skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that people need to understand is that there are various kinds of failure. Some ruin your life; others are mild annoyances whose negative consequences are paid back by what is learned. It's really important to know the difference before forming an opinion on failure (i.e. "fail fast") that is supposed to apply to everyone in all circumstances. What are the effects of the failure?

Losing a job is not a big deal, usually. Layoffs and business failures happen. Closing your venture because it didn't work out doesn't always ruin your life. But if you took out $80,000 in credit card loans, or took on personal liability to get a bank loan, or had a vindictive investor who decided to ruin your reputation, welcome to Fuckedville.

There are a lot of young people out there right now who are far too willing to risk their careers, reputations, resumes, and savings opportunities on terrible prospects and in business with some really unethical people. The fact is that if you don't gain a certain credibility quickly, you're going to be screwed. If you don't look out for your career and really think through what happens in the case of failure, you could very easily end up at a bad end. I've lost close to $200,000 on bad startups, but at least I always made sure that I kept learning and building skills, no matter what. Now that I'm older, having kept my skills sharp is starting to pay major dividends.

We have these obscenely privileged people, who are so well-connected as to be tied in with what's essentially a private welfare system, who go out there and preach about how failure is no big deal and everyone should risk everything all the time, knowing that they're Stanford grads with partners at six different VC firms in their cell phones. That's not realistic; and people who don't have the social resources to take extreme risks (i.e. the 99%) shouldn't be decried as cowards because they do less risky things like, you know, take regular jobs.
> How many times did your build break because it had a glitch downloading the package?

This happens very infrequently in my experience, but it's simple on most CI servers to restart a build.
Many do, yes.
Not sure how good that resource is. It was last updated on 2012, and things happened since then :)

It doesn't mention his new story The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, available at http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...

Or a recent appearance at the EXPO 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_632pic1PlU
> http://qz.com/131024/its-ok-to-have-a-big-carbon-footprint-a...

It's bit like saying "it's ok to each caviar at charity dinner". It may be right economically but it's very morally shady if costs of caviar and benefits it brings to fundraiser aren't carefully, unambiguously calculated.
Also, Nvidia, and Applied Materials in Santa Clara. Xilinx, Altera, and Maxim in San Jose.

Silicon Valley still has lots of silicon tech!
More to do with chaos more than anything. Some businesses get lucky, others don't.

There was study that showed that entrepreneurial success has extremely weak correlations with previous experience.

Most successful entrepreneurs that I know were terrible at first and had little experience, but there companies still succeeded.

I know experienced people that started companies, and did things right and failed.

The difference was that things were in the right place at the right time.
Its a cumulative effect, the individual e-mails can be laughed off, but you are spending the energy to hit delete. Its e-mail without a spam filter of any sort. Its not the first e-mail that will get you, its the thousandth. No one survives being told they suck thousands of times unless they build a hell of a attitude and we get projects that are "mean to newbies". A lot of legitimate newbe questions are indistinguishable from the opening volley of a troll.
Entrepreneurship is the least risky thing to do, when you have done so much in your field from the bottom up that it becomes your best option. At that point at a salaried job you'd risk earning little, learning less, being a subject to a bad manager, wasting too much productive time in bureaucracy, or sinking to irrelevance.

I started building for the web at 13, had a freelance business for 5years, paid for college by building fundraising videos for another 4, did non-profit for a year part time, UX consulting for two, front-end architecture at large scale sites for two more, product management with a lot of financial and metrics success in a senior role for a big brand for the last two years, and spent some time at a VC (by age 28). At that point nothing else made sense but building the start-up I've always wanted to use (for about $1000 in legal and server fees beyond my personal time).
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You can gain more "experience" before you try to do your own thing, however the more experience you gain, the worse you become at creating the next billion dollar startup. For every year that you don´t start your own business, your capability to think large and taking risks and your resourcefulness dramatically declines.

That´s the reason why none of the four horsemen in tech, Google, Apple, Amazon or Facebook were founded by founders over 30.

Looking at all the other billion dollar startups Microsoft, Dropbox, Airbnb, Twitter, Instagram, Waze, Paypal, Tumblr none of their founders were over 30. See a pattern? There are probably billion startups who were founded by founders older than 30, but there are very few.

The less experience you have, the more likely you are to create the next billion dollar company. If you start your startup after 30, it's very unlikely that you will be able to make it into a $1B startup.
How is "we can force you into bankruptcy by suing you" all that less forcible than "the government will fine you"?
Nice! Just got the back end up and running on my OSX machine.pointed the chrome plugin to my localhost. works like charm.

Though this looks similar to eBay's ql.io(open source) , I feel this is much simpler.
If the divide is ruby 1.8 and 1.9, Debian packages both, and they can be installed simultaneously.

