skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi X,

It’s been wonderful talking to you. We are pretty amazed by your team’s ___ chops and xxx.

We talked about the opportunity briefly during our meeting and would like to see a more fuller team and strategy around the product before getting into a deeper relationship.

Congrats on an incredible product and let me know if we would be any help to you along the way.

If you get it
Sales 101 is missing here. You research someone whom you approach via cold email. Not randomly blasting email every blogger.
> Dr. Terry Wahls, "Minding Your Mitochondria":

She needs some reputation management, because at the moment there's a bunch of flags that make her sound less than reputable.

1) "Mitochondra" - unless this is a peer reviewed respected journal most people using htis word are cranks.

2) TEDx - Sadly, now tainted as home of cranks.

3) Cured MS through diet - ridiculous claim

etc etc.
> Processing for health is a bit different from processing for cost.

In the sense that history is littered with people attempting to apply cross-domain knowledge to processing for health and failing utterly, that's absolutely true.
Up and to the right
Ethanol is poison as well.
How is RAMCloud different from something like Redis?
Nice. I'm more or less in the same boat in that I'm trying to save some money but don't want to spend so much time working to do it. The problem is that most companies are looking for long-term employees, so it's more difficult to find something on a shorter term.
With Android management shakeup, Google reveals the broad sweep of its ambition
Vector Math in Google's Dart using SIMD
Yeah, it seems to me that the first problem with not giving your GI tract food is that it could make your GI tract atrophy. (His blog suggests he barely poops on this diet.)

As much as I share the fantasy of perfectly balanced, easy to prepare "bachelor chow", I hope he doesn't damage himself.
Agreed, but something you also have to worry about is your stack becoming unmaintainable. Sometimes it's worth re-engineering your stack. For instance, even the simplest programs have a "time until too complex to safely be maintained".

I suppose you have to make that time far enough away that it won't affect your business. If you go past it, your good developers will leave and you'll likely only get lower class devleopers who have to take the job.

As a result your entire stack will suffer. The business side is important, but the entire engineering side can die if you neglect it too much.

Complexity must be managed.

That said, you are correct about:

* Few projects use CI. I think this is due to the fact that most of the libraries being developed are done by very small teams that see it as too much overhead.

* Same with code coverage.

* Most find the testing that Go uses for the language itself to be more than enough.

I think that Go has a much different attitude towards development than you are used to.

I can't quite quantify why and I could be wrong, but I suspect not all of the testing methodologies you talk about are necessary.

Would be great for someone else also experienced with Go and experience with the type of testing environments rmoriz describes to chime in!
Hmm I see a lot of opportunity
This should be tested by Stephen Hawking first.
Your edit is why this nonsense is the top comment. Because beat is not the right word and gives the impression that the patient is at fault among other things I go into. My message isn't fatal at all. It's hopeful. I said nothing negative. All I'm saying is that to believe you've beaten depression is a dangerous thing not that there's no hope for anyone who's depressed.
well, i'm glad chile has company.
Yup. And this is supported by the supposedly leaked piece of GUI code that appeared on Gist 2 days ago. If that code leak is authentic and reasonably up to date (there are references to an alpha version), then it means that this is happening at the GUI layer.

simcity.GetFudgedPopulation = function (a) {
a = "undefined" !== typeof a ? a : simcity.gGlobalUIHandler.mLastPopulation;
if (500 >= a)
return a;
if (40845 < a)
return Math.floor(8.25 * a);
a = Math.pow(a - 500, 1.2) + 500;
return Math.floor(a)
};

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5133829#file-simcityui-js-...
Very cool. Same for Python, pretty please? :-)
This is one of the weakest defenses I've seen yet. It's complicated so we shouldn't try is basically the excuse.

In my opinion: the use of supplemented food like this will only improve our understanding and increase the speed at which those models are made.

By approaching the problem from BOTH sides we can create the most full expression of what is needed and why.

Still I dislike this excuse because: you run the risk of missing micronutrients every single day on a traditional diet, too.

Your body doesn't care if you forgot a micronutrient due to carelessness or if it simply wasn't in the profile of the whole foods you ate. Missing is missing. Eating popcorn, soda and fast food for a week straight means you miss a lot of important nutrients. And yet you survive.

