jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are the companies supposed to be making elevator pitches? There doesn't seem to be much info on what it would be like working at each company.
And the comparison each of you made showed the difference in mindsets once again:

People who like OSX/iPhones/etc. enjoy their stuff in the same way one enjoys a relationship—it's not a necessity, it's just useful and fun and beneficial. They may come to rely on it, but they won't expect anything of it that it can't do; they'll just figure out their own way of doing it that won't "hurt their relationship."

People who like Linux/Android/etc., on the other hand, demand things of their hardware and software, the same way you are demanded to work if you want to earn money. In the same way one optimizes a business, they will ruthlessly hill-climb toward efficiency, taking any new feature that provides even a 1% profit-benefit, as long as it has a less-than-1% working-time cost.

To put it another way, Apple users anthropomorphize Apple products, and thus have empathy/respect/admiration/etc. for them. Linux users objectify hardware and software, and do things to them (and require things from them) that would be considered sociopathic if done to people. Neither approach is "correct", mind you—software (Operating System software in particular) is a bit like a living thing, with needs and desires and the ability to cooperate with you, but it's also most definitely less "alive" than a real animal.
Another interesting point, the new iPhone 4 has 512mb ram, the 3GS and iPad have 256mb. A lot of people think it was strange to put only 256mb in the iPad.

Just wondering what sort of stuff the new iPhone 4 will get that the ipad will not. Hopefully it is just more memory for video related stuff, and will not hold back any new upgrades for the ipad.
Here's an interesting quote:

Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence.

Their source: Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
I believe the author confuses correlation with causation in this article. For example, the author suggests that being nocturnal is a trait of intelligent people... but really, it could just be that intelligent people tend to be on the computer more and thus sleep later due to the constant light hitting their eyes and messing with their circadian rhythm.
You know, I keep forgetting about those guys.

I have just switched my firefox search to them so I can give them an honest try.
really really sorry about that - can you email me at teja@gun.io when you get a chance?
What better options are there that have approximately the same ease of use?

SMS works with every conceivable phone, even most landlines if need be, users don't have to install a separate authenticator app, which may require a Google/iCloud password (now where did I put that post-it note?), that takes up space that may be scarce on low-end phones and that may not even be compatible with very old phones, leaving affected people in a really unsatisfactory spot.

Then they need to set up codes for every login, figure out how to switch back and forth between apps and how to copy codes, which is not very discoverable at least in Google Authenticator – most people seem to memorize and type instead, cumbersome.

Hardware tokens are even worse, people misplace those a lot and unless you are a bank with a mature process for issuing these, setup is probably even more of a hassle.

All of this may be big deal if you (also) target less technical people and want them to use your product when they have the option not to.

With SMS, all the user needs is a phone number. Pretty much everyone is familiar with that, most will readily share it, too. iOS will even extract codes and show them on top of the keyboard, just wait a second or two and tap the code, done. It's about as painless and frictionless as it can reasonably be, with apparently relatively inconsequential security drawbacks – given it's supposedly trivial to fake SMS, there don't seem to be a lot of people doing so at scale. Maybe a breach like this one will finally change that? Remains to be seen.

For now I can totally see why one might stick with SMS as a second factor.
> Tivoization and Free Software are orthogonal issues.

Not really. Tivoization actively hinders software freedom, namely because...

> Having full system sources means nothing when the TV most likely locks out any third party OSes.

...of this exact reason.
It could, but practically speaking the difference between a full-size adult and a very heavy adult tends to be constrained by the physical limits of the seating capacity, requiring passengers that could be overweight enough to impact the flight safety constraints to buy two seats.
Spotify’s algorithms try to detect your gender as part of the profile they build about you. The training data will be all cis people and so trans people are likely going to get matched against their AGAB. This really sucks for trans people to have some system they have no influence over constantly serving them ads and music targeted at an identity that causes them distress.

A trans woman constantly getting ads for dollar shave club, Nivia for men, and Weezer is hugely invalidating simply because some machine learning algorithm says she sounds like a man. Good god imagine having to perform a stereotypical version of your gender identity for your phone just to get the recommendations you want.
Ah sorry for mentioning Python, may have confused you.

LadyLua wraps Go packages so something like https://github.com/gonum/gonum is possible to create a module for.
"... significant burden on [rogue govt] defendants ..."

