really the main thing I have against Ripple.
Ya dingus!
Side note: what's with the over-the-top political correctness epidemic on HN? Every time somebody talks about a random programmer it's "her" or "herself". I am all for gender equality and more women in tech, but this sort of stuff just seems strange.
We will! Just wanted to launch faster! :D
From what I recall, don't web browsers tend to be fairly pointer heavy though?
No love for The Wedding Singer?
This cracked me up. But seriously, if you know some PHP and want to quickly be able to work on larger projects, Drupal is a great idea.
> Correction: Oberon-07...

Right, I always forget the right naming. From the Oberon family, I prefer Active Oberon anyway.

> .., which has so few users, I doubt it qualifies as valid option.

True, it is unfortunate that the whole Oberon ecosystem never left the academia, except for a single digit set of companies that managed to make some money out of it.

Still, it does count when discussing about language type systems.
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Executive Order.

If it gets ignored, then we are all made aware of how tied his hands are.
Exactly right! To our shame, the reason decent things don't happen isn't because they're impossible, but because they might have some political fallout. To a certain species of troglodyte, "impossible" and "some political fallout" are the same thing.
Then you probably shouldn't look at https://www.statuspage.io/pricing

In reality, most of the things that are sold as services these days can be done from scratch by a guy who knows what he's doing. The question is whether you have better things to be working on instead.
For reference, about 20 minutes ago this item triggered the flame-war detector circuit and the resulting penalization of the ranking got it dropped off the front page.

Just so people know why this has 7 points in quick succession, but is not on the front page:

http://hnrankings.info/6405186/
It's a one to many reltionship. That's why. Yes auser can have an infinite number of email address, but an email address should belong to one user only. Why create a new user id that has to be unique and that I have to remember when I have this unique thing you can additionally use when I firget my password?
never understood why people send you a contract in a format that is easily editable

All formats are easily editable; contracts should be digitally signed to prevent shenanigans.
If it was indeed sarcasm then it was too subtle for HN. I mean if you had posted that on 4chan then it would be blatant sarcasm, but people on HN take themselves a little to seriously so it's a lot harder to tell.
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Only if she clocks out with an ejection seat!
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Self-employment certainly isn't for everybody, but your "companies afford certain things to their employees that freelances do not receive" deserves a response.

When you are self-employed, you employ yourself. Most if not all of the benefits that a company can provide to its employees, you can provide to yourself. Many of these benefits qualify as business deductions, and while some of them (such as medical insurance) might cost more when not purchased as part a group (company), that's not always the case. For instance, if you're young, in relatively good health and have reasonable earnings, a high-deductible health plan coupled with a health savings account might actually be more attractive than what you receive from the average employer.

In other areas, such as retirement, self-employment can be a boon. If you're a sole proprietor, for instance, you can set up a self-directed 401(k). Each year, you can contribute up to $17,500 as an elective deferral and up to 20% of your net self-employment income up to a total of $51,000 (at 2013 limits). So if you're doing brisk business as a freelancer, it can be very easy to save more than you ever likely would if you worked at a company and just took the 3-5% 401(k) match (assuming this is even offered).

Can working for a company be more lucrative, more secure, and easier for some people? Absolutely. But for others, working for yourself can be even more lucrative, even more secure and far more enjoyable.
I think the key here is "works reasonably well". Nothing at this level will be as market-defining as "works perfectly" which is what Apple aims.
Check out FlyerTalk.com sometime and read the post histories of some of the manufactured spenders. They are some of the loudest at complaining about airline food, other passengers, not getting their upgrades to post, etc. These are people who pay pennies on the dollars (if that - see US Mint fiasco) for their tickets. They indirectly increase credit card fees for the rest of us and create a mountain of paperwork for cashiers and mangers at drug and grocery stores.

If other passengers are high on their priority list, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong and have misjudged the situation. I've not seen much evidence, either traveling or reading through FF sites/blogs, to suggest as much.
The Dutch tech site Tweakers.net also found this in their tests [1].

They found that battery life was degraded mostly in standby mode (with iOS7 losing 12% of battery after 16 hours of standby time, compared to 7% on iOS 6.1.4).

With a more active usage pattern, they found the differences were smaller: their iPhone 5 running iOS 7 lasted 16 hours, compared to 17 hours on iOS 6.1.4.

This would suggest the increased consumption is more likely to come from background stuff than from visual UI effects.

[1] http://tweakers.net/nieuws/91361/accu-iphone-5-sneller-leeg-... (Dutch)
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> Doing nothing is the most draining task there is. Not only it is really boring and mind numbing, but you pretty much have to pretend like you are doing something, which is way harder than actually doing it

Also, if you actually do something, even if it's for example some mundane programming, at the end of the day you gain a sense of accomplishing something. Even though the job performed is to the benefit of your employer and you'd be theoretically "better off" (less effort) doing nothing, getting the job done instills some sense of purpose and accomplishment, which are good for emotional well-being.
1) Do you really, honestly think repeat of DMCA anticircumvention is going to happen? I find this highly, highly, highly unlikely.

2) Because of #1: Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. This is a good interim solution.
That's very common. It's one of the first things travel hackers do when they get into it. Card signup bonuses are worth $500-1000 and generally require a minimum spend of $2000-5000. Not much effort for free money.
It would be a huge engineering hurdle to make 400 lbs of battery swappable and still ensure that there is no chance of them coming loose during a wreck due to being seated improperly, etc. I think it is a safety consideration more than anything.
Whilst learning these languages, don't just learn the syntax.

Get some good books on algorithms and data structures. Learn these really well and then study the languages to find out you can implement them.

Each language will lend itself to certain structures. Learn them.
I have a couple friends that are trying to learn how to program and they are constantly bouncing from java to python to javascript to whatever else, and it really does them no good because they never sit long enough to learn the fundamentals of programming, just the basics of that given language. You really do have to work with one language for awhile and get comfortable with that language/environment and how to use it to solve problems. Once you get decent at this, then bouncing to the language du-jour is easier, more enjoyable, and you take away a lot more from it ('oh wow cool, in language X I had to do this, this, this and that, with language Y I just have to do this!')