skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might work for 20 somethings just out of undergrad. But when you start looking at founders who are older and have families, you eliminate a lot of talent from the pool (including people with actual experience). It just isn't feasible for everyone.
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> Writing a program is an error-prone exercise in translation. Even math, from which our programming languages are born, has to be translated into something like this:

The article then compares some verbose C++ with a mathematical equation. That is hardly a fair comparison, the C++ code can be written and read by a human in a text editor, right click the equation > inspect element ... it's a gif. I loaded the gif into a text editor, it's hardcore gibberish.

Personally, I would stick with the verbose C++.
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So people are "inventing" symptoms? This just sounds cynical and unhelpful.
Money breeds money. It's just a consequence of the right to private property that this will be the most profitable strategy. It's bad, but changing it would require a huge rethink of capitalism, and the powers that be wouldn't like that because they are a product of the current system. Even the cool ones, like Elon Musk, counts here.

I've often thought about this. Why do we have the right to own land? The people who own the land rights to various parts of Manhattan, Bay area (and other popular places) might pay some taxes and handle some paperwork but other than that they just collect what's basically a tax on everyone who wants to be where the opportunities are. Same with operative systems APIs (like win32) and processor instruction sets. It's not really relevant how the specific individual/company/family got into the position as a gatekeeper. It could have happened hundreds of years ago. Now they're just a taxman you can't vote on. Constrained gatekeeper resources like land or frequency spectrum should be government property for all eternity and rented out to the highest bidder on, say, a fifty year basis. Non-constrained gatekeeper resources should become public domain.

Money isn't nearly as bad, though. You can take investments from the lowest bidder after all, but you can hardly get around Manhattan/Windows/x86. Basically, the issue here is that it's easier to let your money work for you than working yourself. Maybe you could put into law that for each share sold or dividend given (basically, whenever an investor gains cash from his/her investment) a certain percentage also has to be equally distributed among employees. That might work, but I can imagine that investment targets would be vulnerable to investment competition from countries without such a law.
You don't know if the market is too small until you get out there and do some testing. Speculation isn't going to go far.

If you have an idea and discover that someone else did to, great! It's been partially validated. Which particular edge of it are you going to take? What differentiates it from their execution?

The subset of good ideas that have no current executors is way smaller than the subset of good ideas that can be successfully executed.

Don't give up only because someone else is already executing; do it better than them.
Yep never played UO but I appreciate everything it stood for in the early days. I did play the rest of the Ultimas though, and really loved 6 and 7.
down-voted because the comment was deleted. Are we not amongst friends here?
1200x1600 would be excellent as an eink monitor.
Ask HN: Cool technology oriented startups/young companies.
Most of the companies advertised/discussed on HN, are consumer oriented. So, there's very little cool brand new technology used there. Basically what they do is to just take existing hipster web/MVC framework, optionally invent disruptive business model to change existing market. Most of them disrupt in the area of business models not technology.

Which young technology companies/startups you know which are mostly technology oriented and which can disrupt the market in the near future?

Here's my list:

* Oculus VR

* FP Complete

* Meteor
You can go to another country were education is free and without exams to get into the university
That's pretty much the thesis of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming" talk. It's here, for all who have missed it: http://worrydream.com/dbx/
Many times I see a link on HN and click on it, and they act like everyone knows exactly what is going on.

It gives me a nagging feeling that I am completely out of touch with HN, too.

The way moderators edit headlines doesn't help this at all.
Auto-fill-mode and follow-mode are useful. If you write Unicode characters (and don't have a mac) C-x 8 <Enter> is useful, too (tab completion!).
Validate your idea before writing any code
The bug is called capitalism. It's an imperfect societal system, but a better one has never been tested before.
That looks great! Have you considered releasing it to the wild? Are the channels on the right MichelePhan's featured/favorited channels?
When you've spent hours upon hours deep in the engine room of your product it's SO easy to forget that no one else knows what you've built. Doubly-so if you've come from the corporate world working on a product that already has immediate brand recognition.

This is a good checklist.
Ask HN: Do you think Apple should start making Android / Windows apps?
My answer is Yes. Considering Google has been expanding their territory in iOS app store aggressively, and now MS also made office available there, it makes sense for Apple also provide some of their core products, such as Facetime, Page / Keynote, to Android and Windows. It will eventually lure more users back to Apple's platform by doing that.

What do you think?
I think one of the benefits of mental illness is it makes a person incredibly empathetic and in tune with other people's pain. Being in such a dark place and succeeding in getting into the light makes you want to save everyone from ever having to relate your experiences.

