skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I feel like I could have written this a year ago -- I was doing exactly this. To-do lists, three coffee shops a day, 1-2 hour breaks in between, super-productive, as I've been bootstrapping my software product.

Then I ran into problems:

1) Wi-fi problems. Wound up getting a cellular dongle for the laptop, but there are still a surprisingly number of places it doesn't work reliably. When you need to push something to server ASAP, this is a killer.

2) It's exhausting. You only have so much mental energy. Finding suitable coffee shops online, finding them in person, exploring, walking, figuring out what to do for food -- this stuff is basically going to take up your entire day outside of work, no joke.

3) No "zone". If you have lots of bite-sized pieces of work to do, that don't require massive amounts of concentration, it can work really well. If you need to write a new database wrapper that is really just a sustained 8 hour stretch, you can't do it.

Then, there's the little details. Outlets for laptops. Spotty reception for phone calls. What to do with your laptop while you use the bathroom and there's a line, but you can't see your table from the line. The café that has the A/C pushed to arctic temperatures when you're in shorts and sandals in the summer. The café that is freezing cold in the middle of winter. And so on.

And above all, the last week here in NYC has been like 15-20°F. Forget about walking around outside. So I'm actually learning, there's something to be said for working from home, in a reliable environment. And then, to get out of the house, I schedule lunches with people, go to the gym, "extracurriculars" like basketball, music groups, that kind of thing. It actually works pretty well.
> "Advantage: they self-replicate royalty free, something the nanobot company would never allow."

Such restrictions, or similar, might be a good idea in general. A gray-goo excursion would not be fun. Algae blooms cause enough damage as it is, and at least there are things that eat algae.
At the moment it is doubtful that they are spending anywhere near what intel and their suppliers are on process development (intel spends billions of dollars on R&D every year; they probably spent more last year than dollars have ever touched bitcoin).
The $1500 figure is actually quite low for SF. It is more inline with south bay actually.
After being there I've made two personal rules:
1. No business with friends and relatives
2. If you break #1 write down all negative scenarios and reactions to them and sign this with your party. This gives your friendship a chance to continue
I don't think BillG would have allowed hiring someone with an MBA and no background in software/technology. He is still the majority shareholder (from what I've read) and sits on the board.
Desalination for personal use is cheap. Cheaper than killing, even.
PayPal’s David Marcus Has A Plan—And It’s So Money 3.0
I wasn't aiming for a counterexample so much as an illustration of the fact that whether a company is diversified or not is a matter of definition.

Is a company diversified if it operates in related markets in the same sector, like a bank that does retail and business banking? Is a company diversified if operations outside their core business are only a small fraction of their turnover, like an oil company that has a small renewables operation?

If the purpose of diversification is to keep the company afloat if there's a downturn in one market, these properties are important. Being in retail and business banking won't help if the entire banking sector has problems, and 1% of your business won't keep you afloat if the other 99% of your business is sinking.
>"You're invoking a "no true Scottsman" fallacy. That is, in fact, how this contract works.'

No it is not; valid contracts require explicit offer, and acceptance (lack of opt-out is not acceptance), without duress (i.e. deportation or imprisonment).[1]

>"Do you pay your taxes? You're agreeing. Possibly under duress or objection, but you're agreeing."

I said that I never agreed, and while I do pay taxes, I never agreed to it.

>"I don't subscribe to the whole Libertarian spiel about voluntary vs. involuntary participation"

Next time you get robbed, just remember that is an involuntary charitable contribution for the welfare of the thief; this would give me little comfort, but it seems you don't mind.

