skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The challenge is liquidity, ie how do you seed the network and content but if you can solve that you can operate a review service for a fraction of the resources currently being wasted on these red queen races.

I've been thinking about this problem a lot too. There's actually many services that have come and gone in the review space. The solution I've come to is that any review service needs to be more than just reviews. It really needs to be more of a community.
how much is being stolen from investors via pouring money into 'other' businesses that Alibaba created

Another blatant example of this is what happened when Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba, moved control of Alipay away from Alibaba.

I don't know all the details or the eventual outcome, but appears that people are deliberately trying to obscure what happened. I simply avoid investing in those sorts of companies.

Check out these admittedly provocative headlines (the related questions) on the relationship: https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Does-Alibaba-and-Jack-Ma-st...
Payments Technology Is Changing: How Churches and NonProfits Can Keep Up
I've gotten 200x speedup going (badly written) Javascript to (better written) pure python, despite python being a nominally slower language according micro-benchmarks. Comparing run time without knowing anything about the code doesn't say much.
Concord's FAQ has a section on getting data into the system [1]. An example I've used is processing xml files at scale. A short input function digests the xml stream from our servers and another short output function creates a new document in Elastic.

[1] http://concord.io/docs/faq.html#how-do-i-get-data-into-the-s...

http://concord.io/docs/faq.html
Oh, come on, I'll give that a troll win at best. The clear implication was subverting software users would run. Let him social engineer that one. I'd put it in a bug-fix or something Obfuscated C contest style.
Getting a phone interview by contacting a company is easy if you have the right resume credentials. If not, you need someone to vouch for you to even get in the door. That's what we're doing for engineers who are strong but lack these credentials and the connections to be referred.

We find that engineers who apply to us even if they have those resume credentials are doing so for two reasons:

(1) People only have bandwidth to talk with a few companies. We have enough data across companies to filter out the ones you won't be a technical fit for. This saves the wasted time of failed onsites, which as you say is the bane of existence for programmers.

(2) Finding companies you wouldn't have otherwise heard about or realized were an interesting option for you. We can especially help here with engineers interested in joining smaller companies that haven't had breakout success yet.

Traditional recruiters only help with getting you an introduction to an arbitrary company (usually whichever responded first to an email blast). We strongly believe that a recruiting service which does intelligent matching provides a lot of value for both candidates and companies (we wrote more about that here: http://blog.triplebyte.com/triplebyte-engineer-genome-projec...).
Cargo cannot control versioning of Cargo, or at least, an external tool that handles versioning everything seems conceptually cleaner to me than making Cargo version both Cargo and rustc. It's also pretty similar to tools in other ecosystems.

There is ongoing discussion about possibly adding configuration to Cargo packages with a minimum rustc version for the package; the details have not all been worked through yet.
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"Google did the same in 2015 with another AI technology, TensorFlow, which lets anyone link computers into a neural network that can process data in a way analogous to our own biological brains."

sigh

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-offers-parsey-mcparseface-and-syntaxnet-ai-software-for-free/
Apache's Wacky but Winning Recipe for Big Data Development
How politics could disrupt the SpaceX rocket revolution
Amazon needs quality control. They sell more and more crap and you have to spend so much time perusing the reviews to find out if a product is actually good or not. Sometimes I prefer to goto Costco where yes I deal with long lines but at least I know what I am buying is of decent quality, the prices are low, and they have a very generous return policy (most electronics can be returned within 90 days and anything else you can return whenever you want with or without the receipt).
I don't necessarily agree that one should avoid re-solving "solved problems". Couldn't someone have argued that social media was a "solved problem" between MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, etc. before Facebook and Twitter came along? What about the new restaurant down the street? Isn't "getting food" a solved problem?

Not only is there nothing wrong with copying a successful company and implementing a business model that's been proven many times over, but it's far and away how most businesses start. There are a lot of wealthy people out there who got fired or laid off and just decided to start up an entity that directly competed with their former employer. Zero creativity involved in the conception of the business and zero uniqueness in their core value proposition. The customers differentiate on the dressing.

Of course it's worthwhile to consider whether the field is crowded or not, but that shouldn't be the sole consideration.
seed with ratings from other review sites, but don't show the copywritten reviews
They comingle many commodities that are fulfilled by Amazon. As long as the packing is good, you're at risk.
That doesn't really contradict adrianN's point in any way. If you integrate methane's heat retention over now to 100 years from now it still beats carbon dioxide. That doesn't mean that if you integrate from 50 years from now until 100 years from now it would still win. Much less so if you look at a geological time period in the future.
I wrote the post, as some people have picked up in the comments, the one year is a reference to the minimum time I wanted to spend working for someone at a start-up. I used the word build as when you're an early employee that's the dynamic.

