skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you make a one-on-one into a periodic meeting like ben is suggesting, it will invariably end up as yet another pointless formality." --> No, that's not true when the manager is competent.

"Ideally, in a well-run company, an employee should be able to easily walk to the CEO and talk about any problem/grievance/suggestion/new idea." --> Ideally, maybe, but what every new manager learns very quickly is that most employees simply will not proactively volunteer most of the things that you are going to need to know about what they (the employees) are thinking and feeling. Therefore, the one on one.

One of the really entertaining things that happens in startups is that a half dozen people are quite capable of sitting in the same room together for a year and never actually saying most of the things that need to be said for the company to work. I've seen many situations like that where the manager finally starts 1:1's and is stunned at the number of important things that were being left unsaid.
Probably binding to pre-existing C libs.

It will take some time to replace 40 years of existing accumulated C libraries.
An interesting exercise, but maybe not practical, considering how slow your average home internet connection is, and how much data you're trying to stuff through that pipe. It's IMO likely that most people will end up scrolling faster than the page can load.

Not to mention, this will murder any mobile device or weaker laptops.

Cool piece of marketing, but ultimately if the goal is to deliver a cool experience to as many people as possible, this implementation may not be ideal.
And you are still being naive for thinking that companies can be run purely by happy-talk.
Yes, really. I've seen that many, many times.
Ask HN: Do any incubator/cowork/etc have a structure like YC/et-al?
More specifically, if I(we) have not been accepted into any formal program with mentors and demo days, are there any alternative "3 months of help with an end point" type-of-things out there? Perhaps even a strange inverted $10k/$25k entry fee and no equity instead of the other way around.
It works, doesn't it?

If you have to interface with HTML or CSS directly and frequently while writing your application, then you want to make sure your HTML and CSS are super clean and maintainable. But, as PG has said before, HTML can be treated like object code! There was once a time when everyone had to write super clean and maintainable assembly code, but now you rely on a compiler.

Ever look at compiler generated assembly code? It's quite scary!
There are lots of organizations that have a huge number of interested followers but relatively little organization. Examples that come to mind are newspapers, political parties, towns, schools, viewers of a sports event, etc.

That's why I keep using the word "audience" - it is the traditional word for this kind of relationship, I think.

Does that make sense?
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It's not just an endless array of divs because then the grid lines would constantly be shifting (that is, unless your browser happens to scroll in increments that are exactly equal to the height of one of the cells).
I would go for scheduled but cancellable by the employee meetings.

If it's completely ad-hoc, how will the manager deal with the person who grabs him to complain about random stuff all the time? How will anyone know how often is too often?
Says the individual that had to farm out mobile development until you could use a language with which you were already familiar.

There's little I've seen in RubyMotion that provides a substantive improvement on ObjC, and a lot that is worse than ObjC.
I'm sorry, this is a bit OT, but your last sentence has a lot of metaphor in it. Like, a lot.

I just wanted to lean back and appreciate how rich language is.
Great thoughts.

1. Thankyou.

2. Adding optional data smoothing for the graph data is something I'd like to do soon.

3. The y-axis scales for power, speed and HR are independent, so it should work fine when there's no power data. Does it not work as well as I thought?

4. Unfortunately I'm not about to support other activities because I know very little about them, and at least while this is a one-man project, it pays to stay focussed. Hopefully someday...
Credit where credit is due - Paul had the idea. I kept talking about labor pools and mturk etcetera being the future.

Your ideas (conference photos, narratives, etc) are really good ones. Want to prototype some?

I'm not sure that viral is necessary. Delicious was never viral in any way. Just useful.

("turksonomy" - hee)
Ummm, my data included 2 comments and four submitted stories that are certainly not mine: one on colon cleansing and three on flower related themes.

So the data is, shall we say, "incomplete" for comments and wildly wrong for submitted stories.
One day I noticed that Heroku gives you access to netstat, so I started trying to figure out the actual number.

Running this:

heroku run "netstat -l | grep lxc | wc -l"

...seems to imply that it's actually 100 ± 25 dynos per instance.

(It's possible I could be entirely misunderstanding the netstat output, in which case someone please speak up.)
Yes, some of these networks hackable.[1]

Our investigation shows that an implantable cardioverter
defibrillator (1) is potentially susceptible to malicious attacks that violate the privacy of patient information and medical telemetry, and (2) may experience malicious alteration to the integrity of information or state, including patient data and therapy settings for when and how shocks are administered. Moreover, standard approaches for security and access control may not always be suitable for IMDs due to tensions between security (e.g., access for pre-authorized parties only) and safety (e.g., access for previously unauthorized parties in emergency circumstances)

Nsa will have e911 equivalent and warrantable backdoor to anything DMV/govt approved, though one would think.

