skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some genuinely encouraging thoughts here - very interesting to my relationship with Inventions vs. Long-Form Writing:

>Paul : The biggest one is made-up ideas. The best startups come from personal experience. It was something you or someone you know needed. Occasionally, I’ll ask a company, “Why do you think is a good idea?” And they’ll say, “Oh, I read an article in TechCrunch.” You have to understand it at a deep level. It can’t just be something you read.

I also like people who get things done. If you’ve been working on your startup for two years and have nothing to show, that’s a pretty bad sign. I’ve discovered that most people are really good at finding obstacles. I don’t fund these people.

One thing I've learned, over five years plus of developing Inventions, Pitches, and the occasional Prototype, is that there's a really big realization that Angel Investors / PE-type Investors don't want small businesses to figure out:

If your idea is good, you can obtain a patent, and afford to take a loan <$50,000 to go from "Prototype-to-Trade Show Ready" then you don't need Investors. You don't need "wisdom and guidance" aiming for a quick ramp-up and exit. You don't need to think in Quarterly Capitalism terms. And, most importantly, you don't need to dilute your control whatsoever[1].

For a while I've caught some whiffs that the Investing Realm is quite a bit more "Me Too" risk averse than often portrayed. Very similar to the Music Industry. Labels don't want interesting life story pieces, they want bubblegum they can market to kids with some discretionary money to burn. Thus, I take a lot of the recent "Start Up" culture with a grain of salt, because the time, effort, and study it takes to create a genuinely valuable idea basically points to starting a "Traditional Small Business" moreso than any super-duper-evolution-in-funding-or-growth. YMMV of course.

[1] It does help to study both success stories, failures, and Public Slap Fights (Cruise, Otto); while I've solicited in the past, I've cooled to the idea and instead plan to go my own Patent-Prototype-Promote business model.
Chalk it up to the Mandela Effect?

Brace for this ... there .... was ... no tank man. Dun! dun! duunnnnnn!!!
This was written in March and it's June 1st now. So, did it happen?

Found this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/01/first-robotic-cop...
That's not a requirement of anonymous callbacks. That's just a symptom of poor coding standards. It can happen in Python too.
There's inevitably going to be people trying to justify the tragedy here by suggesting America is no better, pointing to instances such as the Kent State Shootings (Vietnam War protest).

For those people I'd like to point out that unlike China, America doesn't actively try to hide the negative sides of its history to the extent China does. I can read about the Kent State shootings all I want, along with the My Lai Massacre, the Trail of Tears, American involvement in Central America or the Middle East, etc..

It is in fact sad that China depends on the West to expose the darker sides of its past, and then claims Western negative bias whenever we do.
I'm going to take a kind of despicable position. We don't know what would have happened had the protests been allowed to continue.

China is a vast country with mostly poor, uneducated people -- especially so in 1989.

Look at what happened in Syria. Look at the Arab spring. Is it just to kill hundreds, to prevent the slaughter of hundreds of thousands?

If the answer is no, never, I don't see how we can have states at all.
The CFAA enables these monopolies. The government is not performing its role of ensuring an open, actively competitive marketplace exists in tech. Investors really don't want that to happen, because it's much more profitable to allow FB, Twitter, et al to hold user data hostage and thus propagate lock-in.

As always, user lock-in is the end goal of all software companies; they want you to be stuck with them forever, whether you like it or not.

If you thought lock-in was bad when it was just a `.doc` file on your desktop and you had to use something like OpenOffice to try to render a sloppy import of it, the reality of keeping the only copy in server-side databases controlled exclusively by the companies that provide the client for manipulating that data is a dystopia.

The CFAA makes it so any "unauthorized" extrication of this data is a federal crime, which means there is no real possibility for a serious OpenOffice-esque client to come in and try to save users from the cloud service lock-in.

