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Why Grammar Matters
Rocket NASA is building to shuttle astronauts to Mars passed a major milestone
Zone.js – Execution context that persists across async tasks
Nope - I think this is the one they're referring to: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-channel-weather.com/...
No - the actor in this scenario, the one with power - is not the male or female engineer, but rather the employer or conference coordinator. They may very well be male, but they are giving the female engineer, who as a class have less power then the class of male engineers a leg up in getting an opportunity to speak.

The male engineers experiencing what you call reverse discrimination are still in a position of power as a class.
I think ideally you'd compare the story you're investigating with other, provably-truthful stories told by the secondary-language speaker. That way word reuse could be a relative value rather than an absolute one.
Completely agree with this: if the user doesn't see value within 5 seconds (and is wow'ed by it), game over... wrote a piece on it: "Onboarding is Everything" https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/onboarding-is-everything-327...
Author here -- curious to hear HN's thoughts on if this should be fixed or is acceptable.
Does innovation always come from science?
I got rejected for one of my startups, didnt receieve a yes or no for my other one. Is that a good thing?
Github repo of Sense (the request editor for ElasticSearch) is here: https://github.com/elastic/sense/

It is really interesting to see this, as several months (or years:)?) ago the open source project was stopped and went into a closed source project but now going back to open source. Nice.
This isn't a strawman. These are real examples of where white men make up the minority in a field.

If you would support treating women special in fields where they are a minority, while opposing treating men special in fields where they are a minority you clearly have a sexist bias.

This isn't about leveling the playing field for a specific industry, this is about "reversing" the problem by pointing discrimination in the opposite direction that is has pointed historically. This ignores the fact that sexual discrimination is still occurring, and is even being encouraged!

Unless you can answer programmernews3's question or provide sourced statistics about these "100 high-paying jobs and industries", I can't regard your argument as anything other than an appeal to emotion.
Digging into trademarks, incorporations and S-1's is a weird little obsession of mine..

That said, my initial findings are that Flymaids is directly related to Homejoy. Under Privacy link of Flymaids it states "In the European Union, we are Fly Maids Europe Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 8883585) with its registered office address at 14 Whittonditch Road, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, SN8 2PY."

If you lookup the registration number at Wales Companies House, it shows owner as "HOMEJOY EUROPE LIMITED"

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08883585

FWIW, they changed their registered address on 8/7/15, ten days short of their announcing to cease operations: http://bit.ly/1kbHtyJ
Nah, that's barely anti-Science.

Anti-Science is when you go to jail for doing nothing but testing for the presence of cyanide in the walls of the USSR-reconstructed morgue/air-shelter in Auschwitz.
- rejection postmarked 1:59 pm for zejoop.com
- one view of founder video
- zero views of demo video
- I am a single founder
- this was my third YC application, all for Winter sessions
Custom framing is expensive. Standard size frames are actually reasonably priced. What I ended up doing is to find a standard size frame first, then find the painting that fixes the frame. It's kind of backward but it works.
My point is that figuring out what constitutes science is philosophy, regardless of who does the figuring out. It's not like it is science if a scientist does the thinking but philosophy if someone from the philosophy department does the same.
Chris: I've seen at least half a dozen of these businesses come and go. None of them seem to be able to scale enough to make for an exciting long-term business worth reinvesting in. Despite individuals absolutely loving the final product. Any thoughts on why this is, and how you can succeed where others have failed?
Any C-corp created in Delaware shows up their Entity Search (link below) almost instantly, e.g. within a few minutes of the company's creation.

That said, I looked on the Fly Maids webpage and they don't give the name of their corporation at all, they just show "© 2015 Fly Maids. All rights reserved." That means that "Fly Maids" could be a trademark, a fictitious name, owned by a corporation with a different name, or just owned by any random individual who hasn't registered his/her business. Another possibility is that Fly Maids is in fact registered as a corporation or LLC, but in a state other than Delaware. Yet another possibility is that "Fly Maids" is a fictitious name, and those are generally registered at the county in which they operate, and searching through each county's database would be an enormous task.

My point is: in any of the above cases it could be nearly impossible to figure out who is actually running this website. And failing to find a result in the Delaware Division of Corporations website really doesn't tell you much of anything.

And, as a relevant tangent: If you are really interested in finding out who owns/runs that website you could always sue Fly Maids. GoDaddy explicitly states in their Ts and Cs that they will give up owner information if there is a lawsuit brought against the owner...

