skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that, but if Google would've done a better job of promoting Android, I think they could've had more control over it in the end. But it's almost like Google didn't want control over Android.

As for upgrades, I don't think it would've been that hard to get the Open Handset Alliance to agree to keep things relatively compatible with each other, and let them handle the upgrades, and save them that cost. I just think Google didn't want to do that at the time, maybe because they thought it was too much work, and they didn't think Android would get that successful or something.

They could've set a clear set of standards, and they could've built a power theming engine to allow manufacturers to do some relative customization of the devices so they look different enough, if they really wanted to go that route, while still making it easy for them to upgrade them.
No, I think it actually makes sense. How are lawmakers supposed to know every single one of their voter's issues? Plus this particular issue (unlocking phones) might be a particularly important one for you, but secondary for a vast majority of people (myself NOT included). So I find the system of petitions sensible in that respect.
I feel the banner-tagline is a bit too understated in its presentation. Having it be where normally the nav-bar is, and in standard body font, makes it seem ancillary, when it's actually the most important piece of information about the startup
How would you distinguish between an innate ability and something our brains are capable of? Those seem like the same thing to me.
You think it only costs $300 to create a top notch icon?

You've never met a designer in your life, have you?
> fake ipsec traffic

..., most of it, is filtered out by the replay protection at virtually no processing cost. The HMAC verification is not exactly a CPU killer either, even less so if there's some sort ASIC/accelerator involved, which won't be that unusual if there is an IPsec involved.

To not multiple the comments - what I said above about a single TCP packet obviously implies being on the route between the parties.
I didn't really cared about not seeing the device case. They made public the specs ( 8 GB FTW) so that was more important than seeing a empty case.
In post Aaron world, come on. Seriously?
Actually we decided to redirect the /learnmore to index, was rendering horribly on tablets. Thanks for pointing it out!
I was working on making a mobile web app a few weeks back and after quickly deciding that a js framework would be better than a responsive site (lots of widgets, built-in ajax functionality and push-state) I tried both jQ mobile and jQ Touch[0]. Both are quite similar in most respects(learning curve, widgets, etc.) However, if you're looking to completely overhaul the look then jq Mobile, IMHO, is not that great. I found the themeroller[1] to be clunky and difficult to use and would've preferred writing css. jqTouch, on the other hand, is quite customizable (allows SASS based theming).

[0] - http://www.jqtouch.com/

[1] - http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/index.php
Clean coal is a lie. The byproducts of coal usage are stored in gigantic ash ponds. In 2008, one such pond ruptured and spread 5.4 million cubic yards of waste containing mercury, arsenic, lead, and thallium (amongst other things) all over eastern Tennessee.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27sludge.html?_r=0
Don't forget signing statements and executive orders.
Maro was giving the OP a virtual bro-hug. Not trying to preach. The buddhism reference was a platitude. Sometimes the intent (compassion) trump content.

I've never found in any country a Buddhism which is for the living people.

Very interesting. You and I would probably get along just fine.
We were debating this internally as well. Thinking about changing the background to black and text to white.
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Physical aesthetics of game consoles have never been fussed over that much (at least among geek/core gamer audiences). PCs were the same in the past. The current "industrial design boom" that Apple started is historically the exception. And yeah, something you hold in your hands and keep on your person vs. something you keep under your TV makes a big difference - note they did show the controller (the part you interact with directly).
Nice to see a fashion startup targeted for men, who sometimes get overlooked in the fashion stakes.

Some of the website needs a bit of work, the sold out indicator and text, and the purchase button, all feel a bit off. Slightly cheap and naff if I'm being honest.

However, great concept, great idea, I've signed up and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it over the coming months.
Handicapped Software
> "It'd have to be astronomically high to truly "approach zero"."

No, it doesn't. A low failure rate can still work out to an EV of near-zero for the employee. You're disregarding powerful effects:

- dilution between grant and exit

- amount of equity being offered in the first place

- opportunity cost of passing up traditional cash/stock bonus structures at BigCos

The fact of the matter is, a meaningful exit for the founders is almost always an insubstantial exit for the employee. Owning 20% of a company is very different than owning 0.05% of a company, post-dilution through additional rounds of financing.

The culprits here aren't VCs. The VCs are putting in the money the company needs to do its thing. Valuation isn't the problem - the attitudes of founders is. I've found that founders mentally grossly overestimate the value of the equity they're handing out. I've seen people demand 5-figure pay cuts for 0.1%-level equity, and this isn't uncommon.

The amount of equity being handed around by founders, even to early employees, is not high enough for anyone to seriously consider taking a pay cut.

