skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show me something that is a sufficiently functional open-source equivalent of Skype or Hangouts, and I'll use it. But in the mean time, I have bigger fish to fry than ridding my life of ideologically impure software.
Interesting. Seems maybe journalists should rely on researchers other than a study's authors for interpretation? I don't mean that sarcastically (well, a little), but it seems that there's a fairly simple solution to this problem.
Bugrocket (https://bugrocket.com, since March 2011, bug tracking for small dev teams) is subscription-based and grows slowly, currently around $500/month in revenue.

CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net, since December 2012, e-course creator tools + we handle transactions for 5%-9% of sales) is a lot less consistent but growing faster, currently $300-$400/month in revenue.
If it was making 2k per month why did you sell it for just 7k, seems to low. You should have asked for a higher price.
One of the things I learned on HN back when Amit's story first came up was that many people who register as donors for a specific person end up declining to make a donation when they get contacted in a different context a few months/years later, and that's really a shame - so huge kudos to Scott for going ahead with this after all that time, because that's a crucial part of the equation.
For any particular subfield of CS (Machine learning, Computer Vision, HCI, etc.), find some top universities that offer graduate seminars, find the website which will usually list a reading list.

For example, from UW:

Machine Learning: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590m2/09au/
HCI: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590h/13au/

I've found graduate reading seminars usually try to present a mix of seminal, eclectic and recent that gives you a diverse overview of the field.
Having a blog on "svbtle" is a negative signal for being worth reading.

And Medium too !
For the same reason why we don't exercise or always follow healthy eating habits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_effect_%28psychology%2...
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Agreed it'd be awesome to get them working together. Anne Wojcicki had reached out and I had a call with her and a couple other folks at 23andme during my 100 days isolation period after the transplant.

They seemed interested, I'm not sure how far it got. I'm guessing privacy issues/conflicting priorities got in the way, but I'll drop her a line to see if they're still thinking about it.
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You have written a passionate response, however you don't seem to have addressed any of Dalton's points. Instead you have gone off tangent by characterizing Dalton's view as -- stop thinking about business and keep coding all the time. So you make a silly argument that "Well I can call developers names too, so we are even. MBA's are equally important". No, that's not the impression I got from Daltons' article. The question is - for startups are you better off spending two years doing an MBA or working on your business. Dalton's point, and I agree with him, is that you are better off working on your startup.

To see why, let's take strategy. You seem to think that strategy is developed in the abstract. However, for startups, you need to be fully engaged in the day to day struggle of your competitors, customers, employees etc. From this up close reality you get a feel for the edge/secret that you have. That edge/secret forms the basis for your strategy. There is no optimal strategy out there. You can't think hard and come up with it. You need to work day to day and fit something that works for you in that particular time,customers etc. This ground reality/state of world and how you are single best suited to take advantage is the biggest power you have over incumbents. Not knowledge of some old case studies or porter's framework, ability to do SWOT analysis or whatever the latest framework is. If you are successful you will be the case study 10 years from now in a business school. At that point the frontier has moved on. Specific to Dalton, if I were to do something in social/music oriented business, I would take his competence over any ivy league MBA. Mostly because he has that ground reality in his head.

Yes, there are basic business rules and concepts that you need to know, however spending two years for an MBA is an overkill for a startup. Truth be told, you come across as exactly the arrogant MBA people like to make fun of. You didn't fully understand the point. Made some silly non-arguments which are abstract and irrelevant and to top it off made some bold statements about your capabilities which had the opposite effect (you can tail files and pipe to grep and are proud of that, really? c'mon man).
ETA: I feel like this comment was sort of combative and harsh. I'm not really sure how to ameliorate that, though, so I'm just going to prepend an apology and say thank you for being more polite than me beforehand. :P

> If you don't like the Constitution as it is, and enough people agree that it's wrong, then ratification is your course. Pretending it doesn't say what you don't want it to should not be an option.

But this is true of all jurisprudential theories, not only of originalism. That's why people campaign to get bills passed, but merely sit around and cross their fingers when court decisions are made.

> the Supreme Court is supposed to attempt to interpret the Constitution as written with the help of other supporting texts of the day, ala the Federalist, Hamilton's papers, etc. to adhere to originalist intent.

This is completely untrue: you're making up requirements in order to support originalism. It's like saying that houses are supposed to be tall and dot the landscape, and therefore should always be built aboveground. Originalism is an interpretative tradition like any other interpretative tradition. It doesn't have a special place. You can favor it, but that's a personal inclination, and not actually justified.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/interp.... (Posner is one of judiciary voices calling for IP reform.)

http://www.constitution.org/cons/prin_cons.htm (Especially #17)
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These costs don't include the cost of provisioned IOPS, right? Without provisioned IOPS, the I/O performance is going to range from "very low" to "low", not "low" to "very high".
Yeah, that was the first thing I checked for as well. Note that the restriction is specifically on MSM, not 'gay people'.

