skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This depiction is camouflaging itself as if it is a brutally truthful account of the way things are, but I don't see how it even remotely stacks up to reality from any angle you look at it.

* A minority of men are truly financially secure, doesn't seem to stop couples from marrying

* Lots of people marry when young, a time when financial situations tend to be weak/modest.

* With this kind of reasoning you might as well extend the 'what's the point to marriage' to include those who are financially secure, it's ridiculous

* A woman, calculating enough to decide the decision on whether to marry on the current finances of a man, is just as likely to assess a broad range of factors, such as health and future earning potential.

If you're going to take a sober point of view, a more convincing case is this:
The social norms are that diamond rings are part of the marrying process, people, on the whole, tend to stick to the social norms. It's what is expected, it's cultural and doing feels 'wrong' and maybe even shameful. There's potential pain involved in not following the expected course of action. This is why people who go into extra debt to purchase an expensive ring, it's what it means if you don't get it.

If you have a couple that clouds their better judgment to meet expectations set by culture and by conforming to norms like a sheep, what's the point.

In my experience women (and men) want to feel special. If you are able to make your partner feel special on an ongoing basis, you have pretty good odds to create a meaningful partnership. A diamond ring purchase is not a reliable indicator of said ability (it may be indicative of the opposite, but that's another matter).
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Nicely done, James. Well written for getting beginners comfortable working with canvas.
It's pretty rad. That's an effectively big botnet. I wonder if it's possible to have a breakdown of residential vs enterprise for the boxes he's connected to. Maybe a sample of the local subnet? Or doing port scanning on the internal network too, and judging based on network size?
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Yup, Its pretty big
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I hate these things, even when they aren't ads. Typically, just as I'm getting interested in the content of the first panel, it gets swiped away and replaced with something else. As the article says:

It's just plain annoying for users to lose control of the user interface when things move around of their own accord.
This doesn't say anything about grooming your product backlog, which to me is one of the major benefits of scrum:

6. Once a week, everybody gets together for a few hours and roughly plans out the features that the product is going to have. The features are compiled into a list with the ones you're going to do first at the top, in the most detail.

Without having the feature set already groomed, those step 2 planning meetings are going to be brutal.
Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean be so cheap?
I've been trying to understand how can they offer for 10USD: 1Core, 1GB 20GB disk. I've been looking for massive dedicated servers in different providers but their prices are not even close. Even the spec of servers does not fit the needs for DigitalOcean service.

A machine with 8GB/2 cores can cost more than 100USD in almost any provider, but they need to virtualize 8 cores (I imagine they virtual core in DigitalOcean doesn't map to a real one), even using machines with 32GB/64GB the prices are extremely biased from DigitalOcean prices.

Just a little example:

- Softlayer: http://www.softlayer.com/dedicated-servers/all-servers

4 cores/4GB: 160USD
32 cores/32GB: 1699USD (DigitalOcean charges around 320 usd for something similar)

- http://www.servercentral.com/cloudbuilder

14cpu/112GB: 1990USD (DO charges around 1120 for this) I imagine the 14cpus expand to more cores in this case.

Almost any other provider: Linode, gogrid, gandi, rackspace.

I was looking for companies in Amsterdam and I couldn't find enough info, softlayer has servers in there.

I just want to figure it out how can they provide such nice service at this prices, do you know of any other provider with cheaper prices for dedicated servers? Can you tell me a bit more about the possible infrastructure they are using? I don't know the full details in cost of a data center, but just compared with other companies it seems really amazing. Not even serverstack which is the former company of DigitalOcean CEO can make it.

Bye.
same here, I haven't touched our OpenVBX installation in more than a year
> "oh we have to be politically correct in any fing way to avoid lawsuits"

Let's parse this out a little more. "We must act to avoid lawsuits." Or put another way, "We must not do things for which we might be sued." Or put another way, "We must, individually, avoid the risk of making people uncomfortable here at their place of work where they are contractually obligated to be so that they will not sue us and win."

