skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a split second in time in a vacuum. There is a history and a future. The history is that males dominate the industry, and if we look further back, there is much more to the divide between the genders. The future hasn't been written, but if we want it to differ from the past, we have to make decisions that affect that.

In order for young girls (whether we're talking about children or just engineers early in their career path) to feel confident, to relate and feel like a natural part of the industry, there has to be a change. There has to be more females at conferences. There has to be more female leadership. If you continue to look only at a point of time (a result of history) and say "right now there are more men qualified then women" for every decision, you prevent a future where women had the same comfort and opportunity to truly level the playing field.
Completely agree here. I think the main theme of that section being "Don't over-educate users" if you can reach for high engagement and conversion rate without overlays, arrows, etc. then that's the way to go.

It's great to design the experience at the outset to not need the tutorial screens. And then test into the possibility of including them anyways.

One "in-between" possibility would be to have something similar to Slack's old onboarding experience where you'd see some elements that gently pulsed prompting the more curious users to click on them and learn more. And everyone else to safely ignore them and move on.

Interestingly Slack has moved on to more explicit explanations during their most recent onboarding iteration. But I am sure that they'll also try something without any tool-tips at all.

The larger point is that many apps have sliding screens that force users to read in order to learn about their app. And that users did not install and open the app to read about it. They're there to use it.

We've seen massive increases in conversion rate and engagement by replacing these screens with "learning by doing" interactions.

If that "learning by doing" step can be accomplished without tutorials then even better!
You’re thinking of negative management, it's presumed that everyone can buy a gun and they lose that right. Positive management would require someone to demonstrate competence ahead of a purchase ex: by taking a class / passing a test etc.
So, it looks like there is 3 distinct yet related sites that we have been able to dig up.

http://www.flymaids.com/
http://cleanr.ca/
http://www.homeaglow.com/

My hunch is that there is more. They all seem to share a lot in common.

Credit for digging these up:
https://medium.com/@bradbatt/their-css-references-brands-hom...
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=phonon
Y Combinator emails are out
I'll boycott VMWare over this!

Oh, wait, I haven't used their stuff in years. Heh.
YC makes it very clear they will disavow any company or founder that acts unethically. YC is strict about very few things, but this was made clear in no uncertain terms (especially by Jessica). When things go bad, YC always gets involved – even if you don't read about it online.

Don't blame YC just yet. We don't know what happened here. Maybe Homejoy went into debt, had their assets seized, and lost control (like with GigaOM). Maybe the investors approved or forced a reincorporation under another name. Maybe Handy bought the assets and is quickly trying to stem off churn. Or, yeah, maybe something unethical happened. Until we know what happened, though, it's all speculation.
Hum, nope, ecosystem restauration is not a perverse or silly goal. Species have coevolved for millions of years to make the best, stronger and more resilient ecosystem possible.
I also question HP's decision to announce their entry in the cloud market via the Onion [1]

1. http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-offers-that-cloud-thing-eve...
Straw man? Nobody would of course. We want to see women with skills and abilities hired in the same ratio as men. Anything less tends to be discrimination, and unethical, right?
I always hear people claim this, and yet I've never signed up to TechTargetWatch or whatever the hell these people call themselves.

And curiously, they're always emailing a spamtrap.

And as soon as I unsubscribe from TechTargetWatch, I start getting spam from WatchTechTargets, to whom I've also never subscribed, and who also deliver to the same spamtrap address.

But never mind that, I have a rather more paranoid perspective on not using the unsubscribe link. Clicking through to that unsubscribe page...

- indicates that the email address is valid

- indicates that the email address goes to a person

- affords the opportunity to set a tracking cookie or fingerprint the browser

- associates the tracking cookie/browser fingerprint with a person

No thanks.
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It seems a lot of people are missing the point here so I'll try to clarify.

First, an increase in aggression does not mean that everyone suddenly turns into a raging asshole, it just means an increase, even a slight one, in aggressive tendencies. Which does not necessarily mean physical aggression. People tend to become more demanding, or more snarky, or bold, and so on. Examples include: egging others on to drink heavily or do silly things even if they don't want to. Even things like ragging on your friends is representative of an increase in aggression. Such things can still be "friendly", but they are indicative of increased aggression. And a small subset of people do get more physically aggressive, confrontational, oppositional, etc.

A lot of this stuff is so ingrained in our culture that we don't even notice it. We just accept that being drunk translates to being more aggressive in a zillion subtle ways and don't even consider such things to be true aggression.

