skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large number of people at Stripe (I want to say more than half, but that might be wrong) dropped out of college or didn't go at all. Given that a bigger portion of our peers outside Stripe do have college degrees, I think that suggests a different correlation entirely.

On my part, I dropped out of school almost immediately (I was an Econ student at Suffolk in Boston). I joined Stripe right after graduating from Hacker School batch[2].
Thank you for this. From the relevant paragraph:

> This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. The answer to almost every question put to us is "total cost of ownership". Facebook stores a lot less data per customer than Backblaze and makes more per customer than we charge. Facebook can afford to waste more money than we can, so they do.

In my humble opinion, there is A LOT of wasted money in making datacenter machines easy to service. We create a little spreadsheet (it isn't rocket science) which includes the employee salaries taking into account different designs and how long it takes to open up and service a pod. For example, to access the Backblaze Pod's hard drives you must pull the pod out like a drawer and open the top. Many servers you can access all the hard drives from the front, without moving the server. Accessing drives from the front is much faster -> but you lose 2/3 of the density!! We pay $600 per month for a cabinet, just for the physical space. We can stack 8 pods in that cabinet, or about $75 per pod per month in space rental. So buying servers that are 1/3 as "dense" but easier to access drives from the front costs Backblaze $50/pod/month or $600/pod/year. We open a particular pod and replace a failed drive or fix some other problem maybe once every 6 months-> so you are paying $300 PER INCIDENT if you have front mounted drives that save the technician maybe 10 minutes of time. The math simply doesn't make any sense at scale.

I think a lot of the inefficiency is because the datacenter employees recommend these "nice to haves" to their managers to make the datacenter employees lives easier. But their company pays dearly for not doing the math. This isn't important if your company is massively profitable or if it isn't a "datacenter centric" company like Backblaze. But for us, it's the difference between life and death. Remember, we only charge $5/month and we don't have any deep pockets so we have to stay profitable -> there isn't a lot of margin in there to be wasteful.
I've gotten the "you're not a cultural fit" email dozens of times. I think its a function of the economy. If employers are turning away perfectly competent engineers because of something as silly as a "Sunday test", you know there is a huge surplus to talented Engineers in the talent pool.
I wonder what part of their path finding algo created a glitch like the drone float[1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MN0wjoqmzU
It seems to be appropriate.
"Clearly there are hundreds of uses.." - and that was exactly the introduction for the Google code camp for Wave. Uses and value at Google scale are 2 different things.
Spyder depends on, rather than competes with, IPython and SciPy.
My limited experience says this is right on.

One of my best friends has been working on a startup for about two years now, focused on a B2B vertical where he has experience. It's gone well, and he's gained a handful of customers who are all very loyal to his product.

He's turned down outside investment the whole time, because he didn't have a growth strategy that required capital. He saw investment as a liability, taking a portion of his flexibility and tying him to a strategy he hadn't yet tested.

Now, he's looking for funding to grow quickly, and to hire some marketing folk. Ironically, while he had people asking to invest a few months ago, now he's having trouble finding the right fit. He's heard "you're just a little bigger than the companies we normally deal with" from every corner.

I know he's not alone in this. I hope the startup world quickly adapts to this change, and develops a facility to deal with tiny bootstrapped companies that are past the "I have an idea!" stage, but need outside expertise and a workable plan to scale.
Unfortunately not available for Linux.
Actually this is one step closer to H+, lying a few years(?) ahead of Glass?

Sight: Contact Lenses with Augmented Reality (Conceptual)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJKwHAvR4uI
Estonia has impressed me with their forward thinking policies. Everything about their execution of this plan has me impressed. They have executed well in financing the building of this network and in creating a sustainable business model for the future.

Related note:
5 Months ago I remember hearing about their plan to introduce programming into elementary curriculum. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/09/04/2136256/estoni...
Safari, outside of mobile, just isn't used like Chrome is.