There is a growing body of medical groups pushing for a relaxation of the indefinite deferral period for MSM, including the American Red Cross and America Blood Centers. The deferral period in some other countries is less strict, down to a year in the EU.
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The thing about "startups fail often" is that it seemingly creates a situation where nobody can ever be proved wrong, only correct. Success can happen and signals competency, but failure never signals anything negative? I think that this contributes to the "echo chamber" effect.
PHP will take your 100k/day and work wonderfully.

PHP can easily take 1m/day.
This is a matter of taste. I think certain standard abstractions in Python are pretty terrible, and really need to be upgraded. The standard way of doing function decoration isn't good. Neither is the standard way of accessing mysql. These, and a number of other things, really should have better abstractions built on them to amplify productivity and readability.

Sometimes there's a war between standard techniques and DRY principles. I've observed a lot of good coming from adhering to the idea of never copying code or doing boilerplate. But as you point out, sometimes it can lead to a bunch of nonstandard code. But I think any non-trivial codebase is going to have a chunk of abstractions it creates and builds upon to amplify its own expressiveness. When you can import some of those abstractions, that's arguably a win. There are lots of people that would (and have) disagreed with me on this point, but it is a subjective matter of taste.
Usually money retreats from the equities markets to the bond markets when bubbles pop. The bond markets are a lot less sexy, but they offer a coupon (tech equities almost never offer a dividend), and the value of the bond will often rise above the face value of the bond when people are scrambling to find a safe place to park their money.

Just look for some bond funds which have had reasonable performance through the last few bubbles if you don't want to invest directly into bonds. You can also do a bond ladder, but some people advise against them.

EDIT: changed "usually" to "often" when describing the value of a bond
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I think that despite the clichés in France (as anywhere else too) there always will be peoples that will try to do new things, different things, by themselves without relying on the old structures, even if they may be a minority. When I'm the most proud it's when I complete a project I set to do by myself even if it's small or if it fails. I literally live for these moments.
San Francisco Startups and Govt are mixing
> "Science is still the best way of determining true statements"

Science is still the best way to refute false statements.
It is unwanted, broken and stupid to hardcode policy behaviour on the filename of executables.

I lost a few hours to this because it's so quirky and easy to forget. This happened during the compilation of a certain library, which created an install.exe program to move files around the filesystem. That stupid UAC dialog was not even kicking-in and basically the copying just died.
Even though http://hdragomir.github.io/facetogif/ it gave me around 120$ from donations.
The freedom to travel
^^ I bought your review wp plugin years ago. It was great and worked perfectly, I wish you all the success in the world
SimpleCrew (http://www.SimpleCrew.com - a mobile photo app for businesses, real estate investors, marketing street teams, etc...) is earning $1,600/mo RR right now... ~35 customers averaging just under $50/mo per customer.

The number isn't enough to support us in the US yet, but it excites us regardless because of its implications. Between the revenue and usage (weekly photo totals are consistently up and to the right) we believe we're on a reliable path to financial sustainability with this one:

Assuming ARPU stays at $50, we're earning 6 figures per founder (ignoring costs, just revenue) at just 333 customers, and we'll reach 7-figure earnings at 1,666 customers.

Those numbers are completely doable! God bless the economics of monthly recurring revenue, and DHH for spelling it out so clearly in his Startup School '08 presi (on YouTube). I can say without irony that that video has deeply influenced the course of my life.
I might have dreamt this but I thought daylight saving in the UK was also a 'safety' aspect for children going to and from school.
There are two primary differences between 1999 and now in consumer web: 1) there's a massive advertising market now that works; 2) for 99.999% of web sites, it has gotten drastically cheaper and easier to operate, and over another five or ten years, will become nearly free (what will $10 buy at Digital Ocean in another five years?). Traffic and resource demands for most web sites will not keep up the value proposition improvements we're seeing, it'll push the cost toward zero.

Those two differences have in fact changed the landscape. I can run a couple person startup that generates millions in ad revenue now, with exceptionally high margins. Plenty of Fish is the most famous example of this. Techmeme essentially worked like that, as another example. Hacker News could be like that, if PG wanted it to be.

Point being, it's now drastically easier to monetize traffic long term, compared to 1999 (when the ad market was tiny, backwards, poorly standardized, difficult to utilize, and not very developed for all industries / segments).
Yeah, I have no idea, thus the _perhaps_ bit -- these guys are rolling in big time projects regardless, definitely on the rise.
Technically, a unicycle has fewer degrees of freedom that a bicycle.
Yup. There are people who specialize in this kind of communication: work with them to get real answers backed by experience. I love the wisdom of crowds, but I think this is one case where expert opinions are key.
> Key exchange between people should always require some kind of offline verification.

