skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your premise (that 80 hours a week is appropriate for a start-up).

As an experienced developer (25+ years now), I'd put money on my code being more capable of pivoting quickly to a new product road map than the code of a less experienced developer.

I've had clients/employers be amazed by how fast I could change fundamental behaviors of software I've worked on, and not because I put in 80 hours, but because the design starts out flexible, and I can adapt the work to the new requirements with minimal effort.

Sure if you're ask your dev to make changes on a Saturday, the 80-hour employee will be there, but if he/she is still working on that major pivot by Monday, and I can make the changes in a few hours, and my code is more stable, then I still win. ;)
Firefox Nightly doesn't display that neither in the tab name nor the Xwindow title. I'd never have seen this ...
Peter Thiel's Zero to One was outstanding. Its advice was actually different from most other entrepreneurship books out there. It's most appropriate for startups trying to make it big (i.e. become "unicorns").

Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things is a great startup managerial book. It chronicles Ben Horowitz's struggles as CEO of LoudCloud. Probably most appropriate for more mature startups.
Every product of theirs I own has two attributes that I prize: it works without much thought from me and it is well supported by Apple. Basically, an iPhone just works. There is no tweaking necessary. I have AppleCare. If I drop it and the screen shatters, I can get it replaced for cheap. Not many other phones can claim this.
> somebody should be building a modern HTCondor

A bug-free, cross platform, rock-solid HTCondor would be great. Sadly the existing HTCondor is a buggy turd. I've fixed some stuff in it and a lot of the code is eye-roll worthy. I can practically guarantee you hours of wondering why something that by any reasonable expectation should be working isn't working, and not giving any meaningful error message.

But like you said, a really solid HTCondor rewrite with the Stork stuff baked in would pretty much be all anyone should need, I think. It's not like you'd even really need to dramatically re-architect the thing. The problems with HTCondor really are mostly just code quality and the user experience.
Same problem here ... at least my wife can act as CFO/HR ...
How to uniquely identify users with same external IP address
> equivalent to a company building engines for tanks or parts for machine guns. Does the EFF plan on suing every last one of those companies?

Well, setting aside everything else, I think it's fair to note that tanks and machine guns are generally out of the EFF's "scope", so it wouldn't be hypocritical per se for them to not act on such situations. I think I understand your point and it's worth discussing, but not specifically in the context of what EFF should or shouldn't do about non-"electronic frontier" issues.
This is cool as fuck, I didn't know about kpatch or kGraft.

Does anyone know if any other OSs have live kernel patching?
Financial Services with millions of customers (and growing rapidly).

What we can get for that data is a major competitive advantage. We can offer much cheaper financial products since we model risk individually rather than as a cohort. It also allows us to have a single customer view despite reselling other companies products.

Building a single customer view with lots of disparate data sets is a big trend right now.
This reads like a Burnout Cookbook.
Some advice if you already haven't heard it:

When you're done with the first draft. Take a break, like 2-4 weeks, enough to forget it before you start rewriting. It cures you from the "blindness" and let you see it with fresh eyes

Anecdotally I've had the same experience when I go on long vacations and come back and look at all my code. "OMG What is this? It's clearly not as easy and understandable as I thought. Must rewrite immediately."

Not to mention stuff you wrote years ago shudder
I like how you just gloss over how one should "solve the problem". All they have to do is "move on". Well... perhaps drug use is a good way to move on. Drugs are part of reality, so it's rather silly to say they're only used to "avoid reality".

If I get cut in the leg, the doctors put me on morphine while things heal up enough. Am I avoiding reality? Should I just grit my teeth and be tough? For what benefit?

Likewise, if I cannot concentrate, doctors give me stimulants to help, and most folks view this as OK. But if I want to have an extra-fun night out and use the same medication, all of a sudden I'm a speed freak escaping reality?

And if I'm suffering mentally, why can't doctors give me the same morphine as they do for my leg?

