skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a situation that has many different points...

A) Yes the grandmother's attitude was biased with those quotes and further highlights why America is in this situation in the first place. Americans and terrorists are both made up of people who believe stupid crap and treat others based on those beliefs. This is not a situation we can fix.

B) Yes the TSA Agents actually acted like they should have.
If I was trying to smuggle something in I would certainly have a kid along to go through security first and then trained such that were my smuggling attempt to fail to attempt some sort of backup plan by running up to me distressed to grab the item from me.
So their reaction was entirely smart to re-screen her.
This is also not a situation that could be fixed.

C) This whole incident further proves that their process is just not going to work like they want it to. On paper its great, but in reality its just not going to fly. When their detection capabilities are reliant upon either shooting X rays or molestation you're going to end up pissing off enough people to get your company voted off the corporate island.
This is a situation that we can fix, get rid of a lot of the security theatre and point B and C goes away.
Nice. I've been impressed with the tutorials that Parse has been putting out - keep 'em coming!
Best Fashion Blog - Best Fashion Blog
Owen, I think your memory is a little fuzzy on this. If you recall, we overlapped for a few months in 2007 before you left, and the "lots of women" you describe just weren't there.
Systrom took $1b instead of twitters lower offer?

There is talk that this purchase was strategic to prevent twitter or google buying a photo platform.

Whatever happened this story is not black and white. This sort of money is crazy.
So you sustain this cool life style with 5 hours and a half of sleep?
Well said! :)
How to make a Text Adventure
Zuckerberg, we’re told, lives in perpetual anxiety, preoccupied by the fear of Facebook losing its place, terrified that youngsters will get their social networking fix from other services. That fear served as the catalyst behind his decision to buy Instagram and keep it out of the hands of a cross-town competitor.

Paranoia is by definition irrational. I don't see this ending well.
Never tought I'd say this but since getting my new job and since Java is not any safer than .Net for the moment I have been toying with C# and it just frankly feels like a better language, esp the Linq part.

(Now, before anyone starts a big project in C# remember you are going to get punished all the way from start to finish. License for OS, for dev environment, no choice of dev environment, when you have bought VS you'll have to add resharper. Then you hopefully come to deployment where once again you have no real choice, Azure or self-hosting on, guess what, MS servers which again has to be licensed. )
Mixpanel needs a Director of Marketing
Hi HN,

I'm looking for someone to lead up marketing for Mixpanel. We've built the most advanced analytics platform available for mobile & the web - tools that allow you to dive deep into product usage patterns, understand conversion rates, and understand user retention. Nobody else comes close to our current offering.

Here are the facts:

* Revenue is in the millions
* We're cash-flow positive
* We have top-tier investors: YC, Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sequoia
* Example customers: BitTorrent, Path, Capcom, OkCupid, Jawbone
* We're not interested in getting acquired. It's go big or go home.

We've got engineering, product, and support under control. Once we have a customer, we keep them.

Now we need to grow. So far we've grown strictly through word-of-mouth. This is, of course, wonderful - but the time has come to really go to market.

This is where you come in. As the Director of Marketing for Mixpanel, you'll take on things like:

* Owning both online and offline marketing channels
* Thinking of and executing on creative marketing campaigns
* Developing the voice and messaging of our company
* Building out a team of talented marketers
* Putting together events of all kinds - from meetups to conferences

We want you to help us build an incredible marketing organization from the ground up. If you haven't done that yet, but you have all kinds of ideas, I'd love to talk to you. If you've been there, done that, and are ready to do it one more time, I'd love to talk to you. I think this will be a lot of fun.

If you agree, here's what we're looking for:

* Someone very creative. Doing what everyone else does is a recipe for failure.
* at least a few years of experience in a marketing role. Experience building/leading a team is a big plus.
* excellent writing skills - you'll be marketer #1, which means you'll be writing. A lot.

If you think you'd be a good fit, please get in touch.

One last thing - if this isn't the role for you, but you know someone who would be a great fit, please introduce me. If we hire your friend, we'll give you $10K.

Tim Trefren - tim@mixpanel.com
I think a better restatement of what soup is trying to say would be "20ms latency HFT market makers provide insufficiently more value to the market than 200ms latency HFT market makers to justify the human capital involved in obtaining the lower latency"
Some people call these sorts of charts crop circles. And, like the patterns stomped in wheat and corn fields, some people take one look at them and decide the end is nigh.
There's is nothing wrong with honest work, but if you are a highly skilled programmer and think that HFT is the most impactful/important work you can do. Then you aren't thinking hard enough.
Can you easily set it to quickly search for apps using Super and change apps using Super + number hotkeys? Or something similar?

I'm not really a fan of unity, but I cannot live without those 2 features anymore :S
A mashup would be a derivative work of several original works, not a collection of works.

