skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you got what it takes to grow from freelancer to studio boss?
There may come a time you get too successful as a freelancer and must decide if you prefer sleep, money, or headaches. The step up to becoming a studio with more than one person can be a nightmare… or very rewarding. Not everyone can do it and not everyone wants to do it. So, what happens if you are forced into expanding your business?
Is there any client option for iPhone users to view streaming Flash video?
It's all solid advice, but my understanding of "growth hacker" as a term was that it was coined specifically as a counterpoint to the traditional organization where marketing is in a box and has no influence on product. Growth hacking is about influencing the product to help growth, cutting across organizational boundaries to do exactly what this article is describing.

The only problem, the only reason this article is necessary, is the same as with all good ideas in the information age, it's been overexposed, co-opted and cargo-culted to death by charlatans, fools and wannabes.
Readlang – My Bootstrapped Language Learning Web-App
It's realpolitik: doing and saying anything and everything to get an advantage over a perceived opponent or rival. This includes intentionally making misleading statements and convincing people you care about moral standards when you don't.

Before Snowden changed things, it was readily apparent that everyone was ready to believe the US and nobody was ready to believe China. So the accusations were a rational thing to do.

The US isn't the only country that does this, obviously, and people are divided over whether or not it is the 'right' way to conduct international relations.
It's not worth relying on IMO. We had some pretty straight-forward backbone views populated by AJAX content in production, and it was never crawled. In general it's very unclear what capabilities the crawler is capable of.
Also I came across this mockup someone made, I think I agree that it's more readable..

http://designbycoffee.com/hacker-news-redesign-more-consumab...
My brother has quite a few industry connections, so we had some great leads to start with. With that said, he's been relentless in seeking out new opportunities which has benefitted us greatly.

Since we no longer have scaling limitations, we don't have to temper our client conversations anymore, allowing us to take on much larger campaigns.

Many of our leads lately have been from new clients contacting us from word of mouth which is extremely exciting. So it's taken about a year since we started to get the potential clients contacting us.
Fast interprocess messaging (2010)
Visualizing Git Concepts with D3.js
kitestring.io

Not quite breaking even, but the cost to run the service is tiny. Been operating for two months.
It took us about year and a half, as a side project to breakeven at http://startuplift.com - That being said, we did pivot a couple of times and keep changing the product, offer and pricing. We started at the beginning of 2011 and it's not almost middle of 2014. I recently quit my job and investing myself full-time, and now I feel we are finally getting closer to our 'sweet spot'. Should've have quit a long time ago, when I started seeing some intitial interest.
Developing Nuclear Fusion in a Basement with a Reclusive Gunsmith [video]
Ah, I think I see what you mean.

While I can't speak for OP:

Without a society there'd be no education system, no legal tender, no laws protecting employees, no laws protecting companies, no infrastructure supporting it - and so on. So society makes it possible for people to have jobs. There's an old saying that it takes a village to raise a child, which tends to indicate that the group has had a lot of input to the success of the individual for a long time.

I can't even imagine how something as complex as the prerequisites for programming would work without a society. State of nature economies. I suppose you could have small family groups at some point on the hunter-gatherer to farming spectrum, but the minute those families come together into groups and start to develop more complex interactions... that looks mightily like a society to me.

But it doesn't follow from that that society makes it possible for everyone to have a job. Just that those who do could not without one.

It's very close to being the same underlying logical form that goes:

'All cats are four-legged mammals. Buts not all four-legged animals are cats.'

All employees are enabled by a society. But not all people in a society are so enabled.
It sounds like we agree to disagree.
Ask HN: What's on your reading list? Recommendations? 
What are you reading right now? Always looking for good books to read when it comes to startups.
I am working on springyRecords.

http://huherto.github.io/springyRecords/

A Record Mapper for Java that runs on top of spring-jdbc.
I'm fairly sure there are professional philosophers who reject strong reductionism as a form of scientism. Don't ask me why, as I'm not trained in philosophy, and I'm told that computer people make utter dorks of ourselves when we try to talk about philosophy without training.
> newer design trends

I assume this is intentional. I'd love to see a functional responsive design implemented, but otherwise I'm perfectly happy with the design as it is. There's already a large enough group of people reading the site as it is. I'd prefer it if there wasn't an event that would cause another TechCrunch post to link here.
First thing I did when I got a Sun Ultra 10+ running. Of course being a Sun machine, you get to enjoy HotJava, probably the only web browser with a `garbage collect` menu entry. I could display things, as expected, very crudely.
We have shareable urls now! Just added them in. just copy the link on the bottom of the bike.

Also prices. That was a good suggestion.

Thanks!
I find it hard to believe that cows care much about the average, and there's good reason that average utilitarianism is not very popular in population ethics.
Sorry, delusional about which part?

