skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest becoming a mentor. Hacker scouts has mentor training sessions where you learn all the skills so you can help teach them. I've been mentoring Hacker Scouts for a while now, and I've been taught how to weld, cnc mill circuit boards, and a lot of sewing techniques.
Self-host the performance measurement of your web app
So you have a base set necessary for an OS of some sort, then match and choose whatever you want?
This is what gets me. The whole building equity thing by equating it to property. I have equity, but I invested it elsewhere. I still rent. You dont need to own property to have equity and to state otherwise is a disservice.

America is not all subdivisions and white picket fences...
I dunno why people always say NY is expensive... have you ever lived there? Live in NJ, rent a basement somewhere in Queens, or heck you can rent an apartment in Chinatown for $800/month. I know people who rent an entire floor, and then sub-rent it to their friends, so they end up paying $0.00 for rent.

Don't eat out everyday. Bring your lunch everyday. It can be done.
anyone got a summary for people with less patience or an apparently broken sense of humour?
If the only requirement is that it be started at boot, there are non-root ways to ensure that. Modern cron implementations have an "at reboot" option (@reboot in vixiecron and cronie). Alternatively, a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes or so and checks if the service is running and starts it if its not is doable.
Even new cars are not exempt. Electrical fires are often a total loss even if the car looks ok otherwise because of the way the wiring looms are embedded in the chassis.
Months ago a friend of mine who is doing CS in my country (Uruguay) was really demotivated, basically just sad, because he couldn't see how the career he was studying would pay off.

In Uruguay, CS programs are quite old and outdated. If I am not wrong the public university program dates from 1987. Prior to the internet. So you can imagine how people there feel depressed soon.

After his constant demotivation I offered him to
help him learn the web. And I was like, 'where the hell do O start?' I mean, I have been doing sites since I was 8.

My first thought was pretty near what she did here, helps friend learn that he can do it alone. It has been my biggest motto in life, but I not everyone knows that it is just a matter of start and never quit.

I offered him to guide him, but not help him.

After some months he now knows Ruby, HTML5, CSS.

My biggest lesson was that sometime we want everything now, but we underestimate the power of time and dedication.
Slow down chief. GP's point might have been strong but no need to jump to insults.
What? Calling grown women "girls" is even more anachronistic. Seriously, the one-word pronoun "She" would have worked much better in the original sentence.
That doesn't even make sense. If someone is making the bare minimum effort, then they would probably live by themselves. Are you sure you thought that message through?
Samsung execs shown confidential Apple-Nokia patent license terms.
That's just down right cool
> Cities around Europe are spending enormous amount of money to revitalise their city centers after the devastation caused by huge mall and supermarket built in the 80's.

What cities are you thinking about?
I don't know if you're right or wrong, but my data point is a noticeable increase in malls/big chain shops in the three cities I mostly lived in (rome, milan, budapest) in the last ten years.
If you have to ask, you probably already know the answer. A more important question is what do you plan to do with the files, and is this use allowed by the terms? If it is, then you can possibly ask the site to allow you access to download them. It is possible that they disallow crawling just to reduce load on their servers, and so crawlers don't waste time on text files when there is more valuable content to crawl elsewhere on the site.
I'd like to see a more thorough analysis of "big words" in rap songs. I started manually compiling examples in a blog a while back, http://rapwords.tumblr.com/
IANAL, so I don't know what the actual process is called, but that judge needs to be fired.

When confronted with an issue about which the judge knows nothing, the court basically deferred to whatever the government suggested. I'm not reading into it, it's basically how the transcript reads.

I particularly enjoyed this Freudian slip:

MR. BINNALL: I would suggest that the
government -- I 'm sorry -- that the Court
can craft an order to say...

The court here is more marionette than anything else, with the FBI on the strings.
Agreed, I think it's a great way to market your service - with a list of alternatives included.
Criticize the comment.. not the intention.
> I don't think it'll be 40% for someone making 80k per year.

It won't.

At 2013 rates, on $80k of total income for an individual ($73,900 in income subject to income tax with the $6,100 standard deduction, but no other deductions/credits):

Effective federal income tax on total income: 18.0%
Effective CA income tax rate on total income: 5.72%
SS+Medicare: 7.65%
California State Disability Insurance tax: 1.00%
Total effective income and payroll tax rate: 32.4%
do something nice for someone where they offered no reward :
they gave me something because they thought it was nice

do something for someone who never offered to give you anything but you expected a thousand dollars anyway :
they gave me something because they thought it was nice
This feels similar to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where people commit to writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. I've finished it a handful of times, and after a few attempts and some post-November polish, my output could now be mistaken for a coherent work of fiction in the English language.
> And finally... what is the difference between a jerk and tough love? can you recognize when you see it?

