skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming the angel has at least one of those skills will save some money and assuming that it's not a single person funding the round yes, that's precisely it, whatever skills the group of angels does not bring to the table they'll have to farm out.

Otherwise you might as well go to the casino and put all your money on 'black'. Better odds that way.

I used to work quite a bit for angels (I'm priced out of their range now I guess) and contrary to A rounds the number of bad deals proposed to angel investors is substantially higher. By the time you get to an A round there has already been a significant shake-out, all of which means some angel or group of them have lost a bunch of money.

Contrary to what people believe angel investments are a lot harder to get right than later rounds. There are many more start-ups that die prior to receiving an A round than afterwards and the amounts are low enough that doing proper due diligence is not in the cards. But an abbreviated dd is (much) better than none at all.
you left out that type B's are also disorganized and messy and I never said type B are glorious and righteous.

Like the article says nobody is right or wrong. I just simply put the case out there that one personality is a good fit for different stages of the company.
you think the inequality of sexes in silicon valley is an issue but when it comes to black people its completely fair?! really?!. how about you first admit to yourselves youre racist. We all are a little bit. Admitting it is the first step to solving the problem. Stopping jumping through rhetorical hoops a quick scan of the kind of messages left here makes the racial prejudice situation in silicon valley as clear as day.
I'm mostly going to comment on the latter part of your question about vetting a developer for this project.

As you mentioned you don't have the technical skills to create this project yourself, it would be quite difficult to be able to vet someone more reliably than random chance.

Obviously it would make sense for you to ask to see any related projects they've made, but I'd recommend having a technical friend help out with the vetting. Aside from past projects and their contribution to these projects, perhaps ask for a high level breakdown of how they would tackle this project. Have your technical friend to overlook this breakdown should weed out people who'd have little chance of delivering.

Hopefully others can chime in here, good luck!
> LE becomes a standard service out-of-the-box.

This could happen, but I would think some of the cram-all-you-can hosting providers would not want to "waste" CPU power like that. SSL takes slightly more CPU to serve. My guess is the better half will probably do it, at least until browsers start complaining when a site fails to use SSL.
This startup: https://www.kashoo.com/home was built by a husband doing all the tech, and a wife doing the non-tech part. The app was written using Java and GWT. Can the husband roll faster if it was using Rails? probably but not significantly.

Another anecdotes: I was part of a team of 3-4 developers delivering a portal solution for British Columbia compensation board (WorksafeBC, http://bit.ly/1QhUH8L NOTE: it's a few pages of PDF to show the size of the app).

The thought of Java is slow, not agile, and probably overkill for small team, small project, small this and that is probably not warranted.

I've mentioned this in another thread: choose Java and you'll set for at least 5-7 years with minimum problem, focus on solving business problems and less on infrastructure, upgrades of software/libraries, choices of latest du jour). Those open source libraries are damn solid and I very rarely need to worry much whenever I upgrade those libraries. Open the pom.xml, bump up the version number, sit back and enjoy the latest version.

Do you want to write a mobile app? 1/2 of the popular platform is already covered with Java so you just have to worry about the other one.

I'm having a very very hard time justifying the use of Go for "Web Application". I just can't see the benefit over Java (I'm scoping this to just those 2 platforms).

PS: My experience might not reflect other people.
If you consider command line as an interface, the number of people who just don't "get it" is huge. POSIX compliance and similar exist for a reason, and yet we have garbage utilities where help, --help, -help, ?, -?, "", info, --info, $1 help, help $1, etc all exist and do effectively the same thing. "Power" users need love, too.

Looking at you, systemd folk.
There needs to be 'evidence' that the person was knowingly possessing the contraband, so this is a tactic mostly limited to use by corrupt police.

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/09/11/judge-rules-po...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ex-drug-officer-says-he-...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/ex-nypd-cop-we-plan...
Leaked Emails Reveal Republican Officials Made Fun of Poisoned Flint Residents
Maybe, but if you can build container housing in someone's backyard, I'm pretty sure you can get a washroom in there, too.
Eventually some minor crisis will trigger spending, all this excess cash will hit the system like a floodgate, and we will have an inflation spiral (because suddenly hoarding will be a bad idea). And the irony is that the ethical justification for the fed is that it is supposed to be countercyclical, and thus 'good for society'.
so you take the outliers as some indication of the median?
Changing their router or even turning it off won't necessary help.

Here is a way to reproduce this issue and explain my point: if you are a thief, you could setup a GPS spoofer pointing to that house or have had your router in that house in the past so that some phones registered/verified it's MAC address to be at the house location. Now assume the thieves live in a location where they took this router with them and where there is no GPS signal or other router or cell signal, but only the thieves' router turned on. Now as soon as the thieves connect the stolen phones to their router, they will report being at the house.

