skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just based on what you posted, I want to encourage you to consider the terms. $20k of seed is not significant enough imo to take such a large stake in the company.

Your seed stage needs to provide the founders enough income/resources that they can and want to do this full time - along with have some ability to hire out additional jobs over enough time (3+ months) to get an A round or have strong revenue producing customers. In the case that you need to hire an additional developer for 3 months, you'd be out of your $20k seed money.
I'd recommend this for modern PHP:
http://www.nodebeginner.org/

It's a great intro on how to write sphagetti code with out losing face.
FYI this tumblr is run by HN's own John Graham-Cumming (jgrahamc). Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7006317
Part of the issue with mass surveillance is that a lot of people don't know about it / don't understand how it affects them. Anything that helps more people to start understanding and caring about this issue will push lawmakers toward doing the right thing and curtailing it.
Can't deliver privacy guarantees unless you have a secure system in the first place. That's not to say Google does care about privacy, but security being top makes sense.
Target Data Breach Upped To 70 Million
The companies I'm describing range from fortune 500s to research organizations to small startups. They didn't have it for 100% of people, but they did for every dev/researcher that I could see. They don't have to be huge offices, and two to an office was fine, it's really the full walls/lack of noise that mattered.
Drug discovery failure rates: The news is not good
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I've always been under the impression that accenture were a "bums on seats" consultancy, graduates cranking out low quality java code.
programmers are people
Without IP, what stops people incorporating GPL code in their closed source proprietary products? See you can't have your cake and eat it. Either you believe there is a thing called a license which travels with your product and binds the user as to how they can use it, or you don't, there isn't really any middle ground there. The alternative is "everything is public domain!" in which case, no GPL.
Krugman failed to notice that back then the exploitation was happening: it was the middle class being transformed into the working poor.
Years ago (I think it was ffmpeg) it would crash constantly on tv input, but it ran in a different process and restarted automatically.
I've seen this around a few times, seems to be what you're looking for http://www.phptherightway.com
Not having an arbitrary length limit allows one to write code prose, instead of being limited to code poetry... :)
FB login is non-starter.

Todo:

1. Build login.

2. Create ToDo list.
On iOS this isn't necessarily true under certain constraints.

They can make it impossible given the device is not jailbroken. Sometimes there are versions of iOS that are un-jailbreakable. If you are not Apple, it could very well be impossible to figure out what an app is sending to a remote service if it gets its cryptography right.

Edit: thinking about it, although it may be impossible to MITM the connection, presumably one can inspect the compiled application to determine what it would send, so I think I was wrong about this
But the underlying principle that all parties would have to agree on is that there are these things called "laws".
How about we just call it marketing?

Or "internal marketing" when it's directed at what's left of your poor working culture... Great way to boost cynicism and turn over in your smartest employees!
Exactly what I came here to say -- people are forgetting the 'hacking' part.

By definition, growth hacking is not established techniques, it's coming up with new clever ways to get people to spread the word about your product, which are often going to depend on your specific product or product category, and not be generally applicable. As soon as a technique is widely known/defined/used, it ceases to be growth hacking and is then just part of regular marketing.
Supreme Court to hear Aereo case which could define future of Internet TV
What a surprise 2013 was a lousy year for PC sales
Why Elop and Nadella are the best combination for Microsoft’s future
I think thats unfair.

Interaction with legacy systems is all the future has left, plus its a problem - and the most elegant hack to scrape the aging DoJ mainframe wins the prize.

No, its clear public data architecture has to change.
Hey Ryan, Ryan from FOBO here. Totally agree with the hot commodity that is a MB Air (they are followed by 700 users already in SF). This said, you may be surprised by the results. We had a MacBook Pro Retina sell for 170% of what we guaranteed for it the other day, just while in beta.
Nope, just local groups, there's plenty of them everywhere. Not as convenient as a dedicated app/website, but it's good enough for occasional deals...
No kidding, I mean I put square wheels on my car and it works just fine on my catenary road. Automotive engineers should get out of their circular wheel ivory tower now and then and see how good it works in practice.
Are you sure it's a PHP book? It says it's a node.js book.
Have you actually used the site? I tried to register, it's a complete joke. It crashed twice and eventually I got to a point where I literally could not figure out what I was supposed to do next. I mean, I'm a programmer and I couldn't figure it out. Everyone else I talked to who tried to use it had the same experience.

The site literally does not function, this has nothing to do with integrations.
I am reading "Apress Expert PHP and MySQL", the code is very releasable, it teach good practices about security and sql management, is more target to beginners and intermediate level programmers, but i really like how the author view and teaching skills.
Right. And you have not shown that anyone is talking about wealth redistribution rather than income redistribution.