Or a trusted third party (see IBE.)
Beathound (http://beathound.com) is making between $50 and $100 a month in affiliate revenue from the various music stores. I'm working on rolling out some new features that will increase that.
"Android is, for example not licensed with copyleft or some other construction designed to keep it open"

No, instead it's licensed in a way that lets the rest of the world decide what they want to do with it, and the complaint is "we don't like what the world is doing with it". You must also realize if android was GPL'd, nobody would have used it, right[1] ?

" and Google itself builds its most significant end-user functionality as closed components."

I don't agree this is true, but even if i did, if you want to compete, compete. If you don't, don't. Essentially this whole complaint boils down to "i have to do my own work in order to compete seriously, i don't get to freeride anymore after x number of years".

I'll point out the mariadb folks did this, rather than simply complain.

In any case, the fact that someone may build closed source stuff on top of an open platform does not make that open platform less open.
It may make that platform less useful as time goes on, but not less open.

"I note that you are implicitly conceding that what is commonly considered to be Android is indeed not open."

I haven't conceded anything, actually.

It's just not a point worth arguing with someone who holds a position that clearly conflicts with mine and is highly unlikely to change it.

[1] I wouldn't try arguing with this, this is a case where i was there, and I literally know the answers and positions of the phone makers, which was essentially 'never ever ever'.
Well thought! I'm going to comment them out now!
Yes, use what you know the best. Might want to consider using a framework like Laravel 4 or Symfony 2 to boost your productivity.
Actually, I'd say it really comes down to rails and tires. Streetcars can be given the same rights-of-way as buses and would perform similarly, except: the streetcar is a smoother ride. I can grab breakfast and eat it on a streetcar knowing there's only one direction of motion to worry about. On a bus, however, you can never tell which way you'll be jerked around. It really is much less pleasant, even if it's faster without the right of way. (Due to left turning cars)
Approximately 36 million people starved to death in China in 1958-61, during peacetime and normal weather conditions. And yet it's not in Chinese history books.
Leakage between requests is only one of the problems with globals. There's also poor testability, inability to re-use functions that reference the request internally, inability to statically analyze dependencies (less of an issue in Python, since the lack of types makes it hard to analyze them anyway), additional context that the developer must keep in his head, and inability to cross-reference parameters & call-sites and identify where a given variable is coming from in code browsers or debuggers.

Singletons are no better - if you dress it up as RequestManager.get_current_request(), it's just as bad. If you don't understand why something is a bad idea, complying with the letter of the law without complying with the spirit doesn't really get you much.

I think this is the way in which my programming style has changed the most over the last 10 years. I used to want my programs to do everything and have access to everything. So I'd write PHP scripts that would do "SELECT * FROM table INNER JOIN table2 WHERE ..." and pass around the whole result set to every function and every template in the app in case they wanted to access some data in it. That way, I only had to change the DB schema and the template when requirements changed. (Anyone who's thinking of doing this, you're introducing massive data leakage and security issues into your app.)

Now I want my programs to do as little as possible and have access to as little as possible. Usually I end up pulling out the values I want inside the view function and calling any helpers using only those values, so I don't pass the request around anyway. The actual work of the program happens on strings, or ints, or structs, or other values specific to the domain.

I think what changed, for me, were a few things. One is that I got better at visualizing the operation of a large program as a whole, so instead of thinking "Hmm, I need a request here, how can I get access to one", I started thinking in terms of "This is how data enters the system, this is what we need for each computation it performs, and this is how we combine those results to render a page - how can I change it so the system still hangs together but does what we want now?" Another was that I kept running into instances where I could almost re-use a function, but was blocked because of hidden dependencies that it didn't really need. A third was testability - I learned how crucially important it is to be able to test parts of the system in isolation, and that's really hard when you have to setup the whole system context to run any function. A fourth was that I worked a bunch with both systems and found that adding a parameter to each function along a call path is easy (but tedious - if only there were a refactoring tool to do this for us), while disentangling a tightly-coupled function that depends upon a lot of implicit state is quite challenging.
I find Americans view "America" as "The World". I'm not questioning your metrics, your statistics, or the quality of UWashington, but I think you mean 'Public School'.

