skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people say she is hypocritical as an employee with a specialized nersery built in to her office while demanding employees tend to their own child care needs outside of work. This argument seems to confuse the roles of CEO and employee. CEOs are different in that, if she wants a company car, Yahoo should provide it. If she wants a nursery, Yahoo should provide it. Hypocritical? If she were a lower employee maybe. She is the CEO, so no, not hypocritical. There are some perks to being CEO. This is one of them. It seems people have forgotten how jobs work. Family stays at home, employee goes to work.
A Frontend Framework for the Django Admin Interface
So they spin up a new one. Shell companies are like EC2 instances - cheap and disposable.
Well, if you buy a server or hosting from Hetzner and want a similar setup as S3, you'd have to purchase multiple servers for redundancy. With S3 (and especially CloudFront or other CDNs), you can pay a minimal amount to have all of your files redundantly stored with an extremely high availability (and/or with multiple geographic locations).
Interfaces That Want to Replace the Touchscreen
They could. But then they would lose support for 30% of their users.
He/She didn't say it wasn't.

According to the FAQ, casts are released weekly.
[Insane Combos] Flicking Candy Secretly From Back of Movie Theater?
Monkey Lives (1983)
I'd like to see a source for Romney outspending the Obama team "at least" 10x, because while I can speak from experience that ORCA was a gigantic piece of shit, it's not like the Obama people were struggling to pay their bills.
It isn't your password they wanted (which is what you use to login to the site), she was asking for your "PIN" which is a code they ask for whenever you want to make changes to your account through a store representative, on the phone, or in this case, the online chat window. When you're in the store, you don't type it in to anything, you tell it to the person who is looking at it on their computer screen. The problem was she was confusing you by asking for your password.
I'm surprised you're being surprised, since that post is pretty much on par with everything from svbtle which gets submitted here: preppy energetical pieces, self serving straight-from-the-heart musings on how hard it is to be successful or amusing rants lacking any self-consciousness.

On the other hand, it's refreshing to read something positive on Pincus, who has been crowned as the arch villain of the industry (does that make the OP the arch henchman of the industry?)
How is it that they can allow scripting in Lua? Doesn't the iOS SDK ToS forbid interpreters other than JavaScriptCore?
Your page does very little to convince me to buy the app.

Think about it this way: most customers who will consider your app have already bought Numbers. So how is your app better than Numbers? Lua scripting sounds good, but it might not be enough. As for the rest of the page, your screenshots tell me very little about the app capabilities, while the "feature" descriptions are overly vague.

I will likely buy the app just hoping that it will work better (and faster) than Numbers, but I am not convinced - it feels like a die toss.

I am probably your target customer, so you might want to consider this.
It means the troll's shell company, whose only asset is the now-useless patent, is shut down. The parent company isn't touched, nor the thousands of other subsidiaries owned by said parent company.
How Auto-Tune conquered pop music
You have another option, and it's one that a majority of viewers do - pay for the service you want to use. Piracy is the option you've chosen. HBO has chosen how they want to take your money, and you don't want to give it to them on their terms. Unfortunately for you, it's their product to sell on their terms.

And, following the Steam example, if you have cable, HBO regularly has free weekends where they will show blocks of their programming. This is the try-before-you-buy. Again, it's yours not to buy, but they have decided how they want to make their product available.
The ability to script with Lua is incredibly smart.
If there's a place for co-operative energy, there's a place for co-operative ISPs... the idealist in me really wants to see that.
Easy there killer, not all API's are going to be flushed out full W3C recommendations for v1. These things take time. Be patient. There is nothing on that page that suggests any of the WebAPIs "are not planned to be made available for other platforms." In fact, under process it says "The goal is to standardize all APIs."
Idea guys: get your partnerships in writing, at least emails, so you're not relying on photos and verbal agreements for your case.

Implementors: beware 'idea guys' with inflated senses of their own value, and who may not have the skills/staying-power for all the detail and drudge work ahead.

