skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome work you have done there with Free Rider. I think I can play that for hours.

It is true that dedication is necessary when doing a startup. But I guess my point is that we must prioritize our dedication. So far, the other startups we are currently working for have a much higher chance of success than the really fun drawing game we created.

When evaluating a startup you must look at how big the thing can be if everything goes perfect. It is obvious moot saw that with 4chan. And I think there was a good opportunity there with Canvas. But with DrawQuest I think the opportunity was smaller and therefore a different model of dedication (which he seems to be moving towards) might be more appropriate. Every week I want to start programming on a new idea that pops into my head; and many times I do. But prioritizing which of those stay as thoughts in my head, side projects, or companies is something I am always evaluating. Given what Doodle Or Die is and what it can be; I think a bootstrapped side project approach was best. DrawQuest would be a great side project success story if it stayed that way. But then again, it probably would have not even been as successful as it was without the dedication he put forth in a full-time way.

In short, I have concluded that I know nothing and that we are both right. I guess the choice of which way to go depends a lot on the person and the circumstances around them. I think I put on my Captain Hindsight (http://doodleordie.com/c/1qLInbnKCE) goggles for a second there.
If the exporters are being subsidized, China would have to be depleting its foreign currency reserves for as long as the policy is in place.
Awesome work. Quick question, how closely do you guys plan on working with (or if at all) the CoreOS guys? I'm really seeing the future of all servers running ubiquitously on CoreOS + Docker setups. Thoughts?
Awesome! Kudos to the Omni guys for opening up the code, rather than let it fall into obscurity. It will hopefully serve as a nice example of how to architect a professional app.
Text messages warn Ukraine protesters they are 'participants in mass riot'
On the flip side, I've seen people take this to the extreme. They often separate lines of code that intrinsically belong together, necessary parts of an algorithm get spread around for no other reason than to try and keep functions small. It leads to code that's really hard to work with and somehow more brittle than when it started.

I'm not saying this happens all the time. But I'm more concerned about it, because I see it more often than the inverse, and it's more damaging to the codebase. At least long spaghetti methods can be refactored into something nice. This kind of mess has to be refactored into a single area first, which is much harder.
The point is that it's not entirely useful for employers, which seems to be what you're concerned about. If 80% of people are committing to private corporate source control, and 20% are committing to private github accounts, it's not readily apparent why you would care to see some vague statistics about commit frequency for 20% of your candidates.
Bittorrent Challenges Dropbox with Cloud-Free File Syncing
> I made it through multivariable calculus and grads and so forth, but the computer scientist in me gets upset when I run into undefined or poorly specified notation.

Well, at the top of the 'Summation' heading it does mention Bernoulli numbers.
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Change your income to say "Greater than 1 million / year". The women will come to you. They might not be the women you want, but it's a much smarter attribute to lie about than say your height which she'll figure out right away.
Session-based Logging
http://www.trackersound.com/
I'm working on a website where people can track the artists and bands they like in order to be notified when a new album/EP is released. It's like Songkick or BandsInTown but for albums instead of concerts.
It's still work in progress and I'm also looking for a new website name.
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Well, the site did generate Iva Lavallée as a French female name for me. I had never heard of someone called Iva, but it seems it's been given to exactly 100 persons in France since 1900.

Iva Lavallée sounds like He's gonna swallow it, really.
Sounds just like a bad article to me.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/806/
apple charges 30% more for anything they sell in italy.
I found it icky, like a scientology training manual.
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Still not a requirement.
A person with a strong talent for structure will be able to construct an efficient UI. Not all programmers are like this, many programmers are tech-nerds that just want to cramp all the cool things up in to UI and these people are the main problem.
Congratulations...

So what's the $15m going to be used for?

Given that Docker is licensed under Apache 2.0 which allows the venture backed Docker Corp. to create a closed proprietary version of the software... will outside contributors be compensated?

Is this the reason why Docker isn't GPL?
> This is not a whole lot different from public housing projects that are subsidize by the state, just more subsidized.

They seem very, very different to me. The homeless are a teeny, tiny demographic, compared to, say, the entire lowest income quintile.
Re: Poland, it seems to me Windows Phone's relative success is thanks to the Nokia brand, and also to iPhone being considered overpriced upmarket gadget and/or hipster symbol.

Nokia has long enjoyed very good opinion and popularity in Poland -- as the go-to vendor, thanks to decently-priced, user-friendly and rugged phones. The second-hand market is huge, spare parts and accessories abound and experienced repair shops common.

