skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One downside to this approach is that it can tend to create status or power rifts between the product people and the tools people. In traditional shops, the "skills that pay the bills" product people often get better treatment, higher status, greater advancement opportunity and stronger job security than tooling people, who are often seen as being on the cost side of the business.

Startups that go down this route should be on the lookout for this potential for divisiveness and culture fragmentation.
Nice work. Could you share some ideas, for a small site like yours, how did you market it at the beginning to get your first 1K visits, how much effort have you put into marketing?
I hadn't heard of laserwort. It tickles me that there are (were) actual plants named "rocket" and "laser".
Even here, you can't help but romanticize your experience. If you could see through the silicon valley delusion you've been fed, you would realize that you destroyed your life, your marriage, and most of your personal relationships, probably for nothing.

You say you have developed these incredible skills, and perhaps you have. What will they do for you... what is your endgame? Perhaps your next startup will be massive success and you will be rich, but will you be happy with no relationships? Who will be happy for your success that is not also making money from it?

You have been conned into playing a game you cannot win at the cost of your humanity. Run away now.
That's a little bit hyperbolic. I bet if you took the last 12 months, the average petty criminal has done more genuine experiential damage to people's lives than even the most intense nerd/hacker.
Microsoft never really held the low end, because that was instead held by Works, WordPad, or Word?

What?
Office and Office.com / OneDrive have had collaborative document editing for a while. Not sure about the mobile apps.
The really bothersome thing is that this isn't a revelation. Posts about burnout--and the subsequent replies commiserating and declaring how important of an issue this is and how the replier has been through their own version and how it isn't right and change is needed and-really-just-read-the-rest-of-this-thread--are a weekly occurrence on this message board alone. Who knows how many people are not commenting (remember the 90/9/1 rule of internet engagement), say nothing about the people who are just plane not here!

I started having the notion of starting my own company specifically because I was sick of being treated like nothing more than an input variable on some MBAs Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Does it make any sort of sense to work myself to death, in that same vein, in my own endeavours? I would have only traded one tyrant whom I could escape for one I'd be stuck with forever: myself.
It's not lack of toilets that's the problem, it's defecating in the open, which many Indians even prefer. Your linked article notes that, and notes that it takes an absurd 6-8 months to educate a village. http://www.thenational.ae/world/south-asia/toilets-alone-won... also provides a bit more information. Build more latrines, sure, even western style personal toilets with plumbing if you can, but if they aren't used, or they aren't cleaned and maintained, there's no benefit.
Defining commands and their corresponding actions is something I think an open source could actually do much more effectively than companies. When everyone in the world can contribute commands rather than a single team of software devs it is possible build up a much larger collection of them. I would really like the ability to add commands to a natural language command system when a command I use doesn't work. Also, I think that a reprogramable command system would open up an interesting programming paradigm where one could define new commands and actions in terms of other commands in the system. For example,

What's new?

> Unrecognized command

When I say "What's new" read the "In the news..." section of Wikipedia's main page.

> Acknowledged.
Internationalization and l10n in Rails
Oops, edited.
This reminds me of http://dhowe.github.io/AdNauseam/ , which was on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515398
2 big points I've learned & want to share on this topic:

1) In the smart long-term play, family & few close friends are most important. Everything else (including your startup) is trivial.

2) Even if you value your startup at 100% value (over family/friends/health/life), you're incredibly short-sited and killing your own startup baby if you don't have some balance in your life. Startup life is NOT a sprint. It's a marathon. To give the BEST to your startup, you need to bring your BEST every day.

Phrased another way, I often ask, "Let's say you're going to be interviewed on the Colbert Report, or other big-huge-friggin' deal tomorrow, what would you do today?" Often, people say, "I'll eat well, build something, hug my family, build something, help someone, build more, chat with a friend, take a walk, build more, play a game, go to bed early" So, if that's what you do to bring your BEST tomorrow, then what would you do if you wanted to bring your BEST EVERY day?

That tends to drive home the message that work-life balance isn't just helping your life, it's truly what matters to helping your work too.

Corollary: If you're overstressed, you aren't helping your work. Often, overstressed people at startups will add much more friction in the small team, hurting efficiency as arguments & disrespect poisons the day's actions. Not to mention the zombie-brain mistakes in execution when you're not taking proper care of yourself.
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hn seems to outsmart me: I named that submission "i18n & l10n in Rails" and it got titled "Internationalization and l10n in Rails". ;)
I still have a /24 from the era.
Is pants good? Or bad? Or... what?
Could we take over the world?
Sure, they can. But they at least gives me a reason to own them. This has no reason for me to own besides getting spied on.
The comment about subsidized water for farmers applies to eg California. Yes, the water rights for farmers there are a serious mess and cause problems.
>Instead of controlling guns and inconveniencing those who would use them, we are rounding up and silencing a generation of schoolchildren, and terrifying those who care for them. We are giving away precious time to teach and learn while we cower in fear.

