skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone knows SPI likely has BS numbers made from very creative accounting. I wouldn't doubt that, that's the case with many of them. I'd be interested to know how much they actually make. I think that this type of thing - going beyond superficial aggregation or testing - would keep your traffic there.

Anyway Nathan Barry, the founder of an email marketing company Convert Kit - a company on your list, says it pretty well: the best way to drive traffic to your products is to first drive traffic to yourself.

https://vimeo.com/95680313 - A talk by Nathan Barry
(Check out that Vimeo account for more talks from founders)

Driving traffic to yourself is typically done with content marketing. Here's a podcast from Empire Flippers - a company on your list - interviewing the founder of another company on the list, WP Curve.
https://empireflippers.com/wpcurve/
(Note that podcasting and blogging is Empire Flippers' form of content marketing, and a big reason why they're as big as they are)

And here's an in depth guide by Neil Patel
https://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-content-ma...
(Quicksprout, which seems to be an umbrella company for niche sites, also looks like it has transparent revenue btw)

In closing, I'll reiterate that it's probably most important that, like Y Combinator itself says, you build something that people want.

You can shoot me an email if you want. I'm a willing wall to bounce ideas off of.
ryanacalvo /at/ gmail
> Scala, Groovy, Clojure, JRuby, etc.

I am yet to work in a Java project where I am allowed to use any of them.

Regarding the properties I really don't get what is the big deal.

No one used to complain about C++ properties, that besides having to write accessors and mutator methods, one needs to declare them on the header files as well.

Or the first version of C# properties isn't much shorter than how it is done in Java, which is still required when extra logic needs to be implemented.

It is been a few years since I have done any Python, but don't do they require two separate functions that are then mapped to a property declaration?
Bahh! I read as, "DNA reveals the Higgs Boson". Was mighty intrigued.
I'm not so sure anyone was using the term AGI when the first Matrix movie came out. Anyway, you cannot expect Hollywood to always use the precisely correct term for things scientific without first pushing up your glasses.
You could stand to read my comment before you reply.
Regarding performance: these mono-repo tools work differently and are optimised for their workload.

Regarding why the hell you would do it: In a corporate setting you tend to throw all kinds of st into your repo. In my workplace that includes, network configurations, 200 MB binary tools, usernames (and who knows, passwords too probably).

We do this because we want all the different things, including external dependencies and "ops stuff" to be syncronised. That would be totally insane in the open source world where you are releasing to the public -- but it seems corporations can make it work internally.
Google open sources the code that powers its domain registry
I don't think its just business travelers, most people in full-time jobs tend to want to leave and return on specific days - i.e. fly out on Friday night, return on Sunday night (not necessarily in the same weekend).
Yes, it is just as prestigious.
>Similarly, I have a habit of looking over someone's resume and picking a few random technologies they mentioned to discuss. I'm surprised how often candidates claim experience with a technology and can't really describe what they've done with it or discuss it intelligently

I know what you're saying, but there's different levels.

Several years ago, I read a couple of books on Hibernate/JPA and played around with it on some toy projects. Where I work never really ended up using it.

Should I put Hibernate on my resume? I know a lot more than someone who has never used it, but it's been a few years since I've done anything with it, and I never really used it in production/anger.

I wouldn't pretend to be an expert (and I'm guessing some people with my level of experience would), but I still think it's OK to put it on my resume (although I'm not sure if it's on my current resume because I don't really care to work with it :)).
(b) Then what's the point? Just hurt Thiel? Demand virtue signal from Altman? Ritual purity?

(c) Surely so, but I am inclined to draw the distinction between "policies X advocating are wrong" and "Y must shun X for advocating the policies or be shunned himself". The first promotes the conversation, the second shuts it down.

(f) Prooflink?
A+ is also relative to the environment. Performance doesn't always extend across companies. Solo programmers who are an A+ in informal environments struggle in environments that require more inter-programmer coordination. And some A+ specialists sometimes struggle when expected to be generalists, and vice versa. Some big company superstars thrive in small companies, but not all. And some startup superstars would fall apart with the structure of Microsoft and Google.
Collapse of the USA is always one way out.

Now that the world is ruled by Russia, China, India and others, this is a distinct possibility if the people of America don't get their shit together and start being builders rather than destroyers.

It is a serious cultural revolution happening world wide.
This is so wise and respectful. I really appreciate this comment.

Someone supporting Trump does not imply that they are sexist or racist. The issues are complex. Ultimately, if an employee has shown nothing but respect for fellow coworkers and is performing their job adequately, then I don't think you have a good reason to fire them.

What if I fired an employee for donating to a church? Or to the Clinton campaign? Regardless of the legality of the action, I would never do this. I believe it would be dishonorable. Now, if the employee were causing problems at work, then this is an entirely different situation.

