skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point, however...

> The tech world likes to build these epic hagiographies of people who never asked for them

This is not true. These people, by the very nature of their positions as chiefs of well-known organizations, have to maintain near untarnished super-human public perceptions (at least to the people that support their organization/company/ideals). They ask for it by accepting the position in the first place. You don't think Elon has a PR team?

It's good advice to not let one's self to become enchanted with these sort of figures, but don't act surprised when other people fall for it. All those people wouldn't have their jobs if it wasn't effective.
That's what I meant - if the HTML page (which knows which assets it will require) is not being served from the same machine as the assets will be, you cannot take advantage of HTTP/2 push.
Your ISP example doesn't work because it's not about the "junk traffic". Sending "junk" to your ISP wastes a little bit of bandwidth but doesn't meaningfully damage their business model (might make them money depending on the pricing model). The goal of this plugin is literally to destroy most of the value that ad networks provide (namely targeted advertising). This doesn't simply remove a user from advertising networks dataset (like an ad blocker) but poisons the dataset. This harms ad networks and everyone who relies on them to fund their work.

Blocking users who run AdNauseum does seem entirely appropriate to me. Blocking the plugin from Chrome also seems appropriate to me.
Yes, but an interpolis version.
I use an LTE hotspot as my main access point in Belize, but I have to pay $5/GB for it. :(

Edit: My hotspot tends to run at around 22Mb/sec, which is faster than the fastest DSL line you can get here, which is 16Mb and costs $400/mo.
Volts wagons: Electric cars are set to arrive far more speedily than anticipated
This is interesting but I could also write perfect code if I could polish the same process over years and years. In regular business you have to work with unclear requirements and unreasonable deadlines. You simply don't get the time to do a good job.
CockroachDB might be the worst product name I've come across. I get it; cockroaches are extremely hardy, but they're also much more strongly associated with uncleanliness and disease.

EDIT: Also, cockroaches are BUGS! Bugs cause problems in computer systems.
Hickey may be a brilliant software architect, but I'm wondering how high he ranks as a business leader. How is his company Datomic doing? Also in the light of the new database service Cloud Spanner just launched by Google.
At some point it felt like Clojure was the future, the new thing, so amazingly better - was that just a feeling of novelty? Or something went wrong with its use case?

Of course, these days its about Rust, Swift and LLVM, but it doesn't have those lispy properties we love...
Agreed. Store as much as possible in S3. Store only what's necessary in a DB.
ahhh, thats true.
I agree, and I'd go one step farther. This post warns of the risk of "Gaining a bad manager, losing a good engineer"

I actually think companies should even be concerned about "gaining a good manager, losing a good engineer."

There's this notion that it's better to be a good engineer than a bad manager, and that wage ceilings that force engineers to become managers even if they aren't good at it are harmful. This, I agree with. But you know, I actually thing there may be harm even if the engineer is a good manager. Truth is, in many instances a top engineer is harder to find, harder to develop, and creates more wealth than a top manager. In short, if someone is really good at both, even then you might be better off leaving that person in engineering.

Usually the very best engineers do end up as leaders of sorts. However, these engineers tend to lead loose and informal groups of other talented people, often coordinating complicated work that requires deep understanding of the technology and domain. They often resist the "management" title, and they are generally uninterested (perhaps opposed to) tasks like handling vacation requests or writing performance reports.

Why you'd take a person like this out of the deep engineering role and put them into a formal "management" role that can be filled by a much larger pool of workers is beyond me.
I enjoy my Apple TVs and use them nearly daily (3rd and 4th gens). It's a nice product and what it does it does well. There has always been this expectation that it will one day replace my cable TV, without which keeps it limited to little more than a Roku/Fire device.

I'm deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem (Macbook Pros, iPhone, Apple TV), and now I feel locked in to the device because of my decision to buy a lot of content through the iTunes store. I now have a large library of movies and TV shows that cannot be accessed via Roku, XBox, etc. It's partly because of this that I root for Apple and their TV products to succeed.
I didn't see Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C++; the PDF is free: http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

I thought Eckel's book was especially good for someone who already had a background in C.
My company manages just a couple apps for iOS. They aren't updated too frequently, maybe 3ish times per year. Few things fill me with dread more than trying to release a new iOS app after a certificate has expired. As others have mentioned, the process around provisioning profiles, certificates, managing them within Xcode, etc, is extremely complicated, and the 2-5 day review period makes things even more stressful because there's no easy way to just upload a fix when something goes wrong (like device tokens suddenly stop generating in production). Since we push updates so infrequently, every other push requires updated certificates and the large time gaps make it easy to forget how much of a pain it is until you're trying to do it.

