skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's much less likely to run into issues like String.length returning 32 yet only containing 31 characters"

This is exactly the problem with UTF-16. Most APIs that use it will have support for string operations that return the number of codepoints rather than the number of bytes, and as a result people think that it's a solved problem. But in fact you've only solved half the problem, because the number of codepoints is almost certainly not what you want - you want the number of characters, and the only way your library functions can know that is to know which Unicode codepoints are combining characters. And that set potentially gets larger with every new Unicode release.

In other words, if you're relying on languages that have native UTF-16 support to tell you the number of printable characters, your application is inevitably going to be broken the first time someone uses a newly-defined combining character. UTF-16 buys you absolutely nothing useful in this respect.

(Example: How many characters is "é"? "é"? "﻿é"? Does UTF-16 give you a more useful answer to that question?)
In addition to other answers, there's a linguistic element as well. Generalist language is generic, overused, hence relatively meaningless and uninteresting, and won't get you very far. Concrete, specific, original, and niche terms are much better at catching attention, sticking in people's minds, piquing interest.

Aside from knowing this intuitively, witnessing it in everyday life (and on HN), I've seen internal adsense A/B testing demonstrating it.

Another tip I've recently learned from watching a friend make this mistake is, if you have the opportunity to see a writing sample of the people you're applying to, even just email - mirror their writing style. Among the SV crowd that tends to be:

1. Short paragraphs, no walls of text.

2. Direct, Concise. Every sentence should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.

3. Your best skills only. Ref #2.

4. Your best work examples only. Don't elaborate, just a sentence.

5. What the article says.

6. What Swizec says above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3907717)
Thanks for pointing that out, gonna fix the button.

I was thinking of putting using a full background image as well, but just couldn't find a good one.
It works for satellites at least. Motorola built the Iridium satellites using mass production techniques. They were able to pump out a satellite every 4.3 days, with an end-to-end production time of only 3 weeks and a per-unit cost of only $5 million. This compares with hundreds of millions of dollars and months of production time per satellite for traditional manufacturing techniques.
One very smart VC once told me that it is bad that startups have profit/revenue before asking for money. Because, if you have profit/revenue they can predict your future growth, while if you are without revenue you can have wild predictions about future growth and convince investors into that.

And also if you have profit/revenue very early you are immediately marked as lifestyle business.

So the entire system is pushed toward wild and big bets without any space for relatively small things.

But I don't think this is bad ...
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Look up "Microsoft Munchkins" for one of the unethical attacks MS made against OS/2 later on. And this was only one of them.
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A recent comment thread [1] turned up some killer links to HNer's favorite coding music. I pulled the links from the comment thread to my Evernote, and thought I'd submit here for anyone who's interested.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900711.

[In reply for clickability]
"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers"

People boast, people brag, because in general it gets them more out of the world than not doing so and gets them special treatment and accommodations. There are a fair amount of people in the tech industry, and even here on HN, that are quite willing to boast about what they have done and are treated as royalty for their past accomplishments. Isn't this the same thing? Stephen Hawking, assuming he knows his IQ, has nothing to gain and possibly stands to loose by revealing his IQ. You'd expect it to be high and if not, it might detract from the aura [1]. Not that I think that is why he does it but I can certainly see many successful people that are not super successful feeling the same way. Especially if they are insecure about the luck that caused them to get to where they are.

[1] The aura in the eyes of people who don't know exactly why he is viewed as smart and just view him as presented in the media.
http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix

http://soundcloud.com/juliengray/julien-gray-gondwana-extend...

http://soundcloud.com/monca/djuma-soundsystem-les-djinns

http://soundcloud.com/jaytechmusic

http://somafm.com/play/suburbsofgoa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbBvTEnhrBM

http://soundcloud.com/designerdrugsmusic/sets/datamix-mixtap...

http://di.fm

http://hypem.com/popular

http://soundcloud.com/3lau/sets/top-10-downloaded-tracks/

http://www.themusicninja.com/live-set-full-kaskade-coachella...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/porter-robinson-essential-m...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/knife-party-essential-mix-l...

