skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"App Stores Don’t Provide Real Distribution" - Yes they do. They are a holy grail for discovery and growth, but only if you are providing real value to the user. I completely disagree that you could not distribute a publication entirely through the app store - you could if you made it awesome. However, I don't think you should (at least not yet).

I think he's using "distribution" in the sense that newspapers and magazines do — the App Store does nothing to put your app in front of people and get them to buy it. This is generally true unless you happen to be one of the blessed few who get featured. I could put out the most awesome money-crunching app ever, saving people millions a year, and the App Store would not necessarily do anything more to push my app than the Internet as a whole does.

"Follow the Money" - You can push an update whenever you want.
This is utter nonsense, and it makes me wonder if you actually develop for an Apple platform. Good luck pushing three updates a day — or even three a week — on the App Store. Apple controls when updates go out, and many developers find the wait frustrating.

You can charge however much you want.
Apple sets fixed price points, and has rejected apps for price before.

Apple handed you the world's largest consumer credit card database on a silver platter and asked for a fair price.
You're saying they no longer require 30% of all profits you derive from sales in apps, even if they had nothing to do with the sale except making the device the software is running on?
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Thanks, it wasn't clear in the article as they said Bao discovered he could access some features of the machine
If determination could increase your chance, then you may be better going for $100 million. Otherwise take $10m.
Hobbyist with no CS degree. How can I break into Software development?
Yes, because a state agent capable of doing this would so not use a proxy...

Id put my money on this list of "state" agents
- usa
- china
- script kiddies
As a lifelong resident of the Rust Belt, stories detailing its deterioration are hardly new, sadly, so these stories aren't of particular interest to me. What I do find interesting are the people who are sticking around, trying to rebuild the city they grew up in. Although these stories are rarer (and riddled with narcissistic entreporn fodder for INC magazine and its ilk), they do offer some hope.

This article mentions that Pittsburgh has also seen significant decreases in population over this decade. Pittsburgh is often used as the model city for rust belt rebirth. They were the big player in steel, lost the steel industry, and were able to rebrand themselves. They are considered by most to be the most tech-friendly city in the rust belt. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the fact that Pittsburgh did a better job in attracting businesses outside of steel when they still had the luxury of steel.

Having Carnegie Mellon doesn't hurt either. Most cities in the Rust Belt cannot worry about attracting talent because they are hemorrhaging talent. Instead these cities have to focus their attention and resources on retention. With CMU, Pittsburgh gets the benefit of bringing in some quality students who may stay within the community after graduation.
I agree I would love to hear more about lifestyle business as mine is a lifestyle business at the moment.
Advertisements are also not the only way to monetize (and add value to) your product.
It obviously should be a term both parties should be happy with regardless of what that may look like. If neither party are happy, it won't matter. Do you believe in the company and founders?

Having said that, more details would actually help people here give better feedback. How early is early, aka employee number 1, 10, 20? Has the company raise funding? Profitable? How long has the company been around? What position. These factors and others, can influence a lot.

Generally speaking, depending on what stage of funding and how early a startup employee you are, it can vary between 0.5 pt to 5 pts. Of course there are ranges outside of this as well. Salary can vary a lot too. I've seen engineers do as low as $24k/yr to at least $50k/yr.
The UI for the web-based app (I'm a Linux user) is clunky and unpleasant. It seems they haven't changed it for years.....
I used it within OpenSolaris and the real pain is that you have to set up entirely new NFS ACL's that relate to the user writing otherwise files won't be readable from within Solaris as that user, or if it is a shared directory they aren't readable by the outside world and the files are written to disk but no longer visible from the outside world over the network.
I consider this to be a failure of a GPL-licensed open source software project. Samba is not being used by Solaris, nor by Mac OS X.
Haters gonna hate. Give her a break. The site's not half bad and at least she tried.
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Lack of docs is to be expected, it's early days. That may be a turn-off for some people. On the other hand, it's a great time to get your own preferred features and changes added.

As far as I know, nothing is stopping you from using any of the existing templating systems in the Java ecosystem. They don't have to be written in Clojure to use them with Clojure.
Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
Has anyone ever said that startup investing is appropriate for conservative investors who can only make one investment?

In fact, the only bold text on my blog post about startup investing says exactly the opposite of that: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/01/angel-investing-my-...
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Ya, but they didn't figure that implementations would be so brain-dead. From what I can tell, it's not the protocol that's at fault but how browsers handle OCSP failure. It should be a hard error.
I'm pretty certain its role is that of a transformer from programs in an intermediate language to optimized programs in that same intermediate language. Hence, a pipeline internal to a compiler.