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Delaware Division of Corporations Entity Search link... https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/Ecorp/EntitySearch/NameSearch...
Uber is mentioned here as an interesting case of treating the edge device as the source of truth, which was interesting to read about a little while ago. However, Uber has a certain amount of guaranteed control over driver phones, and even then I imagine that it represents a pretty promising attack vector into their systems.

How would this system work when treating untrusted clients executing arbitrary code as the definite source of truth for a fact? Further, it doesn't seem like this addresses (unless I'm missing something) the problem raised in the airline ticket example where split-brain systems may hand out resource reservations that they aren't actually allowed to give out. If both passengers' devices (or the plane? or some other edge device?) are sources of truth, I don't see any easier way to negotiate the resource contention than current distributed databases already have.
Aside from respecting geopolitical borders and nationalistic allegiance, why should I value a local artist any more than an artist in China? Is the Chinese artist somehow lesser than the local artist?
Fixed orientation is beneficial for the sensors and signal processing too. Less readjustments to make.
Something like the individualized advertising model Google has for each person could probably be used in tandem to segment that more reliably.
It's not like they would repeal the law and all private dealerships would be shut down the next day. They would continue as usual, probably for several years, and most would eventually get phased out. It's not letting it burn, it's just letting it die the death it should have died decades ago.
UK’s powerful entrepreneurs warned Cameron against clamping down on immigration
Previous commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10454706

Re-posting my comment from the prior conversation:

Bob Lutz is the author. He's moonlighting as a talking head after being the consummate insider of the automotive industry in the United States, having worked for all of the Big 3 (GM, Ford, and Chrysler) as well as BMW [1]. This is pretty much like taking your advice on smoking cigarettes from R.J. Reynolds. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lutz_(businessman)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Reynolds
PayPal Reports a 29% Jump in Earnings
Actually, artists here can find work. I have many friends who do commissions at a constant rate. Some of them are listed in the creative art marketplace: http://www.instapainting.com/artists. They also work in film, animation, video game companies.

It's true if you're just straight up copying a photo, you're going to have to compete with the Chinese commercial art industry. But they don't do creative work, so any amount of deviation from just copying a photo and you'll have a leg up.

Frankly artists here don't want to copy photos, and even the studio artists we interviewed in China don't want to do that either. But it's a steady source of income for them.

I'd suggest you talk to some artists here first and get their opinion, and then talk to some of the artists in China, because that's what I did.
The ‘Mutual Respect’ That Results When Consumers and Brands Collide
Giving someone an opportunity based on a protected class, which denies that same opportunity to someone else of that protected class, is discrimination. It is treating someone negatively based on their protected class. It's the textbook definition of discrimination.

Critical race theory is as effective at hiding that fact as a Klu Klux Klan white hood.
World War III During Obama’s Time as President
That's not how I saw it, but in any case, it should be clear that the guy is not above lazy, sensationalist clickbait.
Yep, also using the same Mixpanel ID and Google Analytics ID, which could be because of copying the entire thing, or because they're the same company, signs point to same company since they have assets with different company names in the same S3 bucket though!
Logically, then, the next move would be a high-speed, long-distance, high value small load courier startup called Vanishing Point.

Expect it to have a sudden, but dramatic, exit.
>Positive discrimination is not positive, because discrimination is never positive, no matter which group it favours.

This is the particular statement I take offense to (and should have just quoted in the parent, such is life). Black and white generalities with no argument or data to back it in my experience are the exclusive domain of adolescents and television pundents. Neither of which I would expect to be upvoted here.
Do you know that you have a banana in your ear?
Sustaining Digital Certificate Security
As I mentioned in another post, they don't seem to be actually registered in Deleware and there are typos related to find/replace (support@flymaids.com.com) so I'm not sure we can discount the chance someone just cut/pasted that from the original Homejoy privacy page. Homejoy's privacy page doesn't load and the wayback machine was blocked via robots.txt so we have no good way of checking that I can think of.

Also, nice to meet someone else obsessed with investigating incorporation documents. :)
Fortunately, your entry into YC is completely disconnected from the weather in your area.
Double opt-in is great. I actually recently got a complaint email from a reader complaining about how difficult it was to subscribe to my newsletter which I found to be hilarious.

One of the reasons I use double opt-in is because it means that the subscribers have to really want to subscribe and not do it by mistake. That seems to help improve the open rate which can be used as a selling point against other newsletter in my field with a higher subscriber count, but low open rates.
Not incorporated in Delaware (as represented) nor are they qualified to do business in CA (where they are, presumably, physically located)...Probably not the company you want coordinating strangers into your home, though something tells me this is par for the SV course. You know move fast and break things, or beg forgiveness rather than ask permission. However, my advice owners/operators, they might wish to consult a lawyer to explain the basics of personal liability and benefits of corporate protections...
OCaml, Coq. Embarrassingly, Criteo is a French company.
Yep. Even The Simpsons outsources lower-level animation to South Korea.
How long before they are sued by multiple cities and businesses for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and lost revenue?
Screenshots from Developers and Unix people (2012)
His valid concerns are valid in the sense that they apply to some charter schools. They are not valid in the way he made good charter schools the exception and that was what I was reacting to.