Some things that I am thankful for:

- TestFlight. It's a pain that I have to have the app approved before I can send the beta out to my internal users. Seems like internal should let internal users update to a beta version without review (while external would still require a review). At least it lets us test with our production certificates eventually. It's still a pain if something is discovered and it requires a rebuild and a new review.

- Emergency Review Requests. I've had to submit 3 of these over the past several years, and Apple has always initiated my within 2 hours. I really appreciate this, and I'm glad that people haven't abused it so much that they've scrapped it.
Show HN: Have a skill? Use it to travel the world for free
Stay On Skill - Stay on Skill is a platform that helps people use their skills (e.g. coding, blogging, dancing, yoga, guitar, cooking, etc) to travel the world for free.

I am currently looking for people who would like to become alpha users, and help me build this product better. Any feedback is welcome.

Also, if you are veteran in Travel startups, I would love to get in touch with you.

http://stayonskill.com
> The OSI doesn't want to approve any public domain dedication, they believe it's better to use an open-source license

I've heard that the ability to dedicate your work to the public domain may not be possible in some European jurisdictions, and this concern was why public domain dedications were frowned upon.
Last time I went to downtown SJ it certainly did seem depressed. I just wanted to see what was going on so I took an Uber down there. At St. James Park I saw some drunks fighting, and cops trying to separate them. Nearby was an encampment of several tents. South of there on 2nd I thought I might find a cafe or deli or something, but all I found were vacant lots and empty storefronts, and more derelicts staggering around. Keep in mind this was at noon on a weekday, not the middle of the night.

South of Santa Clara on 2nd I saw more empty buildings, a Chinese mini mart, more drunks, a large surface parking lot (mostly empty) adjoining a rail line.

I thought I could get back to Mountain View on VTA, since I was walking along that streetcar line anyway, but it was going to take 80 minutes so I had to call a car to escape.

San Jose appeared to be a prosperous American city without any prosperity to speak of.
Selling a Business – The Ultimate Guide on What You Need to Know
This is my thought as well. I have a Facebook account, but have no idea what the password is since it's generated...and without my phone/laptop, would have no way to retrieve it.
I find Stoustrop's writing quite the opposite, concise, informative and a touch entertaining at moments. But I can understand why you might see it otherwise, to each his own.

You may find his book "Principles and Practice Using C++" [1]
more accessible.

[1] http://www.stroustrup.com/programming.html
I think it's the most memorable database name I've seen. So at least it has that going for it.
Even if they manage to multiply this by 100 on the final release, it's still way weaker than a regular sql db. I hope they have another selling point than performance.
Staffjoy’s YC Fellowship Application
I'm not sure if strangers are really interested in giving opinions to your product, since you're kind of interrupting their leisure time.

But, for those who agree and pay attention to your product... probably they'll give you honest opinions. Anyone who cares enough to be interrupted and pay attention to your presentation/talk, probably will tell you the truth on how they feel about it.
Vizio's mid-range TV's are just integrated Chromecasts, which I like quite a bit.
This looks great. I use the boto tools for all my aws stuff but they're clumsy for working in an interactive fashion like this. Going to install now to have a play!
Exactly, the cable industry isn't going to let go of their precious. I've had most of the tv "internet boxes" (Roku, Xbox, AppleTV, now Google via Shield) I still can't get live tv. Most of the TV apps require a cable login. The best I can get is youtube streams that is cast to the google box. But it's sub-optimal as it's prickly to find the content i want.
SEC Chief Scales Back Powers of Enforcement Staff
What do you need to get accustomed to? Is there anything that you'd need to do different while using DDG than you'd do with Google?
Encrypt your password store using gpg and zx2c4's pass! The GUI app qtpass even works on Windows. I've been using it for months and the system is rock solid and has never let me down.

https://www.passwordstore.org/

They can copy your drive all you want, and you have until 2030 to change your passwords.

Alternatively, just store them in a git repo on a server somewhere and access them remotely.
Author of the article here, happy to discuss any questions/comments/concerns :)
We all understand that it's often highly complex if not impossible for most devs to quantify an accomplishment. It's easy for some things to be quantified obviously - downloads, traction - though those aren't exclusive to engineering (could be marketing).

Scalability numbers and measurable performance improvements are relatively common. So if you built something that is able to handle n requests maybe.

The amount of revenue generated by a feature is clearly tough - but you might be able to find out new subscribers since the feature was introduced. Even if you can't, just saying you built a certain feature is probably enough in most cases.