Let the pioneers have fun and play and learn, that's what I say!
Most of these lousy designs were invented and successfully used to irritate countless users way before HTML5 :)
Most prestigious universities put a lot of weight on the essay and the interview as well. If his interactions in these two areas came off as cantankerous as he is coming off here, I'd understand letting in a guy with a 1580 over a guy with a 1600. (Based on the fact that he's had 10 jobs, I'm sure he was graded on the 1600 point scale, not out of 2400)

And trust me, not every perfect SAT score is a guarantee of getting into Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, etc.
i think they may be based on very small sample sizes.
As a hardcore gamer I'm interested, but... it would be too bad x_x
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The Lengths of CSS
Does your product pass the toothbrush test?
This optimization is premature in that he's trying to optimize for time and effort when we haven't yet nailed — in terms of fully understanding — the whole "optimal nutrition" thing.

Optimizing for performance before you have a fully working implementation is exactly what Knuth was decrying.
Next-Gen Telescopes Could Pick Up Hints of Extraterrestrial Life
What's disappointing to me is that, unlike Settlers 7, Caesar 3, or Stronghold - we don't have 100% intelligent agent simulation creating emergent properties and markets.

I used to spend hours, with all three of those products, watching agents go about their various chores and skills, and be either gated on another agent's behavior or resources, or have a clear pipeline stocked up for them to perform.

Sounds like I'll get sub-optimal non-intelligent behavior from SimCity, which is sad. I rather have a smaller environment, that was 100% intelligent agent based.
Is passenger the best way to deploy a rails(postgres) app on an EC2 instance? I have been trying to find a good solution for this for a cpl weeks now.
They've also got politicians who would love to go to their constituents during campaign season and tell them "Look, I supported clean air!" Contrast this to opposing civil liberties restrictions, which can very easily and effectively be spun by political opponents as leaving America open to terror attacks. Even with the PATRIOT Act, something much more substantial than CISPA, political opposition has been limited to some relatively marginal politicians who are extremely popular in their jurisdictions and not likely to be ousted.
I've heard this argument before e.g. we don't need to test because the compiler catches errors. The compiler catches the mot trivial of error conditions. Unfortunately it doesn't address faulty logic/behavior.
As Schneier describes it, there is a trade-off. Would you rather be kicked by your ISP for T&C violations, or imprisoned and branded a sex offender for your neighborhood wireless hacker's kiddie porn habits? If the chances of each scenario were roughly equal, I'd certainly agree with Schneier to prefer the former scenario. Since the former scenario seems much more likely than the latter I'm not so sure.
Fake Pope on Twitter gets 100K followers, says he's more loved than Santa Claus
Try to meet someone who complements you in terms of technical skills and is interested and passionate about the same problems that drive you.
There weren't a lot of Windows Mobile devices. What usually happened back then was an app would get written once, then outsourcing companies would be hired to port it to the 50 popular feature phones or whatever that made the majority of the market.
It is written poorly, "Not everyone successfully predicted to be gay" defines the set of people who are both gay and predicted to be gay, but had not clicked 'like' on "Gay Marriage."

The point I took away was that you could be successfuul predicted to be gay without, what some might see as an overt signal, "Liking" the topic Gay Marriage. Basically the other likes, the innocuous ones like Liking the show Arrested Development or Modern Family could predict things about you that you might not expect them to predict.

I hope (and expect) that eventually there will be the huge unliking.
Reveal HN: New Relic's Homepage is Photoshopped
Unless he has a serious OSX mod... Ubuntu can't run on Thunderbolt displays. Pointed out by my cofounder. http://newrelic.com/
It's not the cost of making the API public that's the burden, it's the cost of supporting the API.
Exec makes scheduling an appointment easy. The problem you've described sounds more like "trying to find the right service."

The only way Exec would solve the problem you describe is if it tapped into all local maid service's schedules and helped fill in un-scheduled times at pre-approved services. This makes sense, as its classic "middleman" American entrepreneurial spirit. OTOH, I can't imagine cleaning-service agency is a big enough problem to automate, but maybe it is. Either way, it sounds like Exec is hiring their own cleaning teams or I'd imagine they'd have larger local coverage areas (per other people's comments on this thread).

With Exec positioning themselves as "a super easy cleaning service", they make the "hours of research" harder, not easier. So really, they are only saving you 10 minutes on the phone call.
They SHOULD have it released, no dispute about it, but it probably will take more than a few minutes, particularly for a platform their size. Between testing/validation and documentation it is not unreasonable to suspect that they simply haven't gotten to it.
Exec has a sizable advantage over traditional brick and mortar cleaning businesses - it's painless and fast. You don't have to pick up a phone, describe your needs to someone on the other end, go back and forth on a time, etc etc.

It's also easy for someone who wants a one-off cleaning service, as opposed to set up a regular thing.

There is money to be made in making a crappy experience pleasant (see: the entirety of Apple).

That being said, Exec is not the only player in this business. I've used TaskRabbit before for cleaning and I don't think I'll be budging any time soon: reputation scores and reviews for each worker, the ability to leave feedback, and the ability to negotiate/bid on pricing makes it both cheaper and safer.