Victims currently have little or no recourse, so govt employees can run wild. Non-govt handles this by insurance (liability, error and ommission). Govt can and should do the same.
Equal rights, or not?
I think we had a few copies of this in my high school's jazz band (the director of the movie Whiplash was from the same band). I played the flute so had inch thick folders of handwritten music transposed from the tenor sax or trumpet parts.
Except they're not claiming 'breach' they're claiming 'scraping'. Not sure semantic acrobatics is going to fly with the regulator however.
That is partially incorrect, STUN can punch a hole through even when both sides uses NAT in many cases. That is what I would classify as STUN’s main feature.
I know a guy who used to write COBOL at IBM. He was apparently quite good. He now drives trucks for a landscape supply company. I told him that he should look into COBOL jobs again so he did some research. It seems that the actual number of available jobs is a lot lower than the hype would suggest.
I think it depends on the level of fibre release you expect. I don't think the issue is that the fibres bypass an N95 mask, but that if there are many fibres in the air you want to filter out a much higher proportion than 95%.

In the UK for non-licensed work (removing things like asbestos floor tiles which have low levels of asbestos that are bound in another substrate) you only need to wear the equivalent of an N95 mask.
This issue involves the Texas government pitched against US legislation. I'm sure there's a more accurate group to refer to than "Americans," which doesn't make sense to me in this context.
Often I rerun the entire build from scratch when I'm uploading some nontrivial change and I want to really make sure what I'm uploading builds. Clean builds using containers or chroots will often need to rerun a configure step to make sure the build is really clean.

You could argue for a "sufficiently smart cache", but if you manage to optimize the configure step to run in a small time without a cache, it's one moving part less to keep in one's mind.
Auto playing music on load -> instant tab close.
Well, to say women didn't achieve anything is a bit far fetched...

But I had Bad impressions of female dominated teams too.

Most of the time they were paralized by discussions about stuff that just didn't matter.
That's happened to me several times. In my case I'm sure it was spamming (nothing sent, no account access other than my own, for an account with a single word name).
This is cheap ($229) and people report that it's quite capable of playing HD content.

http://amzn.com/B002O3W44Q

Buy an external BluRay, and you're set.
Very interesting, I have lived in Boulder for years and can attest that it is a wonderful area (not just Boulder the entire Denver/Boulder/Colorado Springs front range is beautiful) that is noticeably growing. It is also palpable, just anecdotally, that people who talk about moving almost entirely talk about northern California, Portland, and Seattle. If not the northwest, then Austin. Very cool to see these anecdotes confirmed by statistics.
- Try contacting web design/dev shops and giving them an incentive rate to offer your product to their clients

- Do some case studies including before and after scenarios on existing clients

- Referral programs can work great. reach out to your existing clients (if any) and ask them for their help

Best of luck!
Best of luck to YCombinator's newest entry, then ( http://ycombinator.posterous.com/need-to-process-payments# ).

I guess it's a market that needs a shakeup.

If said payment processor serves as a Paypal replacement, I'll sign up in a heartbeat.

Edit: apgwoz also posted the link. The comments are over here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430135
To state the obvious: the JS performance advices this person gives won't necessarily apply the same to ALL JS engines. I wonder which specific browser and version he/she bases the advice on.

(Why the heck do the kindergarten people of HN downvote this? It's a perfectly sensible question.)
"- Uber launches a package courier service"
they already have one in NYC.
Thank you, very odd, my account seems to have gone walkabouts! Have fixed the link, I forgot I changed my username! https://500px.com/PezCuckow
- People will realise that Apple can't be cool without Steve Jobs.(After the Watch fails to impress anybody).

- Something cool related to Wearables/Motion Sensing will happen. I think the next thing would be Google open-sourcing Glass hardware and Facebook using Oculus Rift technology for something other than gaming.

- Paul Graham will write a number of pretty cool essays. [He does this every year, no surprises :P]

- Privacy will become more mainstream. After apps like DarkMail are introduced, Google and the other players will start to reconsider privacy and we, the people will gain.

- Functional programming will be at a better state. Currently, it's rather under-rated and programmers are rather confused about how to treat it.

- Swift will be open-sourced and we'll see Cross Platform support for it.

- I will sleep less. That's my resolution for this year.
Pull requests welcome! https://github.com/cmeiklejohn/cmeiklejohn.github.io
But that's what empirical means...

It is what I saw in the past year, but you are right, I can't provide a completely verifiable and correct statistic to support my argument. Neither is it going to exist, because I don't think Facebook will ever state 'yes, we are going out of business'.

Must be hard to live your life based only on actual evidence all the time man. I can't imagine how much time do you invest verifying everything. Kudos for that.
At DotProduct, a mobile 3D Computer Vision company, we have two open full-time positions in engineering. Location is either in our R&D headquarters located in Wiesbaden, Germany (Frankfurt am Main area) or in our office in Waltham, MA.