Some of you may know this concept as fascism.
Hell no! I do however plan on playing a SimCity ROM on my SNES emulator.
I have always considered scrum to be like a beginners workout routine. It's never best for you, but it's better than doing what you feel like is good for you. Because if you've been lying on the sofa for the last ten years, you don't know what's good for you.

Chances are that you don't know what suites you, that's why you are looking into scrum in the first place. First you do it strictly by the book and in time you will learn what works for you and what doesn't. Then you can start customizing become mature agile team/organization. OP has probably achieved this, but I think it can be harmful to suggest "pro" techniques to someone just starting out :)
That is awesome to hear. :)
I lived on 2k$ a month for two years. I saved up 50k$ from contract work in order to accomplish that. I really don't think that counts as FU money.
I've considered making a resume where the first half of the first page is just a paragraph filled with as many high-profile buzzwords as possible. I'm still curios to see what would happen.
>In the last couple of months, Bitcoin has passed the phase of "BC is nature's way of teaching economics to nerds"

>and entered the phase of "BC is natures's way of teaching political power to nerds"

That is one of the best quotes I've read on bitcoin.

The western world is waking up to distrusting their governments. In a low-tech way, most 3rd world countries have been there for decades. Squirreling away savings is a behavior enforced upon citizens with acquisitive governments (hello Cyprus!).

The world is changing, and bitcoin is there to help.
My original statement (review the posts) was

"Many if not most entrepreneurs already made their FU money or already had a cash reserve."

It sounds like you already had a cash reserve.
Founding my startup, I took out an extra student loan I didn't need and put it into Apple stock, which gained about 30%. After I ate through that I cashed out my 401K, and then I started taking out cash advances on credit cards. I was very happy when we got funding.

Irresponsible debt - it's the American way!
Seeking financial security != gold digging.

It's not sexist or derogatory. Financial security and status are evolutionary concepts that predate the diamond district. Diamonds are just one manifestation of a deeper, hardwired instinct to seek fit and capable mates.

This isn't a cynical concept, it's backed by studies of the entire animal kingdom, not just humans.
Rails isn't the problem. If it wasn't this bug that caused the emails to be exposed, it would have been some other bug. The problem was that there wasn't enough test coverage, and there weren't enough runtime assertions to shut off failing software. (if to_emails > 10: logging.fatal("Sending message to too many emails %s", to_emails))
There is an enormous difference between wanting financial security and wanting someone to buy them a giant diamond ring as a token of it.
The only thing I appreciate about my experience with Scrum was that I could use the hours long "sprint planning" meetings to reflect on my long term goal of never having to sit through another hours long "sprint planning" meeting ever again.
Then buy used (the diamond) and pay for a nice ring design. But don't tell her.
Amen! Married nearly a decade and no diamond ring exchanged. My wife and I both agrees on the Diamonds are Bullshit philosophy and decided not to burden our broke selves with even more debt, thereby ensuring marriage problems down the road.

It takes quite a bit of work to get over a good marketing campaign, it creates peer pressure which can from friends/coworkers who all wonder if you're really married/engaged since you don't have a ring on. Screw peer pressure, yet another sign we were right for each other.
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Its bigger than I thought
There are better ways to demonstrate your capability as a provider and evidence of financial security than buying diamond rings.

For example, demonstrate you can care for a dog goes a long way. Owning and maintaining a house even further.

A friend of mine got married. He could've bought his wife an extravagant engagement ring, but he put it to her in different terms, along the lines of: "Would you like an expensive ring, or what about something symbolic and we'll put the rest into a down-payment on a better house?"

They didn't squander tens of thousands on a wedding, nor went on a lavish honeymoon. They started out with money in the bank and a hefty down-payment made on a new house, not credit-card debt.
> "BC is nature's way of teaching economics to nerds"

The acronym for Bitcoin is BTC.
> but given my age and experience

Given your age and experience you have NOHTING to loose. Experiment. Fail. Learn. Succeed.

One of my all-time favorite sayings is by Mark Twain: "A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way".

If you think you understand startups enough to risk $1,000, by all means, do it! You will learn something regardless of the outcome. And, frankly, at your age, if you are intelligent about it there are virtually no negatives.
Except that women value Financial security only when they grow old and are in need of money.