The ability to create a regular gig with a specific person also means that you can get the same person week after week, rather than Anonymous Random. I simply do not see how Exec is better.
> D syntax is nicer than Go's, but its also dead compared to Go.

Because it is full of Google PR and happens to have some cool names on the team?

> Where are you going to put your chips?

In languages that the designers don't throw away the last decades of improvements in language design.
now i need to go watch what a creampie is. it's rather popular here in the US
This was my first thought. If you don't have to chew your food, your jaw muscles will atrophy (and I believe teeth and gums may also suffer from lack of use).

If you have to chew gum to make up for this, you're starting to lose the simplicity which was one of the idea's main selling points. A bit like switching from cycling to work to driving to work to save 10 minutes, then having to spend an hour in the gym to make up for the lack of exercise.

I can't help thinking there will turn out to be many more subtle effects to compensate for. Yes, I am a sceptic.
I blogged a little about this at the end of February after playing with the new Graph Search bar. I think when it's finally rolled out a lot of people are going to be surprised at the searches they're turning up in - it's incredibly easy to find people (friends, friends of friends, randoms) by their religion, political leanings, potentially objectionable activities (hunting, fighting, etc) etc.
Still, as noted in the article this was "one of the most request features" 2 years ago.
I want the web to provide access to a wide variety of information. I would much prefer the option to consume that as I choose, not to have everything gift-wrapped by force. An awful lot of design is a distraction from the content it is supposed to present.

Look, you wouldn't like it if every different document you opened or site you looked at took it upon itself to restyle your desktop and rearrange all your Photoshop preferences to suit the author, would you? Likewise, you don't think that Wikipedia would be improved by allowing every editor to restyle pages in Myspace or Geocities fashion, do you? Of course not, once you've configured or become familiar with a particular environment, consistency supports productivity.

Some of us want to navigate the web for content, without all the branding and UI inconsistencies. I read a variety of specialist web forums, for example, not unlike HN except that they're mostly running PHPbb or something along those lines. They all look different, with different layouts and so on, many of which are UI catastrophes. I would love to just download the semantic information and have a nice consistent UI of my choice that ran on the client side instead of consuming far more bandwidth than the content I am there to read.
If you are interested in Google's Dart and web application performance these are 27 minutes worth watching.

SIMD support will enable massive speed ups to 3D graphics, 3D physics, WebGL, Canvas, physics simulations, bullet physics et al. an important step for the web as a platform.
What was it that caused you to change?

"I used to love Heroku but it's just too darn rigid. I hate the fact that everything is done behind the velvet curtain and I'm just assured it's "going smoothly"."

I've admired their marketing and infrastructure, but have never been a fan of heroku specifically, precisely because of the "everything behind a curtain". But I felt that on day one - I never "used to love" Heroku.
I agree that he shouldn't have posted the guy's info, but Matt is one of the nicest guys you'll find overall.
Yeah, I too can find no publicly available org chart. I was careful to restrict myself to public information in that comment (except, I guess, "engineering is not a top-level division").

Several easy searches, like google.com/search?q=google+management or "google svp", lead to this page: http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/

You also get some media reports from 2011, which discuss several key players from that era.

I admit that doesn't tell you about "key divisional leads", but it does give you a list of who Google thinks is worth publishing about.

As for Ben Evans's tweet, he just made some random shit up. Again, 3/4 of the people he mentions as being Indian are NOT INDIAN.
If that's boilerplate, I think he should be <he/she> :)
"I'm fairly confident that that's not a good assumption."

Consider the diet of livestock and pets. Not unusual for multiple generations to eat the same product.

If livestock and pets were generally scrawny and sickly you would have a point, but they generally seem to live much longer and healthier than in the wild, usually by a pretty large multiple. I've often wondered if I'd be willing to drink "ensure" for 240 years, much as serving meow mix to a cat seems to result in a extremely long feline lifetime. It might be boring... but 240 years might make it worthwhile.

Binary thinking always strikes HN pretty hard. This is a tar baby or minefield for startup thinkers. It doesn't have to beat the best possible diet definable, for all people in the entire world... it merely needs to be better than J6Packs average diet. And that's a very low metric to achieve. Sad to say that Meow Mix probably would be better than the average american diet... And this is before we go 3rd world and compare to the average Somalian. I think its not very controversial that the average inner city kid would probably be better off with soylent than a big mac or a school lunch.

