skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Cloudscaling for several years. It seems like this article simplified the issue too much by truncating it into its two "playbooks." I think the first thing that needs to be argued properly is why open source startups need to be analyzed differently from other startups. If you have a feasible (scalable, sustainable, etc) business model to make money with using open source software - say by deploying it and supporting it - then that business model can be judged by the same criteria as other startup's business models.

The issue of productizing software which several OpenStack companies have attempted is part a basic part of their business requirement for scaling - because supporting dozens of heterogeneous deployments is impossible with reasonably sized engineering & support teams.

This article implies that Cloudscaling used the first playbook. It did do the items listed on the first playbook, but it also did all of the ones on the second playbook too (though, while being a smaller startup didn't contribute as much code back to OpenStack as some of the larger companies/contributors).

Creating new success formulas - like these "playbooks" - ignores what we know to be true about the success of many great startups in our midst. There are patterns behind that success which are consistent. These patterns and factors have been written about extensively by folks like Paul Graham, Eric Schmidt, and the like. They rarely synthesize new complexities or factors when talking about what creates success. What they do is go back to basic principles. However, the data to analyze failed startups well enough to determine which fundamentals were lacking is rarely available - so we make stuff up. Company culture is a big one - and it may or may not have had a significant impact on Cloudscaling.
Chances are the app is doing a NSURLRequest and the OS can't tell if it's an calling API some other HTTP(S) request.
Are there any good numbers on this?
Unless internet access is segregated into the following it's fairly meaningless:

This app would like to use HTTPS
This app would like to use HTTP
This app would like full internet access

From a security point of the view the app realistically should also pin it's certificate as well - the app developer knows the certificates that the app should expect to prevent Charles proxy working.
"Free SSL Certificates for Open Source Projects" https://www.globalsign.com/en/ssl/ssl-open-source/
Yahoo Answers is nice and not at all spammy. Some of the answers are bad (and some of them are very good), but the site itself is clear and simple, and doesn't have the obnoxious login nonsense of Quora.
In Germany elections don't rely that heavily on the candidates so it is hard to say. But generally speaking there is no clear identification as well, (except for the fact that the address ends on ".de")
He shows a chorded keyboard for shorthand typing, how did that not catch on! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

Strange feeling watching the first computer mouse demo, first TODO list tutorial, code folding, auto numbering etc. According to Wikipedia he never received any royalties for his mouse invention.
It's simply about (real or perceived) risks. A senior liquidation preference is a way of mitigating risk for later investors by increasing the chance they can get a return on their investment, or at least their money back in the event things doesn't do great, while giving up less upside potential for earlier investors if things does go great.
Sorry you're not a fan, guess it's not a product for you.
But not in Germany, though. In norway, tipping is something you only do at restaurants (not in taxis or other places).
I dunno, maybe I'm unusual but I felt that instinct when I got married (actually, when I knew I was going to). Having kids only strengthened it.
It's a relatively easy polynomial problem - there was a google code jam question based on a simplified version last year

http://puzzlersworld.com/interview-questions/google-code-jam...
The acquirer, Sprinklr, is funding multiple acquisitions out of their recently raised $46M, so it's fairly certain that the amount of this acquisition was less than $50M
I made a similar Chrome plugin. It would allow you to go to a site, but would ask you if you're sure you need to see it.
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Black-hole.js
See item 1) debt holders. Within the class of debt holders, the tax man and/or employees with salary claims often have special preference amongst creditors in many countries.
Not just any SDKs, automatically generated SDKs
I'm 35 and I couldn't give a flying balls about success or what society wants (never really have).

Life is literally too short to care.
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Would be really cool!
More importantly it is wrong.
They don't, you can have multiple people get the same flair at the same time. Most trackers will tell you how many clicks occurred on each reset.
I was just thinking of using this metaphore with my son who wastes way too much time on video games. Entertainment is fine after important things are done (school) but can't become the main focus.
HFT in my backyard – VI
> 4. Should be the same for women and men right?

I don't think it is. Culturally a man who's going for therapy is much more stigmatized than a woman doing so.
The latest. Sophia was created as a disk-based engine for Tarantool, and is also available as a standalone embeddable library
RabbitMQ, interesting. I was just reading up on NSQ and it seems like a good alternate.

Any details on the tech Firefly was coded in? Go, C++, Java?
Ah, AWS/the cloud makes a lot of sense for a campaign. Of limited duration, and the more successful, the more it'll have bursts of traffic tied to events.
Great approach for simple spell checking in search!
That memo sounds exactly like each "we need to embrace change"-memos I have read in old-style enterprisey enterprise where some external consultants are called in and make serious money by selling the latest and greatest management methodologies.

