skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A startup is about using other people's money as a leverage for your idea/work. An investment is about being on the other side.

A rich guy who wants to make more money in the tech field will be better off doing angel investing, literally getting on the other side of the counter with startup founders.

After all, capital isn't hard to come by these days. Even outside of the Valley. I have raised (and sadly, burned uselessly) money and it was no way hard. So the factor of having money doesn't mean much. Apart from that, a rich guy will have some advantages (self-confidence, ability to take risks, good initial network) and some disadvantages. Among these are poor understanding of audience for most kinds of ideas, pressure from high status relatives ('startups are hipster toys, you have to go to business school'), high opportunity costs. If we look at successful startup founders, very few come from rich families. Also, having to raise outside money provides a reality check, something which a rich kid will code using his own money has a higher chance to become just a toy - facing investors provides validation and feedback you can't ignore. Raising money is something people think is hard, and it's no way fun to do, so they avoid it whenever they can, so someone who doesn't need it will probably not do it. Which leaves him all alone with his vision...
Without me, my keyboard will achieve nothing. Without a manager, a good developer will go on trying to create value.

The purpose of the manager is not to squeeze productivity out of a developer as you might blood out of a stone (although some seem to think it is), but to try to make sure that the developers are working on the right stuff for the company. In a healthy organisation, that can be done as part of a dialogue with the developers and takes the form primarily of communication.
> I think it helps to be vocal as well, blog a lot, speak at conferences a lot, and so on.

This takes a lot of time too. I always get stuck trying to think about what to blog about, and someone advised me that I should do more projects so I have something to blog about. But then the projects take all my blogging time away.

Same goes with speaking, for me at least.
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> Many things are forbidden by law, and many people do them anyway, because they know it is not /that/ forbidden. And not only in China, it is the same in France for example.

China is not a place I'd like to test those boundaries.
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I'm not sure if the response to difficulties in measurement is to build a system out of faith and assumptions.

We can analyze different policy decisions, either by modeling human behavior (based on experiments which can be controlled and analyzed), or through natural experiments (e.g., What happens when a bunch of states and municipalities alter their minimum wage policies?)
The crypto choices are quite odd (not using OTR or something like it, using ElGamal and not other standard curves). The logging policy is also broader than I'd like. We should really be pushing for Ricochet (which anonymises your social graph using Tor hidden services and uses OTR for the end-to-end encryption) to have a mobile app and better user experience and just get everyone to use that.
How would you describe the value of being able to spend time with your children vs. being stuck far from your family? This is a trade parties could make, and could result in a Pareto improvement (e.g. if someone with no family traded jobs with someone who had children they loved).
Just some questions:
1. How many files can each user share?
2. Is there a file-size limit?
3. Where are the files hosted and are there any privacy guarantees? Are the files encrypted?
Soylent probably isn't absolutely perfect. But it could still be better than normal food. It's not like normal food is optimized for nutrition, and we eat a ton of things that weren't around when humans evolved. Or wildly different portions and amounts. Soylent at least tries to optimize. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better.

The only risk that keeps being brought up is that there is some obscure chemical that our bodies needs that soylent excludes. As long as you don't go on a 100% Soylent diet, that risk can be avoided.

And this isn't a new idea at all. There have been liquid foods before soylent, people in comas have been fed by IV even. We mass produce meals for animals like the article mentions. And people eating soylent don't seem to be dying left and right. Young humans naturally live on an entirely liquid diet like to soylent, so it's clearly possible.
It appears to be officially deprecated as of November 2010, though it is perhaps one of those heavily used APIs (such as static charts API) that Google is in no rush to disable https://developers.google.com/web-search/docs/?hl=en
I found you can get cheap <$100 LED 10k+ lumen flood lights targeted at the 4WD market off eBay. You just then need the appropriate power supply, again cheap ~$20.

edit: colour for most seem to be 6500k too
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For me the solution has been to stick with my national ccTLD registry. If your country has strong private protection laws then your national registry will shield your information for your ccTLD domains from public whois. It's not exactly bulletproof, they still make that information available from their whois database but it's just another step someone has to make to get to your information. That much said, on a ccTLD you should be able to get away with only just a name, surname and a valid email address.

What are the alternatives? Those fishy private protection companies? Technically once you sign up there, they own your domain, simple as that.

OpenNIC? I wish that was the case.
Compiler and OS vendors. The same behind undefined behavior.

Although people like to bash C++, there isn't any programming language with an ABI as part of the language standard, not even C.

The C ABI that so many people adhere to, only exists in OS written either in C or C++ (via extern "C").

By the historical accident that all commercial major OSes are mostly written in C, developers that aren't language lawyers tend to think C ABI is somehow defined in some standard.