Chrome liberated us from Adobe Reader because its what we actually use.
"... Java, have you learned to easy yet?"

No, it hasn't. That's why we're using Rails.

And to be honest, it ain't that bad.
This reminds me a bit of this first-person piece of autism-related sci-fi: http://www.amazon.com/The-Speed-Dark-Elizabeth-Moon/dp/03454...

I used to keep a diary, where 13 years ago my entries were long monologues similar to this. There was a clear correlation between amount of personal and emotional human contact I had in a day and the length of the diary entries where I tried to reminisce going mushroom picking with my grandmother a decade earlier.

The world today seems too constantly distracting for that sort of thing.
So the question is, should weird, hard to detect and buggy behavior that experienced players can exploit be kept as part of the game? It's a highly subjective and, to me, non-obvious answer.

Players get very attached to timing and knowledge based tricks, especially ones that give them an advantage. Does that mean they should get them? There's a tricky balance between alienating new players and rewarding skill and dedication in old players.
something like this:

http://tech.yipit.com/2011/11/02/django-settings-what-to-do-...
Both the quotes from the article are hilariously vacuous:
“You can’t ship process.”
and
“You have to be agile in your approach to agile.”
No, that our resumes aren't always thrown out.
Hey singold,

The primary motivation was when making it easy to use django for API like apps. Moving to flask etc meant losing all the django knowledge and batteries. Most simple project start small, and importd makes it easy for starting small, yet importd intends to remain completely compatible with django.

importd already can play nicely with rest of django ecosystem, and I am trying to figure out what more I can do to make that easier.
Actually, a lot of laws are written this way with a "English" version that most lawmakers read and a "legal" version that actually becomes law.
Related video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_coo...
I'm curious, what is your advantage over Dropbox, GDrive, Box, etc? I like the design, but I don't see another reason to switch.
"I can't find a good professional, so using professional help is useless" - that is an odd conclusion to come to.

Yes, many shrinks suck. It sucks dealing with them. I'll still shout "Find professional help" if that's what it'll take for that person. And that's the case here.

You(OP) don't go and write a whole long screed how you'd like to be left alone to then justify said screed on a site like HN without actually, at some level, wanting to interact with people.

Which means you(OP) have an issue - what you(OP) say and what you do is not congruent. Find somebody you can relate to, and ask for their advice. Doesn't need to be a shrink. Priest, Guru, Life Coach, whatever works for you. Work out which one of the two you want, and then live accordingly.

Edit: Clarifying "you"
To answer the question...Yes, Java has changed for the better. Give it a go...you'll be impressed.
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What specifically in the video are you responding to?
No, Rails hasn't turned into Java. Rails has matured into a complex ecosystem. Java has also matured into a complex ecosystem.

Frameworks upon frameworks is a recipe for complexity, potential performance problems, bottlenecks, and environmental/context-specific issues regardless of the language that you're using.

Will there ever be a language or simple framework that is popular, solves all problems, and doesn't get more complex as its ecosystem matures? I won't bet on it, but if you figure it out, someone will still eventually compare you to a no-longer-hipster-cool framework as an insult.
It occurs to me that as members and professionals within the technical community, hackers have just as much of a responsibility to use plain English when communicating with stakeholders and laypeople as members of the law community.

Often, I find it extremely hard to distill a technical concept down to the basic takeaway. It's a skill I've been flexing for years now, and yet I still feel the need to drastically simplify my explanations. It often doesn't seem fair. To bear the burden of consolidating an ocean of understanding into a few word summary your stakeholder can grok sometimes seems impossible!