Yes.
This is pretty cool but even when it is more robust and works with optimized code I think most developers looking for something like this are far more likely to choose LLVM for licensing reasons.

Current gcc is GPLv3 and that is very unlikely to change, if you link your project to this you are thoroughly "infected" by the GPL since unlike many GNU projects that are explicitly meant to be linked to by your own projects, gcc's core is not LGPL and the runtime library exemption granted by gcc is not sufficient to save you from infection in this use case.
Prohibitively high if you want to live in walking distance to your job. I work in SF, have a 15 minute commute, and pay a tiny amount for rent because I live in Oakland. Pretty easy to save.
I think it's interesting to note how people have gone to expecting 5-digit reliability out of an internet service. Not only is GitHub under fire, but the whole IPSec industry gets blamed.

Back when my dad installed physical PBXes, the big ones that could be the size of a mainframe, uptime the biggest argument: they had to have reliability to five nines (99.99999%, if you don't get it). Then when cellphones first came out, everyone got lackadaisical about dropped calls. And overnight an entire industry worried about reliability "to five nines" changed, and "whatever, it's a new service, you've got to expect some difficulties."

The internet started with relatively low reliability. No web host I've ever seen has truly been able to achieve 99.999% uptime. And yet, when GitHub goes down under a "large DDOS attack" but still manages to maintain 99.85% uptime over the last month (with several DDOS-caused outages) everyone comes out of the woodwork to complain. After all, it isn't as-if hosting a massive service while keeping everything secure and running happily is an easy thing.

If you're tired of GitHub outages, then get a Bitbucket account, or host your own Git repository for backup. What serious developer, or service, would keep all their eggs in one basket if they really depended on the uptime of just one centralized service?
That may have resulted in them using a new keychain format—

http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Security/keychain-desi...
Isn't an important part of learning well finding a coach, a mentor? Evidently she was able to do that. Also, by taking the advice, she demonstrated flexibility. The fact that she did what she did also demonstrates perseverance. Damn, I wish I could get her on my team.
We are glad you liked our tool :-) Point taken on pricing.
Few more,

http://startups.fm/

http://www.betakit.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject

http://startupli.st/

http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/

http://www.inviteshare.com/

http://projects.metafilter.com/

http://www.inbound.org/

http://firespotting.com/
This is almost identical to the reports on the Haswell Macbook Pro's.
I'm rather fond of PiCloud as a platform - it's good to see example projects out there using it.
NYC's Silicon Alley Pays Out Almost $30B In Annual Salaries
This is very exciting news for GNU Octave.

One of the things in which Octave is much slower than Matlab is in looping. Matlab used to have this slowness too until they started JIT compiling their loops. For Octave, this has been more difficult, and the only tool that we've had for accomplishing this has been LLVM.

While our JIT compiler code is still very much alpha, it has already been quite a pain to deal with the LLVM JIT "API" because the truth is, they don't really have an API, i.e. no promise of stability. Every LLVM release has broken everything and our code keeps having to change in order to accomodate all of those changes. Every. Damn. LLVM. Release.

I don't know how stable the JIT API for gcc will be, but already it's starting to look much better and thought-out as a public API. Here's hoping that our fellow GNUs-in-arms can help us make a faster and better Octave!
I don't see how the numbers work out that well.

http://www.payrollforamerica.com/calculators/California-payr...

suggests the numbers are:
$13.4k to feds,
$5k social security,
$1.1k medicare,
$5k california,
$800 CA SDI

Leaving you with $54,725.

$24k to housing and $20k to savings would leave you with just over $10k to eat, shop, pay for transportation, etc. So, don't try to have a car. Even carless, though, it seems much easier / more likely / more realistic to do it the other way around - $20k on food/entertainment/shopping/etc and $10k to savings.
Steve Case's Fund Will Invest $200 Million On Startups Outside Of Silicon Valley
Anyone else impressed someone actually came forward and said "it's on me"? Sad to say it but this actually surprises me.
Mraleph's JavaScript performance talk at LXJS
Will it ever end? http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=Turn%20Up
sort-of-OT Rant:

I have to say that while I have been on HN for several years - and it is the best community online. I am farking inspired with how aware and awesomethe community on HN has revealed itself to be in light of the NSA debacle.

Even when we get into debates, like I do with TCPTACEK, the level of sober awareness of the implications of the techno-spy world we live in, the background and historical context (whereby many HNers were already aware of telco spying, Echelon, Carnivore, etc) the userbase has here is certainly terrific.

I am heartened by the fact that seemingly so many HNers are awake, aware and informed on whats really happening around us. I hope we can find a way to affect change together.
Evolution, Speeded by Computation
Later on the government submits an "Appendix B" which actually gets it right. The lawyers for both sides made technical mistakes while in court.
I'd be needing to use either CUDA or OptiX, working on a bidirectional path tracer at least initially: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_tracing#Bidirectional_path...
Assuming a promotion is known as "shifting the goal-post" too. You are essentially saying you are correct as long as you make more money than the original amount specified.

