skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forking is Funny! We have another option: https://teespring.com/DongleGate
Wow, that really resonates with me. As an enterprise play, we are definitely at risk of picking the wrong segment here. Although, our options are a little bit more limited due to the nature of our products. We're doing what you might call "Enterprise 2.0" stuff, operating at the intersection of social-networking (see: Enterprise Social Network), social-network-analysis, information retrieval and business process management... The stuff we're building really only starts to have utility in the larger companies. So we're still interviewing people, and researching and exploring to try and find the right target segment.

There's a train of thought in my mind, fueled by our first big round of Customer Discovery interviews, that we are looking at (using employee count as a rough approximation for overall company size) companies with 1000 employees or more. Maybe it really starts at 500 employees, but we're still working on that. Depending on where you draw the line between deer and elephant, we could wind up in either segment (or both).

Rabbits are definitely out for us though, at least given our current model. If things don't work going this route, we could pivot to a SaaS app that does less, and go down-market to the smaller companies. We did interview a few smaller companies earlier and saw some interest in that model, so it could be an option.

Our next step is to do a very focused Customer Discovery effort, focusing on manufacturing companies in the Southeast (mainly NC to start with, since that's where we are) with 1000 employees and up. But we'll mix in a few of the ones that are between 500 and 1000 as well, as we try to isolate the right focus.

The idea of landing an elephant or two does seem tempting, but msuster makes some good points there. We definitely don't want to get too caught up special-casing stuff for one big customer, to the point that they become our only customer, because we can't serve anybody else!
Honest question: if you essentially blackmail someone for an "introduction to investors" what makes you think the person introducing doesn't pull them aside before or after and say "this guy basically threatened to sue me if I didn't introduce him to you"?

You get that in the settlement contract, two-way non-disparagement including your right to see any communication about you, that must be furnished in writing.

That's impossible to perfectly enforce, but if you suspect he's talking off the books, you trap him and hit hard for breach of contract. He should know that you intend to be checking. He should expect that and be careful. It's your job to make that so. You might not be able to catch all cases (he might say things to people he really trusts but not to everyone) but you can have some degree of a chilling effect on negative communication of the sort you described.

Also, what's better for him, once the contract is signed:

1. Make the introduction and leave it alone, or:

2. Make the introduction, then backtrack, making himself look inconsistent and weak to that investor? ("Yeah, I wasted your time, and here's why...")

He cares about his image in front of that investor, and will probably prefer (1). This assumes he doesn't hate your guts, which he might. That's a danger of doing the right thing.
Either we hold everyone responsible for what they say publicly, or we don't.

On one hand a person was having a conversation that was over-heard and caused offence. We admonish him and hold him responsible. Is this right and fair? Consensus seems to be yes. Whether it was a private conversation or not, and whether it was intended to cause offence or not is irrelevant. He spoke publicly and whatever the result was was his responsibility.

If this is the standard we want to live by then it is absolutely immaterial whether or not Adria intended for the man to be fired. She spoke publicly and his firing was the direct result of that, hence she is responsible.
"If you start a company and fail, at least you can say "I started a company and failed" and the Silicon Valley Brigade will give you a job as a Rails programmer."

Haha, this happened to me exactly. I didn't even know Ruby. Or Rails!
Cheers for the link. Now I wonder what they're running on from a software perspective.
I'm not sure I understand your question, but I think it's because the ATA (like most modern/cheap ATAs) only speaks SIP.
I created a campaign for a women's shirt. Will add a link to the site in a moment: http://teespring.com/forkmydonglew
The NRA has played a pretty big roll in passing "shall issue" concealed carry laws in most US states. I think saying they only focus on hunter's right is inaccurate, although the NRA does spend a lot of time on that as well.
> Maybe yes maybe no, but either way that's not a good solution.

I'm asking this as an end user - I want to see this usage banned so that apps cannot track me using the MAC address.
> 3) Don't be surprised if you get your picture taken.