http://soundcloud.com/dirtysouthjoe/luvstep-2-5

http://soundcloud.com/cberra88/straight-bass-to-the-dome

http://soundcloud.com/erwtenpeller/war-of-the-worlds

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/flux-pavilion-essential-mix...

http://soundcloud.com/qrip/flux-pavilion-essential-mix

http://soundcloud.com/somejerk/moombahton-over-miami-vi-some...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIYl88Zwyc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooMCiV2eb4

http://bootiemashup.com/

http://mashupbreakdown.com/nhh

http://www.audiogalaxy.com/mix/11997-The%20Coding%20Zone/

http://www.mixcloud.com/alec_empire/alec-empire-atari-teenag...

http://open.spotify.com/user/czstrong/playlist/2Vw6VBC3BDKGc...

http://open.spotify.com/user/whalesalad/playlist/6nRqAHIzMFd...

http://soundcloud.com/djsfrommars

http://soundcloud.com/sunnyventura

http://soundcloud.com/featurecast

http://friskyradio.com/

http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad

http://kohina.com/

http://epiphanyradio.org/

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/above-and-beyond-live-group...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/mat-zo-live-group-therapy-m...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/arty-group-therapy-miami-wm...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/andrew-bayer-live-group-the...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/boom-jinx-live-group-therap...

http://soundcloud.com/prettylights/pretty-lights-the-hot-sh-...

http://musicforprogramming.net/

http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-filthwater-mix-www

http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-broverload-vol-2

http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-all-your-bass-are

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In reference to the Gravatar icons in the post. You guys are always asking for the 140x140 sized icons and they are then re-sized to 20x20 or 30x30. You have the ability to ask for the gravatar icons in your specified format, which will save a lot of bandwidth.

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vs

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Making this one change alone will make a huge difference.
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> "UTF-8 and UTF-32 result the same order when sorted lexicographically. UTF-16 does not."
This is complete and utter bullshit, to sort a string lexicographically you need to decode it, if you've decoded the string into UNICODE then they sort the exact same way.

One original purpose of Unicode, still mentioned in the published for v6.0, is to assist the 100-odd other encodings, not replace them. Each other encoding only needs a conversion process to and from Unicode, i.e. 200 conversion processes overall, instead of into every other encoding, i.e. 9900 processes overall. For sorting, Unicode is order-invariant. The text should be converted into a relevant country-specific encoding, sorted within that encoding, then converted back to Unicode.
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The client-side execution time and transfer time of large image assets is interesting, and I'm glad the article covers those matters in-depth.

That said, what I find surprising about GitHub in my admittedly infrequent usage is the amount of time spent waiting for the server to respond to requests.

At the URL cited in the article, Chrome reported a ~800ms round trip time for the initial request. Clicking on the "View file" link resulted in a request that took ~1,200ms. Clicking "Network" on the navigation resulted in a request that waited ~5,500ms until a response arrived that then painted an animation of an encircled cat while the real work started.

Even presumably semi-static pages such as github.com/about reported ~400ms round-trip. /features = ~400ms.

For fun, I decided to see how some other sites behaved by way of comparison. Here's some anecdotal measurements from my PC:

microsoft.com = ~175ms; https://www.microsoft.com/ = ~175ms; microsoft.com/about = ~75ms; microsoft.com/windows = ~100ms.

google.com = ~75ms; https://google.com/ = ~100ms; google.com/about = ~75ms; investor.google.com = ~75ms.

apple.com = ~100ms; https://www.apple.com/ = ~150ms (note: assets will not load, site is not intended to be loaded with https); apple.com/ipad = ~40ms; store.apple.com = ~175ms.

https://stripe.com/ = ~800ms;

In my experience, yes, GitHub "feels" slow. Not agonizing, but slow enough to be annoying. For me, the feeling comes from the hesitation that I feel before a response starts arriving from the server. To an extent, I'm comfortable with the browser continuing to download slow assets (large images, analytics JavaScript, etc.) as long as the principal UI gets painted and I can get my click on.

Using GitHub sometimes feels like using my AT&T U-Verse DVR. Okay, that was an unfair low blow; nothing is as slow as an AT&T DVR.