Unless Brown is a total fraudster, I'd guess there was some legitimate contribution but then early falling-out. (The complaint identifies a contentious phone call in mid-August 2011 as the turning point.)

Assignment agreements and founder-vesting schedules exist for these kinds of cases... but given the speed and informality of today's ventures, can arrive too late to save teams from ugly court disputes.
Stripe is hiring in Europe
Agreed. How could a company with "millions in revenue" not backup critical databases? Not only were they exposed to the threat of human error, but hardware failures, hackers, etc. When he submitted his resignation, the company should have encouraged him to stay. Instead, anyone at the company that had anything to do with the failure to implement regular database backups and the use of redundant databases should have been fired.

I've had more than my fair share of failures in the start up world. It always drives me crazy to see internet companies that have absolutely no technical ability succeed, while competing services that are far superior technically never get any traction.
Does this / will this hook into the Google Spreadsheet API to pull data from Google Docs?
My Learning Curve (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
IANAL but should that invalidate his claim entirely? An agreement is an agreement right? It might be he said/he said, but presumably he can show some evidence that he was involved as an operator. And if that's the case, he may be entitled to something and I wouldn't consider it total BS if that happened.

This strikes me as different than what happened with Facebook.
The idea of making ice-cream with liquified gases dates back to the very start of the 20th Century. It was described by <a href=http://matthew-rowley.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/mrs-marshalls-l... Marshall</a>.
I'm going to file your father's experience under "totally bizarre use case that belongs in a David Mamet film".
Vertical Rhythm in Typography
When you're a small biz, you raise capital where & how you can.
[SNAPCHAT] Ideas Are Sh*t. Execution Is King. Stop Whining And Do Something
Nudow - easy deployments from your Github/SVN repo
Site looks pretty, but is this the 1st time you are offering this class? Feedback about content quality and from past attendees would be helpful. I've been burned in the past in SF at Codeacademy where they promised the moon and delivered little.

Also, is $ 550 for just 1 weekend, or for all 3? And the duration? from when to when on each day?

Thank you.
~Preem
"The bill would allow patent defendants to file a motion seeking to have a judge rule that the patent owner is a certain type of 'non-practicing entity'—although the bill doesn't use that term. If the motion is successful, the lawsuit can still proceed, but if the patent-holding company loses, it will be on the hook for legal costs."

The bill is essentially a judicial shortcut to make patent litigation riskier for non-practicing entities, precisely, non subsection (d) entities. Unfortunately, there is little judicial consensus (to the best of my limited knowledge) on what this means. ARM produces nothing tangible - it licenses designs. That makes ARM look like a non-practicing entity. Yet few would brand it as a patent troll.

Having losing plaintiffs pay is good. But it still leaves the defendant bearing the risk of adverse judgment. Even the non-practicing entity shortcut means hiring a lawyer. Perhaps, for patent suits, the plaintiff should have to, as part of filing the suit, dislose whether they or their beneficial owners' related entities have a history of filing patent suits deemed frivolous.
At my first startup, the founder was a legendary dick to almost everyone, but he was always cool to me.
There is more to a business than code.
Someone mentioned this site in a comment thread recently, and I thought others would be interested. Also I have a question if anyone can answer it:

In the author's first image, where the horizontal lines don't line up with the text, why not just draw the horizontal lines in a different place? As far as I can tell he doesn't explain why he drew the lines where he did.
These guys always forget "Its never a Million Dollar Idea, its a Million Dollar Execution"
You can bring up the delete button for a sheet by right swiping the sheet's cell after tapping on the project breadcrumb. This sounds clumsy written out. Inside the app the gesture should be natural.

Multiple cell selection isn't implemented in 1.0. We had to be choosy about what feature we supported in 1.0, as there are a lot of spreadsheet features people want. Specifying the cells in the formula by typing them out does work, however.

