skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Galago guys are good people who've put a lot of time in to their development of their hardware and IDE. If your a HW dev or just want a good kit to get started, this might be a great one.
This guy knows what fundraising really means. Great article. Everyone should read it.
That we'd love to have them!
I don't think the problem here is with Google Ventures. The problem is that founders don't understand convertible notes with caps. More by Mark Suster here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/09/05/the-truth-abou...
It appears to, or has some other trick... My coworker has a huge monitor, and his MBA doesn't hit 60 FPS on any of the fullscreen animations, but individual window contents can go at 60 making me think they don't repaint the world every time a window changes.
Seems like a vanity metric to sum all the offers, which can't be simultaneously satisfied. instead of keeping separate the counts amd something like average or max per company or candidate.
Money launderers launder money from stolen credit cards.

Chargebacks are filed a month or two later by owners of these stolen credit cards.
In Facebook's case (see quora link from beambot), it seems like the instant injection of a high-quality core team permanently elevated the engineering culture and probably led to a lot of the success that followed. I could see it going the other way too. Maybe it just accelerates your startup towards its inevitable destiny, one way or the other...
You have a funny take on it, but it's actually a guy flipping over a table.
As you say, some of the parties engaging in the drags absolutely do have the capability. But not all and stopping them has value. More importantly:

A man in the middle attack is _highly_ detectable and will leave irrefutable evidence when detected. So it can only be used secretly if it's used very sparingly. And highly overt interception, if its even tolerated by the public, at least solves the problem of people having no idea (being in denial) they're being watched.

Moreover, because MITM can be defeated by de-trusting the rogue CA or via key pinning using it for "mere" surveillance would destroy a valuable and potent weapon, so they won't do it. It simply isn't suitable for dragnet use.

Its also practically much more costly to scale. (E.g. instead of passive optical taps and cheap packet sampling for targeting they must fully intercept all the traffic and decrypt/reencrypt before they even know if its "interesting") Simply making the watchers have to spend a lot more money per unit of traffic monitored is a win for civil rights because it should result in more conservative use of the capability. Without the crypto the surveillance is maximally cheap and undetectable... anything is an improvement even if it can still be compromised.
The phrase I've heard is "Google Ventures is not the Google of venture capital."
Yeah congratulations! I like the idea!
Good developers deserve their salaries.

And agree, cultural fit is important.
Curiosity 11 lands the first humans on Mars
English translation of title, please.
How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WPA Password with Reaver
Good link, I'll not complain next time :)
The warning:

"According to the website, the incubator's prominent founder said: "If you're talking to Google Ventures you may be part of a pattern. The pattern is: you've already raised some money at a cap of $x. Then GV says they're interested and wants to invest at a cap of $x/2.""
Oracle Dropping Cloud Support from Java EE 7 Plans
Independent of capped convertible notes being problematic under some assumptions (essentially, when the market turns down and you raise at less than the cap -- that's 90% of the problem, and 9% of the rest is when you don't then sell for enough to blow the pref out of consideration), an investor trying to lowball you on the cap is no different from lowballing on equity valuation.

If everyone is investing at $12mm, and an investor says "fine, but I'm special, give me $6mm or I won't invest", there's no difference if it's capped convertible note or equity (except that it's technically more difficult to do the investment as equity with different valuations; you can hack it by giving warrants or other benefits I think.)
Agreed 100%!

The goal is to give every developer 5-7 interesting opportunities (with numbers attached). At the end of the auction, they can create a short-list and go in for in-person interviews to determine cultural fit with the team, etc. and ultimately determine what's best for them.

It's definitely not going to be highest-bidder always wins, hiring is too complex to boil it down to a single number. Every developer will have personal preferences about what sorts of opportunities they want to work on, what work environment they prefer, and whether they want to join an early-stage company or a more mature one.
This pretty much sums up why we've built OpsGenie ( http://www.opsgenie.com )

- a reliable notification system with multiple notification channels (iPhone/Android push, email, SMS, voice, etc)

- integrated with IT management systems (monitoring, ticketing, etc.)

- can provide full context with the alert like performance charts, change history, etc., and not just "something went wrong"

- enables recipients to initiate investigative/corrective actions, communicate with others, etc.

We've build iPhone/Android apps to take advantage of push notifications as well as ability to present rich information and configurable user actions.

I'd love to get your feedback and collaborate to develop it further to meet type of requirements you mention above.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of OpsGenie.
Maybe you should have called your service Developer Provenance or Developer Pedigree if you want people to delegate their hiring decisions to you based on the rigidity of your screening criteria.

I wouldn't want to work for a place that was so technically strapped that they couldn't evaluate me as a candidate on my own merits. But I do like the idea of a "Developer Auction" where anyone can participate, like in a real market.

