skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The research I was asked to do was merely to check on whether an allegation was a fact, as part of a greater effort of due diligence, an effort being conducted by others, those who would make a decision based on all of the facts obtained. I don't directly work for the university, and I dislike most universities because I see their policies as being against progress. I also have no personal opinion about that man, and that will not change, regardless of what I find out about him."

Did you really just pull a Nuremberg Defense? Seriously?

Regardless, you should be banned for hellban evasion alone.
Respectfully, it's also about logistics. If we started posting deaths of everyone involved in startups or 'tech', that's all HN would be full of.
So what? Just because someone says something you don't like, doesn't mean that they are wrong about something else.

"An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it."
You can check the access logs of your server. Probably this is caused by a bot crawling your site and you will see the same IP over and over there. But I'm totally assuming you have a site hosted there which has some kind of database dependence and lots of pages to crawl.
Open idea: Thumb taps and pinky swipes.
There are rumors that his death was self-inflicted, which is quite sad. Every time we see a young smart kid die like this, it should remind us to remember others as we go through our lives. Too often we ignore other peoples feelings, and then something like this happens. Take a moment to talk to the people you love to make sure something like this doesn't happen to them.

(If it turns out this is inaccurate, please excuse the speculation, but I still think this is important.)
I agree. I have made a separate post on this thread that calls this out.

Thanks -Paul
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I sure will someday, but I just hope it turns out to be as well made as the other apps :)
It gets even funnier in government.
In the 80s I worked in a special government lab (where 'critical' event wasn't a euphemism!)

To get the young mathematicians and programmers we needed we had to pay the same rates they would get in industry - but the pay scales were all set by rank. So the only solution was to promote 21 year old maths grads to the heights of the command structure.

There were senior site meetings that had a 'general' rank head of each dept and 20 or 30 'general' rank 20 something maths specialists!
Tweets from ~12 hours ago suggest that the circumstances are indeed similar.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/zhitomirskiyi
>In fact, it would be nice if you specifically refrained from making a comment arguing about whether his death was important in the middle of a thread where everyone else is offering their condolences

You just highlighted exactly what I tried to write about! Why have a thread full of condolences from strangers directed at strangers and shun any actual discussion?

Most people clicked the story to find out the cause of death. If this young man indeed killed himself, we could have a reasonable discussion about the stresses of life and specifically related to tech, but we can't.

Instead, I strongly believe that most (if not all) condolences posted here come from people fulfilling a social expectation rather than a specific feeling towards this person.

I would hope those who knew this person and know his surviving friends and family have a more direct line of communication than comments on news.yc.
It would take a significant amount of free vs. paid in the system for there to be a true inflationary effect, rather than small microcosms that are impacted. We’ll all gotten free credits or know of people getting free credits, but compared to the spend of real campaigns, I would say insignificant?
As long as someone close to the deceased has chosen not to share the matter, we should respect their decision.

It's the case where no close family/friends have expressed such a decision that concern should be raised... and it's hard to determine without good reportage.
Organic food is potentially scalable, maybe not right now. It fits right into the beyond mass production era, when capital costs have fallen, productivity has risen, we can apply different new technologies and we can mass customize products. It is mostly not retro, not like biodynamics say.
We'll miss you, Ilya. Thanks for your guidance and friendship.
I am from Europe (Slovenia) and between me and my milieu we have put our feet on all of European countries.

My division is not geopolitical, it is more of an cultural division. Protestant vs Catholic would be a starting point of two bigger blocks.

I haven't called Italy and Spain economically weak. However they are weak as far as civic virtues go, work and business ethics also leave a lot to be desired. When confronted with these issues people usually go and play the "meiterranean melos" card. When in reality these countries are likely just failing to cultivate a sense of personal responsibility in the citizenry and institutions.
So, so many excellent quotes in that discussion. My favorite:

"Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. The beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults."

Preach it, dude.
> The more awareness of suicide

Suicide has a strong triggering effect; see "Werther effect".

Talking about suicide has to be done carefully to avoid triggering further suicidal behaviour; especially after someone has just completed suicide.

I'd agree that more awareness of suicide prevention is very important.
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Actually, it's the other one that's the dupe!
ZIP codes are far from being a US exclusivity.