My bet is that this is likely an intentional attack by the thieves and that they are aware of what they are doing. There is a small chance they could have been people living in the house before or drove by to setup their spoof as it would have been much easier than getting their hands on a GPS spoofer.
Are they in it for the money? I don't think running a homeless shelter is actually that lucrative.
"Smartphone" has the same meaning as in Section 22761.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&gr...

22761. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have
the following meanings:
(1) (A) "Smartphone" means a cellular radio telephone or other
mobile voice communications handset device that includes all of the
following features:
(i) Utilizes a mobile operating system.
(ii) Possesses the capability to utilize mobile software
applications, access and browse the Internet, utilize text messaging,
utilize digital voice service, and send and receive email.
(iii) Has wireless network connectivity.
(iv) Is capable of operating on a long-term evolution network or
successor wireless data network communication standards.
(B) A "smartphone" does not include a radio cellular telephone
commonly referred to as a "feature" or "messaging" telephone, a
laptop, a tablet device, or a device that only has electronic reading
capability.

It seems like a tablet with a cellular radio could arguably fit that definition as well.
Is your corporate IT strategy expired?
Even as oil prices tank, some oil tech startups are thriving
BTW - The root certs are in the microsoft trust store now.
I doubt its just at work; the silicon valley area itself may be a bad culture fit. From experience, when you don't have people that you relate to face-to-face at home; it gets very depressing. You personally are likely to find people you relate to at home, but they may not.

Being an outsider like that is a huge tradeoff; it can feel like moving to another country.
I had a miscarriage, and it forced me to rethink what I believed about abortion
> What it were proved that Amazon was offering jobs to the homeless at the exact same rate and conditions that it offered to all its seasonal workers, thereby not treating the homeless any worse than others

The reason Amazon hires any worker, homeless or not, is to extract a profit from their work. It's entirely possible that it offers the exact same conditions as other workers, but to describe it as benevolence is naive at best.

Amazon has a huge surge in orders during the christmas period, and it struggles to find enough workers to keep up with demand. This article makes it clear that this was a scheme aimed at coping with the seasonal surge. It has nothing to do with Amazon wanting to see homeless people better off.
I love having the "what makes an assault weapon an assault weapon" discussion with people - its usually a discussion that changes their views on how we regulate firearms. I fear encryption is going to go down this same road.
The semi-permanent arrangements are usually a small number of apartments for which there are months-long waiting lists. It's considered to be like a halfway house, or a dry run for having an actual apartment, and the shelter frequently charges a nominal rent + utils, just to get the tenant into the habit of dealing with monthly bills.

But this is a tiny fraction of the total quantity of shelter beds - most are mattresses that are laid out on a gymnasium floor at 8pm (first come first served, so yes the lines form much earlier), then collected and stacked at 7am the next morning when everyone is given a quick breakfast and turfed out onto the street.
Is Rust from spring 2014 remotely compatible with current Rust (since 1.0--and the stability commitments--were in May 15)?
But obviously the '90s were not sustainable. What we are going through today is the payback period (with interest) for Greenspan's economic policies.
Ask HN: What should I learn right now to keep my programming skills current?
I just had my review and for the first time in a few years, I got 100% of my bonus. Learning Webpack and React helped a bit as well as getting more stuff done at the beginning of a sprint instead of the end. To keep my programming skills up to date, what else should I learn right now?
College choice is a problem, especially for first-generation students and those whose families aren't well-off. There are students who could do much better than Tumbleweed State, but they didn't pick the nearby Ivy because they it never crossed their minds that they could have gotten in. There might have been a decent financial aid package. If there wasn't one, who can risk debt in this economic climate.

But I can't fix the world. It's not my fault that at non-top-20 colleges they fail to teach basic things.
Assemblyman Jim Cooper represents Elk Grove a city of ~160K just South of Sacramento. Apple is the second largest employer in Elk Grove [1] and currently expanding their footprint there by several thousand jobs [2].

Hopefully there's a primary challenger or soon will be, I'll donate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Grove,_California#Top_empl...

[2] http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/12/07/someth...

{note: [2] gives a significantly larger current headcount than [1]}
So, the package manager that doesn’t do proper deduplication and, thanks to nested dependencies, runs over the file path length limit on multiple platforms?
Civilized society depends on well-articulated laws that enable citizens to understand what is legal and what isn't, and allows Police to make use of force when it is appropriate, and prevents them from using force when it isn't.

