skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm sure a lot of clubs open and fail. But one has to assume that if you are opening a club, you have already been successful somewhere else. There is a much greater portrayal of starving musicians than there are starving club owners.

It clearly follows that if you were not elsewise successful, and able to buy a club, your cousin Vinny has gifted this club to you in an offer that you simply could not pass up.

Failing as a club owner almost directly implies that you failed in a secondary, non-career pursuit. The only way you can really starve in that situation is if you are a complete moron and actually invested your own money.

Millions of guitarists, however, go hungry in the streets every day.

Besides if you've taken out a loan to get the club, are you really a club owner? It seems like you are a proprietor most.

Besides, the point of analogies is that they be based on easily falsifiable things that /seem to be/ true. An analogy is a metaphor. You know, literature fluff.

This comparison doesn't /seem/ to be true, whether it is or not.
Bugging your profs will only show that you couldn't be bothered reading up on your university's by-laws and regulations. It could result in a down-mark.

It is really good to be confident, but in reality your undergrad work might be a lot less brilliant than you believe it to be. Some universities will actually co-venture with you if your work is patentable, etc and although you end up sharing revenue, they might foot the up-front legal costs (which can be rather substantial) - again, research what applies in your particular case.

Good Luck with your project and subsequent ventures.
I believe the "it" properly refers to "something that you don't want anyone to know" since it is closer to "it" than the other phrase.
I can agree that inherent feelings towards these sort of issues may exist but even then you can't assume everyone has the same inherent notions. For example historically a lot of people obviously found 'discrimination' to be OK/desirable and they found homosexuality to be abhorrent. They could just as easily use the 'inherent' argument to back up their case.

I personally think that the further you go away from direct sensation (causing pain/injury etc) the more difficult it become to disentangle inherent and learned attitudes. Even with pain their are sadists and masochists who do not seem to share the normal response.

So while arguments based on our own 'inherent principles' may resonate with others (especially those in our self selected groups) we should be very careful before assuming that these are universal.
Are you serious? If so, any further info?
This title doesn't match what the article says at all. The article claims the cap is already in place:

> Right now, the carrier has a monthly usage cap of 5 gigabytes on its data plans, the same as other carriers.
Why not just do something else that would meet the university's criteria for a good mark. Then after you leave, then you do the project as you envisage it. Free from any complications, etc.
I suspect most of these users just use the browser that shipped with their OS. So Windows 7 may be the unlikely saviour - particularly after the next corporate refresh cycle.
It all depends on what one means by "nda."

If it means the piece of paper people ask you to sign before giving you a pitch, the author's points are largely well taken.

On the other hand:

1. If a company fails to have its employees sign nda's, it potentially jeopardizes its trade secrets (to protect something as a trade secret, an employer must show that it took reasonable steps to treat the proprietary information as trade secret information and having employees sign nda's is a key component of this).

2. If a supposed suitor approaches you about buying your business, and you fail to sign an nda, then the information disclosed in the buying process - which can include your most intimate and valuable business techniques and plans - can potentially be lifted by the would-be suitor and used competitively against you after the suitor abandons the deal.

3. If you attempt to negotiate a potential strategic partnership, and you trade proprietary information relating to what would be a valuable joint venture, and do so without an nda, then, again, the prospective partner can betray you and use your valuable information against you.

4. If you let your sales people develop all of a company's leads in their own name and using their own resources, without confidentiality agreements (i.e., nda's) acknowledging that the customer information is valuable proprietary and confidential information belonging to the company, you leave your company exposed to having its customers raided without any legal recourse. Are sales people prone to do this? Absolutely. They tend to think of customers as belonging to them and not to the company. Without the basic legal protections afforded by nda's, a company runs serious risks of losing its customer base to those who might chose to raid it.

5. Other examples could be multiplied, almost ad infinitem, depending on the particular business context, of how it is positively naive and, indeed, stupid, to proceed in various business dealings without benefit of the legal protections needed to protect confidential and proprietary information, that is, without an nda.

While I think the author's basic points make perfect sense in the fast and loose world of "pitches," they are not generally applicable in the world of startups. As long as there are business dealings in which any party has valuable information that it wants to keep secret, nda's will continue to serve valuable purposes and are necessary and, indeed, indispensable to the transactions involved. This is from the perspective of one who has specialized in business startup law in Silicon Valley for the past quarter century.
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Because you can't implicitly trust system/people who are watching you. Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?
So you want people to sign up for a preview of a pretty graph maker without showing any pretty graphs?
I would like to add a comment about your, "meh, maybe you should work harder," observation.