In OSes that weren't written C, with C compilers available, like OS/400, VMS, Lillith, Lisp Machines, Oberon, the ABI being used isn't the C one.
Long time BC resident here, but this is the first time I've heard about this law. According to this [1] CBC article, the official rationale is:

> The intent is to deny criminals a protection that might make them more likely to engage in violent behaviour, Heed said.

> "Police see it all too often. The gang member or organized criminal is out on our streets and in our neighbourhoods while hiding behind the added protection of bulletproof vests as innocent bystanders remain unprotected and vulnerable," Heed said.

> "By taking away criminals' sense of security, we decrease the potential for violence in public settings."

But that seems like a pretty weak rationale to me. Quoting from the article, "gangsters who ignore gun laws weren't likely to obey body armour laws".

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/body-armour-t...
"I assume this keeps popping up on Hacker News because of schadenfreude,"

I don't know, I think there are chronic reposting lately in all categories, just not this topic. Don't we have a bot to remove duplicate posts? Because it doesn't seem to be working these days.
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The thing is, placebo is actually extremely effective... so if you believe power poses are really helping, they probably are! Same with the power of prayer, or voodoo dolls, or whatever...
Ah, I didn't realize it was deprecated. Just about every IRC bot out there uses it ;)
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I don't think there's an API and the explorer function is rather limited (so as not to expose "private" sullabi).

Here's an example question this project can help answering: Do non elite schools incorporate new, or non-mainstream, material quicker than elite schools?
Is there a reason you didn't publicly disclose after 90 days? (I'd argue that the criticality of the vulnerability would justify a 7-day timeframe). The one problem with the way the security community deals with large vulnerabilities is that the researchers don't stick to their guns regarding responsible disclosure. I would prefer to know that I have to do <XYZ> to minimise the impact rather than find out that I was vulnerable for more than 5 months. Hell, I'd be happy to stop using my smartphone for a week if it meant the problem would be solved faster.
Covered 9 days ago.[1] That time it was a NYT article.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905091
Question data can help answer: Are similar courses taught in two (or more) disciplines?
Gmail also allows yourname.amazon@gmail.com
Is the aim to do event sourcing for later data analysis or to actually base your app's business logic off of the events?

I have some experience with using events to construct the final state for data analysis. (If you didn't mean for data analysis, just ignore this comment) The problem with trying to reconstruct data at some final state based on events is that the meaning of the events change over time. For instance, createUser might do one thing in January, then something slightly different in April (e.g. sets a default value to be 10 instead of 5). It becomes a nightmare to try to get the final table to be accurate, and if you try, your reconstruction script ends up with a bunch of if/then cases based on the history of the program generating the events.

You still probably want to log the events, but it looks like you are hoping to recreate the users table based on your createUsers history, which would run into the problem I mentioned above.

If you do log data straight to files, you can always analyze it with something like Splunk or Kibana (and if you use Kibana, you probably just log the events with the ELK stack). Still, it's way easier to analyze data with a relational database because of the tools built around SQL, and it's already familiar to analysts whereas Splunk's proprietary language is something they'd have to learn.

If you end up using SQL, I suggest https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/ for the data warehouse, and http://DataDuckETL.com/ for getting the data into Redshift.
Video about a guy who took this to the extreme and made a truck sized camera: https://vimeo.com/39578584 (thumbnail is slightly nsfw)
Here's an example as a 30k lumen light bar for only $142

http://www.ebay.com/itm/52INCH-300W-LED-LIGHT-BAR-Mounting-B...
haha... that is exactly how I met my sig-o as well. I like your style.
One of the things that sold developers to PSX was that Sony took a huge effort to provide a great SDK with the console, something unusual from the other vendors.

This was another reason they got lots of flame with the PS3, as not only was it hard to program for, the SDK wasn't that great.

Hence why they spent around two years time bringing out a great graphics debugger developed with input of teams like the Gran Turism one, and a middleware for prototyping ideas, PyreEngine.
Rituals have glued societies together for millennia
This is really nice.
"That would make a good story though, a full on first strike that missed every target '500m to the East' due to some mapping oversight."

Something similar has happened at least once(0)..

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_C...
Still waiting for them to open to the rest of the world, beta is only for USA. Frankly , no idea what is taking them so long.
You should be able to talk with Siri about your thousands of options and correct its thousands of guesses.

"Siri, why do you think I'm walking in the middle of the road?"