If you want me to take a pay cut, give me an amount of equity that might actually result in a meaningful exit. Of course, at the current salary/comp level of competent engineers, we're talking >1% levels of equity, and no founder is willing to part with that.
I think it's one of the best posts I've ever seen on stock options. Too many people think too much of their stock options, while in reality in most cases they are worth close to nothing. This is something everyone has to consider when their employer offers them to trade salary for equity.

I made this mistake once, I wish I had read this post then...
And that won't help you get around the fact that DRM is security through obscurity. If DRM were cryptographically secure, we wouldn't be able to read the books at all.

The fundamental difference from PKI is that "attackers" have both the content and decryption keys on hand.

If your device/app can decrypt a given book in order to display it, then you can be sure that someone else will be able to emulate your decryption method, or just rip the decrypted book from memory.

Remember that DRM is not about protecting content over the wire. It is about protecting content from "malicious" users, who also need to be able to consume that same copy of content.

If you can write an encryption scheme that does not require consumers to store a key, but still can only be read by a given consumer, you can write your own ticket.
Stackability.
> Use d3 if you don't want to spend the money, it's much more powerful anyway.

I will, and that's the point. I don't see how this in any way invalidates my statements about their product
http://dygraphs.com/ is nice too
Not if the company is privately held.

Your options agreement should tell you how many shares you have rights on and what your strike price is. The company, if run honestly and transparently, will tell you how many shares are outstanding and what the current valuation is. From there you can do the math on potential outcomes. If they won't give you formal disclosure of that information, assume the worst.
Yet requiring them to signup to see the guide will help you build a list of potential users for your premium features.
> Sure, that is how it works in practice

Which is all that matters. How it should work in theory, matters very little.

> If you want a market-based solution to life's problems

Big "if", for many things, many don't want the depth of their wallet to determine their access to necessary services.
> He absolutely did not teach people that it's possible to eliminate suffering while alive

Did the Buddha teach the Four Noble Truths? The third noble truth about the "cessation of suffering and the causes of suffering". How can what you say be true then?
>If Google does it right, maybe it'll force OS developers to wake up and rethink the increasingly clunky and antiquated BSD sockets API that is the source of many of TCP's woes and finally modernize the network stack for the fiber era.

WinRT don't ever has BSD sockets.
Not sure how true this is currently; I've got spotify premium up at the moment and according to ActivityMonitor I've got no data outgoing.
I'm referring to the comparison made by OP.
This is not realistic now, nor will it likely ever be. By hook or by crook, money will always find its way into politics, so long as there's a high ROI (and oh boy is it high).

The only real hedge against this is a return to a constitutional government that doesn't have the power to grant special favors. That opportunity has long since passed.
Do you mean to pick one of the "Common Lisps"?
Got Linux Talent? I DO. Where are the companies looking for me?
How is that any different than those employees donating the money directly to the campaign and then working on the campaign?
Thanks! Is there an example of something similar you have seen out there that works (wrt to the indicator, purchase button)? Also we are right now A/B testing with the progress bar colors / buttons (Red, Green, Blue and Black).
My only problem is #4. Might need clarification. Lots of (if not all) startups will have a negative long-term effect on some incumbent party.

Could you give an example of a startup that has had no negative effects on any company or industry?
Highcharts uses SVG and reverts to UML for older versions of IE.
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I can't guess at exactly what they're doing, but when I built something very similar we noticed bad font rendering across the board until we tweaked the font rendering. It's often as simple as choosing a better font to use as the default when one is not specified.
If you look at it under current copyright law, every time Sony has distributed this icon without the GPL (e.g., the page on which it resides has been viewed) can be considered an infringement of the original artist's copyright. Sony would be liable for between $750 and $150,000 per instance. Say this page has been viewed 100,000 times.

That's 100,000 violations of the original copyright. Statutory damages awarded could be upward of $75,000,000. We balk at these figures when applied to eight year olds and grandmothers, because these figures were oriented towards companies and individuals that violate copyright in order to profit from it.

RIAA can sue individuals for violating their copyright by distributing music files; artists should be able to sue Sony right back for violating their copyright by distributing their icon without following the stipulations set out by the original artist. That's how copyright law is supposed to work, anyways.

And no, they haven't "lost" anything. But Sony still broke the law.
Blizzard's abhorrent P2P torrent client does the same, unless you uncheck some default settings in it. Just ridiculous.
I can recommend this article:

http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/we-the-people/

It argues that the reason for petitions to exist is the possibility to open a dialog to the people who are concerned about certain topics (because the petition website gets your email adress), and that in the time of fractioning news consumption it is a useful way to keep communicating, whatever that means.

edit: Ok, why the heck do they call their page Swampland?
The keyword count thing is easily refutable: Python has 38 keywords, Ruby has 41, Java has 50.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_keywords
http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#ide...
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/parse.y (grep for reswords)

I'm undecided whether Python/Ruby or Java are simpler.