Having said that, a few of my friends have gotten Windows Phone and all of them were disappointed, most of them returned them back in exchange for anything Android. Common complain was OS being disappointing for daily use, and app selection was lacking.

tl;dr

In Poland Windows Phone may outsell iPhones, but it still remains niche -- and you should also subtract frequent returns to get actual user base.
Wow, awesome culture clash that you'd even ask this!

Yes, the bay area, but particularly SF is extremely anti-car. This is probably rooted in environmentalism, but in the city it also resonates with many people for health, social, and economic reasons.

The sentiment is so strong among younger people that if people own a car they will often almost apologize for it in friendly conversation. Like "yeah, I still have my odd beater from when I lived in LA... But I have free parking at the office and it's nice for carpooling to burning man".

From a personal perspective, I grew up in orange county, but moved to NYC in early adulthood and SF later. I own a car and a motorcycle. I love riding the motorcycle, but bicycling or walking is frequently more efficient in the city, not to mention pleasurable.

If you have only ever lived in car-centric places like so cal, I rely strongly recommend taking a long vacation in a walkable place like NYC or a European city where you know people who can show you the ropes. You might be surprised how much you enjoy Not driving.
430m active users and 18bn messages sent per day, All with just 25 engineers.
So, what does it show?

I only get "Results from your location are not yet available."
tl;dr

Buy USD-denominated Argentine government bonds in the USA (or have your customer do that). Sell the bonds in Argentina, getting more pesos than you would have through the normal mechanism.
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100 years ago there was a common saying, as rich as an Argentine, like we might say as rich as an oligarch today. Argentina's problems are entirely down to mismanagement and corruption.
To quote JWZ: "You have invoked the "Oh, but there's a preference to turn off that stupid behavior" defense. I am showering you with negativity."

(Yes, it's not a preference pedantically, it's an option to create multiple accounts. Still the default and most used is using one account).
Nobody is calling anybody evil. Developers may complain that there is no server-side API for an iOS user's calendar but it's still crazy that Apple allows and promotes an app that normalises an extremely dangerous practice.
I think this is great. The Companies that ship loads of SoC, are Apple, Samsung, MediaTek and many others. All these have huge volume thanks to Tablet Market and Mobile Phone. The prices per SoC will be tiny in the grand scheme of final pricing. This means everyone can produce HEVC content and distribute it. And by the time HEVC is matured enough, ( 3 - 4 years time ), Most Mobile would have it supported.

I hope this also mean the Still Picture format from HEVC is also included as well. Which means we can finally get rid of Jpeg.
Shape Comes Out of Stealth, Launches Product to Reinvent Website Security
I am guessing you can trust the app with ur credit Card because of AppStore's rigorous entry tests?
Chinese Internet Users Redirected to Anti-censorship Site
That was just a guideline, that was taken back before it was even enforced -- and that was 2-3 years ago.
Take Your Webinar Marketing to the Next Level
I love programming languages. Big or small, toy or serious. Myrddin looks interesting, and I could certainly see myself implementing projects like this as I dive deeper into language design and implementation.

That being said, and making no judgements about Myrddin itself...

> It also attempts to strong type checking, generics, type inference, and other features not present in C.

This sounds like C++. C++ as a whole is insanely complex, but it's also an awesome low level language that provides zero-cost abstraction mechanisms. It's really not all that hard to stay inside a sane subset of C++.

If you scroll down further on the linked page, under the section 'Major Features', it start to sound exactly like Rust. Exactly.

Again, I'm not trying to make any judgement about Myrddin by bringing up C++ or Rust. It's joined my bookmarks along with all the other interesting programming language implementations I have come across is the past year. Can't wait to dive into some of them in more detail when I have the spare time.
Good to see you here, Solomon, and congrats for the good news!
I'll be watching your adventure with keen interest.

I'm also building an open source project that I want to avoid the "openbsd effect" and sustain itself, more like the Linux kernel.

I have a company that I'm using as a vehicle to bootstrap this project. The company sells services and acts as an example for others to start offering similar services (ideally including Redhat etc one day). To play it safe I don't allow the company to have any intellectual property and I don't sell any equity.

The idea of the company as a vehicle rather than an asset has been a powerful one for me.
Not so much in the past few weeks. After the China news stories the price has been pretty stable.
The blog post on our site explains what comes next:

http://blog.docker.io/2014/01/docker-closes-15-m-series-b-fu...