"Oh, I'm sorry -- you're not driving a car? Would you like me to stop snapping your position into the middle of the road, then?"
The importance of habits appears essential in order to maximize the available coding time.
The modular food idea in one of the replies is indeed a great one that I do apply.
Getting enough quality sleep is a must, especially when learning new things. Add at least an hour.
Taking 20 min naps works wonders.
If course, nothing beats putting in the hours, provided the above is taken care of.
One useful thing I do is walk the dog daily without any music/podcast. Looks like it puts my brain in a kind of freewheel that helps me a lot in figuring out solutions. I do that when it is dark outside, stars, moon, night noises seem to have an impact.
An additional noon walk doesn't hurt.
Being part of an open source (http://pharo.org) community makes me aim for higher than I would on my own. These people are very inspiring and deliver awesome things. So I want do to it too as I see that it is feasible.
I am married and having a partner who understands the peculiarities of the line of work helps. We have a huge wall calendar to schedule it all.
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Mass communication is used precisely to allow centralised persuasion of whole populations so it should work on software engineers
Is the company unable to function? Can I not go to zappos.com and buy something? Zappos just reduced their payroll expense by tens of millions of dollars probably due to deadweight attrition. So I think they will be doing much better.
Cross-trial of treatment outcomes in depression: a machine learning approach
How Closures Actually Work
Can't someone just steal the API key in a currently authorized app?
Apache Kudu as a More Flexible and Reliable Kafka
Very impressive. I didn't know tokens referenced their session by ID instead of handle; this seems like the most serious of the architectural errors here. I wonder if it can be fixed.
The Heart and Soul of Prototypal OO: Concatenative Inheritance
Because the worst thing you can do for morale is move the cheese. People probably were building up their reputations, review histories, etc, angling for a promo which would net them more responsibility and money, and now Tony comes along and moves the fucking cheese. Moreover, moves it so well that no understands where it is anymore and how to get some. That, in a nutshell, is why people are leaving.
If you just look at the numbers, pretty much everyone always is.
Chrome 47 and OS X 10.11.2 here, the mathematical symbols all show fine for me. Do you have any plugins or visual assistance enabled?
"The gpu will deal with the quads itself, possibly by creating two triangles for each quad. This is very unlikely to be a performance hit since it does not affect shading."

No modern GPU (or API in fact) deals with quads. You can't guarantee all vertices to be coplanar when dealing with floating point values so you're much better off pushing triangles and not forcing driver to do conversion for you. Also if vertex data bandwidth is scarce in particle-heavy scene (so you actually care if it's 3 of 6 or whatever vertices), just push one vertex and expand it in GS like everyone else does.
Investors compare earnings quality across all sectors. Very very few companies trade at 8x revenue. Tech companies typically get a premium because they usually are quasi monopolies (See MSFT at 4x EV/Rev) and have solid growth rates. If you're not adding users, it means your growth is in question; how do you then justify an 8x multiple?

For reference most run of the mill companies trade somewhere around 1x revenue.

Why would their costs go down rapidly; stock based comp? Typically stock based comp has a strike price lower than the current share price. So they save but maybe not as much as the stock price collapse might suggest. Also, they'd still be unprofitable. A lot of professional investors feel they should cut costs, focus on periscope, and start making money off the new organisations that make money off of having access to information now. Things like charging the times and the journal for a live feed from ground action in Syria.
Some people are saying JSON ≠ Python Object Notation. Here we go! https://github.com/brhs/pon

(I used OP's work as a reference. Amazing you can do this in so few lines of code.)
Maybe check out gandi.net? Very happy with them so far.
Does it use SC API's ( guess not )

or does it scrap / manipulate the sound cloud client ?

is it allowed ?
3rd strike convictions per mandatory guidelines: http://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Chart-All-Fed-MMs...
Ask HN: Where can I find a complete list of Selenium IDE commands?
I'm new to Selenium and I need to know what each command will do for me. I need to find a complete list of Selenium IDE commands so I can use them to test. any help will be apprecited :)
I learned OOP with Turbo Pascal 5.5, and already used a few other versions up to Delphi 1.0, C++ and VB, before I got to use Smalltalk.

So I was already comfortable with the concepts as such.

But playing with one of the foundations of OOP concepts had some fun to it, the environment fully dynamic that you could explorer and change anything (better save the image before).

Also it was my first contact with FP, given the Lisp influence on Smalltalk blocks and collection methods. The original LINQ if you wish.

Then the mind blogging idea of meta-classes and the interesting things one could do with them.

Smalltalk given its Language OS didn't had any main as such, you were supposed to use the Transcript (REPL) or the class browser to launch applications.

As an IDE, you could prune the image and select a specific class as entry point to create a production executable.

But after that semester, I lost access to it, so eventually I spent more time reading those wonderful Xerox PARC books about Smalltalk-80 than using Visual Works.