Okay, you said it's trivial for an entry-level engineer to save six months living expenses. That's $12k for housing and ~$4k for food and transportation. That's the majority of the leftover money after rent, taxes, transportation, and food for a year without any savings. I'm not sure you are correctly using the term 'trivial'.
So, the problem is that when you settle you give away your right to get your money back if the patent it later invalidated. This makes for a perverse incentive.

I wonder if there is some way of credibly signalling that you won't settle, even if you don't have the money for a lawsuit. Can you give away your right to settle?
IE, could we set up some organisation whereby you give them the right to veto any settlement you make to a patent troll? And that organisation then insists on a clause whereby any settlement can be undone if the patent is later invalidated.

Of course, the troll would probably insist on getting more money, but even if they do, if the patent is invalid you stand a good chance of get it back.

There's probably a flaw in the above scheme somewhere, but surely there's some way of doing this...
You can now cancel the wake-up calls by dialing 857-254-9253.
Hoon is a very stupid little higher-order type-inference engine that does not use Hindley-Milner, category theory, etc. Higher-order functional programming is so cool it should be accessible to the majority of human beings who unfortunately happen to be bad at math. Also, layering a type system on top of an untyped data model has various practical benefits - eg, your types can be used as validators for untrusted data you got over the network.
Great question and links. I'v been waiting to see someone ask this.
Teach Girls To Program Before People Tell Them They Can't Do It
I believe "Show HN" is for showing something you've made that other people can try out. In other words, it's for when the thing is ready, not when it's being funded. (Or, pet peeve, for collecting email addresses with a landing page that looks deceptively like a product).
The thing is, the only tool provided for using the PRU is an assembler[1]. So trying to make an AM335x into an "Arduino" required at a minimum: a friendlier real-time IO system / PRU toolchain, the creation of an Arduino sketch and library API compatibility layer, and circuitry to deal with 5V IO.

Solving all that by just bolting an ATMega beside the AM335x isn't the least bit elegant, but Arduino has never seemed to be too bothered about elegance.

_1: https://github.com/beagleboard/am335x_pru_package
But that is not what the FBI was doing. They were not seeking a "legitimate wiretap" -- they wanted full access to everything. This certainly releases you from the requirement as this is illegal activity by the LEO.
Meanwhile, hundreds of gas-powered vehicles also catch fire when colliding, but nobody bats an eye... https://www.google.com/search?q=vehicle+catch+fire&num=100&e...
Stock holders are so irrational.
If you report a bug to a company that has no posted bug-bounty policy, you really shouldn't be expecting anything but a "thank you". If you don't get a thank you, then you have a right to be nonplussed. Anything beyond a thank you (cash, T-shirts, warm hugs) is pure gravy and, IMHO, ought to be appreciated as such.

That said, yes, big companies really ought to have official bug bounties. But that doesn't mean you have a right to expect them.
Thanks! Pocket integration is definite enough for me to convert. I will wait for the update on comment feature.
Why We Don't Use Wordpress
Nice. I feel you almost sold yourself short making this about "considering a startup", because you have some great general advice on how people should choose the best working environment for them, period.

"You become the people you spend time with...Here's a heuristic to keep yourself honest: if you were competing with a somebody for a job, would you be scared? If so, you want them as a co-worker."

IMO, framing the question of "where should I work?" from the perspective of "what will develop me into a better engineer/person in general?" is a really good idea. The time you spend at your job should be an investment in becoming more knowledgeable/thoughtful/capable, so you can better pursue your professional goals in the long run.
On the other hand, I have come into contact with hundreds of programmers with CS degrees who were simply inept. It goes both ways.
It doesn't always make sense financially to buy a home, in fact several times in the last decade it was a really bad idea. Not to mention if you are young you should travel, find what makes you happy, not have all your assets and yourself tied up in a semi-illiquid investment that could leave you underwater.

Presumably, the person we are chatting about is striving to save money, they may be in stocks or bonds instead of real estate... which are sometimes, though not always a better investment. They are assets, if not real.

So, this hypothetical person will have at least six months of salary to put towards whatever they decide to when they settle down.
> However, it is a little much for a for-profit, publicly traded company with $4 billion in annual revenue (mostly made from manipulating how their users spend money) to think that other people should do things for them for free.

I'm not sure I understand this. Yahoo! did not have a bounty program that paid out money so if you were submitting a vulnerability you found it would be a little ridiculous to expect any remuneration.
No, if you live by yourself in SF, you are not making any realistic effort to save money, because you have not attempted to optimize your largest expense.