While they are young, status is the deal they want because of pressures from social circles.
Would it not be more accurate to say that "he cares what you (being the father of the bride) think about him" ?
Re: "Built-in deflation"

This being the theory that "no one is going to spend Bitcoin if it keeps increasing in value, since they will sit on it instead, for the future gains. Therefore the currency is deflationary."

Amazing how this rationalization, given to slaves to justify their slavery, ends up being touted by the slaves themselves.

Technically the same is true of the U.S. dollar: If you put your dollar in a savings account, instead of spending it, you will earn interest. Therefore you will have more money in the future, from the interest earned, if you don't spend that dollar now. Therefore the dollar is also "deflationary."
To borrow your analogy, to me Scrum is like the guy who reads some stuff about working out on the Internet and proceeds to try and correct everyone in the gym on their form.
It's not an artificial market, it's a real one, for real diamonds. Nobody has to buy them.
>>Basically came down to some variation on "I don't ask for a lot (she doesn't), but I want the diamond ring."

As some one newly married, I have observed the following.

1. See <something>. Demand for it.
2. When rationally explained why we can't buy it.
3. Simply state.. "I don't ask for a lot, but I want the <something>."
4. I buy it.

Repeat steps 1 - 4 endlessly.
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Using the botnet to run security patches is what fascinates me.

> But it soon found it was getting competition from a malicious botnet dubbed Aidra and the researcher adapted the binary to block this competitor where possible[...]
>He's not defending diamonds at all.

This is utter failure.

Do you think I'm not outraged at all the other things we see?

It absolutely _infuriates_ me that you expect me _not_ to be outraged at something because I should be _more_ outraged at _everything_.

It's _so useless_. It's _so dysfunctional_.

Believe me, my outrage is very _active_ and directed towards things outside this conversation.

In this conversation, though, it just seems to me that... there's just nothing ambiguous! Diamonds are awful. They're just awful.

And if that means I'm firing on a hair-trigger, well... so be it.
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> It is the mark of a sensible man that he cares what other people think about him

This is a really disgusting line of thinking
got a link for the article?
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I think your viewpoint is skewed extremely strongly towards the peculiar tendencies expressed in Western society and America in particular.

Not everyone has two SUVs, two kids in private schools, and a vacation home.
From the Newsroom (an awesome series on HBO):

> America is filled with Greater Fools.
Men seek out highly attractive women using different criteria, but that doesn't mean they're successful.

There's a difference between wanting something and demanding it.
The current method for handling immediate transactions is a Green Address (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Green_address). Basically using a third party that both people trust for sending coins so if you as a seller receive coins from this address you know they weren't double spent and can accept the coins right away.
The examples you gave (Dorsey, Zuckerburg) pointed much more in the direction of the latter. Putting it the context of the original argument, I indeed put it all on the line by stopping to work completely and living a very barebone life. That's completely different from VCs who really have FU money and are not affected (or marginally affected) financially when their investments don't pan out.

Back to the poll, the option of FU money (enough so you wouldn't be affected by not working for a year or several) - is not there.
Anyone have a good source for a list of all the official and unofficial google APIs?

A quick search provided this but it does not have any of the unofficial internal API's that we love so much.

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/
Check the link, it is extremely fascinating, but this is the relevant section:

>Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases including everything from autos to health care:
91% of New Homes
66% PCs
92% Vacations
80% Healthcare
65% New Cars
89% Bank Accounts
93% Food
93 % OTC Pharmaceuticals
American women spend about $5 trillion annually…
Over half the U.S. GDP

The list must be referencing "items purchased" rather than "dollar-wise". It is by no means definitive of the answer who makes more expensive purchases, but if women are buying 9 out of every 10 new houses, 65% of new cars, and 80% of healthcare plans what big ticket items are left for men to buy to outspend women?