I'm glad to hear that the GitHub guys are hard at work to tune things up. Thanks!
Very interesting, could be huge, as big as testflightapp is nowadays for iOS dev. Bravo.
"In addition, the telescopes are capable of being pointed at Earth for observati0n [sic], as well. All of this potential for gathering data is a potential opportunity to sell that data to universities, businesses, and government."

I wonder if this is the main source of their positive cashflow.
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I read your post and this comment as arguing for resumes to focus on achievements ("this awesome thing is my fault") rather than tasks ("I did thing X as a means to an end while in role Y"). Is that a fair summary?

If so, I think you're off the mark a bit when you say this applies only to startups; I think this applies when you are applying to specific roles at a company, regardless of the company's size. I don't work at a startup at all, but resumes with lists of papers with no direct relevance where the candidate is one of 10 co-authors, academic honors, TA positions that are irrelevant to the job at hand, lots of description about a former team's job rather than what the candidate did, etc. make my brain glaze over. I have to spend more time looking for the core nuggets of achievement buried within, and that's generally not time I have. It's not necessarily a killer for someone's interview process, but it's certainly not fun and drains my time.

Meanwhile, people I encounter outside of the normal resume-submission process who simply point out something really cool they've done? If it's something really awesome, they get recruited, no real resume required.
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"2) People need closure and the feeling that they've finished a task. A visibly endless task with no goal is a thankless task."

This is not necessarily true. Its only true if the game frames itself to be a task to be completed (for fun).

There are (very few) games that are called "sandbox" games, where there are no ending. The player decides what their goal (if any) is. An example of such a game is Eve online, the sims, and simcity.
No pun intended.
"merely respectable 122"

What I'm finding in several places is that the fiqure was 125. But more importantly the low IQ figure was self reported by Feynman and done in high school. Who knows if that is the correct figure and who knows if he was sick the night before or tired or if there was an error etc. I'm not defending IQ tests but it's important to realize that the fact that Feynman said his IQ was X doesn't mean that the test or testing or reporting was flawed or he got someone elses score by accident.
I don't know if you still remember, but a couple posts up, someone implied open-source products couldn't take advantage of good typography.
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My age estimate was from your LinkedIn profile. If I was guessing by pictures, I would have said 39. (Is that the right answer? (I mean in the sense of Right Answer to say to someone of how old they are, not mathematically correct. :-) ))
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A disclaimer like that is probably necessary for them to stay out of trouble in case somebody uploads copyrighted content, etc. Under DMCA and similar laws, a company that "only hosts" other people's content enjoy broad immunities, whereas anything more complicated than that might be just enough to make someone think they could sue the Wikimedia Foundation.

Unfortunately, the US of A is a country where being sued is almost as scary as being sued and losing.
And who packages glibc? Or udev? Or zlib (which is so quirky that it almost doesn't build at all out of the upstream source). That's where the packaging bandwidth is spent in the distributions: middleware. Certainly not "apps", which are generally trivial to build as long as you have the dependencies correct. Take a look at, for example, the Fedora spec files for the software you use vs. the middleware and see the difference in complexity.

And note that Android's (which I assume is what you're referring to when you talk about "app bundles") middleware packaging is no less complicated (honestly it's a lot more so in a lot of ways -- no firm dependency tracking, everything must build all at once). Check the AOSP "external" tree.
In fairness, if you're e-mailing yourself, chances are it's not going out over the public internet at any point. In Gmail, it's likely not even going anywhere except straight into Google's database.
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Your cover letter (i.e. email) is far more important. Four short (1-2 sentences) paragraphs:

1. why you are choosing *them*
2. your basic competence for the job
3. what special talent you bring, that makes you outstanding
4. why you'll get along with them, be a good fit socially
I'm not sure whether this is passion or greed. Leaning towards the latter.
Yep, that could be another source.
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If you are VC who cares about revenue if investors are willing to give you millions up front? You have made your money. Game over.

The rest is just "try". This is acceptable because outcome is unpredictable and expectations are reasonably low. It's a gamble, and anyone contributing funding knows it.

If you can make money for your clients, great. If not, you are liable for nothing.