My plan wasn't to leave after the year, just to re-evaluate if I was learning what I wanted to be in the role. As it turned out, I did leave as I wanted to develop my technical skills instead of carrying along the VC/Biz-dev career path.

I agree that if you're starting your own thing then 7-10 years is a good minimum time frame.
I meant connectors. Thanks for the pointer.
Love the site, and the desktop app, though browsing in the desktop app could use some speed optimization :)

Also would love a feature that allows you to move something installed to another install location.

Hope to see more people using your platform, I am definitely gonna use it to share tools I make with others since its easy to use :)
I've spent over 15 years in either a senior sysadmin, software engineer, or combined position at multiple companies, but never once once interviewed for such a position, even though I do have a CS degree. Going through an interview process is not something I would look forward to (to put it mildly).
I agree with all of this except the one week thing.

But the thing is, these deadlines were self-imposed. It wasn't like someone else was imminently about to release a similar app and they had to race to get it working. At least spend the time to get it working and fully-functional before really shopping it around. Rather they wanted to churn out some half-baked, random "good sounding" idea and then when they got funding race to make it work.

In my experience when I'm building an app or something, I learn a lot about what features make sense and what's going to be really hard to implement while building it out privately or with a small team. I/we address those issues and look for solutions or other ways around and aren't on a schedule to ship some product and hire some backend database developer to fill some huge knowledge/experience gap on short notice.

Of course hindsight is 20/20, but I think not jumping the gun like this should be good business practice.

Really I see no reason why someone had to quit their job for something that wasn't even functional. If it's functional and getting some traction and has funding, great, quit your job and do it full time, imo.

As an aside and maybe an unpopular opinion, I really doubt the founder's long-haired look was helping the brand's perceived legitimacy. Though I don't have a problem with it personally, I know the "out there" look can turn a lot of people off.
Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam
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This kinda goes to what I was mentioning with long term vision and focus. I don't think anyone wants to work their ass off for the idea guy. I think it needs to be a community of doers not dreamers. It doesn't need to be super hierarchical or exclusive, but talk is cheap.
Thanks. Wasn't sure you were using the Zookeeper instance used by Mesos. I had assumed it would be a separate instance.
Advertising is always about grabbing attention. The more impressions, the more odds of sales or uptake. It's a legit consideration anytime some stunt happens in public spreading on media or social networks.

Not that I think that has anything to do with this. Looks more like normal goofing around by security or hacking folks. If anything, he looses money or precious beer from it.
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Stop looking backward nxzero. Stop it. Obama says we can't do that. Its bad. He's not doing it. Why are you? We gotta move forward. Its time to heal and put the past behind us. As a nation. You don't want to be looking backward as a nation do you nxzero? Do you? Forward. As a nation. Look there.
> Getting a phone interview by contacting a company is easy if you have the right resume credentials.

That's the problem. Resumes shouldn't matter. The capability to solve programs through an understanding of software-- which is often acquired without going through a resume-building path-- is what matters.
We do have various compiler flags, but the problem on startup is the initialization of external libraries and deserialization of the system image, primarily.
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I'm probably getting this wrong since I haven't looked into it, but I think they're talking about the idea of an infinite number of universes that contain the totality of all that is possible. When one dies, they only cease to exist in that universe, but continue to exist in others.
He could market himself and his site in order to increase his self branding.

Even if it is a marketing stunt, it is a nice one.
> Less data is never the answer. Just my 2 cents.

That assume perfectly rational reactions. Many people can't deal with "You tested positive for X. We should keep an eye on it and see if it develops into something." It makes them nervous. They want a pill. They want surgery. etc.

The problem with even really good tests that test exactly what you want is that they have 4 modes-2 good: test positive for X/you actually have X, test false for X/you don't have X and 2 bad: test positive for X/you actually don't have X and test negative for X/you actually do have X.

The problem is that when the actual instance of "you have X" is very low, the "test positive for X/you actually don't have X" can swamp your signal.

Add in the natural noisiness of biological systems, and you wind up with lots of incorrect assessments.
It seems Jon comments on hacker news about once a year. So you win the hacker news lottery!
Thank you. I do use bash/dash and other shells regularly both on Linux and OS X. If I need my Windows desktop apps to work on the same files as I'm working on with my shell, then I just share the directory one way or another.

Flexibility is certainly debatable depending on your point of view. Personally, I only want flexibility within the realm of stability and speed. For instance - Windows does not let you switch window managers the way you can in Linux. But that's not the kind I'm interested in. I am more concerned with things like:

- Will it run on most hardware without much hassle?

