skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are typical working hours? Can engineers work from home?

Jason: 8-10 hours in office, more from home / weekends. Yes if needed but we prefer to collaborate in the office. Since we run continuous deployment speed matters, and that means you need high intra-office bandwidth.

If the bit about intra office bandwidth isn't ridiculous misdirection, then apologies... But it sure sounds like it. I think it's interesting, in an age where shops are bending over backward to rethink what makes people productive, and go above and beyond when it comes to equipment (or tequila), that telecommuting still seems to have an unfounded shroud of taboo hanging over it.

What am I missing? Please feel free to tell me why intra-office bandwidth is a really important attribute that deserves a place in the answer to this question.

(For the record Votizen seems rad, and the article is awesome. Sorry for coming off negative)
I just looked at a rough count - it's 1.1B voter history records. I don't have an offline copy to do heavier analytics on it - just from analyze stats on indexes for now.

Also, after signing up, people can correct/revise their voting records:

http://imgur.com/a/NOj4I

This is because 1) the states themselves don't keep complete records and 2) we don't have all voting history forever, as scarmig pointed out.

scarmig, you're "in the space" I googled and this was 1st: http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/scarmig/scarmig1.html What do you work on?

Sideline, is that related to Lessig's Root Strikers? Seems to be a different Libertarian site w/ unfortunate brand collision. :-/
You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.
If you want to maintain control I would suggest getting low interest business loans.

If you want to cash out early I would trying to sell your company early in the boom.

If you think you can grow vary quickly take some outside investment.

If you just want stability build up a little cash hoard so you can grow during the crash and pickup talent cheaply.
I wish it had a better name. It's almost impossible to find by googling. Maybe that's why it's not more popular?
Yep - I've got one as well. I like the way it works but I really notice the compromise on the extra size.
And we all know how awesome Amazon.com search is......
I just can't get into BBEdit. I'm spoiled too much by the functionality that XCode provides as an integrated IDE. As far as I can tell, there's no easy out-of-the-box code completion for BBEdit like there is XCode, and it can't display OS X platform documentation (file format is not proprietary, so it should be able to).

If I wrote things other than source code on a regular basis, then it might be useful, but I don't.
Much easier to move from a tech guy to a business guy. Waht you mentioned isn't real business (functional specs, business specs), rather work for office drone and a must.

Business guy means taking risk, being persistant, able to sell and to network. That's it.
Alternately: “Why vuru is probably trolling for page-views with baseless speculation”

Steve Jobs was a key figure in the history of our industry but it's not like he built the iPhone personally and the entire team didn't depart with him. In contrast, RIM has had bad management for many years and no track-record of successfully building a consumer product - Apple could get there but it's not going to happen quickly or with any plausible single mistake.
Pretty amazing that Larry and Sergey have been able to hold on to the reins over all these years. Props to them for having the fortitude.
The "ceiling" symbols (left/right square bracket upper corner) at the beginning of the explanatory text are displayed as unknown character boxes here (Win7/Chrome).
"Most people who have a well developed understanding of an industry and basic financial sense easily recognize bubbles and have always done so in the past."

I try to listen to what people I trust from the industry say about the existence of a bubble. Pretty much all of them say that there is none. For example Ben Horowitz (of Andreesen Horowitz) consistently argues that there is absolutely no bubble (and he was around for the real bubble occurred). See 5:10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xzcJnqcTP4

I think that often when markets become hot, people automatically think of a bubble, but that's not necessarily true. The internet has grown from 50 million users to over 2 billion and smartphones were non-existent in the 90s. So perhaps higher valuations for tech companies are justified due to higher potential.

But you could be right, only time will tell.
While MinGW is great for some things, I prefer Cygwin, which is more complete and the package manager is a particular godsend.

It's common for Windows ports to package their own MinGW version (Strawberry Perl, MSYS-Git, ...), which is less than awesome, but you can compile the things you need from source. It's often a bit tricky, though (I used to compile Git and Perl from source because at the time the Cygwin packages were either non-available or outdated, but it's not for the faint of heart).

As Cygwin comes with MinGW cross-compiler packages, I no longer keep a separate MinGW/MSYS environment around, and I'm reasonably happy with this setup.
Sports Nutrition Expert Cory Holly on what to eat before/after workouts
FarFaria Brings A Hulu For Kids’ Stories To The iPad
You could say that just about any software development platform. If it makes building software easier, it makes competition easier. And if building apps is easier, it really doesn't matter what stack your app uses - it's going to get easier to "clone", so you may as well use whatever platform gives you the best results.

Other than that, you could either make your business, rather than your technology, more competitive, or make your technology ever more sophisticated than what "commodity" development tools allow.
I think this makes a lot of sense. I believe the company is better tightly held, but this will allow them to do "start-upy" things like continuing to grant large equity bonuses without diluting the company control.

