skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the high growth business is in some magical new sector, it's not too hard to figure out what the business model will be - you're going to sell ads, and figure out native monetization options.

Therefore a high growth business (like Twitter or Pinterest) is very predictable once certain numbers kick in.

Scalable business model is a turn on to some investors (Benchmark likes to fund marketplaces, after their home run with eBay and now Uber), but there's always some unknowns - like your return policy doesn't scale, you need more customer service staff than you originally planned, a dozen of competitors emerge, or Google adds your business model as a side feature to one of their products.
Does OCaml have anything resembling Erlang's OTP? Lightweight concurrent processes, easy to use remote processes, supervisor trees etc.?
Not sure of the point of the post, but here's the base I bought for 500 dollars and I threw on a beautiful piece of birch finished marine plywood I scored on craigslist for $50.
http://www.thehumansolution.com/uplift-900-electric-sit-stan...
How To MAKE CRM CHANGES AS SMOOTH AS SILK
General Harmonics Is Basically Pied Piper From “Silicon Valley”
What do you mean by "does not seem RESTful"? It's a set of data. Writing a webmail app should be more like any other CRUD app. I don't see why that damages atomicity. Nor do I see why synchronous command requests are a problem, this works fine for AJAX. Especially if you can issue more than one at once. Store the mail in MongoDB or similar (possibly detatching the bodies of large mail for storage convenience). Stop using rfc822 as the wire format.

"Move" is greatly simplified if "location" is a tag field like gmail rather than anything to do with filesystem storage.

The purpose would be building web apps that manipulate email.
And don't forget the humans that support everything.
I suspect some downvote him because he consistently posts walls of text with histrionic tone, not any qualms with points made. Calm brevity would be nice.
Independent small entities are absolutely a good approach.

Here is one: http://www.cyclesforchange.org/

Here is another: http://sisterscamelot.org/

Here is a third: http://mncee.org/

(disclosure: I work for the third)
Apple – Pride
It's already happening. You don't need to build a new city. You just open a satellite office in a place like Boulder or Austin. Your young, single employees would never live there in a million years, but once they marry and have kids they'll be lining up to relo there for the cheap housing, good schools, and lower cost of living.
doubtful, but it might help you feel better about it.
As I mentioned common open source productivity software runs on Windows. That includes Gimp, Emacs etc. - not that I believe that Munich is rolling out 14000 development/graphics boxes. The comparison does not appear to be between equivalent specifications. It's assuming that Windows requires Office. That's simply false.
You simply set aside money in an endowment fund (or other funding apparatus) and create a legal entity charged with the task of using the money in the fund to continue operations in the event the main company shuts down. Just add a clause in the legal framework of the organization which provides for the startup and handover operations, put individuals on a "board" of some sort who will begin drawing a salary when the organization is kicked into action, etc. It's not exactly rocket science.

The fact that so many companies who "plan to be around forever" haven't bothered to even think about these sorts of things indicates to me how fundamentally unseriously they take their own business.
Awesome to see Stripe supporting open source. One of my gov clients does this as well ... I worked with the broadcasting board of governors and we worked together on enhancing Mozilla's popcorn maker, but tailoring it to journalists. In general I think they're trying to work on open source as much as possible which is cool
Ask HN: How can I find pair programming partners?
Pair programming.

I've had multiple programmer friends recommend this to me as a way to improve my programming skills. The catch seems to be that it only ever really happens with work colleagues where there's some immediate incentive to do it, so it rarely (if ever?) happens between two friends for hours on end with one upskilling while the other "endures".

Are there some hacks any of us have used to find pair programming partners? I saw Airpair but the expense seems prohibitive.
or blackhat it up with tinyScheme http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware...
Inequality Talk Is About Grabbing
When I saw your first article, a light bulb went on. The huge spike starting in 2011 is also the same year that DCFS declined to renew its contract with Catholic Charities. That connection is not mentioned at all in the article, but it could very well be the root cause. That organization did an awful lot for children.
I'm curious what kinds of solutions are in the works in a post scarce music industry? I'm skeptical of the authors solutions. I'm also ignorant of the music industry but if I understand correctly, things like Spotify and Youtube are a broken model, usually only paying out the label and disregarding the artist or paying them in change. What kind of business model can/will focus on the artist, or are artists and their fans on their own in the future?
Seconding Erlang, and the pirate book (OTP in action; dude on cover looks like a pirate, maybe a Janissary).

The thing about Erlang/OTP isn't just that it's a functional language, but that--for a beginner--it's very small and practical. I describe it as "a functional language written by people whose jobs depended on it".

