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This is one of the most supportive forums on the internet for your projects. Take it back.
Nature editors LOVE controversy though. In my experience they're not really interested in evaluating the long-term substance of a paper as much as if it causes (or pretends to end[1]) a fight right now.

[1] It's really hard to end a fight in 4 pages.
Even Sergey Brin doesn't use Google+ that much
I came up with an idea for a new webring which is some remote javascript you embed in your page and it's hosted on github and people do pull requests to add their website to a text file to join the webring

Want to start a new webring? Fork the project, alter slightly
I think it's an intentionally silly description, thank God
I thought back pay had a very high priority in bankruptcy. Are WARN act payments considered ordinary judgments rather than back pay?
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And a terrible toolchain to boot. Intel has no clue what their plans are in this space. I heard the galileo team was like two full time people last year. I own both the galileo and the edison. They are such a pain to use that I hardly ever mess with them.
If only this link still worked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557191
Do a poll where you ask people something it seems inconceivable anyone would disagree with. "Should we teach and protect our children?". 20% will not want it. It's either internet hanging chads or trolls. Neither are worth reflecting on.
Keep in mind that most of these companies have to work just as hard once they finish YC. It generally takes a few more years after YC to really make something of themselves. Adding on to that, some companies take awhile to develop an efficient revenue stream. From what I hear, Reddit still has a hard time making money even though it raised $50 million in investments and was bought out by Conde Nast. Sometimes the investments made are seen as a promise for the long-term rather then revolutionizing the way we live tomorrow.
This is also really useful

How to Use S3 as a Private Git Repository

http://www.fancybeans.com/blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a...
Thanks for this, we'll work harder to have more upfront, prompt responses in the forum. Admittedly, the biggest issue has been a complete lack of enough developers to handle support during heavy development phases.

PS. for anyone reading, if you love UI and got a C++ or C# background, we're hiring! Email me at adam@awesomium.com
That's one of my favorite pages in all the internet.
This is mentioned in the article:

> The pioneer probes were nuclear powered through a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). These RTGs usually give off heat uniformly, but the design of Pioneer meant that some of the radiant heat was reflecting off the probe resulting in a thermal recoil.
My eyebrows lifted somewhat when I read that sentence. Bit of a bad case of "Works on my machine". Reminded me of an amusing blog post by Ted Dziuba [0], less so the rant about Apple kit, more about the mindset of certain groups of developers don't stop and think about where their shit will run before churning out 2 months worth of code that "worked on their machine".

[0]: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-w...
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I think the Netflix angle is too optimistic. For $8/month I get access to a bunch of old crappy content. If I try to watch something new, or old but good (e.g. Jaws) it's not in their streaming catalog.

I'm in the category of "willing to keep paying $30/mo" if I get access to everything cable offers without ads (or reduced ads a la Hulu), and with a modern user interface. I think those are the killer apps as it were.
He absolutely did the right thing. But in the end I think he resigned because the media circus that followed the announcement meant he could no longer contribute effectively to the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
We haven't had cross-platform issues with Atom, Neovim, Emacs, or IntelliJ. Sublime Text is the only editor we've had to build these workarounds for.
The only bad press is no press. Especially so when no one knows who you are.

And now you know who Pando is, mission accomplished. They just want to join in riding the demo day media wave, but were denied access to actually write about the demos.
There is lack of disruptive companies in my opinion in this batch.

The ones that can grow in to something huge are Vive, Paribus, Bitmovin, Scentbird and AppCanary, but still a long road ahead of them.
I haven't considered the economics of salons, but not sure they would have the same low variable costs that allow Classpass to succeed in fitness. I certainly wish the team (and all the other YC companies) the best though considering the guts and determination it takes to give it a shot, and you are correct that I am decidedly not in their target market so I may be missing something about the idea that is gold.
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> which type-check/lint/gofmt your code

Those tools do not use the Go compiler. They're using go/ast or go/types. So the translation of gc from C to Go can't have affected them.
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I think the cheaper/better proposition you mentioned here is the key thing, buy why would we keep the cafe/restaurant 'format' to deliver this?

Assuming the machines are too expensive at first for an 'everyone buys their own' model to scale at all, seems a better way would be to do away with the (massive) cost of keeping premises in prime locations, and still hiring at least some staff to take care of things like security and cleaning, and switch to a 'machine makes food in small cheap warehouse, food is delivered to people's homes, or very small outlet points in cities' model.

