skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, I love nearly every minute of it. If I sold out tomorrow, I'd start another project and work the same hours.

Here's an idea for a HN developer. Setup a site where entrepreneurs can hangout and chat daily. This next point is going to sound crazy, but only have the site online for 1 hour (or maybe two 1 hour sessions) a day. This way, we're not distracted to check the site on a constant basis, but it's more of a 1 hr daily meeting, where you can jump in, network, chat about your project, what you're working on, technologies, etc. Associate everyone with their related app or business, so you'll see 'Michael Gnade (IndieGameStand.com)', etc.
good to know. I almost assumed that everyone would have believed it without seeing the prize get awarded.
My first thought was 'oh, hey, this looks a lot like xevil'.
Doesn't even have to be "terrorist". Can be "Muslim".

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262.full
Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
Yahoo hires PI to find programmer who's been missing since New Year’s Day
I've got a team of 40+ (50% remote) with management for the stables, and I still work just as hard as when it was just me and my dog. But my end game isn't to lead by vacation, it's to drive this fucking company forward. I can't tell if you're doing it right, doing it wrong, hubris, a noob, or simply just awesomer than myself.

I think it's good to have a positive attitude, but I've been grinding for 8 years (the filling in my cookie sandwich is getting pretty thick) and maintaining a constant positive perspective is an impossibility.
I assume as an attempt to avoid copyright issues, "The Life of A Young Entrepreneur" [0] was changed from it's original title "The Startup Kids" [1]. Meh, not fair to the producers of the film.

[0] - #1 under "Digital Entrepreneurship" category

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Kids-Brian-Wong/dp/B00BQRJ8I6
$_ in bash means the last argument of the previous command. So:

mkdir some/long/path/to/a/dir
cd $_

mv foo some/long/path/bar
cd $_

both work for what you want, and the extra keystrokes are so few that it hardly matters. The $_ is not specific to those two commands, so works for others as well, and is typically very useful because command sequences often tend to need the last argument of the previous command in the next command; un-tar-ing a .tar file and then going to the extracted directory is another example.
I think it's actually kinda cool to see this. I'm not sure how fond I am of the whole Cannabis College thing, but it's good to see how legalization efforts have spurred industry and created opportunities.
They are loud. Then again I am a programmer, so headphones can solve the only real downside for me. I don't have to make calls all day.

But to more specifically address your offering a coworking space as a solution to meeting other people. It probably comes down to personality, but I am an introvert and find it very difficult to just start talking to someone. So, it ends up a bit like being at a party full of strangers. You are pretty sure there are some cool people around, but have no idea what the first step is for locating them and then breaking the ice. There are sometimes happy hour type events, but people tend to group up with people they already know and give you the 'what do you want' look if you start the slow awkward approach. Again, there are lots of people who are good at this, I am not one of them.

To summarize, it can be a good solution or not depending on your personality. My solution is to schedule lunches with my friends and people I have met who were interesting. That lowers the burden of meeting new people at the coworking space, which can then happen a little more organically.
Interesting:

"Japan has the world's oldest population, with a median age of 46 years, an average lifespan of 84, and a quarter of the population over 65. "

That is a very old population!
I'm quite happy with https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks

Also, the built-in pushd and popd commands are enough sometimes.
It's possible, but the argument that Starbucks/Google shifting sales from the UK to Ireland implies that the United States is playing accounting tricks with imports and exports is non sequitur. And the implicit assertion that if all countries were playing tricks, they must be playing it equally enough to cancel each other out is also not valid without providing additional supporting evidence.

The article provides an estimate that 1/3rd of Chinese imports were from China itself. I have never heard any kind of claim of that magnitude leveled against the present United States.
Just use auto jump

https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump
"It's unusual to see a paper claiming anything substantial about this problem." Not really: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxgm1/mathematician_c...
Part of the problem affecting the growth of the tablet has been their traditionally-horrible performance in all productivity-related areas. I remember being dumbfounded when the Apple fanboys were raving about how the then-next-generation iPad listed "multitasking" as a feature. It's still true today, though to a lesser extent.

To my mind, the tablet is just a smartphone that doesn't fit in my pocket. If I want to waste an hour looking at cat pictures on the ferry or at the airport I'll use my phone. If I want to get some actual work done I do what everyone else I know does - I pull out my laptop. I'm not aware of any middle ground between these areas where a tablet would greatly improve either my cat-browsing or my work-related experiences.
That list is only for twitter's github repos, bootstrap has been moved to its own github organization[0].

[0]: https://github.com/twbs
My parents have the book at home. Loved reading it when I was a kid. In another career...
looks like a lifestream which were hot a few years ago. One I used was yongfook's sweetcron:

http://lifestreamblog.com/interview-with-yongfook-on-sweetcr...
The problem is the term "hacker" is nebulous enough on its own that to throw it into an entirely different context which may or may not have anything to actually do with "hacking" causes a lot of confusion. If we would have called it "growth marketing" or something more specific that didn't use the word "hack" there would have never been any confusion whatsoever.