I'm curious to see how much those voting rights will end up being worth. Assuming the two classes have the same payout "precedence" and receive the same dividends, any share price difference will be attributable to that voting right. (Probably not worth very much I would imagine, but someone could speculate that they will be more valuable in the future where a takeover was possible).
Ah, okay. That makes more sense. Thanks.
Every number in this article is a pure vanity metric. 200,000 "total audience" doesn't mean anything. Someone call Eric Ries.
Obviously the products are desirable and wanted. No, they're not "changing the world", but why do they have to? They're using kickstarter as a portal to get backers to bring their product to life. They make beautiful products people want to own, that wouldn't be produced otherwise.
The exact set of skills that one needs in order to do one's job will of course vary from person to person. What I have tried to point out in this post is that these topics are ones that anyone who calls themselves a front-end developer will need to be familiar with; if they are not familiar with them, then they risk being unable to keep up with the new information that is being shared about the front-end dev profession. This is based on my observations as much as my beliefs -- the set of things that you're expected to know in order to actively participate in the open-source front-end dev community is growing and changing, and this is my attempt to catalog those things in a way that I wish someone had done for me in the past.
The Most Dangerous Gamer (Jonathan Blow)
Rise4fun - from Microsoft Research
Why do you need to answer no and right-click otherwise? If you don't want it, you close the dialog; closing it effectively means "No thanks". You're not going to be right-clicking on that logo often like a mad man. The current solution makes perfect sense. Your solution is terrible and overly complex.
This was a great presentation. I'm not really that into programming music, but I really enjoyed the speaker's presentation style and the content was very interesting and enjoyable.
Turning it from a skilled game of picking stock into a skilled game of avoiding disclosure.

I didn't know that "Florida Swamp Land Inc" was a bad buy. Although it was promoted by a wholly owned subsidirary company that I actually work for from the same desk in the same office - but our internal rules mean that I didn't know that I knew that when I was working for the selling company.

In case you are concerned here is a report from an independent ratings agency that we pay to say this - and coincidentally I also own and work for.
Cool, I emailed you.
We think 'sexy' is a weird characterization. Sexy is usually what happens at the end, when the final result is shared or published to the public. How sexy a project is usually has nothing to do with the scientific impact of the research - e.g. the bat fellatio project.

Instead, we want to make people realize that the research process itself is sexy. And that in itself is a social experience.
Maybe if they put some filters on the e-ink display it could squeeze a couple extra $100k?
Meteor dev here. You're absolutely right that authentication is one of the hardest parts. What's happening is that the web is moving from a model analogous to mainframes and dumb terminals (where there is a central authority directly driving everyone's screens), to a distributed model where there are a lot of different actors, with different levels of trust for each other.

Figuring this stuff out is hard. Usually for questions that come up in this shift, we have a good model we can look at, which is the client/server desktop applications of the late 80s and early 90s. But in the case of authentication and security, they tell us not so much, because in those days most software lived inside private corporate silos. These days, our software not just technologically distributed, it's politically distributed.

In the case of Meteor, it's designed from the ground up for security. In fact, it's a second generation security model, designed after reflecting on lessons learned from Asana's Luna platform (I worked on Luna at Asana for a while in 2010.) It just isn't exposed in a user-friendly way in the Tuesday release.

But people dug into the code, found it, and are using it anyway, whether we like it or not. Briefly, 'meteor remove autopublish', use Meteor.publish to define what data clients can access, use Meteor.subscribe to control what data a particular client is getting, use Meteor.methods to define what writes clients can do, and see the following Stack Overflow question to disable the 'newbie mode' insert()/update()/remove() that let you do arbitrary writes to the database.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10115042/how-do-you-secur...
I plan on adding this to my http://newspaper23.com site. It's just way on the back burner.

Ideally I think you would do it client-side, so readers could adjust the shrinkage to the amount of time they have to peruse. I was also thinking about a scenario where you could browse at say 100-words and then dive-deep if you found anything that interests you. A more interactive approach. You might want to consider this.

But I really like the idea. Would love to hear how the project goes!
So, this is obviously a great comment, but two responses:

* The SOX requirements that capped the first Internet bubble clearly retarded tech company IPOs, so that only companies with (say) more than 60MM/yr cash-flow-positive revs could consider IPO'ing. The net effect of that for startups is negative: it virtually eliminates one previously available path to liquidity. But the net effect of that to society has been to transfer a lot of risks that were previously borne by the public markets to private equity and VC. Is that a bad thing?

In other words: yes, way fewer IPOs. But also much higher quality IPOs. Even Groupon is superior in many ways to companies that managed to IPO towards the end of the first bubble. Also: companies without a clear path to acquisition are forced to adopt business models that distribute profits to owners (else why run the company). The end result of that might be pretty positive.

