skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feeling the need to constantly be trying to improve the world and help others is a noble concept but also one that, if focused on too intensely, can unintentionally lead you down a dark path. By setting unrealistic expectations for yourself you can often set yourself up for failure by reaching too far too early. It also puts a heavy burden on your shoulders of being your own worst critic, undermining your motivation and clashing with your basic human desires that fall out of natural selfishness. As PG said in "Good and Bad Procrastination":

"You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. But you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you. You can tighten the angle once you get going, just as a sailboat can sail closer to the wind once it gets underway."

I think the effects of trying to tackle big problems in the name of helping others head on can go beyond paralysis and into poor judgement in both strategy and tactics. The best way to change the world in my view is to first, know thyself, and then point yourself in the general direction you want to go.

From there, let your passions lead you where they may but be conscious if you are straying too far from the direction you were headed. Also, it seems more important to know if you've certainly begun heading in the wrong direction than knowing what exactly the right direction was from the outset.
He probably took it as you questioning his claim as he provided no real evidence.

As someone who works in the information security industry, I can confirm from personal experience that a very disproportionate amount of organized and semi-organized cybercrime comes from Ukraine, Russia, and neighboring countries. I, however, do not have any sources for you at thistime.
As I see the data in those green bars (the chart in your linked article), the chance of your marriage surviving ten years falls with each non-marital sexual partner you had before marriage in the way you might expect if your current partner had to go on competing with all your previous partners simultaneously. If she's the only one, she's the best. If she's one of two, the chance of her remaining the best is 1/2. If one of three, only 1/3 chance that she goes on seeming like the best of the lot, etc. (And substitute "he" where appropriate and note that the same calculus is being applied to YOU, too.)

Of course, maybe the marriage survival doesn't require being the best but just >= the past average or some other variation, but that still leaves a curve dropping in a sort of 1/n Zipf Law descent into too-bad-for-you-ness where the competition with the "ex"es never ends. Yikes.
It affects American businesses and therefore affects the American economy.

For instance, let's say Brazil's telcos started throttling their citizens' access to Netflix, but not to Braziliflix, a hypothetical Brazilian version of Netflix. That could prevent Netflix from gaining traction in Brazil. Meanwhile, Braziliflix would be free to compete on an even playing field for customers in the US.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6569690.
>I was pretty shaken after seeing someone completely disregard my personal space...

That's rich, coming from a Google Glass wearer.
You're right, which is why Pandora has been relying on investor capital for over a decade, and Spotify is right behind them. They haven't had a profitable year yet and they don't have a viable model.

Our business model, on the other hand, would be highly profitable at anything over about $1M in annual revenue, up to $100M, without playing any commercials. The problem was not our business model, as it is for most companies in our space. It was our inability to scale the audience to the point of sustaining $1M in annual airtime sales because the product wasn't yet sticky enough. That was a factor of being underfunded and trying to do too many things at once.

The capital thing wasn't an excuse. We tried to start a far more difficult business than (also failing) companies in the space, with a fraction of their capital. If we had an engineering team of 10 people and a ton of money to acquire content, there is no question we could have built a stickier service, and the unit economics were already great.
Well, I wouldn't judge the software on the basis of the article. The words "Paxos-like database" are enough of a tip-off that it's not exactly going for rigorous technical accuracy.
8 projects made that they are now incorporating into the product proper.

These 8 projects were at cost of management of the public API.

If true that more projects of equal caliber will be developed in the future, what is the opportunity cost of maintaining the API? How would you measure this opportunity cost?

Corollary: If Netflix had gone Tesla with the public API, I'm talking a full developer tool marketplace platform- what would be the opportunity risk/reward conversation look like? I'm thinking would be a very valid strategy for cornering the video media marketplace, setting the groundwork to take a bite out of YouTube/Twitch/etc's marketshare.
Writing was on the wall as soon as they stopped releasing API keys.
>because it doesn't make us money

false: it's provided them with 8 projects worth incorporating into the project proper.
Good question - we see a lot of value in our tool, hence are leaning towards paid rather than free plans ala basecamp or zendesk. We're also bootstrapped so really focussed on bringing in revenue earlier..
Using Swift optionals
I think the point is that the resource requested won't exist anymore.
It is strange that last guy in the pic is using mac book air :D
The risks versus benefits from a CV (resume) point of perspective are not always obvious. Yes, you as a founder, will in most cases improve a lot faster regarding to skill set than in big corp. Spot on the comfort zone theory. BUT if you had 5-6 years of failed startup experience your CV will not always reflect your personal improvement.
This reminds me of the German-produced movie 'Die Welle', or 'The Wave'.[0] It demonstrates the creation and execution of some of these dynamics and how individuals may be susceptible to strong leaders even though their ideals and morals differ. It can be found on Netflix and I recommend it to anyone who found the article interesting.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/
> Yes, Friday news dumps are shitty. They're also standard practice in politics.