It's really that simple.

Charter schools are publicly funded and privately run. If the public doesen't feel like the schools are living up to their promise they can simply stop the funding.

That some schools have been taking advantage of that situation says absolutely nothing about the charter school as an educational system or whether it's the fact that it's a charter school that makes it take money from the public schools. The primary thing for me is that you can fire bad teachers.

If anything it's the oversight with charter schools thats the problem not the funding. That can be solved.

You are cherrypicking your examples to try and defend what is fundamentally a wrong premise for why public school system is failing.

Thats your right to do so but it doesn't make the claims right and nothing you have provided here shows that.
Not only did it drift through airspace but it crash landed and caused 35,000 people to lose power and classes to be cancelled at the local university.

If it were a private citizen I can imagine they'd be taken to jail.
> I wouldn't put it quite so strongly, but yes; go makes design decisions that are addressing non-obvious problems that the designers encountered over several years of software development in other languages.

s/years/decades/

(Which strengthens your point...)
This libertarian socialist prefers to let other people fund the depreciation. If a car's still in good shape by the time it's old enough that I can consider buying it without having to take out a loan, it's likely to stay in good shape as long as I continue to take care of it. Maintenance is expensive when it happens, but a loan payment happens every month, and the loan companies require you to pay for expensive insurance on top of that, so it's a pretty big win to just keep up an old car instead of buying a new one.

As an additional bonus, older cars are far less likely to be encrusted with insecure, untrustworthy, unreliable microcontroller-based nonsense, much less anything so insane as Tesla's over-the-air automatic firmware updates or GM's yes-we-rooted-your-car-in-the-factory OnStar thing.
I'm with you. I'm 28 now, working as a software engineer, and I'm loving my life. I roll into work at 10:30 and yesterday I got a raise without having to ask or negotiate for it. I have the time and money to pursue hobbies, but I also genuinely enjoy my coworkers.

But high school was _rough_ for me. My grades weren't especially good, but I did a lot of AP classes. I constantly had the anxiety of homework looming over me. Looking back, I realized that I got into the state where I'd be behind on a lot of things, and once I had 5 different things on my plate it'd be really hard to prioritize them and I'd just stress myself out trying to balance them.

I'd like to have children someday, but I know that there's a chance they're going to inherit my style of thinking. (My dad is the same as me-- he also graduated college just barely, also procrastinated too much in high school.) I'd really like to find some alternate form of school that still challenges my kids, but does so in a way that doesn't explode their stress levels.
This Acoustic Tractor Beam Can Levitate Small Objects with Sound
Your counting events where someone was not at significant risk for death as saving their life. To get an accurate comparison you need to compare gun owners mortality with non gun owners mortality.
I think the best strategy is to find a good developer, then stick with him/her. There are tons of good developer out there who are willing to do hard work for almost nothing. You just need to find one.

Simply hiring the lowest bidder is a waste of time unless your project budget is $50000 or more. At that range, you can find hungry developers that are willing to do ten times more work then you would get from established players.
To expand on the monosyllabic sibling answer, rr is completely language agnostic because it works at the level of machine code, (ab)using platform features like performance counters to do its thing. It should basically work for every x86 and x86-64 program you can debug with gdb, no matter which language(s) it was compiled with.
RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status Codes – Developer Errors
Show HN: DataDuck ETL – Ruby framework for setting up a Redshift data warehouse
That's built by Apple but it does get it's data from The Weather Channel.
I would counsel a "friendly local fine artist" who feels threatened by the existence of $100 paint-by-photograph artworks produced in China to get better about their marketing, differentiation, and sales process rather than lamenting the decline of art. If they're selling something this substitutes for... that's a very unfortunate business decision.

(Too many of my creative friends, for all values of "creative", are socialized to believe that treating their profession like it is a business will somehow suck all the magic out of that. If you like friendly-local-fine-artist, you owe it to them to help counteract years of indoctrination on this score.)