Even as a marketer, I don't know when what I'm doing is growth hacking and when it isn't. Is it when I'm building my own tools? Is it when I'm trying to exploit systems? Is it when I'm baking something into the product that will help it spread? Is it only when I'm doing something new and novel? The word isn't well-defined.

Now all we can do is debate semantics. Though careful wording is part of my job, bickering about what is or isn't some buzzword isn't what I enjoy. I want to grow products I believe in, so I find it best to call myself a "growth marketer," "marketer who can program," or a "full-stack marketer" depending on the context.

The reality is, it doesn't matter what a word meant when it was created if that's not what it means to the person with whom you're communicating.
Kennewick Man – The Greatest Show Unearthed (2006)
A definite no for me as well, because online contracting is almost infinitely better than most of the jobs I've had: painting houses, moving furniture, working in a Mac repair shop. The only two jobs that came close to the freedom I experience now were a contractor at hp for a year and six months contracting at a small company that provides mainframe services for banks.

The main downsides for me now are the feast or famine nature of working for one's self and isolation from teams of really smart people. I've found that this is mitigated by working on side projects that are close to my heart and move me from what life is to what life can be.

So on that note, I've stopped working nights and weekends so I can dabble in those projects and spend time with friends/family. The other thing that has helped immensely is delaying most to-dos and requests until the next day. So I usually handle the previous day's email the next morning unless it's an emergency.

Also I've moved my attention up to gigs that pay at least my overtime rate. A professional in Idaho should be making at least $40k per year to meet expenses which means I charge at least $30 per hour. I'm also realizing that the real money is made by taking gigs for more than this and hiring others for their overtime rate, because I probably need to multiply my efforts by however much is needed to start a family or contribute to my parents' care in retirement. I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the added responsibility though. If someone has any thoughts/experience with that, or how they transitioned from freelancer to client, I'd love to hear it.
For those who aren't familiar with it, autojump learns directories that you use often. This eliminates the need to add specific bookmarks.
That's because it's no longer Twitter Bootstrap. @mdo works at Github, @fat at Medium.
Nice. There are many lifestream products but I like the design, particularly the the unrolling effect.
That's unusual. You should email support@getpebble.com to get an RMA replacement if you're consistently only getting 1.5 days
Microsoft News official Twitter account hacked by SEA
Yes, I took that into account in mulling things over. We do very similar stuff with video streams (post processing) before pushing to Akami. We also use SAN backed storage and Cisco CSM load balancers. All of our equipment is in the US and we use VMWare for everything. I know little about AWS and their virtualization technology but where I work, it would appear we pay a little bit more of a premium for VPS nodes if I assume Amazon rolls their own - the $30K just seems outrageous in this regard. And to top things off, we don't host just one web site; we have a myraid of applications spanning our data centers to deal with all sorts of stuff (many product lines each with their own web site with streaming, flash, user accounts, etc...)
Yeah, I totally agree. If you have kids or family, this is probably not the route to go. I am personally not a fan of Kansas City. My buddy did not have family when he decided to move from San Diego to Kansas City, so it was easy for him. He moved for the Google Fiber :)

As for me, my wife and I work together. She's my partner on most of my crazy business schemes, and we are in agreement about the move to the high desert area. We are moving to a house with solar panels (and battery storage) and trucked in water and gas. So, it's completely off the grid. I am still trying to figure out the internet, so far it looks like I'll be VPNing through a t-mobile phone ;)

I think once we have kids, we would have about 3 year grace period to get our act together. You can raise a 3 year old anywhere, but once they are older you really do need to worry about things like schools, playgrounds, kid friendly neighborhoods, and all those things. We intend to come back to San Diego in the end, no matter what.
I don't use a 'reducing number of restrictions' definition. That's a straw man that I was responding to.

I also don't accept "history shows us" as establishing some law of nature when the history we're talking about is a couple of decades.

I think the abandoning of ecosystems can just as easily be explained by them being based on inadequate foundations, than by a mythical horde of developers somehow being prevented from working on them. Usually systems are abandoned because of a lack of economic incentive, after all the displacement you describe can only happen if proprietary development produces enhancements more efficiently than open source. Witness the failure of the Linux desktop.

I think 'greatly reducing the total options that users can effectively perform' is a statement that needs much more qualification. To me, that's a function of design, extensibility, and how much leverage a system provides, and is independent of whether the source is available or not. Extending by forking is a last resort.

Nevertheless, I do respect the hypothesis that a GPL style open system provides an important counterbalance to proprietary systems.