> For good or bad, the DefCon policy of no pictures/video is gone. So don't be surprised if people randomly take your picture... Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll put you on their facebook.

-- http://defcon.stotan.org/faq/rules.htm

> Then there was a policy change. (Last year?) that pretty much said, "cameras are okay anywhere at Defcon" though there were disagreements on how much was included with "everywhere at Defcon" such as CTF players, room, and screens.

> Yea it was changed last year, but I still told everyone at 101 NOT to take pictures without permission (ie: While DefCon Policy say's this, you may want to do this) And I probably will do it again, because it's a good rule to have. The "Policy" may say that pictures can be taken anywhere at anytime. But the actuality of the situation is that people may still get really really pissed at some random person taking their photo.

-- https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=12309&highligh...
Considered buying it. But "fork my dongle" isn't, technically, a thing.

So I'd feel kinda like a poser wearing it -- like "look, I'm a l33t haxor!" who got it wrong. Or like ones of those Chinese tattoos that doesn't actually mean anything in Chinese. Or like one of those action movies with bogus hacking scenes ("enhance!"). Or like someone wearing an Iron Maiden shirt from Urban Outfitters who's never actually heard the band.

Sigh. Sorry be "that guy."
I will never use SendGrid. They just contributed to the already extreme difficulty of reporting sexual harassment and they should be ashamed of themselves. I hope they get sued for this and lose.
Seems a little mean spirited - even if for a good cause and all.
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I already ordered a men's shirt. Could I perhaps trade in and get a women's shirt?
Craig, this is a great deck full of excellent information. I had no idea several of these packages existed, and am thrilled to find out about them. I'll be keeping an eye open for the video to hear what you had to say through the talk on each of them.
Oh, nevermind! I think I bought a different shirt :)
I'm not a YC person, but I can help on little edits:

- you need more describing the idea. I like the simple one-liner, but you should elaborate more.

- typo on "Impressive" question. "I was represented a 15 year old...". I'm not sure if you represented or were represented by. Also change the last line to something like, "deportation was cancelled." No need to use both "dismissal" and "deport" to describe the same thing.

- "What do you understand better" question: I'm unsure how your answer relates to you. I'm just seeing why NatGeo gets it.

- Philippines is spelled wrong

- the last question seems more focused on you, and not on external information. I interpreted that question as something about the world you discovered, not an internal self-discovery.

Good luck!
I recognize the annoyance of splitting up a post. I find it incredibly difficult to avoid if I am to achieve the level of precision and concision that I want in my replies. This is partly due to my unimaginative writing and partly due to my desire to be as unambiguous as possible. Splitting out the post caters to both, but at the cost of continuity and a more pleasant reading experience.

What exactly does it take to have knowledge of the existence of a threat? In the case that has provoked all of this, there weren't any warning signs of impending doom. It therefore seams reasonable to me that nobody can know if a threat exists or not until after-the-fact. If it's unknowable, then what's the point in bringing it up anyway?

More importantly, this isn't an academic point. Feelings can't be invalidated. It doesn't make sense to speak of feelings or perceptions as invalid or valid---they simply exist in our minds. Perhaps they will go away or subside with more careful reflection and discussion, but that doesn't mean it is somehow invalid to acknowledge them. Particularly in this context, where presumably, this feeling was fostered by the recent kerfuffle.

The only thing we can say about the validity of the commenter's feelings or perceptions is that either they are truly what the commenter believes he felt, or the commenter is lying. The first is the only useful assumption given what we know; so we go with it.