"The legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so."

Edit: the principal is known as "Policing by consent", or the Peelian Principal [1], which is fairly common in the UK.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles
Or, the iTunes radio app.
You're being downvoted, not because we don't like facts, nor because your facts are wrong, nor even because we're stupid. You're being downvoted because what you are saying is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
> Don't buy phone chargers

Agreed. I had a cheap USB charger that was working fine suddenly explode on my desk with droplets of molten metal ending up welded to my phone screen. Never again!
Maybe the industry should assign a bit in the BSSID to indicate a mobile AP that shouldn't be used for mapping purposes.
Because recruiters are lazy. They cherry pick colleges and build relationships over a period of years. Then they decide that they need more black people, so they send someone to man a booth at a historically black college and expect the same level of polish. (Which is mostly BS)

I had the same experience as a graduate of a mid tier public college. Finally a recruiter from a big company laid it out for me -- they have a list of schools they recruit from, period unless you are referred.
What to do about it: a basic income.
I don't know about putting them on a team. I've always thought of the dichotomy as being properly between "engine" code and "script" code: the engine defines your platform by implementing the mechanism, and the script defines your business use-case by implementing the policy.

See, e.g., game engines vs. Lua scripting, or the LAMP stack vs. PHP scripting, or the implementation of framework DSLs like Rails vs. their usage. Type A people write libraries and generic servers; Type B people write apps by consuming and wrapping and configuring and composing libraries and generic servers—writing the classic "glue code."

I think a lot of the misshapen cultural dynamics in most software projects are the result of Type A people thinking its their job to implement policy (in the engine), and Type B people thinking it's their job to implement mechanism (in the app.) It works best when these people aren't on a team, but instead have a clearly-defined idea of where their responsibilities end and passing the buck begins.
I'm not so sure about that as the language of the bill states:

"(d) (1) ...that is not capable of being decrypted and unlocked
by its manufacturer or its operating system provider shall not
result in liability to the seller or lessor if the inability of the
manufacturer and operating system provider to decrypt and unlock the
smartphone is the result of actions taken by a person or entity other
than the manufacturer, the operating system provider, the seller, or
the lessor and those actions were unauthorized by the manufacturer,
the operating system provider, the seller, or the lessor."

Presumably the "those actions were unauthorized" could be construed as prohibiting a FDE option from being built into the OS and provided by the manufacturer and this in conjunction with signed kernels in phones, would present a very high barrier on the user to be able to obtain device encryption without key escrow as we understand it today.
> there was never any Edenic period

Agreed.

I'm not suggesting there ever was and Edenic period where things were easy, but I do think an argument could be made that things have gotten worse for the non-technical beginner looking to host their own site.

First, they've got to make a decision of which publishing platform to install on their site. They'll probably see some online debates, talking about static site generators vs Wordpress, etc. They'll waste a few hours trying to figure out what choice to make. Once that decision is made, it's next time to find and install a better looking theme, because no platform seems capable of looking decent enough out of the box.

Compare this to handwriting and uploading html files, and it seems like we've gone backwards.

> the reality is that most people... do not care about high quality publishing or readability

I'd argue the opposite. Empires of platforms have been built around being high quality and easily readable. Look at medium, and look at instagram. A slightly better publishing experience dominates.

And to further that note, how would you self host a photo site for mobile? Is that even possible? How would you begin?

What if you wanted to make a self hosted snapchat type site for your friends to see your photos?

I've made a few unfair points, but I think the general idea remains, the self publishing tools haven't kept up with the rest of technology, in general.
All this money could be potential demand if companies invested it. The company I work for is sitting on a pile of cash while at the same time seeing a downtrend in revenue, buying back shares and paying out dividends. In theory the company should be investing this money in building future products, but it's not.

It's a combination of many factors. CEOs and management aren't motivated to invest in the long term of companies. A lot of big companies are structured so it is very difficult for them to apply capital in a way that facilitates growth. They are risk averse. This is esp. true when there is an air of global economic uncertainty like we've had over the last decade or so. This produces motivation to have a large capital safety buffer (because e.g. if you don't have capital you wouldn't be able to borrow it). In turn this compounds the problem. We are in a low inflation environment so you can sit on your money without losing much value. Tax considerations force capital to remain where it can't effectively be used so US companies don't bring their cash back to spend in the US because they are trying to save the tax.

