skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who wants to buy my Startup?
I'm working on my startup (http://www.starterpad.com) for over a year now. It
is a platform to create Startups. It is designed to help
founders connect with each other and help in various topics.
At the moment it has about 4000 registered members and 1570
fully completed profiles, 160 startups, 80 groups, 40 000
twitter followers. 40-120 new users register every week,
but I can't find any good method to monetise to work
full-time on it.

I'm doing web design, coding and marketing things myself. The problem is there is too much work for me alone. There is no
funding for such a project in my location(Lithuania). So I have
decided to sell it and start a new one.

Is it good idea to sell it? How much it can be worth?

On Angelist: https://angel.co/starterpad
The beauty of Mathematics - Putting on Einstein's glasses
Fixed :) Thanks for the feedback
I have 5 cats and they occasionally wizz on my clothes when I'm not looking. Next time I get caught unawares and smell like cat piss in public, I'll say I bought a Dell. Thanks Dell!
Good advice, I'm in my latter 20s and I'm already there.
With out trying to be childish, my second thought was, "I'd love to whack that thing with a bat".

I cant think what or how, but it seems to me that are more refined, more rugged version could give rise to a brilliant game / toy type thing. Yeah, Im sure their ideas for its uses are way more sensible. But, well, I want to whack it!!!
# Productivity

127.0.0.1 *

Alternatively, cut your ethernet cable or smash your wireless router!
Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js
I do word them myself. And I go over it with the client to make sure they understand everything in it. I keep it simple, which is not easy and takes time.

I am also doing this with over 20 years of experience. When I first started I looked at and read over existing contract templates - and I was worried about protecting myself.

But, do have something in writing, do not work on a handshake (unless it is very small).
Thanks for the list, didn't know about all these interesting sites ;)
garethadams - I provided the direct link in my post. I thought the context and my vote of support was important to include. Being an alum, it is great to see the courage this young man is portraying. We need more of it in the tech community as well. Apologies if you felt tricked, etc with the headline.
You are entitled to a free credit report from each of the three credit bureaus. https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action
A screenshot paints a thousand words in web dev.
Giant mirrors bring first winter sun to Norwegian town of Rjukan
I agree, and add that Scope of Work and the process to change the scope are the most important (followed by deliverables and cost) because those two areas seem to cause most contention.

I also love the idea of using existing and well understood licenses. On the surface, it seems much safer than rolling your own licensing schemes, or having a lawyer do the same (I'm a non-practicing lawyer and a current web developer. In my research on design/dev contracts, i've never heard anyone doing this, but it sounds like a brilliant idea!)
Wouldn't the attacker also have to have github keys, cause it's all HTTPS or SSH?
I get the same, and it's not dependent on ISP. Many (most?) flash players are buggy resource hogs, and the html5 implementations I've seen don't feel ready for primetime yet.
I think that it's fair to say he could have made a bigger contribution in a more permissive environment. What I had initial tried to do with this piece was explore the notion of how we define success. I think the success that my grandpa achieved late in his life was a happy byproduct of being able to apply him self through his career. The enthusiasm he poured into his work prior was the real personal reward and not necessarily the recognition he gained.

These are still unpolished thoughts. I want to explore more fully in a future post.
Ask HN: What are you looking to achieve in 2014?
All the smart people on HN, just wondering what your goals/ambitions/ideas for the new year ? It does not have to be related to startups or tech necessarily. Anything is worth hearing. Some of mine:

- Get better at swimming

- Paint my kid's room

- Get something started on my startup idea

- Get in shape and Build muscles. (currently 15 lbs overweight). Already working on this btw.

- Buy a Raspberry Pi and play around

- Contribute to a major open source library (fork it at least and submit a pull request)
> whether people also carry the youthful mindset of always being ready to spot problems, and do something about it.

I don't think that's a particularly youthful mindset. Indeed, much of the trend of Silicon Valley right now is the opposite: spot places where you can apply a "social something" even if there's no real underlying problem.