It's a shame that after creating a profile I have to go through the trouble of contacting you to be notified if you decide to start offering such a service.
I bet after you switched your data over you wrote the conflicting SQL lines in a much more generic way.
Your "of course" is not legally or softwarely true as a rule.
Throw-away laptop? Wouldn't a liveCD and changing you MAC address suffice?
It makes some sense. America was founded on the belief that we (or at that time at least white, male property owners) were endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. It was only by appealing to a greater power that we could essentially describe human rights and the need for limited government and individual liberty.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/flipping-tables-%E2%95%AF%E2%9...
In Australia people vote for individual members, but most do so based on party affiliation. The members available to vote for are chosen by the parties. Candidates seem to be chosen more based on factional loyalty than on expertise; unless someone's on the front bench they don't do anything but provide a vote. This leads to Australia having relatively more career politicians in parliament than the US does.
If you are a cartographile, I recommend watching The Beauty of Maps and Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession, two four-part BBC documentaries:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2w83
I'd say it's an appropriate measure for demand.
12.10 is the official name for the actually released OS. The animal name is the code word for the thing that will become 12.10 when it's done. Things get a little confused sometimes in e.g. apt repositories but the official stuff is all quite clear on the distinction.
Start over with Pokemon, obviously.
The basic model appears to have a higher contrast screen, at least.
Timeline is Fast
Oooh. That looks really nice, thank you very much for pointing me to that.
Kickstarter's T&Cs state:

Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill.

http://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use
Get Disciplined, Not Motivated
Could you elaborate on one of these edge cases? A specific anecdote would be great.
I'm independent, with my own company; my current long term client is in transportation.

Many brokers (i.e. corporations that handle administrative matters for you as an independent, such as liability or E&O insurance, invoicing & payment, etc.) are regional. The ones I deal with are in Western Canada these days, such as SI Systems, Brightspot, Inti Solutions, or Quadrus.
The people who acquire power tend to be those skilled at acquiring power.

To be more accurate, those who acquire power tend to be those who are good at acquiring power under the system for doing so. Existing political systems favor the most charismatic politicians. What system would encourage the most able technocrats, instead of the most ruthless? This isn't a rhetorical question.
Is that what that place is? Was always curious, but never enough so to walk + google it.
Whose regulations, though? They're not a UK bank, and it doesn't seem clear that UK courts have any practical ability to help if a UK merchant has a dispute with PayPal and feels they need to resort to legal action.
> Apparently a displeased people would be more optimal?

Let me make an analogy:

Democracy is like presenting hamburger and healthy food to kids every 4 years and asking them to chose one; then later complaining they're obese.
This looks an awful lot like plagiarism. He rewrote Rob Weir's blog post without giving him credit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465098
Non-trivial coding challenges with entries evaluated by existing members. Coming up evaluation/scoring criteria may be tricky, as would enticing the engineers to take the time / effort to do a thorough evaluation of submissions, and a diverse enough set of challenges to appeal to a broad cross-section of candidates.
You obviously never attended graduate school :)
I've seen the documentary and thought exactly the same. Let's see if there will be any more goody-goody news pieces about GS in the next time.
Honestly, I was just making a snarky point about the iOS App Store.
Moe, at OpsGenie (http://www.opsgenie.com), we've attempted to solve this problem through the use of mobile apps (iPhone, Android and html5 app) on smartphones (and tablets). Apps allow us to present much richer information, with custom fields, tags, as well as attachments, and enable users to communicate, not only acknowledge or comment but also integrate with other management systems thru execution of custom actions. I'd love to have you give it a try.

Disclamer: I'm one of the founders of OpsGenie
First look: Hyper-V 2012 targets VMware's air supply
Python: return from module
Rather than being buried under recruiter emails (who frequently keep their client identities a secret), we hope they'd participate on DeveloperAuction instead in order to be exposed to some cool companies & interesting opportunities in a condensed time-frame.
I posit that truly great scientists cannot make great politicians (at least in liberal democracies).

The primary motivation of a great scientist is to pursue truth, typically in what is observable or can be proven by experimentation (there are exceptions). The primary motivation of a great politician is to convince other human beings to affect change or keep them in office. This usually involves obfuscating truths and repainting what is observable to appeal to others.

This puts core motivations and corresponding skill-sets between a great scientist and great politician at fundamental odds with each other.
My team has people on East Coast, West Coast, Asia and Europe.

The simple stuff:

* As kls said, everything goes into a ticket
* virtual water cooler (yammer) to allow collab with other teams
* web-based code review tools
* when ever possible IM or phone is preferred method of communication

The hard stuff:

Overcome cultural differences regarding office politics, work ethic etc for workers outside of the USA. If you can get a good team leader on the other side of the pond who really "get's it", pay that person well. S/he will have more leverage with people and be able to get the message across better.