So what if the commenter escaped without any public shaming? That has no impact on the commenter's feelings or perception at the time and therefore is missing the point of the commenter's reflection.
We intend to give the money to Girls Who Code. In the event that they do not accept the money we'll look for another charity that supports women in tech.
here is an interesting bit of advice on rucking that I found today. http://www.itstactical.com/centcom/interviews/still-rucking-...
for myself - never did anything formal - one of my mentors trained me according to a real life combat situation he was in: run/walk 3 days/nights carrying 60kg (his team was chased by vehicles). That was what I always trained for, so definitely outside the norm.
Good luck with MdS - would love to do that one day.
IsoHunt Loses Appeal Against the MPAA, Keyword Filter Remains
Haha, oh wow. 9gag, famous for stolen content from other websites, is upset someone else has made an app that uses their content?
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Yeah... It sounds like a man on man joke to me...
I guess what I mean is that as a purported figure of Internet freedom and federal overreach, weev is not a great poster boy. Usually, when you're in the position of picking battles to fight, as Kerr is, you want everything in your favor, and hell, why not a defendant that you have no problem being associated with. Kerr's insistence on turning back a flawed law apparently outweighs whatever distaste he might have for weev on a personal or political level. So, good on Mr. Kerr.
I'm surprised no one pointed out the fact that marsupials actually have bifurcated genitalia.
To say that all languages are equivalent because they are Turing Complete is just not true. That means they can decide the same class of problems, it does not mean they can or do decide them in the same way. In particular some languages are inherently faster than others.
No, but as the readers of a site called 'Hacker' News we're bound to be called "creepy nerds" every now and again.
So I just bought one, but am now regretting it.

You need to make it clear "Girls Who Code" has nothing to do with this shirt.

"We intend to give the money to Girls Who Code. In the event that they do not accept the money we'll look for another charity that supports women in tech."

While I firmly stand on the side of the poor bastard who got fired for making a simple joke, I find it distasteful that a bunch of guys would design a shirt making fun of the situation and then donate the money the a charity that "supports women in tech."

If Girls Who Code actually made the design, it'd be different.

Instead, this feels mean-spirited.
I find this one to be much more amusing, and also isn't somewhat inaccurate like the other. Good stuff.
Those marsupials have it all...
I've now added the women's shirt to the website. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. http://forkmydongle.com/
He didn't brag about selling them. It was a joke. Read the IRC logs. What did he do? He wrote the media.
Twelephone now supports in/outbound VoIP SIP calling via HTML5 WebRTC
Unless you work for PlayHaven, in which case you will be fired if you show up at work wearing that :)
The metaphor is apt. JS is a terrible terrible language (with some nice features). It's very easy to do the wrong thing. It's very hard to organize large projects and it needs higher level frameworks to be usable and portable. And with projects like asm.js it will be a necessity (not an option) to write in a higher-level language in order to generate performant JS web apps. So the "raw metal" metaphor is apt.
I find it ironic that you think the humour piece is the best summary, given that a significant part of it is about the permanent damage done. So permanent the damage, yet only two days later you can't even get her name right.

The vast bulk of people who have commented in the last couple of days will have forgotten her name in several months.
Wow. Did you guys miss the point or what.
I did like how you were trying to handle the situation, it was really reasonable to try work something out.
I am sad about their response to you, make me loss faith and proves that once they were successful, they just stopped caring.
I would suggest you trying sending an other email with same approach to someone else higher up in company. From what i get Ray is guy in legal department, we don't know if he cares about user base and if he forwarded the email to someone else before he decided to deny you a way out.
Hah, I'm going for the humor, does that help? http://teespring.com/DongleGate
I'm reading Eich's tweet differently. Here's the twitter exchange:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/302897797827530752

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Alias Cummins ‏@no_other_alias

@BrendanEich So would I be right in thinking that the point of asm.js is to tie together all the universally supported bits of JS?

BrendanEich @BrendanEich

@no_other_alias No, all of JS (ES3) is "universally supported". http://asmjs.org/ is a no-GC-pause well-typed compiler target language.

=====

@no_other_alias is asking if asm.js is about formalizing a JS subset that's universally supported (in all browsers). Eich says no, all of JS (ES3) is universally supported (so no subsetting is required for cross-browser compabitility). Asm.js is about formalizing a JS subset that can be compiled to much faster machine code.

