skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't actually think of anything that can be added with big budget. It might actually ruin it.
http://flippa.com/

Make sure the revenue is sustainable and recurring without the original person(s).
I've just wrapped up a go program that's not a toy, albeit not as large as 10k - it's a little over 3k. It was not nearly as terse as python, although the performance increases made it well worth it. This is something that surely varies a great deal from one application to another.
But this is the simplest thing in the works to understand ...

I said I can't believe someone would state this ... because it naively misses the obvious bubble nature of what's going on. ... Yes it may be a free for all, any poli sci major can get a programming job ... we have seen that movie before. There was also a time when there free money everywhere get a loan for, get an ARM for your house no big deal ...

But if I said "hey guys, the banks are now giving money for free, we should get on it" ... It may be the case in the future that there is a stretch of time where that is true ... But any sensible person would have the reaction I had. Just being honest.
Learn everything in TCP/IP Illustrated like the back of your hand. Buy old high-end gear on eBay ($50k switch from 8 years ago? $200). Setup your own network. Get a half rack at a datacenter and run your own network and servers. Get a job at a company that has interesting network requirements like high capacity and/or high availability. Read UNIX Network Programming. Learn how to write high performance client and server programs.
hahaha... sorry. :-) http://curtsiffert.com/ .
Personally I feel as if the golden age is already gone by, and all we are left right now is social media.
> The title did seem negative, and I was surprised to find that someone actually had a positive experience with T-Mobile.

When was this?

I was a long-time T-Mobile customer until a few years ago, and I always had excellent customer service experiences with them.

The only reason I switched was because I moved to NYC, and they had terrible reception here at the time - I couldn't place calls in my own bedroom.

Even then, though, we were able to break our entire family contract (which I believe we had only just re-signed a couple of months before) without paying an ETF[0].

[0] This is despite the fact that (a) I was the only one in the family plan who was in NYC, and (b) my zip code was in their coverage map (which means that they had no legal obligation to let me off the contract).

I've been considering going back to T-mobile; if their customer service really has gone downhill in the last few years, maybe I'll think about AT&T instead....
I think a lot of people would be interested in buying such businesses. I really don't know where you'd find them though.

One thought I had would be a once per month "who's selling" hacker news post for people to list businesses for sale. Similar to the who's hiring.
If you like the idea maybe go ahead and post it on 11/1?
Personally I can't imagine working 60 hours a week to pay taxes for someone else staying home and playing World of Warcraft
everything goes through FB goggles with this author
(Disclaimer: I am the creator of Nimrod.)

What you say is entirely correct; however Nimrod's effect system is not tied to any runtime mechanisms like a GC and provides lots of other aspects of safety. For instance you can ensure at compile time that a particular piece of code performs no database operations.

Also the effect system will improve the safety for concurrent programming quite a lot; coming soon in some of the next versions. (Sorry, no papers about it yet.)
The article doesn't mention reasoning for using -O2 instead of -O3 or -Ofast. It seems that they give better performance in this case, as does adding -funroll-all-loops(when combined with -Ofast gives almost 10 % speedup). I am compiling with GCC 4.8.1, so perhaps authors 4.6.3 (what?) behaves differently.
By the way flippa seems to be getting worse and worse though I can't really put my finger on why.

I find the sites for sale on flippa to be overpriced. They seem to go for 18 months profit (or more) for an ad supported site that could lose most of its traffic in the next google update.
I'm not sure if this is true. The picture accompanying the article shows the reporter using what looks like his personal email address [1]. I guess he could have signed it with his company and job title information. Either way, I don't think one anecdote is enough to change my view that all wireless companies are horrible.

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/2013/03/t-mobil...
What if competence is learned in the work force? Basic income decreases the competence of a civilization as a whole.
At least in NYC cinemas, the person who takes your ticket will demand to check your bag for drinks (not sure about snacks). You're not allowed to bring your own. Feels a lot like going through a TSA security checkpoint.
Most users would do so without really understating what they were doing. As Google discovered through interviews on the street, most people don't understand what a browser is.
You know, in the past, I've always briefly considered it as an option but seen the hourly rate as so much lower that it didn't seem viable. But right now when I'm experiencing coding burnout, the idea strikes me a bit better. I have this awesome 6'4" grand piano in my living room - it'd be nice to let some other people enjoy it. I'll consider it more. Thanks for replanting the seed. ;)
Nope, it's a specific chemical that smells like buttery popcorn, it's what they put on microwave popcorn. It also destroys the lungs of the factory workers who produce it (or people who eat too much of it):

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57516710-10391704/col...
Finding The 'Yes' By Starting With The 'No'
I loved this film!

