skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mixergy specifically for bootstrapped solopreneurs/micropreneurs except NO video interview or a lot of the unnecessary info.

I want something I can read (comprehensive guides) with specific background info on insider knowledge per industry or cool things they did that made the company a success.

Mixergy interviews are often too long, too much noise to sift through, and not enough core information.

Examples of things I've love to see... Say you are building a physical product... How did you go about figuring/developing the prototype. If its hardware, where did you go to get the prototype done (PCB boards, etc..). How did you figure out manufacturing, if its overseas, how did you coordinate (different language, sourcer, shipping information, quality control, etc...).

If you're in the food industry, how did you manage to get contacts to help you get your product into stores, how did you develop or manufacture the product, etc.. If you're in catering, how did you go about reaching specific clients before you were known, etc...

The things people want to know are the details that are difficult to find that could be useful. I don't care much for the stories (success or failure doesn't matter as much as the core background on how things got done).
I'm really hoping there's at least one submission which consists of a BBC BASIC interpreter written in C and compiled via asm.js into Javascript, thus satisfying the contest's requirements regarding platforms, and which executes the original BASIC code.

(What I'd really like to see is a PDP-11 emulator written in C and compiled via asm.js, &c., &c., but I doubt anyone seriously pursuing the contest will be quite that insane.)
> armchair criticism [...] is a cancer of HN

Yes. It has been for a long time. Long term, we want to figure out ways to improve thread quality. Not so much in terms of the toxicity problem, which has seen some progress lately (we hope), but the arguably harder problem of voluminous uninformed commentary clustering around the mean. If you (or anyone) have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. hn@ycombinator.com is the best place to send them.

(This is not about any particular comments in the current thread, only the problem in general.)
Right. Because the currently 'Smart' TVs are at the cutting edge of user interface design...

If Samsung/Sony/etc thought that they had chops to make a good device to connect a TV to the Internet, then maybe they wouldn't feel the need to package it with the display device, and just release it stand-alone.
There's also that picture of him at the very top of the article.
Designing a digital safety net for microadventurers
Why not? Each of those things can be treated as black boxes with well-defined interfaces.
Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS
Inequality is a fundamental to any network that features power-law like attachment of nodes - i.e. any sort of preferential attachment to nodes that are already well connected. Thus, in a way, inequality is "natural".

So the criticism of just capitalism is too narrow. I think this criticism would apply to any economic system that features small world network type topology.
I thought they already tried that - and failed. People predicted for years that Facebook will build an ad network that will threaten Google's ad business, because it's "social". However, Facebook's ad network turned out to be a little more than a glorified traditional ad network: just showing ads to eyeballs, and only segmenting by a certain demographic and on some "interests". But that's still nowhere near the efficiency of intent-based ad networks, where people actually look for the stuff they might be interested in buying, as opposed to ads being pushed to them still mostly randomly.
Well, not entirely. Imagine running Windows guest on OpenBSD host. It shouldn't be a problem to infect the guest vm with some kind of a virus/trojan developed especially to take advantage of this attack vector. In this case you may be thinking that you're safer running OpenBSD as your main os, and using Windows guest to watch youtube videos, but in reality by having Flash player installed on your Win VM you can't be sure that the host has not been compromised.. So while on the paper, it may look like virtualization is safer, in reality it's a false sense of security.
You might enjoy this article: "Correlation does not imply causation: How the Internet fell in love with a stats-class cliché"

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
Wow now I want to buy a DRM... I mean "Smart" TV!
Right on. To add to this, early stage terraforming is in the immediate rather than long-term plan for Mars. As soon as we start producing CO2 on Mars, we're on our way.

I'm not against colonizing space itself, but early seagoing explorers didn't attempt to colonize the ocean. We need to establish ourselves in environments that allow easy production of oxygen, water, and food.

In the end, it is about money. It takes a lot of money to get setup on Mars, but after it is setup, it is a HUGE resource, which means much, much more money. The moon could also be a huge resource, but it is expensive to colonize because it can't hold atmosphere easily. Colonizing space itself without mining a resource in a way that eventually will pay off the initial investment is useless and a drain on our society.
"dry water" is far from absurd...

http://www.google.com/patents/US4008170

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080903/full/news.2008.1077.h...
How Urban Anonymity Disappears When All Data Is Tracked
Careful, they're out in droves downvoting anyone that disagrees with the premise of this story.
A site where you sign up for coffee / tea / lunch with a stranger in your workplaces area.