As a practical matter, people who are young tend to lack the experience to know what are the actual problems of the world. Does a 22 year old know what are the things that would, say, improve the efficiency of Intel's designers by 2x? What are the bottlenecks in their workflow or the roadblocks they deal with? They have no idea. Most actual problems, the hard ones, are encountered in contexts that young people have no experience with.

I posit that the youth worship in Silicon Valley has nothing to do with their aptitude for "problem solving." Rather, it has to do with the fact that: 1) advertising is the bedrock of Silicon Valley 2.0; and 2) The 18-25 demographic has long been key to the advertising industry. Who knows better than young 20-somethings what will sell to other young 20-somethings?
ACLU: The USA FREEDOM Act is Real Spying Reform
WTF is happening? - Digital attack map -
Does MathML? (Excluding imaginary screen readers – imaginary screen readers can support anything.)
Thanks, that's kind of you to say. I admit, it's a bit "link-bait" but my other attempts at a title were either too cryptic or long winded.
They've already started putting that stolen data to good use too. http://i.imgur.com/nm6qMGy.png
yeah what was it? I had to exercise in the morning....
That is so funny, but it is true...specially for web devs. (Myself included)
Homer’s Last Theorem
TaskFlow - A library to complete workflows/tasks in HA manner
I had my old Caravan chew threw a serpentine belt once...

Getting that boat of a minivan around the next corner in traffic was both entertaining, dangerous, and probably the best upper-body workout I got that year.
The key though from this story is this bit "Having only been allowed to complete his undergraduate degree, he spent decades doing whatever research and teaching came his way."

One the key differentiators is whether or not people are willing to continue learning. People who learn continue to be useful, people who stop learning eventually aren't. (useful that is)
This is such a seemingly simple idea, I'm surprised that many of the toymakers selling helis for indoor use haven't arrived at this conclusion already.
Wow, this seems like a very backwards move. Just when the truly open source VP8 was set to go in WebRTC, we're opening the discussion about putting h.264 in there again? Why?!

This seems like a very short sighted move.
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Thanks! I'll look into that. I've been trying to explore this topic in other domains recently. I find sports coaches have done a great deal of exploration into the effects of personal attitude especially in managing one's emotional reactions to outcomes.
Yin Wang is awesome and his work on programming languages and type inference is super impressive. We've been using his PySonar (v1) to build a global index of Python code and it works far better than we or anyone would have expected, for a dynamic language.

Here are some examples of what PySonar can do:

* Python stdlib, sorted by most-used functions: https://sourcegraph.com/hg.python.org/cpython

* Finding everywhere a function is used: https://sourcegraph.com/hg.python.org/cpython/symbols/python...

* All usages of the Django URL render_to_response function: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/django/django/symbols/pyt...

* All usages of the Flask @app.route decorator: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/symbols/p...

This is all done using PySonar v1-based static analysis on Python code. PySonar v2 is even better.
I've always expected they would start to serialize open tabs to the flash storage to keep from having to reload them from the network. Seems (to me) like that'd be easy to do.
Soccer Economics
In 1995 it would have made no sense to develop a commercial desktop app for anything other than Windows.

If you didn't make Windows apps at the time, it probably seemed really complicated. It really wasn't. Most of the issues were with C/C++, and the complexity that brings. VB and Delphi were decent alternatives -- there were some 4G languages that worked ok as well.

Making viaweb a web-app instead is obvious in retrospect. But not because making Windows apps is so hard -- it's the deployment that the web brings, not the ease of development. In 1995, there was no super-easy way to make web-apps -- PG and RTM had to invent that too.
I am reading the question as what historical accidents made it socially acceptable.

Here is a factor that I think might play a role: there is a lot more power in the sub-continent at lower levels of government. Specifically, the SP/DCP system allows the local policeman to act as a unilateral mini-judge, often settling disputes to his (rarely are they female) liking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintendent_(police)

This inordinate power gives them a lot more scope for corruption. This system was set up specifically because the British needed to control a vast country with a few people that had to be posted to various regions.