Quoting from that:

"While Docker itself will always remain free and open source, we are busy gearing up for the launch of both hosted services around Docker and commercial support for Docker."
Friend of mine used to run a dating site. She said that on average it took people about 6 months of solid dating, usually 50-100 dates, before they found a good match.

There are some people that get into relationships much more quickly, but oftentimes those are the same people who get out of relationships really quickly, because they didn't choose a good match to begin with. There are also outliers who find someone great when they're not really looking, but they are outliers.

Think of it this way: someone who went on 90 dates before they found a match set their bar at the 99th percentile. Someone who went on 10 dates set their bar at the 90th percentile. Someone who went on 2 set their bar at the 50th percentile. These aren't exact figures - there's luck involved too - but they illustrate the trade-off involved.
Very few techies are actually libertarian; I would hazard to guess they are much less than average, definitely less than rural farmers and other less-government tea partiers. Techies are overwhelmingly liberal, in the same way that most young college educated people are.

Private buses are being used because they work environmentally and economically. There is nothing libertarian about this, and Google runs shuttles from the CalTrain station also.
"Botwall" that stops DDoS attacks
I've been doing this in client side Javascript for the last year or so. Rather than having 20 lines of nested jQuery callbacks on a page, I make each callback a function and group the event bindings together:

e.g.:

var showPreview = function() { ... };
var calculate = function() { ... };
$('a.preview').click(showPreview);
$('a.calculate').click(calculate);

Even nicer is to split this out into a separate CoffeeScript file. Then just call `new SuperAwesomeCalculator()` on the page.

I think what made me do this was Erlang. After a point it gets annoying to type NewNewNewNewNewParams, so it's easier just to split it out into a separate function :)
There are plenty of examples of apps that take credit cards for non-physical goods: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19458610/how-do-i-take-a-...
They've been around in China for a looooooong time...
Yeah I do hate it when trying to follow through code and I'm having to do searches to find where the next method calls out to in a massive chain of tiny methods. But both sides have their point heh.

I wonder if it's a limitation of our IDEs using plain text and files. Maybe the next generation of programming languages will be nodes or visual blocks that chain together or something? Who knows haha.
Did I say a typical guy can't get dates on OkC? No. It's easy to--I'm somewhat below average in the looks department, but I had a steady stream of dates (probably averaging somewhere between 1 and 2 per week) on OkC while I was on it (until I met my current partner on it).

The point is that you're not suddenly going to triple or quadruple your inbound message rate or reply rate by improving your written profile. This much is clear, and the fact that your average guy profile gets nearly as much positive attention as your real profile indicates as much.

However, smartly choosing quality pictures is probably the one thing anyone should do, and you're going to get far more value back for the investment than putting hours writing a profile slightly more witty and more interesting than your previous profile. It triples, or quadruples, or quintuples your reply rates.

ETA: Another way to look at it is this: someone who writes a boring profile and sends stilted messages will, at best, only be able to write a slightly less boring profile and won't in general be able to improve their crappy messages (with the assumption that the profile or messages don't contain stupid dealbreakers in the first place), no matter how much effort they put into the rewrite. If writing is an area of weakness for you, then rewriting isn't going to do much good for you. On the other hand, crappy pictures can be replaced in a matter of hours with something that anyone can tell is much better, even if you're not generally considered attractive.
China's trade surplus was more than 4 _trillion_ USD in 2013.

Exporters use USD (which they receive from overseas buyers) to buy CNY. Those USD add to China's foreign currency reserves.
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Parent is probably referring to a long time ago in the 90s, which indeed was a problem: you could get a better rate for your dollars on the black market than officially. The Chinese government finally normalized their currency mid/late 90s and the black market disappeared; the gov then realized that to support exporters, they actually needed to keep their currency artificially less valuable than more valuable....

Source:

http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/conc5en/yuanusd...

RMB was trading 1-1 with the dollar in '81, and started getting real about it in '94.
> Is this the reason why Docker isn't GPL?

No :) If we released a closed-source version we would get forked in a instant. It would be an extremely stupid thing for us to do.

We've stated repeatedly that Docker inc. will make money by 1) offering support and professional services to enterprise customers, primarily through channel partners like Red Hat and others; and 2) offering hosted managed services for things like image hosting, orchestration, container tracking etc. Since we have been operating a PaaS at large scale for several years now, we know how to sell hosted services and it makes sense for us to focus on that.