And every two to five years, the circle starts again with a different approach because people become numb to the bullshit language in which change is mandated from above.
A person or group playing the role of management would likely still exist. The point is that it arises organically through natural leadership within the organically self-assembling structure. In fact accepting the consequences is much more real to this version of management in that the effects of poor decisions are immediate. In a self-organizing structure, their power can be swiftly removed by the masses. Meanwhile poor management in more rigid structure can survive much longer and is frequently untouchable.
Making time for kids? Study says quality trumps quantity
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What impact is that?
I won't go into too much detail as it's still a while before I start - systems programming at a firm that is quite heavily invested in POWER, and does a fair chunk of work out of its Australian offices, of all places.
The LHC Has Broken Its Own Particle Acceleration World Record
3. The number of reported suicidal attempts are actually higher for women.
> There is no way this will ever change. Maturity is the process of getting used to this fact, moving on with your life, settling down, buying a house, having some kids (that better get into a top school or you'll die penniless),

Why not kill yourself instead (or do something comparable, shut off yourself from society)? Why bear children into world like this?
You're not going anywhere soon, are you? Everything, given enough time, gets reposted. Don't bookmark tangentially useful links, just upvote and check Saved Stories.

/newest page is best page
A SAAS where people sign in with their own steam accounts (oauth), and stream games they own, would be fine though right
Show HN: Kyoku – An app that shows iTunes current playing song on Mac menu bar
Adding to all that...

In your 40's (for a man) is realy when a lot of life's possibilities close off for you. If you haven't already set your life's trajectory to your satisfaction, you are in serious trouble. Before 40, it seems there is still time to fix things. Switch careers, move, get more education, etc.

This all happens to women to, but in their 30's, especially so with regards to family. But somehow they must deal with it better.
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Submit to http://plaintextoffenders.com/ maybe ?
Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil
huge pages are useful to reduce TLB overhead too, but it's not the same as batched modifications.
The Günter-Grass-Haus published this poem from his work "Fundsachen für Nichtleser"

Mit einem Sack Nüsse
will ich begraben sein
und mit neuesten Zähnen.
Wenn es dann kracht,
wo ich liege,
kann vermutet werden:
Er ist das,
immer noch er.

I don't think it's available in English, and I'll add my own translation here. I hope that's not too presumptuous. I've done some translation, but translating poetry is difficult.

With a bag of nuts
I'd like to be buried
and with the freshest of teeth.
When there is gnashing
where I lie,
one can surmise:
He's at it,
still he.
As a 40 year old man myself, I've felt the growing ageism in the tech industry since I turned 30. This even here in laid back RTP, NC. I'd imagine it's worse off in the startupy world in Silicon Valley. Every man is different, but I think for me it's a matter of not being able to provide the lifestyle I want to provide for my wife and kids. The movie RV (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449089/) is quite relevant too.

As a former software developer who is now being forced into a powerpoint developer role but is not quite a manager, what can be done?
If the proliferation of nanoservices like this goes on unfettered, I will have to be signed into 173.58 services before the first window on my desktop opens. What am I saying, “desktop” has of course been replaced by “browser”, unless I also subscribed to a “desktop” service.
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Not convinced either will last, but Twitter is effectively mashing on a pimple and making it worse. Prediction: this will help Meerkat's brand + hurt Periscope's.
Oh, thanks! But I still don't see email or maps in either list?
This really looks Cool!
Why do you believe it is wrong?

Is this merely dueling anecdotes (plus vacri's accusation of sexism, as if that were a real argument), or is there actual data?
How to deal with performance issues without effort
Quickly testing Android apps on your laptop without having to deal with an emulator?

Concrete example, I've just finished the first beta of our companies new Android app. Now I want to show everybody in the company to get feedback and generally let them know what is happening.

Hard: Convince everybody to install the beta on their phones, and then convince everybody with an iPhone to borrow an android phone and test it there.

Easy: Send everybody a link that they can click and have the latest beta show up running on their desktop.
> PHP 3 - Python 1 :-(

Didn't expect that, but not surprised either.
I agree with you.

Let me add that many accomplished people didn't achieve much before old age. The media has been spreading the myth that success only lies in the youth.

Here's a very interesting HN comment section on the article "Does life end at 35?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640430
No one is forcing the average modern worker in the developed world to buy trucks, washing machines, and have running water. If someone chose to have the same standard of living as a medieval European peasant or African tribe member today, they could easily do so in modern day Europe or the US for costs well below the poverty line, and easily get their 100+ days of holidays you mention. The story of the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher who lives in a van comes to mind as an example of this.

>>So? People were investing those 16+ years of education to young people in the 50's and 60's too, and upon graduation they were able to make a much more comfortable living with less debt that present day degree holders do.

Education in the 50s and 60s cost a fraction of what it does today, even adjusted for inflation. In addition, that education gave European and American workers a unique skill set that the rest of the world didn't acquire until later on, giving those workers a competitive advantage that lasted a generation or more.
Yeah, as we've seen with how Apple does it? ;)
I would extend that 10-15 years.