Nevertheless, I think Clarence Thomas sets an awesome example which really puts it in perspective for me. As people who are trying to deliver results to our stakeholders, we owe it them to explain what we're doing for them in as plain and simple language as we can muster.*

*note: I totally acknowledge that this is a difficult skill which can take a fair amount of practice. Not saying I am personally perfect or even great at this skill. I'm just saying it's an important one to work on!
Sup Yev! Evtron. We're in St. Louis. We have a call with Gleb on Wednesday. Love to chat some time: ivicars@evtron.com / @israelvicars.
It's really pretty good (and i've been using it for a while on firefox nightly), but unfortunately it uses lot's of memory, scolling past 4-5 pages on math heavy papers usually kills my old 1gb ram pc.
More company features, price is lower
> The hardest part is not learning "obscure" git things, it's unlearning the habits and preconceived ideas about how SCMs work.

I've begun to think of engineer's ability to "get Git" as a sort of abstract-thinking FizzBuzz. DVCS breaks up some composite actions (svn commit/checkout) into their component parts (git fetch/merge/commit/push). If you can't make that mental leap and see the value in it (and accompanying tradeoffs) despite all the learning materials out there, how can you be expected to derive comparable evolutions of design and engineer on your own?
ItWillGetCheaper.com - Hackathon product, continue development?
Thanks for an excellent read, K-2052! Loved your story. You should really start publising! (Oh, you won't be alone after the collapse, I have a cunning plan as well -wink-wink, nod, nod).
I believe Patric Collison explains a little about this on this answer he gave on Quora[1]:

Most of the people who work directly on the user-facing parts of Stripe have managed products before, and enjoy the process of figuring out how they should work and what they should do. Before Stripe, Saikat and Sheena built Mockingbird. Alex built Taskforce and a number of open source projects. Amber had a long list of products under her belt. Ross founded 280 North, built 280 Slides, and co-created the Cappuccino web framework. Ludwig single-handedly designed and built Observer, a real-time web analytics tool. Ben started Kickoff. (As it happens, many people who don’t work directly on the user-facing parts of Stripe also have similar experience.)

[1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/Does-Stripe-have-product...
A little more info—I'm using iTerm2 on Mac OS 10.8.2

Also, it'd be really nice if the open action ended up in my bash history, e.g., open something via `completeme`, close it, and then use ctrl+r or the up arrow to get back to it and open it again.

One more—running the escape command (ctrl+g) seems to exit emacs? (using emacs 24.2.1)
I don't buy the comparison. Wave was a software product with a complete different paradigm for communication and had huge switching costs. This is a webcam you can wear on your head. The market for portable video cameras was validated in the 1970s.
Heroku Alternative - My Managed Metal Private Cloud or Metal Alternative
My Managed Metal Private Cloud or Metal Alternative

Sick of the Heroku/EC2 magic and want your own dedicated VPS or server?

I'm very interested in starting a business to build an outsourced DevOps team and have been doing my own for years.

If you want a single server with a "standard" stack: Ubuntu, Postgresql, Rails, Passenger, Nginx, Nodejs then I would be happy to build the entire thing and manage it. All I need from you is your ssh key and I'll give you the Capistrano config you need to deploy. Done! Want to add another app to your server? Email me and I'll give you a new Capistrano script for you app.

I'll charge a $50/m premium on top of your deployment of choice which could be a) a Rackspace VPS, or a dedicated server on iWeb (starts at $79/m).

This is my MVP. If this is popular I'll automate all of this. But for now, I'm happy to help you get away from Heroku.

You can hit me up at jevin@quickjack.ca
Don't forget this a member of the GOP talking to a member of the Socialist Party. It might just be a posture.
Oh, about the "random memory flips" -> in our particular application, the client running on a customer's laptop encrypts the data then calculates a SHA-1 checksum THEN transmits the file through HTTPS to the pods. The pods write it to disk with the checksum there. Once every couple of weeks we re-read the file and re-calculate the SHA-1 checksums. If there was ever a problem, we would detect it. These turn out to be VERY rare, but they do happen where a file is fine for many years then a bit is flipped "on disk" (we don't think they are in the RAM, but it doesn't matter, it is an "end-to-end" check). We assume this is happening in consumer systems also, but at the rates we see it would be undetectable in consumer's worlds (1 bit per customer lifetime - it would probably create a tiny mis-spelling in a MS Word document, or maybe one pixel would be wrong in one JPEG).
How to Write Shared Libraries
Short film shows a frightening future filled with Google Glass-like devices
"... Java, have you learned to easy yet?"