The use of the word "traces" may be the source of your confusion in light the rise of tracing JITs (there that actually execute a program). I think a better word would be "abstract interpretation".
What's like blackmailing?
I do not believe that anywhere in the article she calls you a "sexist boy"? She calls the tech industry "by and large a boy's club". And I'm not just being pedantic when I say that's not the same thing at all. Complaining about the state of an industry doesn't imply that every member of that industry is to blame, just as saying that there exists racism in the American South doesn't imply that every Southerner is a racist.

Legitimate question: What leads you take the statement about the industry as a personal attack?
Analogies have no place in a discussion. I'd consider your names "frontier land claimed for the price of a few poles", not "real estate" - and I wouldn't consider myself a developer, as I have zero interest in doing anything with (your) domain names. See how analogies just make us talk past each other?

Look, I understand that you had no ill intentions, and I understand that the things I said are not nice things. But: the fact is that nobody could use those names for a couple of years and anyone who wants to use it in the future will most likely have to pay you quite a bit more than the name would have cost when claimed directly from the registrar. Those are bad things, and I think steering you and others away from this course of action is appropriate.
i think what's wrong with her theory (and any theory involving it being harder for women in the tech industry) is that there isn't any sort of favoritism towards men. Software developers [especially] are very hyper critical and will often make snide remarks about someone while trying to help them in order to entertain themselves so that they don't get distracted while trying to help/communicate with someone. The "recipient" being a woman (therefor largely in the minority) is the low hanging fruit for snide comments. If the women were men, they would also receive a snide comment.

The other problem is that in relation to how many developers actually exist, there are very very few that garner any respect just for being who they are. With the ratio's the way they are that means there are virtually no women in these spots. That could make it appear that us male developers only give any respect to other men which isn't the case (well it's at least not a true cause/effect).

Anyways I've seen quite a few of these articles/blurbs but have never seen any actual examples of real sexism. Also I tend to have bias against any article that claims to be pro-feminism.
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Great news for a very ballsy startup. They haven't been afraid of telling people how swipes are going to replace clicks in most terms. At first I was skeptical, but the move by Wordpress just confirms that they truly have something.
Yes, but I can do that if I'm using your BSD-licensed contributions. That's why we're saying that, from the perspective of a commercial software vendor, BSD ensures more freedom.
Here's my contribution.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227753

Key points:

It might be more accurate to call it "freed" software. The goal of the GPL is to uncage domesticated software and let it roam wild forever, never collared again. The people who distribute software in this fashion won't let you put it back in the zoo.

And again, FSF is not saying that users are free to do what they want. You are not free, according to them. They say that software is free, in the sense of the software freedoms. That sentence essentially would only parse to $0 before Stallman came along.
yeah, Chris designed the vacuum as a side project because the lab's roombas are next to useless. We're definitely still working on the reprap world domination schemes :)

PS. Just emailed Chris, he'll be super excited to see this!
Like Wil I know both since the NeXT/NeXTStep days and what his blog post describe is quite accurate for Bertrand and Craig.
He is slightly incorrect on the reasons/timing of Craig leaving Apple since WebObjects Java was just at a really early stage at the time he left and the offer from Ariba was a good one.

Loosing Bertrand in the Mac OS world is quite a news by itself but at the same time getting Craig is quite a news too.
According to the article, baby carrots were invented to reduce waste. Carrots grow into all sorts of shapes and sizes, but supermarkets only buy a narrow range; the rejects get used for animal feed, or factory food. With baby carrots, more of the carrot gets eaten by humans&mdash;and presumably the stuff that's cut off is still sold the way the rejects used to be.
In the old days, which was really not very long ago, geeks had to push hard against the "mainstream" to create a little bubble where they could exist. They catered hard to people like themselves, because it was hard to find anybody like them. It was good to have some space that catered to geeks. But now that pressure against geeks isn't so high, some of them are still pushing against the mainstream just as hard as ever. The hard part is over, guys! Geeks can now find people like themselves without too much trouble. There are now lots of places we can go that cater to geeks. It's time to stop pushing against the mainstream so hard. We don't have to be so defensive anymore.
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One college even told me point blank that I shouldn't even attempt to apply.