- How easily can I customize the file browser to do things like adding new context menu actions (based on node type or other state) via third party modules?

- How stable are my customizations?

- Can I generally put things where I want them easily, without fighting against some overarching design opinion?

All of the Linux software that I use regularly runs in a terminal and Linux runs absolutely great in a guest VM on any type of host. If I run Windows in a guest VM, it's slower and GPU intensive apps suffer. If I really, really needed to work on an iOS or OS X app while traveling and I could only bring one device with me for some reason, I would certainly bring only my Macbook Pro. Luckily, I don't have that problem!

Looking forward, Windows will soon have Ubuntu running on the Windows kernel. If that works out, I can have the best of both worlds without keeping any VMs running. The closest I can get to this in Linux is with Wine, but that sucks worse than Cygwin does on Windows IMO.
We agree, that's why our technical interviews are done blind without knowing anything about the credentials of a candidate.
This is the most correct and obvious/very low cost way to do it that you almost start to think Amazon is in on the conspiracy with these fake reviewers because they have something to gain that we are not seeing.
I agree with the sentiment of convincing someone to give them money and then continuing to fundraise without a plan, but I think this is getting downvoted because you're acting like all this integration is trivial. It's really not. There are a million little things that take much longer to build/integrate than expected. But my contention is that even if it took a while to build/integrate/"pivot", there was no rush to do this part before seeking initial funding.
We're definitely talking about different kinds of neutrality.

In previous comments, I was talking about neutrality in his articles, particularly the political ones. That kind of neutrality is what people usually call "journalistic integrity".

Responding to Jim Rutenberg was a personal issue and had nothing to do with journalistic integrity. Silver perceived an attack and responded with an attack. You can definitely argue that it was immature, but it has nothing to do with his political commentary.

I also think this is a relevant quote:

> And this is someone who, by the way, doesn’t talk about that we were colleagues together at The New York Times, a person who cherrypicks the facts he’s looking at. So he mentions that in our Indiana prediction for the Democrat election, the underdog won [i.e., Sanders over Clinton], but in fact the favorite has won 51 of 56 times in our polls-only forecast. To me, that’s dishonest and unethical, frankly. And he doesn’t really take the time to truly understand what’s going on.
There should be a site that reviews and rates sites that review and rate reviews, so we could finally know which reviews reviews site to go to to find out which reviews are authentic.
> But if the Cloud is made up of hard drives, then hard drive manufacturers still win.

If drives in the Cloud are, on average, utilized more efficiently (both in terms of less unused drive capacity being purchased, and existing drives being used for more of their design life and not being tossed because the device they are in is end-of-life even if the drive isn't) than traditional locally-deployed (both client and server) drives, then increasing cloud use could mean the manufacturer's still lose (in terms of year-over-year sales) even with total storage increasing, if the increase in average efficiency outpaces the increase in storage, so that annual drive sales drop.
So then it comes down to which is cheaper: having hot molten salt maintained on site, or dropping cargo containers full of lithium batteries on-prem to provide dispatchability for the facility.

I argue batteries will get cheaper, faster, than trying to manage hot molten salt.
My comment addressed that:

> I suggest putting that at post-checkout because it's a point where Amazon still has the user engaged, so asking is not annoying (like their emails currently are), but the user is done shopping so they aren't preoccupied with something else.

And I addressed your second point as well in my comment.
> By what measure? How exactly did you come to that conclusion?

By the fact that you haven't said anything interesting, valid, or insightful at all. You sound like a oblivious soccer mom who thinks cell phones are stupid because they can run out of batteries.

> I absolutely did. Perhaps you should read my comment again.

'I used redhat since I was a little boy.' is not the kind of mention I'm talking about.

> Did you miss the part where I said that I've been using Linux and Macs professionally since early releases of both?

Did you miss the part where this is a useless statement which adds nothing to the discussion?

> Seriously...Are you calling me a liar?

I can't call you a liar because I don't know anything about you, everything you said might be a lie. I am calling you an idiot however, because you managed to demonstrate that quite definitively. :)

> It's certainly not because I don't know how to use Linux or the Mac OS. And I find it hilarious that you've come to that conclusion despite not knowing anything about me

But you told me you've been using linux since you were a little girl playing hop-scotch in the yard :). Surely that's all I need to know?
To clarify, I didn't get a role as a dev at the start-up in the post on HN, it was in the investment team.

Then after I left I spent 2 weeks solidly trying to hit the course requirements, then 3 months on the coding course. There was also time before that learning syntax on coding academy in my evenings.