Also, for the record, that wasn't the question I was trying to forestall with my last paragraph. I was more after someone doing something bizarre like creating a multi-hour "song" where each "instrument" is a full other song loaded as one big sample or something. Generally speaking the answer to this sort of trickery is "You're a programmer, and you're using thought processes designed to slip things past computers. Judges are human." There are certainly ways to "slip things past" a human judge as well, but they are very different. Human judges generally react poorly to outright sophistry, where computers don't mind it one bit.
If you poll too often, you cause unnecessary traffic.

Conditional GET has been in WordPress for about eight years, and is supported by many of the other majors.
“I don't understand why they all seem to ignore this line in Google's TOS.”

Because not many people are good at reading and at understanding what they read.

Which, here, is this:

Gmail or Google Docs/Drive or Google Apps are not among Google’s services that “allow you to submit content”. You don’t submit anything to them. A service like YouTube, on the other hand, is, and it obviously needs such terms in order to operate.
Google can only do those rights. They cannot sell your content, for example, because it is not enumerated in the list.

Dropbox, on the other hand, could, theoretically decide that they want to sell your information as a part of the service, and their TOS allows it.

Also keep in mind that this is Google's unified TOS for ALL Google services and products. So it includes Youtube and Google Music, both of which require those rights in order to function.
Show HN: Direct democracy for your startup
Can you fill out my music discovery survey?
Yeah that makes sense. When I first heard about the "scandal", I presumed it was Apple erring on the side of caution and banning porn and abortions.
Yep I'd say around 20 started. Somewhere close to 100 new ideas not even touched yet. I'm just staying locked onto one thing at a time now.
Smart guys, this is the way to do recruitment.
It seems like the times women would want this - like wearing a dress and not having pockets - would be the times when having a rectangular bump under your arm would look weird.
The 'Unlimited Holiday/Vacation days' particularly bugs me. In a competitive work environment, it is not uncommon for people to go for years without taking a some decent time off (I did that). If it wasn't for our 'use it or lose it' policy (we are allowed to accrue up to twice our yearly amount before we get cutoff), I would probably never go on vacation.

I have a feeling that people who work at companies with the unlimited policy probably take fewer vacation days than normal folks, just because no one wants to be 'that guy' who abuses the perk.

Anyone have experience with it?
I guess you're right in a sense, but I think it's quite harmless compared to other things people call "investment" (simply because of it's size). Capitalism is all about the short-term and capitalism is system we live in.
Some cloud providers have "dirty disks"
That was a great link to read. Thanks!
phones are getting fast but not soooo fast like that for python and ruby. scala maybe...
Came in here to mention it. It just makes it less jarring once the images load in.
Ways Startups Fail
then you might like http://readle.com too.
Seems to me that the current state of the art here is getting a computer to write a couple of paragraphs to describe a data set. While that's a neat trick its not a very valuable one in this context.

Congratulations you've replaced the absolute bottom of the barrel of reporting, that which could and probably should be replaced with a table or two.

Until the software actually attends the event somehow to gather the information and add additional context its just a clever trick. If you want to save money on this kind of reporting id probably stick to outputting some nice tables of data in the sports section.
How To Take Your Life Back
It tells me its not available in the U.S. Store. It could be that your app just hasn't been populated throughout the App store, in which case you should wait a day and try again, or you may have done something wrong in iTunes connect and set up you stores incorrectly.
Big step forward. Now we only need an ebook-reader that doesn't have to be rooted but allows full access from the start.
Performance Review in 3 steps. With Template.
Fair point, though I do think there's a notable difference in implications of "shadow market" and "shadowy market", more than the one extra letter would indicate.
> What you describe is a complaint about jobs, corporate culture and how market demands change over time, nothing unique to programming

"Market demands"? What part of "non-monetizable calling" do you not understand? I'm not sure it even makes sense for me to talk to you at all. It is like trying to describe 15-dimensional geometry to a Flatlander.

> If you had to choose again, what would you've done that wasn't 'salt-mine labor' then?

I can say only:

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (Charles Babbage)

But if you must know: I'd be an inventor. In the 1880s.

Hey, you asked.
also, http://pinboard.in, http://readle.com, http://delicious.com

pinboard and readle have private items as well, if you dont feel like "sharing". :)
So can't Oracle now go and register and start a new case ?
Hackers hit Philippines websites amid China dispute
You're up in SF, alas. I need to start building a good list of awesome companies who are in the South Bay and Peninsula, just because I can't be the only one looking.

Not that the City isn't nice. It's just a long commute from Fremont.
Simple APIs
cmake is a replacement for autotools, not make. It generates makefiles as output.
Typically around 1.6% on my 2.66 GHz Core i7 MBP.