Source: large company threatened to sue me via the CFAA for talking to their website in a way that indirectly caused them negative publicity, but was otherwise polite and had no negative impact on their service/functionality
Reminds me of this story:

> Scott Simon notes the plight of a British citizen who has been sentenced to four years in prison in Dubai for having a microscopic amount of marijuana on the bottom of his shoe.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1884201...
The cable companies can't kill it (the FCC requires them to be made available), and Tivos are still somewhat popular. It's total install base is also likely small enough that it's not worth the effort to kill it.
I re-read Cuckoo's Egg recently, and it was still a riveting read! Especially when considering that it all happened over telnet.
Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University | Developer Associate, Systems Analyst/Programmer, Developer Intern, Graphic Design Intern | Chicago, IL | ONSITE, INTERNS, http://cbits.northwestern.edu

CBITs is looking to expand its team by hiring entry-level and early career developers and designers in Chicago. We are all full stack developers, responsible for the entire lifecycle of web and mobile applications used in clinical research trials. We work primarily with Ruby on Rails, Android and Ionic. We would love to see any applicants who care about making products that will help researchers and study participants improve the science of health care.

If interested, please email ericcf [at] northwestern (dot) edu
I'm the same kind of viewer.

In general, I think the bundles appealed to the "I have to watch X" demographic. When in reality there are a large number of people who are perfectly happy to watch something else, if X doesn't happen to be on a channel they subscribe to.

There's more quality content nowadays than viewer eyeball-hours.

Also, curious question for someone up to date on cable tech. What's the technical ability to deliver a la carte channel subscriptions?
I much prefer Angular's and Vue's templates over JSX.
This mirrors my own experiences.

When climbing it's like a nagging part of my brain shuts off. I imagine this is what other people experience during meditation. For me this works better than drugs.

I have a partner who's suicidally depressed. Climbing is the only thing that gets them out of bed.

The dark side of this is that high cliffs provide easy access to self-harm.
HealthRhythms | New York, NY | Onsite | Full-time

At HealthRhythms [http://healthrhythms.com] we are working to make it easy to measure and care for everyone’s mental health. Our products leverage real-time mobile measurements with data analyses and modeling to create truly personalized just-in-time interventions. We are helping people and their clinicians detect and characterize their mental health from passively available data.

We're looking for independent thinkers who care deeply about the problems we're solving. Our mission is to redefine not only how we measure and treat mental illness, but how we optimize wellbeing as a whole. If being one of the first 10 employees at a promising startup in an exploding field sounds exciting to you, please get in touch.

Positions:

- Android Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Backend/data Engineer (Python, AWS, devops)

Job descriptions are here:

Backend/data engineer - https://healthrhythms.com/jobs/HealthRhythms-DataEngineer-Jo...

Mobile engineer (iOS and/or Android) - https://healthrhythms.com/jobs/HealthRhythms-MobileDeveloper...

Email us your resume and tell us a bit about yourself at jobs@healthrhythms.com
Osper | Backend Engineer, DevOps Engineer, DevOps Contractor | London, UK | VISA ONSITE

Osper (https://osper.com) is mobile banking for young people aged 8-18. We give children the power to manage their money, and parents the confidence to let them. We've already helped tens of thousands of young people learn what it means to spend and save in the digital world. We are growing fast, and need to expand our team. We are looking for an experienced backend developer with DevOps skills. Our infrastructure is built on python (2 and 3) and Flask; postgresql and dynamo db; docker/ECS for deployment. We integrate with quite a few third-parties for transaction processing/card payments/subscriptions/kyc checks etc. Compensation: £60,000 - £80,000 + stock options

You can apply at https://osper.workable.com/jobs/415580 or contact me directly with questions.
Doctrine | Sales | Paris | Doctrine.fr | ONSITE

Doctrine is the "Google" for the case-law in France! We are a young startup with a huge growth. We have raised more than 2M € after less than 6 months of existence.

We use DL / NLP to automate lawyers' interns jobs! and we have a deep focus on User Experience.