As for the VM primitives in Assembly, I also liked it, but many people see that as a disadvantage, like you mention.
As I recall from my business management classes in college, no studies have ever shown a correlation between worker happiness and productivity. That doesn't mean that happiness has no effect on other metrics - but this subject has been studied in depth for the last century and researches keep getting the same result.
UK fitness community app “Fitssi” launches in the US
The IOS app that connects fitness fanatics and those on their fitness journey, headquartered in London, made its intentions for the US fitness market during its recent visit to the LA Fit Expo in Los Angeles.

Fitness consumers have irreversibly changed the way they interact with fitness and Fitssi is perhaps one of the best kept secrets for life hacking, no need to engage in demotivating or uninspiring workout routines alone, a fitness partner can boost your motivation, increase your results and widen your fitness circle.

Fitssi is a social app connecting users with new and interesting fitness partners on-demand and encompasses an athleisure lifestyle within one app. Far more smarter than a swipe left/swipe right app, the new version 3.1 which was launched at TechCrunch Disrupt London last year, delves deep to give users a like-minded fitness match based on location, activity level, experience and preferred activities, and the newsfeed where users can post hot or sweat dripping fitness selfies also enriches users engagement and social discovery. Each user has their own profile screen which allows other users to see a short bio, how many partners sessions have been completed and a gallery displaying selfies. Once users are authenticated through a Facebook login they then have a choice to post workout schedules or make requests to join others in their training sessions. The integration with iCal means training slots are synchronised with the users device and alerts are delivered before sessions begin.

Available for download on the appstore now.
Minuscule number of issues that can lead to identity theft. I'm fairly sure that most countries have laws stating companies must prevent this to a reasonable extend, even if it means being inconvient to 99.99% users calling. This is after all a simple way to teorists to get a new identity. At the very least they should be able to flag accounts are high risk, and special procedures and senior staff handling such cases.

That said, the author have a very good point. If you cannot log into your account, they should not assist you. MS Support/Store does something similar. They send an email with a code to the address they have on record. If you cannot tell them the code they send, they will not help you. So if you cannot log into your account, they can assist you in password recovery, and take it from there.
I've thought of checking that... Instead of Domains By Proxy LLC or whatever legally holding your account, setup an offshore shell corporation and use that to register my domains, becoming my own whoisguard in the process. It's going to be more expensive than these services, but the domains stay under your full control and you can keep your personal info private.
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Ask HN: My friend and I cannot agree on our server side stack for our startup
I'm a Linux/Mac guy that loves node.js but my friend is more familiar with C# / Microsoft technologies.
Me and my friend are building a nice web app with Angular js and we cannot agree on the server side technology yet.
He wants our server to be written in C# and MS SQL server. I feel way more conferrable using node.js with Postrgres and Linux servers.
Each of us tried other's technology stack and every time one of us had difficulties developing on the other's preferred technology.
What should we do in order to help us to solve this problem?
How the President and CEO of a Top Japanese Automotive Supplier Uses Noteshelf
I was in Tokyo in 2013 and 2014. I remember seeing lots of salarymen all dressed the same, also government workers all dressed the same with their little badges on their sleeves and I couldn't help thinking about the lack of individuality in their culture.

It doesn't surprise me that Japan is mimicking the U.S. by bailing out failing local companies.

The real issue with Japan is their lack of entrepreneurship. They used to be fierce competitors but are now more of an afterthought.
In the US, the relation Legal Name ~ Home Phone Number ~ Address is emphatically not private. It's in the phone book, it's in directories published by local school districts, it's on public property ownership records, in some cases voter registrations are subject to FOIA, it's on corporate registrations, amateur radio licenses, FAA pilot licensing (including small drones), all kinds of professional certifications and business licensing which is published on the internet, etc.

So no, very unlikely.
Given the revolving door of people coming and going frequently, personally that's offputting.

So unless there's a burning reason that compels you to work there, maybe it's not a bad thing to look elsewhere.

Disclaimer: I have never applied to Twitter.

PS. Twitter apparently uses Jobvite [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-companies-pass-on-using-Jobvite
I don't believe they will have a high Ra value for the CRI. I.e., shitty color representation as is common for street lights.
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Technological progress drives long term economic growth.
Economics merely tries to maximise utility of land, labor, capital. We already maximised utility of land and labor a long time ago. We can further increase that utility with physical capital (fancy word for possesion of technology).

<sarcasm>There is also financial capital (fancy word for money) and it's primary purpose is getting more financial capital. Buying land, labor or physical capital are secondary.</sarcasm>
There's IBVA also (Mac support)
Why data journalists (and everybody else) should start using R in 2016
This one is a good read: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/