In my experience, people are more likely to hire US/UK based workers for higher paying jobs than for example Indians or people from countries. Does that happen always? No, of course not. I've had clients from a bunch of different countries. Hell, maybe I'm completely wrong - but that's how it seems to me. Maybe it's just me. I'm not excellent programmer, nor do I claim to be, maybe that's it.

As far as the part about finding work in EU goes, the biggest hurdle (that I've been told) is getting paperwork for someone without college degree.

Maybe I'm delusional, maybe I'm a shitty coder, maybe I just had bad experiences, maybe you're right. I don't know.

Oh and I'm from Bosna/Serbia - don't even get me started about getting a job that pays acceptably in those countries....
The US has an insanely outsize prison population. It didn't get that way without people being arrested by a growing army of militarized police, and, in most cases, plea bargaining with an aggressive prosecutor.
This whole proposal is intolerant of experimentation; it's censorship-by-default of community members whose attempts to contribute aren't guaranteed to be viewed and endorsed by the top 5% of users within a short time frame.

It's entirely rational for entrepreneurs to oppose something which appears to be a dreadful idea, and especially to oppose initial implemention of it on a grand scale (a proposal to experiment with pre-moderating only brand-new users, low average karma users or threads which are flagged up as possible flamewars would, I suspect, be considerably less unpopular as the solution might actually be less harmful than the problem. Edit: looks like this now is the proposal.).
Broad elevator-pitch-level ideas may well be of little value, but specific ideas about strategy for a given organization at a given time are hugely valuable. There is a significant difference betwen the ideas person who just spouts out 'x for y' type product ideas, and the ideas person who is always coming up more effective processes for getting work done and achieving goals.
This is a very interesting idea - so far with 7 predictions, the predicted # is more than $30k than what I currently make.

Goes to show how underpaid people can be.
What about zoning restrictions? Food service licenses? In many places, if you prepare food for sale to be consumed onsite, you are treated like a restaurant - most home kitchens aren't going to pass local health department requirements.
I put ads on http://jsonblob.com about a month ago and didn't really expect much, but have been pleasantly surprised! I should have put them on it when I launched it a little over a year ago...

In terms of breaking even, it's in the black if you don't consider the time I spent building it (and rebuilding it when Grails started falling over). It runs on a single Heroku dyno, so that's not casting me anything and uses the free tier of MongoHQ.
I think this is the relevant bit of law, point (e) about the conclusion of contracts being subject to other parties, as this covers the conclusion of employment contracts, among other things.

1. The following shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market: all agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices which may affect trade between Member States and which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the common market, and in particular those that:

(a) Directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions

(b) Limit or control production, markets, technical development, or investment

(c) Share markets or sources of supply

(d) Apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;

(e) Make the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations that, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?val=262491:cs&lang=en&lis...
Well, because if it wasn't a crime, then they definitely shouldn't have trawling around on his personal hotmail account.
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It hasn't broken even yet, and I have no idea when it will. I've probably spent $10,000 over the past seven years on gear, classes, and consumable materials for it, but I'm finally starting to see some monetary return on my investment.

Of course, I'm talking about photography, which I do because I love it and not because I expect to make money at it. I'm ok with it being permanently in the red and have no intention of ever trying to make it my primary source of income, as that would suck all the fun out of it for me.
> finding a platform that you can hold on to for 15 years is becoming untenable.

I would think so. It only became clear that Ruby would be viable for jobs about 7-8 years ago. It is used absolutely all over the place right now, true. But it is going to be competing against Google's V8 pretty much directly, and that, well that is not winnable.

Adobe Flash has been around for so long that Wikipedia doesn't mention when. I remember flash on even the first web enabled computers. Everyone had it so they could play games on Newgrounds.

That is such an exceedingly long time ago, I don't feel like OP has very much to complain about.
I didn't say that you can't sell houses sometimes under 30 days, my case was about certainly selling your house in 30 days for significantly (~5%) under the market value. If that's actually possible, then the parents claim "in the case of job loss + foreclosure or short sale, all of that goes up in smoke" is incorrect. If it's not possible, then I wonder why, because the economics seem to make sense.
Dropped out of college a little more than two years ago, moved to nyc, started freelancing and got tired of trying to source clients for their social networks, so started company (bootstrapped) that mines/crowd-sources data online about people. We should hit low 6 figures in revenue by end of the summer (in the middle of scaling our ops now, started generating revenue this mid jan). I'm 22 and my friend is 27.