We are looking for a French-speaking Sales (wo)man to join the team and kick-start our growing sales, A senior Back-End developper and a Data-Scientist !

We are also always hiring A-player Developers, Data-Scientists or any bright and ambitious hackers.

Apply here: https://www.doctrine.fr/recrutement or see our open positions on Angel List: https://angel.co/doctrine-/jobs
Not sure I'd you say "need" to learn them, but given the popularity of React and other similar component-based UI libraries, understanding the concepts is probably a good thing.

If you do want to learn React, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.
It does not work very well:

> https://godbolt.org/g/qmQhLK

Exercise: Write an assembly function that is faster than "-O3" and loop-free. Should be easy.
It does, and it's called ChromeOS.
What startups can learn from Amazon's cash machine
This might be good news for some, but I've moved on. I can't imagine what would compel me watch cable again. Same for listening to the radio...

Actually, I wish Pandora would take over radio stations and use their subscribers' driving patterns to optimize playlists. It'd be really interesting to hear a song on the radio that I'd actually choose to listen to, particularly if I was driving through Kansas.
My blog, which was taken down a year ago, is a .com. I have a i.ng sitting around (African TLD) that I may use for a blog of some sort as it is cod.i.ng. I wanted codi.ng but it was taken.
Thanks a lot for this reply.
PS Vue also has local channels
>Nate Silver just like NYT gave Hillary a 90% chance at the start of the day

He didn't though, and that's my point. What you're saying is factually untrue, they haven't updated their prediction since election morning, and it sits at 71% Clinton [0] (Updated Nov. 8, 2016). If you don't believe that, then you can take a look at archive.is, which provides timestampped copies. This [4] is an archived copy from well before polls closed (3:30 PM), there are others from earlier in the day.

I don't know what led you to believe that it was a sure clinton win, but that just wasn't the case.

Clinton won the popular vote by somewhere between 2 and 3%. National polls from just before the election (also per 538, [1]):

+4, +2, +3, +4, +4, +4, +4, +4, +2, +3

An arithmetic average of those gives C + 3.4.

Take Florida, a state trump won, here's polls taken in Novemeber [2]:

+1, -3, +0, +2, +1, -4

An arithmetic mean gives -.5, Trump won by about a percent.

Take Pennsylvania [3], another close state. November polls again

+1, +2, +4, +6, +3, -2, -2, +0, +0, +2, +2

An arithmetic mean gives Clinton + 1.18, Trump won by about .7, so this was perhaps the greatest polling blunder, and its still a margin of under 2%, which isn't unheard of.

[0]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
[1]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...
[2]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...
[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/pennsylvania
[4]: https://archive.fo/4EQGB
A variation of Churchill's "History is written by the victors."
I once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana flavor. But I was told to add yellow color anyway.
I don't find modafinil (or the non-prescription adrafinil) to help with focus, per se, but nooopept certainly does. Beyond that, I say embrace the distraction and indulge in it fully, then pretty soon it loses its luster and it's easier to get back on track later.
I've got a two year plan. 2017 CSP (Certified Scrum Participant) then in 2018 take the http://fast.ai course. Maybe the Stanford ai course as well. 63 and still learning.
Top Hat | www.tophat.com/careers | Toronto, ON, Canada | ONSITE Full-time

Top Hat is hiring!! We are looking for smart software engineers to join our team. Some of the roles we have available are: Android Lead, DevOps Engineer, Platform Lead, and Full-stack Web developer (Python, Django, Javascript, React.js/Flux, AWS, Ansible). Salary ranges based on experience from $80K to $130K.

We’re a pretty awesome growth-stage startup in the education space - we make the classroom more interactive, fun and engaging for both students and professors. We raised our Series C round in order to take on the textbook industry, which you can read about here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/top-hat-r.... - Union Square Ventures joined us this round, who along with our previous investors make up some of the top VCs in the world (having funded companies like Kickstarter, Twitter, Shopify, Salesforce, Box.net, etc.).