>"socially or long-term nonoptimal conditions can be arbitraged for personal gain. "

Please provide examples of the people or organizations able to arbitrage consistently, over time, without the use of government coercion (i.e. no government granted monopoly or bailout). If you do happen to find this, you may want to keep it secret, so that you may have a monopoly on the arbitrage.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract
yes but banks and facebook aren't all about anonymized message posts. it's implicitly understood that they're keeping track of transactions and psuedo public posts respectively
so much for "atomic modifiers for contention free performance" (straight from http://www.mongodb.org/)

also, if it's single threaded: why does adding more cores increase the update rate?

isn't the entire point of mongodb that it's fast? if it can only do 1500 increments a second it's pretty useless...
End the redirect wrapper on links
http://www.mikroe.com/add-on-boards/display/

Mikroelectronika have some interesting displays but they're all little.
Payroll taxes (7.5%) plus benefits - not personal income tax which is deducted from the employee's paycheck.
War With the Newts
PythonAnywhere: $5, Twilio: ~$3
I don't know but I believe that if he was getting paid more than his work was worth, then his distributions (aka paychecks) could be considered distributions of owner's equity, hence he was being bought out a little bit at a time.
Statistics on GDP Correlations
For IE9, don't you need IE-specific code for cross domain requests?
Good feedback. Here's a few counter points to the ones you brought out.

1) If you spend the time at the beginning vetting the places, you tend to figure out the intricacies. Once you find 3-5 shops, you can pretty easily avoid the ones with spotty wifi.

2) I find it actually does the opposite - it energizes me getting up, being outside & moving every once in a while.

3) I find my "zone" ends up tapping out after 3 hours anyway. I don't know the last time I can honestly say I had a productive 8 hours of "straight" work.

As for your location, that's a valid point. I just moved to San Diego for the winter. I couldn't (or probably wouldn't) have done this in the winter in Chicago.
> The problem with jQuery is that it's an all-or-nothing approach. The way it wraps native DOM nodes means it keeps trying to pull you back to using its inbuilt utility methods.

Not true at all. You can do a custom build and leave out things you don't need. You can even leave out stuff you DO need and replace with your own simpler shim. See the README file.
What to Know about Publishing Apps on Android
Looks cool. Nice job, I could definitely use something like this.

I'd say that you guys should add an about page so we know a little about who made it. Also consider a live preview or something so people don't have to create an account to see how it works.
APPL Q4 Revenue: $37.5B (Net: $7.5B)
MSFT Q4 Revenue: $24.5B (Net: $6.56B)
GOOG Q4 Revenue: $16.9B (Net: $3.4B)
Yahoo Mail Breach
Great post! I really learned many things from this. Thanks for sharing!
Ask HN: My responsibilities if I receive another company's emails (domains)?
I'm wondering what issues there are if any if I am receiving emails in error that are addressed to different companies because of similar domains.

This is actually an issue with 2 companies of fairly large size. It's like so:

name@domainfizz.com (mine) > name@domainfizz.co.uk (others)
name@domainbuzz.com (mine) > name@thedomainbuzz.com (others)

Basically, because I maintain a Catch All for these domains I sometimes receive and open emails addressed to companies in error. The senders are just getting the emails wrong.

So, I'm getting things addressed to:

the-company-attorney@domainfizz.com (should be going to the UK addr)
hr-directory@domainbuzz.com (should be going to thedomainbuzz.com)

Basically, I'm wondering how this should be handled going forward.
the notion that you can have a power plant which requires outside power in order to not melt-down is -- frankly -- retarded

You're right that this is an additional risk factor, which would be eliminated in a design that required only passive cooling after shutdown (and newer designs have this feature).

But "retarded" is too strong. Just having the backup generators not come on for a short time period isn't enough; they have to be unavailable for days or weeks, as the Fukushima ones were. Also, the switchgear has to be such that portable generators can't be brought in and hooked up. I was extremely surprised to find that all of those design decisions were apparently made wrong in the Fukushima plant.

And even then, when put in proper perspective, the negative consequences of nuclear power are less severe, when averaged over all the kilowatt-hours of power produced by nuclear plants, than the negative consequences of other forms of energy. Coal causes far more mortality and morbidity per unit of energy generated, for example. It's not "retarded" to choose a power source that has less severe side effects all things considered.