Additionally, I'm disappointed that so many people have jumped immediately to the "my limited anecdotal experience contradicts countless scientific studies" response. No, anecdotes are not data. Moreover, if you think about the way your friends behave when drunk you might notice signs of increased aggression as well, if you pay attention. I don't have any friends who get violent when drunk, and I have many friends who are adorable drunks, but I do notice a consistent pattern in becoming slightly more aggressive across the board. More demanding, less charitable, etc.
Interesting post here: http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=17566
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463175
The Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes (2004)
Stock is getting slammed after hours.
Again, this is down to the sensitivity of lithium
batteries. If the charge of the battery falls below
the minimum safe level, the device will charge it
before allowing you to take power. There are a couple
of reasons – it's important to make sure the battery
doesn't fall into deep discharge, and to ensure that
device power isn't immediately cut off (=hard crash)
if the user subsequently disconnects the power before
the device charges to acceptable levels.

No. It comes down to mediocre design, and unfortunate misconceptions, and tunnel vision about what's worth designing for and what isn't.

1. If the main board is receiving power, it can use some of that power.

2. The user can pull the plug, and and cut power to the main board, and guess what, the main board can simply stop working without trying to consume power from a battery without enough power to operate safely.

3. The operating system can employ an architecture that tolerates hard faults, in the middle of code execution, and address them upon the next successful reboot. Yeah, that's expensive to develop, and yeah, Apple computers are expensive.

4. With each of these preceding points in place Deep Discharge of lithium batteries is irrelevant, because the main board is in control of whether or not the battery is even called into action at all. With AC power, no power needs to be sourced from the battery. Anxieties about a bricked device are circumvented with a durably designed OS. The end.
If my experience has taught me anything (including this go around), rejections and invitations will all go out by midnight PST tonight though the vast majority will probably be out the door by 6pm PST.

I was rejected but I wasn't entirely expecting to get in. I don't have a co-founder, my prototype isn't finished yet and I am working on my project on the side since I would like to keep paying the bills. Oh well I'll keep working on it, if it can turn into a business when I get some people to actually play with it then that would be awesome otherwise I can pivot easily enough with doing it part time (www.simulated.io if anyone is interested in looking at it).
I think a lot of people missed this crucial point in the article leading me to believe they didn't read the OP.
Yes, but proficiency has sadly been removed from my state's permit requirements.
# Gasoline is cheap

True, though in Europe prices are 200-300% higher[1]. Mostly because European countries tax gasoline heavily, because of it's negative environmental impact.

Probably not an issue for expensive vehicles (no-one buy them for fuel savings), but will be for cheaper models.

# Battery tech isn't special

I think this is a good point. I'd guess other auto-makers can do this fairly easily, as long as they do it at scale (and they are good at scale in other areas).

# Company stores doesn't work

As I've understood it they don't carry inventory in their stores, it's only a showroom -- even in countries where they are allowed to sell directly to consumers (all except the US). Cars still ordered, i.e. no inventory (except for test-drive).

# Model X won't sell

I guess it's a bit too early to tell, but it seems like they are mainly production-limited right now (which is a problem in it's own right!).

===

I think a major factor is being overlooked, which will determine both the fate of Tesla and other car-makers: software.

I'd guess 75% of innovation in cars during the next 10 years will be in software. The company that does this best will do really well. Tesla should be well-positioned.

[1] http://autotraveler.ru/en/spravka/fuel-price-in-europe.html#...
Oh yeah, totally forgot about the part that they were trying to do business in Los Angeles...
StoryShop Is a Surprising New Story Planning App for Writers
Customized Nootropic Stacks. www.mindfyl.com. You?
Many journals now allow you to explicitly name researchers you would prefer not to be selected as reviewers for your submitted paper.
NPM and Tonic: Try it out
What an interesting strategy: they eventually want to provide a Microsoft version of everything (they already have their own Google Now and Google Docs and email (Cortana, Office for Android, Outlook for Android)); all they have to do now is port Groove, their Camera/Photos app, and MSIE. Arrow also seems to have a matching lock screen (mentioned in the article, released before Arrow).

What I don't get is Arrow doesn't look like MS Phone's launcher. I wonder why.
I don't know much about Augur, or Ethereum Alarm :), but I think I was reading this part of the alarm site

The Alarm service supports designation of certain addresses as authorized
schedulers. Contracts can trust authorized calls were scheduled by an address
that they authorized, allowing you to schedule calls to functions that would
normally not be publicly callable.

and extrapolating the "It is 5pm EST November 11 2015" trigger to "It is after 5pm EST November 11 2015 and that thing you specified you were interested in happened."

I'm not sure if your code allows such a thing or not, either specifically, or just by assumption in the original contract ("Only my trusted callers will be able to call this, and I can therefore rely on them for indication of some event happening")
I don't think you know what a strawman is - parent was making a (perfectly legitimate, IMO) point about how misconduct/negligence/accidents on the part of the government result in few to no penalties (worst case: someone may lose their job), while same behavior on the part of citizens can result in life-ruining, throw-the-book-at-him consequences.