What I do not support is the dishonest use of language and morality to further it.

If you are using positive freedom, then there is much more to be gained through improvements in software design - e.g. along the lines of Alan Kay's FONC - to increase leverage - than through ideology.
I have a very similar story. I had an internship in high school doing bio research at a university. They basically wanted me to spend my whole summer counting cells with a digital microscope. I got bored pretty quickly and decided to write a program to automate the process and count cells for me. It worked out and the lab loved it. I went on to do a bunch of science fairs, including ISEF (Intel). It was doing that which really got me interested in tech and comp sci.
This is interesting as an indicator of the new legal pot industry to come. Lots of new job titles may very well merit lots of new degrees, at least for the kind of person that would consider majoring in pot (heretofore only an unofficial major).
With zsh, you could just do w/c/p/w/s<TAB>
This list must include Lavabit. They deserve their own column, "Willing to shut down rather than comprise their customers privacy."
I plan to include facebook for sure, but since I don't use it I have no idea how I would test it haha. My idea would be to just have people tell me what feeds they would want and I'll add them in!
Nice- thanks for the link!
This is a really keen insight and I enjoyed your post.

Although, I think it's important to acknowledge that this idea really only applies to a small subset of people (the digerati, mostly). You might enjoy this post on Medium:

When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege
https://medium.com/get-bullish/a5e5f4e9132f
lighter (non python) alternative to autojump https://github.com/rupa/z
This is something I've thought about a lot and I think a lot of the loneliness comes in the early stages of being an internet entrepreneur, the times when you don't need to / can't afford to hire full time employees and open an office. For me at least, my ideal working environment would be something like the way 37Signals is setup. When you get to the point where you can hire a handful of employees and open an office but only go to the office when you feel like it.

Another option that also sounds fun is to startup a small retail company, maybe related to one of your hobbies, something that at least requires some foot traffic at a physical location. Find someone to run it and go there to manage and check on things whenever you feel the need, or better yet, grab your laptop and work on your internet startup from there.

It seems that all my ideas require you to have some extra cash and time on the side though so they're not always possible for a 1 or 2 man bootstrapped startup. If you can get to the point where you've got things running pretty smoothly with your internet company and are making decent money, these options might be something to look forward to.
I still can't get next to the idea of a language where indentation has semantic meaning to the interpreter.

Yuck.

Call me old fashioned but I find code with e.g. curly braces much more readable.
I've been productive with Clojure and Java-interop for over a year now despite never using Java before.

Navigating the Java terrain is comical. Often, performing what I would consider a library's basic use-case involves the collaboration of multiple objects I never could've reverse-engineered from the API docs. Yet the library doesn't throw me a bone with any sort of `## Usage` overview.

Fortunately, it seems nobody else knows how to do trivial things with Java (or libraries like Bouncy Castle) either, so I've found it reliable to lean on google queries to find the 1,000 questions that have already been asked and answered.
I guess this chart only applies to American values of "you", "your data" and "government".

And the stars in the column "Fights for users’ privacy rights" seems like a sick joke, given the massive international anti-privacy lobbying of some of those companies.
Strategic Marketing Planning
Robotron’s Extra Life Bonanza (newly discovered after 32 years)
Using a brand's social media presence and audience size as a key metric in brand loyalty seems dubious, at best.
Totally agree that size is might.

The question is whether or not might is good! (As in, is it better for your own government to be mighty or puny)

Many folks would rather live in puny Switzerland or Sweden than mighty Russia and China.
Most of my pants would fit little more than a few bills or a single credit card, so my phone often lives in my purse. My watch, however, is something that's always on me, and now that it's a Pebble, I get the added benefit of having the important messages from my phone alert me as well.
I looked around and couldn't find any real good information on OpenWRT support on the Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC[0]?

In a previous thread, when I asked about the best devices to use with open router firmware, Ubiquiti was the most upvoted solution [1], but when checking out the OpenWRT wiki there is very little information on using them with OpenWRT and none that I could find on the AC model specifically.

Does anyone heavily involved in OpenWRT have any advice on how to figure out whether the Ubiquiti UAP-AC is going to work with OpenWRT before I drop money on it?

[0] http://www.ubnt.com/unifi#apac
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828699
Concludes with:

By this point I highly recommend actually writing some code to solidify your Clojure knowledge if you haven't started already.

While I will be among the quickest to acknowledge that there is great value to be gained by typing in example code, without structured exercises, the article might be providing a fine tutorial or feature list or cookbook, but it is not a course.

Courses look more like "Learn Python the Hard Way" than blog entries. They're hard to make and one for Clojure is sorely needed. The easy parts of Clojure are the syntax and the common idioms. That's why Lisps have a long history as introductory programming languages. The hard part is learning to apply them to the sort of hard problems that one applies other programming languages to.