We must respect each other's differences. Firing Marcos would only succeed in alienating him, further entrenching him in his perspective.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Firing someone on the basis of a political donation (to a major candidate, nonetheless) seems pretty hateful to me.

Respect for the parent commenter, and Sam Altman for doing (what I think) is the difficult but honorable thing.
I’m from Norway. It has always been something of a given, from our perspective, that Americans work on average more hours per week than we do. It’s something you hear all the time. Also, that in the U.S. it’s more common to relocate for a job, and, accept longer commutes.

I have a full-time position, and work a maximum of 37.5 hours every week.
Regarding material, are there standard dimensions for FR-4 (and other materials) boards out of which PCBs are manufactured?
My progress on summarizing this can be found at

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/63e5ecb1de2511985255a98bce...
Philippines: Overall crime down but murders spike by 60%
Should every government official be required to wear a body cam and record every conversation they have?

Yes, and we have the technology now to stream it live. If someone feels entitled to spend my money and tell me how to live, it's the least they can do.
BABY FOOD CHallENGE
I thought it was "wreck a nice peach".
20th Century Fox Just Poured Big Money into VR Animation
Might I humbly suggest going camping, without your phone? The right beach is an amazing place to do this, the right time of year. You might discover why 8 hours can be so precious.
Pewdiepie's New Game Is a Bleak Look at Being a YouTube Star
Well from what I have seen this only says when prices are going up, not down - so it's not that close.
Lucky for you India is one of Googles favorite markets. They put a lot of effort into accommodating Indian users because of the massive untapped market. It's no surprise that it works well with an Indian accent.

The most common accent complaint I have heard is from people in the Southern US with very specific local accents. Look up Cajun and Appalachian English.
Yes, this footgun is why I've been really wary of the of the `fetch()` plus es6-promise polyfill bandwagon. I've been giving that a wide berth. Examples why:

- http://requirebin.com/?gist=8f13d5147c1c252ab1691115bfa8b7c5

- http://requirebin.com/?gist=06e8c85fcaca56c9651c6aabd0d91476
Yes, and they could easily hide a noisy, chaotic work environment in a video chat as well.
Is the only way for you find the claim she said the above statement true that someone produce a recording of the meeting at State where they were discussing droning people? Strikes me as an unreasonable bar, but hey, do you. Think recordings of everything HRC says would be wise, given her security practices?
ELIZA could be made to believe in God.
Depends a bunch.

Some things like Guava got more or less obsolete in JDK8.. so seeing it targeting JDK5.. doesn't really matter.

Also JDK5 stuff will work on JDK8.. so you can suck in all the JDK5 libraries you want, but still run a JDK8 project.
This will happen:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jlss...
Insanely over priced, design is terrible as well. Sony's latest xperia device looks pretty sweet.
Don’t blame the robots: Manufacturing, automation, and globalization
I look forward to being able to converse with Microsoft's research team as easily as I can with humans. I hope that one day, journalists can learn to write headlines with similarly low rates of error.
That's a great landing page -- hope your business goes well.
Here's part of his answer:

"There’s been a lot of misquoting of me and WikiLeaks publications. In this particular case, the misquoting has to do with that we intend, or I intend, to harm Hillary Clinton or that I don’t like Hillary Clinton. All those are false. They come about as a result it seems of this campaign and those who are trying to personalize our publications."
>, but something about the overall tone seems a bit off: [...] You're not an "A+ player", and most of your team aren't "A+ players" either.

I believe you misinterpreted the author's backhanded "compliment" about teams' _self-proclaimed_ "impressive A+ players". His tone is sarcasm if you combine it with the repeated fixation on "Fibonacci" puzzles in the rest of the essay:

- quote: , what possible insight does questions like “solve a Fibonacci sequence” + whiteboard + no internet give you to know about a person fit for a development role?

- Go Beyond Fibonacci Pen/Paper Tests to Assess Candidates

- If you get Fibonacci’ed in your next job interview, perhaps you should look elsewhere? If you are the one doing the Fibonacci’ing, you are doing it wrong.

(In other words, if your team bombards candidates with Fibonacci, you of course will think your company consists of A+ players!)

His "tone" might have tripped the obvious sarcasm detector more readily if he wrote it to say: "it's time to hire a new developer to join your impressive Project Euler hackathon champions. blah blah blah"
> Some customers outright asked me where's breakfast. Oddly ive seen this primarily with younger people.

I'll blame that on the AirBnB name itself. BnB implies Bed and Breakfast, so people might rightly expect that breakfast would be served.

I think it'd be better if both sides---consumer/suppliers---looked at AirBnB offerings as a bed and breakfast or a vacation rental, but never as a straight up hotel or couchsurfing replacement.
"Not long ago I screwed up a tech interview because I couldn't remember/figure-out-on-the-spot the iteration condition for estimating square roots by the Newton-Raphson method, and I was not willing to cheat by looking it up on Wikipedia while I was on the phone. Their loss."

