skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started watching this actually, and have only seen 1 and 2 so far. I'm already interested enough to watch some more, and this makes that sound more rewarding than I would have thought.

I didn't like 2 that much actually. I feel like there wasn't enough of a background explanation of the world that the episode was set in to really relate to the characters or their situation. Where did all of these people come from, why are they riding bikes all the time, and why are they living in this crazy merits-based world? Exactly who is building and maintaining all of this high-tech gear for them? What are the rules, who is enforcing them, and why? What is the point of making people ride bikes all day? Etc, etc etc.

I felt fascinated by the first episode, though. Yeah, the subject is crude, but I think it serves well to illustrate a number of trends of the modern world - just how much power there can be in mass media, and how impotent traditional authority structures can be against it when organized well. It's striking that, absurd as the situation is, no individual part of it is really impossible even today.

Well, I will say that, while the individual pieces are not impossible, they would each take a lot of expertise in the appropriate field to set up. I don't think it's possible for all of that experience to exist in one person, or to find people with experience in the appropriate fields, bring them together, and get them all working towards a shared goal of something as absurd as getting the PM to fuck a pig, without the authorities finding out somehow.
Oh I agree, I'm the same, but I do acknowledge that there's an unsolved philosophical/scientific problem here, with no good explanations in sight.

And thus I can't equate indifference to the death of insects with sadism.
Can't you delete the connection to the unencrypted cloud?
When someone says "a couple thousand" you think of 200k as a lower bound?
Completely OT, but I've found Feedly to be a pretty decent online RSS reader.
I suggested an idea to my son, who struggles greatly with the distraction machine. Even just having Microsoft Word open is bad enough because there are so many fonts, settings, the help system, and so forth. This, compounded by a bit of writers block, and probably the inherent boredom of the work.

I proposed to set up a Linux system with all apps disabled save for a plain text editor. I told him that it's not a punishment, but just a experiment in finding a practical solution to a problem that he acknowledges.
Honestly, I believe the data, but not the conclusion. When I first started using Uber, it was a taxi replacement. I take taxis once every few weeks e.g. to go to the airport and similar. Most of my other transit was either by subway, walking, bicycle, or didn't happen.

When Uber dropped to a couple of minutes, my usage pattern completely changed. It's a casual form of transport. Hungry? I'll take an Uber to where ever I want to eat. Running a few minutes late? I'll Uber it instead of biking. I now meet people more than I used to. When transport became fast, cheap, and convenient, I started using it a lot more.

If I see a 15 minute wait time on an Uber, I'll usually cancel it, but that's not because I'm any less patient than I was a year ago. It's just that Uber now fills a niche in my life that was unfilled a year ago, and indeed, that I didn't know existed. When Uber jumps up to 15 minutes, my usage patterns go back to what they were with taxis, and I cancel most of the casual trips.
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Sandstorm - this is wickedly cool, tried the demo and it worked great, can't understand all the 'do this, do that' comments. As someone who is just learning to play with docker - just finished dockerizing all my vps apps so the first thing I think of is there a Dockerfile to build this or a docker image - off to have a look for one. Awesome stuff - like the collection of apps you have ready to go. Maybe you have fixed the landing web page in the meantime but I had no trouble understanding what you are about. 100.times upvote.
Moar this. I've been in situations where the "idea" was driven by the "marketing guy," and it did not turn out well for me or my other technical partner.

When I saw the writing on the wall, I called a meeting and told them I didn't see the pay off of what we were doing and they were free to continue with my contributions. They sold a total of like $100 worth of apps after working on the project for another 10 months.
I'm sorry I didn't know about your project a month ago. I'd be very curios to hear how you render the text. Are you still using Ace for the rendering, or is it just for the editing and tokenizing?

In my very first proof-of-concept, I used hidden DOM elements to do the layout and styling of the text, and then queried the element properties to figure out the draw operations I needed to do. It was very slow and really unreliable, though, and I had a lot of cross-browser issues. Ultimately, redoing everything from scratch was actually easier than trying to hack around DOM.

I've been seriously considering implementing a soft keyboard for mobile devices as well. It's just so hard to get the ones in the wild to interact with text in any common way, and on iOS it's nearly impossible to get everything resized correctly to use the most of the screen real estate.
Would love to hear more about your project.
Thanks for this Ryan. I'll reference this gist too. I remember starting with something like this early on (w/o your sysdef) but wanted argc, argv, envp and to separate syscall* from the startup code.