Again, that's not to say that reactor designs should not be improved. But by any reasonable standard, nuclear power even with existing designs is safer, all things considered, than other major forms of energy. The only reason the public does not understand that is that "radiation" is a buzz word, whereas "respiratory failure due to coal dust", for example, is not. (And even "radiation" is not used fairly; coal ash has higher levels of radioactivity than many forms of nuclear waste. But the public isn't exhorted to protest about radiation from coal ash.)
I don't give a shit if you believe me or not.
So just ship your code along with the specific jQuery modules that you want to use. The fact that there isn't a better way to do this is a fault of javascript, not a fault of jQuery.
I'd be interested in hearing a bit more how this works... I currently just use tmux on my server instead of an IRC bouncer. And this is the first time I have heard about Bitlbee...
Mootools, rest in peace, was completely modular and you'd check the features you wanted see: http://mootools.net/core/
To document #7, http://smh.drive.com.au/roads-and-traffic/buses-the-big-kill...

The article says "Pedestrian safety has improved a lot since we fine more heavily for jaywalking", "but some pedestrians still don't get the message", "they use iPods and similar devices", and similar stories placing the pedestrian at fault. This uneducated thought comforts drivers in dangerous driver behaviours. Instead, in Melbourne, I had a case of an (occupied) taxi thought I wanted to cross and stopped. There wasn't even a zebra. This is what I'd call "classy".
The same one where Andrew "weev" Auernheimer is in jail for three and a half years for doing essentially the same thing?
You can't "hack" service that doesn't exist. (I mean that until they launch this software is something obscure from the depths of internet, not a real service.)
I like seeing tag clouds of "trending topics" or something, yes. Sort-of like a stylized graph.

I don't think I've ever used one to navigate.
Leto – automate your busy work (copying code, moving files, search replace, etc)
If that wasn't explicitly stated, why would his friend believe that to be the case, since he already owned 1/3 and was also doing work for that salary? Normally ownership does not change without dilution, it has nothing to do with ongoing work.

This kind of thing has to be spelled out in contracts - they should have set up a company and issued stock at the start, in most countries that is fairly straightforward, and it makes the legal position crystal clear.
Cost per click continues its decline. How many quarters is that now? 8 or 9?
I haven't read carefully, but this is a description of something akin to white-box encryption, right?

http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/104.pdf
I use Bing. Voluntarily, mind you.
CoinWorker: Mine with your Mind
Then you're not being very imaginative. Instead of assuming that this some giant EXE, assume instead that the (open source, carefully vetted) host for this code exposes a small VM, with no linkage to system libraries or direct access to memory, whose sole purpose is to unwrap small encrypted blobs.
Quick Intro to Gulp.JS
Could you point out where are the HD screen? I tried to look, but all of them seem to be 320x240 or lower, which is what I was complaining about :).
so i'm about to go to jail for using the facebook search bar?

and weev actually had to do work to break the AT&T service... this looks like he just searched for users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
Getting uber productive while working at cofe on free wifi:

To be uber productive you need good task list. Instead of writing 'get shit done' split it into smaller tasks:

- find toilet

- put toilet seat down

- produce shit (at least 1 feet long)

- sit down

- cleanup and flush

Also do not forget to produce piss in good balance. There is a rule called 80/20.
An explanation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daro6K6mym8

If you wanted to extend this, make it something like 1/999999998 instead.
That presumes that being able to "see the program" reveals anything about the cipher or its key. In the white-box crypto model, it doesn't; the source code is itself "encrypted", so that its basic operations are visible but the precise sequence of operations it will taken given a specific input are Hard to determine.
Hazardous Waste: Time 
You are wasting your time. People of Hacker News, go do what you love and be successful. I think, doing what you love is the most important thing to succeed.