The phrase state school is meaningless if you live in countries that don't have states.
Ah, my favorite problem with Win9x in fact was how Caldera was able to continue to sue MS based on the fact that it was based on DOS. I mentioned it in my blog article on the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco and it should be obvious why.
True, but on the other hand it is very useful. It works offline, really useful when going abroad, and the OSM maps are better in many cities (worse in others).
Though, to be fair, a good chunk of those dynasties lasted a few hundred years. :P

So clearly we should have dynasties and a couple wars of succession to devastate the nation every 50-100 years. Something about the blood of patriots and tyrants. 20 years?
No it's not. It's necessary. Your definition is just too narrow.
So, how do you prevent the average user from getting infected with rootkits and other malicious software on a Linux device?
So what should we have used? Rails? Just that little matter of it not being so invented yet. Given that we knew C++, and were smart enough to build with reuse in mind, and needed far, far fewer $40,000 servers (and the REAL cost, co-lo space), it wasn't just reasonable, it was genius!

Speaking of genius, that leads me neatly onto: are things really cheaper? I am thinking of this story, even in '99 I'd have balked at $20k/mo in hosting charges alone http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/heroku_marketing_mis...
They're all important, but arguably Ritchie was more directly influential to modern computing from a practical perspective.

Fortran? Better designed? You're the first one I've seen who claims that. I'm assuming you're referring to the Fortran 90 standard and later, which cleaned up the language significantly and gave it a lowercase name. But the FORTRAN before that was simply ugly. I wouldn't call it Backus' starring moment. I'd say his research on functional programming and being a member of the ALGOL committee was much more important.

Fortran ended up becoming more suited to a completely different domain than C, anyway. Numerical and scientific computing versus embedded systems and low-level programming with high-level imperative mnemonics.

Haven't read A Guide to Fortran Programming, but K&R is still quite great, nonetheless. Although its habits are outdated by now in favor of ANSI C, it's still a handy reference.
I'll agree with this, but in that case I would tend to judge competency by other, finer criteria. I'd rather judge someone by their own efforts and decisions rather than factors beyond their control.

You can also judge an idea around which a startup is built, but that's a tricky game. Should you do so, however, you would not be criticizing this man's strategy or MBA insights.
Ah, at least in Toronto, we tend to see our trams as streetcars rather than trains, so they fall victim to the same "next bus" problem you quote above. More so, as trains can't hop over one another to pick up passengers at alternating stops, a practice common with the busiest of routes. That said, streetcar drivers are often much calmer than bus drivers. There's just a different kind of expectation...
Not sure what amuses me more. The notion of citizen as end user, or the notion of lawyer as API consumer.
A quick search of 'gigabit seattle' will make things less vague: http://gigabitseattle.com/areas/
There is a delightful movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit in which the villain is attempting just this: buying trolley lines to build "highways, as far as the eye can see".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/
Vine for android as well as Instagram video had been launched, usage went too low. We couldn't find someone willing to pay more.
That's happened in Green Lake and Wallingford as well. And it's really strange, because it doesn't appear to serve any functional purpose. A couple of them now serve to slow down neighborhood traffic (a good thing), but mostly they look like replacements for something that didn't need replaced.
Here's my take on this: either the author or the BBC has simplified what is really going on, because we actually know a lot more about Ancient Greek Music than this article suggests.

Most importantly (I think), ancient music is not (only) preserved in the words themselves (i.e. by vowel length and things like that). There is also a lot of evidence for musical notation, which has been preserved both in the papyrus tradition (where we have lines of tragic verse with the actual notes transcribed above - you can see an example here: http://classics.uc.edu/music/), as well as from discussions of ancient music by the ancients themselves, e.g. Plutarch's 'On Music'
No worries on tone. I do my level best to always assume good faith, and temper that with the knowledge that smart, reasonable people often disagree very loudly. ;-)

As for my statement on originalism, I don't believe it untrue, but I do believe it was poorly stated. The two basic schools of thought express the judiciary requirement to either pay heed to original intent or original meaning, with perhaps strict constructionism coloring either side of the equation.

Regardless, I think that my intent remains true, which is that politicians too often disregard both the original meaning, the original intent, or any strict or loose construction of the Constitution in order to bend the Constitution, through verbal gymnastics, into abstractly supporting whatever thing it is that they want supported.

In short, it is simply disregarded, and if a Constitutional challenge is posed, it is easily circumvented by hand-waving and word play. This, despite the primary job of the federal government (IMO at least) is to uphold the Constitution, and every member of the legislature, executive and judiciary having sworn an oath to uphold it.
> I wrote a puff piece about Petrofsky–based primarily on interviews with him and materials supplied by him and Wright State–published in the November 1983 issue of The Institute, the monthly newspaper of the IEEE

My, could this be part of the problem?

> It never occurred to me to question Petrosky’s claims.

Or this?

Maybe, just maybe, it's very hard to get good reporting on something by people unqualified in a subject?