We've also gone against the norm and really kept high expectations for our "off shore" folks and given then big responsibilities. We want them to become great designers and coders and be able to work independent.
A little late to the party here, but Boomerang doesn't do anything at all except for when you Boomerang something and when it's scheduled to be sent/returned. The rest of the time, it doesn't make any API calls.
Wishery, my previous startup, was trying to solve most of the same problems that Zenbox is tackling - and they are doing an amazing job. Congrats on the pivot!
Pogoplug adds Amazon Glacier-based cloud storage, includes gratis devices
They do most likely follow the standard, just a different standard than the one you're thinking of. E.g. RFC6530.
Banks already do ask for financials and corporate track record. You're required to stake your own credit when your financials are inadequate. You want that to be illegal? It's better than those companies not be able to obtain merchant accounts?
I just applied and have formerly worked at the aforementioned companies. Does that count?
Your explanation if very clear. Can you recommend a book or two that covers things like this for the layman who has a science background but is not a scientist (i.e. not fluffy, not hardcore)?
PagerDuty is a fantastic service. The flexibility in scheduling on-call rotations (they added a custom schedule for my team at my last company), the support for integrating with lots of different monitoring platforms and the generally fantastic support make it well worth the monthly cost.
My view is that "institutional" companies are starting to do innovative things with modern technology (NoSQL, Cloud, Mobility, etc.), but it requires younger people to seek out the opportunity to change these companies from within. There's a big wave of IT retirement coming over the next 5 to 7 years as the old guard dies out and the open source generation comes of age. Given the absolutely astronomical amounts of money these companies are used to paying for the equivalent of "three programmers , 2 weeks, and a case of beer" work, there's a lot of money to be made.

The challenge of course is politics, but that exists everywhere - Google has its own flavor (good luck using anything but Python, C, or Java, for example). Startups certainly have less politics, but just tend to be intensely personal affairs that revolve tremendously around the founder's personality and value system. Plus they tend to require commitments above and beyond what people that want families are able to provide. Large companies provide a much higher probability that you can have huge impact on people's day to day lives within a 5 year period, in my opinion - if you land the right project, with good management.

No question that people in their 20's should try a startup gig -- I moved to SF and NYC myself at ages 20 and 22, respectively (I dropped out to do it), and don't regret it. I even made a run back to SF at age 30 to try a startup again, this time as an executive (it failed). But I'm making more money now in IT because startups taught me how to get things done, which is an insight in very short supply in most large companies.

On the other hand, I haven't seen too many high-end SAP technical jobs that were "rote"... soul-sucking, sure, as you're working for the man, but still requiring a lot of brain power. I refuse to do it because I find more pleasure in torturing SAP consultants than joining them.
> Government shouldn't have any business in what is ethical or moral but in what is legal

"Enforcement" is the use of force to assert an ethical and moral position. "Legal Enforcement" is the monopolistic use of force to assert an ethical and moral position. It's not possible to enforce "what is legal" on others without asserting a morality.
In the United States, you only pay sales taxes in states where you have a "nexus." If you're asking this question to HN instead of to your accounting firm, the only state in which you have a nexus is the one you physically perform the work in.
Sure, I agree, I wasn't trying to say that it's the politician's job...that line was meant to represent the ethical sphere of a human's existence, another example of a facet in which I don't think a scientist necessarily should be trusted to lead, at least not solely based on their occupation/skill set related to their scientific work. That's all I meant.
I think in this case "least bad" means "least bad in the worst case".
Source link http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-graham-y-combinator-goog...
> What they're calling "synchronous multi-master" replication is actually implemented using "two-phase commit", which isn't replication per se, but rather application code using a database feature that allows specifically crafted database interactions to be written to multiple databases, and only successfully committing if the participating nodes agree that they've all committed.

I am not sure I understood, what is the difference between the two?
> Better than anything else we've tried.

Is it really better? Or is the one people chose because it favors inertia and doesn't force them to think?
I find postgres more pleasant and faster to develop in than mysql. It can help you avoid the need for a lot of application code, and feel more confident in your solution. I can't say any one thing that will convince you; you basically have to dive in and try doing things the "postgres way" (i.e. don't try to transplant a mysql mindset on postgres, or you will be disappointed). Try out the various features available, and see which ones might help you develop faster or avoid problems.

Postgres has strong support for single-master replication, including synchronous (several levels) or async, cascading, etc. Read scaling and HA are well covered.