Part of the reason I've started this is that libc suffers from bad design (in von Leitner's definition [0]). I find c0's & djb's APIs better designed [1][2]. *printf is a prime example of bad design. Heck, pretty much everything in stdio.h & string.h has a design flaw)

[0] http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/diet.pdf

[1] http://c0.typesafety.net/tutorial/Strings.html

[2] http://www.fefe.de/djb/
Do it! Now is the time to get started. The WebVR community is very exciting.
Wasn't it the title of an ELP album from the 1970s?
To this I would add: show the code to someone else. It sounds like you might be the only one working on this project, and that in itself can be a very dangerous thing (especially just getting started out). Hire a contractor if need be, even if you just book a week of their time so they can sit and look over everything with you.
Haven't taken a vacation in about three years. It hasn't occurred to me to do so! Love my job so much.
Hi, sorry I missed you earlier. Would you be able to provide more details as to the nature of your difficulties? Does the JavaScript console show any errors? What are your browser version and OS? Thanks.
For sure, there are lots of skillful people working on node as well, I just think the Go team has a lot more experience and it shows.
If you think sports are the reason we have stupid policies then I think something is stupid and it's not sports. These supposed intellectuals on HackerNews are split between socialism and anarcho-capitalism so it can be hard to really say which of these policies are objectively stupid let alone blame sports of all things for them.
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But why is it incorrect to say that the most people on HN know more than the common man?
The biggest problem I have with getting an offer to be a technical co-founder is that if this person's main interest is in business, why are the not already rich? A developer's main area of focus is not money so they are less apt to accumulate much, but if your central focus in life is business, then I can't really have a good feeling about your skills if you are not currently rich or have built a successful company. It's like saying you are a great developer but you don't have any software or code to show for it.
This is awesome. Do you still work?
Perhaps he initially did genuinely surrender, only to launch an escape seconds later, but claimed otherwise after the fact because it made a better story. ;)
If you aren't close with your father this will make you want to be
I'd be careful calling what I've done a libc. It's really just a little bit of startup code, and syscall for i386 & x86_64.
I know exactly where you're at. As I too am in a very similar situation. It is almost as if we have become the bottle neck in that nothing can progress without finishing the tech. My burning question is why cannot things progress in parallel?
Awesome idea however not many reviews. If there were more I would definitely refer to this website.
From my experience you can't rely on community contributions to grow your website until later on. So might be a good idea to get you and your friends to test out the features and write reviews yourself, just to get a starting point.
This article felt very validating for me. I've always done well at school (4.0 in college), on various tests and at work, but it never registered and I've always felt like a bit of an impostor. When I was an engineer at Google I particularly had this feeling because I couldn't really build anything. Well, strictly speaking that wasn't true; what I mean was that my job was so pigeon holed that I only knew how to do specific things really well. I couldn't, for example, setup a basic web business with a database backend (horror!). After I joined YC I had to go through the process of learning about all the tools that were available that would help me piece together a product without having Google's giant infrastructure behind me, and without the help of internal technical mailing lists where any question could be quickly and expertly answered. This was quite daunting, but also enormously gratifying. I finally learned that I can build entire products on my own and have a sense for a full development stack and how to e.g., inter-operate a crawler and an indexer and a frontend, and how to host the whole thing. But even after doing this, I still feel like an impostor! I think this feeling will probably never leave me, but as the author says it can be beneficial. But I think I (and others who suffer from this) need to be mindful of the downsides of this syndrome: the reluctance to ask questions for fear of seeming incompetent. The difficulty in approaching new problems for fear the new knowledge involved might be insurmountable. And of course the general sense of self doubt that afflicts those with impostor syndrome.
Take some time off doing things you enjoy. 7 days a week is unsustainable and unproductive.
One argument in favor of using orange-blue as opposed to other contrasting colors, is that humans associate blue with darkness and depth. Our eyes and mind, too, perceive blue at a lower resolution as other colors (We perceive green with the greatest fidelity).

Colorizing the screen in orange and blue, then, imposes a hierarchy on the objects in the screen. Whereever the orange-blue scheme is used, the blue depicts the background and the orange depicts the action.

This adds to the illusion of depth, which is extremely important especially for Hollywood action films, as they need to feel big and grand amid fast-paced movement and short takes. Where objects flash across the screen in split seconds, the orange-blue contrast can provide a natural vocabulary to re-orient the viewer as to what is happening in the 3D space depicted by the 2D screen.

I would guess that the blue-green colorscheme is overrepresented in action films and especially in action sequences, and underrepresented in say, comedy and romance films.
On the other hand, I could not give two shits about sport. If someone wants to take personal offence at this and decided I'm a snob, I'm quite happy about my conclusions of who exactly has the social problem.