How are drugs any more false signalling than doing other activities like seeking out a new mate, meditation or religion, or whatever other things you'd consider as "facing reality" and "moving on"?
Tooling and libraries. If JetBrains cranks out a .NET IDE then sign me up. I don't really want to learn Visual Studio. Also I develop on Linux primarily so VS isn't even an option.
I somewhat disagree with you on that second part, since it sounds like (I haven't really looked into this, and I haven't read the book in question) IBM was indeed aware of the Third Reich's genocidal intentions, and that the systems IBM developed were indeed specifically designed for the processing of Jews and other targeted demographics.

I do agree that trying to single-out IBM for designing products of war is unfair to IBM when various companies have done that (and, in many cases, have done that exclusively) without any particular complaint.
Hi, JD @ Pachyderm here.

Our feeling is that there's a big difference between having projects like this in the ecosystem and having a canonical implementation that comes preloaded in the software. "Batteries included but removable" is the best phrasing of this we've found (stolen from Docker). I've seen tons of pipeline management tools in the Hadoop ecosystem (even contributed to some) it's not that they're bad it's just that they're not standardized. This winds up being a huge cost because if 2 companies use different pipeline management it gets a lot harder to reuse code.

I think etcd is a pretty good example of this. Etcd is basically a database (that's the way CoreOS describes it) by database standards it's pretty crappy. But it's simple and it's on every CoreOS installation so you can use it without making your software a ton harder to deploy.

Hope this clears some stuff up!
I think that commenter is referring to military drones (and the manufacturers thereof), though I'm not sure about the journalists being killed.
I used Ubuntu on several generations of home-built boxes, the most recent a Xeon on an Intel motherboard, but Ubuntu has reduced compatibility with my motherboard's video. I just moved to Fedora Server 21 and left the GUI off altogether. We'll see how that goes... I have a lot of apt-get commands in muscle memory.
I've been there. I think it's right to do that for what you love. I'm trying to start a business I love that I can do remotely. The sole reason I can do all of this now is remote work with great low-pressure clients.
Ah, okay, so that makes sense. I've seen a few cases where data is just indiscriminately hoovered because reasons, and I can never help but wonder what the expected ROI on it is.
Jon Stewart to Sign Off 'Daily Show'
I challenge you to spend 80 hours finishing something due "the next day." Days are only 24 hours, after all.

80 hours means they've been death marching for at least five days (assuming the devs still sleep) and more likely a full week (if you allow for commute time and eating not at your desk).

And I do stick around until late when something is due the next day. But that typically means I put in less time later, so my net time spent is still about 30 hours/week. Putting in extra time means I need more free time to balance things out, and I think anyone who doesn't do that isn't acting in their own interests -- or their employer's.
I absolutely disagree with you. Do you know what app was a huge hit in 1999? Yahoo Mail. I probably don't need to tell you what the "user experience" was like on Yahoo Mail in 1999 vs. Eudora and other popular desktop mail clients.

The web's benefits are that powerful.
Yes, start building something yourself and stop looking for a co-founder for the wrong reasons. http://foundrs.com/find-a-cofounder :

"Solo founders usually fail because they are bad at convincing anyone of anything. Artificially adding a co-founder will not change that critical personality trait: are you charismatic enough to lead?"
Interesting. Can you provide a checksum of the ISO you used to install?
Show HN: StoreDirectory. It's what it sounds like
You can drink two glasses of red wine every day of your life and if you are healthy adult male of average weight, this will likely extend your life and improve your health. For a woman it is down to one glass. You can drink a glass of coffee or a cup of tea every day of your life and this will also probably improve your life and your health.

Trying doing that with cocaine or heroin. Actually do not try it because you will be addicted and have serious health consequences.

There are very few discrete things in nature. Like most things psychoactive substances have varying effects. But some substances have effects so different from others, they should be in a different category.