It is still hard to be this honest and open. To put your full name on something like this. I respect the hell out of you and we share a disorder, thank you for your post.
Unfortunately not. Apple's success was many times despite Jobs. He was indeed a visionary, but 'benevolent' is the precise wrong term for him.
This happens almost 100% of the time with product updates. You are taken to a page that says "We have released version 3.1.5 of Gizmo. Download it here." with not even a hint of what Gizmo is.
Cool. What made you choose Angular over D3.js for this btw?
Somewhat. The story rests on the assumption that all government printing is done with a wasteful serif font, and that $$$ could be saved by using a slimmer one. Sure, people discuss toner vs ink, government discounts vs retail prices, and the necessity/desirability of printing things on paper in the first place. But almost everyone has accepted the assumption at face value.

If, like most Americans, you prepare your tax return in the next couple of weeks - an annual ritual which involves a truly mind-boggling amount of printed paper - take a look at the fonts on IRS documents. Almost invariably, the IRS uses thin Sans Serif fonts. As do a great many other government printing departments.

Now I don't expect the kid to think about this since he probably hasn't had to fill out a tax return yet, being only 14. But perhaps it's the sort of thing CNN ought to have mentioned, or asked the Government Printing Office about, if they were interested in presenting useful news. Of course, they're not, in this case; it's clickbait which relies on readers accepting all the assumptions in the article and patting themselves on the back for feeling smarter than Uncle Sam.
Any more on the apparent $8 million "acqui-hire" by Dropbox?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/27/readmill-acqui-hired/
"But it would be very noteworthy if someone had the capability to change an industry twice." - VR is a part of his original vision, it's just that hardware was not ready.

Even if he peaked as a coder he is still invaluable as an expert in graphics and gamedev. Especially with low-level coding around those areas. A great attractor of future tech talent to the company as well I guess.

He also improves the image of the company in the eyes of hardcore gamers and geeks: 'OK, they sold to Facebook, but Carmack is still there and he is not a sell-out, so maybe it will turn out OK.'
Funny thing: all star treks except TOS end up higher than they started!
I assume they mean a Limited Partnership Agreement.
Fine, but you're leaving out the cost of the printer, too. And the shelves to put all the papers on, and the cost to dispose of (or recycle) them when you're done with them.
How are you defining an "interesting" language? Just your opinion? I'd say C# is a pretty interesting and powerful language that's extremely well-complemented by VS.

There's a lot more to an IDE than code generation and autocomplete (even if those are very useful and save me a ton of time). Finding all references to a variable or function (simple text searching does not do this nearly as well - the IDE actually analyzes the language and knows what points to what). Immediately letting you know if the syntax is wrong. Very visual and intuitive debugging (it goes to the line # and lets you hover over a variable to see its contents). Jumping to a variable's definition.

There have been experiments with non-textual programming, such as Scratch, but it hasn't really proven to be very useful. If there's going to be some radical shift, it might come from AI and brain scanners maybe?
Congrats!, great work.

This has lots of useful applications. E.g Do you know those graphics about a submarine of the WW2, or a Spanish galleon in which you could see what is inside, like in the book "incredible cross sections"?

With your tech you could make this but dynamic and alive!! peering what you are interested in. While most of the scene is static, you could move some things a little and make it alive.

You should contact one of those amazing artist and show them what you have. There is no way they would resist an offer of working on something like this.
It's also odd that there's no "browse all projects" or "find projects to back" option, only a few hand-curated options. No discovery options at all.
Not necessarily the same developers.
10 weeks is short enough that if you're serious about your startup, it's not too much to ask.

I'm sorry, but I have to call bullshit on that. It has nothing to do with how serious you are or not... some of us have constraints that just don't allow uprooting our lives and moving to the opposite coast for 10 weeks. We all have different situations and to suggest that someone isn't serious about their startup just because they won't come to CA for 10 weeks is, to be quite frank, rather disparaging and insulting.

It's appreciated though. I use this kind of shit as fuel for the fire. Doubt us, please... the more people that doubt us, the stronger we get.

Anyway, as far as commitment, let me share a little history with you... I started tinkering with the earliest ideas for what would become Fogbeam Labs way back in 2006... was only treating it as a hobby OSS project back then, had no (or very nebulous) plans to make a company. By 2010 I knew far more about what needed to be built, threw out all the old code, started over, and created an actual company. By late 2010 I had recruited a co-founder. In 2011 we recruited another co-founder. In late 2012, the second co-founder left, but we hired in intern in Summer of 2013 and he did such a bang-up job that we asked him to stay on and join the founding team. We've since recruited another intern / part-time sales guy to work with us.