Try Play, Grails, Vert.X.

And you know what it isn't easy. Having to deal with Ruby's dependency nightmares.
I found that the 'Bad habits can become a lifestyle' section to be very well written and it made a number of great points, notably:

"Life is the series of choices we remember making. When something goes wrong it's easy to see it is as not a choice. There was too much stress. Your dog ate it. Your clients were assholes ... I now realize that to fix myself, I'm going to have to be myself; and to be myself, I'm going to face myself."
> I've always wondered who gets to write the software that syncs traffic signals.

Traffic synchronization in a city grid of streets isn't very challenging -- it's a matter of setting up a timing scheme that always works the same way. City-wide synchronization isn't about sensing cars at each intersection, it's more like conducting an orchestra and simply making sure everyone is playing in the same tempo.
I made this with a friend at AngelHack Toronto a few months ago. Is this a service you'd use? Improvements?
Live editing sounds brilliant. Would love to try this.
The latter does say a bit more in my reading. It says that if the severed clause was a factor in any signatory's assent then the whole agreement may be null. That seems pretty important.
The PDF viewer in Chrome is available to Chromium users (just copying the libpdf.so or libpdf.DLL file into the appropriate directory works); it's just not open source.
Does it have LAN sync and native integrated get-me-the-URL-for-this-file? If not, forget it.

The about page says nothing about who is behind this. I have zero confidence in apps with no "about us".

The market positioning seems to be trying to take a little from Dropbox, a little from Box. To target the Enterprise market, as Box does, this is orders of magnitude off what is needed.

Sorry to be so negative, but technically I suspect this has taken a lot of effect, the marketing is as awful as it gets.
Seconding this - What exactly does this have over the competition? Looks legit, but why would I switch over, or tell my friends to?
>>In France, the verb 'work' is travailler. Traditionally this meant literally to toil, a chore, an obligation. In Germany, the word werken means to build, create, do. The German word more aligned with travailler is arbeit. This lack of correlation in the word work I believe may explain the differences in the approach and cultural views towards work that I see across Europe, particularly with latin root romance languages.

This makes no sense at all. What is the mechanism at play here? Languages with different etymologies for the verb to work impress those differences into the cultures that use the language? Travailler doesn't really mean toil at all, besogne is the word for really hard chores, lit. Travail pénible. There is no connotation that work is always a chore. French has the same type of words for making things as German goes. This goes back to the agriculture/craftsmen distinction in the middle ages. There is no difference.

>>The second factor I've seen is climate. In the more productive northern European countries, it's generally colder. There's been a historical need for produce and for people to work (not endure or arbeit) to trade in order to get everything you need in terms of food and shelter.

Productivity isn't equivalent to working hard at all. Differences in productivity and wealth in european countries generally go back to pre-industrial developments in technology. Hotter climates tend to not be as integrated into Europe due to simple geography. The alps and the Pyrenees are two examples. You can also look at political developments that helped give rise to reliable systems of law absent elsewhere. As an Arab commented during the crusades, the crusaders could depend on freedom from arbitrary judgments. Again, this development seems to be based on geography
but has nothing to do with the climate per se.
Here's an interesting list of bugs [1] (some related to path-finding some not) found in SC / Broodwars.

[1] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Bugs
The US is a very large place.

Where you were I guess they didn't do that, but they most certainly do use sensors in many cities.

Since I haven't been everywhere yet I can't say "most", "some" or any other words like that. But sensors are used in the US.
I think the dates in your post need to be corrected?
It's not about Webkit, silly. It's about evolution.
On the highways, every 60km a ChaDeMo quickcharger. €18.000 credit if your car is 100% EV. I just wish Tesla sold some here.
There was a link for Linux in the Download modal dialog.
Let's be honest here. Yahoo doesn't really care what you think.