It is one of the only films in recent years that i truly enjoyed. And not a single explosion or special effect!
On seeing this first thought was "oh, another Ess Kyoo El person" because reading a "An See Kwul" instead of "A See Kwul" just grated. Pardon my attempt at phonetic spelling.
This also serves as a clear illustration of SQLite internals and DBMS internals in general without thick clots of rubbish jargon. Nice. If you're interested in database implementation this neatly covers a multitude of topics.
Poking holes in the "Gravity" trailer with NASA's help
I can tell you one of the easiest ways to corrupt an SQLite db file is to not let a library specifically designed for file operations, handle file operations. And of course, not using provided libraries for db access (E.G. PDO if you're using PHP).

I ran a forum on SQLite a while back, and things worked extremely well as long as I didn't pretend I knew better than the library.

There's no good excuse to not use PDO and there hasn't been one for years now. Before that, I've implemented a write queue, which seems redundant in retrospect, in case the file lock issue came about, but it never did even though I did hit the write queue a few times.

As for crashes, periodic snapshots of the db and journals (that's very important) is usually the best way to avoid recovery issues.
Definitely, it seems like there's also more spammish/sketchy sites without solid revenue (people pump and dump).

I'm definitely not looking for ad-supported type stuff - I really want to work on a SAAS funnel :D

Finding a niche and establishing traffic and then getting conversions is quite time consuming and prone to failure - I'd rather pay a premium for removing that from the equation and then work on expanding the funnel ^.^
If you want your comment to add value to the discussion you should edit your comment that says that Denmark has basic income, since apparently it does not.
We have thanksgiving in Canada too!

It's earlier though (next weekend).
That's why the D in ACID confused me for a long time. There's no way to guarantee durability. They say "durable" but they mean "durable, kinda, we think, we hope, if nothing is lying to us, if your storage array doesn't lose power without a battery to flush the cache, if your system doesn't power down while your drives are lying about their committed write status, or if your write succeeded then an elf ran away with your platters."
That's right—and the priority is to let people with little or no progamming experience make their own mobile apps. Think Hypercard.

We're shipping a bunch of starter components to begin. In the future, we're looking at opening to contributors to submit their own components. We may have some advanced component editing at some point in the future, but the priority is a delightful experience for people who don't know how to code.
No, it doesn't. I tried to make that point too, but perhaps it didn't come across very clearly. For these kind of tight inner loops a language only ever gets in the way, the difference is really only how difficult it is to get rid of the conveniences you don't want. (The much vaunted zero-cost of features you don't use in C++ lingo I guess)

I still think that a systems programming language need to offer escape hatches, whilst striving towards ease of use in the common case. C++ has plenty of hatches, at the cost of horrific complexity.

But suppose I'm willing to pay the cost of writing my code in 5 different code paths for different processors for that extra 2-4x of performance. Very few languages offer that possibility, and most of those who do only offer to call a C library. I'm the guy stuck writing the Intel math libraries of the world, and I want something more reasonable to do it in.
Meh, you don't have to solve all the corner cases up front. Some small percentage of the population will always try to game systems, sometimes it's just cheaper to deal with it than to try to fix it.
I was going to say there's no way java programs boot in 0.1 seconds, but looked it up to be sure. Here's the results on my mac/i7, defaulted to server mode:

$ time java HelloWorld
Hello, world!

real	0m0.101s

Touche. 0.1 seconds is exactly right, at least on my setup. That said, javac is slow given the program is 5 lines of code:

$ time javac HelloWorld.java

real	0m0.511s
user	0m0.833s
sys	0m0.050s

And I'd ventured to guess that there must be something to the JIT being pretty slow for real-world applications, otherwise people wouldn't complain so frequently about it. Maybe aspects of JIT optimizations increase linearly-ish with the amount/complexity of code?

FWIW, we went with go at my work instead of java because our application is memory-intensive, and there's huge gains there in go over java.
Sure, sounds like a solid idea. Heck I have some iPhone apps that I might want to sell :)
The issue with "franken-foods" is, I'm guessing, that brands will not have to label if a food has GMO in it. I thought the US already doesn't require this?

Basically, it's some sort of anti-consumer deal (presumably, because consumers have no input in it).

Improperly labelled food would impede consumer choice (and thus voting with your purse). Given how popular the organic movement is, labeling food as containing GMO would probably be a significant factor in influencing consumer purse-voting habits.
A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area
I can help you out. My own startup (www.gobarnacle.com) came out of Stanford and is looking for interns. If this isn't something you're interested in, I can connect you with some of the other Stanford-based startups since you're in Palo Alto. email me: elaine@gobarnacle.com
C++ does not force you to use smart pointers.
Some fair points—but, it's worth reiterating that there was no intent to push this out for evaluation :)

We work in the open, up to and including staging pre-alpha software on public URLs so we can gather feedback in-progress.