OTP (effectively, production runtime library and development patterns) is built on really sound engineering principles, and you can learn a lot from the explanation of why you build things a particular way while reading the pirate book.

EDIT:

The main reason that the functional aspects of Erlang are so cool when contrasted with Haskell or Scala or whatever is that they are so deeply tied into how the language functions in a production setting. It's not a matter of "my, how clever", but more of "oh, that makes implementing this reilably a shit-ton simpler".

As an example: actors in Erlang (processes there) are implemented as side-effect free functions which accept messages and manually pass state around. As a consequence, we get code hot-loading for free--you can simply swap out the update functions and run a helper to update the actor state before resuming it's run cycle using the new update function.

That's wicked cool, and is something that just falls out from the pragmatic language decisions made earlier in its history.
Sounds about the same. You are just including tutorials which aren't usually included in regular credit hours in the US. Those would be in the "2-3 hours per hour in lecture" block.
Everyone doubts the motives, and it makes sense why they do, but any progress he makes in developing country is better than no progress at all IMO
I think it's a jump to say "hacked already."

I assumed he was talking like they had just spent the bitcoin (Mt Gox stylee). Even if they were hacked, I would expect Coinbase to disclose that information--to presume that they've been hacked, lost bitcoin, and are hiding that from everyone is a pretty wild theory in my book.
Most online accounts investigated by NSA belong to ordinary Internet users
The above article is an example of how Google unknowingly destroyed a 40 year old business that was being run by a 74 year old man who hadn't used internet. I've personally known business owners who struggle to figure out reputation management with Google listings. There's simply no systematic way to call up Google & fix things when things go wrong. We're talking about people's sole livelihood here. If there's a doubt about a listing, instead of assuming that crowd source data is correct, Google should have a clear laid out way for businesses to call up and set things right.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. The sentence only has no information in it I'd you choose to blindly look at the words in a vacuum. But if you think about what he said, what he meant, the tone has a ton of information, the most obvious is a drop frustration of the empty promises and frequent shut downs that is all too common in recent startups.

I think the comment created worthwhile conversation. And I'm not sure it would be better off without it. Obviously you can disagree, and given your position perhaps my opinion doesn't really matter, but to say it has no information is just being dishonest, and I say that in the nicest way possible.
It's Confirmed, NSA Has Your X-Rated Information [video]
I always find amazing what one can accomplish when the scope is reduced enough. I don't think Dwarf Fortress would have a fraction of its features if it had sprites, non-tiled graphics, multiple visible layers, sound effects or a sane UI.

By taking those sacrifices we now have a game to behold.

I'm excited to try the new features.
I've been really happy with my HP ProBook 4530s. As the name hints at: you'll notice a bit of MacBook Pro mimicry; but not in the price. Been using it for a few years and would definitely recommend it still.
Uber Launches War Against Yellow Cabs, Cuts New York Fares By 20%
Open-high-low-close(OHLC) Charts with D3.js
This is really, really cool. The ABC here does some interactive images like this [1] and I think I prefer their interface, but they're not usually high-res like this.

This sort of interactive image thing is really cool and helps engage users with the content far more than just side-by-side images.

edit: What always fascinates me about these sorts of pictures is the degree with which the old buildings are all still there. Coming from Australia, very little of our stuff tends to be 'old' and 200 years is just about the upper limit. It's just so foreign and abstract to me that it's always a little offputting and noticable.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/hurricane-sandy-before-a...
Lessons from Childhood (having grown up in Silicon Valley)
In fact, the keyboard is so close to the MacBook Pro's that you can almost use a silicone keyboard cover that is meant for MacBook Pro. I think only one key doesn't match.
Alibaba-Backed Kuaidi Challenges Uber in China With BMWs
A friend of mine put it best - "The work of a lunatic, but possibly the best game of our generation."
Little known fact: it's only due to DF that you can find the solid density for Saguaro wood online.

It's ~430 kg/m^3 dry and this was determined empirically by players.

EDIT: Fixed units.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm the CEO of ZenPayroll and the topic of customer-centric product development is something we care a lot about. Two things we do at ZP in this vein are:

(1) Each person in the company does customer support on a regular basis. In our hiring process, we screen for folks that care about our customer and the pain point we're solving. This means they're excited to interact with our customers and help them (vs. viewing it as a chore).

(2) Our customer support team is within our product organization. We are available to help you by email, phone, etc. and our goal is to provide the best service possible (with the same mindset on how we've built the product). But, as soon as the call ends, we strive to figure out how to prevent that specific call from ever happening again. The feedback our support team provides engineering and product managers is critical to customer-centric product development.