Someone might argue that sulfuric acid is just a more powerful version of lemon juice. But it's acidic effect is so much more powerful than that of lemon juice society quite correctly treats them as being completely different.
Indeed, I think that as much as I love GNU and sympathize with most of Stallman's POVs, he got it wrong here.

Crippling GCC just to prevent some undesirable use cases at the expense of slowing down his own community is not the way to go. LLVM has made many amazing things possible.
Two Investors Talk About If They Had to Start Over from Scratch
Haven't posted anything here in a while. Here goes nothing.

I recently discovered a new businesses in a mall near my house that I never used to go to because I thought nothing was there, which immediately made me wonder what else I was missing at the place. I googled the name of the mall, but of course nothing came up.

It occurred to me that most shopping centers and malls (especially ones of the strip variety) probably don't have the money to build themselves a website, despite the benefit. Huge, well-known malls of course have their own custom sites with built in directories, but that leaves out the little guys.

I also figured if people are listing their businesses, they could also benefit from listing the empty space they're looking to rent out. StoreDirectory lets them do that, and then lets people looking for space search for it by location and square footage. Assuming people take to it, there's obviously many more search params to be added.

Anyhow, that's my pitch. It's pretty simple, but I have an inkling that people might find it useful. Thoughts?
There is a book called dispatches...

(kinda famous already)

you about summarized the plot !
Apple Invests in California Solar Farm
> Because we were so capital efficient we were able to focus all of our energy on finding a profitable business model

This is the real secret. Lean is how they lasted long enough, but a profitable business model with actual customers is how they exited.
Yes, it's worth the time and effort. I was a solo founder and was invited for an interview. Regardless of outcome, the process is a healthy step forward.
An interactive seven-foot globe created entirely in RubyMotion
In one sentence you ascribe Apple's success to their marketing. In the next you wish Apple's competition released products on par with Apple's quality.

Could it not be that Apple's success has less to do with marketing and more to do with the lack of quality amongst it's competitors?
what's not modern about Condor?
#! - http://crunchbang.org/
actually, they averaged 95b/qtr last year vs apple's 75b last quarter. They have $36 trillion in assets (consisting of all of SAs oil and gas reserves + the state refining company that was merged in the 90s).

Considering the drop in oil prices lately, it's quite possible Apple's revenue exceeded Aramco's last quarter
A) These emails go back to 1999. Many people had no idea email was not secure at that time.

B) If I send private information to you in an insecure manner, and then you BROADCAST IT, then I definitely have cause to be mad at you.
I think YC would expect you to be a bit more earnest in your efforts to find a cofounder, e.g. move somewhere with higher concentration of talent and ambition. Solo founders are seen as risky to fund by YC, so what could you do to mitigate that risk? Finish something, and show traction.
For a differing opinion:

I tried an iPhone 6, moving away from a Nexus 5 and then a Moto X. I enjoyed many parts of it--Touch ID is cool, Apple Pay is cool--but I took it back two days later because the operating system expects you to have a thumb the size of Montana to do something as simple as going back a screen in the mail app and I found dealing with applications and getting the phone the way I wanted it (and I'm no iOS newbie, I had an iPhone 4 and have multiple iPads) was at best interminable, at worst impossible. I bought a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. It's the first cell phone I've loved since the iPhone 4--unsurprising, as it borrows a lot from its design while being pretty unique and pleasant on its own. (The waterproofing is great, hiding the connectors during regular use is nice, having a real focus-stop camera button is brilliant. Also, it's bright orange. My Nexus 5 was bright red. This is kind of my thing.)

As far as your argumentum ad turtleneckum, I wouldn't give ninety percent of the people I know in Silicon Valley the time of day. Their choice of phone doesn't reflect on me or the world at large.
The phonebook, because it has customers and your competition.

Nothing has helped me grow more than actually running a startup a couple of times.

If you're just looking for startup-themed books, I'd honestly suggest Masters of Doom, Dreaming in Code, and Soul of a New Machine.

Lean Startup if you're feeling trendy.
> Coffee served at starbucks is in much lower quantities and milder concentrations than what one would normally ingest or inhale in harder drugs.