Definitely annoying, and makes our Macbook Air toting staff much less interested.
WebSockets are sockets with a very small bit of goop layered over them. In terms of the state you are talking about, they basically have the same amount of state as a TCP socket, which itself is mostly "connected" or "not connected". So the question of the "statefulness" of websockets, in the sense you mean, is ill defined, because statefulness is or is not added by higher layers, just as with TCP sockets.
This sounds pretty naive. Just because someone doesn't do something they love now, doesn't mean they're wasting their life. It may simply mean they like eating rather than starving.
Customer Affinity
dmix?
4) Facebook.
Transparently adding WebSockets to your application using SwaggerSocket
I like the earlier bit of the quotation, more general and insightful:

“These huge West Coast companies, peopled mostly by kids who cannot believe their good luck, commonly turn paranoid and think everyone is out to get them,” veteran columnist and broadcaster John Dvorak told VentureBeat.

I'm also reminded of the old potato chip commercial where Jay Leno went "eat all you want, we'll make more".
we actually coded this up before Caterina Fake's Pinwheel launched, but the idea is similar. see https://pinwheel.com/
There are many startups where the average age group is young families with kids. The majority of people I work with are 30/40 somethings, and it started with 30/40 somethings and we started 2/3 years ago. You'll find those family startups more in the south bay and peninsula. SF is far more attractive to singles, and they move down to the south bay to start their families.
But you're forgetting one very important aspect in all this:

The Developers

It's not a question of whether one particular language is better, or more "hip", than another; or whether Google could simply run-off and create it's own new language or repurpose someother language instead of Java.

It's the developers Google is after, since it's the developers that will create the value (apps) for their marketplace and give them the competitive advantage over other smartphones & platforms.

There are a ton of Java (and its variants like AS3) developers out there, and Google wanted to launch and gain traction in its new platform with as little friction as possible.

If Google had launched Android as a Golang SDK, do you really think the uptick in new developers coding for Android would have been that great?

Edit: Yep, AS3 isn't Java.
Ask HN: Why does MM denote millions of dollars?
Per SI unit convention a single M indicates mega/millions. A quick Google suggests its related to Roman numerals - but MM in Roman numerals would suggest 2000, not a million. Other Google results indicate that M stands for thousands, not millions and so 1000x1000. It seems unnecessarily confusing to me.

As far as I can tell this convention is used mainly in the startup/VC scene, so I'm hoping someone here has a conclusive answer as to why MM is used.
I now a decent amount of TeX but want to learn more, anyone have a nice advanced example TeX file for laying out large books, docs?
Your association of a dollar amount to morality is unnerving

That's a silly assertion. What if it were $100B a day? That's $35T/year, or half the GDP of the world. Do you think that a company could receive half of the productivity of the entire world morally?

I work at a HFT firm and any serious suggestion of frontrunning would probably get you fired.

Another silly statement. Of course people don't talk about it openly - who plans illicit activities openly? I would expect that anyone involved in such a system would have no knowledge of it being used immorally/illegally - there is too much risk in that.

HFT is an assault rifle. People who make them talk about how they keep the peace, but that isn't the use that caused them to be outlawed.
You should do a one click deploy and charge subscription fees. Sort of like wordpress.
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888254
Yes, https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
Intuit Names Jeff Weiner to Board of Directors
I think the article conflated brogramming and misogyny in Silicon Valley. The former isn't necessarily bad as could be seen in the hilarious Twilio presentation.

Misogyny is not funny, and it wasn't a part of the Twilio joke - at what I recall of it - as most of it focused on what makes for an annoying programmer. Some misogynists have appropriated the brogramming meme, but it is not an excuse for misogyny. Misogyny is not funny, regardless what the pretense of it is.

"It's just a joke" is straight out of the misogyny flow chart. People are doing "more productive things than being offended" by writing this article and discussing the topic maturely in the comments in places like Hacker News.
Good point, although if autotools was invented to replace makefiles by generating them, I'd argue CMake was too, even if indirectly.
Clipboard is currently in invite mode only but you can sign on to Clipboard by going to www.clipboard.com/register and using the invite code "just4u".
Thanks for the agreement & sorry, maybe I wasn't very clear.. :)

I'm not a Nintendo naysayer at all or suggesting impending doom for them either. I have every Nintendo console going back to the NES with a large catalog of (much loved) games on each.

I wasn't saying MW3 for 3.99 on the Wii (or any other platform). I was more saying the market for MW3 doesn't/didn't exist on the Wii (almost at any price point). High value console games will be around for some time yet, this just isn't Nintendo's marketplace, nor has it been for sometime. Big blockbusters will still sell, just only on non-Nintendo platforms.