So I don't think Eich is making a claim about asm.js backward-compatibility here.
Only if the seed file was was generated by a secure kernel during a clean shutdown and kept secret during that whole time. There's a lot to go wrong there, especially if you're an embedded system running on flash.

I also seem to recall host keys being generated on first boot. Perhaps some installers are smart enough to prime that seed file.
I'm not a fan on 9gag, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to work with you. There are many issues with just having some random guy - despite how good natured he is - in charge of your company's official app.
In that case you could open source it and let people build their own apk.
Indeed ... you got it all my friend !
And this, folks, is how you make lemonade. Though I'm a bit cautious as to what percentage of the proceeds are actually going toward the cause as I'm weary of another product already being sold with a dubious cost benefit. Cookies.
Reminded me of the /etc/bus http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The__0x2f_etc_0x2f_bus.aspx
Name a few angels that love auto racing?
Name a few of those who are passionate about cars, modifying cars, and will race their own. Those who have deep understanding of this particular industry.
The size is neither an asset nor a liability - its just an attribute.

However size can determine whether you can do certain things. Unfortunately, small size prevents you from making profit from economy of scale, and so you must somehow differentiate with other attributes (such as personalized services).

But i think the market has spoken - large size business is more valuable and thus make more profit than a small sized business.
In fact, that seems to be the entire point: to be mean spirited and obviate any responsibility by claiming to support a charity.
Karen Cheng appears to be a woman. Or are you using 'guys' in the gender-neutral sense?
What I'm not seeing is the amount of flack that Playhaven got from Ms Richard's supporters. I suspect that it was contacted heavily [if the reactions from the SendMail site are any indication].
Tech conferences are overwhelmingly male. Just look around.
Your point about the fate of failed options traders does not gel with what I've seen. Yes, you get canned if you do poorly. Sometimes, just for being unlucky. (Startups work that way, too. Every job, these days, does that.) Also, it's correct that bonus is most of total compensation for top people-- sometimes over 90%-- which means not getting one really blows, but Wall Street salaries aren't exactly bad. If you were expecting a $3 million bonus, on top of your $250,000 salary, and got a Goose Egg during Comp, then are canned a month later with 6 months' severance, well... my heart bleeds for you. You've got half a year to get another job and, unless the market's completely fucked (cf. 2008) you'll get a promotion. Failed trading options? You'll trade something else if you want to trade, or you can move elsewhere. VCs will fund anyone with the Finance Stamp of Approval, at least in New York. Foursquare for ostrich farm? Here's your rocket fuel, now hire some ninjas and move the needle.

Personally, though, I wouldn't want to be a trader. Quant is as close to that game as I'd want to go. I've seen what traders do and it doesn't look fun. It's not professionally risky, but it's still very stressful. I'll give you that.

Sure, you can get another job after a failed startup, but usually as a subordinate, and that's viewed as dishonorable after 35 and untenable past 40. If you fail as a derivatives trader, VC-istan will let you be a founder. Sure, you're going from $250k plus a possible 1000% bonus to $200k and 15% of a startup. Again, my heart bleeds.
Speaking of dongles in a funny context, Googling for dongle jokes turned up this pretty funny comedy sketch from a show on the BBC where dongles play a small part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI
I said it once and will say again: these off color jokes between _some_ males tend not to happen when there's not a woman in earshot.

So, yes, I suspect strongly there was a good reason for Adria Richards to be offended.

The firing by her company and the reaction of the community just left me speechless. Just plain sad. Why the dev in question needed to be fired is also questionable to me.