[1] Some physical design limits were cpu and power, plus other operational concerns.
Also I feel sometimes posting a link to a blog with some interesting story and features of your site can help too.But as eli said it is mostly luck!
Classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"...
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If it looks legitimately and works legitimately it will pass the App store review and steal your data on iOS too. This already happened. And it is impossible for the App store reviewers to find all apps that do this. Even if they had the source code they would still need very skilled people to find malicious apps if someone tried to hide the maliciousness. This problem will never be solved. Even with a review process.
There are definitely reasons that you would want to be on your own managed metal infrastructure, but let's not exaggerate so much and say that it's only use is for blogs and experimental projects. Why do people have to always be so extreme to try and make a point?

There are a ton of real sites that never see more than a couple hundred thousand visitors a month. E-commerce sites, mobile APIs, SAAS apps, etc. I've used Heroku for higher traffic sites than this without any issues at all. Incredibly easy actually.

Saying it's only good for your hipster blog? C'mon man really? Have you even done anything commercial / critical on their platform?
I guess it's playing word semantic. 100% of their MACHINES are running GO in SOME capacity, while other languages play some roles in other capacity.
This looks very intriguing but I have a bunch of questions.

Do all the end users, the "humans" have to have the human.io mobile app in order to run "apps"? Is there a way to embed the human.io app/task UI somewhere else?

Is the intention to mostly have lots of people use the human.io mobile apps? Or is this going to be more API based where developers can embed human.io apps into other places?

Is the photo scavenger hunt example an app or a task or is it an app with a single task?
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This is a problem I've been thinking about a lot. The trick is the audience we have comes to us through the channels we've created.

It seems unrealistic for us to get them all to use the human.io app.
Same here. 1 comment out of (from what I remember) ~2000 comments
the C code is also being run under Go's control via Cgo.
Nice link. The separate submission and thread is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158865
No it doesn't. You have to register your phone as one of three with your developer program account which is 79$ per year. The difference to iOS is that your phone is then unlocked for every other developers app signature.
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I use Hirefire as well for several sites. For the most part I like it, however it can be awfully slow to react to traffic spikes. I highly recommend leaving a bit of a buffer (few extra dynos) during prime time traffic.
200 servers for 800mio requests seems a little nuts.

Two of my customers are doing 500mio and 400mio respectively on ~20 each, on Rails (i.e. as slow as it gets).
You do not have to scroll down. Press on Menu buttons 1, 2, 3, 4 one after another
I interpreted it as meaning that 100% of the code in the critical path is Go, while their greater application also includes some C code.
Probably needs a Recaptcha or similar (http://www.google.com/recaptcha) on the form to slow down those pesky webspammers a bit. Maybe think about nofollowing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow) any links in the story too, so you don't get used as SEO juice. My link didn't work out too well either (changed to http://www.sam-the-man.com/yikes/www.google.com)

Also, make sure to filter your user input to avoid XSS attacks. I just posted a story and your page will print HTML and JS verbatim, meaning I could do malicious things. See here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)

Apart from that, looks pretty good, well done :)
Currently, the users must have the app to run the tasks. We don't currently have a way to embed the task UI. I worry that if we whitelabel it we won't see network effects.

For what it's worth, people coming in to do the photohunt app are doing other people's tasks, too.

We want to start with getting people to use the mobile apps. We are looking at other targets in the future (browsers already work. televisions? cars?)

The scavenger hunt is an app with a single task. Apps are really a developer notion - users don't see apps in the UI currently, only tasks.

This may change in the future; inside the one task are several subtasks: suggest a hunt, rate a photo, take a photo. and the "take a photo" part lets you mark a hunt as inappropriate.

In the future these could be four or five simple tasks once you have accepted the larger "task."
Cool bro.

Who said I'm using postgres? And if you don't like the postgres setup, sure, roll your own. EC2 has those badass SSD instances for you.

Apps' that need more capacity then what Heroku offers can surely drop the dev-ops dollars. Until then, why waste your time?
My understanding is that they key components are the vacuum and the extreme cold. The vacuum allows a lot more heat to be transferred than there would be in anything held onto.
The whole site is an ad. It doesn't need ads.
I might just ditch Firefox because of this webpage. A fresh session of Ffx15 goes up to 1.5 GB memory usage, pushes everything into swap and brings my whole OS to a grinding halt until I kill it. In other words this link is basically a very effective DoS. In Chromium it works fine. Am I the only one having this problem?

(Edit: I have several Ffx addons running and no Chromium addons, so the comparison was unfair. Maybe I'll just ditch some of those addons...)
It's a framework that makes things look decent enough by default though.