Ben (our CEO) gives more details in this blog post: http://blog.docker.io/2014/01/docker-closes-15-m-series-b-fu...
This escalated quickly. From a creative interpretation of the interview, to a lengthy plea from pg defending his honor, and now a whole conference for women. I myself have nothing against such a forum, but the way it came about to be is ridiculous and insincere. It's a result of an overreaction and over-attempt to save a reputation. It's not really about female founders, it's about pg and allegations of sexism.
Spoiled children -> learned selfishness.
The real rule is "be interested". Being interesting follows from that, but being interested is the part you can control.

I've found that when people have persistent difficulties finding a partner, it's almost always because they aren't actually interested in the women they date, but have some platonic ideal of a woman that they think they ought to date and so are dating the wrong people.
People will now bitch endlessly about having to pay the princely price of $10, which theoretically comes with free perpetual upgrades.

I don't know. Some people still value quality and attention to detail. On my Android devices I'm using MailDroid pro, which is priced at around $20. And that's for a mobile app. But it's good enough for me to think that's worth it.

I'm paying $40 a year for Plex, and $180 for Spotify. I think that's good value too. I pay gladly.

Obviously there will be "cheapskates" always going for the cheapest option, but those people have always existed. Now they just have more & cheaper options and there's no way for a developer to escape that.

I guess they'll have to price that (smaller premium market) into the premium-price and hope it wont make it even smaller.
Securing the Smart Home, from Toasters to Toilets
To be fair to Paul Krugman (whatever his sins may be), his comments about the dangers of inflation in the US, which is what he's talking about in this case don't relate to the very real issue of inflation in Argentina.
Why not generate token on client and only submit that?
Is booze still only sold in state-sanctioned stores?
The fact remains that this is an event that only allows people with certain kind of biological traits and therefore disallows certain people to the event.

That's inherently wrong in my opinion.

I don understand your points. But there are better ways todo this. Like creating an organization to support female founders. But a conference about founders, and then disallow Men? That's not right in my opinion.

Basically what this does is acknowledge the fact the feminst females in our industry feel undervalued. The harder you reach out, the more attention you get. Sometimes, just sometimes, this doesn't make things better.
It's actually Apple's fault, they should offer an API for this kind of thing!
I've ran out of gas in Silicon Valley and had people pull over to offer a ride to the gas station. So folks are still awesome.
Some major ground has been covered in the article, and sparked a few more pointers. I come from a country receiving substantial aid, and yet I see that a lot of new initiatives could be kickstarted by the wealthy citizens themselves. Covering the reasons why the middle-class and the rich hesitate to lean in philanthropy would also instigate more people to contribute.
> Labels? Why should it support a proprietary technology -- and much more from a competitor, and much more one that might kill IMAP at any time?

Because 90% of tech nerds are fucking obsessed with google and think everything that comes from them should be immediately adopted by the entire industry.

As I've said before - IMAP has a spec for "keywords". People always piss and moan about it not being supported by mail clients, and conveniently forget that Google's labels weren't supported either, when it was introduced - and yet some clients have added supported for it.

What are the chances that a) more competing email providers and b) more mail clients would support IMAP keywords today, if Google had used the existing standard instead of inventing their "labels" system?
Yes code cleanliness would be something like a spectrum where there are instances of extremes on both sides.
Buffet also insured a Billion dollar lottery created by Andrew Warner of Mixergy fame.. http://youtu.be/j6RSaqf9NsI
That's not an "issue" with being a male elementary school teacher, that's just too many men being pedophiles.
There's a big difference between dating someone specifically because she's Cambodian and dating someone who happens to be Cambodian. If I read the GP right, he's talking about the latter.
Happy to chat about it anytime, and please let me know if I can help!

It should go without saying that I don't think this is the only route for supporting open-source. Linux comes to mind as perhaps the most successful open-source project of all time, and it is backed by a non-profit foundation funded by member companies. (for example Docker inc. is a small member of the foundation, so a small fraction of the $15m we raised will pay for a small fraction of the salary of a core linux maintainer).
A different situation, but I was just charged almost $40 dollars for a renewal that I never authorized. Network Solutions is about to loose my business. As small a sum as that may be.
> even though one or two transatlantic flights can emit as much carbon dioxide per person as an entire year of driving

Are you sure about that?

http://www.businessinsider.com/driving-is-actually-less-ener...