* The Crowdfunding provision in the act clearly doesn't "legalize fraud". That's a hyperbolic claim. But is it hyperbolic to say that it simplifies and eases fraud? Especially if the Crowdfunding disclosure and capital restriction rules place Crowdfunding in a "worst of both worlds" situation in which shady (or just incompetent) companies find it productive to raise from crowds, but valuable companies get fed to insiders at VC funds.
Thanks a lot, we really appreciate it! We've got tons of stuff in store and can't wait to see what happens.

Seriously though, if chance ever brings you Seattle give me a shout!
Hey Ian, Meteor dev here. I posted a comment earlier in this thread about how data is secured in Meteor:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834211
Totally agree here. While I hope youre right, it's very tough to push these ideas right now. I've been trying to teach advanced front end technologies to front end guys for a while (haml & ruby logic, sass & sassscript, controlling and compiling files and projects through command line), and generally people have a very tough time picking it up because as "front end devs" they don't really know any programming beyond a bit of jquery.

The popularity of twitter bootstrap pretty much proves your point. With better technology (like sass), it would not be difficult to make a framework that's smarter and more flexible than bootstrap. I made one, it is better, and I have been writing about it and talking about it as much as I can, but NOBODY CARES. Bundle install? Mixin functions that take parameters instead of putting a class on an html element? No curly brackets or angle brackets? Too difficult, too different. Front end devs don't get it. What they do get is "here, paste this stylesheet into the head and everything will automatically look nice." - and now bootstrap is the most watched repo on github.

As much as it drives me crazy right now, I'm hoping that eventually people will start to realize that a truly efficient front end dev needs to know how to program. If you pit me against a dev who is using straight html and css, making the same website, I bet I could double their speed. That counts for a lot... especially when someone's on payroll.
So which had the best football team?
Ahh, gotcha. I thought Custom Search was that old thing they had which let you create a "customised" Google Search which had your colour scheme of choice and optional restriction of the results by topic (i.e. basically standard search), not the equivalent of 'site:x'.
Uh, no. The last MBP update was in October 2011. The specs page on Apple's site still shows the same specs. What makes you think anything has changed?
Wait, I'm a bit confused. Does this mean that I'm going to have X shares in GOOG and X shares in $newSymbol, and val(X)*2 = former stock price for GOOG? Or, will I retain X shares in GOOG and this new option will exist that will probably reduce the worth of my X shares.

Obvious disclaimer: I have stock in GOOG
Is this the same University of Florida that did this:
Give a 6 year 24 million contract to a coach of a so called amateur sports team ? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4374311
Is this the same UF that gets a cut of SEC 2.25 billion dollar contract ? http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2008/08/2008...?
Yes I think it is. Hmmm I wonder why they have nothing left for cs education.
Two years left of Windows XP support
That's not me, though I'm quite sympathetic to the libertarian critique, particularly the public choice side of things. Otherwise garden-variety left =)

As far as where in the "space" I am, it's a fairly well-established player, though I've been thinking of moving on recently. Just out of curiosity, how much a requirement is Python over there? Was thinking of dropping off a resume...
I'm no expert - but I did work part-time for a new business.

It was hard as heck to raise capitol. So much so that it was nearly not worth the effort. We spent as much, or more, time on investing than we did working.

At one point I was named as a defendant by one state for the content of an email I sent on behalf of the CEO.

We settled that, the boss got me removed from the thing, paid the fine. Paid the investor back his funds.

The investor took the money, went to his _other_ home across the state line, sent the money back.

It seemed like a lot of work on the part of the state regulatory branch - going after a small company for a negligible amount of money, on behalf of the sole investor from that state who really wanted to invest.

It sure soured me on the idea of taking any company I launch public.
// Listen to Right Click events on your logo image
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Meteor dev here. We're really excited about Firebase -- the time has come for realtime databases. Every Meteor app needs one.
> "Within one month, Airbnb had 24/7 support up and running. 8 months later, the system is running smoothly...."

Implied: there were some rocky bits in the intervening 7 months.

I'd love to hear about those! This certainly isn't a judgement on their success---scaling to 24/7 in a month is impressive even if there remained bugs to work out. (It's also not a judgement of the OP, which explained what it set out to explain, i.e. the initial one month.) So I guess, consider this a request for an interesting follow-up post. :)
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If you have X shares of GOOG worth $Y, then after the split you'll have X shares of GOOG and X shares of GO2 (incidentally, this would be a cool ticker if they could get it). Your X shares of GOOG and X shares of GO2 would theoretically be worth $Y/2 each, but more likely, the value will be skewed slightly toward GOOG shares being higher.