A common dose of LSD is about 50-150 ug (ug as in micrograms). A Starbucks Grande Coffee has 330mg of caffeine inside. That is THREE orders of magnitude!

So, to sum it up: you can't compare dosages from different substances.

Also: 330mg is a lot of caffeine.
Garage-hacked biosphere? A sensor-driven aquaponics farm kit
TIL Why NYC is called the Big Apple
(Question is when will they switch names?)
Sounds like there will be no more XMPP support
Thanks for the tips :D. These all seem like very likely places to look for low hanging fruit. We were actually early employees at RethinkDB so we've been around the block with low level optimizations like this. I'm really looking forward to get Pachyderm in a benchmark environment and tearing it to shreds like we did at Rethink.
So it is your opinion that the people who buy iPads do so only out of ignorance and none out of preference for Apple's product?

In my daily life I see quite a few iPads, but rarely a Nexus, and then only amongst those that have severe psychological issues. Nothing from Google interests me with their insistence on seeing me as a slave to their income generating advertisements./s
Young Children Left Vulnerable as Cyberbullying Education Comes Too Late
I think he was just making a joke, one I thought was very funny.
If I understand this correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong) it would imply that one could encode an arbitrary number of bits by flipping only one bit on such a board with a random state, as long as the board is sufficiently large.

You could for example encode book X by flipping one bit on some space, or a different book Y by flipping some other bit instead on another space on the exact same board, which is a fascinating thought to me.

So if I take this description on orders of magnitude from Wikipedia:

"5 000 000 bits – Typical English book volume in plain text format of 500 pages × 2000 characters per page and 5-bits per character."

This would mean that the board would need to have a size of 2^5000000 spaces to successfully do this for texts of up to 500 pages x 2000 chars per page.
So, I've read TFA, I see no citation, and I'm still Googling to track down the original research. They may not have made it up, but they may have taken it out of context or omitted details.

>> Have you known anyone who hasn't had a problem with either of those drugs but still used them at some point in their life?

No, I haven't. That's why I'm curious about whether the statistic is uniformly true, or averaged, or what. I'm not saying they made it up, I'm saying I'd like to see more details about how they arrived at that number.

edit: for instance, let's say 90% of "drug users" are marijuana users. Okay, then I'm not surprised, but that would only speak to the danger of marijuana compared to other drugs. Or is it 90% of the users of any given drug? I'd be surprised about the latter. Coming from the United Nations is not a shining banner of truth and unbiased facts.
You're right that the generic story isn't really attached to statistical data that would make it meaningful. However, if you want specifics on the story, it's my mother in law.

She could either pay the rent or buy alcohol. She purchased alcohol and was evicted form her home.

Living homeless in the park, she and her children didn't eat for two days. When she received money, she decided to continue forgoing food to spend the money on alcohol.

After over a month of homelessness, during an Indiana winter that was below freezing during the day and colder at night, she was offered private housing and food for herself and her children. The only catch was that she'd have to remain sober. She preferred the alcohol. My wife has permanent medical problems from sleeping in those conditions.

She didn't steal from her daughter's piggy bank to buy alcohol. She did use her daughter's social security number to apply for a student loan, then use the loan money to go on a bender.

Alcoholism isn't just a generic scare story told by DARE officers to keep kids from drinking. It's a real issue killing a real woman named Virginia.
People who steal cellphones: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-...
What kind of products do you make? What margin do you need to support local manufacturing? What is your main distribution?
Every Developer Needs a Rubber Duck and You’re the One
Apple: First U.S. company worth $700B
check out http://scratch.mit.edu/ and http://code.org/
Escher Brick and Triangle Illusions in LaTeX
Wait, Seriously? All San Francisco Residents Have Personal Assistants?
A once-daily dose of cocaine or heroin is not likely to lead to serious dependence or health effects. So long as the dose and frequency remain constant, one should be able to ride that horse forever.