Since finishing the course (in December 2015) I've been freelancing with some mentorship at Founders & Coders. It's only now that I feel I could apply for a role as junior dev. So really it's been 7 months, and a lot of hours, getting to that standard.
Are these bad cables UL listed? That seems like it would be an easy enough filter for someone like Amazon to employ.

Electricity goes through it. Check. UL listed? Check. Okay, goes on the suggestions page.
One of Heinlein's books plays with this concept. There's a Martian race that are essentially immortal, at least from natural causes. Every 40-50 years they go through a change and become childlike for 5 years. Lack of awareness, playfulness, no interest in sex, and an emotional state that changes quickly. It's explained that it's how they are able to rejuvenate themselves.
you suck Victor. You gave lame exuces for avoiding a great project such as julia that is in early stage. Poor is the one that listens to you
This isn't about an "app". This is about a business that initiates transfers of money from one account to another. The people behind this didn't realize what business they were in.

If you want to initiate transactions in the financial system, you have to work through what happens when things go wrong, and be prepared, financially and operationally, to handle them. How does the money get from the parent's account to the kid's account? Note that if the kid can get cash out, you can't fund this with a credit card. Visa and MasterCard don't let you buy money with a credit card; that's too fraud-prone.

So, as someone pointed out, you're back to ACH debits. Getting set up for those is hard, for good reasons. It gives you a connection to other people's bank accounts. So you need financial strength, bonding, and good references.

Note that the chore list has to be secure, too. Otherwise the kid can add "Mow lawn, $1000", check off the item, and drain the parent's account.

If you try to do this by having the parent transfer money to you in advance, and you then release it to the kid later, you're now a depository institution. In most states, you have to be a bank or a money transmitter to do that. (It's so tempting to take the money and run, and that's happened enough times that such businesses are regulated.) Also, that's a pain for the parent. They might as well use Venmo.

PayPal was successful partly because, back when they were above the bike shop on University Avenue in Palo Alto, they started as a security token maker. So they had security people and were familiar with the problems. A big portion of PayPal's operating costs come from dealing with fraud. The legit transactions are fully automated; the problems require a big call center.
I think one of the benefits is that it changes those onsite interview from something akin to "come in and we''l see if you are worthy" to "come meet with us and we'll mutually see if there's a good culture and attitude fit" since your skillset has mostly been vetted by that point.
How exactly do I download my keys from WhatsApp?
> I just don't get how this can cost so much.

Salaries. Adds up fast when you have, or need to have, multiple people working for you. Even more so in SF.

There are also lawyer fees. And in their case, office. I assume it's harder to raise capital if you are in mom's basement, specially after getting angel funding.
I was thinking the same thing. WebObjects has been on life support for many, many years now. What's shocking is that it had any level of external support 10 years ago, not that that support is ending now. It reads like CNN was framing it as another Apple doom-and-gloom, whatever-will-they-do-without-Steve story, especially with the claim that it was one of his "favorite projects" [?], and OMG now they're cancelling it, this is proof that it's not the same company anymore, etc.

Its importance to NeXT in the '90s was more as a life raft than as something they thought would sweep the tech world and make billions of dollars for them. It was something Steve was hoping NeXT could pivot to instead of going out of business (NeXT was circling the drain in the mid-'90s, just not as dramatically as Apple was). It came out after NeXT had left the hardware business, after it became clear that going software-only wasn't going to save them, and in the early days of the dotcom bubble, so it would've made a lot of sense to try to hitch their wagon to up-and-coming web technologies.

This was before Apple paid a lot of money to get taken over by NeXT, and the rest is history! The life raft never caught on in a huge way (although it obviously found some valuable niches to fill), and after a couple more years it became clear that a life raft was no longer needed, and may have even become a distraction.
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Does FakeSpot exist? The progress bar hangs whatever product I try it on.

Meanwhile the "Recommended with honest reviews" products have acquired some one star reviews of their own.

Useful or not? No idea. Doesn't look like it so far.

But this is probably an unsolvable problem.

You could solve it by hiring and paying 100% independent mystery shopper reviewers with unimpeachable integrity, and only reviewing products actually purchased for real money.

I don't think many online merchants would support that.

This is a fundamental problem with scarcity transactions - it's always more profitable to game the system than to play honestly.
I have very high chance of diabetes and other blood sugar related health problems, like heart diseases. I certainly think that cheap, repetitive blood tests would help me improve my health in the same way having my phone count my steps helps me to have a more active life. Please make it work. Maybe that start-up won't make, then please make another one. Thanks.