OK, I'm done talking about this shifted scenario from what we started talking about. When you want to talk about how hard it is to save money in SF if you actually make any serious effort, I'm happy to resume.
How to create a hipster logo
It was once all about gradients. It was once all about the watercolor effect. I even remember a time when it was all about the fun strokes and swooshes in logos.Today, it’s all about the hipster logo. And let me be the first to say this is one of the trends I absolutely adore and have utilized.Hipster logos are sometimes pretty redundant — there’s no denying that. However, hipster logos have this simple charm that doesn’t take away from the actual product or service. It’s literally a cool way to interpret a brand that’s often modern, rustic and obvious.
No, it is not, because I am not assuming a promotion to prove my point re: whether you can save money in SF as a single engineer. You can. That's it.
You appear to be saying, among other things, that a noun is of a particular type if it may be passed through a function that parses and validates that, yes, those bits may be treated in that fashion.

Is that accurate? There's clearly more to it, as there's at least one conceptual leap between that notion and any kind of inference.
> my gen Y attention span

I can't believe people internalize this "Gen Y" shit. It's just ageism. There's always been something to distract us.
Why are we acting as single founders are single forever?It's like, once you enter YC as a single founder you cannot hire anyone else to aid you in your startup, being forever alone.

We both know quality developers would LOVE working for a YC startup and it should be no problem hiring someone as a co-founder IF you know how to pick. Now, of course, that co-founder was not born in the same hospital as you and you might not have that super SyFy connection as super old time buddies but will that lead to a startup failure?No,I don't think so.

In fact I am willing to bet that even a non-technical single founder (ye, we don't like them) with no experience what-so-ever, can handle YC application process. How? Raw/natural talent, cleverness, cunningness etc. Qualities hard to measure and observe, no doubt, but most valuable. If you can get a founder like that, there should be no problems in the future. Going "by the paper" is not always the best choice.

EDIT: And in all honesty the YC Application form is cleverly made to target a specific group of people, eliminating a huge amount of talent and in some points minimizing innovation.
We're still waiting on any categorical information from you, other than your baseless fears stemming from problems with wholly different companies using similar technology.
>That's the whole point of free markets and competition.

I know! Those independent bookstores should just move to Luxembourg so they can compete with Amazon.
Granted. I was too generous on the housing budget, but too conservative on tax expenses.
Building a Startup Marketing Department… No Humans Need Apply
Read your own message. You said you said the following:

>I thought we were talking about someone who is making the bare minimum effort to save money

Do you know what the bare minimum effort means? You are the one suggesting bare minimum effort now.
Does anyone have suggestions for what I can use, as a linux desktop user? The best thing anyone has told me, so far, is Keepass, which has an interface I don't like very much.
News, Every car has batteries that are potential fire/explosion/acid explosions.

I've seen a standard 12v lead acid battery evaporating/boiling hydrochloric acid out of its vent holes, I've also seen one smoking about to explode.
Bravo! Very inspiring. It seems like the OP learned a lot about more than just programming: project management, developer psychology, the importance of shipping....

One thing did stand out to me:

Having to produce something everyday forced me not to get hung up on understanding all the details of how something worked.

This is actually one downside of this method. In the end you don't really learn anything deeply. In development, deep understanding does matter a lot. It matters for selecting the right tools, being proficient with them, and solving the problems that others can't.

Again, bravo to the OP!
Interesting! (here's the image showing at beagle.org http://www.ti.com/ww/en/beagleboard/950x267_arduino_beaglebo... )

I bet it is because, as the article says, that board was developed together with TI.

TI is trying to get hold of this market for some time... beagle, launchpad, etc. heck, i even got my beagle bone and a few launchpads for free from them.

I think IT having those boards and making them cheap, is like Microsoft not caring about pirated windows outside of the US in the 90s. It creates the ecosystem with 'users' who drives large volume sales later?
Mossad + NSA == certain death.
USA WITHIN MONTH
Do you actually click on the link? Do you read some of the text, even if it's just a couple of paragraphs? Then I don't see a problem.

If you just upvote without bothering to learn what the article is about, then I think it beats the point of the voting mechanism.

Otherwise, there should be no problem, no?
I like this one. I had never heard of you so I built Simple Hacker News (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-hacker-news-simple/id...) last year.

The big feature I want is I want a way to see what I've already read. I think this is the first app (other than mine) that I know does this.

Haven't played around long but I like you can collapse and expand comments. Is there a way to default them all to be expanded?

EDIT:
You need a way to refresh comments.

@Replies: I'm glad you guys like it. Looks like I'll renew my Developer Program membership then. It's due in less than a week.
Art Collections a Click Away on Amazon
Thanks for the comments! Yeah, some of the heuristics apply to non-startups, but some of them (like looking at investors in the top quartile) were very particular to the technology startup world.

I like your framing.