It's time to have a serious chat about gun control, America. Is the NRA really that powerful that all sensible debate is quelled?
Here’s the “The Ugly Indian” Facebook page mentioned in the TED talk, where you can see before-and-after photos of the community clean-up projects.
https://www.facebook.com/theugl.yindian
ah...

[cowers in shame]

...my bad.
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At least one form of Roman concrete was better than anything we moderns had been able to come up with until we rediscovered the formula a few years ago.

Link: http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/long-lost-roman-concre...
This is incorrect. Cofactor 1 does not have a complete addition law, nor did original specs forbid cofactor >1 on security grounds. The Montgomery ladder doesn't have certain kinds of weaknesses common in naive implementations of Weierstrass form addition. Clearing the cofactor is easier. I can fit Montgomery ladder in 10 lines, and can't do that with a secure Weierstrass implementation.
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As a graphics guy I thought they referred to the algorithms used to fill polygons, but it turns out that "polyfills" in web developer parlance are developer implementations of things that should be standard in the browser but aren't.

E.g. maybe all browsers implement an array sorting function, except for Internet Explorer. So for IE clients you'd load a "polyfill", which would be JS code that implements array sorting.

I'm really glad I'm not a JS developer.
> If your entire class was running AdBlock, then your sample is far from representative of the general population.

Indeed, Adblock Plus is only installed by ~7% of Firefox users:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/compatibility/
Good questions. Before I started building wrinq I surveyed landlords and tenants:-

1. Some of them flat out refused to use such a service. As you say the increase in costs was a detriment to them.

2. Some tenants said that it would be a very good idea and they would not mind paying higher rent if it meant that it was more convenient for them to pay.

Group #1 were people who had a family to support and increase in cost was significant. Group #2 were single persons with high salaries and 30-100 additional monthly cost meant nothing to them (this includes the fees of wrinq as well).

I also discovered a third group of people. Landlords who were willing to take in less rent if it meant that their tenants were happier. These people did not keep tenants for profit but for company and maintenance of their properties ("better than it being empty and gathering dust") so I will be targeting groups #2 and #3.

Also I think you can have a tremendous advantage if you look for landlords locally and offer them additional services. Like I have tied up with a few agents in my locality so when the existing tenants leave I am going to make sure that the landlords find new ones quickly without any difficulties. This way I promise new business to agents, good tenants to landlords and continuous income stream to myself.

Finally tie up with your local banks. Despite what most people think banks these days are quite open do business with individuals. They can offer you a proprietary api for a small upfront fees (and lot lesser transaction charges) which you can use to lower your charges. But don't do this at first. This should be a last resort when you have exhausted other methods or if you want to grow your market to group #1.

Anyway don't give up on the idea. Talk to people in your locality maybe you can discover some other ways that you can help them besides collecting rent.
Any idea what's the legal status of getting paid royalties as someone on an H1-B or F1 visa? Dividends and investments are usually acceptable secondary sources of income. I'm not sure where royalties lie, I'm guessing it's not ok, but perhaps that should be stated more clearly.
How expensive are these bets, in reality? To me, they seem like long options. Minimal downside, but huge potential upside as they learn from each mistake and gradually improve and create more exposure to the potential of a hit.

But in reality, it's not the hits that Amazon counts on--it's the recurring revenue of Prime and Unlimited subscriptions and loyalty around lots and lots of low-margin purchases. To keep those memberships coming, you don't need to be a hit machine--you just need to keep offering incremental useful value, mediocre as it may be alone, to add value to the subscription.

I think that's the angle. It's not that Costco hot dogs are the best hot dogs in the industry for $1.50 (or $4.99 rotisserie chickens, or car buying services, etc.), it's just that these items add enough value to enough peoples' Costco experience that they renew memberships and spend a lot of cash on low-margin stuff.
He posted on Instagram just 5 days ago http://instagram.com/blakeisblake
http://studios.amazon.com/
Ah, that makes sense. If I pay close enough attention, I can track this rhythm of hacker news. Of course, I have a happier life if I don't :-)
I read the following from link 2 in your comment:

http://www.feld.com/archives/2014/10/helps-depressed.html

This may be veering off-topic, but reading the suggestions submitted by the reader in that post made me wonder some people (many, in fact) have to actively work so hard to hold off depression. Something is going wrong (organically, culturally, or both) that depression is the default state for so many.