In fact it makes me wonder why this model isn't more widespread already (there are takeout restaurants, of course, but they're all still in relatively expensive locations that you can always walk into). This would work fine with people cooking the food, obviously, but somehow it seems a bit odd. Maybe the cooking being automated is enough of a shift from tradition to make another big change like this seem more natural?
> This is another reason for Jon to release ST as an open source project.

I'd be content with source available to licensed users- I've already sunk money into it, why not bug fixes?
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The CEO decided to just move on because it was a small company with less than 30 people. Litigation would take too much time and money.

The engineering team took a couple of months to figure out what that module did and rewrote from scratch.
Ask HN: Request Submission of Engineering Post of Stack Adoption
I am building StackBus (http://www.stackbus.com/) for users to share their stacks (languages, frameworks, tools, etc.) and about reasons of why to choose it and what they build with it.

I was thinking it would be better if we could archive articles on how certain company or product adopt certain stacks, such as:
- https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/learn-stop-using-shiny-new-things-and-love-mysql
- https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spam-with-haskell/
- http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/01/netflix-likes-react.html

If you know of any articles of company or product adopting a certain stacks, do share it here :) thanks
They're not even announcing batteries. They're announcing the theoretical possibility of a type of battery.
this looks very interesting. please share the results of this experiment after you finish teaching a batch of students. Good luck!
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The timing is certainly right to take off with the ongoing California drought.
It's better to submit the question separately on the Ask HN section. It's too off-topic with this submission/article.
How about the other way around ... using git + node watch plugin to make a owncloud dropbox?
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Ah, so hair drying. Is this a common term? The first thing I thought of was "tire blow out" which led me to think "hair emergency".
Tech journalism at its lowest. 1. Whining over something meaningless to get page views. 2. Calling TechCrunch journalism...
Sometimes software solves a problem you didn't know you had. Both Facebook and Twitter for example.

Also, "real problems" is pretty subjective.
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Just send a cooler full of sandwiches.
Well, not precisely.

I don't know how it is outside astronomy (hello parent parent), but inside astronomy it's relatively well known that there are four journals that are likely to be scrutinously peer reviewed and which _will_ reject you and which _will_ force you to do further analyses. It is also extremely well known that some journals advertise "In print in two months or less!" Inside the field (so to the people who will give you the next contract), it's obvious where you publish.

In some cases, it _is_ very valuable to put the extra months of effort in to lay down a rock solid piece. For example, in CAS, you can make an extra 10,000 RMB for publishing in a low impact Indian or Chinese journal. You can make upwards of 100,000 RMB (a full year's salary) for publishing in one of the "big four" journals. And up to 3 years salary for getting a Nature or Science publication. This is money being invested by the Chinese government to intentionally combat the plague of falsified Chinese research. I don't know of any other country or system that does this. It is also remarkably easy to get tenure in China, which allows a lot of long-term type focus. But this is a tiny bubble for China as it attempts to brain drain the rest of the world and is not likely to continue for long.

It's a big problem that the media doesn't understand which are which. For example when everyone was raving about the "faster than light" neutrinos a few years ago the first thing _every single person_ in my building said was "The Italians set their clock wrong didn't they?" Half a joke, but dead serious that no one should even consider this until it showed up in a publication.

Another big problem is that only basing your research on verifying others research is suicide for an academic career sing you're intentionally doing _low impact_ science. The only people willing to fund that are people with agendas, ie. BP, Exxon, Coca Cola etc.
Is this claim correct?
"You do four of these sequential scans, and in each you write sequentially to one of 256 locations. Four passes, no random access. This is great. I don't even see a log n there, do you?"

You're writing to one of 256 (presumably far apart) memory locations - why isn't this considered random access?
The root cause of the things you love about HN is that people are honest. Praise on HN is genuine because condemnation is genuine. If you want people to be truly passionate about changing the world, about disrupting entrenched inefficiencies that are bad for people, about seeing Silicon Valley be the best that Silicon Valley can be, they will call you out when you fall short of that.

If you don't want to be disappointed, fund better startups.
How did you handle design on the early stages of your Startup
I am starting a Project, and as a designer, i am bias to think of it the whole time. How did entrepreneurs (who are not designers) deal with design on the early stages? how much attention do you give to it? Do you get any Education to know what to do? Do you hire a designer or spend in resources (Templates, fonts, images etc.)? If you could be specific that would be great. Thanks
Have you ever been to an event in a city park or similar where breakfast/brunch is provided/for sale and the price point is $3-10? It's hour old greasy food, hard bagels, and stale donuts. A way to churn out fresh sandwiches / bagels / eggs / etc. on demand would be a game changer.