If it's more arcane than that, it sounds like kvm or lxc is the answer.

If you really really need to run two pieces of software with differing ruby interpreters on the same machine, then your real problem is technical debt. One fix would be to update the ancient software so that it can use modern Ruby. Another fix would be to re-architect the solution so that the greater system could operate across multiple OS instances. The least attractive option would be to use packaged Ruby for the modern stuff, and a hand-compiled Ruby for the legacy stuff.
"how do you gather the data needed to correct the polling numbers" -> you use the census. You need some info about the total population, you get it periodically and it doesn't change that much; you don't need to repeat it for every survey.
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TOMODO.com Interesting Idea but I think I’ll pass… All my HN clicks views and votes would go through your site first. You know I’m just not that trusting. Not to mention with mass adoption it could render HN’s algorithms useless.
Assuming they spent effort to discover the vulnerability the idea that there is a 3rd option where it is suddenly not worth their time to report it makes little sense.
I would like to see a more wholesome path to financing, especially for the mid-risk businesses that VCs decry as "lifestyle" businesses.

Software is inherently mid- to high-risk. "Low-risk" just doesn't exist in a world where half of all projects fail, and some fail for reasons not due to a lack of merit (but because they were built to a specialized purpose for which there was demand, but the situation changed). So bank loans, which require personal liability are completely out. On the other hand, VCs want to play in the high-risk space where the mean (expected) return is high but the median is failure. That appeals to some people, but it shouldn't be the only game in town.

Right now, there isn't a mainstream funding outlet for the mid-risk businesses oriented toward 10-40% per year growth, even though that's a great space for software engineers, since it approximately matches the acceleration curve of our capability, with hard work.
I think it depends on your notebook's webcam:
Webcam recognizes your smart phone's flash (flash = cursor location) and allows you to draw on a virtual surface...
Interesting... I will need to try it.
The BEST way to satisfy the stockholders is to create a fantastic product that users love, long-term.

In other words, you agree with me that a publicly traded company must make decisions that benefit the stockholders. You just think that "benefit the stockholders" should be evaluated on a long-term basis, not a short-term basis. But there are two key points that you have not mentioned:

(1) Creating a fantastic product that users love benefits the stockholders to the extent that users are a source of revenue. In Amazon's case, they are, directly; revenue comes from users coming to the site and buying stuff. (And from buying services like Amazon Prime.) In FB's case, users are, at best, an indirect revenue source: more users spending more time on FB means more ad revenue. That's a much weaker link between a good user experience and stockholder benefit.

(2) How long-term the calculation of "stockholder benefit" should be depends on the stockholder's time horizon. If I'm investing in a company as a means of giving myself retirement income in 30 years, obviously I'm interested in the company's long-term health, not the next quarter's returns. But if I'm investing on a shorter time horizon, I'm going to want benefits to show up more quickly.

Half a century ago, most stock ownership was by individuals, so the scenario of someone buying shares in, say, IBM and holding them until retirement was actually common enough to have a significant effect. But now most stock ownership is by mutual funds; my 30-year retirement income doesn't depend on how any single stock does for 30 years, only on how my mutual fund does over that time horizon. Mutual funds trade individual stocks all the time based on short-term performance, so to the companies, it looks like everyone's time horizon is a lot shorter, and they act accordingly.

I'm not looking to get rich quick. I'm looking to do cool and interesting things.

Just to be clear, I am not saying you are wrong at all in having this attitude. I am only commenting on the difference between what you want to do and what Facebook wants to do.
That's just plain offensive. If you start trying to command people like you command dogs, people are just going to disrespect you. You will have no power.

People don't react to pain/rewards like dogs do. They see through it instantly.
Capistrano, what a Byzantine way to deploy software; I haven't typed cap deploy in about 3 years. Heroku's model of Git-based deployment and 12-factor apps has never given me a problem. Also Heroku deploys are de facto tagged as Releases (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/releases). I can't wait for Flynn (http://flynn.io/) to be released, it provides a Heroku-esque Git-based deployment strategy on any host.

P.S. I enjoy reading your comments as do many others, but I feel you hand-wave over important points sometimes, e.g. Why you feel tagging is important. If it truly is a 500 word discussion it shouldn't be hard to synopsise.
"Solves" in the same vein of "There, I Fixed It."

http://thereifixedit.blogspot.com/
Check out fabric as a much faster alternative to Capistrano. Combined w cuisine.py it's a simple and powerful alternative to chef solo.
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This might be as bad as the time Bush was reelected and all the scientists moved to Canada! Or when all those hardworking small business owners fled the country after Obama's election - we still haven't recovered from that one.