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but we have a serious problem with a lack of frugality here. In regards to the lower working class your comment is referring to, all too often, they'll have no problem spending $2,000 for a awesome TV. Dropping $110 a month for 200 cable channels? Well, that's a necessity. Oh, gotta get a new cell phone every 10 months because it's the latest trend. Get a new (or newer) car for virtually no reason but to look cool? No problem. Eat out every day? You bet! Pay for a dental checkup? HELL NO!

That is where I take issue. Many of these people have no problem buying the fun stuff, but when it comes to the "grown up" things, they balk, and simply don't put up with it. So, I ask, why should I pay for their "necessities," enabling them to go buy fun stuff, while I have to forgo fun stuff for myself to pay for their said "necessities"?
He frames his argument in terms of condoms because the legislation is framed that way.
Not to be argumentative but doesn't shaking present the same scaling problems? You can only stack so many iPhones before it becomes dangerous to shake them (for me shaking one is enough!). Why not put a button with a certain timeout, surely users can hit the button within 5 seconds of each other.
Good luck with that. People at my company regularly send out meeting invites to 3-4x as many people as are actually desired at the meeting. As with email ccs, It's a CYA thing, to prevent other people from claiming ignorance when the shit hits the fan later.
And nobody using a scalpel EVER accidentally cuts themselves
Ask HN: From Ruby to Scala?
Hi guys.

I'm a long time Java developer (around 10 years off and on) and a more recent (4 years) Ruby developer. Lots of other languages thrown in too, but I won't mention them here.

Anyway, I love many things about Ruby, and also about Rails. The clarity, succinctness and openness is refreshing. But I often find things to dislike too...(the fact that I have to develop a rather large set of tests to even get to the level of checking a true compiler would give you...the monkey patching...the lack of a true, effective, import, the difficulty many tool vendors have when dealing with things like autocommit...the lack of an agreed upon and standard way to define software and api contracts...I'll stop here, but there's much more).

I'm not Ruby-bashing by any means...it's been good to me and has made coding fun again. But I'm starting to hanker for something new.

I've heard from some that Scala has many of the features that make Ruby nice, but without paying the "dynamic magic" tax. And I know from lurking here that many of you use Scala. So, HN'ers, I ask you:

1. Is it true? Can Scala do much or more of what ruby does with the same clarity and productivity boost? I've scanned some of the docs and have frankly been scared of the syntax...reminds me of my old Perl days.

2. Assuming #1, what's an experienced but very busy Ruby/Java developer to do to get up to speed? The Artima book weighs in at 776 pages...if it really takes that much tree carcass to learn the language, I'd argue that #1 must be false. I still have sore arms from carrying around my Java books...I don't want to go through that again.

3. Has Lift reached a point where it is ready for production use, and if so, how does it compare to Rails?

Thanks very much for any insight you provide!
Seth Godin wrote a great little book "The Dip" - it's a bit more verbose than the above body building quote. Another excellent book is Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art" (no it's not a typo!)

Generally anything worthwhile accomplishing takes serious effort. I've seen sources that suggest 10,000 hours. Eg. learning to play the piano well, sports, etc. Turning PRO is all about commitment - many people with great ability fall short due to the lack of persistence. Devil of an issue about choosing exactly to be a pro in.
Oh. Time lapse photography. I didn't even notice the picture my brain tuned it out as photoshopped so quickly, but long-exposure times and a spiraling rocket make a perfect explanation.
Fire service is definitely excludible (not on the subscriber's list -> we're not putting your house fire out) and arguably rivalrous (a team of firefighters cannot be in two places at once).
To reply to csallen's question about why being watched is evil - these answers are in part elsewhere in the discussion that's gone on about my comment already, but bear repeating.

1) It's not being watched that's evil. It's watching - my argument is that being watched consistently has negative effects on a person.

2) I haven't said that collecting data is evil - by all means collect data. Data about a specific person or tied to a specific person on the other hand, is a mode of control of a person, whether or not there is intent to control the person with the data.

This fact, while not empirical, is reflected in the literature about humanity. Foucault, as I already mentioned, wrote extensively about the modes of security that a nation employs (note that security is a technical term that Foucault has defined to mean the ways that an entity in power may maintain that power, roughly). One such way is surveillance of the citizenry. Another is through spectacle (drawing and quartering). He argues that as a society, we've switched to a disciple/rehabilitation focused system of control. If you want to read more on this, see his work "Discipline and Punish".

Even fiction authors have found it fit to point out the control one possesses over another when they know things about someone. In "The Wizard of Earthsea" series, for example, knowing someone or something's name gives you power over it - and not just because of a mystical quality to a name. By the time the series is over, LeGuin has made her point that the name of a thing allows you to control it in part; at least make requests or commands of it, whereas when you did not know it's name you had no such power.