We can't even get toilet seat cleaning right (filth warning):

http://i.imgur.com/USTbZRl.gif
Perhaps the spell checker should only run when there are 0 results?
I will vouch about this statement for myself. Rather than how I am reading the book (physical or ebook), kind of book I am reading play more significant role in helping me sleep.
Donald Trump is an obviously insecure man, so he's pretty low value even by the aforementioned superficial rule set.
If you speak Spanish then South America is also a good option.
But at some point the risk gets so large that the choice is for you to not get any investment at all, or get one with additional clauses to reduce the risk to levels acceptable to your potential investors.

It's a tradeoff. And sometimes it can work to your benefit. E.g. if you and your potential investor disagrees about the level of risk and/or about the potential size of an exit, you can try to negotiate a multiple liquidation preference in return for less shares.
Wikipedia, and technically I'm mixing numbers. ~$12k is the Federal poverty line for individuals, and half of all Americans live within 200% of the poverty line. Most of those people will live in multi-family households, but the household poverty line grows slower than the number of people in the household so I considered it a reasonable elision.

I also said 'average' instead of 'median', but "you're doing better than median" sounds weird.
Ask HN: What do you guys think of zero rating?
The Indian mobile operator Airtel has proposed a new scheme called Airtel Zero here in India , which is supposedly an "open" platform that would allow any app maker to pay for the data so that customers can use the app without paying any data charges.

This is ofcourse , a blatant violation of net neutrality and has caused an uproar here in India . However they're trying to make this into a Rich vs poor thing by saying that banning zero rating is to deny poor people access.

The worse thing is that both Google and Facebook are in support of this scheme even though they support net neutrality in the US. Facebook was already in violation with their Internet.org scheme but I didn't expect this from Google.

If Airtel's experiment succeeds I think that this could be replicated across the world and destroy the very character of the internet.

The other problem is that zero rating is a bit of a trickier debate since it's not the customer who's paying.

We need to force the tech majors to take a stand against this. What can be done to force them ?
At least in Finland, there was a decrease in suicide rates in 1940-1945 (war) and the more recent downward trend started from 1990 (beginning of very strong 5-year recession).

After the war and immediate reconstruction, the suicide rates predominantly climbed up from 1950 to 1990.

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/ksyyt/2010/ksyyt_2010_2011-12-16...
Why the hell would he even have needed to be tasered?!

Even after he is shot, a police officer is kneeling on his head while another is holding him by the neck. How the hell can any of these officers be allowed to keep their jobs, let alone not face criminal charges?

Yet another disgusting example of police brutality.
brainwashing is a very powerful tool.
As a young man (maybe it's similar for women, but I suspect there is are some differences here) thinking about your life and its possibilities is usually about the environment.

I thought of my own "hard abilities" like talent in math or sports as a fixed thing or more precisely a sort of talent effort equation. I though of the environment (if I get this opportunity) as the determining wildcard. I thought of my own courage, ingenuity and strength of character as inexhaustible wells. If success hinges on my determination and strength of character, success is guaranteed. Just give me the chance. I'll take it from there.

Reality is less rosy. There is a reason we admire (or detest) those with genuinely powerful strength of character. It's rare and valuable.

At 40 (or earlier, later, I dunno exactly) your own part becomes more clear. Your failings are big. They're behind you and ahead of you. You can see them and their causes. What you haven't achieved and your role in it is clear. What you won't achieve and your inevitable role in that becomes clearer.

Failure (again, I think it's relevant that my own experience is as a man), is heartbreaking for a man. It hits us at our core. It shatters our illusions and strips us of what we allow ourselves to think we are.

It's hard being a person. It hurts being a person. It's heartbreaking. It's painful. It really is so much more than we can take, to feel all the pain in earnest.
I didn't go through lists you provided, but is there way to get back to where we are in case things go wrong?
Why feel the need to bring nationalism into the discussion?
"Massive youth unemployment, many of them overeducated"

Maybe we just have a population bubble that bust?
We complain about low birth rates but don't really have use for even that dwindled number of young people.
Lists of unsolved problems in the sciences
Can you provide some interpretations of the poem, especially the context or the environment which it was written in?
A Glance at feature of  website builder tool tempaltetoaster
Random lunch/drink break with office buddies – Edit code to fit your needs
"Wow, you have a Google search for SDKs!’ So we thought, why not separate it out as it has a different audience? So we did that."

good idea!
It wasn't my idea so, no, that was never my plan :)

Though, you do raise a valid point, so let's see how it plays out.

setTimeout = function(){...}
delete setTimeout // true - you've removed the patch

window.setTimeout = function(){...}
delete window.setTimeout // true - you've removed the patch

window.constructor.prototype.setTimeout = function(){...}
delete window.constructor.prototype.setTimeout // false - the patch is still there!