== 1. Senior R&D Engineer in Computer Vision ==
== 2. Software Engineer in Mobile ==

== About the Senior R&D engineer position:

We are looking for a software engineer with a strong Computer Vision or Graphics background and experience in GPGPU or mobile development (ideally both), to join our core technology R&D. We prefer candidates who are proficient both on a theoretical/algorithmic level and in practical implementation (mostly C++ and shader languages) of Computer Vision and Graphics algorithms, and who can make contributions to our product and core technology from the start.

Candidates should be able to present relevant work experience either through previous work (employed, freelance, PhD studies, Post-Doc etc..) or extra-curricular work / open source contributions.

== About the Software Engineer in Mobile position:

We are looking for a strong, hands-on, detail-oriented coder with experience in mobile development (Android or iOS), to join front-end and tools development. Practical skill and programming experience are preferred over academic achievements for this role.
Required language skills are Java and C++. Experience in iOS technologies (Objective-C, Swift, Metal), bash, Python, Javascript and web-development are a plus (but not required). A background in Computer Vision and Graphics is not required, however the ability and interest to learn about them is. Also, candidates should have the ability to discuss, design and implement UI.

== General information:

Our technology stack is for the most part Java and C++. Platforms we target are (in order of importance) Android, MacOS, Windows, Linux and iOS. We strive to make everything we do really really fast.

Our R&D team is still intimate so any new hire can have large impact on product and future developments.
Both positions are local and full-time. We prefer candidates who are able to spend at least 3 full days per week together with the team in the office.
Besides a well-above market rate salary and a nice work place we offer the opportunity to work with an international team of smart people on leading mobile Computer Vision technology. Significant equity is part of the compensation package.

== About DotProduct:

We are a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and Computer Vision professionals that brings real-time dense 3D capturing to mobile devices equipped with advanced camera sensors. Our current product, the DPI-7 Kit (consisting of an off the shelf NVIDIA tablet and a Primesense Carmine sensor) has been launched in August 2013 and enjoys great success with high-end 3D professionals in various industries.
We are backed by Intel Capital and various angel investors. Our office locations are Houston, TX (manufacturing and order execution), Boston, MA (management, marketing, sales) and Wiesbaden, Germany (R&D).
Contact is jobs (at) dotproduct3d (dot) com

www.dotproduct3d.com
I wouldn't say "ignored", given that implies I purposefully omitted the article. I merely forgot to add them.

Pull requests welcome! https://github.com/cmeiklejohn/cmeiklejohn.github.io
If you order more than one, you even get an enveloppe for every kit to send them back seperatly. You get another free kit if they can't read your sample. The shipment fee doesn't increase with the number of kits you order.
I meet someone on ChatRoulette once who was an intern at one of the courts in Germany. During our conversation it became obvious that English Common Law and Germanic/Salic Law are two different beast. It is important to remember that there is no universal set of rules, as cultures value things differently.
Any of these merchants: https://coingate.com/stores
In general, yes, but the parent poster makes a different claim than usual.

> America's education system emphasizes nationalism and obedience. It doesn't encourage critical thinking or alternative worldviews.

They're not complaining that we're not teaching enough, they're complaining that we're teaching the wrong things; that the same resources could be used for better teaching.
It's Square that sent the card readers for free, not Stripe.

Still will send you a card reader for free, as a matter of fact, but only the magstripe-only ones. You have to pay for readers that do chips or any of their more advanced hardware.
It's somewhat subjective of course. I think there's a healthy balance where you buy things that provide value to you at the moment. I think hoarding means something unhealthy, when you suffer just to keep the money. The money wouldn't provide the highest return - it would grow with the economy, i.e. provide average return.

People don't hoard stocks, index funds or gold. They spend the profits when they want something for themselves. Why not have money that works like that.
Surprised I don't see something about "context deadline exceeded" in there. This error has been plaguing me from Kubernetes 1.5 to 1.18, and nobody has a solid answer for it other than maybe it's Docker related. Solution? Restart your node(s).
Yoga laptops are actually made by a Chinese company, which most people consider to be in the ‘east’. How does that fit into your idea of western appropriation?
The Omniprocessor sounds a lot like the Zimmerman wet oxidation process, which involves oxidizing sewage at high temperature inside a pressure vessel. The process is exothermic, so apart from the energy cost to get it started, you don't have to input more energy. What you get is pure water mixed with mineral ash, which is suitable for use in fertilizer. The process also tends to demolish most toxic chemicals, though it can't do anything with substances like heavy metals. (I read about this in Colonies in Space by T.A. Heppenheimer in the late 1970's, when my dad brought back that book as a gift for me from a trip to New York.)