My tribute to Gary Vaynerchuk
Wonder if 53 will become a FB acq-hire. Potential legal problem solved.
Because 100k is not measly, it is huge. And jquery is hundreds of times slower than the perfectly fine native methods.
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Yes, everyone's shares should be subject to a vesting schedule, including the founders':

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231044
Hacker Lab founder launching health care startup to help tech industry
When Bootstrap 3.0 was released one of the top comments on HN was a hallelujah for adding/supporting this very feature.
The article says that, "EU will regulate the standards to death, stifling innovation", but on the other hand the main problem with the internet of things is that, left on their own devices, private actors would act in their own interest to stifle competition and create incompatible devices...
So I would say that, at the beginning some strong armed entity like a regulating EU would be a good thing, it would enforce standards.
It's of more use to a new Python developer than an old hand, but it does touch on some relatively unknown language features (eg for loops having an else clause). Honestly, though, it's only $10, so it's not a massive investment.
I got your point now. So set top box, internet TV died. Now it's the time for smart TV which is controlled by the smart phone. I'm pretty tired about smart phone, too.

If TV is controlled by PC, I can play internet game on it and watch movies with high quality, like in home theater without the high cost.
A DIY smartphone seem something where having a good screen would be a plus, or everything photo where color accuracy and resolution are important.

I was looking to make an EVF[1] for my DSLR a while ago for example.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_viewfinder
You do realise zepto works in IE10+ only, and even then you need an additional module for support. I wouldn't say it's worthwhile. It is not a viable alternative.

I'm working on a widget that other people will embed on their page. I cannot make assumptions about jQuery being available and I cannot afford to add jQuery as a dependency. Assuming the widget was valuable to you, would you want to add my widget to your page if it included 94kb (jQuery 1.10.2 minified) of JS before my code was even added on top? If you cared about performance, it's highly unlikely you would.

So for that reason I've been working with plain JS for months now. We have browser support back to IE9 (maybe even 8), and our entire codebase is around 25kb minified (gzipped < 6kb). We have one or two collections of utilities, but most of it is application code that would still be there even if we had jQuery as a dependency. All I can say is it is not that big a problem. If you're not sure how to get something to work across browsers, look at the source of jQuery (this website [0] is fantastic for this purpose) or any other library that is well regarded.

But you know what? Most of the time it isn't even a problem. And with modern tools [1][2] and a good test suite, it's not difficult testing across multiple browsers to quickly find issues.

Before even working on this project I decided to go on a self-administered "jQuery diet". I haven't used jQuery in any personal projects [3][4] for at least a year and it's great. It took a little adjusting, but not much. If anything it was a little shocking. I thought I was a good JS dev, but it really opened my eyes to how little I knew about the DOM and other native browser APIs and, honestly, I felt a little ashamed.

Conclusion: sometimes going it alone is the right decision. jQuery is absolutely the right choice in some environments, but it doesn't make it the right choice absolutely

[0] http://james.padolsey.com/jquery/

[1] http://karma-runner.github.io

[2] http://vanamco.com/ghostlab/

[3] https://github.com/WickyNilliams/headroom.js

[4] https://github.com/WickyNilliams/enquire.js
Are you ready for Distributed Computing (Part II)?
Salesforce CEO Benioff on How to Fix San Francisco
Rocketrip (YC W14) is hiring a UI/UX Designer [pdf]
Would this work if you wanted to run 5 images in a list? or 7?

The way I'm reading the Zurb behavior referenced, that's what it can do for you.
Healthcare costs are the rest. The figures I've heard through the years is 50% over salary for benefits.
It has a jQuery-mostly-compatible node wrapper built-in, which is why it doesn't need jQuery.
HN collapses single line breaks:

AAPL Q4 Revenue: $37.5B (Net: $7.5B)

MSFT Q4 Revenue: $24.5B (Net: $6.56B)

GOOG Q4 Revenue: $16.9B (Net: $3.4B)

Also corrected Apple stock symbol.
They should post it, and preferably on an https site.
Amazon considering $20 to $40 price hike for Prime service in US
Dear friend, here we are trying not to be Reddit2, and while your post is funny, it does bring nothing to the discussion.
The act of putting together a contract would have forced them to think through the 'what if' scenarios (e.g. founder leaving etc.). They didn't do that work, so their expectations diverged, and it screwed up their friendship.