I suggest a "We don't offer our services outside of the USA for now. Leave us your email and country and we will notify you when…" somewhere in the ZIP code pop-in.
Wait, why does the conversion rate on a landing page with just a logo and maybe a one line description matter?

Thats hardly a useful metric for determining if you have a good product or a real business. Even after you launch, conversion rate optimization is a waste of time until you find the right product/pricing/etc and have figured out what people want.

The first 6months-1year will be about discovery, not optimization.
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BA's making more than programmers?? News to me! I took a BA position because no one would give me a shot at development. Now I work 8 hour days and study coding 4 hours after work trying to have a chance in the future to move up to development so I can making a good enough wage to get dates, go on occasional vacations, etc.
To expand a bit further on j45's points, this sounds like it's the OP's first time doing this. If there are enough resources to seriously investigate if this reseller model could be scaled to different ad-ops agencies/brokers, then it makes sense to go with a trial period.

If the deal goes nowhere, then at least you'll have a data point to figure out if you want to pursue this model further (as opposed to a hypothetical, educated guess).

One thing to consider is making sure that the reseller uses the same licensing/payment model on both sides of the contract. This is mainly to avoid a potential issue where the reseller gambles by going with a (much higher) fixed price site/unlimited license model on the end-user* side, while keeping the utility model on your side. This would only work if the reseller believes that they can accurately forecast maximum end-user volume.

I'm aware of situations where the licensing model was not mirrored between reseller and software OEM, resulting in awkward contract discussions between the upstream parties.

This can be somewhat (but not entirely) mitigated with high-watermark volume triggers, and (most important!) an agreed-upon volume metric used in the licensing discussions. You may think that the latter is easy enough to rely on since you're the one serving the ads on-demand, but how do you know you're serving the ads directly to the end-user and not going through a/the reseller's aggregation platform instead?

*Note: "End-user" refers to the customer paying for the ads to be displayed, not browsing audience.
Congrats to goosecast on winning best app at Hacka2thon. You guys deserved it.
Ha. I didn't see that, but I don't work for the nazis, I mean university. But seriously, does everyone who does anything for the university implicitly support them? I recall a recent episode of Pan Am, which is an American TV show. One of the stewardesses was French, and had lost her family during WWII. She went on a work trip to Germany, where she ended up going to some important building, where JFK was partying after giving his big speech in Berlin. She met a German girl who knew the building, because her family had been bakers, who delivered bread to the German soldiers, who had used that building as their headquarters during WWII. There was a moment where the French stewardess considered whether that meant the girl had been complicit with the "horrors" put forth by the same people who killed her family.
CS by far. Business degrees don't actually teach you business, nor do they qualify you for business management jobs.

It would probably behoove you to learn about business as well if you get a CS degree; it opens up some doors and will prevent you from getting taken advantage of so much. But the way to do that is to go out and actually try to sell something (whether it's your labor, a webapp, lemonade, whatever) and make money off it. Business degrees usually function at too high a level of abstraction to be useful for any one particular business.
I'm certainly not disagreeing with what you're saying or the core of what the parent meant to say regarding images of blacks in the media.

What I'm reacting to is an "Othering" of blacks on HN implied by the comment. A phrase like "these gifted people" implies that the audience he's speaking to is assumed to not include "African [sic] people". It's a default whiteness (and maleness, but that's a story for another day) that's rife in the tech industry that reinforces the image that it's a white boy's club. Yes, the industry is certainly predominantly white male, but when rhetoric and attitudes assume white maleness, the environment becomes unfriendly to everyone else.

-Gay Asian-American woman tired of explaining things that should be taught in schools
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I love the 2 years old Emily analogy.
Definitely date before you can get married.

Think of a proximate opportunity you can work together on where he can prove his value to you (and vice-versa).

A lot of these deals have a tendency to get hung up on theoretical discussions about what could happen a few years down the road. If you want to grow quickly and actually if they are as they as they say then table that discussion and figure out a simple way you can work on ONE customer, project, etc. If successful, expand from there.

Also: if they are focussed too much on how to get paid then that is often an indication that they cannot provide a lot of value.
I met him at Burning Man this year, had a couple of good conversations with him, and have "email Ilya" as a current item on my to-do list. This is the first I've heard of his death. :-( His close friends may not be getting this news through HN, but surely a number of acquaintances are.
I just pushed a new version of the page. Still some work to do (grammar?), but I feel it's better than the previous version.
thanks, you're right.
The death of the founder of any well-known startup merits mention here. The startup community is a close knit global one, we don't just meet each other at professional networking events, we share our lives with each other.