It really boils down to unique, one-off accomplishments for me. Specificity. That code that runs millions of times - tell me the product name, what that product does, what your code does, and what tools you used to build it. Even if you can't point to a quantifiable figure, the specificity gives you some credibility.
First, 23 yo is young, don't worry.

I'm not a designer expert but a few remarks :

On your website I can't find your resume, a simple pdf that I could skim through quickly, or even a linkedin link.

On each of your projects, I would put a bullet point or 2 about the key learnings/skills you got for each project. For software engineers it'd be useful to see something like: [App Foo] : platform for X and Y. Written in C++ using Unity Framework. That way, if I know any of these, I know I can ask you more questions about App Foo if I know about C++ or Unity. "iOS and Android", "get over 8000 users the first month, be top 10 of its category, get featured in top women's publications online" should show up somewhere too!

Similarly, I understand your minimalism effort but for each job position, I would add bullet points about your key experience, key skills, and more importantly key business impacts (and key customers if allowed)

You need to emphasize why companies should hire you, not why you want to be hired by company.

If you're willing to work in the US, be clear about it (is it only NYC?), also be clear about the fact that you are a US citizen or your work authorization status in the US.
Hi Olivier,

These are just my thoughts and they are based on nothing tangible, other than that I own a tech company and hire developers and designers. I also come from a mixed engineering and design background and am probably from about the same area in Europe as you are and now live & work in California.

— You're young and it's hard for someone your age to master multiple disciplines. I'd focus on presenting one discipline. If I were you I'd sharpen and highlight your development skills. Maybe you can present yourself as a design-driven front-end developer?

— Recruiters often search by keywords. LinkedIn can help you experiment with what keywords get you the most attention. You could for example try learning React.js which is very popular right now, or further developing your iOS skills and change your LinkedIn title to React.js developer or Swift & iOS developer. Try different things and see what gets you more attention.

— Some recruiters like seeing big names on resumes. Have you considered applying to, for example, big international ad agencies that have Paris offices? Companies like Grey, Ogilvy, BBDO might have local offices that need design sensitive front-end developers. I have no opinion about any of these companies, I just know they're big agencies that have offices all over the world. You might be able to transfer or those names might open some doors for you in the US.

Again, please take this with a grain of salt. These are just some quick thoughts.
Also, to reply to myself :) ...I've hired a fair few people, your resume wouldn't make my first round of cuts if it were submitted to me.

Reasons:

* Website looks odd (see above comment). I just don't love the branding, and honestly there is too much text for too little message.

* You talk about yourself as an Entrepreneur. These people in my experience are often some of the hardest to work with, especially at the beginning of their career. You're likely to stick around for 12-24 months and then leave (even if I pay you really well, and treat you as best as I can). It puts me in an endless hiring cycle and annoys other staff who are here between hirings, which puts them at risk of leaving.

* You describe Skyler as a product, but it honestly looks like an extension of your blog, and a bit like a school assignment. Tell me what I need to know quickly, it's way too hard for me to figure out why i should care about this project.

* While I'm in Toronto, it's the same timezone as NY. You'd have to be something super special for me to want to hire you remote in Paris. In fact, this simple point alone would be the sole reason you were not looked at further. 9/10 interviews are unsuccessful (roughly), the chances you're the 10% are low...and then I still need to want you enough to deal with you remotely. It's a non-starter...remote work is generally something I'm into if you have a special skill I need (in which case i'll reach out to you, or you'd be introduced by a trusted source)

Suggestions:
* Make your website simple, get rid of all the words and give me a simple, clean message. Tell me why I should care!

* You're at the beginning of your career in a less than ideal location for what you're after, I'd suggest looking for local work or opening up to moving.

* Pick what you're good at and sell that, you're claiming to be a silver bullet. There are no silver bullets.
They would probably take your device and copy entire contents via usb, search with software for select phrases not scroll through your timelines individually. They're not going to consider you scrolling around and not giving up password as an adequate search.
Yes, we currently run on AWS! The p2.8xlarge has 8 GPUs, not 16 :) So, it would still boil down to $0.9/hr/GPU. Also, utilizing 8 GPUs concurrently is pretty difficult/inefficient for most jobs since benefits from parallelization tapers off quickly.

We are only using p2.xlarge (1 GPU) for now. Driving down the cost is really important to us. We use reserved instances, spot fleets, etc. to be at <50% of AWS pricing. Lots of interesting challenges to be solved there wrt. effective scheduling and fully utilizing resources.