Hint, it's not my problem.
Here's a more detailed article on in with some more images.

http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/flip-ship/

Specifically: "keeping the 700 long-ton mass steady and making it perfect for researching wave height, acoustic signals, water temperature and density, and for the collection of meteorological data."
No you are clear not hipster enough. :) Actually, for people that just don't like sports, fine, but a lot of what's been written is pseudo-intellectual jibber jabber about tribalism blah blah jingoism, etc.
There is the easy way--which should not be thought of at all as the shameful or inferior way--and that is to just quit everything and hit the reset button. You really need to rest. I've been there myself too many times.

And there is the hard way--which I am not really sure I've ever seen implemented successfully--and that is to wrestle control of your situation and pull it back to normal, healthy habits without quitting. Maintain your obligations, but stick up for yourself and take care of your health at the same time.

On the one hand, it's a lot easier to take care of yourself if you don't have a lot on your plate.

On the other hand, it's really easy to get a lot on your plate again, if you don't force yourself to learn how to take control.

Try wrestling control first. Quitting will still be an available option. And don't forget, it's a perfectly acceptable one!
The article sort of misses the real issue- the demographic. The PRD is very young, well educated and highly ambitious. Tokyo has the education, but it otherwise increasingly stagnant.

New difficulties here in Shenzhen buying the required markers of Chinese status (cars and houses) mean young Chinese are increasingly interested in startups and entrepreneurship as an alternative signaling method.
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Yes and it also usually excludes things like macros & define'd constants.
Ah, thanks. It looks like only a few query types actually return an initial result set: between, min, max, and order_by/limit ( http://rethinkdb.com/docs/changefeeds/python/ )

Is there a way to get an entire table as the initial result set before getting update diffs? Something like:

r.table("users").between(-Infinity, Infinity).changes().run() // Not actually valid
that gif animation is too fast! :)
you're being taken advantage of.

quit and recuperate and find a real job or a real co-founding team.

if you insist on going through with it, have a lawyer verify all the company paperwork.

good luck.
you're being taken advantage of.
"Feo y sentido como los jarros de Oaxaca."

Just a useful saying in Mexican Spanish when you want to poke fun at someone that has a thin skin.

In english: Ugly and easy to break (thin skinned) like the mugs of Oaxaca.
That's misleading. The failure had nothing to do with Windows NT, which is still used in the Navy.
Don't vent

Actually, it seems like a major problem is if they don't have anyone to vent to. The fact that they're making an HN post suggests they might not.

The HN post is of course more than welcome. What I'm saying is, they need someone in their personal life to vent to about all of this, otherwise they're going to start making bad decisions.
>"Don't complain, you're doing better than the poor!" is transcendentally fucking evil-- a word I do not use lightly,

Yeah. I think you use "Evil" lightly. I mean, I do too, but that's mostly because I live a sheltered and comfortable life, much like you probably do. Seriously, listen to yourself. You are calling me "Evil" for saying "Hey, perhaps you should count your blessings"

I mean, I understand the people who think I'm evil if I don't give the homeless guy a buck; I don't really agree with them, but I can see their point. I don't see your point.

>I don't want the poor guy's cookie. I want the rich guy to actually spread it frigging around so we can moor compensation to value created--to the poor guy, the civil engineer, and to me. But instead, the rich guy and his rich guy friends collaborate to keep the rest of us in a position to keep working for them

I'm not saying you are wrong... But what are you gonna do about it? I don't think you are going to find very many people in our income tax bracket who are willing to risk all for a few more bucks.

More to the point, popular action is going to target us - look at where income tax brackets top out. To most people, at that point? you are rich. I mean, I'd like it if they stretched it out further, and eliminated the capital gains loophole, but to your average voter, I'm one of the rich fucks who ought to get soaked.

> and to never, ever, ever get within arm's reach of real success ourselves

what is real success to you, if not this? I can live pretty comfortably for a year off of three months pay.

My point, here, is that you can spend your time and effort and emotional energy railing that other people are in some ways unfairly slightly better off than you are, or you can focus on, you know, living your life.
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I have a hard time following professional sports because I don't feel any connection to the team. I live in a smaller city so we don't have any top-tier professional sports, just a minor league baseball team that's about to move, a minor league hockey team and some semi-pro teams. I would nominally say I'm a fan of the Titans as they're the closest NFL team, but they're still an hour and a half away and, anyways, it's more "oh, look, they're on, guess I'll watch."

But, I LOVE college sports. I graduated from to a major SEC university (Auburn) and attended all but one home game the 5 seasons I was there, as well as at least one away game each season. Same with basketball, only my attendance wasn't quite so diligent.

But I feel a connection with that team, even years later. That's my school. When I was there, they were my classmates. I had a geology class with the quarterback. Even now, years removed from my time as a student, I never miss a game on TV and try to make it down there at least once a season.