So over 4 years, we've gone from nothing but one guy (me) and some half-baked ideas, to a 4 person team, with 2 products that are shipping ("limited availability" but still, available for sale), another product in development, and we are having sales conversations with Fortune 500 companies.

We have a marketing strategy that is starting to come together, we're developing potential partnerships, and we're learning how to do the sales thing (all of the members of the founding team are techies first and foremost).

No, we haven't gotten our first sale yet, and as far as that goes, we might never. We could still fail and never make a dollar. That isn't the point.

The point is that I've given ~4 years of my life, and quite a bit of my income during that period, to building this company. And during that time, I've done little but eat, sleep and breathe this company... dating? Feh, no time for that. Social life? What's that? Friends? You're kidding, right? Family? They think I'm dead or something. Adversity? Fuck, I could tell stories that would make me cry to tell them.

But here we are, still pounding away. But somebody is going to say that we're not committed because we're not willing to go to CA for 10 weeks? Yeah, right. ROFLMFAO.
> I hope he doesn't read Hacker News.

I hope he does, it's a good measure of the average hacker.
Where would I need to look for that? Also judging from your username, I have a feeling you are Nigerian just like me and I find that pretty cool.
To be fair, that could also mean that the market for financial services is extremely high margin or has an extremely large potential size rather than being an indictment of Sony's product lines.
Very interesting, thanks! I've seen some apparently decorative ink traps before but hadn't really seen fonts really built around them.

And good find on Register -- I think part of my confusion or displeasure with that face is that I was already familiar with Stratum, and in all-caps they are pretty similar (lowercase characters are pretty distinct between the two), so I thought someone had added traps to Stratum just to be different or cool. I now see that Register predates Stratum by a few years, which is interesting also.

I still prefer Stratum …
But that's exactly why programming is stagnant--it hasn't gotten simpler.
That strikes me a bullshit, completely unfounded observation. How do you justify that, exactly?
Toyota cars did not fail safe in the event that both the accelerator and the brakes were pressed. Combined with the floor mats, this could create dangerous situations where drivers were unable to stop their cars using the brakes (the standard objections that they should have turned their cars off or shifted out of gear still have some validity of course) The two sibling comments to my above comment address other potential technical problems with Toyota vehicles. Your Wikipedia link does not refute their points.

Reiterated:

What the NHTSA believed that they found in 2011 is overshadowed by more recent developments, mainly that Toyota was not being forthcoming with the NHTSA. In 2014, Holder said "Today, we can say for certain that Toyota intentionally concealed information and misled the public about the safety issues behind these recalls," Additionally: "The cover-up is still there on the electronics issue," says Sean Kane, an auto safety expert for Safety Research and Strategies. "This (government penalty) sends an important message, but it's a mixed message." Furthermore it has become clear that Toyota's code was a clusterfuck and that the alleged failure modes were very possible.

My point is that in both the Mcdonalds case and the Toyota case, the issue is not nearly as clear cut as the two most popular points of view present.
Because, starting a company, and running it for a long time requires very different set of skills and mindset. And it's a very different experience, and people are different.

Also, the most successful entrepreneurs actually continue to create companies, often in very different areas: Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Martin Varsavsky, Oleg Tinkov.
Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
Serial entrepreneurship is not for everyone. Once you've put in nearly every waking hour of 5-10 years of your life into building a company, it is easy to see why doing that all over again may not be all that appealing. Especially once you've got a family and other competing commitments.

However, many entrepreneurs still want to help create and bring new and exciting things into the world. Becoming a VC is one relatively low-stress way of doing this. It is also a way of "giving back to the community".

The few ex-entrepreneur VCs I know have been amazingly helpful, and frankly I don't think any of them are in it for the money - they have quite enough already.
It is not a failure it is only a hiccup... I was 16 when i came to USA from Poland. I was struggling with English so after high school I decided to go to community college to learn English. I was two years behind everyone in my age group but I finally transferred to Penn State.

In my last year I decided to take a "break" from school to focus on my start up and I don't feel lie I failed because I didn't finish school, even though my parents were sad about my choice and I felt like I disappointed them.

If you worry about paying for college then it is not that hard as it may seem if you are willing to put some work into it. There is many options for Financial Aid or scholarships and they are not only reserved for the best students. My parents weren't able to pay for my school so I had to pay for it. I started working in a construction company during summer to pay for school. Whenever i was able to work over time I did. After summer i was always able to pay for my school and I had money saved up to live without asking my parents for financial support. I didn't have much but it was enough to not starve.

In the end, owner of the construction company now is my co-founder and is financing my start up and my English is still bad, but I am working on it all the time! You will always come across challenges but there is always solution to everything, You just need to work for it.
The data doesn't really support the signaling risk narrative.

http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/seed-venture-capital-f...