A young lady at a Renaissance fair produced an artistic work heavily inspired by a photo of Ruriko and I at our wedding. (She, incidentally, undercharged and had to be tipped into accepting a reasonable wage, then attempted to convince me that I was overtipping. Art culture: GAH!) That work is certainly available for less than what she charged... somewhere over in China, where middle class RenFair participants who are primed to spend money are presently not wandering while considering "Hey I wonder if I could get a wedding photo done as human art?"

A really smart business decision she made was a) bringing several samples of high-saliency events done in her signature style (weddings/graduations/etc) and b) hiring a barker, whose only job was selling passerby on artwork when she was producing it on the spot. Another smart decision was working directly with clients on the spot: that was a definite value add versus uploading the JPG into a CRUD app then shipping it halfway around the world. The venue handles a lot of customer selection for you, too -- you can imagine that "homemade using the techniques of the ancients; not like that factory-produced nonsense you'd find at BigBox" carries a lot of weight with many of the people who willingly bust themselves back to the Middle Ages for part of a day. (I'd note that pitch was successful at selling several hundred dollars worth of soap in a ten minute period I observed the soap store. Having used $20 of it myself, I can reliably report that P&G ROFLstomps your typical artisan on soap quality, but then again they don't sell any soap called Dragon's Blood, so decisions decisions.)
It's I believe the Hawtorne Effect I believe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Right, I didn't word that part very well indeed.
You still have to retain the original license in any case but it only covers that particular bit of code. Any product you create built on a MIT component can be licensed as you pleased.

It depends what was meant by derivative and how this impacts the original code (encapsulated, modified, etc...). I was thinking more of when you use an MIT-licensed lib or 3rd party tool, or when you would reuse a code-snippet licensed as MIT and modify it. License and attributions remain, but only for that part of the code.
Everything about the Tesla vehicles is based on them not being a hybrid. The entire design would have to be scrapped. Ha ha ha.
But what if I want a painting of my buddy drunk at the office party, so I can give it to him as a gag gift?
This is a pointless strawman. This is like saying an F-15 on a training exercise crashed and that it's unfair the pilot/crew/USAF wouldn't be treated the same as some random who flew a drone with a gopro over an airport.
Or the person is telling the truth and still deliberated about how to tell the story. I would probably do that.
Domain registrars often include a year of "whoisguard" (namecheap's brand for it) or similar with new domain registrations. I'm never too surprised by that until it's been over a year. Or is Domains By Proxy a more significant anonymity system?
Good piece in the Baltimore Sun from a few months ago about what a boondoggle this project has turned out to be: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/federal-workplace/bs-md...

"But after 17 years of research and $2.7 billion spent by the Pentagon, the system known as JLENS doesn't work as envisioned. The 240-foot-long, milk-white blimps, visible for miles around, have been hobbled by defective software, vulnerability to bad weather and poor reliability."
1. Understand what JavaScript Is and Isn’t 2. Enroll a java script tutorial. 3. Read JavaScript and try coding together with it. 4. See people actually doing it. This video might just help you. https://www.livecoding.tv/video/javascript-fundamentals-2/
This is true.
Compared to 17 years of standardization and >30 years of C++ altogether, 4 years is relatively new.
In addition, much of the blog is not so much targeted at up-to-date C++ connoisseurs, as it is targeted at the kind of programmers I worked with in the past: people that have been stuck with legacy C++ code and older compilers for decades. So my whole "new C++ features" category covers C++11 and beyond.
This is actually a very common order request, but not even close to the weirdest.
"discrimination" is a very vague word. Technically all employers practice some kind of discrimination. Applying for a job is an exercise in getting discriminated against (typically for your skills, education and experience).

The key here is that discrimination against someone for their race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, etc. is unethical, no matter what kind of social wrong you aim to right.

Giving women more opportunities may seem like it's progressive. I mean, "we're helping women"! But it still contributes to defining people based on their gender, rather than their skills and abilities.

I worked at a company a few years ago that would ONLY hire women to work at the front desk. This was a deliberate move to make the office look more diverse than it actually was, because most of our male employees worked outside of the view of our visitors.

That, and the CEO openly admitted that he enjoyed "seeing a pretty face every time he came to work".

How do you separate my blatantly sexist employer's hiring of women for visibility from social-justice oriented businesses doing the same thing to "further women"?
Not only quoted, but cited! Priceless :_)

[10] W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5.
Ok I just got my rejection letter.

We've got 150 users, some paying.
And we claim to radically change how processes will be turned into running software, with working proof-of-concept running in browsers.

So don't feel bad if your startup didn't make it.

Our plan has anyways been to keep adding more customers, regardless if we get into Y-combinator or not.

If your business plan depends on Y-combinator acceptance or funding, then that probably is already a weakness.

Congrats to all those that got in.