Perhaps unlike any other profession we have a closeness that binds us, we socialize, we date, we make lifelong friends from within the startup community.

Even if we don't know the startup founder directly we know of their work, their successes and their failures, their contribution to the story of the startup world.

Speculation suggests that it may have been self-inflicted, even if it's not true, it's worth stepping back and appreciating the fact that startup founders often find themselves under immense pressure and often keep it quiet.

When's the last time you asked someone how their startup was doing to get a reply "not so good", founders are expected to be eternal optimists and this expectation can make it harder for those struggling or suffering to ask for help from their friends (who are often from the startup world themselves).

Maybe we need a Startups Anonymous to give founders a place where they can drop their public persona and be honest about the worries that are keeping them up at night.
We don't talk about suicide in society very well let alone within the startup community. Founders find themselves in extremely stressful situations and living lifestyles that exacerbate the effects of this stress. Remember to eat well, try to get some routine exercise, seek both quality and quantity of sleep, and have a couple of confidants that you can rant to. Remember that the alpha males spouting off about toughness and pulling death march schedules while eating nothing but energy bars and coffee are often the ones hurting most (i.e., just like how a lot of the most vehement homosexual bashers turn out to be homosexual).

I know YC likes to promote flocking together as founders, but I think it's really healthy to have one or two close confidants that are completely outside the startup community. You need to be able to rant to these people and unwind emotionally. A lot of your rants might be non-sensical, might be hypocritical, and even a tad self-centred. The last thing you need is another opinion in that situation, especially one telling you you're wrong for feeling the way you do. You're least likely to find one from people that simply aren't interested in entrepreneurship.
If you believe the history of mobile phone is like the history of the desktop, then of course, it's a war. It does not matter if there's a half a billion, a billion. At some point, it become a zero sum game.

The choices we have will at some point stop being choices. They will stop to exists and whatever platform wins, get to dictate what rules are we going to play by.

The other disquieting thing about your comment, to me, is that you think Apple's "magic" is simply a matter of polish. As if you just wipe it with a rag for a few months and suddenly it gleams. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of UI/UX design. Achieving the level of elegance that Apple products frequently (not always) possess requires tremendous focus and talent.

It doesn't mean that you have to dictate, control, censor what apps are allowed in your store, make developers sell their soul to you, and so on. You do not have to be a control freak.
Not yet, I have thought about this but I wasn't sure if I would be nagging people. Maybe a opt-in would be the best choice.
This is shocking. A simple, error-proof, accounting move with zero side effects... What are we waiting to do this?
I've got to check that out.
GTalk on Android just plain doesnt work for most on-the-go conversations. The latency is horendous and often I "go offline", and the client crashes. Might be due to my phone, but still, WhatsApp is optimized for wireless radios. The latency can be bad when WhatsApp is on Wifi too, but it generally works great when on (3)G.
RE: "Perl, Python and Ruby fail to attract many Java and C++ programmers because, well, they force you to get stuff done."

As a seasoned Ruby programmer, I had the impression that Ruby with its metaprogramming api was just as much a metadata addict's paradise.
Ask HN: How to find a partner/developer for a german, two student based startup
We are actually a two students, developing some digital signage system based on the webstack. A lot of the system is done with some js/node.js flavor. After half year of development we are running out of men power to release a demo version of the product. We are not able to pay a lot of money for a developer, so how to find one?
"In these war times it is not always easy to think constructively about the peace that is to follow."

