jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The role of the CTO depends on the context. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you just facilitate. Sometimes you focus on technical quality, sometimes you focus on business objectives. It all depends on the balance within the company and the companies objectives.

Bottom line is that you base your strategy on what the company needs, not on some abstract notion of a good CTO. The only consistent objective is to make yourself as superfluous as possible by creating a balance between engineering quality and business objectives that maintains itself without constant management interference.
Sounds too much like HubSpot
Fun Fact: Baidu not only imitates Google in its simplistic design, but also in Server HTTP header, which reports: BWS/1.0, as opposed to Google's GWS (I believe before it was GWS/1.0).
Well-Typed, a Haskell consultancy, seems to do quite a bit of work exclusively in Haskell.

For instance, they have developed an air traffic analysis tool for NATS[1] which they briefly blogged[2] about.

[1] http://www.nats.co.uk/

[2] http://www.well-typed.com/blog/39
Respectfully I disagree. I think facebook did the right thing by walking away from email in its current form. I think subjects in messages are no longer needed and just because there are mismatches between the different systems, doesnt mean an attempt should be made to unify them.

Just looking at this long term, one can see that facebook will likely try to push their interface as a standard communications interface to everyone that you want to reach (business or otherwise) and ultimately let users choose how they can be contacted. This has far reaching implications for a product trying to reach their customers. Maybe they will even break this out into a paid product for businesses to reach their customers, who knows. Theres alot that can be done with a system like this. And im surprised it took so long for someone to do it. I believe the market has been begging for something like this for a while.
Fascinating, can you recommend any good resources that you stumbled across in your explorations of music theory and math?
"Also, the list of hijacked data just happened to include preselected destinations around the world that encompassed military, intelligence and many civilian networks in the United States and other allies such as Japan and Australia"

If this claim is valid, it would seem likely that the bad BGP advertisement was not accidental.
So far I have started a total of three companies with non technical co-founders / aka "biz person". I definitely recommend it. Start ups are really a great example of where anyone brings something unique and helpful to the table... as long as their great people you should be good to go.

My three golden rules for the biz person:

- do not get wrapped up in "there isn't tech, so I can't sell". I had my current co-founder develop our application while I was busy building it, she found a great tool that turns power point presentations into an iphone app and was able to demonstrate the application without me

- focus on knowing the space, and provide a reading list with notes to the co-founder focused on building the product. Investors, particularly at an early stage, are looking for co-founders that are knowledgable in the space, focused on doing the right thing, driven. That is, most investments are the founders, not the product. So two founders that know the space well comes across as a very strong co-founding team.

- consider everything a race - can your co-founder build the product before you get traction on your side? I bet the answer is no, but once the requests start coming in for tweaks, etc, you'll find that you do not have any idea on what you should be doing now - this, in my experience, is primarily as result of failing the first rule. If you treat your biz processes the same as dev tasks and keep moving forwards fast you'll yield better steps.

and a fourth...

- know your analytics inside out, get in place all of these parts. "We need a mixpanel event at this point and this point of the application" - etc.

Now, I noticed you aid "business guy" and not "non-tech co-founder". Early stage employees can be as important as co-founders, so take these rules and dilute them to taste... and remember you're a critical part of this effort.
The reason Obama, Bill Gates, et all promote college is because there's a huge difference between a Google and a Facebook--not to underestimate the latter. And notice that they more likely usually promote STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math), not just any college.

Could Brin/Page or anyone, for that matter, have come up with a Google without finishing an undergrad degree in CS and some graduate Studies at a school like Stanford? Very unlikely. Google required a bit more than creativity. It required great hacking and also knowledge of the complexity in information retrieval problems which you didn't get back then with online lectures (what lectures?) on dial-up, etc.

Meanwhile, Facebook as great as a company that it is, mostly borrowed ideas and tweaked them a bit with "exclusivity," a clean design, etc. Not saying that isn't admirable, but yes, it doesn't require graduate level work, just creativity and a lot of hard work to get jumpstarted. And I bet Zuckerberg didn't start hiring high school dropouts/grads to help him scale his site, etc. Surely there were a few, but I doubt they accounted for many.

So if you want to build the next Facebook, you better be hard-working, smart, and creative.

If you want to build the next Google, you better be that and learn about the next challenges in machine learning, information retrieval, data parallelism, etc. And that more than likely requires that you learn it from the experts--ie, more than likely not your average college/high school dropout.
In deed nothing new. About a year ago a man discovered that his wife's iPhone was sending about 75 Mb of data to Apple via wifi in early morning : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2450738?threadID=245073...
It turned out it was dumps of GPS data and other stuffs.