Individuals are also very cautious because of economic uncertainty. If I look at myself I find myself spending less and trying to save more. I don't buy things I don't really need. If I felt more secure I might spend more money.
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This is really well done! The website was beautiful and ran well on desktop and mobile,

It took a few clicks (after being sold on the idea) to get to the decision-making information: price and servings. A simple solution would be to add serving information directly to the online store list (where you currently have online pricing). You could also add the "Most Popular" item (again, with price and serving info) to the bottom of the initial landing page.
I got to try F* with the developers maybe a year ago at a school in Paris. It's an amazing language when the SMT solver Just Works, but both I and the other students I spoke with were very frustrated when it didn't. Aside from the lack of Coq-style tactics, IIRC Z3 didn't give much feedback about why it couldn't prove something; when things don't work, you kind of just had to plug away awkwardly writing lemmas until Z3 can figure out what you want to prove.

That being said, this document seems to now mention something about experimental support for automatic induction, which (again, IIRC) we didn't have a year ago in Paris, so maybe that'll help. If the F* team can get over the last few hurdles and make using it ever so slightly smoother I honestly think it'll be a real game-changer: their approach to refinement types give you a tremendous degree of statically-enforced correctness without the pain of more academic dependently typed theorem provers like Coq or Agda.
They're in it for the prestige. Showing people that you care about the homeless is a sign of moral virtue, regardless of whether you're actually trying to help.

Consider what the jealous groupies sing about Captain Hammer's girlfriend in Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog:

So they say he saved her life
They say she works with the homeless, and doesn't eat meat
We have a problem with her!

Why equate working with the homeless with not eating meat? Those are both displays of feminine caring.
One thing I don't understand about basic income is how to deal with children. If the parents get the basic income of a child, then that will incentivize some people to have more kids simply to get more money.

If you don't give basic income for kids, then people with a lot of kids won't be able to live.

Of course, you can adjust the amount between the too extremes of full basic income and no basic income for kids, but just because you have a target standard of living and give the parents money to meet that for the kids, doesn't mean the parents aren't going to turn around and spend that money on themselves. They might not care that their kids are in poverty as long as they get the drugs/alcohol/new car/fashionable clothes or whatever.

As you already stated, bureaucratic welfare programs don't work, so what is the solution here?

I've never seen this discussed, and it seems like a major oversight of the basic income proponents.
Incomplete sentences aren't going to give you lung cancer for being around them tho.
> it seems more of a judgment call

Ummmm maybe things are different where you live, but I certainly hope whoever drives you around doesn't drive near where I live. Here it's definitely not a "judgment call" and people will be quite angry if you ignore stop signs.
I've wondered for a while if you might make a case for a right to encrypt around the second amendment. If anything encryption seems more relevant today than gun ownership in terms of the second amendment's original reason for being. Nobody could stand up to a modern army with personal firearms, but encryption does allow an individual to limit the power of the government to surveil or persecute them.
It's like the blogging site boom from back in the day. Lots of platforms emerged and eventually the market coalesced into a couple major players that drive a lot of the traffic now. I think the same thing will happen to this market. We're getting a lot of different ideas and approaches being thrown at the market and the winning feature set(s) will become the dominant ones either incorporated into most apps or, like the blogs of yesteryear, we'll get a couple major messaging players like we have a couple major email/blog players that dominate most of the landscape.
The bill says "...shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider."

It doesn't say how, and it doesn't give a time frame.

So: Provide an API to accept a key. Allow two key attempts per second. Start with key 0x0000..000, next try 0x000..0001. This is guaranteed to complete, you just have to be prepared to wait a while.

(Yes, I know that courts are unhappy with this kind of thing. But the bill is a crappy bill, in many regards).
I remember reading Silicon Valley company being frustrated with whatever emails they had sent on company policy being forwarded to journalists (Kara Swisher??) . One hack they came up with was to slightly reword every email slightly to identify who did it.

Maybe - this solution would help in figuring out who the leakers are!
USB 3.1 has a huge issue that it pollutes all over the 2.4 Ghz/5Ghz space thereby reducing Wifi/Bluetooth to almost useless.

Longer cables exacerbate the issue and make it worse because it now is a nice long antenna.
No. The term "mark" in that legislation specifically means a registered trademark. Unless you are one of the few strange people who has trademarked their own name, you have no grounds for action here.
Microsoft makes ~$2bn/year from it.
out of curiosity, does it only show you a single point? Does it not show you the potential error?

I'm working on a mapping app that uses GPS data and the first thing we had to address was the fact that the data we got from the GPS units in the field are not perfect, they have error, hell they report their error, and our application shows that error as part of the map data.

based on the data we have gotten from mobile phones, when a phone approximates its position based on cell towers it spits out a large error. That surely is being shown, right?
Yup, Federal regulation is definitely the way to go. No more state regulation. Wait a minute...