If your goal is to learn something other than web design (eg. PHP / MySQL), then surely you want something that can do things well in that department by default so you don't have to mess around with it too much?
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Like all those people that say they are running 100% python/php/ruby etc.
Well, I even made an app on this a while back. https://github.com/rocky-jaiswal/rafflerv2 would have blogged about it if I knew it would make it to the front page of HN. #Facepalm
save yourself the scrolly effort:

run:

setInterval(function(){$(window).scrollTop($(window).scrollTop()+10)},10);

in your console (f12 in chrome/firebug, crtl+shift+k in firefox)
I actually haven't gotten this far with Go myself so I'm glad to hear that it's possible.

But there's a huge uphill battle ahead for Go here. For instance, I write C++ code because I'm doing music software and all the APIs and existing code libraries and samples are in C++. It's just so much easier in this environment to put up with C++'s warts than it would be to try to shoehorn Go in there. As John Carmack says, externalities can quickly overwhelm the advantages of any particular language.

But if you're implementing web services from scratch you don't have any of that baggage to carry around so it's much easier to choose Go.
Re-read my comment. I demonstrated exactly how a defensive patent pool can protect its members against NPEs without paying a lot of money. Of course if they follow that strategy and it works, the rest of us wind up worse off.
rorrr, well there is no catch other than there is no support duty outside the forums (this said and having spent several hours to make the system work we wouldn't let it sink without caring). What I mean is that this is not meant to compete/let people move from a professional hosting where they can get support from their mission critical stuff. Yet it is not capped as many free but limited services. We have and will not have any ad. Is there still a "market" for such a free service? :)
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Having used git svn on occasion, I can positively state that git's interfaces to other VCS's are slow, clunky and generally questionable.

The ideal case would be complete interoperability, where you could use git locally, yet collaborate on a daily basis with people using the project's non-git VCS, and no one would be inconvenienced -- or even necessarily aware of other developers' choice of VCS!
Trust me, if I had known a decade ago what I know now, I would not have any patents to my name. But I can't change what has already happened.
Maybe Johnny doesn't want to "stream". Maybe Johnny just wants video that play backs immediately/without delay, and smoothly. And Johnny thinks that's what "streaming" means. Maybe Johnny thinks that "downloading" means he has to wait.

Does Johnny know that when he watches YouTube he's downloading? Or does he think he's "streaming"? As long as Johnny does not have to wait for playback, and playback is smooth, does Johnny really care about whether he's "streaming" or "downloading?

All else being equal (i.e. speed to fill a buffer or a disk block is the same and in neither case does Johnny have to wait for playback longer than in the other), I'd bet Johnny would prefer "downloading" over "streaming", since then he can watch the video again later. Just like a VHS or DVD rental.

Assuming you have the storage space, all else being equal, "streaming" video when you can "download" it seems "insane" to use the Professor's term.

Unless of course your business model is traditional "broadcasting" of the pre-digital, pre-internet variety.
super excited about this!

we run a small organization that picks fruit growing on trees all over atlanta and donates it to local homeless shelters. we have many fruit picking events that are logistically tough to organize as the trees are all over the city and in all different stages of ripening. if we had a way to break it down like: "you go check this one tree (here's the address), you go check that one, etc, and we'll build the pick around that" it'd be much much easier on us and way more engaging with folks (people love what we're doing, but we have a limited number of events and spaces within those events).
same is true for india and other asian countries too
I'm running FF 15 too, but I'm not seeing what you're seeing. 700MB working set with this page open, which drops to 650 (temporarily) if I close the page and do about:memory GC and CC.

(Mind you I have 24GB of memory on this machine. I wouldn't willingly choose to run Windows 7 on any less than 4GB.)
I've found that a lot of people will use "telling the truth" to rationalize a lot of negative behavior. We can all easily mistake our own uninformed opinions for "the truth". One way to learn the difference is to notice when "telling the truth" causes you to be misunderstood often.

The successful people I'm referring to were not bullshitters before or after their success. Bullshitting really not a success trait. It's a wannabe trait that ends up losing.
Thank you very much. I was hoping that the mysql_real_escape_string() function would be enough, but it did seem too easy.