Context:

- I'm currently in Guatemala City and nobody talks here. A lot of people go to their office, bring their lunch, go home. You hang out with your high school / college buddies some evenings / weekends. I should know who works in the building next to mine.

- Haven't read the book but the concept of "Never Eat Alone" has been running through my head for a bit

- http://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/6-habits-connectors.html?cid...

Inspiration:

http://teawithstrangers.com/

http://teawithtanay.com/
Why You Shouldn’t Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
I'm sorry, but I don't believe this point has any merit with regards to this discussion. Formal verification was seen as the future for large systems for some short time in the latter half of the 20th century, and since then no one has seriously suggested verifying programs of millions lines of code. The point that is made here (quite sensibly) is that in many cases, by verifying small parts of your codebase (a few hundred lines, perhaps), you can rule out whole classes of bugs.

To give some useful real-life exampled, in OCaml (or at least in Standard ML), if a program compiles one can know that it will never crash (i.e. leave the control of the system - it might still abort) unless the compiler has a bug (and there's now a verified ML compiler for x64). Other useful properties might be to prove that a driver terminates (Microsoft SLAM/T2) and so will never hang the system, or a compiler that produces code semantically equivalent to the spec of the language.

You say that software quality has been harmed by the emphasis of mathematical proof of code - I just don't see how this can be the case. In a typical education, a student will see two types of proving code - in an algorithms class, where it is required in order to show that the algorithm solves the problem (and totally separately to actually building software systems), and in the formal verification/model class, which I doubt is taught at many universities and is almost certainly optional.

If someone enters the workforce without sufficient knowledge of test driven development, isn't taught at their place of work and writes bad code, there's a nice long list of people they can blame (their bosses, the people reviewing their code, their style book, their examiners, their lecturers, etc.) but it's not valid to blame formal verification for this, no more than it is valid to blame the hypothetical course on FPGA programming they took at some point.

Yes, test driven development is great, but it is totally complementary to this sort of thing.
I think he means a change in routine caused by them simply not enjoying the work anymore, so they come late or leave early or take long breaks etc.

And yes of course digging for signs doesn't beat asking by far. Ideally performance reviews can fill this role (sadly, at least here, too often those are treated as just a legal obligation where the only practical goal is to discuss and most importantly document some complaint, no matter how small, so that just in case the company later decides to fire the employee, they already have a file with "evidence" that you were underperforming for a long time).
Actually, thinking about it further, It's funny that in none of these articles is the point put forward that the kind of people who would want to better educated themselves about and eliminate poisons for the better welfare of their family might also be the kind of people who would try to raise and socialise their kids in a better manner. Lead was removed from petrol at a time of massive upheaval in the way the public looked at raising their kids. This argument would suggest that both reduced lead in petrol and 20-year-later-lowered-crime are both sourced from improved parenting and social actions.
Exactly, it's about walking the walk -- non-self-consciously and without artifice. It's a product of negative verbal space: The actual values/culture are communicated by what isn't said, because they're presumed to be self-evident.

Therefore, not to be flippant but a great way to fuck up the culture is to write a memo about not fucking up the culture.
If I understand it correctly (I'm not an economist) your argument is like the common global warming counter argument: It's so cold outside, global warming is a lie.
Well, you are clearly doing more than they communicate to you. I read you as being a franchisee in a franchise program that doesn't exist. Do they actively support buying apartments to lease out using Airbnb?

So while I understand that you are already using them, that you see that they've raised money, and that you expect more from their franchise program than non-existence - indeed, you've set your stake down and established yourself in it - it strikes me as less than fair that you would show this level of entitlement toward a non-existent program.

It's a bit like complaining to a bakery that your customers no longer wake up to the nice fresh smell of croissants in your apartment upstairs from them, now that the bakery get their croissants delivered from another baking location. Well, okay. But that's not their model.

This is what your tone sounds like to me:

"Dear airbnb: I've taken it upon myself to set up as a franchisee in your non-existent franchise program. And as an airbnb franchise owner, boy am I pissed. Your level of support for what I'm doing is appalling. Orders of magnitude worse than what I would get from a program that exists. As a $10B company, you cannot afford to stop supporting what I'm doing. It's a travesty. Make no mistake, I am upset and fully intend to abandon you and start using your competition - just as soon as it starts existing. Your days are numbered."