The crashes we'll fix. Thanks for the kind words, we'll keep at it.
Git Commit Squash - Squash Sloppy Commits Together
3D Printing Gun with PlastiSticks (Poor Man's 3D Printer)
Users being lazy about security doesn't excuse companies from being lazy about security. I don't know if the latter is true in this case, but the line of thinking you have presented is surely flawed.
Why type "TRUNCATE TABLE Raids" every time? Type it once, test it, save as script, schedule that script.
Tweetbot pirates are naming and shaming themselves on Twitter
Can we also get something like this going in urban and suburban areas where cable/dsl ISP's underserve and overcharge for their broadband internet. Let's just take these government-backed monopolist corporations out of the loop entirely and treat internet communcations the same way as municipal electrical lines, sewers, and roads.
It's not that simple. Netflix uses traditional channels for international distribution of House of Cards. For instance, it premiered on russian ad-supported TV just few days after US 'release'.

I guess even with 30M paying customers they can't support even one show. HBO has more than one.
Your password is not safe with anyone. Use a unique, strong password for everything.

While I agree, that is more easily said than done for most folks. Looking through my Keychain file, I have almost 850 internet password items. Assuming that about a third are duplicates (www.site.com vs site.com for example) that's still well over 500 different sites I have passwords for. Because I'm comfortable with Keychain, I let it generate strong passwords for me (I frequently associate custom email addresses with those passwords as well since I own aunch of domains). Whenever I try to get others to use various password managers, they get confused and eventually fallback to writing passwords down or using the same password across sites.

Someone needs to get us away from passwords fast.
The other major factor is that they can often predict income from cable subscribers, where online-only could potentially come and go as they please. If you only like Curb Your Enthusiasm, sign up when it premiers, cancel when it ends. Or worse, sign up when it ends and watch it over the course of a month. Compare this to cable subscribers, where you get a reduced rate (often) for a three month block, so long as you stay subscribed. It's a lot more predictable this way, and can extend out to predicting how many won't actually cancel, etc.

In the world where HBO can predict income, they can afford to take a leap and buy a whole season of an expensive show like Game of Thrones on a gamble (which it was). Online-only makes this comfort go away, reducing the potential quality of the product, and creating a spiral of losing subscribers.
Conversely: if you're so out of touch with the reality of the output of your employees that you need urine samples to tell who is doing a good job and who isn't, why should I work with you?
As soon as you have to do any significant sorting (for yourself, not using a utility/function) on these values, you arrive at this conclusion for yourself. (What becomes debatable is whether to use subfield separators, and if so, which. If you have to eyeball the values at all, the answer to the first part tends to quickly become "yes". System constraints as well as legibility then tend to constrain which is/are chosen.)
Right on. I was at the Smithsonian Natural History museum in DC a few days ago. They had an exhibit on pollution in the world's oceans. I was shocked at the reasons they gave to reduce pollution. To paraphrase: if we don't stop polluting, we will hurt the local economy, etc. My jaw dropped. That's the reason why we aren't supposed to destroy the oceans???

As a scientist, it is totally sad to see the state of research, and the standing scientists have in society. I don't understand why sane people would choose to get themselves into such career paths.
I'd want to add that working in a windows for dev, linux for deploy environment will eventually make you constrain yourself to using libraries which work on both platforms.
SXSW Interactive mentor sessions: get one-on-one
Switching from PubNub or Pusher to Realtime.co without changing code
And worse, they had a backup service, and then dropped it to save money.
All success is largely dependent on luck and culture. Where you are born, who your parents are, etc. Being in a position where you can take charge of your life is also largely dependent on the same luck and culture. I think this is what the parent is stressing.
Also, Samsung has been contributing patches to WebKit for Tizen such as Battery Status, Network Info, Vibration, and more. So the implementation and standardization process is well on its way.
Pays what? They will create a few LLCs for each case with next to zero assets. If they lose the case the patents are almost by definition worthless, so they get nothing.