I will definitely look further into it!
Thanks again
That's a fine attitude. My comment was mostly sarcastic: pirates already provide everything for free, yet the content creators refuse to let people pay for their product (country limitations, format limitations, drm, etc.) Then they whine about how they're losing money and blame the pirates, when it's really their fault for not selling their product at all.
You are completely correct, the default settings are not good and it will aggressively scale your app down too far if you let it.
You can't just throw commas around all willy-nilly.
I would also love an invite! Anyone care to patch me in?
I guess I was trying to say that someone already has to have a large audience before human.io is really valuable. I can definitely see how it would help organizations, even local organizations. The issue of how to organize and utilize that audience is a big deal. It's just something that the majority of people don't have to deal with. They might see the site from the perspective of "how is this useful to me?" and see it in the wrong context.
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She's very good at photoshop. I wish I had more to say.
Not to mention a hit from Mr. Short Circuit: http://ameblo.jp/ishinkaia/image-10951939627-11353773528.htm...
Using the current Nightly, I go up to 1.1Gb of memory usage, and the system (an old mbp with 8gb ram) is now noticeably slowing.
Or you can click one of the links at the top to auto-scroll to a section.
How's the garbage collector these days for Go? Is it close to the performance of the Java GC?
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That was my intention:
Learning the practical side of PHP and MySQL, without having to deal with too much design and markup.
At the same time I didn't want my project to like a POS, which is the main reason I used Bootstrap.
It's not about the shopping cart. It's about all the session data, especially for authentication. While you could use Dom storage for storing a session ID, you would have to send that through to the server with every request which you get for free with cookies.

Additionally, cookies can be marked as http only or even as secure, making it very hard to lose the token by virtue of a fire sheep like, or even just XSS attack.

For that reason, I personally would prefer a site using (session) cookies to one hacking it via DOM storage any day.

And finally, depending on the store you might want to persist the shopping cart between visits- likely across machines. Thus, the cart should be stored on the server and not in DOM storage.
3D View is only thing that sometimes take me to Firefox console..Still not exciting to avoid firebug...
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Thanks HN for awesome feedback on our web launch at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4036265

Considering it, we have launched our Android app for making it even easier for you to share your todos.

Try it out and give your honest opinion about it (as always)!
Edit: I just posted 3 minutes ago and I'm already in gray text. Wow.

We search with Google, run our phones with Google, run Google's browser, now they want us to write all our code in Google's language. Why Google? What's wrong with Java? Other than the fact that Oracle owns it, I miss Sun. Scott McNealy tried to make the technology world better. Scott, Gosling. Google...why should everything we do all day and night be about Google?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

>> The syntax of Go is broadly similar to that of C

C, seriously? C??!? Why? Why would I want to go back to ... C?

>> Of features found in C++ or Java, Go does not include type inheritance, generic programming, assertions, method overloading, or pointer arithmetic.

And that is a good thing or a bad thing or what?

>> Go allows a programmer to write functions that can operate on inputs of arbitrary type, provided that the type implements the functions defined by a given interface.

Huh? Oh I can pass interface references, ok.

>> A Go interface is best described as a set of methods, each identified by a name and signature.

That sounds like Microsoft's crappy COM from the 1990's.

The code sample on that page shows there are no braces in the if evaluation statements. A wise man, Peter Van Der Linden formerly of Sun's Compiler Group and author of Deep C Secrets wrote about using more braces if needed as explicitness is always better. I agree with that.

At this point, I think I'd rather program in Groovy or even go to JavaScript if I had to, than use Go.

Oh...the language name sux.

Tip, buy Oracle and fix Java or by Java rights from them and fix it, then programming in a language owned by Google when you own so much of our lives now wouldn't be so bad.

PS How does Guido Van Rossom feel about Go?
I certainly meant it in the most positive way. I'm a big iOS fan but I'm also a big Android fan. To say that Microsoft, Apple and Google are are going to shut out new entrants misses the fact that Android is mostly open sourced and ideal for new entrants like Xioami and Amazon to build on.
Can we rename hackernews to marconews?
As a current Boston University student, in a major with one of the highest starting salaries - I can certainly say that 200k is truly not worth the money regardless of major.

Any student not on scholarship, who is paying that full amount, is better off dropping out and getting a cheaper.
The goal is to deliver a cool experience first, and then reach many people second.

If the experience isn't cool, then it's not going to reach many people. I figured people would talk about usability despite the fact that it's a marketing page.
@enneff Do you know if they are using the default gc compiler, or gccgo which is supposed to have better optimisation?
I agree with you, but I think that is because we both tend to walk a lot. Fast moving vehicles (generally bicycles and skateboards) in foot traffic are a damn menace.

But I can see how in the vast empty sidewalks of some suburbs that riding bicycles on the sidewalk is a good idea, and did so myself when I was a child.
They were constantly shifting to me. I was able to get it so that they were barely shifting, but the best I could do made it look like the images were ever so gradually drifting upwards due to a slight mismatch.
I'm not missing the point, I'm contesting it. You're assuming the conclusion that the policy is horrid. No, that's what is under debate. I'm fine with the policy of not approving this app.

I'm sorry you came here to here a dittohead fest where everyone echo'd your views and didn't get it.
Gigwalk has been doing this for quite a while.
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