Apple acknowledged that to the House of Representatives. They're gathering data about their customers, including GPS : [PDF] http://markey.house.gov/docs/applemarkeybarton7-12-10.pdf

II / C / 1 / a. :
"Second, to help Apple update and maintain its database with known location information, Apple may also collect and transmit Cell Tower and Wi-Fi Access Point Information automatically. With one exception, Apple automatically collects this information only if the device’s location-based service capabilities are toggled to “On” and the customer uses an application requiring location-based infomiation. If both conditions are met, the device intermittently and anonymously collects Cell Tower and Wi-Fi Access Point Information from the cell towers and Wi-Fi access points that it can “see”, along with the device’s GPS coordinates, if available. This information is batched and then encrypted and transmitted to Apple over a Wi-Fi Internet connection every twelve hours (or later if the device does not have Wi-Fi Intemet access at that time)."
Hahaha, I love the StarCraft analogy!
This assertion without an argument is not especially helpful. What legal distinction must hold the line here, in your view? Why is it insufficient to suggest that a user in a Google Chrome Incognito window might reasonably expect Google to be on notice that they do not consent to Google tracking?

Edit: the parent has since been edited. It had said only "Not in court, no. In court that is a huge difference."
I mean, it's all Google, right? If Google analytics is de-anonymizing you in incognito mode, does it matter if Google build a back door into Chrome, or whether they just didn't develop patches in Chrome to plug whatever workaround it's own tool was using?

Furthermore, wouldn't a reasonable person expect when a company offers a product with a privacy feature, that at the very least it would provide privacy from trackers that the very same company controls?
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I hate tracking as much as the next person, but a simple reading of the "You've gone incognito" screen ought to make obvious that its primary purpose is to hide your activity from others who use the same device. It's literally written on the first line:

"Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won't see your activity."

It goes on to list other technical specifics about what is not saved, but those are pretty much just sub-points. I'm not sure it's fair to expect Incognito to do something it's not meant to do.
Fans are rated by CFM (cubic feet/min) but one interesting aspect for builds like this is static pressure because of the need to push air through filters. I'm not sure you would be able to find a static pressure number for commercial fans.
Or you could grab a gig doing something you love, but as a remote employee. There's a growing number of companies that are willing to consider remote employees these days and it sounds like you'd be much happier with that.
My band released an album mid-2010 through Disc Makers and part of the package included Disc Makers publishing the album through multiple online music vendors.

We set a specific release date, and all of the online music vendors respected that release date, EXCEPT Amazon. Amazon made the music available for sale exactly 13 days prior to our desired release date.

Since we aren't a super-commercialized band, the early release by Amazon was more of an annoyance to us than a marketing strategy blunder. But, I guess it was annoying enough for me to want to comment about it on the Internets.
Yeah, I definitely would like to see a .app TLD and would buy up a bunch of them (as long as they're priced similarly to .com).
Though the market already "encourages" people on its own... the property tax just forces 'em.

What I mean by "encourages" is that if I'm a little old retired lady living in a two-million-dollar cottage in the fanciest part of town then I already have a huge incentive to sell it off to some rich dude and go live in a half-million-dollar cottage somewhere else -- it's the $1.5 million I could pocket in that transaction.
Common sense prevails.
Speaking of Tom Duff, his Device is well worth studying.

[edit] michaelcampbell has already recommended it below - missed that.
I use NetBeans 6.9 currently at my corporate job to edit PHP, and some of the enhancements have me excited. Notably:

- It uses native file listeners to detect filesystem updates. Awesome. I often use some other mechanism to create files and it's lame how slow NetBeans picks them up.

- Rename refactoring now works in PHP... I always wondered why it gave me the error that "rename refactoring won't work in this context". Now I know "this context" was PHP.

- HTML5! Cool.
The problem is this data is being recorded without the user's knowledge or permission. (Unless it's a tiny line in the EULA I'm unaware of.)

If the data is being used to help the performance of Location Based Services, there is no need to keep years worth of data, that persists, and is backed-up every time you sync. Apple could simply keep a log of the last 4 or 5 data points.

Further, the data may not be super accurate, but that's only because the technology isn't good enough. If it were (and it will be eventually) that table would have pinpoint precise data. The precedent is being set right now. Is this ok? Personally I think this sort of behavior is unethical. Location tracking logs should be opt-in. It certainly shouldn't be hidden or a secret.
The economics need to be better understood.

Open source creates a huge amount of value, especially for infrastructure level projects that are in wide use over time. If the licensing and technical architecture are right, this can even lead to huge blooms of profit by the corporate end users.

