skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently began experiencing and practicing exactly what this post describes. The startup I co-founded began receiving leads and of course not all leads are a good fit for our product. I'm a developer and have never been in a sales role previously, but when you are the only salaried employee and a co-founder, you do what needs to be done. So I've been following up with the leads and in a five minute conversation it becomes clear if our solution is the best solution. When I started, I made the mistake of trying to convince everyone that our product could do everything they wanted. Then I realized this tactic was not only exhausting, but ultimately would lead to dissatisfied, short-term customers. Once I made the switch to using the same techniques the OP describes, not only was the sales process far less stressful, but I found myself enjoying talking to people and just trying to help them. If our solution is a good fit, great, but if it isn't, I'm not going to BS you. I have been thanked over and over for being transparent and honest, something people apparently aren't generally used to when dealing with sales people. At the end of the day I'd much rather be a helpful person than a sales person.
Employers want passwords of FB and not LinkedIn accounts?
Thats cruel on LinkedIn.
Thank you to you and jleader for good answers.
I wonder if we'll see chip vendors going out of their way to improve performance and invalidation when using atomic ops.

They already put a lot of effort into making this stuff as efficient as possible - the fact that Intel is going in the direction of hardware transactional memory indicates to me that they don't think the bus locking/cache snooping approach scales, and I can't say I'm surprised.
So does my 5yr asus netbook. but plenty of people would say otherwise for both.
Pretty sure most of the (logic) transistor count records are held by FPGAs, no?
If you're even being considered for a job at the CIA et al, you have a long history trailing behind you that they can dig through. Getting your Facebook information likely wouldn't give them any more relevant data than is already available to these agencies.
Yes, my Nokia 8850 had no internal storage and therefore i could only hold 10 messages on the SIM. The later SIM's had more memory and could store 20 messages!

Seems strange having a phone that even stores them individually and doesn't group my contact these days!
Official docs are great, also check out the django book http://www.djangobook.com/
Start-ups: Understand what you mean when you say "market"
They offer a free product and a $50 paid product. I don't think it was mentioned anywhere that those hundreds of new customers were paying customers. Maybe they just signed up to try the product then never came back.
The official website is more than enough, so long as you have python experience. If not, you should start with Dive Into Python (or something similar) at the same time at least.

If you have any MVC framework experience at all django is relatively straightforward.
Official docs are some of the best of any project (save maybe the best practices for view creation...).

I'd recommend skimming through a few Django applications to get an idea of structure, one I know off the top of my head (as I wrote it): https://github.com/zapier/django-knowledge

Read the excellent Yipit Django blog (http://tech.yipit.com/). Especially their post about learning Django: http://tech.yipit.com/2012/02/28/183772464/
I like this trend of the big Internet companies taking proactice steps to right the wrongs that are happening in their space. If only more companies had backbones.
The official docs are outstanding, some of the best documentation of any open source project I have used.
Yeah, that. CD players were highly desired but very expensive in the early days. Boom boxes came in and were probably cheaper than a decent hi-fi.
I wrote a tool for this, mouseware: http://www.fusionbox.com/mouseware/

It generates a memorable password using entropy from your mouse movements to seed a CSPRNG. It is completely in-browser, no data is ever sent to the server.

Source available here: https://github.com/fusionbox/mouseware/
Amazing how much has changed and how much has not. I recently showed this to a group of undergraduate students in a Tech Talks course (Mostly CS majors and a few MEs and EEs). The range of reactions ranged from nostalgia and excitement to "I didn't like the outdated 80's movie".

I should note, it's 30 minutes long, worth watching though.
A guy who makes a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.
When you’re on first-party sites like Facebook and Google, the add-on isn’t meant to block anything. The blocking kicks in when you’re on third-party sites that otherwise send your browsing history to Facebook, Google, et al.

Give our new Firefox add-ons a try <https://disconnect.me/tools>; — I think they have our best extension UI, but I’d love to know what you think.
Which one cost more in development : Android vs iOS
That's exactly the issue I have.

Most of what I've been doing lately is web related, so it's not at all uncommon for me to have a CSS file, a couple Javascript files, an HTML template, and some sort of backend view open all at the same time, working between them concurrently.

I accomplish this with vim split windows, and I use every inch of my 23" screen to do it (with the browser running the site itself on my second monitor).

If I use a smaller screen, I either need to use window splits that are so small, they provide almost no context, or I need to be constantly closing and opening different splits...
Not at the clock speeds that nvidia chips run at.
What am I supposed to be looking at?
“Sleep, friends, p-sets — choose two,”

I have not had the opportunity to attend MIT, however I have worked with several people who did. One of the common attributes I've noticed between all of them is an ability/drive to work hard, and get things done. To almost ignore their physical self. To me, aside from the bit of genius each possesses it's this personality attribute that I suspect is the secret to MIT's notorious success rate.