Politics ruins another mind.
Amazon.com came online 20 years ago and has been slowly iterated upon and changed by thousands of employees since then. Slightly different.
2013 MacBook Air WiFi Problems
I here the points about about legacy systems. How much would it have cost to scrap those old systems and build from the ground up.
You're defining the "last century" pretty narrowly. There have been a number of times when Europe has looked to the U.S. The U.S. rendered aid and assistance during its post-WWII reconstruction. It served as the sword and shield of NATO against the Soviet Union. U.S. economic liberalization and deregulation in the 1970's and 1980's was a model that Europe followed in the 1980's and 1990's.
The discrimination against epileptics in the valley is disgusting.
I have worked on government IT projects in a country that has 160 times less citizens and I would not take this kind of project for this kind of money.
It's not really enough to just handwave the word "regulatory capture." What's your evidence that the acquisitions process has been captured.
Talk about going from the frying pan to the fire.
The validator doesn't work at all.
I don't think insurance and transaction reversibility are mutually exclusive.

The current financial system is already insurance-based (at least in the U.S.). You are protected from fraud in every money system you use. Transaction reversibility seems like a natural result of this, because it significantly reduces the insurance risk.

Essentially, if you have insurance, transaction reversibility becomes desirable (by both parties - bank and client) because it reduces insurance costs.
Obama administration to end contract with CGI Federal
This is not a PHP book, and is pretty old to begin with.
smart ass
I was looking for your opinions on some great options, not trying to pick a fight.
Ask HN: Would you buy a pedal power device
It seems everyone is jumping on the standing desk option and although I like the idea, I also think moving to the next step (exercise while working) seems more logical.

I came across http://www.k-tor.com/pedal-powered-generator/ which allows you to pedal and generate power and plug in things (laptop, phone, etc).

If this device had a better design (light/easy to move but also sturdy) and maybe integrated into a system like Fitbit (social competition, who generated the most power, etc.) and maybe was $99 rather than $195 - ... so Would you buy it?
Sending an email from Python
So, a marketer is upset that marketing wordplay has been applied to the act of marketing?

I've never seen growth hacking as anything other than marketing but with a focus on trying the unusual or the usual in a different way and measuring the results immediately. No big mystery but interesting in that novel approaches or surprising results come to light more often than traditional marketing.
What's this weird fake AAVE lorem ipsum thing that this page links as a demo? Is the joke 'haha black people talk funny'?
That's because you're missing the point:

The damned thing doesn't have to work, it just has to make the administration look good. The White House gets to look forward-thinking in rolling out this amazing new technology to help fix healthcare, and they get to look good by being the underdog victim fighting against the bloated government contractor that tried to defraud the taxpayer.

All you have to do is take the money, play the patsy, and everything will be fine.
The null object is a beautiful device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_object
I recently published a statistical analysis of the proportion of female founders who receive funding from VC firms and accelerators such as Y Combinator to male founders: https://medium.com/p/2613f58e5082

Year over year, the female participation in YC batches has been improving: http://i.imgur.com/MCLqUm3.jpg
Petition to free jailed Pirate Bay co-founder goes viral
Not so much for the road itself, but i see your point.
I've read the Wikipedia article on Stackless Python but I was wondering if someone could quickly explain why Stackless is more desirable to CCP than regular Python?
Educational Philosophy
School should be such that students have the capability to learn on their own but benefit from being part of school so much that they choose to go to school. Today's students are not given a choice.
Broadcasters Get U.S. Supreme Court Review in Bid to Stop Aereo
Clickable - http://Killswit.ch
Computing for the [physics] Energy Frontier: Snowmass Study 2013
The death of the PC at CES has been greatly exaggerated
Unfortunately, I think this concept is totally lost on inexperienced disciples of Rand. An understanding of the world and its historical development is a perfect cautionary tale as to why purely "meritocratic" systems will never produce anything of lasting value.

The industrial revolution was bankrolled by extreme government spending at draconian (compared to present) tax rates during the World Wars. Every technological and scientific breakthrough of the last hundred years was bankrolled by the state either directly or indirectly. This fact is lost on a generation that takes all of this for granted, because they naively believe that progress is the natural state of civilization.

Today, a president like Eisenhower would be called a hopeless bleeding heart liberal. Who cares that the USA became a dominant scientific, technological and economic powerhouse under administrations like his?