The problem with companies like Oracle is they want to capture their piece of all that value, but in doing so they have a chilling effect on the value creation itself.
In real life, apps just leak your passwords into the cloud and send you push notifications. Thats how the average jabber IM on an iphone stays online when the app is in the background.

One of these apps tried to connect to my jabber server even after I deleted it from the phone.
Making people pay directly for what they use puts them at an advantage when the alternative is for them to pay a share of what everyone uses.

Would you prefer to be poor and have a large electricity bill because bob up the street uses power at the worst time of day, or would you prefer to at least have the option to save money by heating your house when power is cheaper and let bob pay extra for not being considerate about his power use times?
Every time I read these posts I find them very depressing. Crunch through an enormous bunch of algorithm problems in order to perform well on some unrealistic whiteboard programming (I think the system engineering problems are actually more useful though) - as usual we've focused on the easy to measure metric rather than anything actually useful. Maybe these things are meant to be a proxy for how good you are at other development tasks, but it has never seemed to work out that way to me. Some of the very successful people I know at FAANG companies have told me that they would not pass the algorithm interviews without months of preparation and that they don't really use those skills.
That's a good argument. I find it striking for example how much better youtube music looks compared to spotify, given that spotify started so much earlier. But google can afford to hire the best designers in the world.
Terminator 2 and Turbo Pascal were my 2 favorite things during teen years!

I have actually rewatched Terminator 2 about 50 times - every day after school. My parents started getting worried at some point. I still remember a good chunk of the dialogue.

My parents sent me to my grandmother's during summer break, but they also allowed me to take my 386. I wrote DOS games in Turbo Pascal the entire time, and only saw my grandparents at mealtime. Then I got a talking to because of the monstrous electric bill a 386 running 24/7 racked up.

These days I use Android Studio, which could really take some notes from TPX.EXE.
Very nice! Has a chess game too! If you could add some lighter board games or 2d pool I might spend some time on it!

What can you tell us about security and privacy? Can you create locked rooms? Zoom had a lot of problems with this in the beginning.
I've been using plausible, and don't miss a thing about GA so far
Not likely for nucleus - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.571831

Gemmata obscuriglobus is pretty interesting, and one could imagine how you go from it to nucleus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemmata_obscuriglobus
"Facebook made money from showing users ads containing misinformation."
Purely annecdotal, however in my country it's double digit %, but I'd imagine the actual immunity is much higher because:

a) I know of quite a few families where one or two members tested positive, but others did not. If the virus spreads as easily as we think, then it's extremely unlikely that all of the family didn't have it at some point.

b) Most of the people I know who have tested positive have had mild symptoms, I expect there are a lot of people who were asymptomatic or had very mild symptoms and just thought it was a cold.

c) After 5 months of lockdown, most people have given up following the guidance about not meeting up privately and wearing masks inside if you do, but the case numbers haven't gone out of control.

This also doesn't take into account vacinnations. We are at around 14% so far, so I wouldn't be surprised if total immunity is close to 50%.
They could issue new stock if they needed.
The lack of additional sickness may have more to do with not having your kids rolling around in slimy Petri dishes with other kids, or being around coworkers whose kids are doing the same. In other words, isolation does wonders for avoiding infectious diseases, kids and their parents are a major transmission vehicle that you’ve also likely reduced contact with over the last year.
Like the other commenter said, unfortunately psychology and psychiatry is in a state where it's hard to get good objective criteria for diagnosing any mental illness; it's mainly reliant on self-reported data/surveys or observations of behavior. I think this is a big driver of the replication crisis in psychology.

I don't know you well enough to give a decent hypothesis, so I'm just going to guess and babble a bit: Generalizing adhd/executive function as being composed of attention, self-regulation, and motivation. My first thought is that rejection sensitivity could be emotional regulation thing, which might have some interplay with general self-regulation. My followup thought is something along the lines of rejection sensitivity involving paying too much attention to the negative and not enough to the positive. Re: maintaining friendships, I don't have enough information. Personally sometimes I struggle with motivating myself to reach out, make plans, etc. Other times I feel bad because I feel like I have trouble focusing on what my friend is saying or asking them to repeat themselves or otherwise being a bad listener in the moment.

Self-regulation is something improvable without medication, I think meditation is pretty effective. And Self-regulation can play a big part in helping manage attention and motivation issues.

Some of this might resonate, some of it might not. If you'd like support tackling your struggles, you can contact me at me @ my website name (but a good therapist might do a better job xP)
without yahoo answers this gem wouldn't have been possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
> Interesting precedent. The platform is responsible not just for their own security practices, but also their users' security practices.