As someone who has experienced a severe burnout, managing my time, and carefully monitoring my energy has become a major priority. What baffles me is how these people can accomplish this without experiencing the same burnout I did when I tried.
IANAL, but, my take on this is: Asking the password itself should be none of facebook's business. However, as soon as the employer logs in with the password, they become subject to the TOS as well. The TOS for example contain this clause: You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful. I don't know if that is enough, but Facebook can also change their TOS. And the lawsuit would pretty good PR for Facebook and pretty bad PR for the employer regardless of the outcome.
> pay extra on your mortgage

Unless your mortgage is like 8% or more, it would be wiser to put that money in stocks for the long term.

You're borrowing money at (say) 4% to own a home. That's a great rate, why be in a hurry to pay it back if you could earn 8% per year over the next 10yrs in the stock market?

Secondly, I believe we're on the cusp of significant double digit inflation. So your debt will inflate itself away. Put that cash you have now into something that will protect against inflation, that means something that will inflate itself. Stocks aren't a bad choice for that either.

If it turns out to be economic collapse type inflation, well then you might want to spend that money on actual hard things, like firearms, ammunition, food, fuel.

Obviously if you have any credit card debt in the range of 15%, pay that off first.
Putting aside the morality of this particular case, I'd point out that this type of copying will discourage early sharing of concepts / projects on HN, which is not a good thing.
The official docs are more than sufficient. They were one of the main reasons i picked up Django.
Or you can watch the following:

Introduction to Django
http://pyvideo.org/video/604/introduction-to-django

and if you want to venture further down the rabbit hole

Django in Depth
http://pyvideo.org/video/610/django-in-depth
I'm wondering if, instead, an employer created a facebook app that asked for maximum access, and asked their employees to authorize it. It might no longer be unauthorized access/tortious interference.

I don't know the first thing about facebook app development. Seems like it could be easy to write up. Is it easy for facebook to kill such apps? Am I just making things up that don't make sense?
Watching a wavefunction as hydrogen explodes
I have personally been asked by a few people with the same exact problem. I've even helped one or two of them vet some potential developers they wanted to hire.

Whether or not you hire someone, you should definitely learn to code. The more you make yourself aware of the important issues developers need to worry about, the smarter you can be with your decisions and cash. Happy you're pursuing it!

Should you hire someone or learn to do it yourself? That depends on a few things: Are you planning on making money on this idea? Does your interest in pursuing the idea depend on the success of the idea? Do you have a limited window of time to execute on your idea for it to be successful? If there's no urgency to run to market, then I recommend doing it yourself. There's nothing more satisfying.

If you ARE interested in hustling with this idea, then you need to start sourcing your network for help. Do you personally know any developers? Do they want to help you develop a prototype? Do they know anyone who might? Do you know any computer science/engineering students who might want extra experience this summer? Do you know anyone who works in a Computer Science program or college that could help you source interns? Get involved in your local tech community. Go to meetups and find people who are active and involved. Ask them if they know anyone they could introduce you to. Ask people if you can help them with anything they're working on. (Be sincere!)

I wouldn't focus on trying to find a technical co-founder at this point. This can be something that sits at the back of your mind while you're looking for help, but going around asking for a co-founder is like asking the girl to marry you too soon. It would be a shame to pass on good help because they weren't "founder" material. When talking to people who might help you, ask for small portions of help. People are willing to help a little here and there without thinking twice. If they like interacting with you, you'll definitely feel comfortable asking for more assistance (and it's likely they'll offer without you having to ask).

Show the people you're talking to that you've invested a lot of time on this already. That this isn't just some idea you've been toying with the past few days. Let them look over your mockups. Talk to them about the vision for your idea. Try to validate some assumptions about the problem you think the idea is solving.

Scatterbrained delivery, but the principles have worked for the people I know facing the same issue. Let me know if I can elaborate on anything.
Sorry, it has been a while. I remembered them as IPOing for ~190 million, but apparently that was not the case.
If all the end users use the CISC layer and no person uses the RISC layer, then I would feel comfortable calling it a CISC machine.
Id rather just install Pneumatic tubes everywhere, Tacotubes!
>> Execution of course matters but there is also value in being first and taking the right marketing approach.

I absolutely agree with you. I think for a lot of people, including myself, however, the best marketing approach would have been to say "check this out, I did something cool, and I've open sourced it." This is what dcurtis probably should have done. He didn't do any groundbreaking rails code, and there was very little value in having a new workflow of blogging exist only on his servers. I think the value of Nate open sourcing it is much higher than if he had just built a clone and kept it to himself.