The point being the IRS is supposed to be apolitical.
I haven't seen much difference between Macs and other laptops. My current MBP 13" (non-Retina) lasts for about 5 hours when doing normal dev work (text editing, compiling, debugging), I would consider this "light use". This is similar to the Dells, Sonys and Lenovo's I had before or currently use. One difference I see is that battery life doesn't seem to degrade as quickly as on other laptops I owned a few years ago.

I don't have "cross-platform" experience with phones, but my iPhone4 running iOS7 is pretty much drained after a normal day's use (it was better with iOS6).

All "anectodical evidence" of course ;)
How to vacation-proof your SaaS business
I don't understand people who think Google Glass is not invasive to others. This is evolutionary psychology 101.
I've always been puzzled by people who hate on recruiters contacting them through LinkedIn.

If you dislike it so much, why don't you delete your LinkedIn profile? It's obviously there to facilitate exactly this kind of behaviour, so I don't see why there's any issue around it.

To the contrary, I see these kinds of complaints as being a common form of humblebragging in the developer community. It comes across as: 'Gosh, isn't it tough being contacted by these recruiters all the time because my skills are under such high demand in the labor marketplace. Deleting that one email every few weeks sure does some serious damage to my psychological well-being.'

The substance of this article is about email spam generated by LinkedIn itself. I think we should focus on that, and on the broader issue of where the limits are for email invitations in web applications. The issue this has highlighted (for me at least) is that it is easy to do damage to the reputations for others by putting their names on emails they didn't ask to be sent. This doesn't just mean losing users, it actually means souring and sometimes ruining the valuable relationships that users have with their colleagues and friends. There's a lot of trust and power inherent when someone else's name is put on an email and that isn't something to be sneezed at.
Two useful PDFs to learn x86 assembly
#7 ...I can't recommend OpenSSL highly enough...

Indeed, this article was written in 2008 :)
Maybe I'm crazy but I'm a solo founder (I have a great support system of other founders) and I rarely find myself depressed. At times I'm angry at myself for decisions I've made but hindsight is 20:20.
Bought this game right before a flight. (Come to think of it, the only time I've bought games on the App Store was prior to a flight.) Was intrigued by all the feedback left in the App Store. The hours of entertainment were well worth the $0.99.
Careful, this site is full of copyrighted material ripped from commercial games (sometimes edited) which is illegal to use.
Mprpc: A fast Python RPC
No, it doesn't assume that at all. It just assumes that they are i.i.d. (so all permutations of ranks are equally likely). Still probably not a good model of stock prices (which presumably are correlated more with the previous day than ten days ago)
Shouldn't it be open source under the terms of the original game's license? (https://tldrlegal.com/license/mozilla-public-license-2.0-(mp...) Or is a port not considered a derivative work?
This is why "divide and conquer" is such an effective, commonplace strategy for an aspiring powermonger. Take two groups that are different but not in a remarked upon fashion. Invent a reason for the side that is not you to be a "them." Then organize your own side as an "us" combating the perceived injustice. Now you have an instant follower group at your command, ready to saddle up and commit heinous crimes for you. Explains all sorts of conflicts - ethnic, religious, ideological, nationalistic...

Now every time I see people who organize an "us", I start looking for the "them" to appear. And then I write off the leader as someone up to no good.
At first I thought: JavaScript console. I went to the site to see if it was something feasible to tinker with, but I didn't even need to change anything. Search "NSA" and try it yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQf6LyBSy8
Astronomers may have identified what may be the smallest known star
It's important to note that the publisher, CIS or the Center for Immigration Studies, has a strong anti-immigration bias.
NASA Spacecraft Will Sniff Out Earth's Carbon Dioxide
Hannah's Song
I second the film recommendation. It's a very well made, and very heavy film. In addition, to anyone hearing about it for the first time, it's based on the real life social experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave
They might get some flack for suddenly being less open about data. Adding a [download my ratings] button on the account page seems much less ambitious than maintaining an API so that might be on the table in the future.
The abstract container pattern
A theory that I have been developing that might be a basis for understanding the possibility of Seeing Spaces is called Schemas Theory.

See http://SchemaTheory.net for a draft presentation that is still in work. Audios are still in production for the tutorial.

Other papers on Schemas Theory are at https://independent.academia.edu/KentPalmer and http://emergentdesign.net and http://archonic.net

A good book on Schemas is Umberto Eco Kant and the Platypus.