At least to me dynamic typing seems much simpler than static typing: from a very very pragmatic view that just means no compile-time checks (?), and I'm not that good with Ruby, but I'd consider Pythons type system much simpler than Javas (Python has none of: primitive types, null, arrays, interfaces, visibility (well, there is name mangling for __...), enums, final/abstract, the checked/unchecked mess (look up what the correct way to catch exactly: all checked exceptions is!), casting, generics and everything that comes with it: have a look at the index at the left side of http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/index.h... -- but to be fair Pythons type system has a couple of nontrivial features (metaclasses, multiple inheritance, ...) too)

Python/Ruby have a lot of very useful language features which make the languages much less of a pain to use than Java (the language), but for any meaningful comparison of language complexity you'd surely also have to consider the intricacies of the underlying VMs. The Java VM is quite complex and also quite powerful. For simple programs that don't require high performance or efficient memory management or whatnot that might not matter much though.

[Now, after having written this, I don't think its possible that any of the three languages is strictly simpler than any of the other ones.]
... a long time, major customer left pissed off. Nope, not seeing how it can be considered a success.

Not only that, but a customer who writes a travel blog which appears to be fairly widely read (judging just by the number of comments on the original blog post) and who clearly knows how to use social media to get his story out.

This whole thing is a huge black-eye for United from what I can see.
This will be equivalent to buying every single Office version during those 10 years, not just once, because (hopefully) the subscription service will be regularly updated.
http://url2png.com is also pretty good.
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Don't read this post.

Racket since grew a full library of purely functional datastructures, cleaned up hashes, provides builtin streams and generators and as for the syntax - well, it's a lisp: write your own syntax and be done with it! ;) [edit: https://github.com/takikawa/racket-clojure/blob/master/lang/...]

Anyway, this post should be either updated or at least marked as not entirely relevant three years later.
> If that's the case, people have already voted with their money on what they value more.

Yes, but when they voted (before jan 26), it was legal to unlock your phone. This law is like changing the terms of the contract mid-term.
I am glad this thing is happening. Unlike most other petitions that require changing law through Congress, this rests on a single individual. DMCA exemption can be made, and in case of phone unlocking have been made, by the Librarian at Library of Congress. He is appointed by the President and works at the behest of the Congress. The decision to allow the exemption to DMCA is completely up to him, and could be potentially influenced by such a petition.
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Thanks for sharing. The way you are going about things currently I feel is the right course of action. As those prices stand in that link, if you do deliver what on what you promise, you looked to have been undervaluing your services.
I don't think that's an issue at all. I get what you're saying though. I know many times I've built something that already exists and whenever it happens my version falls into one of 3 categories:

1. Something that someone else is doing better. Fail.

2. Something someone else is doing exactly the same. DRY/don't reinvent the wheel fail.

3. Something that does something seemingly the same as others but because it adds something others don't.

I think urlbox falls into category 3. There are lots of ways that a new entrant can be successful. Just tailoring it to a specific use-case honestly goes a long way towards success in my book. For example, Blitshot seems to be all about image processing of screenshots in general (and if it's not let's say it is for the sake of example) - you get an API for screenshots and image manipulation and it's up to you to find a use for it. But if someone else enters the fold, like urlbox perhaps, and says "our API is for purpose X and you can only use it in these ways" they could actually be very successful despite not offering what someone else is. There are a lot of people who'd rather use a product with less features in general but whose features are tailored to their use case than another product which offers the same and more but with no specific focus. Look at Pinboard. It's basically Delicious for a specific user group. All it lacks is the social aspect of it which you're not forced to use with Delicious anyway plus Pinboard is far more expensive (anything is "far more" expensive than free). I think Pinboard is a great example even if it doesn't fit exactly.
Would be decent of Spotify to tell you / ask you nicely. But if you're gaming, why not just quit Spotify and other programs you're not using?
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I'm pretty sure this is wrong. I think in California and Delaware (most startups) stockholders are entitled to see the financials of the company.

I doubt most companies would deny this right if you sent a notarized/certified letter with notice. And in the worst case a judge would most likely side with the stockholder.

IANAL
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Go to page 4 of the thread, I posted on it recently with my spiel and Ive included a screenshot of my whatpulse client showing network usage

http://i45.tinypic.com/2vc8f0j.jpg%5B/IMG%5D

Thats from this morning
> People don't actually own them.