If the Omniprocessor can accomplish the same thing without high pressure hardware, it would indeed be an advance. The Zimmerman wet oxidation process dates from the mid 20th century.
I would agree, but the piracy numbers don't support it. That said I would have thought that by now Apple and Google would have had some sort of shareware/trial support - and they just don't.
Out of curiosity, why are you looking for a different service? What's wrong with Flippa?
Only in the case of a very badly configured server.
I've also found that sometimes drinking something is enough. If I'm eating lunch, for example, and I've run out of water, I find that sometimes I can end up eating more than I need because I'm actually thirsty, but somehow it registers as more hunger. It's weird.
The title is probably the most suprising thing that I've learned running a hosting business. I think most people would prefer that I take the time to email everyone even if this means I take time away from fixing the problem and the outage lasts another 20 minutes.

To me, this is shocking. My PFY, who is even more nerdy than I am still doesn't believe that an incomplete (which is to say, "I see X problem but I haven't figured out how to fix it. I'm working on it") message has any value at all.

This is something that I think is difficult for nerds to learn, because it doesn't make sense to us. But it's true. Most people, even fairly technical people, are willing to accept slightly increased downtime for better status updates, even when those updates largely consist of "I'm working on it"
Wait- are you saying you don't?
Isn't the primary benefit in cloud servies reliability? If one of the largest cloud services has an Achilles heel, doesn't that defeat its purpose?

I was under the impression if one of the clusters were to be unavailable, the nearest mirror would resume responsibility. This should include distribution services as well.
Having too much of your own wealth invested in one place is very risky (from a personal finance POV). However it signals disloyalty/bad outcomes in the venture (think of an entrepreneur looking to sell all of his shares; would you buy them?).

The idea behind getting shares is that you're motivated to work harder because your worth is tied to the worth of the company. However it's not clear that the thing holding you back is a lack of motivation.
I'm amazed to still find Java programmers who don't run Findbugs on all their code. It's free, fast, and has a low rate of false positives.
Zuckerberg will have access to $100 million regardless of the secondary market, because he can call up any investment bank and say "I invented poking. Will you give me a $100 million loan at sweetheart interest rates?", and they will say "Of course, Mr. Zuckerberg." because you do not piss off future clients with multi-billion dollar accounts over the trifling matter of a million here or there. (Zuckerberg has substantial influence in deciding e.g. who to pick for underwriting the Facebook IPO.)

The huge impact of secondary markets isn't that Zuckerberg gets to invest other people's money in public schools, it is that a married Facebook engineer who did not invent poking but might have worked on optimizing MySQL calls gets to send his kids to private school using his own wages. He cannot call up Goldman Sachs and get a loan secured by the value of his Facebook options, because he does not have anything Goldman Sachs wants.
Software "processes" merely turn one number into another algorithmically. What part of that isn't math?

Is it because the computer usually tells you that the very large numbers in question are pictures, documents, web pages, or whatever else? As far as the computer is concerned, it's a very long number and it's no different from all the other numbers stored on your computer.
Dropped a gang last fall for the most badass build I can get, and was glad I did. The SSD speed is amazing.
I always test drive a new-to-me OS in VirtualBox and VMWare first, just to make sure I can get my head around how it works, but even running it fullscreen on a fast system, it's not quite the same as bare metal. Random slowdowns, unaccelerated window managers, printing not working properly, and issues with some guest OSes sharing folders with the host can be annoying.

Another thing to consider is that bug reports are only valid for the virtual environment; sometimes things that happen there simply don't happen on bare metal. I always test Haiku OS on any new hardware I get so if I come across something wonky, I can submit it to the devs for more testing. In a VM, that's pointless (but then Haiku is a hobby, not a job, so maybe not relevant to this discussion).

All that said, if all you need is a terminal and a web browser to be productive, a VM is a solid choice for getting things done efficiently.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836219
The version of IE with Touch Events (Windows Phone 8.1 Update) is no longer in preview. You can buy retail devices with it on it today, actually.

For the desktop version, see my recent blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/24/pointer-events...
Freshbooks + a stripe account. The integration is perfect. However, you will lose ~3% of the total amount billed. I did this for my monthly SAAS clients ($900 per month/client), but my consulting clients pay via check or ACH (10-20K per month).

I'd stay away from PayPal. Just google PayPal Horror Stories.
Thanks!

Btw. their probabilistic parser (http://goo.gl/rRdRx4) might be useful for your project: "wake me up the first Friday of February 2014 at 7am"

Great to hear that RaspberryPi (and Python) is fast enough for it.
Will do, I have a large task on my hand, and I appreciate the feedback. I'll definitely do that both on the github and main site.
They are not sweating.

They're too lacking in self awareness for that, moreover, this is not remotely a threat.
Really? How many 100-tear-old companies are still stable and paying dividends? What's the survival rate for businesses over that time span?