Basically schemas theory tells us what it is possible to see and also give us the intelligible templates for our designs.

http://kdp.me
No, they are the only people like that. They are the real bad guys here. You must just be a closet one of them! You know we can't trust anyone on their side. Ever!
> This is quite literally a "have a cake and eat it too" type of situation.

How is NetFlix any different? They make the choice to lower the cost to deliver their service by choosing a CDN with inadequate existing peering relationships with ISPs. They also severely limit client side functionality because it makes their service cheaper/easier to support on a wide range of devices. NetFlix collects this data about ISP performance so why don't they say 'oh hey sorry ISP X user. We can't let you sign up because you'll have poor performance!' -- instead they happily take the money.
Ask HN: Is there a(n) HN API or a way to submit remotely?
LG G3 review: A great phone with too many pixels
'But on BOTH PLATFORMS they call the same line of code -> BzUiUtil::PauseBackup();'

That's some funky C code you got there Brian.
Cool, that means consumers in the US will have two viable alternatives, Netflix and Braziliflix, so there will be competition and people will enjoy better level of service. And the two companies will try to out-innovate the other, hiring engineers and lowering prices. Sounds like economic gain to me.

Meanwhile, consumers in Brazil enjoy shitty services and exorbitant prices...
Sudden increase in downloads started in UK. Any ideas at all as to age profile of the downloaders? I'm guessing 19-14 University students, although that is based on a hunch from the desire for verbal engagement and fiction reading preferences of the students I teach...
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Thanks! I'm just curious about the field.
I just found this site, and it seems great!

Feels shameless to ask, but I wish I could get a list of all songs in each genre from the Electronic section.

Feel free to send me a mail at zolomon@gmail.com in case it would be possible.

I am in dire need of new music to listen to!
The article never leads the user to gain any takeaway other than golf in China is growing and buy my book...
Here’s the proper way to evaluate a startup’s equity offerings
This is a remarkably old article, but its truths mostly hold today. I also think that cross-platform compatibility is a day-0 affair, you need to get to that mentality from your first line of code. Adapting later will always be harder and more error-prone.
Built my own, on top of slack ( and hipchat ). After all others, simple lists managed simple ways.
We Need to Have Empathy for Those With Depression
At the beginning most founders getting some kind of depression but the better founders quickly adapt to the situation and answer 'some version of great' when asked how their startup is going.

The reason is quite simple -- successful founders are always positive because every event which happens has some positive impact in their perception, even if it might feel as a failure. Successful founders don't use the word failure, nothing is a failure to them.

People who are depressed -- it doesn't matter if those are founders or not -- tend to let external circumstances determine the mood or happyness level. Most people are happy when it's good weather and sad if it is raining, successful people do not let something like rain influence their mood level.

The question is rather why the topic 'depression' pops up quite often on HN.

My theory: I had very successful times as a founder and also -- let's call them -- 'slow' times as a founder, in particular in the beginning. When I had successful times I didn't check HN for months a single time, when I had 'slow' times, I checked HN every 30 minutes.

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CRDTs are, in the basic case, a idempotent commutative monoid, aka an idempotent abelian monoid.

If this floats your boat, here's me on CRDTs: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5301-convergent-replica...
A port is a derivative work, yes, though the MPL has a kind of unique rule for derivative works. You can combine MPL-licensed source files with non-MPL-licensed source files, as long as all changes to the original MPL-licensed source files stay MPL.

I think what's really happening though is that they're not relying on the MPL at all for permission to do the iOS port, but on a direct license from Townsend. It sounds like there is even some kind of formal business relationship (the article is a bit vague on it, but it sounds like Townsend is involved in the port and getting a share of the profits).
This is a nice exploration of what's built into the bash shell. Handy not just for when you rm -rf / , but also for when you suddenly find yourself lacking in usable tools. For instance, I've had an upgrade break the dynamic linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2 or /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2), and suddenly no dynamically linked program runs.

However, the solution given here assumes you have a bash compiled with support for /dev/tcp. You can, instead, paste the necessary executables directly over the existing connection to the system, encoded to survive that transport.
Main ones off the top of my head:

Arm straight up: offside

Arm towards goal line: goal kick

Arm towards corner: corner kick

Arm in one direction or the other indicates throw in direction (if it was a close call -- often there isn't any chance for dispute and the team knows what's what and throws it in within a second or two if there is a hurry).

There is a "play on" type arm wave (usually accompanied by a verbal "play on" or something) to indicate "yes I saw him fall, no I don't think it's a foul, keep playing".