I think you need to read up on property law or show me what law I'm ignorant of that says you don't actually own the phone.
Well, it's not too pedantic. I have a Galaxy Nexus, which is a Samsung phone, and it doesn't have that problem (because it runs stock android).
Good luck to them with that. The only people it stops even today are people who don't mind being observed taking pictures. There are plenty of cameras that are easy to hide for anyone who cares to.

I can buy simple digital video recorders embedded in pens, watches, bluetooth earphones, baseball caps, ties, crucifixes and more from just a casual search of Amazon, for example, and that's hardly the state of the art in covert recording.

The more obnoxious anti-photographing policies people experience, the more attractive it will be to make recording devices less obtrusive.
As a coder who have used CVS, SVN and now Git to manage changes in my codebases, I honestly can't understand the appeal of Word change tracking.

I disable it with haste if I ever open a document with those ugly colors popping out.
How do you write an Anvil.js plugin?
If that makes you walk way, I'll live.
I never said it was only a problem with Apple. There is no need to apologize for them. It is a problem in technology patents and as I've written everyone knows where it is going.

It's time to limit the effectiveness of technology patents to 1 year, maybe 2 years maximum or maybe get rid of tech patents altogether.
Im guessing they mechanical turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) the crud out of these images, taking 3 or 4 photos at the same time of day and if there is a person in the first image then replacing it with the second, i came to this conclusion based on the fact the whole damn city looks like its apocalyptically empty once you get off the ground. None of the office buildings have meetings on and very few windows have people in.
Beams of electrons curve around barriers
Maybe it was obvious, but no one else had said it yet. I said it because I believed it would provide value to our community.
Sigh. I don't think we've made much progress but that's okay.

I don't support discrimination. If you have been a victim of discrimination (I have) it sucks, and I feel badly for you.

There are thousands of companies, some work hard all day and night, some have more family values, some see computer code as art, some see it as a means to an end, some aspire to operate as smoothly as possible, some as quickly as possible. Those with corrosive or illegal cultures, fade away. Sometimes not as quickly as we would like but they don't survive. There are many different ports in the world as sailors might say.

I wasn't being dismissive of shanley's article, I felt badly for her as it seems like there is a lot of emotional hurt around this issue for her. You, harryh, are also pretty invested in this issue as well it seems. I hope that you find a company that is a great 'fit' for you and have a really great experience of a solid company culture.
It always was P2P, that is the way they (I see now, USED TO) describe their technology (I remember reading about this in their homepage some years ago, now it has turned into a strange content hub).

So, if it is not streaming, then you are streaming.
They basically want you to pay based on team size. However, I'm not sure how this sort of licensing would be enforceable though. I know of of multiple companies who use HC for free for commercial purposes on the basis that all the charts are behind logins and feel that's ok. If they had a more straightforward pricing scheme I have no doubt most would just pony up the cash.

The other problem with per developer is maintaining compliance. So every time I hire I have to remember I need to get another licence for this on any other products I have that uses this type of stupid boxed-software model. It adds unnecessary overhead that isn't justified for such a small piece of component software. This isn't Visual Studio we are talking about here.

Honestly their pricing is the only reason I'm not using them.
I never claimed scala was more mature than Python. I'm referencing the argument OP made. You just created the illusion of me comparing Scala to Python. Read my comments if you don't believe so.
Start the proper paperwork and close doors now. No point in waiting two more months. Time to rejuvenate by either starting something new, taking a break or getting a "normal" job for a bit. Dragging on what is inevitable is the worse you can do to yourself.
Maybe he is listening to music while gaming? Or uploading something completely else. It doesn't matter what he is doing, something like that shouldn't happen.

And it's not just decent/nice to ask user if your app is about to suddenly use 100% of upload speed in the background - it's common sense.
Good question - but it is 90% of what I see people using HTML parsers for grab the content of a single tag from a page.

Which is why I often recommend "parsing" HTML with a regex. Particularly on throwaway projects. The overhead of a real parser is a waste.

And if the complexity grows - the sucker will need a rewrite anyhow.
Depends whether looked at from the ops point of view or the end user point of view. You expressed concern about 1 million customers simultaneously having a bad experience. For a given end user if the hardware is equally reliable the odds of something happening are the same whether they are sharing with 1 million or 1 hundred thousand (or even have the server to themselves). On the ops side there is more to go wrong and failures will be more frequent but affect less end users each time.

The positive in the one big machine scenario is that you have potential to take strong efforts to keep it reliable. The advantage in the lots of machines scenario is that there is a better chance you have well tested failover solutions.

It is the combination of impact and risk that I am discussing.