As soon as you're paying over $10 (or really over $6-7) it's hard to imagine a massive benefit from today's robots. But I could definitely see cooking robots dramatically change quality of food available in the $1-9 range, especially in locations without a full kitchen available, and especially breakfast / brunch stuff.
I recently started working on a web application that allows you to search through git commit messages. I plan to turn it into a SaaS once it's more polished. Maybe $5 a month or so, nothing crazy.
It made a hummus, fresh sliced cucumber, sriracha sandwich in ~12 seconds so it's probably faster than a human.
I've been using both Atom and Sublime Text 3 "in anger" over the last two months. As good as Atom has become now that it has reached 1.x, I find that the editor I turn to is Sublime. It just works.

subl . and poof, it's up in a directory

atom . 7 or 8 seconds later it's partly up...

I bought ST2 some time ago, and I'd buy ST3 if he pulled the trigger and moved it out of beta... But not if it truly is abandon-ware. I'm willing to pay for quality commercial software, and Sublime Text 3 is high-quality. But I want to know that the project hasn't been walked away from.
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> Sending an HTTP request is much more like asking sears to send you the catalogue for this season. It's a REQUEST, they can REFUSE.

You're completely ignoring the technological factors in delivering content online. If you were arguing that your ad blocker made the server aware of its usage via the HTTP request's headers, and the server could use that information to deny a request, then you might have a legitimate basis for your argument. But it doesn't, and you don't.

> They might include stuff you don't want in the catalogue, but you can just rip them out.

Exactly. You just made my argument for me. You received the content, and decided to ignore other content which you didn't want to see after it has already been delivered. You have paid the price of admission by accepting the document as the creator intended. But when you prevent the other content from showing up in the first place, you have entered into the world of immorality. You're demanding content be delivered the way you want it, at the literal financial expense of its creator, which is absurd.

> And with HTTP requests, I'm even paying for the bandwidth via my ISP! When they answer to my request, they cost me money, just like I'm costing them money.

That's an entirely illogical comparison. You made the request with the complete understanding that when you navigate to a website, it will serve the content to you, and that the request for that content knowingly costs them money, and costs you money. But it's entirely at your request. You are paying your ISP for the capability to make that request, and nobody forced you to make it or pay for it. So when you do make the request but block the ads, you are forcing the content creator to pay for it, and then refusing them their ability to recoup that cost. You are not paying the content creator by paying your ISP. It's an illegitimate comparison.
Nope, the CEO decided to move on. Small company.
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That's fair. But surely, somebody had to have judged those companies by something, where somebody is presumably a venture capitalist.

Another thought: It could be the beginning of a self driving food truck.
With Reflux or similar, you have everything you need. Simple to build UI, simple to hookup to backend, simple to dynamically update backend and front end based on change or events on data.

When you say it's not a "framework" I don't even understand what you mean by "framework". If you mean a system that locks you into one way of doing things and is hard to integrate with other tools, then by all means, it's not a framework, and then I don't want it anyway.
Is this going to be through use of nano server for the container images I guess? Or something you cannot yet share.
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The database part of http://witheve.com/ is written in Rust. It's not very technically interesting yet (eg no query optimiser) but the basics all work.
If spoon costs $0.10 to make, and you cannot make a solid business selling it for $0.30, while at $2.00 per spoon the market is willing and you get to create jobs, what shall you do?
No, it would benefit owners of sandwich-making machines, who wouldn't have to pay for relatively-expensive labor any more. The owners themselves would have to be wealthy enough to afford the machine in the first place. The effect would be to centralize wealth further, as the owners of capital get more money, while those without capital are left unable to make money through their labor.
Good point. I think unpaid wage judgments are given the same priority as unpaid wages. Either way they're behind secured creditors. If the company had bank loans secured by collateral, the banks may have dibs on the proceeds.
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The financial markets have patience for R&D that actually pays off. Look at how much money companies like IBM and Intel are spending on shrinking design rules. Heck, IBM does a lot of research in a lot of areas.
I'd be curious to know how Gravitational works if the founders are here? How would one take a public service and make it private?
If the MVP isn't compelling, why even spend time and money developing it? Why not spend those resources building something closer to the "real" product?
Not necessarily. The long tail of integrating with the management systems those salons use is really long and it's basically a non-starter without management system integration. Add to that that those management systems have started to wise up to the need for scheduling and it's a very difficult nut to crack.