Top Hat helps professors make every lecture count by transforming mobile devices into powerful engagement tools, inside and outside the classroom. Recently, Top Hat has been building out interactive textbooks and creating a way for professors to collaborate on authoring new content and sharing it through our marketplace. In summary, we have a great dev culture and some really cool problems to work on!

We’re also running a Hack && Tell community event on June 20th—come see some cool tech demos and say hi! https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Hack-and-Tell/events/23965045...

If you are interested in our open positions apply here: https://app.jobvite.com/j?bj=oqatYfwL&s=hn
This was apparently not clear: in all those questions the "I" posting the video is not the person running. That's the context of the Citizens United decision.
Show HN: “Statements and State”, the next chapter of my book on interpreters
I would add to this that it is also based on firm performance.
So you claim ChromeOS is a window manager?
In my market (Seattle) Vue only has CBS. I specifically want to watch College and NFL FB. NFL is generally on Fox & CBS OTA channels and ABC has many college games. (Other games are on NFL Network, ESPN, and Twitter, which are available via streaming)
> The math does not support this strategy but if other investors want to try it that’s fine.

I think Jasper and Paul are talking past each other here. The math doesn't support the strategy of small exits if you are an investor in a large fund. If you are an individual starting a company, though, I've seen a lot of math that says you have a much better chance at success if you swing for a "$20 million niche" than a $10 billion company.
Another tangent: I see OneLogin, on their main site, lists the customers using their solution. I know this is a very common practice, but can anyone explain any (not short-sightedly financial) benefit possible for a company allowing this disclosure?
People.ai, Inc. | Engineering/Sales/Customer Success | San Francisco| ONSITE | https://people.ai

Y Combinator-Backed People.ai is Hiring in Engineering, Sales and Customer Support to Help Us Build AI for Better Team Management

People don’t quit their jobs, they quit their managers. Everyone has had a manager that makes them want to call in sick. Everyone has had a manager who regularly forces their team to chase their own tail doing meaningless work.

Why? Because most managers manage their teams blindly. They don't hire, coach and promote based on data. Instead, they make decisions based on their gut. These decisions are made because managers don’t have the data to make smarter, more informed decisions when it comes to managing.

Not anymore. At People.ai we’re helping managers make decisions about their team based on data, not intuition. We’re starting with sales teams because they’re a particularly notorious black box. No manager today can definitively say what makes a “top performer” better than a “low performer.” People.ai is solving this dilemma by making sales management transparent and building the world’s first predictive sales management platform, powered by AI.

People.ai was part of the YC S’16 batch, launched the product in July of this year and was the first company in the batch to raise a Series A. Less than three months after our launch we’re already being used by sales teams at 50+ blue chip companies including Rubrik, Gainsight, Mulesoft and Optimizely.

We have a 10+ person team and are actively looking for Senior Front-end and Back end Engineers to join us. Our team needs someone with full-stack/backend development experience as well as a deep background in Python, Linux, AWS, REST APIs and machine learning. Salesforce API experience is a plus!

Our Sales team is looking for Enterprise Account Executives and Sales Development Representatives. A background in on-demand/SaaS, CRM, SFA or marketing software sales is strongly preferred. You must have a proven record of consistently meeting and exceeding quota in a fast-paced, competitive sales environment.

Our Customer Success team is looking for a Customer Support Manager. This person will be responsible for managing customer support requests via email, chat and phone and helping to build a world-class customer support organization. Prior experience with Zendesk, Intercom, Jira, Salesforce Service Cloud, etc. is a plus!

This isn’t just another job. Your input will be incredibly important as we’re currently shifting from to a microservices architecture. You’ll have an opportunity to make a major impact on a number of our microservices and ML/big data infrastructure as we are turning our MVP into a massively scalable product. Find out what makes us special in this blog, We the People: Why You Should Join People.ai.