Americans have forgotten just how ubiquitous drugs that are now illegal used to be, and how often they were used. Amphetamines used to be commonly prescribed by doctors, for just about anything. Hitler used to take crystal meth daily, he was reported to have taken nine shots during his last days in the bunker.

I read an article recently about a guy who became addicted to smoking opium. He said it took a long time and steady increasing doses before he finally reached the point where he was addicted.

Even alcohol was much more widely consumed during the Middle Ages, as it was safer to drink than water. Provisioning notes from the time period reveal shockingly massive quantities.
Show HN: My latest work for FITC Tokyo 2015
FreeBSD has not gone quite that far, but there was a PoC for loading new kernels without rebooting.

https://www.bsdcan.org/2012/schedule/events/325.en.html
I just checked my Debian installation and these certificates are there in the default IceDove (Firefox) installation, however they are marked as Untrusted. I believe this is intended behavior.

These certificates also seem to have expired in 3/2014.
Non-commercial (CentOS) for all my development environments. Don't need to worry about licensing fees -- simply spin-up another VMWare instance.

Commercial (Red Hat) for production. Corporate clients want commercial support.
IPv6 is really a 1.0 feature.

I know how to build and i know it does go test; but it makes me a little :( that there's no public CI listed in github.com/docker/docker.
Freelan is more complex and has more fetures and uses, I've never tried it but I think it's not that simple nor lightweight unlike PeerVPN.
Dash Board for Newton OS
So HN is an YC founders's bookmark site. Fool of me thinking this was a community.
Still, the problem with having occupation-style technology and drones is that it further spreads the power of those with capital at the expense of those without.

Are we certain that this is a bad thing. I personally like that it requires the resources of a nation-state to field a major military. The whole 'democratization of war' that happened during the twentieth century is arguably the reason why we see constant, brutal, civil war certain parts of the world. If we could undo the invention of the Kalashnikov the world would be so much better.
How consumer habits are subject to the law of unintended consequences
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Going back a screen in the mail app is as simple as swiping right. I don't understand why you'd need a huge thumb for that. It doesn't need to reach up to the top of the screen.
No, I'm talking about now, not 15 years ago.

The difference was that then there was a meaningful functional difference between a cloud app and a local desktop app. Cloud apps were better, and people appreciated that.

I'm not convinced that web apps, which have worse UI, not access to native apis (camera, notifications, contacts, etc) offer a meaningful benefit over native apps.

You use mail.google.com on your phone? I don't.

How about Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? App or website?

It's because the native app is better.

The web is not special, it just happens to exist. If you keep building experiences for it that are meaningfully less functional than native apps, people will continue to flock to native apps.

sure... it's not all about hitting 60fps animations on a web app; but web apps that are closer to the look and feel of native apps is the way forward if you're building for the web.
Corporations exist to move liability from the owners to the company, not as a way to escape liability, which seems to be your proposal. Your argument seems to be that so long as people pass through a company quickly enough, there's no long-term liability for the company?

The company must maintain the liabilities of its history. If a refining company dumped waste directly into the ground, then 30+ years later it should still be held responsible for clean up, even if all of the people involved have retired. Otherwise, who is responsible for the cleanup?

Or, suppose that we find that Disney had illegally acquired the copyrights and trademarks to Mickey Mouse from Person X. All of the people involved are long dead, though the inheritors of the estate of Person X were successful in their lawsuit. Under your view, it seems that the inheritors could not sue Disney because none of the people now at Disney committed the original crime. That's an absurd conclusion.
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I had an iPhone4 then moved to Nexus for the larger screen. I like Android, but it was never as polished at iOS. The iPhone 6 got me to try it again and I think it's awesome. The big thing I notice is how polished all the iPhone apps are over their Android counterparts.

Most of my iOS complaints were fixed in 8 and phone size was finally remedied.

Admittedly, if Google had released an update Nexus5+ for $350 I likely would have just stayed with Android for the cost alone.