I understand that you think they should go in the direction of supporting you (which may not even be legal!) but I would seriously consider the level of entitlement you show when making these requests. At the end of the day, you're not entitled to be a franchisee if they don't have a franchise program.
We don't need Betteridge's Law quoted every single time there's a question mark in the article title.
I beg to differ. As an example, Hacker News has a culture, as laid out by Paul Graham [1]. It is not only shaped by his and moderators' personal demonstration, but also by decree [1]. Those who violate it are chided (publicly and/or systematically). Granted this is an anonymous internet forum [2] not a company, but the general principal is the same - clearly defining expectations and punishing [3] unacceptable behavior. This could perhaps go to explain the HN culture versus another online forum or the comments section of a public site.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] Considering which it should be even harder quality control.

[3] I use the term loosely.
I meant to put you in there too ... sorry :/
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Enlightened intolerance
Why am I getting downvotes for asking a perfectly reasonable question? It always happens here.
> "Rich people have historically been pretty careful to keep the freeways out of their neighborhoods."

You're saying that had something to do with fear of lead poisoning?
As far as I can remember, that's always been SOP in the workplace. Despite all these "new wave" models of employer/employee relationship, at the end of the day there is always a basic power imbalance between owners/managers and employees.
Comments like the GP have been affected by the recent change we made to make some downvotes more powerful (cf. sama's recent post on this). We did this to address HN's toxic comments problem, but it has a downside: some good comments get caught in the crossfire. It's not that they're getting more downvotes than before, it's that you see it more because they're getting counted more.

The HN community has long had an informal self-correcting mechanism for this case: when fair-minded users see a substantive and civil comment unfairly faded out, they upvote it back to par. We're encouraging everybody to do this consciously. The hope is that the overwhelming majority of good comments will come to rest in positive territory, while comments that deserve it stay negative. Exactly this happened with the GP.

In general, it's best to give such comments a corrective upvote yourself and trust your fellow users to do the same. "Why was this downvoted" posts mostly add noise—especially once the comment in question is back at par. (We're seeing a lot of this.) If it turns out that it's necessary to rally corrective upvotes—that is, if casual reader attention isn't enough—we'll figure out an unobtrusive way to achieve that. For now, though, let's wait and see if it is.
No, the diode assembly itself is about $70. These are good diodes. Everything else is for the laser driver, and software (it's a Pronterface module).
Not sure why you got so heavily downvoted for that :| Upvoted for balance.
I agree that the correct initial approach would be to bootstrap by sub-contracting out all the work. The trick would be negotiating favorable rates with the contractors and staying on top of things to make sure they do a good job and don't add unnecessary friction for the customers. Once business picked up enough in a city, it might be more profitable and manageable to switch to full time employees.

To start with, you could leave general maintenance off of the list of services performed, perhaps offering those fixes a la carte.
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No I am not, nor did I assume that grand position. Good for scaling? Possibly. Good in general? It does not mean anything especially if you compare to the garbage that winds up within the top 20 links each day.

I defend my position as a sentient being that can offer sane judgement. He's doing 12 'start-ups' in 12 months. I should not have to say anything else to justify why this is such an absurd idea. His reasoning is that he can do this because someone else completed 180 projects in 180 days. The analogy alone should tell you that he is not taking this as seriously as he should for each to be considered a start-up (realistically). Practice is excellent but he's doing this for the number not for the raw value of any particular experience.

Start-ups are solid in the definition that they should have a reasonable business plan to expect anything of value (experience, cold hard cash, what have you). There are objective manners in which to approach whether something has merit as opposed to viewing business plans in a nebulous fashion believing that 'everything is possible!'

Personal projects and start-ups are not mutually exclusive, nor did I state this. I said that a project should not automatically become a start-up.
Walking the walk and talking the talk aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
http://spiritplumber.dyndns.org:8082/ If you want to see it go, it's here.
How to Think like the Dutch in a Post Sandy World
> It's fair to say C++ is becoming increasing accommodating to whatever you want to make of it if you're willing to compromise and roll with it.

It's also one of the few languages in common use that allows using a wide range of abstraction levels, whatever is desired - I'm not aware of any other language that lets you write inline Asm, procedural, OOP, and functional-style code, all conceivably in the same source file.
Sustaining a cultural norm that causes children to mine for diamonds at gunpoint is not "guilt free". Your particular diamond is fungible. Diamonds should be as taboo as fur coats.
Know When To CDN
Any insights on getting this book on audio? Too new for Audible.. I find I can grasp the economic material easier listening to it.
How many of these server have no real purpose? So many of them host pointless websites, generate loads of useless data, or transfer tons of spam from one server to another. One badly written function, used on millions of computers that increase cpu usage by 1% more than it should will waste MWatts of power, yet nobody is worrying about that.. Thousands of new smartphone models released every year, and I don't hear people screaming about environmental damage. Want less environmental damage? Spend more time on efficient code, write everything in machine code, and don't comment on HN. After all to post one comment, how many server, switches, routers, computers need to be on? What a waste!
MightyText has been working very well for me in sending/receiving texts from the PC.
Here I was thinking that they finally read the memo.
> Correlation does not imply causation.