Through my journey (many ups and downs), I've started to respect a lot more when some people say to not trade your time for money (or debt) and all the pressures society (and the different people that may be in ones environment who may) try to place upon you as an individual, because in exchange you can have the freedom to take risks and pursue whatever you want to do. I had that mindset when I was younger, but I was briefly co opted by the rat race which set me off my ways. Life is too fleeting for me to want to waste time doing/worrying about things that don't work for me.
I say this in a playful sense, not in a serious sense, but maybe the hostile intelligence we are grappling with is the wheat genome.
Oh, and it's better this way?
>Personal ambition is overrated, and we're actually just buying into the lies of Western culture that we have to become the Ubermensch to be happy.

Completely agreed. In actual fact, most such people aren't even real ubermenschen.

They have no mission, no true values of their own that they will impose on the world. Their ambitions are not only the small beer of rising in wealth but the zero-sum nonsense of rising in social status. Their dreams are forever confined to the cage of the established capitalist system. What's another dollar?

Many so-called ambitious professionals are just more self-deceiving pigs in human clothing.

</grimdark>
You'd have to add in lobbying for corporate tax breaks, subsidies, and all manner of sweetheart deals.
Running Lean by Ash Maurya - the most actionable book on the Lean Startup Methodology imho.
Worked hard for 10 years in various web development shops, started a company with two of the smartest people I met during that time, sold it, worked through golden handcuffs, and had a nice exit. Now I live off of interest from fixed income investments and am currently looking to pivot my career from web development into computer graphics/games/VR since I think a revolution is coming. I love programming and don't need to work but really want to build cool stuff. In broad strokes I'm where I set out to be when I graduated in college -- I didn't know the tactics but I knew the strategy. I'm in my early thirties.

This is probably the most important book you'll read at your age:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Fastlane-Wealth-Lifeti...
To be fair, they announced that a day after the article was written :) And the feature is not yet released. I can update the article in a bit.
My unproved explanation is about age, young people tend to not want to work for banks (citation needed).

Young people can afford less salary but prefer equity, fun culture, amenities and perks (citation needed 2).

A Sr. Java Developer living in Charlotte, Atlanta or Texas needs to make a 6 figure salary to stay in a middle class level quality of living (2 kids, single family home, 2 cars, hole foods market)

A Single Developer in SF needs the same amount of money to live well in the city with roommates.

a NC bank wanting a good web developer can either pay a young SF developer the same money she is making there to compensate for the loss of "living in SF is more fun for young adults than in Charlotte" + "it's a bank, we don't have a ping pong table or beer in the fridge" effect.
Or pay a salary that is going to be enough for a bit older developer who has a family, to live comfortably.

If you consider that there is a cost to moving to Charlotte that is more than a monetary cost, that cost needs to be taken into consideration in the compensation.
Lol @ DNA Lounge.

Also, why? Outside of the joy of hacking
At $0.5/month it's pretty cheap in fact. But while the price per picobyte might be higher than AWS, I feel a lot more comfortable using something that has been purpose built for the task by a legitimate genius. The whole point of backup is to be able to sleep at night, I don't want to cut costs here.
Not that I have any particularly related thoughts, but my most recent interaction with a DMV was them refusing my birth certificate as a valid form of ID because "It's printed on paper" and "what's a notary." (It was a formally notarized copy, which AFAIK is the only way to get a copy from records, you can no longer get an original if you've lost it; and this was the DMV MANAGER I was speaking to.)

The entire DMV system has been so backwards I don't even know where I would start addressing it.
I read over the referenced Brookings paper and I can't make any sense of it. The paper doesn't really define what they mean by "wealthy" and "poor" (which is a red flag). It seems like they define "wealthy" as having a nonzero amount of illiquid assets, and "poor" as having a zero amount of illiquid assets. This is crazy - if you have one dollar in home equity, you are wealthy by this definition.

The paper's main conclusion is that 1/3 of people living hand-to-mouth [hand-to-mouth is the paper's term for having no liquid assets] are poor, and 2/3 of them are wealthy. But I couldn't find any data on what fraction of the population is "poor" and what fraction is "wealthy", which makes it impossible to interpret this result. Are "wealthy" people more or less likely to live hand-to-mouth than "poor" people? I couldn't figure that out from the paper.

The Atlantic article also seems to be totally wrong in interpreting the paper, saying the "wealthy" have at least $50,000 in illiquid assets. The paper, however, says "the [wealthy hand-to-mouth households] typically hold sizable amounts of illiquid wealth: for example, the median at age 40 is around $50,000." Confusing the minimum amount of wealth with the median amount of wealth is a huge, huge error that totally changes the meaning.

If anyone could figure out what this paper is really saying, I'd like to know (not sarcasm).

Link to paper: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/spring%202014...
I'm not sure that this is a problem.

Even if the winner is a bag of tricks trick, it still would be something new in the way it is presented, with new tricks developed, and thereby surely would spark some innovation, would it not?

If so, then the XPrize served its purpose - to drive innovation.