The actual price of your shares will be determined by the market, but you can expect that the total value of your stock should be fairly comparable after the split.
Try pressing 'm' on github
A lot of d3.js users use Backbone to manage datasets, and do simple dataflow architectures to link visualizations together.
I wasn't necessarily trying to imply that, though I'm sure it is true. :)

Based on what they told me, it sounds like the scheduling was the hardest part. Second hardest was probably finding the right phone system that worked perfectly for them.

If you have any specific questions, I recommend you tweet http://twitter.com/jessemaan directly...I'm sure she'd be happy to answer if she can!
Long, but you failed to cover the consequences for the single most critical point of this Act: rollback of independent accounting requirements.

No other developed nation in the world would even consider such a fundamental change to public offerings. In the financial world, i.e. financial startups, this would be a direct invitation for fraud, guaranteed.

Also, given how much you have quoted from history, you all of all people must recognise the opportunity cost and consequences from bad legislation is irrecoverable and it itself sets off a chain of other events that in turn are irrecoverable. That is, entropy applies to all systems and that this sentence, "nothing will stop Congress from pulling back" is completely missing the point in terms of damage potential. You do not just "try" new laws, you learn from your mistakes and make sure you put into place only that which causes least harm at the minimum.

Be sure that if this classic Anglo-American capitalist, short-termist legislation is applied, it will do at least as much harm to the startup scene (of all types, not just technology) as the previous boom-and-bust did. It is precisely the kind of legislation and groupthink that creates enormous financial bubbles and will eventually have an impact on completely ordinary people, but not the sharpest of investers, bankers and most of all, lawyers - "just" the rest of us.

Note. None of the large or most powerful technology companies that exist today were formed during such periods of destructive wealth creation.
How Instagram scaled to 30m users in two years: a talk by cofounder Mike Krieger
pressing 's' focus on search form ;)
Still though, somebody could delete all the movies and showtimes in a couple of clicks. I presume you have the JSON backed up but it's still going to get annoying if somebody decides they want to be a dick.
"Langley went on to say he has experienced similar problems getting manufacturers of SSL products to make changes that protect against an exploit demonstrated in September known as BEAST..."

Not sure who he is referring to when he says "manufacturers of SSL products," but it seems damn near impossible to get everyone deploying SSL to fix mixed content vulnerabilities.

Maybe diverse markets with lots of players just can't do security.
> and receive the same dividends

Yeah, they'll probably be the same there, at $0/year.

I think there will be a slight skew toward the voting shares, but probably not a lot, since a vote at GOOG doesn't presently do anything.
Write control was most important for us; all the readable data are simply id's to our internal DB
why email? I'd like to see the summaries in a web page too.
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US law mandate that data created by the tax payer money, ie the government, be Public Domain.
TextMate junky here, but I sure appreciated BBEdit trials every do often way back when I relied on Macworld discs to try new software. It was my go to application for a kid learning HTML/CSS.
>If you just want stability build up a little cash hoard so you can grow during the crash and pickup talent cheaply.

This is why I am interested in the timescales involved: how long will it last, and why will the bubble deflate? This input is highly desirable to make the correct decision.
I may have misunderstood, but can't you use the UIWebView (PhoneGap uses this by default for rendering) for HTML5/Cordova assets with the native UIToolBar at the top? (that's what I'm doing, but with UITabBar) Everything else can be done using native UIActionSheets.
I have to strongly agree with Google and Microsoft's policies of releasing all emails upon death to my family.

Email is a dumping ground for everything from signup confirmations to evidence, business dealings, and an entire person's life. Since none of us plan ahead for death, when we do die we leave a LOT of unfinished business or outstanding orders. Most of the people that we interact with, do business with will have no idea what happened to us. Their only way of finding out is to send an email and hope for a return.

The family might be able to use emails to find evidence of a homicide, or the last location of the person (if they went missing). Or the family can finish up any unfinished business the deceased had, answer and respond to people who were expecting a reply from the (now) deceased person, or complaints. Imagine dying in the middle of fulfilling a successful kickstarter campaign. Imagine all those angry people trying to figure out why you haven't responded in months. The only way your family would find out about your Kickstarter campaign is through your emails. And that's just one example.

Emotionally releasing all your info might bother you, but logically it makes a lot of sense. If you're worried about your family finding out that you had an affair or were secretly a hermaphrodite or cross-dresser or into some real kinky shit, why would it matter to you? You're dead. Gone from the earth forever, never to feel pain, joy, or embarrassment again.
But when I close the dialogue and right click again, the dialogue reappears. It'd be nice if it didn't, which is what the OP is suggesting. Maybe the extra "No" button isn't necessary, but I wouldn't call it "terrible".
In my experience Bootstrap is a saviour to backend debs who don't want to think about the front end if they can get away with it, not something that particularly interests FEDs.