Which one? I'll write to the college's admission office and tell them what they are missing (based on my acquaintance with dozens of homeschoolers in recent graduating classes).

See

http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html

for how much of an outlier such a college must be.
Which is why glycemic index is a loony way to determine your diet. Carrots aren't the most nutrient dense of vegetables, but they're vastly healthier than any candy bar, no matter what the glycemic index is. Insulinemic response might be a better measure, though even that is questionable, based on the preponderance of evidence.
Sweet, finally a good wordpress theme for iPad (I know is not just a theme)
I love them, too, thanks largely to Bugs Bunny. A clip of Bugs chomping a carrot from one of his old cartoons has an almost Pavlovian effect on me.
There's only one business model the GPL interferes with, namely selling copies of software nobody paid you to write.
"Extremely subpar" may be overly charitable from my experience. We had constant problems that have pretty much disappeared since we replaced it with a machine running Windows Server 2008 R2.

My biggest gripe was discovering that for a user foo, you can't just give the user permission to access a file on a network share through the GUI, you must also make sure that foo can access the file at the Unix level. Potentially I guess if they're building from the ground up they can get better integration, though I'm skeptical of their ability to do better than Samba.
A guy in northwest Florida got his arm blown off in a mishap while stealing copper from a transformer. He successfully sued Gulf Power. The situation is analogous except for the fact that Mr. Bao's pockets are not as deep, and that's really the main thing a plaintiff's attorney is going to consider in a case like this.
Well it’s a sad day for all of us here in Cupertino. Bertrand Serlet, the friendly cyborg from the future who has lived among us and helped guide our software development efforts with such skill, has been recalled back to his home planet. We’ll have a little announcement at town hall this Friday with a cake and ice cream. Bertrand has been instrumental in guiding our OS X development and now that Leopard is out the door Bertrand (real name: Belar) felt this was a good time to heed the call of his people on Gallifrey One, who need him to help fight off some invaders in the future or something.

[...]

Much love, Bertrand. O traveler of time, you have brought a vision of peace to our galaxy, not to mention a great deal of truly sweet software. For your countless contributions to our company and to our planet, we thank you.

From Fake Steeve Jobs, Nov. 2007

http://www.fakesteve.net/2007/11/bertrand-serlet-recalled-to...
Hey, I'm not the one talking about cover-ups. See my other comments in this thread.
These are the passages from the intro that made me say that:

"So a supercompiler does not transform the program by steps; it controls and observes (SUPERvises) the running of the machine that is represented by the program; let us call this machine M,. In observing the operation of M1, the supercompiler COMPILES a program which describes the activities of M1, but it makes shortcuts and whatever clever tricks it knows in order to produce the same effect as M1, but faster."

"A supercompiler would run M, in a general form, with unknown values of variables, and create a graph of states and transitions between possible configurations of the computing system. However, this process (called driving)	can usually go on infinitely."

This implies, to me, a compile, execute, profile, re-compile cycle. But, that conflicts with the understanding of the technique that I described above. If that does not describe a compile, execute, profile, re-compile cycle, then I'd like to know both what, exactly, the author meant by the above, and why he chose to phrase it as such.
Let's say you strike a deal with a state to build a toll road. They agree, and you borrow a billion dollars, build the road, and start collecting tolls. It doesn't cost the tax payer anything, and the people who use it do so voluntarily.

A few years later a politician decides it will be politically popular to build a free road right next to your road, but will simply pay for it with tax dollars.

This is not exactly fair to you right? The politician has the power to take the money from constituants by threat of force (you go to jail for not paying taxes). You don't have this power.

In foresight of this situation, you get the state to sign an agreement that they will not compete with your highway with taxpayer dollars. They are welcome to build another toll road, but it just can't be subsidized by the tax payer.

So yes, there are cases where is makes sense for a government to prohibit itself from building a road.
Indeed! Good find! You should submit it.
Starting a company is really easy.
Building a company is really hard.
that's... interesting. Are there other examples of this kind reciprocal pattern in US (or maybe Canada)?
I think you make an important point, but I'm not sure the post takes any particular focus on visual representation other than a graph is generally an easier way to intuit what a derivative is. His repeated use of the word concept suggests insight for him requires a more general abstraction.

As an aside, why do or did people claim there is visual learning aside from spatial learning? I don't experience visual and spatial imagination as different things. (With reasoning about time always assumed.)
I think the difficulty is that I don't really know if I'm happy. I think I am, but I feel like I have insufficient information to really know, hence the post.