I am not under the impression that XPrizes are intended to be impossible goals or "holy grails" - just goals that drive progress.
I guess HN will pretty much just work fine?
Thanks for showcasing vegan dishes.
What is the 'endorse' button called now?

According to the dictionary [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/endorse] endorsement implies agreement (so at first sight it would be equivalent to the upvote button), but it was said in another thread that you can endorse something without agreeing with it. Have you considered other names for the button?
Why would rendering your comment invisible to the majority of people reading the thread make you more likely to put effort into it
Ehh, no? Look I'm not saying it's a fair/legal practice what they did. I'm just not a law expert and don't see how it's direct wage fixing(indirect, sure).
Take a class in economics then. You will learn what happens what happens to the price when demand is suppressed.
It's very good for delivering information from the smartphone without having to reach in your pocket. Any notification has its text delivered to the watch. On the other hand I haven't found it to be terribly useful at taking input. Awkward buttons with awkward placement on the wrist, it's just easier to pull out the touchscreen. Still, just as a satellite screen it's really nice to have. Sure, I could technically live without it just as I could technically live without a smartphone, but I have chosen to wear mine every day for the last year or so.
>Even people who are rationally aware of some of this (often because they recite it once every week) are protected by powerful psychological defence mechanisms from actually having to confront the realisation very often.

No, some of us just have to hold back tears on a frequent basis.
Negativity bias
I'm not entirely sure what's so difficult about dnssec?

I just use dnssec-keygen, then include the two keys in my zonefile, named-compilezone to sanitize, and it does the needful?
Awesome. Just added it to my plan to read list. How does it compare to Lean Startup by Ries?
Part of the kool aid is that you, yes you, are merely a plutocrat-in-waiting so of course don't make things worse for yourself when you're going to be CEO of a billion dollar company.

The extremely enginuitive and extremely lucky are going to strike it big and have these concerns. But you're enginuitive and lucky, right?
As noted up-thread, the root DNS servers weren't signed until 2010.
I grew up in a small town in Russia during 80s and early 90s. I found my first job as a developer building accounting software in Pascal when I was 15. I remember spending my first paycheck (about $100) buying winter boots. It wasn't enough, my mom ended up pitching in. :)

As soon as I graduated, I moved to a larger city to work for a company doing offshore development in C++. I was paid $4 / hr, managing to put in about 250 hours a month. I only ended up working there for 6 months before I moved on to the next stage.

I moved to the US in 2000 to work for Microsoft in Redmond. Microsoft was good, but it quickly became obvious that there was no way to make real money, even though I doubled my paycheck in 4 years I spent there. I started at $66K / yr, ended up around $130K when I left at the end of 2004 to go and work for Google.

Except that I didn't go to Google. :) I interviewed, got an offer and used it to get an offer from a smaller company where I felt I could do more. I wanted to be a big fish in a small pond and Google already felt to me like a big pond. Their offer was for $150K and ~10,000 shares with strike price of ~$170. Smaller company offered $200K base, $50K bonus and 2% of the company. In 2004 that was a lot of money.

The smaller company didn't do as well as I expected. I only made about $3M from stock versus $5-10M I could have made from Google. But I met some good people there. But 2009 I was a VP and making close to $450K / yr. I left in 2009 to work on a startup with a couple friends. We sold it at the end of 2010 for $15M and almost immediately started another one.

Right now I work as a CTO for that other startup. We had $40M in revenue last year and on track to be at $90-$100M this year.
All this is done under the responsibility of public authorities within a legal framework.

Yes, and if it's not legal, it will be made so retroactively.

So, the French and the US approach to privacy is the same. But as opposed to the US, the French dispense with rubber-stamping oversight. And I'm expecting absolutely no reaction from either of the two main political parties. "Think of the children" or "think of the Chinese"...
I get that. (I wrote the article by the way).

"I have trouble trusting anyone who thinks that Flash was ever a decent high-performance gaming engine"

I never said it was -- just that if I have to switch to something anyways, performance is something I want to take into account.

And for what it's worth, flash wasn't high performance, but with proper optimization you could get acceptable performance -- and in the case of our game[1] locking ourselves to 800x600, we got way, way, better framerates and sprite counts than Binding of Isaac (which uses AS2 and unoptimized graphics).

Perhaps I should have been more clear in the article -- "As long as I'm leaving flash behind, I don't want to jump straight over to something else that might have the same performance concerns I've been fighting/hacking against all these years."

[1]http://store.steampowered.com/app/218410/
Transaction costs on housing hover around 5-6% generally, and that ignores holding costs. Housing isn't an 'economically perfect' marketplace.
This is a big improvement on the original plan. Thank you for listening to the community.
Linux Kernel : Excellent C coding style document