It's a good feeling for VC if they can make money for their clients. But VC still make good money either way. That is just how it is.

This is true to some extent in other professions as well. For instance, lawyers, on whom VC closely depend.

If lawyers advising startups can help their clients, it's great. But even if they don't, they still make good money.

And like with VC, clients recognise little is "guaranteed". Often they do not even know what to expect. Expectations are reasonably low.

What matters here is reputation. If someone's reputation is enough to convince others to give them money, with little expectation of "results", then that's abusiness.

There was an op-ed in the NYT a month or so ago called "The Zuckerberg Tax" written by a tax lawyer.

Read it.

Consider that the question it raises may not be how much the kid is "worth" (and his accompanying tax liability), but how much others are willing to give him, with no real expectation of return. Be they Microsoft, Russian investors, advertisers, ..., or his bank.

He no doubt has great "credit". He, through the popularity of Facebook, has a reputation. He may not be able to produce a billion dollars in cash, or even a fraction of it, but he surely can borrow it, the act of which amounts only to a change in a bank's computer database somewhere. We need not see the cash itself. People are willing to give him money. With no expectation of return.

And that my friends - "credit" - is the cause of most of America's economic problems. Spending money we don't have. And assigning large dollar values to things when it's unlikely the physical currency itself could ever be produced. "Show me the money." The real money, that I can hold in my hand. Not the funny stuff that is just the subject of talk... and op-eds.
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> This is going to be the killer [NPI] feature of using automated rather than manned systems.

Using automated systems rather than manned systems is a necessary but not sufficient condition to allow for relaxed reliability requirements in spacecraft. Another necessary condition is reduced cost. It's common for a single mission to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, which makes many spacecraft designers very risk-adverse.

When I was in college, I worked at PolySat [1] where I wrote embedded software for CubeSat-class satellites. CubeSats are fairly revolutionary in the spacecraft business, because they can be launched for less than one million dollars (including development costs). The cost of the hardware was less than $10k for a single satellite and the launch costs are around $40k per kilogram (which is the maximum weight of a 1U CubeSat). Those costs are low enough that we built backup flight units in addition to engineering units. In one case, we were able to launch a backup flight unit of a satellite that was destroyed in a launch failure. (CP2 was on the crashed Dnepr-1 of July 2006 [2]. We relaunched the backup flight model as CP4.) That was only possible because the cost was so low. $50k to relaunch a satellite is unheard of.

[1] http://polysat.calpoly.edu/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr-1
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BigCoRetail has better accountants and can deal with the processing more -- but the ultimate tax collected is the same.
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Ah. Be careful where you are stepping.

Yes, its one choice. But personally, I find that to be rather too smug / elitist and smacks of "Oh, its HIS/HER choice - there's nothing DEFICIENT or FLAWED with the current setup" rather than recognizing that the market/world is inherently complex and difficult to navigate.

Arguing that it's one choice is just sophistry. Kinda like those just world people I meet who argue that the poor deserve their station because its their choice.
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> To be more concrete: you can't build a socioeconomic infrastructure on top of capitalism. You have to do it the other way around.

Well said. I have never really understood why so many people seem to think it has to be all or nothing when it comes to privatisation. Can't things be taken on a case by case basis? When I hear news about the US health care system, I often shake my head in disbelief.

Contrary to apparently popular belief, anything other than full-tilt, "privitise all the things" does not necessarily equal communism.
I agree with that, but that's not a SaaS-specific difference, is it? Classic enterprise solutions like SAP have pretty high lock-in, too.
>In fairness, if you're e-mailing yourself, chances are it's not going out over the public internet at any point.

I beg to differ:

traceroute gmail.com

Or on windows:

tracert gmail.com

Now do correct me if I'm wrong. But those commands seem to show my packets being routed over the public Internet.

EDIT: While the point about SSL is valid, see my post below.

EDIT2: And as stated above, having your passwords plaintext anywhere, espicially in the cloud, isn't ideal.
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Running stable. Maybe switching to XFCE for lighter resources usage.

Mint looks really good too. Was using Mint 10 before and it looks really slick.