Seeing the stadium, seeing the band, hearing the roar of the crowd at kickoff, smelling the barbecue and bourbon in the air. The indescribable thrill of seeing a live eagle fly down and land in the middle of the field. Watching the chess match between the the two insanely intelligent coaches, watching the plays executed by talented players who are still often works in progress - not finely tuned professional athletes. And stepping foot back on campus once again. All those potent memories come flooding back. It truly is a wonderful experience for me. An unbelievable rush.

Some of my fraternity brothers and I even have a long running iMessage group that sees hundreds of messages on gameday going back and forth as the four of us cheer, analyze, celebrate and commiserate. Even though we're separated by different occupations and thousands of miles, we maintain that link that was our time together and our shared interest in sport.

Stephen Fry captured it perfectly in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPeGPwGKe8

But I've heard NFL fans talk about their teams exactly how I talk about Auburn. So I wonder if it might be different if I lived in a city that actually had a real top-tier professional team. Some way of having a connection to this team.
I'm baffled to think that one company providing its own advertising for its own website is constituting such a huge portion of web ads in general, considering there are thousands of websites using Google Adsense that somehow live off the ad revenue.
"I can't eat from the stress getting to my stomach, and I can't sleep because I always think about the project"

I think you should take it as a rule of life that this is an unacceptable state to be in. You should see this as justification for drastic action - be it letting your team down, or standing up and saying you can't do this, or quitting entirely and moving to the equator, or whatever works for you.

I think there's no state in which it's reasonable for a human to be mentally oppressed like that, and you should do absolutely whatever it takes to get out of that situation as soon as possible and to not edge back into it. (Not to be confused with having a lot of work to do and having to work late and being under pressure from timelines. That doesn't have to necessarily come with these physiological effects.)
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Probably the most important comment in the thread.

You're being taken advantage of. This can't be overstated enough. And if you really insist on letting it happen, you must check that your payoff is going to be what you expect. Make sure your equity won't get diluted too much, make sure your equity can't be taken away from you, and make sure that in a liquidity event you're in a proper position to receive payout. Some liquidity events result in no money going to certain kinds of equity holders due to payment priority.
Give your life to God and start keeping the seventh day sabbath (Saturday).
It depends on where you live. In New York or Chicago, you just hail a cab, usually in a minute or two. Pulling out an app and trying to get the marker in the right place and waiting 5 minutes is a step backward for the kind of usage you describe. An app is a very clumsy replacement for street hails.
I did the same. Mexico for a couple years (I love Mazunte and Zipolite!) then Guatemala and Chile. Actually moving back to Toronto from Guatemala in a few days after almost 5 years to work with a startup there.

The thing I've found most effective to combat my own burnout has always been a change of scenery and behaviour and getting a fresh perspective on my work.

I would recommend heading somewhere nice, warm, and cheap, and finish your project from there.
Totally agree with all the comments about taking care of your health and managing expectations with your business partner. Trying to be practical though, you feel a commitment to "get the job done." Maybe try to think of ways where you can fulfill your role as technical lead and out source some of the development to contractors off odesk. There will be a couple weeks of inefficiency while you figure out the process, true, and then you should have a couple developers you can lean on to help you out. Your role will change from coder to product manager / architect. It's an uncomfortable transition, but I think worthwhile. If you want tips on getting through this process let me know.
What kind of income would I need to bring in to move to a place like that and live comfortably?

How is your internet connection?
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This is super nitpicky but I feel bad for OP. Just in case you missed his comment: technically, the submitter did use the original title as marked by the <title> tags.

It's just that the headline (as marked by <h1>) is different than the title in this case.
"... Usually the demo is what makes people "get it"...."

Kenton, I'd agree with this approach.

The killer approach is for newly created applications, ported to sandstorm to take advantage of the isolation, security and scalability.

So one area to look at, might be extra tools/paths to port, maintain and expand development.

For cough, Microsoft (platform), it was VB, the killer app. For Linux (platform) it was Apache (killer app). So "the path" to get applications on Sandstorm (platform) to create a killer app, might be the answer.

==== background ====

In fact, one way would be to ask what apps people (HN for example) already use and what problems they have. You need a feel for the numbers of applications companies/startups use. Is it technical? Is it business related? Is it cost?

Install it (if it's ported) and work a discussion around it. For example the reader who chimed in on creating a page on Wordpress - show the path to do that.

Another one I'd suggest as a side-business/demo is a collaborative editor (hello etherpad). [0] I know for a fact google, for example, use some crappy Doc editor (sans the nice editor features) to screen candidates. So there's a demand there.

For the technical minded, poking around https://capnproto.org/ really explains what sandstorm servers can do.

[0] https://sandstorm.io/apps/?host=https://demo.sandstorm.io