I think a lot of businesses confuse customer-centric product development as meaning that you should build whatever a customer asks for. Our goal is to truly understand our customers pain points, and then fix them, and often this means creating something that's never existed before (vs. just building a better/faster/cheaper version of what already exists).

btw, we love hearing from customers and we appreciate any and all feedback! I can be reached at josh@zenpayroll.com and if you're interested in signing up, check out www.zenpayroll.com
not really trying, saw it and didn't get it - figured the forum would have answers, downvotes seem to disagree, but whatever
I certainly would vote for politicians that would support universal basic income in Japan. A calculation done in the past few years found that ¥50,000 a month (about $500 US) could be paid out to each citizen without raising any extra revenue. Something closer to ¥170,000 a month would probably be more reasonable, if we could figure it out.
"The main apparent goal of building the capacity to construct a larger-scale simulation of the human brain is radically premature," Peter Dayan. How could they even got funding for this?
Ah I didn't know about them. I'll have to check them out, I've had annoyances in the past because i never leave bitcoin-qt open to keep it in sync.
It looks very convenient for making some relatively simple web services (based on me not knowing much C++, others would get more mileage probably). It looks like the kind of C++ project of a moderately small size that's implementing something that I'm very familiar with already, so I think it will be useful to help me learn C++.

I have a couple of questions, and that is what is the reason for only having .h files with no .cpp files in the main part of the microframework? Did something force you to do it that way or was it done like that because you like that code structure?
Wearable computing gloves can teach Braille, even if you’re not paying attention
Django Engineers – Join us and change healthcare
PE does. But only for some, it's anti-scalable. This is a nice little trick - if you only accept 2% of a highly competent applicant pool, you must hire the best, right?

Eh, maybe, but you could just get everyone to apply and make the same decisions. Now you've got brand and people give you money...

It's intentionally a ludicrous amount to suggest that they're Just. That. Good. to all their potential clients. But we can't all be payed three times going wage, can we?
Zhou Enlai said,“two thousand years of friendship and five decades of misfortune,” about the relationship between China and Japan.
Actually - I don't know! I'm going to email the academic that posted it. I'll let you know if I find out.
Wall street must be really in trouble for talent! My "PR diving" from a while back reveal this beautiful piece selling working for banks and donating you salary to charities as the "ethical" choice:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/31/j...
A welcome change. But, for this to work, the violators (even past) can't be allowed to bypass the rules.

For example, how many of the top apps that explicitly allow kids, violate some or all of the COPPA standards?

Clash of Clans is just one example, ages 9+, but allows custom usernames and p2p chat with very little filters. Those social features are key to long term engagement, even of 9 year olds.
So use their mobile app. https://www.readability.com/
Nobody uses that much water to grow indoor weed. Plenty of grow guides around, if I remember correctly water every 3-5 days depending on if coconut fiber or soil, and pot size, flush daily towards the end of the flowering cycle.

Meanwhile, the average California household was estimated in 2011 to use more than 360 gallons of water per day. http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/01/23/how-much-water-do-c...

Of course nothing was said about the wine industry, or how California uses 6 billion gallons of water annually to irrigate highway vegetation.
Tim Cook's Vision for 'His' Apple Begins to Emerge
Building a Professional Firewall with Linux and Iptables
Really awesome photos. As a history buff, it's fascinating.
The bit where Louis CK cites George Carlin as his inspiration to start fresh often: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37zkizucPU
Ask HN: Feedback on the success of "Show HN"
A dedicated "Show" thread launched recently. It also coincided with a lot of "Show HN"s making it to the front page and getting a decent amount of traction.

I thought we could possibly quantify the results of the well-timed posts by some of the project authors.

Let's use some metrics to determine how successful your posting was. Feel free to share whatever metric you are comfortable sharing.

Numbers of hits on your homepage
Number of signups to your service
Sales increase generated from traffic increase
Social media shares (likes/follows/+1s/etc.)