In all seriousness, the title should be fixed. Scientists telling a survey they might leave != scientists leaving.

Incidentally, here is data on science funding over time. For anyone wanting to make political points (which appears to be everyone else commenting so far), the data probably doesn't map onto your narrative all that well.

http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy2013/hist13pDefNon.pdf

http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy2013/hist13pAgcyRes.pdf
The JVM has a lot of tools that make SysAdmins happy (or at least not grumpy) to deploy projects. Some cost a fair amount, but the list of JVM languages is pretty nice.
I tweeted him a few weeks ago after I wrote a follow-up to a letter I dispatched to their legal department a few weeks ago over the $299 cancellation fee http://onemanmilitia.blogspot.com/2013/09/to-get-out-of-my-c...

I agree with the comments I've seen here - their customer service is helpless, and I explained so in my letter.
Unless your primary interest is creating a short-term bubble and profiting before it pops

I don't think that's FB's primary interest, exactly: I think FB's primary interest is in capturing an overwhelming market share in social media during the window of opportunity when that market, worldwide, is not yet saturated. But that ends up making them do many of the same things they would do if their primary interest were creating a short-term bubble and then profiting before it pops.
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"gave no positive feedback"
"provided no treats"

Seriously? If you try to control people pain and reward system, most people see through it and hate you for it.

You want them to have a innate feeling of accomplishment. You completed something difficult? And that felt good. You don't need cookies from a master for that.

The number one thing you need to do, is set something up which they can measure themselves against. 90% of the time people will enjoy improving it, without any input.
The popular belief is that money is not a great incentive lever, not the other way around. And like I said, it's not about the money, this is true. It's the respect - i.e. being paid fairly, in proportion of the contributions. If that condition was met, working remotely, at night or not at all doesn't matter. Optimizing flexible schedules, remote working, number of bosses is treating the symptoms, not the root of the disease. Respect is the name of the game. It's the name of almost any game :)
Ruby is awful to install for production.
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Some insight into the idea behind Bedrock can be found in arecent reddit comment[1] by the author.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nufog/have_any_of_yo...
I'm confused what the point of this is - is it that if your startup fails you have something to fall back on with a 'real' job? Makes it sound you can become a developer and magically your startup has much more of a chance to become spectacular - which is of course bunk.
Rosedud: "The Disaster Artist"
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I was there. You point the flashlight on your phone at your computers webcam. The software (Javascript / Canvas I think) lets you draw with the light, while you can change colours with your phone. The bonus part was where they used the intensity of the light as a Z-axis, so by moving the phone closer / further away you could build a 3D light painting in the canvas.
It's not just the funding. The politics in science (I don't know about internationally, but definitely here in the US) can be pretty ridiculous.
1. It wasn't disrespectful. The previous version which you refer to directly interacted with reddit servers. I said I would no longer crawl reddit and I do not.

2. There is nothing wrong with charging for something you have built, but you can check out a free version of similar tool here http://uneddit.com/faq.php it also does a good job of raising some points from my line of thinking.
Or some other way for the hardware vendor to make more money on a Linux install than a Windows install.
What are peoples' thoughts on using rsync for production deployment?
This is abhorrent ageism, and completely wrong.

Peter Thiel, 31, Paypal, 37, Palintar.
Larry Elison, 33, Oracle.
Reid Hoffman, 35, Linked In.
Evan Williams, 35, Twitter.
Mark Pincus, 41, Zynga.
Arianna Huffington, 54, Huffington Post.

Can we stop making things up? Maybe five minutes of research would be good? You know, there is a place they teach these things.
Plenty of high-level professionals use opiates (pills like Oxycontin). Look around for some rather tiny pupils on people doing high-stress, high-paying jobs. Opium tends to make you lay around and usually need to vomit, so I'm not sure why that'd be preferable to [semi]synthetic opiates.
I would love it, to remember too.

If I had a Save button, my Start button would have a balance.

I could live without Save as.. & upload-into-proprietary-backup if my operating system could just remember better.

We need to remember more. If we need to save forever press Archive / Email / Save.

I need that command.
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PHP coded this way seems as sexy than java or c# without still the consistency of those languages.
What is the advantage of using PHP now?

The code is overbloated with complexity thus close to unmaintanable (evolution and correction) and there are stuff that feels wrong in my guts: https://github.com/rmccue/Requests/blob/master/library/Reque... the naming is WRONG: flattening a list is not what he is doing: it is transforming a nested data structure in a level 1 associative array. Each wrong naming is a landmine waiting to explode at your face.

This language now strikes me as an odd frankenstein that has no advantages anymore for coding.