Nintendo had a great strategy (red ocean/blue ocean) with the Wii that paid off greatly. It feels a little like their blue ocean isn't really there anymore. I see all the kids now sitting around playing Angry Birds on iDevices and it just feels that with the European/US economy in it's current state, parents are more likely to fill their kids on $2 purchases rather than $20-$30 ones. Especially when there will be a $200-$300 barrier to entry as well.

Nintendo will succeed in their homeland, they always will - I just wonder if they will do so well in other territories in the next couple of years.
M = 1000 in Roman Numerals
MM = 1000 1000s, or, 1 million

Years ago, I think it was G. Gordon Liddy that used to refer to billions in a similar manner. i.e. 10 billion dollars was spoken as 10 thousand million so people grasped the enormity of the number.
34 questions to answer before you interview with YC (and/or found a company)
We've been preparing for our YC interview pretty solidly for the past couple weeks now. And during our research (talking to alums, digging up old HN posts, reading PGs essays) we found about 34 different questions that you basically need to have the answer to. This list has been a great way for us to prepare, and organize our thoughts, so we figured we'd pass it along to the HN community. For those of you who are also interviewing this weekend, good luck!

There may be repeats in here. And maybe a few variations on the same thing.

(1) How do you know that people want what you’re building?
(2) Are you sure people want this?
(3) How do they solve the problem now?
(4) What are all known existing solutions and what is wrong with them specifically?
(5) Why isn’t someone doing this already?
(6) What’s different about what you’re doing?
(7) What is current IP in your field?
(8) How to displace existing competitors?
(9) What are some key things that your competitors don’t understand?
(10) What resistance will you have? How will you overcome that?
(11) Six months from now what is your biggest problem?
(12) Is what you are doing viable? Why?
(13) Is your market large enough?
(14) Is your market capable of sustaining a new entrant?
(15) Where can you expand into?
(16) Why should people give a shit?
(17) What are you going to build first?
(18) What do you have? How does it work?
(19) Have you engaged customers/users? How?
(20) How will you get customers/users?
(21) What do customers want?
(22) Who is your first customer?
(23) Why are you the right team?
(24) Why do you need all of the people on your team?
(25) Why are you doing this?
(26) Why will you succeed?
(27) How are you going to do this?
(28) How will you approach trouble spots?
(29) What are your known obstacles?
(30) How will you find answers to questions you don’t know?
(31) What do you not know yet?
(32) What have you learned so far from working on your project?
(33) How do you traverse in the idea space?
(34) What are your other idea’s?
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Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if and switch
> I'm confused.

No, you're not. You identified a crystal clear double standard in your parent post.
First off, if it's not clear, these are excerpts of their policies.

>Dropbox is clear what their intent is.

It seems that you have it backwards, Dropbox is not clear in their intent and the language is vague. I'm not sure what this means:

>You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services.

It seems that they can pretty much do whatever they want, as "Services" doesn't preclude anything.

>This permission also extends to trusted third parties we work with to provide the Services

That sounds like third parties can do whatever they want as well.
Shifticons - Mix and match webfont icons
I ran into this when Unity first debuted. That's when I knew it wasn't ready for prime time.

It's sad that this is still a limitation, but not entirely surprising. Canonical seemed to be intent on pushing this to everyone regardless. And now they don't even seem to be supporting the traditional Gnome desktop (whether 2.X or 3.X).
Really nice tool to see yourself with different eyeware.
Infographic: The incredible shrinking Yahoo
>Problem is: the rights as worded by Google allow a whole lot more than the reasonable-use wording by Dropbox.

They actually don't. Google specifically enumerates the rights that you're granting them. Dropbox actually does not state specifically what rights Dropbox needs to provide the services, and as such, could claim that you're granting all of the rights that Google has granted and more. This does not include full ownership, which they explicitly deny.
Anyone know what the p in pmarca stands for?
Ask HN: Review our Landing Page Copy
A couple months ago, we submitted our landing page for here review. We learned that we needed to simplify our message, add a clear visual hierarchy, and improve our design.

So, we were wondering if you could give us advice on our writing. Is it understandable? Is it well written? Does it convey our message? Thank you so much. http://signup.musicmind.co/
John Dvorak is a commentator quoted in the story. Why do people continue to take anything this guy says seriously? He's been wrong so many times about so many things in the past.
Not _yet_? OpenJDK has that as a goal <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/macosx-port/>, but I do not remember Oracle stating anything about Cocoa integration, so I do not expect anything in that respect from Oracle.
For all of your clicking needs: http://signup.musicmind.co/
...except that startups are businesses with fiduciary responsibilities to their investors and shareholders and a legal obligation to obey employment law including not committing or tolerating gender discrimination, harassment, or a hostile work environment.