I can't think of other metrics right now, but these 4 basic metrics are a good starting point to see the effect of "being in the right place, with the right product/service, at the right time".
This is not a flowchart. It looks like a thinking could. On the other hand it has not used any symbols like in a flowchart

visit this page to see a flowchart http://creately.com/Flowcharts-and-Workflow-Diagrams-Online
I'll be the exception. The physics texts by Griffiths, namely Electrodynamics and Quantum Mechanics, can and should be read cover to cover. We would however, spend a whole semester on one book, so I doubt we would qualify for the >40 pages.
Never relocate unpaid
Developer cum Wantreprenuer seeking advice
I am a 23 year old developer from India. I work for one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the world, where I draw a nice salary and am entitled to a lot of perks. I have also been working on a startup idea, along with a friend/colleague that has now grown into an alpha level prototype. Owing to our inexperience we don't know whether what we have is launch ready or not and think that we need to work on it a little bit more(a month or two) before we launch even to alpha users. The problem is that my day job is killing me. Itsfuckingcrazy! I do not feel like a good fit in the environment for a single moment. On top of that my day job is eating the time that i would otherwise give to my startup or potential startup.Now I really want to leave and work on the startup but there is this one resistive force ('it's the start of my career', 'Its hard to get into such a good company'...'blah')that stops me every time I think of sending my resignation. So I m in a bit of a fix as to whether to be more disciplined and keep building the start up alongside my day job or to quit and start working on the idea full time! Would appreciate any word of advice!! PS: I don't have any liability
Reverse Pitching
Discussion two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7720219#up_7720418
Having grown up in Germany and now living in he US since many years gives me an interesting perspective on this. I am used to an environment that's filled with history like this. I remodeled a 300+ year old house!
I find that everything being new in the US makes you feel like you can truly change the world and accomplish anything you want. Being in Europe where most buildings have been around since forever makes you feel small and I find it comforting in a way to have my life put into perspective like that. Iceland had a even stronger impact on me that way because it was so obvious that the land itself had recently (in geological terms) been created and can destroy whatever you do as a human or at least make it all insignificant. I found that calming
Neuroscience music app's claims thoroughly debunked
Agreed. Config files 100 times bigger and more complicated. Why? Go to it's home page and find a link that says "differences between GRUB Legacy and GRUB" which simply goes to the grub .97 manual which says absolutely nothing about differences between the 2 versions. They really care about their users, that's for sure.
Are DMCA Takedowns On GitHub Increasing?
...it's a very important one since those are students who, without CS0, would not major in CS. These students are more likely to be female or from underrepresented minority groups.

I'm curious - would the group be less important if they were less likely to be female/non-asian minority? I get this impression from your text, though you don't actually state it explicitly. As a result I'm curious what your actual view is.
> Although we hear about OCaml less often than other languages, it is still used in many well known places such as ... Microsoft

Microsoft's F# language is essentially a .NET version of OCaml.
I just went through this with some of my sites. Some of my URLs were showing up in searches with HTTP URLs, while others were showing up with HTTPS URLs. Digging deeper also showed both HTTP and HTTPS being indexed.

This isn't an HTTPS preference on Google's part. It's (effectively) a mis-configuration on the web site operator's part.

HttpWatch (and many other folks with web sites) should either be using 301 Redirects or, in many cases where that's not compatible with other things being done, using the Canonical link element to indicate with https content is just a copy of http content.

So: Try setting your ‘canonical’ line properly in your web pages. Then this won’t happen.

Right now HttpWatch's http pages report their http as canonical. Their https pages report https as canonical. They effectively are listing their site twice with Google (and probably splitting/hurting SEO, but that's another story.)

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-...

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/
DF has a reputation for being impenetrable. Like it requires weeks or months of work or study to get anything out of it. Not true! You can start from scratch and have a crazy little adventure in minutes. Really.

Dwarf Fortress: The Detailed Roguelike That’s Easy To Play

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/16/dwarf-fortress-th...

>Dwarf Fortress is famous for producing anecdotes by the minute. The two-man, twelve-year, donation-funded indie project weaves together procedurally generated geography, civilizations and histories to create a rich fantasy world. It simulates its characters – standard fare like dwarves, elves, goblins, etc. – down to the most minute detail, and when all its systems combine, the results are often hilarious, occasionally tragic, and always surprising.

>It’s also blissfully easy to play. The game is free to download and easy to install, the UI comes with a detailed and handy help system, and there’s a community wiki full of guides – not that you’ll need them. I started from scratch last night and was having fun immediately.

>This whole experience has taken around twenty minutes, and while it’s a shame Akan Seasonveiled didn’t get to see more of her homeland, the experience encapsulated much of what I love about Dwarf Fortress. I discovered a town, talked to people and formed a posse. I went on a dynamically generated fantasy adventure and slayed a grim beast. I discovered a camp of travellers out in the wilds, had a tense and hard-fought combat encounter, and finally met my own grisly end. It was exciting! It was just a tiny taste of this world, but I’m itching to go explore more.

I actually enjoy simply generating worlds and looking through the history afterwords... even easier.