I also agree with the other people who point out that poverty plays a role.
What do you mean the data is completely open? Do they generate just a tokenized endpoint to which everyone can have access to unauthorized?
Yes, my grandpa actually said that when you are young you are freer creatively and take greater risks. This doesn't always lead to better outcomes but it gives you access to opportunities you wouldn't get later in life. Likewise, as you've pointed out, when you are older, your experience opens a different set of doors.
Not sure if Instagram is a competitor to Adobe though, maybe over their low-end mobile apps. I was thinking of Adobe's cashcow -- Creative Suite. That could be a good niche market for C++ programmers from game companies to build their startups on.

Adobe of today is like RIMM in 2007 before the original iPhone was announced.
Cancelling the credit card is probably a wise course of action? I have a subscription to creative cloud.
Would having to query a DHT or whatever for each piece of data really be faster than just doing a single DNS lookup at the beginning and then knowing where to get everything?
Yep. I stupidly reused my Adobe password (don't even remember making the account) on MtGox. Had a bitcoin worth $200 stolen. Fairly sure it was from the Adobe leak as it was taken a day or 2 before the announcement

In the end it was a pretty cheap lesson in security... I've now changed all my passwords on everything and they're all unique
There are animals that are naturally capable of freezing and thawing. We don't have to invent the process, we only need to adapt it. I bet it would be cheaper than a Mars trip.
coughhackernewscough

Not exactly the same, the there's a reason that noprocrast is there.
Problem potentially even more dire than article makes it

"These jobs pay very well. According to the job search site Indeed.com, the average salary for an entry level software engineer in New York City is $71,000—just about the average for an entry level investment banker."

is a very misleading statistic. At a good school maybe the top 5% of a graduating finance class gets banking jobs. Pretty much every single CE or CS major gets a job in technology if they want one. The top 5% goes to work for a top tech firm who routinely pay 1st years 100-120k+, with amazing perks, work life balance, and tremendous growth potential.
There must be only a few behaviors more self centered than wanting to put your stamp on the world. It is all about you, even if you do not care for anyone to know, it is about you.
My family is definitely going to be doing this next month when our Sprint contract is over. I'm also going to port our phone numbers over to Google Voice to avoid any future porting fees.

The abysmal world of mobile phone carriers seems to be making some good improvements.
India plans to restrict email use after NSA leaks
Really you are very naive the ITU and the usual suspects have been trying for this for decades as they say "dont waste a crisis"
I know that LinkedIn culturally didn't work crazy hours to get where they were - does anyone know, are any others listed that started out as '9-5' organizations?
-1 for disabling pinchzoom on mobile devices
Hmm, that's not the impression I got. I don't think they're arguing you should use multiple encodings willy nilly. Rather, they're avoiding the limit of exactly 1 encoding for every input (maximum flexibility in the spec).

Of course, in real-world implementations, the encoder and the decoder will have a shared view of what should be in a CBOR data item. For example, an agreed-to format might be "the item is an array whose first value is a UTF-8 string, second value is an integer, and subsequent values are zero or more floating-point numbers" or "the item is a map that has byte strings for keys and contains at least one pair whose key is 0xab01".

7 is 7 whether it's uint_8 or uint_32, right?
Oh wow, good point, I hadn't thought of that. "High revs" = "motor going fast" to me, not "wheels going fast."

But I had not considered that this correlation is only intuitive to me because I own a car with a manual transmission.
I know a couple of people who work on locked-down networks with firewalls that require permitted sites to be specified by IP address. If you're not confident that DNS will always return the same IP address (e.g. round-robin DNS servers) a common tactic is add a specific IP to the hosts file to make sure it always matches the rule in the firewall.
I think there needs to be a central repository ... itunes, soundcloud, spotify that way these bands are easily discoverable. Everybody knows iTunes and are willing to give apple their CC# but I'm not sure ppl would give a band's website the CC#. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but it just seems to me that decentralization wouldn't work well for selling music.
Does anyone use Yeoman for serious projects? I've tried it, but in the end you just end up subscribing to someone else's idea of a good app structure. I found myself constantly rearranging everything.