Basically, the community response supporting Nate is strong because he did something that benefits the community as a whole, where as dcurtis did something that benefited only himself and then shouted about it.

That's my (pretty myopic and polemic) take on all this.
That's what I do, but I'm just saying a lot of sites duplicate the content without intending to do anything nefarious.
I'm a bit surprised by a wafer pricing chart. Sure, the individual wafer cost goes up; but if you have a design with the same transistor count, the size of your chip is going _down_, which means that you'll have _more_ chips per wafer (assuming comparable yields), which means that individual chip cost will go down.

(40/28)^2 ~ 2, so if 28nm is not that bad comparing to 40nm, assuming, again, comparable yields.
Why not just have one more negative number than positive number?
very cool! i like the way to navigate and browse stories.

thanks for making and showing!
According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs it's not-"think different" is a command to think of something that is different, as opposed to thinking of things differently.
I guess you're right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

But they are very different beasts with different technology and a different (much smaller) market, right?
Sadly the django book is very old and not updated since a long time.
Ask HN: How is HN's ranking algorithm implemented?
There is an older article from a post about a year and a half ago titled "How Hacker News Ranking Algorithm Works" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013). I understand how the algorithm works mathematically but how is it implemented on the server? More specifically, how does the server keep its rankings updated if each stories rank decays as a function of the time since submission? The ranks must be getting continuously calculated at some point, but I'm not sure when that would be--it doesn't make sense to calculate them on request, and there are way too many stories to be constantly processing all of them all the time. My thought is that the rank is recalculated after each vote, and there must also be some rank threshold at which a story's rank is automatically processed and recalculated continuously in the background, this way the recent stories are constantly being processed while older ones past the threshold become stale and are ignored. This could also be why there is no real pagination (instead the next url is /x/fnid=xxxxxxxxxx), possibly to discourage people from going too deep. I could also be completely wrong. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I can certainly see the reasoning, but it falls apart in application.

A store clerk may be subjected to intrusive medical examination at any time; they are responsible for a few thousand dollar's worth of stock. A Wall Street trader is unlikely to be subjected to drug testing - drug use is, arguably, a part of their culture - despite being responsible for millions of dollars of other people's money.
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This presentation is more evidence that Moore's Law is dead. Nvidia and AMD can blame their partners, but the reality is that they're hitting increasingly costly technological hurdles.

Of course Nvidia can't just throw it's hands up and say "welp, we've hit the wall" when it has someone to blame.

It's fascinating to watch those predictions about the end of Moore's Law come true.
Possibly not if they're in a country with a weaker economy, lower cost (and/or standard) of living, and no way to get a work visa someplace else?
The mobile Google Play store is ugly - these awesome renders fix that.
That's fascinating, disturbing and something I had not considered.
It's also about law enforcement jobs where they might hold it against you if you refuse. You have a right to refuse, but then they can just deny you the job because you "obviously" have something to hide.
You are right: 2.6B for CPU, 4.3B for GPU and 6.8B for FPGA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
For mobile, take a look at Moai[1]. I don't like it as much as LÖVE -- it feels more low-level and fiddly to me --but it's Lua and it's pretty full-featured.

[1] http://getmoai.com/products/moai-sdk
Software Engineering needs leaders, not ScrumMasters
I often think back to why I came to MIT, especially when the semester gets tough. I remember I came to the admitted students weekend and toured one of the dorms. The walls were covered with murals and the floors with junk --- motors, robot parts, circuit boards. People had built their own lofts; someone had rigged their door to open automatically when it recognized them. Someone had hooked up a camera and a projector so that you could "draw" on one of the nearby buildings with a laser pointer.

So of course, I came to MIT. I remember discovering pg's essays around sophomore year and starting to consider starting my own company, but my transformation really began when I set foot here at MIT, where creative and curious people build mind-blowing things every day.

At first it's intimidating. These people all seem so smart! Who am I to build a roller coaster, paint a 20 foot mural, build a loft, hack a PS3, build a crazy device and start a company out of it? You hear about these things in the abstract and you're intimidated. But then you get home and see people building a roller coaster in your courtyard and you realize: Who am I not to do awesome things? Life is too short, damn it. It seems obvious to the entrepreneurially minded, but it's hard to describe the impact it had on me. I could've learned the same course material in many other places. But I cannot overstate how powerfully this cultural immersion changed my life.
Check the URL is not a solid advice, there are many ways to trick you (e.g. google.com vs goog1e.com). Enter the URL yourself is a better one.
Your Strength as a Rationalist
Pioneering robot surgery hailed
It's not just "not super safe". It's actively dangerous. These things can straight-up mangle a person - at least ones big enough to carry tacos. Guess what happens when a little kid or a dog sees an RC helicopter flying around or landing - they run to it.
Science as Tribal Attire
Learning to make charcoal in bulk or blow glass are valuable purely for entertainment: it's not likely to be useful to you, but you'll have fun doing it. On the other hand, this was also my motive for learning about things that later turned out to have really high expected utility, like the concept of "expected utility".
Honestly, this protects them more then anybody else. If this "behavior" became norm for employers, people would begin simply deleting their Facebook accounts in droves.