Out of curiosity, what type of developer position were you interviewing for?
Hm, yes in the case where there's only one layover it does say where and for how long. It doesn't show you that detail for 2+ layovers, and it doesn't show you what the length of the legs are or the local arrival/depature times on the comparison screen.
You're argument is exactly what I call the difference between a "trade programmer" and a "computer scientist". You are describing the former, while all the Google-copycat interviews with algorithms and data structures are designed to hire the latter.

As you said, trade programmers typically glue together existing components and frameworks. Sometimes, this is really all that's necessary, as you have proven with your businesses. Computer scientists are qualified to create those underlying systems in the first place, properly weighing and selecting the algorithms and data structures to meet constraints.

I don't mean any of this to cast a negative light on trade programmers. They are 80-90% what a business needs, and I think there should be better opportunities for people to become such without the 4-year degree. [0] However, the limitations also need to be understood, and in my opinion a business is best served with a smaller set of computer scientists to provide technical guidance. Otherwise, you will see a lot of history-repeating-itself type of bad decisions.

[0] This is basically the hole that bootcamps have attempted to fill. They could also be filled with associates degrees or apprenticeships.
The IoT is a disaster in slow-motion, and outside of highly technical circles, it seems to be one that is totally invisible.
It's way beyond mere feeling uncomfortable, it's building a community based on groupthink and intolerance to dissent. At this point, plain uncomfortable is a distant dream we yearn for.
Trump’s taxes: Clinton campaign prepares a new provocation
I did and it worked perfectly for me.
In my opinion your comment, now removed, wasn't informative. You complained the title was clickbait and that you initially didn't want to click it (ok, then don't). Then followed about Alphabet's ever increasing privacy invasion.

The source "googleblog.com" next to the title on HN is clear enough. It's a company that open sources a project on github (https://github.com/google/nomulus). I don't think the announcement is disguised, spinned or misleading.

My downvote as off-topic came because it didn't address the announcement itself. To be honest I had the impression you read the title only, not the announcement itself.

That said I think the title techcrunch chose is clearer "Google open sources the code that powers its domain registry"
I think this is the only reason any of us landed here...
Yeah, because they're less trust worthy than True Pundit.
I am 32, similar position as you (Lead SE).

Just save 50% of your money, retire cheaply at 45 or 50. It's not that hard to do with 100k+ salaries.

Once you get in the mind-set, the job becomes more fun. You know there's an end to it, and you have enough cash to walk at any time.
Do I understand correctly, when Mozilla says:

In early 2017, Firefox will show an overridable “Untrusted Connection” error whenever a SHA-1 certificate is encountered that chains up to a root certificate included in Mozilla’s CA Certificate Program. SHA-1 certificates that chain up to a manually-imported root certificate, as specified by the user, will continue to be supported by default; this will continue allowing certain enterprise root use cases, though we strongly encourage everyone to migrate away from SHA-1 as quickly as possible.

This means that self-signed certificates, approved as an exception in browser, will continue to work because they are do not chain up to a root certificate included in Mozilla’s CA Certificate Program? I.e. if user has confirmed an exception for self-signed certificate, it is not impacted by this change in Mozilla?
I'm not surprised they were kicked out. The UN Global Compact is a PR thing for businesses that lets them announce their commitment to the Global Compact principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. It does not make them a "United Nations member" or give them the ability to "formally asked the United Nations" to do anything, let alone "conduct an urgent legal review of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s decision on Julian Assange". Using it to pretend something they've written is a "UN report" is an astounding abuse of the program. Presumably they abused the system that lets them upload an annual statement of support and communication on progress to do so, then got banned when someone actually looked at their upload.
Historically in the US, disenfranchised whites do not riot in the way that disenfranchised/disempowered urban dwellers do.

Typically they conduct what is today recognized as domestic terrorism: lynch mobs, church bombings, bombing the Oklahoma City Federal building, shooting congregants at mosques, killing worshippers at synagogue, etc. More recently, we even saw one example of disenfranchised whites occupying a Federal Bureau of Land Management building in Bend, OR. One notable exception is the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot where whites destroyed a prosperous black section of Tulsa. [0]

Anyway, this is to say that the rioting for non-whites is very different than the resistance exhibited by whites. The socioeconomic reasons for such differences are too various to list, but as a very general statement, poor disenfranchised urban dwellers of color do not have access, mobility, motivation, or organization to attack the forces that undergird their civic misery. In this sense, riot is cathartic, reactionary, and self-defeating.