I could write a dissertation on this (and in fact, I did), but there's no point. I just figured that a question deserved a response. I'd love to hear if some disagree with me on this and why. Always love a discussion on Foucault.
Does anyone have all the links in this conversation between them? I missed something and I'm having some trouble following but would like to catch up.
why would it be dangerous to shake a phone? it's all solid state materials, it shouldn't cause damage from shaking your phone unless you throw it.
Yes, there was data involved in his studies. It sounds like you don't value philosophical knowledge - to that end I won't endeavor to persuade you of it's merit. I would advise you to read his work before you criticize it.
The results on page 12 are quite interesting.
Crystal Galaxy was amazing. One of the best browser games I've played in any platform.

FWIW, sound doesn't work at all here in FF 3 on Ubuntu 9.4.

I know you're working on terms, and I haven't dug into it very much, but just FYI, if my games depend on your company's ongoing existence and good pleasure to run, I won't even start using your system, no matter how good it is. I would certainly consider paying for a license (and it could be a larger amount if there's some kind of provision for low-traffic/revenue use being free or cheap), but you'll probably have to just trust me to some extent, because (here I am repeating) if my games depend on you to run on an ongoing basis, I'm much more locked in with you than with Flash, and I just won't do it.
It does seem to run on the iPhone 3gs, albeit it slowly.
One suggestion I might make is to detect iPhone/Android devices, and offer a popup control.

Further, you can provide the right meta data so that it can be added as a web-application, right to the iPhone home screen.
Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?
It would be interesting and useful to know who the top 5, 10 or even 20 designers are and what they've done that's so impressive, innovative, useful or loved.
I tried it as well. I have to say the best part was having comments enabled on my ad. I got some good feedback from members (if not a few posts advertising competitors) and even answered some tech support questions in the thread. Combine the fact it was dirt cheap and the bounce rate was insanely low (60%!) compared to things like StumbleUpon or AdWords, and you've got a no-brainer on your hands.
Ask HN: What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails?
I have been doing PHP for a long time now. I know some C/C++ through college.

I have started dabbling in Python but was told by many that I should instead consider Ruby/Rails

One important note: I do intend to, at some point, learn both of them. Just wondering which one you would recommend I start with.

Thanks :)
It might have gotten more votes if you had provided a link to a page with screenshots and a description of the app. I use Linux and therefore a link directly to iTunes doesn't do much for me.
Those are data plans for laptops, not phones.
I agree about design problems on that page. Why is there no left margin? My lizard brain kept wanting to scroll left, since the edges of the letters were kissing the window border.
Yeah, I love this method, but if your in a high email environment it requires you to be ruthlessly efficient.

Instead, I flag emails I want to respond to/come back to soon. Also, any emails either a) directly to me (i.e. not to a mailing list I'm on) or b) from my manager(s) gets automatically flagged. Once a day I go through and clean up all my flagged emails.
We're not talking about scaling by syncing more than 2 devices simultaneously. We're talking about scaling our user base.

The problem is that we can only expect GPS to be accurate to 1-2km and the phone clocks are often off by 1+ seconds. This makes it difficult in metropolitan areas when multiple transfers can occur simultaneously within a 1-2km radius.
Reduce /IS/ a loop: (from clojure.core)

([f val coll]
(let [s (seq coll)]
(if s
(if (chunked-seq? s)
(recur f
(.reduce (chunk-first s) f val)
(chunk-next s))
(recur f (f val (first s)) (next s)))
val)))

It follows that I can use chunks in a loop... chunking and looping are not mutually exclusive.

It also happens to be the case that reduce is a function call, and (AFAIK) that you can't use transients (like conj!) or make use of unboxed values.

This is an issue, as such, one should still loop for best performance.
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You should start with Perl.

Then think about doing Python or Ruby.
Apple tablet set for spring launch?
probably Jason Putorti from Mint is on the list, so impressive, he got a designer in residence gig at Bessemer VC
When I hear someone defending micromanagement, it sends a shiver down my spine - I was once a victim of micromanagement. It sucked, and I quit. As did some of my co-workers.

This article, however, is not really a justification of micromanagement. Joel Spolsky suggests that you can't trust technical people who you didn't hire to do their job properly. I wouldn't call this micromanagement.

This strategy is important in any situation in which you are forced to let a technical person from another company do important work for you, and you or someone you know and trust has that expertise. For example, if you are a medical professional, and your mother is sick at the hospital, it is advisable that you carefully monitor her treatment by nurses and doctors, to make sure every little thing that they do it okay. Since you probably did not hire these people, and probably don't work with them, you can't trust them. So watch them like a hawk.