What postgres doesn't have built-in is sharding or multi-master. I'm not trying to make excuses for this, but here are some thoughts to put things in perspective:

* There is active development on multi-master in postgres.

* You need to have quite a large database to not physically fit on a single node.

* By the time you really need to scale out writes beyond a single node, you may be very interested in the fine details of what's happening, and the flexibility and myriad options available in postgres may be just what you need.

* If you focus too much on one feature, it starts to seem more important than it is. It's easy to forget the flaws in the feature in other products; and the fact that businesses existed at high scale before the feature existed. Lack of a feature you want is more like a hurdle, not a dead-end.
MasterCard Buys Truaxis (Formerly BillShrink)
I would say probably not. SSL based vpn is pretty common, and that's always done over TCP. Cisco does support DTLS, and ipsec happens below TCP, so it just depends on your provider.
Well, to be fair I went to an Ivy League school and am not eligible to participate either.
That is nice, thanks for the link :). It's a pity the touch events don't include finger velocity -- you can confuse the velocity tracker in that example by swiping back and forth quickly before releasing.

Android has a whole bunch of velocity trackers, but they're probably expensive in JS (solve least squares, etc). Code is here: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/mas...
Source link at bottom.
Turn off... justification? o_O

I don't need to justify this with an actual response.
Heisenberg tells you that you cannot measure locations and speed, but Physicist have just accepted it and moved on. What you can measure, and what quantifies a state, are probabilities of things happening. That is all the information that nature gives you, and if you can recreate a set of probabilities from point A at point B, you have teleported the object. The laws of nature ensure that object at point A is destroyed, so you cannot clone states.

The way how you interpret is now philosophy. As far as nature goes, there is no way to distinguish one electron from other, or to differentiate a 'teleported' object from its 'original' object.
Installing OpenCV 2.4.2 on Mac OSX Mountain Lion with Python support
Really surprised by all the negative comments around (5) here.

With SR&ED its possible to get back a substantial amount (like 2/3) of the money you invested into development. Another way of looking at it, is that it's like doing your development at offshore rates, except working with local talent.

In fact, it self-propagates: Fund your initial development, get back a portion via SR&ED, use that toward development, get back a portion via SR&ED etc.

Our start-up has really benefited from this, and frankly I don't understand why any company (big or small) who has an eligible project would not apply for this.

It is actually reasonably easy to find out what CRA is looking for, by attending a CRA public information session or two, and then filling out the paperwork yourself. Consultants "increase the odds of success" purely because they understand what the CRA is looking for -- but it really is not that complicated and can be picked up easily just by going to an info session.

If you can't be bothered to spend the time doing it yourself, then who's to say its not worth giving up 25% of the 2/3 you could get back.
There is now a tiny link to the original post that simply says "source" and is lost in all the clutter.

Still pretty bad.
I can recommend. It took about half an hour to get my full GMail the first time, and later minutes to get the backup up-to-date.

Come to think of it, I haven't actually checked if it got my emails correctly :) I should probably reg a throwaway GMail and see if I can clone my current mailbox.
If you think that group of, hmm, 200,000 people is a narrow field which gets priced to match, wait until what happens when you start pitching yourself as being from a reference class of one.
What we need is less government and more conscious individuals willing to make decisions.

Any concentration of power leads to corruption and manipulation of masses. Democracy is just one way of doing it - the most successful so far.
Here's another thought, just off the top of my head: get people to sign up by sending an email to "subscribe@example.com". You can include that as a "mailto:" link and many browsers will deal with it correctly.

There's very good odds that the email they send will have their "From:" (or "Reply-To:") address correctly set. Then just have an email autoresponder which emails them back a link with a token in it, when they click on that it'll take them to a page to create their account, with their email address already filled in by the token.
You can accomplish that with synchronous multi-slave replication with failover: as far as I can work out in my head right now, the result will be similar to the behavior you will get from a synchronous multi-master setup assuming you can work things out so the slave can be used for read-only queries.
Node Electrical Outlet Eliminates the Power Strip
> What the heck is that? A pig looking at the golden gate bridge? What does it mean?

This is the best comment I have seen today. Thanks for making me smile :)
This "culture fit" business is beginning to trend in a dangerous direction in my opinion..where are we going to draw the line between the so-called "fit" and outright discrimination? Can someone be explicit about what EXACTLY culture fit refers to? Referring to a different hiring post from yesterday, does my dislike for techno and alcohol make me un-hirable at companies where it is their "culture" to play techno and drink beer?
What if I can't curse and swear like a sailor? Or if I can't hang out after work because I'd rather do something else?

Hopefully, someone can provide a definition for "culture fit" that clears the air on these questions.
If you're willing to move to Toronto, you can apply at Top Hat Monocle (my company).