All that to say, that there's nothing wrong with the article as an article. In fact I think it represents an admirable amount of work for a positive purpose. My only criticism is that it is not what it says it is, and the only reason that is a criticism is that it claims to do heavy lifting which it does not.
I work for Amazon. I'm going to use the internal system to look up who dropped and ball and get the make this right.
I think we're on the same page.

Pretending to ignore race/sex differences out of some misguided attempt to be polite or "color blind" or "culturally neutral" does no one any good.

By "racist", I mean "actually despises others because of their ethnic background", not "has the odd awkward or confusing moment of ethnic / cultural misunderstanding".

Similarly, by "sexist", I mean "actually dislikes or has contempt for the opposite sex".

Of course the bar for these words has been raised to the point where the political Left can call someone a racist because they do not support a specific affirmative action policy, or a sexist because they disbelieve certain cooked-up statistics about the alleged "pay gap" between men and women.
This is really cool! Is the source code available anywhere?
Well, your language does not read as being genuine. To be frank, it reads like someone faking caring for rhetorical effect in order to to cause an argument. I currently do not believe that you are arguing in good faith.
I don't use it directly, but I have benefited from friends who exchange playlists on Spotify. Pandora let's users share channels, but I think the explicit selection model is a better fit for that kind of music aficionado.
This place is up the street from me. Got raided last year by the Federal Gov.
I wish I could read that article, but full-width sentences and tiny typeface are painful. The beautiful large typography and layout of Medium is one reason it's winning, despite its sometimes laughable content.
Ultimately corporations won't defend you from the law. You'll have to insist on the laws being rewritten.
From the Interbrand index, whatever that is:

Apple is #1, up 28%.

Samsung is #8, up 20%.

http://www.interbrand.com/en/news-room/press-releases/2013-0...
True dat.

I think close to 100% of the internet is built on/with open source software.

But it's a major headache to get your in house libraries/software released as open source. There's reservations because by default everything developed is considered proprietary and a trade secret. It's difficult to convince management to give stuff back and/or see a benefit, the larger the org the harder it gets. Then comes legal with the legal derp.

And finally you can't just put stuff on Github and expect it to thrive, you need resources to maintain your open source projects and again convince management beforehand that it's not just a liability.
It will be soon! I'll open source it when I add statistics (working on it, should be done by Monday)
Asians throw the "white privilege" theory for a loop, because they face the same challenges as other people of color, and yet still manage to succeed admirably. Victim-lovers don't like them for that very reason, because they don't play very good racial victims - they are too busy succeeding.
Natur-Bio-Produkte
I was reading until it started talking about how Microsoft's brand is catching up to Apple.
>> "I think Spotify has the mindshare largely because of the free version, and it's going to be difficult to overcome that."

Very true, but Beats managed to convince a lot of people to spend ridiculous amounts of money on headphones. If they can work the same marketing magic behind this I see it doing very well.
Not to nitpick, but China is 4.29 times the U.S. population.
Radare, the unix-like reverse engineering framework
Rambling about iOS Hiring Interviews
+1 for WinPython.

WinPython has indeed been created by a core developer of PythonXY, using his experience from PythonXY [1].

Key advantages: (A) Portable version allowing indefinite number of side-by-side installations, (B) Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for both Python 2 and 3.

Downsides: Windows-only

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/winpython/wiki/Roadmap/
Funding tip for smart startups who recognise that their target demographic is shifting: Find investors in regions where your traction and growth figures peak. Having insight in SE Asia and Indonesia in particular, their familiarity, engagement and loyalty with Path (and Twitter) is incredible and such an announcement shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with knowledge of and interest in SE Asia and Indonesia in particular.
Thanks for posting that. After reading the reply above yours I just spent 5 minutes searching in vain and nothing came up. I neglected to use the word "trick" in my search. Thanks for getting me out of the loop I was in trying to find this.
How can the bitcoin network verify that two or more hashing pools whose total hashing power are greater than 51% are not secretly colluding behind the scenes?
> My buddy did not have family when he decided to move from San Diego to Kansas City, so it was easy for him. He moved for the Google Fiber :)

If I were in his position, I would've waited for Google Fiber to launch in Austin (this year) and then moved there, or just moved now into an area that's going to get Google Fiber. It's a much nicer city - a lot of young people thanks to UT Austin (meaning a good dating scene), vibrant downtown culture, and a strong ecosystem of tech companies and startups (for a city that's not SF, NY, Boston or Seattle, anyway).
I'd rephrase that as it's easy to create a safe implementation, but the dangers and biggest payoffs are realized when you don't access both producer and consumer counters in the same thread all the time. cache lines shared between the consumer and producer and written to by at least one of them are the hottest points of contention. With careful design you can get that to zero in the common cases.