And no, those businesses will not copy appointments back and forth themselves. Small business scheduling is hard. Very hard. This isn't speculation, I've worked on a product that has pretty good traction doing exactly what they're doing. It would surprise me greatly if they've yet discovered why this problem isn't solved yet, and it isn't for lack of trying or that previous attempts haven't been executed properly.
Actually, an exception often exists for owed or unpaid employee wages -- then directors can be held responsible for those.

But I don't think that's the case here.
I'm bradgessler's cofounder. We were promised support in an email. That statement about lack of support for paid customers was added after we paid them and experienced the 3-5 day turnaround times. As I recall, the tickets were mostly us reporting defects.
My point was that this has nothing to do with the morality of ads being delivered or blocked.
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I love it. Some of the start ups have the potential to be huge.

Her and Jopwell are really, really cool and much needed but I can't see them getting to $100 million in revenue or whatever the threshold for VC funding is. And frankly that's depressing.

On a related note how profitable is Grindr?
Congrats Bootstrap team for Bootstrap 4 alpha release great work.
I am a Bootstrap loyalist from Bootstrap 1 release. I looked at Semantic-UI components for last days and agree they are good in looks but not so easy to use for responsive environment. But comes with lot of integrated feature such as Reveal, Sticky content, Calendar, Validation etc. Was hoping lot now with release 4, Feature displayed in official theme could have been part of release 4.
please add those as part of release 4.
I'm not sure I agree with number 4 "Authors should annotate source code before the review begins".

This source code will live on beyond the code review. If it requires annotation for the code review to occur, how will it stand up when the next dev comes along to make changes. Is the next dev expected to revisit many of the recent code reviews including the changes?

Some context, or annotation, could be good to have in the commit message.

In most cases, I believe the changes and the code should live on their own, without annotation.
Being a corporation doesn't limit liability from criminal prosecution, however. The company fraudulently let the employees work for their last week, presumably knowing that it didn't have the money to pay them. And they defrauded the employees by canceling their insurance after having taken their insurance payments.

The article said:

"The company's HR chief had quit abruptly a week before, allegedly posting in a Facebook group that she didn't want to be party to doing anything illegal."

I think that was a very smart move. The founders could end up facing criminal charges for their actions.

(This, of course, wouldn't affect the investors, unless they conspired with the founders to defraud the employees.)
The company used svn.

Not sure how viable to check file changes regularly since 1) everybody had their plates full 2) the system was complex with a lot of black magic that 'just worked', thousands of source files, within the mix were compiled binaries (mainly 3rd party hardware drivers) and a lot of libraries (Qt, Boost, etc.)
An educated professional's capacity to endure pain, and inability to recognize implicit humiliation (i.e. your family is way less important than this job) as measured in this article, are about 6 years.

For six years he put up with this abuse of power over him. He could have walked out after six months but he chose not to. How can Amazon be faulted for the employee's indecision.

He's financially benefited by those 6 years of being an absent father. The financial gains are very concrete and measurable, and comforting. The same can't be said of the intangible - like playing with your infant child, and caring for them - can't put a value on them but that's a huge loss.
Checkout StackBus (http://www.stackbus.com/), where people and company share why they choose their stacks and what they use it for :)
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From the headline to the article itself, I prefer to think of it as "Entrepreneurs Get Hardcode About Hardware." YC vets and funds -- the innovation belongs to the teams.
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In my experience, moving people to computer means having to reconcile management's understanding of how people do their jobs, with how they actually do their jobs. This is especially tricky when designated outcomes are only reachable through other than designated processes.
Nothing proves their point better than admins killing this story on HN.
Venture debt would be unsecured though right? Probably all (or nearly all) of their debt falls into that category.
As I've said a few times now in different ways, if you received the content as the creator intended and then removed the ads, you would have a perfectly legitimate argument. But that's not what you're doing. You're preventing them from being delivered at all, while still consuming the content at the direct financial expense of the content creator. You are taking advantage of the technological ability to access content without paying the price of admission. It is absolutely immoral behavior, no matter how you would like to spin it.
You're right, but that's done by providing value to the payer. In this case, cheaper, faster food.
If we say that it is never acceptable for vigilantes to release illegally-obtained information, then shouldn't we also be decrying Ed Snowden and Chelsea Manning? Their dumps certainly contained unpleasant stuff that could be traced back to individuals. There's got to be a line somewhere, even if it's not at Ashley Madison specifically.
It looks like the employees were indeed owed some unpaid wages. The article says:

"Moreover, employees were only paid through August 7—but they didn't know this until the email arrived in the early morning of August 11."