That brings up the interesting point that we live in a nearly completely centrally controlled economy WRT food production as opposed to an actual free market and lots of people make a lot of money selling vastly inferior product, and they're not going to be too happy about this.
ohh lord the middle east needs some help finding the good/non-whacked out material
FL Internet cafe nonprofit revealed to be massive money-laundering scheme
Only for requests you'd like to have return async, as in the example given; I use event machine to make async posts mixed with regular blocking IO all the time.
An interactive graphical map application for navigating medical/healthcare processes from a patient perspective.
QT is a very popular cross-platform framework. Its mostly used in Linux and other POSIX operating systems (but it also available for Windows and other non-POSIX guys).

QT is not like phonegap in the sense that is both a high level and low level framework for creating apps for the Desktop and Mobile using C/C++. Other bindings exist so that you can use QT from other languages such as Python.

There is also QML which even though I have no experience whatsoever, I understand it to be a quick way to create an app using a declarative syntax not unlike a mixture of XML and a javascript-like language. I may be wrong on this one but I've heard that QML would appeal to Javascript fans.
Wow, you need to optimise! I spent less than an hour today cooking and eating a healthy breakfast in the morning, and a healthy dinner (with leftovers) this evening. I bought prepared food for lunch, but it wouldn't have taken me three hours to cook and eat something else...
I don't get it. Should recruiters not contact him just because he's the creator of RoR?
Hi, Shopify dev here - when we roll out APIs we usually keep them private for a period before making them public to iron out bugs as well as harden them to work fast at scale.
It could be running as a VM..
He looks far healthier than the majority of Americans.
I was just wondering, shouldn't it be python3 and not python2 when talking about idiomatic python now adays?
Water bills are lower.

Wow, how much is he spending on water for this to be a tangible benefit?
milf isn't a great acronym to use for your example, it is exclusively used as "milf" and very rarely fulled "spelled out" unless you're quoting American Pie.

good points though.
Thats true, seems like that is what algebra books try to do when covering topics like factoring. You learn to factor and then, later on, you use factoring to solve a bigger problem.

You could teach in small chunks and work up to big chunks in order to illustrate to the student how the smaller chunks make up the whole, instead of starting with the whole and making little chunks out of it. It could make the process of learning to code less daunting.
Wikipedia has an interesting table comparing the command names used by various version control systems. Unsurprisingly, git makes up new names and reuses other names in new contexts. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control...
Hermione Way interview at SXSW
Eh, see, I don't mind that, and I actually enjoy cooking and experimenting in my spare time. Its not something that I want to replace, you know?
The average American eats a lot, but not 5000 calories!
Hack your way in to working for a startup. Hopefully that way you will learn what 'not to do' if you were to start a company on your own. I see this helping in a few ways:

1) You wont blow through your (low six figures), and produce little to show.

2) Allow you to focus your 25 ideas into the 1 thing that you REALLY want to work on.

3) Gain expertise in being a generalists/I will do anything for this to succeed.

4) You wont feel the exact ups-and-downs of a startup founder, but you will get a good view as to what it is like.

Besides that, when you are not getting [insert anything company founders need], I would learn how to code in the evenings, and possibly build a simple app or two on your own. Even if you are not going to be technical in your startup an Engineer/Co-Founder/Investor/[Insert Name Here] will view you as more credible and serious, not just a guy with 25 ideas.

Hope this helps.
What's wrong with signing on as a full-time employee then quitting a few years later?

My company has fired many loyal full-time employees in the last 18 months with very minimal notice, so I feel no compunction about doing the same.
libya's number one is "silver daddies (gay)."

I am curious but also slightly worried about what it will be.
I've tried just about every server solution for rails and in the end settled on passenger + nginx. It's easy to setup/manage. And more importantly easy to automate setup/management(I use puppet for all my servers). It's also simple to monitor. There are almost certainly other stacks that are faster but the difference is small enough that I'm better optimizing elsewhere and saving the headache.
Not me, I like people being polite with me. Which doesn't mean these messages couldn't be more informal and direct. But "you suck" is not impersonal, is rude.

I have my ego pretty much under control, exagerated compliments won't do any damage here.
About those IDC Android tablets passing iPad reports
As a best practice, you're right. IO should be either 100% evented or 100% blocking.

But in this case, as long as you expect your database requests to be fast and reliable, it's fine to mix in the standard blocking pg driver.
Ah, but he's not selling it, or even publishing a list of the nutrients on his blog.
Did you read his blog? That's an extreme exaggeration of what he said.
That's why you fill your life up with lots of varied "better things" so no one of them becomes a chore.

Even if they somehow did, you can just pick new "better things". The drain of buying/cooking/eating/cleaning up food is you can't easily opt out.
I wonder how it tastes with rum?
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Depends what you mean by "best". It's certainly the simplest, and performant enough for most cases.