On the other hand, if you hire and train someone at your company but still cannot trust them to do their job, then you should re-examine your hiring process.
This is an incredible assertion. And yet you can't site a single example of progress.

Thanks for telling me what skepticism is. no I showed an example of "modern" skepticism that is over 2,000 years old. Think about this ~2,300 years ago people were having the same basic argument as we are having today I can think of no other field which has stagnated to that degree.
So is unprotected-sex pornography the newest scapegoat we're erecting to cover up our profound failures in sexual education?

I'm pretty sure all the supporters of this legislation are strongly in favor of comprehensive, explicit sex education in public schools. The idea that they're working to undermine sex education by using porn as a distraction is ludicrous. If anything, condoms in porn will increase the credibility of sex education in kids' eyes. We know kids are skeptical what they're taught in the public schools is artificial, idealistic BS that will never fly in the real situations they're faced with. (And who can blame them?) We know they're not just influenced by porn but often consciously turn to it as a source of information about sex. Seeing condoms in porn, even if they're only used in 10% of the porn they see, encourages them to think, "Huh, I guess real people actually do this. It's a normal practice that I can reasonably demand of my partners without being a total priss/dweeb." The legislation won't do anything to either promote or discourage better sex ed, but it will make it easier for students to trust the sex ed that is actually offered to them. In what way could it possibly detract from sexual education?
As a Python programmer who has heretofore found Clojure very favorably designed, this is a little disheartening. I haven't programmed in a functional language yet; Python has served me really well for most everything, and C/C++ has always covered gaps where I need a little speed boost.

Yet I've always seen functional languages as a real fundamental approach that seems really elegant in theory. I have "Programming Clojure" on my Christmas list. Something about functional languages' elegance makes me really want to have a functional language succeed long-term. But every single functional language I've seen so far seems to miss the mark in seemingly important ways: Erlang with its syntax and purported string issues; Common Lisp (et. al) with its fragmented variants (so I hear); etc.

I would really like to see a great functional language executed well. You know, the whole deal: speed, interoperability, diverse libraries, concurrency...

Maybe Clojure is it, and it just has warts to iron out. Maybe the obtuseness that Tim Bray described here is just not "the way to do it". I hope that functional languages aren't inherently more difficult to work with than, say, Python.

I haven't worked with any of these functional languages yet, so granted I probably shouldn't be complaining. I know that with more experience in the languages I'd probably get a better understanding of how they excel -- and, unfortunately, where they don't.

Just... nothing seems to hit the sweet spot as well as Python and Javascript has, for me. I guess that's an unrealistic expectation for not having actually worked with functional languages.

I want a functional language to feel as smooth as Python. (If that just requires more experience and familiarity, fine. But I'd be hard-pressed to believe that the code demonstrated here could seem as clear to a Lisp expert as Python equivalents would feel to a Python programmer.)

Are the issues Tim found in this post actually just caused by lack of experience, or is this really how the language gets down to feel? I'd love to hear what lisp (clojure or not) folks can share.
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why not perl ?
When you were advised to consider Ruby over Python, what reason were you given?

Also, you may not be aware but this is an almost daily question on StackOverflow so I would advise looking there also.
People don't remember email addresses, and they don't like typing them in.
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Cloud interfacing

:-P
If you've been following this story throughout the day, it's been pretty amusing to see each blogger or news site try to exaggerate what was said more and more. AT&T's CEO made an offhand comment (that may be a trial balloon, may not) that AT&T is going to try and educate consumers about their usage and, if that doesn't help, they'll consider a tiered pricing model. How does that become "AT&T to put a cap on iPhone usage"?

Not to say that I wouldn't drop AT&T like a disease if they did...
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I wonder how often Russians launch ICBMs from submarines? I suppose they do regular tests?
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> It sounds like you don't value philosophical knowledge

I value knowledge based on data and where that is not available, philosophical reasoning. I see 'philosophical knowledge' as somewhat of a contradiction in terms. However I don't see how there can be a point in trying to demonstrate that something is 'dehumanizing' without even properly defining what the term means. It seems to be a recipe for pages of word games rather than any useful philosophical reasoning.

> to that end I won't endeavor to persuade you of it's merit. I would advise you to read his work before you criticize it.

Could you at least provide the name of work that the quote comes from? Despite my pessimism I'm prepared to at least look at some of his work.
Hi there. You bring up a great point (one that we've thought about ourselves quite a bit). I'd like to mention that we are working on a standalone distribution package for your published games. This package can be deployed to your own server, and runs without contacting our servers. For whatever reason, if we go down (fingers crossed) we do not want to take you down with us.