Lesson: spend some up-front effort clarifying expectations, rights, obligations and walk-away provisions. Maybe write the stuff down and sign it.
Posts with a similar sentiment seem to appear on HN occasionally. I find it entirely reasonable, but it's also quite banal compared to research on product design done by people in Participatory Design[1] and User-centered Design[2]. It has often surprised me how limited many North American PMs and software designers seem to be in their knowledge of these areas.

[1] http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/bds/14-p-partic.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-centered_design
I use my Android as an EVF / remote controller for my 550d. It's pretty damn useful and you can pick up a second hand phone for basically nothing.
It's not just about bandwidth, it's also about parsing and executing ~82KB of JavaScript before doing anything on the page.
I actually wrote a promise library for iOS (and didn't release it). The postmortem is here: http://sealedabstract.com/code/broken-promises/

The tl;dr is that you can run into trouble on the iOS platform if you don't enforce a strict 1:1 chain of cause/effects and are very careful about the timing of adding new links to the chain.

This library doesn't appear to do that, and they appear to consider this a feature, and actively push you in that direction. For example, a bullet in the readme is that tasks are "fully composable" and another bullet point discusses adding new tasks to the tree on-demand. These can work on some platforms, but iOS isn't one of them, and so this really reads like someone familiar with JS or .NET trying to add "missing" functionality to iOS without considering why these patterns are not generally used on iOS. Plus, it's trying to achieve API similarity with Android, which is a code smell.

So I would really advise against using this library, at the very least use it a in a superficial way that would be easy to tear out later. If you really want to do this promises thing, I would push you toward Reactive Cocoa, which I am also skeptical about but it's been around much longer, seems to have a much more mature API, and I know at least some smart people who've used it successfully.
I seriously considered going through a CPS transforming compiler for my major production Javascript application, but it's a risky step to take, relative to using a less invasive transformation like coffeescript.

It comes down to lack of mature tooling and debugability: coffeescript is easy to debug, because it's a very light level of syntactic sugar and dropping into the Javascript is easy. A more aggressive compilation step would require me to put a lot more trust in the maturity of the compiler and associated tools.
I like Bing, I've found it to be excellent. I've been using it for about a year now, and there's no way I'm going back to Google now.
I'd love to do that, but the rights are a bit tricky. I'll talk to him about it, but it's not really his permission to give.
That works too, though you don't get the reusable build system, just the compiled output of it.
> The café that has the A/C pushed to arctic temperatures when you're in shorts and sandals in the summer. The café that is freezing cold in the middle of winter.

This is done very much on purpose to subtly (passive-aggressively?) discourage people from camping out and using their coffee shops as offices.
A theory: One mongod instance per-core on the same box perhaps, using a mongos instance to coordinate? This seems like a complicated way to run a "simple" database engine however, just to get the write rate up.

Edit: Confirmed in the blog comments.
Making 5k legally might be more appealing than making 20k on the black market, for example. When you have to hide your tracks and risk getting caught a lower for sure sum might be more appealing. Also, Github is new at this, they might raise the bounty once they see how the program progresses.
'''Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.'''

- A Mathematician's Apology, Hardy

''' "Tech" isn't a thing except in how people--people--use it and are affected by it and how they, in turn affect the world around them.'''

Pure mathematics, for most of history has had zero relevance and zero effect on society. So I suppose to you, "pure mathematics" isn't a thing because it is completely removed from the world.

I personally find math and "tech" more interesting than people. Just saying..