Ashamed to belong to this crowd. Unfortunately.
The folks at D-Wave have published some interesting & perfectly legitimate papers on techniques for optimizing parallel tempering simulations (including on non-quantum computers, but especially helpful if you have a quantum computer handy for quantum PT, which is how they vaguely describe their actual setup). That suggests to me that at the very least they have some legit people who are good at solving stochastic optimization problems & are not fraudulent.
What is your definition of well represented? My experience is that most conferences are well under 50% women... although I do tend towards open source, which is worse than average.
When do we acknowledge Europe is in a solvency crisis?
I'm having the same issue, and it keeps happening. It keeps asking me about Spanish! Otherwise, it worked well.
Best paper Usenix Security '12.
Nadia Heninger, UC San Diego; Zakir Durumeric, University of Michigan; Eric Wustrow and J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/mining-yo...
"We ﬁnd that 0.75% of TLS certiﬁcates share
keys due to insufﬁcient entropy during key generation,
and we suspect that another 1.70% come from the same
faulty implementations and may be susceptible to compromise. Even more alarmingly, we are able to obtain
RSA private keys for 0.50% of TLS hosts and 0.03% of
SSH hosts, because their public keys shared nontrivial
common factors due to entropy problems, and DSA private keys for 1.03% of SSH hosts, because of insufﬁcient
signature randomness."

Ron was wrong, Whit is right
Arjen K. Lenstra and James P. Hughes and Maxime Augier and Joppe W. Bos and Thorsten Kleinjung and Christophe Wachter
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064
If you could somehow merge the two campaigns, then you'd be able to reach your goal faster. I know the Watsi.org campaign somehow offered both regular and ladies' sizes ( http://teespring.com/hntees ). There wasn't a way to add the ladies' sizes to the original campaign?
Aside from the copy protection, (some)old hardware can have a charm worth of being immortalised on a t-shirt. Cassettes for example.
Alberta man may be first to sell house for Bitcoin
I remember to look at Cappuccino and say - WOW, this will change everything (again).
But then suddenly nothing happened. No articles, no tutorials on peers, no visible discussions, etc.
Things became worst when Motorola bought 280north. That was a deal breaker for me. Uncertainty about the library future.
You're a bit behind in the news. It looks like things will work out OK for the guy [1], and the girl did get fired [2].

As a footnote, public shaming was how we got into this mess in the first place, so I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

[2]: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/
Thanks. Any idea if this would also affect 'fetch as Google'?
that already happened
D-Wave does a nice dog-and-pony show, but I won't be cheering until they actually do one of the long-promised "holy grail" things that quantum computers are supposed to be able to do.

Like what? Like running Shor's Algorithm (for integer factorization) on a big integer, in the expected amount of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm

(and I will be cheering, because they're based in Burnaby, where I live.)
I've been a happy Sidebar subscriber from day one and I always browse through the weekly links. Thanks Sacha!

A quick anecdote: While reading this article I noticed that I don't remember getting my referral link from Sidebar. I searched my Gmail for "in:spam sidebar" and there it was - the only Sidebar email which Gmail has ever flagged as spam.

I know MailChimp has tools for testing the spamminess of a campaign and this message probably passed all of them since there's nothing particularly spammy about it. Maybe it was random or maybe the referral link was just enough to trigger the spam filter in (my) Gmail.

If the open rate for the MailChimp campaign wasn't particularly low spam filtering wasn't probably a significant factor in the overall conversion rate.
I'm an American who lives in Denmark, and I agree, but I'm not sure it is people getting offended less quickly in general, versus on specific subjects. There are plenty of ideas that Danes consider to be completely crazy, not really debatable in polite company. For example, suggesting that abortion should be illegal, which is a mainstream position in the USA, is such a crazy-far-right position in Denmark that you couldn't bring it up in a regular social setting. Also, suggesting that healthcare should be a purely private responsibility, not guaranteed by the state, would position you as quite far-right, with even many far-right people distancing themselves from the full extent of that position.

On the other hand, Danes can come across as rather crass about some subjects, especially race.
Apparently I am. That's what I get for being offline for a few hours.