Work out of our SOMA/San Francisco offices. We offer a competitive salary with equity, health benefits, a cool company culture, lunches, free snacks and drinks. No remote applicants.

Join us as we work towards quantifying people management!

Apply here: https://peopleai.workable.com/
Phantom | Developers (Python/JavaScript/Hybrid) | London | ONSITE, Full-Time, http://phantom.land

Phantom is a forward thinking digital creative agency based in Old Street, London, United Kingdom. We are currently on the hunt for both front and backend developers of all levels, especially those with a more creative side.

We don't put our developers in a box, but expect them to be involved from strategy to delivery, working collaboratively with the entire team to find unique solutions to some amazing briefs. To help facilitate this we have our own bar in the office (with no locks on the fridge!) and the cupboards are always stocked with snacks and treats. Most importantly we have an awesome development and creative team in place and are looking for more like-minded people who will keep pushing the agency forward.

A small sample of the technologies, languages and frameworks we use include AngularJS, Three.js, Django, Flask and Google App Engine. Some recent projects we've worked on include a Google Cardboard VR Experience for Petra (http://phantom.land/work/petra/) and an interactive piece for the TATE Modern featuring music by Sigur Rós (http://phantom.land/work/states-of-matter/).

Please check out our site (http://phantom.land) for more info. Alternatively send matt@phntms.com an email directly with your CV and any relevant information. Would love to see any recent or personal projects in your email.
He's also very good at supporting the framework. Both with bug fixes and support questions. Currently Vue has only 62 open and 4519 closed issues on github. That's very impressive.
Without wishing away the massacre or diminishing the kind of despotic environment that allows this to happen shouldn't the same kind of moral reprehension be expressed for the massive loss of life in the middle east from Libya, Iraq to Syria?

Yet we rarely see this in the same context as these actions continue to be pursued aggressively with little resistance from citizens in the west.

This seems to a very selective form of morality in practice more at ease judging others than examining our own actions.

Tiananmen is past and beyond but the loss of life and destruction of entire countries that puts millions of lives in disarray in the middle east is here and now and continues unabated yet there is little pressure on our leaders to cease these actions from citizens. No western leader is tainted with the kind of moral reprehension directed at the Chinese inspite of far more serious crimes against humanity. There is a definite dissonance here.
Software Engineer | DefenseStorm | Seattle, WA | ONSITE https://www.defensestorm.com

DefenseStorm is a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage the deluge of security data that they produce. We take all of the security critical information and then alert on what's important, generate reports, and show cool dashboards.

We use AngularJS, Typescript, Java 8, C#.NET, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and we're built on AWS.

The engineers we're looking for are serious about security, performance, and UX. We're trying to build a useful, secure app that solves real problems.

We are a fast paced startup that knows the value of a healthy work-life balance.

Read about our engineering culture here:

https://www.defensestorm.com/about

and

https://www.defensestorm.com/cybermind/engineering-culture
Ah yes - the undersides of butterfly wings are just SO dull, aren't they?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ha...
Coding for which platform? (Survey)
I'd give it a shot. If it works you can have them update the compatibility.
Tian an Men protests were peaceful and non-violent. Why do you need to suppress them using guns and tanks? That's the perfect opportunity to embrace progressive regime change/evolution instead of gunning people down.
I find this attitude fairly disgusting.
> Stylo (Servo's style subsystem) has already landed in Firefox behind a preference flag

Stylo is still a compile-time option, but will soon be built by default and controlled by an about:config flag. You can watch the progress to build by default in this Firefox bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356991
One thing I'm not aware of is a state action that kills some citizens, where instead of suppressing the victim's stories, the state lauds them as heroes and martyrs.

E.g. Okay, we violently suppressed this protest for the greater good (we claim), but let's not forget the victims. We'll erect monuments. It's on us now to remember them and to make the future worthy of their sacrifice.

Would that incite more rebellion, or pacify a lot of the populace. Yeah, we did it. It was harsh. But it was necessary. You'll thank us in 20 years.