Well, not really. Booking didn't get fined over security practices. They got fined over not notifying of a breach of their users data within 72 hours.

So you're not really "responsible for users' security practices", you're "responsible for notifying users/authorities in time when you notice leaks/breaches". Seems rather different to me.
I knew some teenagers in the warez scene in the 90’s and early aughts. Insanely talented folks. One even runs a bank now...
This is a lockfile, not the manifest for dependencies, so it includes all the translative dependencies as well. The list of direct dependencies is significantly smaller: https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L15....
I'd love to talk to you more about this if you have the time. You can connect to me on twitter https://twitter.com/patrickjbradley I have a website for finding tutorials about the Swift language. I've been considering adding a job board as a revenue source. Would love to hear your thoughts and advice. Even what you posted here is a big help already.
> And before you ask, yeah, I take issue with the idea of most of those events being called "riots" - they were almost entirely peaceful protests, with unarmed protesters, that were met by militarized police forces and unnamed federal agents.

Most of the people at the capitol on the 6th were peaceful too. However, those "mostly peaceful" riots this past sumer resulted in billions of dollars in property damage, dozens of deaths, and a massive spike in crime (including violent crime). Many of these rioters were either bailed out by politicians (including the incoming VP) or simply refused to be prosecuted by local DAs.

Now, I have no doubt that there was police brutality against peaceful protesters, which is horrible and inexcusable. I also think there are many legitimate grievances against the police. I even understand (though do not condone) the attacks made against police precincts and federal buildings.

But the suffering inflicted upon innocent civilians by the rioters is completely monstrous and likewise inexcusable. There is no honest moral framework to justify it.

It was also incredibly counterproductive. With the excesses taken by police on behalf many governors during the lockdowns, this past year has possibly been the best time in decades to introduce bi-partisan police reform. The riots effectively killed that because many people would rather support the police (who are at least nominally there to protect them, even if they frequently stood down to the rioters) than they are to support the people threatening to loot and burn their homes and businesses.

> I take issue with the emphasis on "property damage" as property is fairly meaningless when you fear for your live or live paycheck-to-paycheck.

That's pretty obviously not true. If you are living paycheck-to-paycheck and your home (apartment, house, whatever) or the place where you work is destroyed you are going to care a great deal. Even if it is just your car - you might night be able to afford a new car, but without the car you might not be able to get to work and thus lose your job.

> America has an unhealthy obsession with "property damage" as if it should be the driver for any sort of discussion on societal issues, when in fact, it should not be.

"Property damage" isn't some abstract thing. It's the destruction of peoples homes and livelihoods. It is the very means by which we live. Even if we lived in a perfect socialist utopia with no private property, it should be fairly obvious that the destruction of the communal property that houses and supports the community would be a serious offense.
All the "classics" have been listed already, so I'll mention someone more modern who I think programmers would enjoy: Christian Bök. Check out Crystallography and Eunoia.
And here is a famous one from Ghalib:

Rekhta k tum he nahi ustaad Ghalib
Kehte hain Aglay Zamanay mein koi Mir[1] bhi tha

Rough translation:

You aren't alone the master of Rekhta, Ghalib
It is said that there was also someone called Mir[1] in the previous era

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Taqi_Mir
Not everything is an introvert/extrovert thing. Not even people.

Signed, a former mostly-introvert, now mostly-extrovert, who remains an able and efficient member of my team, thank-you-very-much.

Now, down to business, my office actually does have a 'quiet space' of substantial square footage, filled with bean bags, comfy chairs, and lots of nooks and crannies. It's highly effective to go work there when needed.

The rest of the office remains an open floor plan. I find it useful to split my time between both places, one bearing all the advantages of human interaction (it's not so bad), the other providing concentration when required.

This situation is remarkably balanced.
The professor's article sizing the value of the company is why I hate TAM analyses for interesting startups. I'm looking to find things that will transform the market, not just take a percentage of it.
And that's why we get so upset when traditional media's quality controls fail. This has been an item of major concern over the past few years for me.
Moreover, if you don't feel like you understand what the other person is asking, don't be afraid of asking a question in return. Ensure that you're clear on what's being asked of you before giving either a rambling answer that covers all the basis, or a focused response to a question that wasn't asked.
I've been extremely impressed by Shen, but have been holding off because of the license.

I'll chip in a little and hope this pulls it toward BSD, at which point I'm willing to start investing in the infrastructure.
I'm so glad that Mr. McConlogue can tell the justly homeless from the unjustly homeless.