In this case, we were showing this off in super early state at a company summit. Word of mouth appears to be powerful!
Can you please wrap the gift? It is for my grandma
"It is an elementary requirement of economic incentive as well as justice that the man who works for a living should always be better off because of that, other things being equal, than the man who refuses to work for a living." [1]

[1] Henry Hazlitt, The Conquest of Poverty
I agree - we're well into another golden age of mobile and the web as we know it is on the way to becoming also-rans depending on Mozilla.

In many ways web is still just trying to replace or catch up to desktop software and for the most part is still just replacing once-off-purchases with subscriptions and feature-culling.
What do need my full name for?
I discovered NetBSD at the first real programming job I ever had, and I am so glad I picked it up. The comment that got me going was something along the lines of 'programmers with a Linux/Unix background just seem to do better work', said with a shrug by the guy who started the company. I had NetBSD running on my home computer by midnight that day.
This is what twitter lists were created for, and the reason why twitter has Tweetdeck for advanced users. You do the filtering however you like and create columns based on your interests. It's not as optimal as Reader's approach, but still very good in its own respect.
The title surprised me too since I also emailed the CEO (years ago) and received an immediate resolution.
Anyone know what to do with a BeBox 603e? The Computer History Museum took all my Be CDs, T shirts, pamphlets, etc but gave back the compy.
Hi Thanks for the note, I watched the video and it makes more sense now.

I know you said firefox desktop was not the main focus, but I have a chrome packaged app that I'd love to port over to firefox OS

is there a good guide / overview of doing this?
You are off by two orders of magnitude in the C case, at least with my trivial test case of writing hello world, and then a runner program that forks/execs/waitpids 10,000 times.

If you know what crt0.c does, you can see C is also pretty much the asymptote of what you're going to get from program startup, so it's a little silly to make the comparison.
Yeah, not yet ready for primetime. This hasn't launched yet, and won't for a while. But you can look under the hood:

https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker

and check out where we're intending to go:

https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker-words/wiki
Twitter flipped their decision on IFTTT. I wonder if they will reconsider their stance on twitter clients as well.
Quit Your Job and Follow Your Passion.
LA students get iPads, crack firewall, play games
Because this feature would be abused by everyone who thinks too highly of their own posts.
Seconded on the taskrabbit.com or mechanical turk on amazon!
Have you tried seperating your lists into different columns in Tweetdeck? That seems to be what they were made for.
I typically expect an answer within 2-3 days. Varies depending on whether we're actively working together on something, whether there are upcoming deadlines, whether we have a formal work relationship or it's an outside inquiry, whether it's a quick 30-second answer or should have some thought put into it, etc.
Desire Paths 101. See Tom Hulme talk. http://mcbennett.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/tom-hulme-john-mae...

Taking inspiration from Urban Design where a path runs along the outside of a park expecting everyone to take the architected route. However people cut through the middle when they don't like the given route, following their desire path. Over time, the grass wastes away from the thousands of footsteps and bicycles that take their preferred route. The park owners have a choice to put up a sign saying "Do not walk on the grass" or altenatively pave the new path.

In business, when consumers take a new path, there is an option to pave their path as a new product line. Watch Tom's talk above to see how Facebook didn't pave their users desire path giving space for snapchat to grow. An example where a business put up the "do not walk on the grass" sign is Kickstarter who blogged, "Kickstarter is not a store," moving away from the desire path.

In this case, the CEO of T-mobile has helped a user cross the middle of the park, the question remains whether he should pave it.
Seems interesting, especially for any automated tasks you may be running on your box.

I also like the fact that it's open source, that way I can fork it and rename it, since I'm no longer twelve.
The seed for the entire idea was actually people in mobile-first environments—developing countries, etc—and helping empower them to make software for themselves and their communities.

We started with desktop authoring, and it's been a useful step on the way to a mobile-first UI.

Will be really cool when people can generate apps on their phones, publish and share them, using only touch.
Are you also offended by the saying, "Not your father's NASA?"
A simple web app for those who love excuses
One of my friends made this an I found it pretty amusing. Check it out: http://www.reasontoprocrastinate.com
I am the creator of the [random noun] programming language, I am happy to see that you are using it in so many ways. Keep up the good work!
Tcl (the test harness) at work.
How would that work? I mean I would follow a new person and categorize them into 1, 2 or 3 preference.
Dang it. I got hooked by the link bait! I'll be the CEO of T-Mobile is going to get a ton of e-mails now.
Why yes, it is a rather dated nation.
This hits the mark, hard. It would introduce so much more flexibility into the economy. Some people would abuse it, and critics of these bills generally harp on how no one would do anything, but that's overblown, and the flip side is that people will be free to reeducate and relocate themselves rather than getting stuck in poverty traps and becoming slaves to their short term needs. The lack of that severe risk will allow people to take much bolder risks. This won't eliminate people's drive to excel, become wealthy, etc - we're biologically driven to try to look better than other people to be more attractive, and to provide our children with a good start. This will just make the failure mode not so bad, and enable people to try again, or switch course.