Then again, I'm really not a big fan of "code generation" tools.
The Charitable Order of RPG Maker
Having fun at parties with Coaxil
I've found this new antidepressant drug called Coaxil:
http://www.my-lifespan.com/coaxil.html

same fantastic shit for mood sweeps, without side-effects, all legal, great for parties. Give it a shot. No blue meth but really recommended. :)
Yes this sucks, it's obviously MPEGLA's (of which Cisco is a member as a h264 patent holder) move to prevent WebRTC from standardizing around VP8/VP9 (which is already supported in Firefox and Chrome), so instead we are to rely on a binary blob from Cisco for royalty free WebRTC (Flash all over again).

The big stink is how Firefox is supporting this, it's like a huge betrayal of the principles of an open web which is what I directly associate Mozilla with.

As a long time Firefox user and promoter I feel betrayed.
Precisely. I think his continued application and exploration are the biggest personal rewards. The opportunity that appeared was fortunate and the acclaim a happy byproduct.
I am digging thru the logs now to find out - early signs indicate memory or resource leak in the api and it then silently crashed (well, silently from my side - i'm the Ops person for &yet)
Extremely manipulative or false/misleading advertising is extremely evil. Slightly manipulative or false/misleading advertising is slightly evil. 99% of advertising isn't about the product itself as much as about how you will feel or be perceived if only you buy it. Even the web is full of that, there isn't a day where not a landing page gets posted on HN which is full of fluff instead of simply factually describing what the product does, not to mention how it compares to the 500 other products that do the exact same thing. Advertising, for the most part, is designed to route around the informed decision making process, and trying to associate the product with other things, instead of a detailed description of it. That you suggest that makes up the minority of advertising, or that there is a honest, factual way to "suggest" someone buy a burger, is what's laughable to me.

Compare such stuff to, say, the description of a table in a catalogue; material, dimensions, a photo of it without a person in it = "kbye, and thx for not wasting my time or trying to push nonsense into my brain". Anything beyond that is evil in my books, and evil being subjective, you don't really get to decide about that either. I can explain why I consider it evil, I just did, and just saying "nope" is not sufficient to convince me otherwise.
This is the equivalent to buying a house or car with cash to save on interest. Of course you save money by paying full-price up front instead of financing. It only works if you have that much cash available though.
Thanks for the hints. I already do regular exercises and keep my weight more or less - it's just getting harder every year. With 30 I never had to think much about this while with 40 it has become an annoying regular routine I have to go through.
good lord this is awesome. i love the video of it bouncing off that guy's head...total contrast to whenever you're flying a parrot AR quadcopter and everyone takes notice and tries to get away from it.

we've been working with a professor at georgia tech about using a drone to aid in fruit-tree spotting and urban foraging, and i would be soo excited to have one of these...especially cool that they let it navigate off a magnetic direction and just say "figure it out". i just picture a future of artificial scents and pheromones broadcasting off of objects to lure flying robots to them.
But almost all "small" business are hobby ones that dont generate any large scale employment ie grow to several hundred employees.

In the UK the government pushes people to become "self employed" as it flatters the unemployment stats before that it was encouraging doctors to sign people of as disabled and on to a different benefit.
Datacoup helps you aggregate, package and sell your personal data
A Start-Up Lab by Do school provided as a MOOC
Most election rules in the US are set by states, many states (including the largest) have a citizen initiative process. Support by incumbent politicians is not necessary for reform that provides proportional representation with candidate-centered elections (e.g., STV rather than something like party-list-proportional) at the state level, which can provide the basis for creating pressure for the necessary federal reforms (e.g., modifying the federal statutory prohibition on multimember congressional districts -- created to stop the practice of states using multimember winner-take-all districts to avoid minority representation -- to allow multimember districts using methods that produce proportional results like STV) to at least allow states the option of providing better methods of electing federal representatives.
> So what you're saying is that in your personal experience Android devices with 1GB of RAM suffer in multi-tasking. And yet you also say there's no evidence Android devices need more RAM?