History is the best teacher. Personally, I will watch the disintegration of these naive "meritocratic" policies with great interest in the coming years. Who needs public investment in infrastructure, science or healthcare?
Supreme Court to Hear Aereo Case
Where is the bank getting money to pay you interest? By making investments. The fact that you're one level removed from the decision-making doesn't make it less of an investment.
those are apps we developed for some clients :-) somewhat got tricked by the dm features and rubyisms, but it ended up dead. of course no client pays migration out of dm.. dm 1.2 is a dead end and stuck around ruby 1.9... dm2 won't happen, rom will come instead
Not to mention the global reach of such technologies. Imagine XBox Live with laser tag/VR FPS and people from all over the world could play. There could be massive tournaments and competitions.
This is mostly done in lower level code, so no wonder you have never bumped into it. One easy example, though is passing a set of binary options around, which is useful, for example, when you want to say "enable those features, and disable those other features". You can pack up to 32 options into a 4-byte integer.
... The people willing to tolerate this mess don't generally intersect with the startup crowd.

But this is a space that could be disrupted (albeit not easily). And isn't Clever[1] trying to do something similar in the education space?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/clever-y-combinator-student-i...
+1 to this. What if you need to fire your parent or spouse? Sure you might feel like you can do it, but for a whole lot of people the power dynamics and differentiating a personal relationship and professional one is tricky. I mean, I wouldn't write a blog post recommending this.

Couple quick scenarios come to mind:

"Why are you firing me?"
"I need someone more qualified. You've done good work, It's not personal."
"But I'm your mother. I changed your diapers and taught you right from wrong."
...

"Mom, my business failed. I have no money."
"Well, you should have thought of that when you fired me."
...
Could the exposed users sue Yelp? It doesn't seem like Yelp fulfilled their duty to protect them if they failed to respond to the subpoena.
Bleeding edge double entendre.
Is a common believe by some people that the business model of Yelp for big restaurants is plain old extortion: "Please Pay us a fee to have premium priority! Otherwise some strange negative reviews may appear that you cannot refute nor delete."
Apple doesn't have the best track record around auditing software for obfuscated functionality. The OS is built around the assumption that an app can misbehave without risking the user's resources. Of course, jailbreaking disproves this.
Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland’
It's related to his earlier post "What I Didn't Say": http://paulgraham.com/wids.html

And the related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986797
So you declass PHP to a fancy templating engine because you have had problems with third party plugins for Wordpress?

On a related note, I just downloaded a Fart-app and my iPhone 2G froze. I'm glad Apple is developing, but they should just abandon the consumer market.
A Google+ Content Strategies Infographic
Pretty easy to disable luckily

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3294854
have you checked out BiggerPockets [1]? I'm just getting started in some small-time REI/landlording and that site's been a great inspiration. One great resource is podcast #37 [2] where they interview a guy who does real estate over there in CA pretty successfully. He talks a lot about wholesaling (which I don't care about) but he also explains how he built an automated system around his rentals; he doesn't use an external property manager, but he also almost never directly interacts with his tenants.

I imagine any of us here, being techie entrepreneurial-minded people, could build a system like that pretty easily. Create a website to market your rentals/show vacancies, post them to craigslist when necessary, find a general contractor to fill work orders and hire a V.A. to take calls and submit those work orders. I'm probably missing some things, but that's the basic framework for my plans.

[1] http://www.biggerpockets.com/

[2] http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/09/26/lifestyle...
I don't know the values, but there are a few things to consider.

A typical Google engineer has several sources of compensation: a base salary, annual bonus, and stock.

The base salary is effectively a fixed value you know in advance. The annual bonus depends on performance, but you get guidance and can estimate it. The bonus is significant, but typically smaller than base salary.

However, the stock grants are wacky. You're granted stock which vests according to a schedule. After several years, the vesting schedule starts to grant more and more stock per unit time (you get new grants, old grants take a while before they vest, etc).

Finally, Google's stock has been increasing since 2008 (there was a big drop in early 2008). This makes stock grants lucrative in a way that scales very differently from typical base income or bonuses.
"It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself."

No matter how the rest of the essay is, this honestly doesn't mean jack and insults the intelligence of his critics, no matter how off-the-mark they were. He goes on to note other, more meaningful statistics, which is great, but this sentence alone is kind of laughable.
Excessive backlight bleed - could be that you got a real lemon...