Culturally, I think our relationship with work is certainly part of it. And, some personalities (e.g. driven or obsessive) may just be more susceptible.
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Aren't we done yet with the rhetoric of "making the world a better place"/"improving people's lives"? I can't help but think about HBO's Silicon Valley every time I read this kind of thing...
It most certainly isn't. I think there's a bias on HackerNews to default to hating on ads, but they can be very powerful. I'm certainly biased because I do it for a living, and the evidence I can offer is certainly anecdotal but I've run ROI positive campaigns based entirely off facebook and twitter ads. In fact I've done advertising for a $1,000,000+ grossing product where 98% of downloads could be directly contributed to an ad we ran while remaining ROI positive.

I don't entirely dismiss your point though. I think the large scale buying of billions of impressions is certainly broken. Big advertising agencies have taken to just throwing tons of ops people at the problem.

I think the real shift, and the pioneering ways forward are going to be a combination of social ads that are highly segmented, and then what I call "digital experiential" This: http://sortieenmer.com/ is a good example of what I mean.

Basically, buying banner ads really efficiently aren't enough anymore. We need to be creative again and be better about segmenting our audiences to make ads relevant again.
You can look at OSkit as one attempt to do this. I think the overwhelming reason its not common is that no one wants to build an OS. If they do it's for the educational experience not practical use. This means hobbyists aren't interested in just using a framework.
Someone has been watching too much science fiction, horror, mystery shows or reading such novels. Give me one example of real life event that has semblance to what you are talking about ....
I wish so hard I could filter out the junk posts. Just give me something to read, a good article, a debate.
This guy is the CEO. So, by definition, this is a management problem. Dwolla has some money now; they can hire people. This guy needs to learn how to build a staff and delegate. He's only done startups, and hasn't worked in a long-established company where they have this figured out.

Some founders have trouble letting go of control. They want to do it all themselves. That doesn't scale.
What's the tax situation in Antarctica? :P
Twitter has a $25B market capitalization which is not the same as saying that the company is worth $25B. $4B ($3B, actually) cash in the bank are not so cool if they're loaned and you have to pay them back eventually, with interest. And finally, having revenue does not imply being profitable.
Or Douglas Adams in the Dirk Gently books.
Curious if anyone has any idea how he was facilitating this: https://github.com/blakeeb/private
But how else are we to feel superior to others?
Really? I've had quite a bit of success with facebook for my clients. What didn't you like about it?
Don't forget the industry that they're working in.
> the notion that a Bronx hipster has a "suburban mindset" because "he hates the suburbs" is frankly BS.

The idea is that Bronx hipsters have a "suburban mindset" because they grew up in the suburbs. They're upper-middle class kids whose parents raised them in the 'burbs, and that's where they had their formative life experiences. They hate the suburbs because they're self-consciously rejecting their upbringing.
AIG was avoiding taxes while owned by the US gov
This or OpenBazaar (www.openbazaar.org) look to be the future of Silk Road style sites.
I had the same reaction. at the time it was a top post and I had a double take.
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I think Twitter's overwhelming negativity is strongly related to it's character limit.

I spend a lot of time on Facebook and the ability to back-up one's opinions in greater detail with (relatively) longer arguments is pretty crucial tool for having constructive interaction.
Good points—the only thing I'd say is that we're talking about a really capital intensive industry where the incumbent may be able to drop prices to compete with a newcomer. Example: If company B comes to a town where company A is already operating, company A can just offer new subscribers the same terms as B, making it hard for B to compete. If B can anticipate A's action (not that hard in this case, because I can do it after a couple of beers) then B may choose not to invest because B's road to a profit requires producing at a lower marginal cost than A and undercutting A's prices. They actually have to pull subscribers away from A. If A is already producing at a low marginal cost but overcharging, then A has the flexibility to fight a price war (and potentially win).

Ha maybe I'm banking too much on those competent government officials. The variance in quality is certainly high.
Favorite Web-related ones:

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I thought the Mort bit might have been revealed to be that he planted 52 cards in obscure locations around the room and directed his firing of cards to locations known to have particular cards. (E.g., down the table for hearts, behind him for clubs, etc.) He apparently does have an incredible memory.

That said, the story said he did it the length of the table, which implies a more natural specificity which could either confirm a confederate, or else was retrospectively embellished.

(Imagine a version of the story where he turns and fires the cards into a bookshelf and instructs someone to open a particular book.)