I was under the impression that I was replying to an HN comment, not to Yahoo. I know they don't care what I think, nor do I expect them to care. I don't even think there's value in them caring what I think. The point of this particular HN thread was to analyze the language used in the article, and I added my thoughts to the thread for others to read. (I didn't even start the thread; someone else submitted the article and someone else pointed out the sentence in question.)

Why are you following me around on HN and making everything into a personal attack, anyway? Disagree with the idea, not with the person.

Might want to check a dictionary because I don't think you understand what that term means.

If we're going by Wikipedia, it seems I meant to say "marketing speak", which is defined in the "Corporate jargon" article. I think the idea is clear: talk about what you did in objective terms, not whatever beautiful and dynamic words happen to be nearby while you're preparing a statement. (Wait, that was kind of fun. Maybe I'm wrong.)
Particularly for small startups and self-funded projects, the most important factor in technology choice is almost always "How long does it take me to translate my idea into a working product?".

For me, I haven't yet found anything that matches the ability of Rails to quickly go from just an idea into something that you can start pitching to customers.

While Rails and the entire community is dizzyingly large, with rapid innovation, new libraries, and a new set of best practices seemingly every few months, this ability to quickly create stuff differentiates it from Java completely.
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That's the whole point - if someone started reading a book or newspaper while on a walk with their mate or during a group conversation, then it used to be socially unacceptable.

And, as you say, the tech doesn't change anything - if we're hanging out and suddenly you're zoning out by checking FB on your phone instead of connecting with me (I'm right here! Right now!), then it's just as offensive as if I'd fold out a full-size newspaper between us while we're sitting in a cafe.
Dependency management in ruby is trivial with bundler.
France is not the greatest manufacturing country, it's still one of the most productive country in the world, by a lot of measures.
Check again. It is.
Live from Sony's PlayStation 4 event (6pm EST)
A trust needs to last a very long time. What happens if this startup fails/folds?
Google pays to ship FoxIt's closed-source PDF engine with Chrome.
Yes it is. I thought the same when I clicked "Install App", but the big button in that popup window downloaded a tarball for linux.
Good chance that one or two of these projects will be given a few continuing updates and evolve into a fairly respectable release - and the others will be fun little concepts, and you'll be supporting good devs.

If you're not convinced, go support an indie developer anyway!
For #3, I can't help but think: "If it is possible to cut a word out, cut it out." :).

It's probably a subtle joke on Orwell's part.
Ok, if these images are real, I'm very impressed.

But I'm concerned that they're mockups. It is very, very dangerous to make people think you can do more than you actually can.

The "directions" demo image features full color, right in the middle of your field of view, with a display resolution that allows super light weight fonts and subtle glow effects.

Is anyone able to comment on whether this is a realistic portrayal?

I know they have _something_, but I hope what they've shown here isn't vaporware.
you're going to have to face facts sooner or later about that relationship.
Is changing the behavior of a group of units because it happens to be grouped with a distant unit really a good thing for the game?

It makes for a good story, and it's great fun for the person who discovers it. Players like it, because it lets them beat new players even more easily. But players don't always know what's best for them.

This is why Starcraft 2 multiplayer is structured to force players to play on complicated, resource balanced Blizzard approved maps. Starcraft 1 allowed ranked games on any map, and players largely played simplified, resource-soaked maps. Or played nothing but Big Game Hunters and Lost Temple. This was what players thought they wanted, but it wasn't what was best for the game.
I've been enjoying Pdf.js for months, as I use Aurora as my main browser. Aurora[1] is the the first step before Firefox Beta.

If you want to use awesome features like pdf.js earlier... get on Aurora. It has been surprisingly stable channel for pre-beta code.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/