The line referees have flags and have similar signals. The only real difference is for a foul they hold the flag straight up and wave it a little. For offside they hold it straight up and stand still to mark where the offside occurred. The line referee should always be located at the exact line that marks offside. Of course pro players are faster than referees, but to get past level 7 refereeing (starts at level 9, kids games, level 7 is probably high school games, state level, etc) you must pass fitness exams as well as paper exams. Level 2 is FIFA assistant referee, so they must all be in quite good shape.
Remind me, what's the typing discipline of the languages supported by Coverity?
The OED is pretty widely regarded as an authority when it comes to defining terms. It doesn't tend to change very much over time for any given term, which is important, in contrast to a wiki.

In my particular case, the wiki had three different definitions for "non-fiction" all written by different anonymous authors, all of which change frequently. perma.cc is a project to image hyperlink citations, but it doesn't stop judges from just screwing up.
Foreign Keys are Not Free in Postgres
IMHO, it sounds like your biggest complaint is "it's not an iPhone".
Agreed.

Lua is embedded in things like Redis, and is often uses as an extension/configuration language for small projects.

I based my mail client(http://lumail.org/) around Lua as a configuration language because I kept getting annoyed by the almost-configuration-language used in mutt.

Actually writing applications in Lua is also possible, for example the chat/Jabber server Prosody.
That's not really their utility though. The value of firstbits is that you just type the first few bits of the address you want to look up and hit enter. It's like auto-complete.
Wow, has education really become that pc?
> Apple has the right model. Just look at what they've managed to do, for example, with battery life. Nobody can match the hours of use per watt-hour of their tightly-integrated stack.

Battery shouldn't even be the last thing someone advocating an iPhone must argue upon. iPhone's battery life is dismal in a way that it feels like Apple engineered it - for whatever reason. You want to see battery life? I'll give two examples that doesn't even cost a limb - Lenovo P780 and Lenovo S860. (There are more). The point is iPhone's battery just doesn't last long enough if you use it as a "smartphone".
This reminds me of Manufactoria (an old Flash game):

http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/
thats exactly my point. even the most baroque, complex financial instruments are arguably simpler than the mechanics of even a basic internal combustion engine. but, due to cultural issues people are far more educated about the mechanics of an automobile than they are about financial products.
Just to be clear, I totally agree with you. I was using the gas pump as an absurd example (as your sibling comment pointed out) of another instance prior art. I don't think parent's complaint about the use of "unique", "no one", and "anything" is a valid one.
This article feels like a "Minecraft" in desolated Linux system.
Write all solutions for a^3 + b^3 = c^3 + d^3
this runs the fastest without memory overhead

int Search(){
int MAX = 10000000;
for(int a = 0; a < MAX; a++){
int a3 = a * a * a;
if(a3 > MAX) break;
for(int b = a; b < MAX; b ++){
int b3 = b * b * b;
if(a3 + b3 > MAX)break;
for(int c = 0; c < a; c++){
int c3 = ccc;
int m = a3 - c3;
int d = b+1;
while(true){
int d3 = d * d * d;
if(d3-b3 <= m){
if((d3 - b3) == m){
count++;
PUSH_SOLUTION(a3, b3, c3, b3, a, b, c, d);
}
d++;
continue;
}
else
break;
}
}
}
}
return 0;
}
Why talk markets when they are actually individuals?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/20901679/924801
When I read "Platform" I thought the article would be about CPU architectures. Still a good read though.
Quite; it's only software people that are upset by patents, and they are part of the wider Internet-based anti-IP movement that just wants everything to be a download away.

There is a whole 'nother world out there where people make real, actual things.
This is why I like to consider myself to belong to the group of humans and dislike further specialization based on gender, where you're born, etc.

We're on the same team.
TLDR: due to land use concerns, nominally limitations have been placed on the construction of additional golf courses. In reality, they're still getting built.
The book every PHP developer should read
Thanks Sogen
Tried it, works great! Nice work!!
a country that jettisons its patent architecture, or never evolved a restrictive one to begin with, will be a bastion for innovators.

Like, say, Somalia? Your hypothesis is trivially disproved.
What is the best posting frequency
http://namegrep.com/faq/#what-are-sets
On the flipside of this is the fact that, as a founder, you are a clear target for subconscious repression by everyone, thanks to the tall poppy syndrome. So, many times, discussing the issues and problems with others is precisely what you shouldn't do, because you will trigger the syndrome.

Its very important, thus, to have established trust with your support network before you go into the founder seat. If you don't have a support network that consciously navigates around such things as TPS and mobbing-mentality, then you're going to be in for a hard time. The fact of the matter is that humans are subconsciously hard-wired to dissent against organizational structures requiring hard work and honest production, and a founder getting up there on the hill and attempting to work hard and produce new things needs to understand that the most difficult thing about organizing humans, is humans.

Disclaimer: founder who just went through all of the above, and still working hard to survive in spite of it all.
Quite impressive and all public domain with an option to donate how ever much you want and get everything he ever made in a single zip.