It's an idea smaller micro-VC funds have propagated as a way to scare startups from taking seed money from larger multi-stage VC investors.
I started my blog about a year ago. Traffic has grown steadily over the course of the year.

I've found it useful for:
1. Connecting with other folks in startup / tech
2. Documenting how to solve a particular tech problem, which I often end up referencing later
3. Clarifying my own understanding of a topic I'm learning -- I've found that the exercise of writing it down helps solidify my understanding.

I post on average probably once a week.

Link: http://www.lauradhamilton.com/
3D Turtle Language in Minecraft using Python
> From the article, the issue is that the Ruby GC is triggered on total number of objects, and not total amount of used memory.

Which, it should be noted, has actually always been a bit of a problem with Ruby's GC. Particularly when it comes to C extensions that can't or won't use certain patterns to hint to the VM about how much memory they're really using.

I remember a really common memory issue with ImageMagick's extension along these lines back in the 1.8.x days. ImageMagick allocates huge objects and gave the Ruby VM very little insight into that fact because it used its own malloc. You'd wind up with a perfectly normal, in terms of memory use, Ruby app that didn't trigger GCs often enough and the IM objects wouldn't get cleaned up in a timely way, so it looked like you had a huge leak. You'd then spend days trying to figure it out.
Would getting a transfer degree at a community college be better than getting an associates that ties in with the field I want to study? I intend on studying until I get my Masters but I don't know if I should go for an associates in something that relates closely to CS or get a transfer degree in science.
So coincidentally I work at Facebook and know a bunch of these guys pretty well, but I don't actually interact with the Hack stuff at all (as I work in infrastructure doing flash and network stuff, primarily). I recently played around with the Open Source hack stuff and I installed it on my VPS.

Has anyone else played with Hack in a productionish environment? I'm just wondering what deployments and stuff are actually looking like in the world outside of Facebook.

p.s. tutorial that really exposed me to hack is here: http://hacklang.org/tutorial
Do this! I went to community college and you where guaranteed admission into any state school as long as you meet the GPA requirements. Work hard at community college and go to a great state school. Best thing to do if you messed up in high school and still want to go to a good school.
Because there are a lot of smart, talented people out here building startups, and not all of them are willing/able to move to CA for 10 weeks. Personally I think an RTP branch of YC would be wildly successful, but I am a bit biased.
Could I also use this technique to clip a scene to the path of a complex polygon?

How does it hold up with many overlapping shapes of varying color; wouldn't it lead to far more state changes and ultimately much greater fill-rate?

And what are your thoughts on using this for font rendering?

This looks brilliant. Thanks for the info.
Here's some meat. So how does FP fall down?
One of the Ramen founders here. We just launched a few weeks ago, so that's actually all we got right now. Feel free to submit a project if you'd like :)
I didn't know that was actually possible. I'm going to find out where to go on Monday after talking to my counselor. Just need time to think about things.
I am really sorry to hear about your recent struggles. I am no stranger to feeling this way.

Right now you are thinking there are no options to make your parents proud or fulfill your life goals. Don't ever think there are no options. We can't always follow our desired path that we lay out for ourselves. Sometimes we have to follow a different path because of unforeseeable, or sometimes, self-inflicting circumstances. In a perfect life I would have gone to film school after high school, but instead I ended up doing a bunch of other stuff until I graduated with a B.S. when I was 31.

You are going to need to way your options. As others have said you should consider community college. It is cheap, and if your parents can help you, you can work part-time and afford it. After two years of community college you can transfer to a state college.

Everyone has failed, my friend. Pick yourself back up. I know it is hard, I know it feels like the future is dim, but it isn't.

If you want to talk further my email is my username @gmail.com
It's entirely possible that it's changed in the last few years, but at the very least what he said was once very true. There has traditionally been a very real and very painful language barrier to the ruby core team.

But, to be fair, it's a bit of a goose and gander kind of situation. People everywhere else in the world have to deal with that kind of situation all the time.
The repeated situation is part of "Medium is famous for internet drama, and more recently parody articles about Medium and internet drama."

nailer filled in the template to illustrate the response to the template, not to assert that they had encountered this specific variant before.

The use of 'normally' implies having been in the exact situation, but it's possible to have a default response to a situation without having been in it. In context it is very easy to figure out nailer's meaning. It is ridiculous of you to fall back to 'completely and utterly mental'.
Keeping up with actual progress should be easier. The current "stagnant" state could be called that because your attention is wasted on miracle cures that promise the moon, but mostly deliver a minor improvement or make things worse.