It's pretty hard to misrepresent an opponent's argument when there have been no opposing arguments made yet!
Just got it.
When I entered my email into homeaglow it didn't work. It said I had the wrong password. BUT when I entered in the password reset box I got a password reset email from support@flymaids.com. They are unmistakably connected somehow.
Wait didn't HomeJoy close?
Fuck yeah, medical science. If ever a fight were worth cheering for, it's the fight against disease.
The number one reason is that they can fire bad teachers and require quite a lot from those they hire because they are not in the union.

You are assuming it's about the curriculum it's not. It's about the environment, the parent participation etc.
Hustle is one thing to call it I guess. ha ha.
Out of curiosity, have you tried anything yet? What about posting on "Who wants to be hired" or sending emails to job descriptions you find interesting in "Who's hiring" monthly thread?
Come hack on Pinterest on Bugcrowd
They want Android users... not Windows Phone fans.

Also Groove is available for Android already.
Big thread running -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466888
There are certain rights you can't sign away, even if you wanted to. An example the right to be named as the creator. Simplified, it's not allowed to put the name of some one else on your creation – no matter what the contract says and what you agreed to. Such an agreement can be revoked at any time by the creator.

Another important example is severe defacement, which is not allowed. To most known recent case is Berlin's new main railway station which was built without the elaborate ceiling the architect planned due to cost and time constraints. The architect sued and won the case. They later signed a deal. If that hadn't happened, the owner Deutsche Bahn would have had to replace the ceiling with the originally planned version on their own cost.
Storytelling is a very effective way to interview job candidates. It's a good way to tear down inflated candidates to get to the truth, but more importantly it's a good way to uncover and find talented high potential people.
I'm surprised that BusinessInsider still doesn't have an article about this. Shame on you Business Insider! It's already been an hour! I expect a headline "How Homejoy came back from grave to haunt us"
Bug in Apple's overnight iOS updates turns off iPhone alarms
IP licenses for things like analog clock management components/PLLs, analog Ethernet PHYs, analog serializers and deserializers for HDMI, SATA, USB 3, etc. These are all mixed-signal components. I am not aware of any open source designs for any of these for modern ASIC targets. Most open source designs target FPGAs which already have these components built onto the FPGA itself (i.e. the open source design uses the module as a 'black box'). These will probably come in GDSII form (actual layout, not a schematic, RTL, etc.) for a specific process with a specific foundry. If you want to design those yourself, then you would have to get additional licenses for analog design and simulation suites. And you might have to re-spin a couple of times (with millions of $ in mask costs) on each targeted process technology to get the kinks worked out.
It's a test and a research project, as stated in that article. They found 10,000 ways that don't work. Edison would be proud.
> A language that supports creating functions (and function closures) at runtime.

What do you mean by "at runtime"? The only language that I'm familiar with that really lets you define them at runtime is Lisp.

> Lambdas are essentially syntactic sugar.

Do you mean that lambdas are essentially syntactic sugar for creating functions at runtime? Because C++ has lambdas, and if you mean "lambdas = creating functions at runtime = functions as first-class values", well, C++ has lambdas...

Could you clarify? I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble seeing what distinctions you're trying to draw.
I presume this is language that was copied straight from the website of the competitor
is synthetic vanilla `less than` real vanilla? People are not the problem here, the product is. It lacks in the POINT of art.

Art is like going to a concert, an expression of the human condition. Why go if you can listen to a perfect mix of it at home?

How you get a painting is part of the reason you get the painting at all. The story behind it is just as much of the point as the piece itself.

To be clear: If you are in China, buy art from a Chinese artist. If you are in Brazil, buy art from a Brazilian artist.
You should read:
http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

>> It turns out, a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number are the only two pieces of information anyone needs to get into your iCloud account. Once supplied, Apple will issue a temporary password, and that password grants access to iCloud. <<

[Apple may have changed their policy meanwhile, but likely others did not]
Don't forget the emails back and forth and manual fixes and resubmissions from either end when there's a problem causing the CSV to not parse!
Haskell in Production Bdellium
Show HN: Starling – Wearable to measure number of words spoken to your child
If it was meant as a covert demo then the finale where the blimp descended, hit a power line with its tether, then killed the power for 20,000 homes was probably a hell of a cover.
I hate this trope. There are thousands of professions out there, and most of them involve some kind of specialized knowledge/ability/skill. Do you really expect the head of your organization, the person least likely to have time to do independent work, to be the one with mastery of all the activities in the organization?

It's considered unethical for doctors or lawyers to have their work supervised by anyone who isn't a doctor or lawyer. They enforce the rule through professional conduct rules and boards. the result is very high prestige, pay, and working conditions for people with similar skills and education to programmers.