No. I am talking relative here. Relative to my iPad my 1GB Android devices ( N7 (2012) and GNex) reloaded browser pages or lost background audio/video playback noticeably lesser. However on my Note 2 which has 2GB RAM, I very rarely see browser page reloads and don't remember having lost background audio for example at all (something that happens routinely on iPad and sometimes on the N7.)

So what I am saying is that Android devices don't _need_ more than 1GB - anecdotally they offer slightly better multitasking performance for the same 1GB than the iPad. But both on Android and iOS - the experience will get appreciably better with 2GB RAM given how smoother my Note 2 is and given how many times my iPad reloads/loses stuff. (Just check the diagnostics logs for low memory on iOS devices.)
Someone is going to write a Medium post seriously suggesting this and HN will react as though it's genius...
Except in some cases unlocked phones cost almost the same as locked phones (Nexus vs. iPhone, etc).
Employees lie on surveys like that - sorry to be brutal but its the truth in 95% of cases.
The icons look good and all.

But it's frustrating to see another icon webfont with the same (small) selection of icons as every other free icon webfont.
This is a great question and I'm grateful to see such honest answers. At the same time, the other question that I'd love to see answer is the opposite: "Decided NOT to start a business and regret later. Share your story". If there's enough interest, perhaps it is worth a separate thread.
It seems like Silicon Valley is up to at least 3.0.
Clues and teasers galore ahead of Android KitKat's rumored Halloween release
Thanks for sharing your story. It's comments like this that keep me posting to HN.
DDoS it would seem..... AKA...Nothing to see here move along.
Me too :) https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons/issues/22
I think that's the real thing.

People sort into two bins: Those who make choices, and those who make excuses.

I think it's often the people who think that they should have already won the prize that end up in the latter category. So they spend their time rationalizing why they haven't gotten there, or what is holding them back.

I've realized that there's no prize to win, there's no time limit, and that I can learn new things far more quickly than I could when I was younger. Instead of making excuses, or living in awe of past accomplishments, I just do new things. I take new notes. I learn new languages. I got a keyboard last month, and I started studying music theory and writing some compositions, and I play along with my baby on my knee, trying to play in whatever key it sounds like she's banging her hands on.

Some people complain that chores are hard with a baby. I challenge myself to do the chores one-handed with her held on my hip when she needs to be held. She loves the experience, I get extra exercise, and the chores get done, and I spend time with her, and it's kind of fun to figure out how to do certain things that you expect to have 2 hands for with only one.

I'm no superman, and I don't try to be. I do get to slow down, but I do it without regret.

I try to spend the time that other people take regretting the things that they can't or didn't do to do the things I want to do.
I'm 42, and I've found much benefits from taking daily tablets of B-vitamin complexes

http://www.my-lifespan.com/b_vitamincomplexforte.html

Mostly they helped easing my back pain and headaches, because of their effects on nerves, but I've also found myself to be more energetic expecially in the morning, getting a more restful sleep with less insomnia.
Give it a shot.
Any ideas on things we could add? Feel free to make a note here: https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons/issues?state=open
FYI this algorithm is called the "Water filling algorithm" and is used extensively in Communications to optimize the allocation power for channels.

You can get a solution with simple Lagrangian method (which I believe is the linear solution).

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dtse/Chapters_PDF/Fundamentals...

(pages 183 - 185)
Note also that it doesn't necessarily take Republican involvement - that just helps. If every Democrat who was going to vote for Feinstein had instead flipped a coin, and voted for her on a heads and some particular other Dem on a tails, it would have been Dem vs. Dem in 2012.