And this code is hiding its weakness in ridiculously complex OOP: every single methods are static for me it is the sign it should have been a namespace exporting functions.
Combustible garbage can be usefully turned into electrical energy.
Opening sentence of TFA:

"This guide is targeted to “hackers” who wish to move to the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically San Francisco or Silicon Valley. This guide reflects my lifestyle - male, single, focused on work (in tech) and saving money, but keeping an eye on my health."
Honestly, at first I wasn't too surprised by this, but as I thought about it some more, it's actually pretty damned impressive. Boiling it down a bit, would it be fair to call this a "more universal AUR/yaourt"?
Audio should never load automatically on a website, anyway. It is annoying and Mozilla should know better.
For what it's worth, the law agrees with you.
Log aggregation and analytics is a hot space at the moment and in all fairness I think that you are being taken advantage of. I've read the messages and you are under no obligation to provide free support for source code and you shouldn't be bullied into doing so. In my eyes you have gone far enough in providing the source and binaries.

I think your biggest problem isn't your licensing but the documentation and the site itself. Since I work in the same space for a commercial product similar to Splunk, I'd like to offer a few comments.

1. It needs to be clear what the difference is between the enterprise and the open source version. Features and support must be clear with the enterprise version.

2. The message has to be clear for the target audience. Your product is very developer focused, but you have many support use cases. Focus on making it easy for non technical (non dev) people to get started monitoring the most popular pieces of infrastructure. A few getting started or how to guides for popular web servers and databases is a good start.

3. You may also need to cripple the functionality of your product (for the free version). Perhaps cripple it based on scale. The number of agents that can be deployed in an env can be restricted. Don't do what splunk do a disable based on data volume.

4. There are no images on your site. I can't visualize how I would instrument my infrastructure for log collection. This is vital.

I haven't used nxlog but this was my first impression. I hope the comments help in some way.
Inspiring, seductive... I sound like the back of any book reviewed by the main stream, but _the work is good_!

To me, at least...
Lee - We're a small dev shop in the greater Boston area and we use Capistrano exclusively for our deployment process. Frankly, I'm blown away that you've taken this as far as you already have, and completely understand your stance on the community at-large. I think I'd have to echo others before me in saying that sometimes you just need to step back and grab a cocktail. Take a few months away for the sake of self preservation. It's only code :)

Thanks for all you've done.
I'm about a third of the way through writing exactly that, covering deployment (capistrano) and basic server provisioning (chef), specifically for Rails apps. If you (or anyone) is interested my email/ twitters in my profile. Aiming to have it out end of 2013/ start of 2014 but would be happy to release it to a few people early for feedback.
Because a change from $1 to $5 USD/btc is much larger than a change from $101 to $105 USD/btc. They needed two plots to show activity at two different orders of magnitude - that's the symptom. One plot with a logarithmic y axis would probably be a much better visualization.
Reddit did not "force" google to remove it, but I know it was at least prompted by reddit. I know this from emails between myself and google.
There is also a question of how efficient a mile is. When talking about transportation efficiency, the distance you want to talk about is the distance from point A to point B. When you talk about miles per gallon, you generally are talking about the total distance traveled which, unless you are moving in a perfectly straight line, is greater than the distance between the two points.

I assume that air travel would travel closer to a straight line, so a single air mile gets you further than a single bus mile. I haven't actually checked this, and have no idea if this difference is large enough to cover factor of ~4 difference you are citing.
Good point but it could also that very talented people are so bored with their 9-to-5 job and they will be bored to death if they are forced to wait till their 30s to start their own company.

On the other hand, not so talented people (like me) might need a little of learning before jumping into entrepreneurship.

The trick is that when you are in 20s you might be either stupid or super intelligent but you will not know that.
The census doesn't tell you about most of the godzillion factors that link landline phone ownership with political opinions.
I don't see any point in conversing any further since you are being intentionally obtuse. apt-get doesn't help me with different projects using different ruby interpreters and isolated gemsets(and it shouldn't); rvm does. I deploy multiple applications to the same production box, rvm solves multiple interpreters and gemsets, I use it. Your diatribe about package management and rvm is responding to imaginary arguments. Also, package management doesn't keep up with Ruby releases and I would rather install from rvm then packaging my own and having a separate apt server. And as pointed out many times, it's not just about the interpreters but isolating gems.
But planes are more likely to be full than buses or trains. From personal experience buses and trams are only full at rush hour and are sparsely populated at other times.
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"Whilst I believe strongly in Capistrano as a general purpose tool [...] I do think the future of software deployment is in small, containerised VMs and so-called PaaS, as what we're all doing right now has to end, some time."

Kudos. It takes a lot of courage to admit your baby is not going to fulfill the future you had initially imagined.
I use ruby-install to build precompiled MRI packages. I'd be very interested to know if that might have avoided your problem.