Facebook is valuable, but not "that" valuable where people would sacrifice a potential job opportunity in favor of keeping their Facebook profile.

That being said, I do like that Facebook has weighed in and it favors an individuals right to privacy.
I don't have a problem with artists needling society (and you're absolutely right, there are a lot of amazing artists who have been epic trolls).

I have a problem with artists needling society solely because they can.

As a work of inspiration/aspiration, human bird wings is rather underwhelming.
The GP said complicated, not advanced. A CD player is much less complicated for the "VCR clock has flashed 12:00 for the last four years" crowd than an answering machine.
Just by observing, I think it goes like this:

if linked_article.is_relevant_to_YC_company():
goto front_page;
elsif linked_article.is_negative_to_YC_company():
linked_article.dead();
Compare nature reclaiming New Orleans to the scientific controversy about nature reclaiming Chernobyl.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14250489)

(http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl/all/1)
How about a mechanical fail-chute? The UAV could be equipped with a dead-man switch style parachute/inflatable life raft contraption that would trigger if the rotors stopped turning and if the device was flying high enough, it could float harmlessly to earth cocooned in a pocket of sturdy material buffered by some quantity of air. If you could figure out how to make it work, you could be in about as much danger as getting hit in the head by a beach ball...
When I graduated in '09, everybody was worried about going into finance because of the '08 disaster. Now, all of a sudden, startups seemed like better ideas because finance was so crappy.

I, for one, am incredibly excited by the startup community at MIT. We were just there for the StartLabs career fair (hi asuth!) and it was really refreshing to see how many students showed up to it really interested in entrepreneurship and working on interesting projects with world-changing ambitions.

It's really great that we have a Dropbox to aspire to, being another MIT company. That really does mean a lot; just having someone to aspire to and hopefully beat is a big driver, at least for me.
Ask HN: Can  you get a faster traction with a mobile app vs. WebApp
Hi All,

I'm just wondering if you can get faster traction with a mobile app (Androrid/iPhone) vs. WebApp?

Thanks,
Related All about Skimmers from Krebs on security:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/
Burnout does happen, but you don't necessarily hear about it.
That is going a bit far.
Built a startup and need to manage sales, but who with?
What would you advise to keep track of all sales leads and client relationships to share across a number of people?

We're using Gmail and Wunderlist at the minute but it's starting to get messy!
Thanks for the help! You have added much need perspective.
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I've created a project template that I consider - and hope - is an improved project template for most.

http://amccloud.com/post/14689947527/django-1-4-custom-proje...
It probably stems from the idea that people in lower income brackets (possibly with less stable employment) are more likely to be drug users.

For example, casinos drug-screen their employees, but I doubt that such drug screening happens to execs at the casinos who have more power/control over the money that the casino deals in.
Not the parent, but -- in my experience -- many libraries from the community were written by enthusiastic amateur developers. Finding ones I enjoyed using was very needle-in-a-haystack.

One recommendation: https://github.com/kikito
The twins thing is easily explainable by a programming reference. Seed 2 instances of the same random generator class with the same seed and have them run a million numbers on different computers... the millionth number will always be the same. Humans are just big wet sloppy computers with a little more noise than our PCs (environment is different for everyone, even identical twins are not in the exact same space) so it's likely that twins will more often than anyone else be thinking in parallel with each other from time to time.
How is it not demeaning and condescending to call an adult woman by the word used to describe the immature state of her sex?

Why can't you simply say "women"? What's the impediment? Why do you so cling to "girl"?
docs + https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/
People by default believes; scepticism takes effort
Apple...Gandhi? Really? I thought the article was being ironic. The thing about a big fail like Mike Daisey's is that it shuts down valid debate. Apple ends, great. Means? Iffy.
I don't happen to believe in mind-matter dualism, but at the same time, I also don't believe it's possible to scientifically prove it one way or the other.

Can science truly explain where consciousness comes from? I would argue it cannot, because consciousness is a subjective experience, and is not objectively measurable.
I find that demeaning as well. I also take it as a signal of the speaker's maturity level.