Is the $50k number you're citing the upperbound of what an early-hire should expect to be paid? Looking at ackwire, I see the vast majority of the engineering lead positions are for cash compensation amounts much higher than that. (viz. http://www.ackwire.com/level/lead )
But they have a lot of fiber which is supposed to be the antidote for sweet.
Well, the first step is realising that you need it. You realise that you've been cruising complacently through life, taking the successes and the failures as they come and hoping to be rewarded by your superiors for your hard work.

You then have an epiphany where you realise that you can be responsible for your own destiny, follow your dreams and create your own wealth, thus freeing you from the shackles of mediocrity and your "career".

After this epiphany, you start to see the world differently. It's ripe for the taking. You will begin to see opportunities where you saw nothing of consequence. You will begin to see how almost everything can be leveraged in some manner to help you pursue your current goals. Your passions will lead you to do socially ostracising things such as quitting your job to work full time on your own projects for six months before you make a single cent in profit, but you won't care. Your passions and the freedom to pursue those passions are more important than anything now.

This is how it was for me, anyways. I'm about to hit the one year anniversary of jettisoning my programming "career". :)
Art and code - obscure or beautiful code?
They couldn't just go knock on the guy's door and ask for it? Was your evidence not admissible for a search warrant?
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The western diet and lifestyle and diseases of civilization
[T]he students who struggle in technical courses are those who skip
the insight-developing phase. They capture concepts in their notes
and they study by reproducing their notes. Then, when they sit down
for the exam and are faced with problems that apply the ideas in
novel ways, they have no idea what to do. They panic. They do
poorly. They proclaim that they are “not math people.” They switch
to a philosophy major.

This may well be true, but if it is, these students are setting themselves up for a fall: if they wish to be any good at all at philosophy then they will need to cultivate precisely this skill. Much of philosophy consists of taking a general set of tools (concepts) and applying them to different situations. It isn't terribly fruitful approach unless one understands those concepts in the first place.
You're viewing government as a benevolent force. The reality is that government as an organization is funded through coercion (taxes aren't voluntary). It also protects itself from competition through violence (try competing with any of the "services" provided by a government, the government will shut you down). It also uses violence to further its aims (if government wants your land to build a road, it can just take it (and in the US, if government takes your property, it is mandated by the Constitution to pay you)). A private entity can't do that.

In particular, as a user of cable, a private cable company cannot force you to accept and pay for its service. A government-operated cable service could.

From the perspective of a private cable company, government competition is unfair. The government does not have to use non-coercive means. It can force people to pay for its service even if they don't want to.

In the US, the best illustration of the danger of government enterprises is the public school system. Residents of an area are forced to support the local public schools, even if they send their children to private schools. The long-term loss of human potential of this system is monstrous. The economic waste is pretty bad too.

The best way to avoid disasters like the US public school system is to insist that transactions be voluntary. If you want to operate a cable company, fine, do it, but don't expect to be able to use coerced money to fund it or coercion to operate it.
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So women are excluded from IT because magazines like to write about tech toys? I don't get it. Strippers and booth babes are equally offensive to men and women (not sure what is with steak).
> It's a humanitarian action undertaken by France, the UK and allies, and the US is lending its support.

That makes sense only if Europe has changed its view on how much civilian slaughter is unacceptable, it values Libyans more than it did Iraqis, or it didn't know about Saddam Hussein and knew about Gaddafi.

After all, Gaddafi is far less of a monster than Saddam was. Yes, on both relative and absolute scales.

However, we will get to see how Europe handles the aftermath. Right?
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Let's assume I have just said 'I do X for company Y'. Your next response might be along the lines of a) What languages/tools do you use?, b) What's a peptide?, c) Did you watch Daniel Hillis' Ted talk?, or d) I just published a phylogenetic pruning algorithm on arxiv, you should check it out.

Seems to me that there is a lot to be learned through conversation, even when neither party is doing any teaching.
Understand the topic and practice a lot? Well, yeah. That is good as an objective, but what's missing is a way to get to the point where you actually understand the thing.
I have nothing but respect for Jack, with the interview he recently had where he spoke about square and twitter - he really is an interesting person. I would love to work with him some day.
"There exists racism in the American South" is a different statement to "the American South is by and large racist", though.

Maybe those IT-Feminists should just write about their good experiences once in a while, to make it clear that they don't blame everybody.