But the confederate is a much simpler explanation. It's just whether the coordination and trust in a confederate to keep the secret to the grave can be greater than the cost of the setup and the potential for early revelation.
Didn't know that it comes with a torrent VPN
Is there a way to embed this inside a company website?
As a former employee, that was my first thought when I read the post too. Every once in a while, I would stay late there and work on a little personal project for fun there. Sometimes one of my friends would be working late, and I'd just keep him/her company. After all, if I'm just going to do the same thing at home, I might as well take advantage of coding on my big monitor and comfy chair...
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I'm in advertising too. What I'm really hoping comes out of this is greater transparency in inventory. Give me greater control over my blacklist and I'll be a lot happier.
I mean, it's cool tech, a pretty site, etc, but it's still encouraging you to break the law. And no HN, I'm not getting dragged into another debate about that :)
Read the last paragraph of the linked article again and choose that person to be yourself.

Or you could also simply choose your grandmother and decide "I wanna explain the stuff I'm working on in a simple way so that she will understand", never mind if she doesn't have access to the internet or is dead, you can still write it in a way that makes sense to her.

I write my blog for me. How I finally understood a problem I've had trouble with, or sometimes I just post a funny quote from a book I've been reading.
Are you sure? This is what I'm being redirected to when I click on the link:

http://i.imgur.com/w9YxLvA.png
Those ads are freakishly expensive. Like 10x more expensive than buying ads on FB/Google/Twitter.
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I believe it's only limited command processing, and less accurate than what can be done with more powerful computers.
> How big is the "full" set of polyfills anyway?

Right now it's around 75 kB without minification and without gzip. However, this doesn't include any code for doing feature detection.

So, my somewhat educated guess would be: around 30 kB (which is comparable to jQuery).
Hipster Paradox
MAKEACHAMP – a crowdfunding site with 10,000 athletes, 50 sports, 6 olympians
I have done VBA before. It is not the worst.

The worst was maintaining a Hotel front office guest system written in GW-Basic
It's odd that Google Chrome can display unicode in the tab bar and in the address bar but not within the actual webpage.
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Funny, but please consider posting this to a blog and sharing from there. You've effectively hijacked this entire thread with a creative writing exercise.
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I watched the commercial and was immediately reminded of the Led Zeppelin album cover for Presence. Time for Jimmy Page to lawyer up.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Led_Zeppelin_-...
> Google's flat-but-ghost-shaped emoji

Until this moment I have always wondered why Google chose to use poo-shaped emoji...
AndroidEmoji.ttf is Apache 2 just like the rest of the Android source. Here's fedora's page[1] that links straight to the Android JB source folder of fonts.

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_AndroidEmoji_fonts
I may never need postmates again.
It's funny how much business we've won just by making it easy for clients to take control over their view through attribution settings and counting.
I would watch this very closely if I were the MAFIA, but I wouldn't shut it down. A centralized location for viewing torrented movies could provide a way to monetize torrented media. I would gladly kick in a couple bucks when I watch a movie to help support the art if I got the convenience Popcorn Time purports to have (I've not used it).

I realize that takes a level of strategic thinking the MAFIA aren't known for, but it's worth hoping.
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Samza's role in this is a question I had as well. But, certainly Hadoop needs some polish first.
Firefox 32+ supports it natively.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with Firefox 32+'s implementation.
Remember when Gmail used to have that ticker for how much space you get that would update live? You'd watch for a few seconds, and instead of 3.104649 GB of free email storage you'd have 3.104672 GB!

I think what Twitter needs is a similar ticker indicating the maximum number of characters in a tweet. I can scarcely imagine the excitement of watching it slowly creep upwards. Think of the celebratory triumph we can all share when, after months of build-up, it finally crosses over to 141 and everyone gets another character to use!

No more worries about vision after that.
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Indeed. It's beyond ridiculous; teachers are being put in charge of classrooms of minors, while being denied the right to carry arms to protect them effectively. (Perhaps you and I might have different points to make during that conversation).
isn't it last year's news?
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>Our user's safety comes first!! Therefore we added a free Built-in VPN so you can use Popcorn Time ANONYMOUSLY!

Eeeh. As somebody else on HN said before, I'm wary of people paying money out of their own pocket so that I can enjoy pirated media.
Is there anything of particular interest happening on the site now? There doesn't seem to be any new release or any kind of announcement, and this has been featured on HN before.

While the free VPN feature is cool, it's been there for at least a month already.

For those who haven't seen it before and are disinclined to go to the site: PopCorn Time is a slick client app around watching streaming torrents of popular movies. ThePirateBay for the masses.
I've been meaning to fiddle with the Viola Jones filter...