However, think of trying to legitimately sue Microsoft, or Apple or Google for using your patent. You have their bills to worry about too and they can out-lawyer almost everyone.
This is no doubt loved by the largest corps, it does nothing to stop trolls but makes it much harder for a real person /entity to sue them (with tens of billions in the bank)

Edit: Imagine the first day in court, months after the other side's billing has started: you see 16 lawyers on the [Google's, MS, Apple's] side and have a heart attack! 16X$400 an hour (on the low side) X 5 hours = $32,000 for half a day, just to show up in court.
Thanks for posting. As a Ruby programmer I have been wanting to learn Python since 2 weeks and hopefully this will get me started for good.
These situations seem tough. I have a handful of artist friends who constantly give me great app ideas. They can do the logo and icon and other art, but it's going to be me doing 90% of the work. How does one include the original concept creator fairly?
I sincerely hope you are right. However, the only thing I understood was that she was asking for my password. I read Hacker News so I know better :) - however, Verizon deals with many others - how are they to figure that out - if that is indeed the case.
At one point in time the TOS prohibited custom script engines like Lau. But, Apple (likely to cater to some of the large game companies on iOS) eased back that restriction 1 or 2 years ago.

I believe that downloading scripts/code and allowing users to enter scripts may still prohibited.
Did Phishers Just Learn to Spell?
Yahoo and Remote Work
But the other rules still apply, and the best way into these entities is by taking the power of HR away and talking directly to people inside.

My experience (EBRD) was that it was possible to switch from temping (got that through a friend) to contracting to employee (I turned down the last). Friends at the World Bank used a variety of methods to join, but all benefited from talking to professionals inside along the way. These tips are important, but it's far better to have the HR person know that there is existing demand for the applicant.
There is no Snapchat business without code.
If it's really functional and really $4.99, does this mean everyone is going to move their Photoshopping to their mobile devices? (Or, to an emulator?)
this is insanity! it was already pointed out in comments but i still can't believe a company that mature (actually having 1000's of users and millions in revenue!!!) would omit such a basic security precaution.
Giving [junior?!] developers free reign in production database and no backups????
seriously, the CTO should have been fired on the spot instead of putting blame on developer.

no matter how careful you are (i'm extremely careful) when working with data, if you're working in dev/qa/uat/prd sooner or later someone on dev team will execute on wrong environment.
256 Shades of Gray
A merge tool that understands your source code... join beta
How do you stop me from making LLC's or s-corps with almost no assets over and over again to sue? Most patent trolls have next to nothing in assets.

If people aren't in threat of losing their savings or their home then they aren't going to care about such rules.
It seems like the author considers 10K spaceships a lot. That is something like 1MB of of data. Not that much, even for a single core.

Also, there should be multiple phases like, first everybody shoots, then everybody is hit, then blast force is applied. Otherwise there might be an unfair advantage for some spaceships, which can destroy their opponent, before it had the chance to return fire.
How about dev ops service providers? It seems like service companies with dev ops expertise are either website builders or hosting providers. The former is not interested unless they are building a new site (DevOps and upward in the stack). The later is not interested unless they are hosting everything (DevOps and downward in the stack).
Awesome, I had once developed a bomberman clone for palm pilot.

Here is what HN users have commented on your game
http://www.infocaptor.com/bubble_viz/newsycombinatorcomitemi...
Password Rant: password policies from a user's perspective
Maybe not main stream users. However, the market right now seems to be early-adopter-type camera geeks in San Francisco. I would think open sourcing the application would garner some serious respect from that crowd, if not trust.
Disrupt Finalist Maluuba Expands, Launches Its Siri Alternative On Windows Phone
You could argue that standardised data is a good thing- certainly, we developers argue that case constantly. As such, hand-written "input" being standardised could be an equally good thing.
Tech Support Matters
Bill would force 'patent trolls' to pay legal costs
Although this video is meant for entertainment (and contains a lot of fluff), it does a great job of highlighting the problems users encounter when dealing with passwords.
SimplyInsured (YC W13) Wants To Help Take The Pain Out Of Health Insurance
We're starting the close beta. You can surely guess what the tool is about: merging files but understanding the code :O. We can't unveil more yet.
Are you the same person(s) who created the FREE http://bootswatch.com ?