Wow. Oppenheimer and many of the other top scientists (then and now) also happen to be great writers. Brilliant, brilliant people.
I'll think of something to clear up the confusion. I sure need to write a guide. You shouldn't have to press back, only left click on the questions and they would be added dynamically.
You don't need the user to add your app to Twitter to have a tweet link. You could use Twitter's buttons or post a link like:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=webclient&text=e...
Ask HN: Acquiring technology product from former employer
Has anyone tried to purchase a product line from a former employer? In my case it is a technology product that has not seen a formal end of life but has not received any major update in at least 10 years. The install base is global and reasonably sized (I estimate ~5,000 enterprise customers). I was an engineer on this product and then the Product Manager for several years. There are some patents that protect pieces of this technology so I can't just clone it. This product was acquired by my former employer during an acquisition and has never been a focus or priority. I see a lot of potential still in this product. So HN am I crazy or can this be done? What terms should be included and what is the best way of broaching the subject with them? It has been more than 1 year since I last worked there and I left on good terms.
Yeah, but at what point does that stop the "power users" who seem to hate Unity from installing Gnome themselves? Hell, I removed Gnome entirely and replaced it with Xfce once. It's still Linux. Just because it comes with Unity preinstalled doesn't mean you're stuck with it.
While I agree that you shouldn't read too much into the metrics, something like LaunchRock gives you at least a platform to start your launch from. Much easier to mail 10-10,000 people who have expressed interest, rather than start cold and try to find that 10-10,000 people.

Don't expect your pre-launch "coming soon" page to bring 1000s of customers with money in hand, but since it's a pretty damn minimal investment, you might as well set one up.
Wow, this strikes me as a really tone-deaf response to this news, especially considering that Diaspora is alive, kicking, and growing.
> Take a moment to talk to the people you love to make sure something like this doesn't happen to them.

I think it makes it harder to do this for introverts, and there is a larger number of those in the tech community.

Also, perhaps electronic communication is not always adequate for this. So take the time to meet and visit in person.
I'm interested to know how they have been perceived as failure. I think this is all very relative, and failure is a strong word. Github still have 1 day old commit and the community is apparently still active.
Yeah, being willing to walk away for a better offer is the most encouraging thing to have in your pocket. That's worth working to get.

Another tip I heard, and tried out, is to start with a price higher than the highest you think they're willing to part with. Even if you cringe to say it. On the logic that the price can easily come down, but it's far harder for you to push it back up. (If they accept your first offer, the reasoning goes, you didn't go nearly high enough. Remember, that first price can affect you for years.) It worked for me, though of course YMMV.

(For those who cringe in salary negotiations, Graeber's _Debt: The First 500 Years_ may give you some perspective on why it makes you feel bad.)

Definitely helps to get in a position where you interview people. (Not to mention salary negotiations.) Then it'll be clear what employers want, and what other developers do. Based on that, you can present what they truly desire.

Take for example do-at-home projects. If you can solve them, then you can really hit them out of the ballpark. The first time I reviewed the solutions, I saw that only one or two had neat complete-ish solutions. (Most had significant cut corners; one was written by an insane fellow.) It was easy to see how to go beyond the best ones: make a build file, a readme that's worthy of a good opensource project, etc.
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>If you are a PCIe adapter manufacturer and want to make your product compatible with Express Box 3T, please contact Marketing(at)Magma.com to join our Partner Program or Join our Interest List and let us know that you're a developer.

And how many PCIe card makers have patched their drivers to work with this thing?
I politely disagree. There are a couple of reasons that computers/software have been sources of rapid innovation.

First of all, there's relatively little government disincentive to innovate, but there have been significant government incentives to innovative especially during the Cold War (e.g. ARAPnet, etc).

Second, capital costs and the road to release are generally lower/shorter in software. I think the author makes a good point in mentioning an X prize type challenge - these prizes reduce capital costs slightly, but more importantly by generating publicity the prizes can reduce the road to market.

However, these prizes themselves and even the author's article are an example of the power of the "sexy" social technologies. More people are gaining awareness of x prize type prizes in part because of buzz in online communities. I read this article because it was upvoted on HN. The very social technologies that many people complain are outshining innovation in other realms are creating a worldwide communication/social system that is just now beginning to become the foundation on which other innovations can take place.

The most important pre-requisite to disruptive innovation in a variety of fields is the very innovation in communication that software makes possible.

In short, changing our ways of collecting, organizing, and communicating information is the key to future radical innovations.
Good points. Integration is definitely something I'm starting to look into, but reducing friction is also important. I'll see if there's anymore contributions to the discussion, but at least that gives me a couple additional points to consider. Thanks!
Yep, that's what I ended up doing a few minutes after reading your comment. Was an oversight by me originally. Thanks again. Try it out now and let me know.

Just Read access now, as I put up in the update.
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not give out money. give out 'bid-coupons'. money would cost them. this doesn't.