But the atomistic libertarianism and lack of solidarity among programmers makes us targets of mass low wage immigration, outsourcing, and every kind of unpleasant work situation.
Yes that's true. Contractors are often more skilled than non-contractors (they've often older and had a wider range of experiences).

But contractors, like entrepreneurs, are self-serving individuals. If your company has a large codebase and you depend too much on contractors, they may create a 'clan' inside your company and they will have leverage over management. I've seen this happen in large companies, never in a startup though.

I agree though that it's not because they're contractors. It's more because they're greedy.
Yes, Go sucks. But currently, at least for me, I think it sucks a lot less than alternatives. No language is perfect, neither is Go.

The most annoying thing is compiler instructions with special formatted comments. And Rob Pike calls that "elegant design".
It's only the last four digits of the card number.
Got email couple minutes ago and unfortunately we were rejected. Best of luck to you all!
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html

(removed wall off text quoting 6a, was a bit too long)
GPL bans adding restrictions on redistribution and other such rights. Automatic contract termination is the best you can do legally to try to get around GPL.
Tesla Autopilot avoids 45mph T-bone accident on dark, stormy night [video]
Do both the cofounders get emailed?

I'm confused because I applied for two startups, but my other cofounder didn't get a rejection email so I'm not sure if both were rejected?
You whole argument is based on a completely absurd premise.

That you are right because you can claim that parents who are interested in their childs educations and apply to charter schools is the selection bias.

But this is not what this discussion is about. The claim being made was that charter school had an advantage because they got to pick the best kids and leave the rest for the public school system.

It doesn't and so the selection bias you keep insisting exist is really nothing compared to the one that exist in the public system where you are completely depending on how rich your parents are so they can live the right place and you are zoned for that.

Thats what parents do btw. Move to the good school districts. Those who can afford it. To any extent a lottery is selection bias it's simply not relevant or interesting for the premise of this discussion which is that the charter schools had an advantage.

They don't. Public schools in rich neighborhoods however do.
How do you know it was negligence?

Plus your whole argument ignores that defending the airspace of the USA is the governments job. Of course we will have different rules because of that.

And you can sue the government for negligence.
Yahoo takes big loss in the Third Circuit
you might want to look into changing to another keyboard layout. as a swede, using altgr+[7-0] to get (curly)brackets is just ridiculously cumbersome compared to say a us layout.
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Unfortunately I can't find a source at the moment, but I do remember reading that in Facebook's early days they discovered their spammy "Invite Everyone In Your Contact List to Join" emails were getting withheld from the inbox by Hotmail. Facebook made a payment(s) to Hotmail in order to get themselves whitelisted, and this was attributed as a key to their continued growth.
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If you happen to be one of those who received an interview invitation, you could actually practice for your upcoming YC interview here:
Pramp.com/YC/faq
I've visited Dafen several times, had conversations with artists there, and purchased some paintings. The quality ranges from gradeschool-esque to fine art, even if most of it isn't original. I have no problems with factory-style creation of art, either. If people don't buy it, they won't create it. The vast majority goes to commercial properties looking for semi-generic-but-in-a-specific-style-or-color-scheme art for their public spaces or private rooms, and although it's blatantly obvious how crappy a hotel room painting is, it still beats staring at blank walls.

These folks have found yet another way too bootstrap themselves out of poverty, and with startups like instapainting or https://www.nobilified.com/, it's easier than ever for them to have a global reach. Good for them! Good for us!
That's a residential address, but seems to be being used as a registered office for the UK branches of a few US tech companies. e.g. Hired.com, Canvas.
Very few companies have those "traditional" pensions any more. Most of the companies that did have them discontinued them long ago. Just google for "pension liabilities" to see why.

About the only organizations that still have them feed at the public trough. And they're having problems with funding. Here's a recent story about a state transit agency. Its pension plan is over $800 million in the hole. And that's just one agency in one state. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/10/27/pension-liab...
A drop in the bucket compared to the Billions (yes Billions with a B) they spent to build these blimps.
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spaceBase v2 – space150's responsive Sass framework
I think it is pretty clear that Android is Microsoft's plan B in the mobile market. I know they have kind of said that already although not in so many words. I wouldn't be shocked to see a Microsoft Android phone at some point if Windows 10 Mobile fails to improve adoption of the platform (it will fail). Something similar to what Samsung do with a totally custom interface on top of an Android core. Not sure how things would go in regards to Google core services. I guess Microsoft could reimplement their own services framework that hooks things up to their services. I am not an Android dev though so perhaps one it chip in that could clear things up regarding this?
Very low, very low. Do not understand how investors chose these founders.