I don't know about the hierarchy of the prototype chain up at this level but it seems to work.

Maybe there's some other way of getting to the built-in setTimeout so you can create your own version to mask the one I added?

EDIT you can embed an iframe and rip the native setTimeout from there.
It's kinda weird how hackers are pioneering the technology that's going to be the DRM of the next decade.
SmartOS offers two ways to host VMs: Zones & KVM.
Zones is os-virtualization, so you run SmartOS zones on SmartOS but it uses the same kernel.
KVM is hardware virtualization and allows you to run other operating systems on top. So you can have Linux, FreeBSD, Windows or even nested SmartOS with a different kernel running inside.

So zones make running nested SmartOS with KVM a bit uncommen. While possible there are not that many use cases besides development on the system itself.
If the location is passed as part of the url get request, wouldn't it still be visible if the request was through HTTPS? I mean it's in the url, isn't that always going to be public, just not the resulting data returned?
> a chorded keyboard for shorthand typing, how did that not catch on

I think it's coming back with smart watches. They can sense the ligaments in your wrist and know what letters you're "air typing"
The article and the paper are a nice find that I plan to share on the Colemak forum.

One thing I've found is that a layout that is highly optimized for touch typing is terrible for swiping. I touch-type Colemak on hardware keyboards; for those who don't know, it's a layout optimized for fast and ergonomic typing in English (there are variants for some other languages), without being as different from QWERTY as Dvorak is. SwiftKey supports Colemak out of the box for English, so I tried it. I normally use SwiftKey Flow for writing long bits of text on my tablet.

My experience with Flow and Colemak was that the rate of errors was much higher -- there were far more ambiguities, mainly because many of the most common letters are on the home row (arst neio), and so you're often just swiping back and forth across the home row, which could mean anything. You also end up having to swipe farther, because of more lateral movement from one end of the keyboard to the other, and less top-to-bottom movement.

I'd be interested in hearing the experiences of anyone who's tried swiping on a Dvorak layout.

One final note, if anyone hasn't seen MessageEase, they should check it out. It's a compelely different model for typing that involves a very compact and optimized layout to minimize finger movement, as well as a mixture of tapping and swiping. If it had the benefit of SwiftKey's language model, I'd use it for everything, but as it stands, I use it mainly where completion is not available (e.g. in terminal sessions).
Nice. It's remarkably similar to an ancient unfinished project of mine: http://www.degraeve.com/letterpress-invitations/ which was inspired by this post from 2009: https://mingaling1.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/and-then-it-was-...
This method assumes that your content has no typos.
This is not a valid example.

You said it. They protested, pacifically, and now they can't. A protest is a basic right that is (was?) granted by the constitution. When pacific protest is automatically equaled to riot, just because, then we have a big problem here: Constitution is not legal anymore.
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Why MVP Should Stand for “Manually Verified Product”
I somehow completely missed an incredible cultural Icon. The NYT flashed this as "Breaking News", and it's sitting here at 62 points in less than an hour - and I had absolutely no idea who Guenter Grass was, until I started reading the news.

Spooky - it's like I slipped in from an alternate plane of reality.
No. That's not how HTTPS works.
Measure Twice, Code Once [pdf]
When function pointers don't contain the address of the code
Quartz – Remote workers make more money than those tied to their desks
This is an excellent idea and great execution. Would love to see algorithmic color palates built in - I've used https://github.com/c0bra/color-scheme-js in the past and found it a pleasure to work with.
> In the average, it looks like that women seem to get energized in midlife whereas men seem to lose power.

Could this be natural, in a way? Women have always had to look after the wellbeing and social standing of their offspring, because their own survival derived from them more often than not. By 40, they either have teen-aged kids in their formative years, or they're grandmothers; in both cases, they must be at full steam. This has not changed much in modern times, if anything it's become easier to deal with (they are not going to starve if their children don't work on the farm).

Men have a different set of "natural" expectations. Fighters by 40 were either dead or veterans with respected social status; agricultural workers would be phasing out, with children taking over some of their duties. This is very different now: a lot of men at 40 have average jobs that will expect the same level of performance day-in day-out, no "phasing out" allowed (especially in tight economic times) and no real social status either. It's easy to feel dejected when looking back.
How to build a mobile friendly website Part 1 – Laying the foundation
This video is a direct take down on the top telecom industries
I quite enjoyed the "Tin Drum" but I admit that I lost a bit of respect for the man when it was revealed he had worked for the Stasi.

Still, it is a great loss of a great writer.
Only the hostname could be visible, not the entire URL.
You could get a dishwasher?
Can't I just google search for <servicename> + " sdk" to do the same. Does this add some significant value over that?
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