Okay, accepting that as a working assumption for the argument: What does? It's not things happening together that implies it, it's not things not happening together that implies it - negative and positive correlation respectively - so what is it?

The only other explanation I can think of is an understanding of the underlying mechanism, but what's that understanding based on? It can't be understandings of underlying mechanisms all the way down - you have to acquire the data from observation at some point.
This is great, but it could be so much more. For example, you could split the project in 2 (or perhaps simply clone it) with the other half working on the K-12 market.

You see, this would be the ideal learning tool for a teacher-student tutoring situation: by looking for the precise point where a student becomes stuck, it is then possible to see what skill-set or knowledge area needs more work and practice, and then adjust the lesson plan accordingly.

Metacademy is of course the natural place for such a "market" in education products to form.
In my opinion, on the mobile phone, I almost always accidentally click the ad while trying to close it, never because I was interested in the ad itself like I would be when I search for something on google and see an text ad beside the search results.
"YOU PROMISED ME MARS COLONIES. INSTEAD, I GOT FACEBOOK"
A cloud processing platform that would automatically edit videos for users based on algorithms. My thesis is that users will take more and more videos but the tools to edit them (adobe premiere, youtube editor etc) are too much hassle for people. The first market segment would be goPro and google glass users. Thoughts?
The cylindrical colony is basically Arthur C Clarke's Rama. One of the images of the spherical colony shows a human-powered vehicle, which IIRC featured in the first Rama book.
Managers need to code. However, managers need to manage first.

"Management" doesn't always mean tell people what to do (it rarely does if you're doing it right,) Managing could mean protecting your team from all the boring shit work, it could mean making sure that your team's goals are in sync with other teams, it could mean making sure that people are prioritizing their work around what needs to be done rather than what would be fun to do, etc.
Any charitable donation with your name on it is a Veblen good that (hopefully) becomes socially useful. If people donated out of a genuine sense of charity they would donate anonymously.
We also don't need environmentalist drivel that has no hope of being scientifically proven on the front page of HN, along with a vocal minority waiting to pounce on anyone that questions the validity of such nonsense. Yet, somehow it winds up there.
5 things I see hurting kids
> If a common function name is too long to spell out like iterate() then that is a candidate for sugaring out completely, not cutting in half.

We can't sugar it out completely because there are multiple types of iterators: ".mut_iter()" and ".move_iter()" for example just on arrays.

> Even in good C codebases that run static analysis, there are errors due to mixing up "memcpy()" and "memcmp()". UT4 is one example where this happened.

Well, that particular error would be unlikely to happen in Rust because the return types are different, and there aren't the implicit coercions that there are in C.
> Can you imagine a rocket carrying that up and dropping it off at the space station? Nope.

Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ia2N4vpaEo&t=284
To be honest this is a good idea and it's a pain point I've had before. Meet a potential one night stand when you're travelling but can't use wherever you are staing. Nice room you can book really quickly as a place to spend the night would be great. Locate them near downtown cores and it's like Love Hotels except better (and hopefully less sketchy).
>...Under Stalin the USSR's economy was doing great.

How are you defining "great"?

>...Also the price argument is tautological and not falsifiable.

The importance of the price system for efficient resource allocation is pretty much accepted by all mainstream economists to the point of being taught in introductory economics textbooks.
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> Clothing is very cheap - for a day's wages you could buy enough clothes to last years.

And this is where we come to the fact that poverty has been, to some extent, exported beyond the borders of your country. In the modern world you can't just stop the economic analysis at your border, millions (if not billions) of people around the world take part in your economy and many of them are starving or malnurished and probably don't have access to health care or a decent education.

If their cheap labour weren't present, you wouldn't be able to buy a year's supply of clothing for a day's wages.
There is a good point in the post that no one seems to mention. Negotiate on the scope. Please, for your own good, do that.

It sucks so badly when you a finish a project for a nice amount of money, the client says 'oh I have this project... can you take a look? I just need a quick fix', and you believe that a quick fix is a quick fix but in reality, it's piece of crap that you are not sure how does it even work. Why it sucks? Because I feel bad to tell the client to go away after he spent $XXXX on me.

And I wish I knew about the retainer contracts when I started... Random hours for maintenance for old projects sometimes can kill you.
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Hello again, excuse me, is rssident.com yours?