We’ve been thinking about our own infrastructure. It would really drive down the cost, but obviously, comes with its own challenges :)
It doesn't appear that most countries are using this kind of search as a tool of political harassment or intimidation, while there's enough evidence that the US is for people to be concerned.
I see you mentioned Eastern Europe but only include Russia. Eastern Europe includes many other countries open to LGBT communities. Don't always believe the news headlines as they tend to exaggerate. Hungary and Romania have done big efforts towards this, still churches have a lot to say but peoples mentality changed, accepting diversity.
When that happens I'll get something cheap that supports UHD, it's really impossible to justify the price of an Apple TV when the competition does more for less.
I agree that it can and should be faster, but the targets will depend on what you're going for. 20k linearizable reads/sec on EBS-backed instances is, uh, maybe a tad optimistic.
Yeah, the point I was trying to make is just that Apple could easily decide to ditch Objective-C in the relatively near future.

From our point of view as developers, there are good reasons not to, like maintaining backwards compatibility and keeping developers happy, but Apple generally seems to ignore those issues. Not that they actually want developers to be unhappy, they just expect and require them to fall in line.

(Or they could ditch Swift too and go with something entirely new and crazy, but that seems too unlikely even for me)

Edit to clarify: I think what they do care about is technical issues, and giving themselves the tools to make the slick products they want to make. And their technical strategy is generally pretty sound -- look at their balanced CPU+GPU designs on iOS, for example, both faster and more power-efficient than the ludicrous octo-cores and oversized screens you get on "flagship" Android devices.

To me, making Swift and Objective-C interoperable was a smart decision to give themselves (and coincidentally their developers) a smooth migration path. They also think that reference-counting is better than tracing GC for the types of applications they care about (and I think they're correct). But nothing in that says they care about keeping Objective-C around indefinitely.
If you actually want to know, each party markets to the grassroots concerns of the people in their audience. After they get in power, what they actually implement is the agenda of their corporate sponsors.

If you want to understand the situation:

1. Try suppressing your immediate visceral reaction to issues that grassroots Republicans care about. Open your mind, tune into some decent red media, and ask yourself "what if there is some truth in this?"

2. Avoid being drawn into the groupthink that condones the actions of your own team as altruistic. Open your mind and ask yourself "what if there is some oppressive agenda behind this?"

Unfortunately, you will have to find media from back when Democrats had power. Now that the other team is the aggressor and your team is the opposition, it will be impossible to perceive (your team is now only "fighting the good fight", as they lack power to implement their sponsors' policies). But my message goes equally for the red team as well, reversing the parties.
Honestly, I've had easier times reading through representation theory concerning quantum mechanics! I think I see what it's trying to say though, which appears to be some mathematical basis for what we experience online; communities form, fragment, and it's exceedingly difficult to halt or reverse that process of fragmentation and isolation. Eventually, this trend results in the decoherence of the network.

Is that about it?
Since Ubuntu 14.04 is still on openssl version 1.0.1f, is that version applicable to this security advisory?
I'm not a native English speaker and have troubles pronouncing "cockroach". In my view the naming is rather unfortunate.
It may not be a bad product but the prices are annoyingly high compared to netflix, amazon prime, or just about any other service. And the device itself is fairly lackluster, especially compared to Amazon Fire.

Apple TV is one of my more disappointing purchases.
Who did the artwork for your landing page? Looks great.
We talk about tools all the time because it's fun and it's something we all have in common. Every once in a while something like clang comes along and it can change everything.

What we don't have in common are the exact problems we are trying to solve. That's where design patterns and other higher level concepts become useful. Because the problems and solutions are so context specific, they happen on mailing lists. Tool discussions, on the other hand, are more generic and I think that's why you see them in more places.
Also - it is possible that as a commercial product, Linux would not have had the same level of success as it does today.
Testing Linearizability with Jepsen and Evergreen: “Call Me Continuously”
You presume all incentive isn't already removed.
This response only addresses the extreme criticisms about saying they had a blog so it "must have been easy" or "it's cheating".

I don't think it was easy nor cheating. Both of the founders mentioned here are smart, capable, and engineered whatever advantage they had.

Another perspective on self-promotional articles (not an inherently bad thing) like these is they downplay or omit the influence another venture had on building their current one. The SubmitHub article has a specific question about 'what have been your biggest advantages' and it surprised me that "running a high traffic blog in my target industry with a large email list" wasn't mentioned there. That seems like a huge advantage.

This is a sentiment I've seen in many of the comments here and in the HN comments about your SubmitHub writeup.

It's not meant as a personal attack at you, Jason, or Distrokid's founder. You're all doing great things! It's about breaking down what were likely the major factors in success so that information can be applied in one's own ventures.
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