Manufacturers do have frequent revisions on the panels - for example LG's e-IPS panels had 6 revisions (or more), each pretty different, initially with backlight bleed and ghosting problems, then AFRC and brightness changes (it varies a lot between revisions) and the bad reviews went to Dell, Asus, Acer and other display manufacturers...
Millions of family businesses think otherwise.
"Wow, I didn't think either of us could say anything to make this easier. Thanks dad."
Manu Kumar's 4 Rules Of M&A For Startup Founders
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Warby Parker: Annual Report 2013
Lets you get around the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock), basically gives python lightweight threads (greenlets).
From the essay's footnotes:

> The 13% number is from a study we did ourselves

What 13% number? I don't see the number 13 mentioned anywhere else on the page. I suppose it's related to this line:

> In the current YC batch, 16 out of 68 companies, or 24%, have female founders. That's almost twice the rate at which VCs fund such companies

...but if so, it could be stated more explicitly.
I don't know about female founders, but I always thought that given the readership, pseudocode problems placed as job adverts in some of the puzzle magazines would get a lot of interesting candidates, many of them middle aged women who have been solving a variety of logic puzzles daily for decades, entirely for their own amusement. I bet some of them could code like demons, if given the impetus.
At my office they replaced the beamers with big ctouch touchscreens. It's a huge improvement even at the smaller diagonal because of the clear and sharp image. Plus, it's cool to stand there pulling stuff across the screen minority report style.
Does Yelp have any duty to "protect" them?
I can do that, and I've used languages and hardware where it was the only option. But I'm much faster and more effective with a type system.
The cache issue is actually visible sometimes on very shitty wifi. That made me check it once, because it showed the images a few seconds later than the page. Which should never happen for a page you visit daily.
I agree. Isn't Jessica his wife?

edit: the downvote was predictable, although still disappointing. I was simply pointing out that picking your wife as a cofounder should not be used as proof that you are not biased against women. Honestly, PG's argument would be stronger as a whole if he removed that line from the essay.
Except it hasn't. The current system has turned what is left of the pool of potential bidders into key donors.
Some feedback

1. Don't force the user to enter the phone number. I don't mind giving out my email address, but my phone number is only if you win my trust.

2. You need to have some form of trial before requiring a credit card. If that's not possible then at least a video demo and screenshots.

edit: formatting
Facebook hit with lawsuit over “Like” ads
Like mediocre people in any field, they're fighting
the last war, and the last war was won by Mark Zuckerberg.

My curiosity has been piqued. Does the author have point of view previously stated on Zuckerberg?

Where does Zuckerberg stand merit wise? I see him in the news headlines often with his smiling picture. What makes him more clever than the rest of you.
I like your idea that the first marketing hire at a startup should have "growth as their true north."

Part of the reason I wince when someone says, "growth hacker" is that too often I've seen someone with that title parachute in, turn all the knobs up to 11 and then run off to be airlifted into another team's domain. I think a lot of folks treat growth hacking as magic pixie dust that they can sprinkled around to make numbers go up. I'm sorry to say that my introduction to the term was well after it became bastardized.

Personally, I think we a new phrase for all this.
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There's various degrees of mixing family/money or in other words "doing business with family.
Quitting your jobs, and taking out a loan to open a Tim Hortons (showing my Canadianism here) franchise together is a lot different than a retired mother doing some accounting for her son to make a bit of extra money. The latter seems fairly low risk.
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Like Lindsay - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2534733/Victorias-...
Sentry really is a life saver. We use it for our HTML5 MMO for both the client-side Javascript and the back-end in Node.js, and it has helped us to dramatically improve our end user experience. Really cool seeing this used out of the browser!
There are other things to consider as well.

Compiler support across various platforms: are there compilers available and do they generate good code?

Mindshare: how big is the intersection of people who know the language and have the domain knowledge to contribute to the project?
As a current student at GMU, I'm not so sure I'd call it a Tier-1 school just yet. It's still got a lot of improvement to do, but it has definitely grown incredibly fast even in the time I've been here. My mother is also a graduate of GMU and my father went to GMU for a short time before completing his degree at College Park, so I've seen Mason grow throughout my childhood and now into my adult life.

People in the NoVa area don't really seem to treat GMU the way they treat UVA or VTech or even VCU. I'm glad it's starting to be treated seriously. It's just odd seeing GMU cited more and more often as a serious research school in the same sentence as other more well-known universities when people in the NoVa university don't share that same level of respect.

My comments about rarely hearing GMU's name were more targeted towards how much I hear it in the news. I listen to NPR on a daily basis and broadcasters or guests on different shows frequently name studies from universities like Princeton and Yale and Carnegie Mellon but I've only started hearing GMU's name come up on non-University topics within the past month or so. I've heard studies cited by GMU in different fields cited 3-4 times this week already.
I found it here:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Example_code

Description is rather clear: "To get a feel for what real world Haskell looks like..."
Am I the only one who thinks that the failures were intentional - that the whole mix-up is a passive-aggressive way of herding the USA into eventual single-payer?

If Washington DC is, in fact, really that stupid and it is not intentional, under what strange notion of justice am I to pay taxes to these morons?