If we can stomach the direct tax impact, I think this would be the most positive transformative change we could make in the near future. Being able to eliminate almost every other entitlement program and their associated bureacracies would be a nice side benefit.
The vision is a modern C64. I have capped the line count at 100,000 and it is 98,000 right now. No networking. That is entirely redundant to Windows Linux.

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I wonder if this sort of "encapsulation" you describe Apple did could have been one of the reasons why they succeeded in building an amazing product? It seems counter-intuitive at first, but isn't it a possibility that encapsulation works well outside of software as well?
If I didn't use Google, I wouldn't say "Google", and would never say "google" regardless.

There are some regions in which people call every carbonated beverage, regardless of flavor or brand, "Coke." That's just dumb.
This movie felt a lot like a 90 minute Twilight Zone episode -- and I mean that in the best possible way.

It's also cool to see a science fiction movie succeed or fail entirely on the storytelling. Special effects seems like a solved-problem these days, storytelling, not so much.
This looks pretty interesting, will probably try and play with it tomorrow.
Are there any uses where Nimrod is used in production? Seems like quite a nice language
Wasn't there recently an open-sourced Medium clone? This probably used that.
Really cool! Any tips on finding similarly undervalued businesses?
I accidentally invented iphone mark 55
I know SQLite "does testing right" and they rightly get credit for this.

They also "do documentation right" and this is another accessible, clear example of that.

It's also all public domain. I've used their documentation as an example in the past when driving through documentation improvements and i'll no doubt point to them again!
you think that while you like private law and anarchy, you don't think that it would actually achieve the ends that most ordinary people want to achieve

Not quite. I think that a private law/anarchy system would achieve the ends that most ordinary people want to achieve, better than any system that exists now, if people actually understood how it worked and were able to act accordingly. But that's a big "if".

And you think speculators will agree with you, and in a futarchy would therefore reject anarchy proposals.

I think this is probably true; I don't think there would be a significant number of people who would be willing to bet in favor of a private law/anarchy system. But, as above, that's not because it wouldn't actually achieve the ends people want to achieve; it's because too few people actually understand how it works.

However, I'm not sure how this is relevant to my criticisms of futarchy. I'm not criticizing it because I don't think it will lead to a private law/anarchy system; in fact I'm not criticizing it on the basis of any particular outcome I expect it to lead to. I'm criticizing it on the grounds that it requires a particular definition of "national welfare" (the one that gets the majority vote) to be imposed on everyone. I don't think "the ends that most ordinary people want to achieve" can be captured in any such definition. More precisely, as soon as you settle on one particular definition, someone will come up with a way to game it, by finding states of affairs that look good in terms of the definition, but do not actually achieve the ends that most ordinary people want to achieve (although they do achieve ends that the particular parties who are gaming the system want to achieve).

I don't think it's possible to come up with a definition that isn't vulnerable to this failure mode. The only way to avoid it is to discard the whole idea of "national welfare", which of course also means discarding the idea that there are policies, single policies that can be imposed on everyone, that will improve "national welfare", if only we can find them.
"Luma predicts from luma, and chroma predicts from chroma. There's little or no attempt to account for remaining cross-channel correlation."
Interesting, would have thought these are one of the first things to try...
I think we should differentiate between (i) single founders who can't find a cofounder and (ii) single founders who don't need a cofounder.

I think case (i) would be a red flag because it means the single founder sucks at selling herself, sucks at networking, or isn't resourceful enough to move to a location where there are more potential candidates.

In case (ii), where the single founder doesn't need a cofounder, that founder also probably doesn't need YC.
Thanks for the advice.
I use the backbutton as an undo stack. if you want to get back to where you were before then you can open pix.pe in a new tab I suppose.

Also, i would note that the backbutton is not per pixel. Each pixel event is filtered through a debouncer, so it actually only updates the url if you are inactive for about 200ms.
I just wish they made their C test suite available as FOSS. Instead you are left with the significantly less portable TCL tests. The C test suite costs many thousands of dollars. Gotta earn a living though, right? =)
Sqlite guarentees Durability by waiting and checking the disk to make sure it is stored correctly before reporting a success. This default behavior is rather slow and can be turned off.

This is in stark contrast to something like MongoDB, which barely parses the request before reporting a success, and doesn't make any guarantees of when or even if it will ever save the data (though it usually does).
It's ok to ask the other party to modify a contract. The other party is under no obligation to do so, but sometimes doing a modification makes sense.
Wow, seriously? That's ridiculous.