The targeted violence that characterizes acts of US domestic terrorism may also come from similar feelings of disenfranchisement, but rarely, if ever, do they result in the wholesale destruction of the local environments of the aggrieved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
The engine that Node is using is already in chrome, and iirc all the major current versions of browsers already have 97% support (tail call opts withstanding, I think for safari this is still a vNext issue).

You can use one of a number of modern targets which will avoid the need for the various polyfils etc... but if you need current safari and any IE support, you will at least need dual build paths, which isn't too bad. I kind of wish there was a babel preset that was meant to be used in conjuction with Financial Times' polyfill.io
Netflix for newspapers.

If you could pay a small monthly fee and be able to read from a collection of newspapers.
Hmm Node is trailing chrome what exactly are you talking about?
"Instead of Thiel, we should be admonishing our media"

I know it's trendy to bash the media, but I'm not buying that our current candidates are the fault of "the media" and not the voters themselves.

More than enough information was reported about Trump during the primaries to make it clear exactly what kind of person he was, and the Republican voters decided this is the person they wanted to represent them.

The DNC maybe was tilting their contest in Clinton's favor over Bernie, but I don't know that the same can be said about "the media".
As with Title I vs Title II and other crap like this, this is just a symptom of a bigger problem: we have only two choices. Both times, YC got dragged into a situation where people demand they sever ties and punish people for their political views.

In our first-past-the-post system, even if Hitler and Mao were the nominees of the 2 parties, would the 3rd party get even 15% of the vote?

https://twitter.com/GregMozart/status/788448482264768512

I am very happy with YC's decision not to sever ties with people based on their support of a political position that a large (over 20%) portion of the population seems to have. The way that was done with Brendan Eich at Mozilla. There should be some separation between the workplace and a person's personal politics.

These people themselves are not killers, rapists, they do not exercise their own power to coerce others etc. They don't endorse every single bad thing their candidate does.

For the record, I think Trump is not very interested in learning about nuances, half the time it's not clear what he is really saying, almost never reconsiders his position, instead he just easily disavows his own statements, and that alone disqualifies him. But should I cut business ties with every Hillary supporter because I believe they are for brinksmanship and escalating the threat of a nuclear war with Russia? Many are. But that has such a small effect on the good we can do together, in the actual sphere of our collaboration. If I want to do something about the doomsday clock, cutting ties with my coworkers is very, very far down the list of effective things to do.

Even in your personal life, realize that arguing about politics is like arguing about astronomy -- the odds are overwhelming that you can't really change anything in the current election. So if your significant other likes a different baseball team, that's not nearly as important as shared values about how you're going to raise your children, or basic respect to human beings, or other things in your real life.

I don't live in California, and I know New York State (where I live) will vote Democratic as it always has, same as Cali. But we embrace political diversity much more than California, it seems. It may be more OK to publicly disinvite Douglas Crockford from a conference for his own personal behavior (I personally think it is ridiculous, but still), than to disinvite someone for mainstream political views or support for another candidate.

But as I said, this is all a symptom of our first-past-the-post system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
I came to the comments section to post this exact comment. This is a hugely impactful change! Super happy to see this land.
I've noticed this when looking for apartments in New York.

When you see an especially cheap apartment that has nothing obviously wrong with it when you look at the pictures, it's one of these three things:

1) The building doesn't own the land it's built on.

2) The current owner is renting it to a rent-controlled tenant who refuses to leave until they die.

3) Maintenance fees are $3000 a month for a studio due to severe mismanagement or something.
The Perpetual Lineup: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America
Ha! No worries friend, it happens to me all the time!
"will likely" vs "will"
Ww3 a little fun after your scare with ww3 to day soz
I saw (later) how the atheist community broke apart due to activists trying to insist it become justice activist or feel shameful or part of the problem; it rips apart enthusiasts when they feel they have to become involved in someone's actions like if not doing something means you're helping cause the problem.

Expecting Y Combinator or its community to fight Trump or sever ties with anyone who supports him is not only discrimination but unnecessary, divisive, and corrosive.

All this moral grandstanding like we have to right the world the way someone wants immediately will just drench everyone in someone's mud.
no one should be shamed or fired for their political beliefs. go fuck yourself marco.org
They're on the same level. Does that make them both Arbiters Of Truth? Or is that lofty title reserved for PolitiFact and HRC's campaign page?
I think you're either being needlessly pedantic or seeing more blame directed toward HTML5 than there actually is.
The built in debugger is simply amazing! https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v6.x/docs/api/all.html#debugg...
> Have not checked the details of the benchmark yet. <

"Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!" ;-)
I fully expect the State Department to enter into conversations with DOD about formalizing the process for authorizing a drone strike, since the process is currently dangerously discretionary. Again, that's not news.

If the source and quote about Assange are real, they should go to the Washington Post or another reputable outlet with it. Even FOX News hasn't picked this up. It is very easy to conclude this is a fabrication until someone with a better reputation for journalistic integrity runs it.