If not, you are looking at a lawsuit on your hands, cos you are selling FREE C.C. themes without any modifications!

Sorry to call you out!
Honestly, it doesn't matter. You're better off worrying about how to get a ton of users by ranking high in search engines, and developing good word of mouth.
Touché! I didn't intended to prioritize my list but you are right :)
While there's no question that some of Alan Kay's achievements are very important, I cannot help but thinking that our industry's tendency to surrender to 'fanism' (e.g: douglas crockford, linus torvalds) - is ridiculous.
Or d) too scared/timid to be an effective employee and learn new skills.
I think it's admirable that you stayed long enough to help fix everything before quitting, despite it being rough -- even though, as others have said, others screwed up even bigger than you did.
Interesting: when did the Lisp Machine actually ship as a product? And did it have a mouse from day one? According to the Wikipedia article it looks like something may have shipped in 1980 for $70,000 per unit...
This is like calling a pencil a typewriter. Not everything is "3D printing", and the term is now clearly being overused.
I also missed the point, and was left wondering what actually happened.
[Nelson] sometimes shortens to "tekkie", to describe the kind of person who's too blinded by the shiny new thing...

Technophile, as coined by Neil Postman.

--

My early disappointment, disillusion with technology was largely validated and informed by Neil Postman's book Technopoly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly

Computers et al were supposed to make everything better, right? Why are my users still struggling? Why after a decade and 100s millions of dollars are we still not seeing seeing a positive ROI, increased productivity, improved quality, or something?

I reread Technopoly a few years back. While I still agree with Postman's thesis, especially how technological progress is often dehumanizing, I disagree with his pessimism.

It is not enough to point out a problem.

Whenever I criticize, I try very hard to figure out a fix. As a recovering technophile, I see in myself how its too easy to be NIMBY and against everything. But that helps no one. So I also try to go the extra distance and communicate what I am for, my affirmative position.

Edit: typo.
Broke my heart when he said you shouldn't need powerful anonymous functions :(
Given the fact that minorities are still under-represented in tech, I suggest you think of this differently: You've gotten to where you are wearing the additional burden of being a minority. You've clearly out-performed expectations.
Only Jolla Sailfish and Microsoft Windows 8 have a coherent platform strategy that does not rely on the wishful thinking that HTML5 will become so popular that it will be a powerful locomotive pulling Linux+browser Web operating systems into the market.

Based on seeing carriers being willing to ship some of these unlikely OSs, there is a market opening. Is anyone ready to take advantage of it?
There was also an extremely popular mobile game in Japan that had the same basic premise, a year or so before Draw Something hit it big.
Weird that author never mentioned PEP8 guide. I think it's the main thing that difference Python from Ruby developers.
If you follow the PEP8 rules, you can interact with other Python programmers without much problems, and enforce you to be a better and organized programmer.
Who writes the job advertisement? That seems like a good place to put desirable experience like "independent projects in X".
Sounds like the author was too young/naive/inexperienced to understand the issues. And the mentor meant the world to him. This is like imprinting in ducks and geese.

Doesn't mean the article isn't accurately conveying this person't individual experience. It was still interesting to read.
I think there is some truth to what you said. But I dislike your example. I don't think born rich is necessarily a good thing nor that everyone wants to born rich. Another thing is that I think most people prefer to not use parents' money. Using someone else's money (even if it is your parents' money) will cause you to lose some control and power. In other words, if you use parents' money very often, then you probably have to listen to your parents a lot..I don't know about others..but I generally don't want to listen to my parents...