Now the part at the end about $5 trillion being 1/2 the US GDP, might not be an error but be more telling of when these statistics are from (US GDP currently closer to $15T). Nevertheless like in my OP, the numbers are mind blowing, consider the following:

GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports)

Or

1/2 GDP = women spending = (private consumption - women spending) + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports)
Setting fire to 3% of gross planetary product doesn't seem like it should be the best solution. Current financial wastage is more than this, sure, but who says that Bitcoin fixes all problems and they never come back?
There's more to Agile than Scrum. And there's more to Scrum than Scott's saying.

Diana Larsen and I sat down last year and wrote down all the different ways we saw people doing Agile, what worked, what didn't, and why so few teams were getting the promised benefits of what the agile movement promised, lo, those many years ago.

The nice version is here: http://www.agilefluency.com

The nasty (but much shorter) version is here: People care more about slapping the "Agile" label on their door than they care about doing the hard work of changing their organization's work habits. Change is hard. Doing Agile well takes change. It's easier to get a certification and call it a day.

(Not bitter. Nooooo... not bitter at all. But so very tired of the bullshit.)
No such problem in my case. I explained I was strongly against the idea for most of the reasons listed in the original article and it wasn't a negotiable point. Basically if she still wanted the diamond ring then she didn't understand me well enough to be married to me. I didn't get all RMS-esque about it, but somethings are under our control, some aren't. It is one of those things that was. We got order-made platinum wedding rings instead.
478 pages, huh? A book on Scrum of that size seems to reflect my observation of some organizations that have implemented Scrum: little extras will be added along the way until it's no longer "agile" and just as unwieldy as the process it replaced.

For an organization, that can be fine. Maybe Scrum is too simplistic, maybe it's missing a few pieces vital to your organization. Experiment, season to taste. But I believe that there often isn't enough thought put into how badly that seasoning is needed. Rather, someone along the chain says "but we don't have that thing from the old way", whether that old thing is vital or was nothing but a procedure weight around the neck of the team.

As for a 478 page book, someone must have worked really hard to come up with enough fluff, diagrams, and humorous anecdotes to fill that many pages on something that's supposed to be "agile".
I am curious why this comment has no downvote arrow.
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Oh man. I had this discussion with my now wife.

The diamond ads even go as far as suggesting what percentage of your income you should spend on a wedding ring (oh and of course there has to be an engagement ring).

There is even guilt instilled if you do not spend that much; as if your love and commitment is somehow measured in the price of the wedding ring.

Don't fall for this bullsh*t.
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I used to work at a big professional shop. They made lots of mistakes, and the people who made the most fundamental ones were often promoted, not "let go".

The main difference in startups isn't that they don't build software the "professional way" and thus make avoidable mistakes. Instead, the difference is that startups recognize that the mistakes are inevitable, so may as well embrace them and build a process / culture around prototyping and continual refinement toward actual business value.

Pie-in-the-sky posturing about The One Right Way is nice, and especially nice when your BigCo is footing the bill, but when you operate under real constraints (e.g. economical) prototyping speed and simplicity can outweigh all the other factors.

All that said, I still think MongoDB full-text search was a bad idea -- only because their implementation is pretty naive and this corner is satisfied nicely in F/OSS by a number of other indexes like Solr, ElasticSearch, Sphinx, etc.
How's it going? I'm selling my car in the next weeks and moving to SF to work at my first startup and I'm really excited. Any advice for a 25 year old hacker going into business?
Just those pawn shops that will give you 10% of what your shiny rock is 'worth'
That's ~600GB compressed - over 9TB when decompressed...... extremely slowly by ZPAQ. Seriously, at current rates the entire data set would take over 100 days to decompress on my computer. I'm only downloading a subset so I expect decompression will only take a couple of weeks. -_-
I started web design as freelancer in my country haven't worked in web design industry at all. Every now and then I blew up financially and get bailed out by parents, like some 400$ or so every 6 or 8 months.

I don't know how to build a complete dynamic product at that time. Now things are looking good.
You could always be counter-scummy and delete the tweet right after the assets start downloading.
An upvote to you for probably saying what I was trying to in a more succinct manner. Sprinkle a little "agile" on top and call it a day, rather than rework the way things are done.
It's a fairly large research area, the effect in question is called "benevolent sexism", in which women are portrayed as being "weaker" (where the definition of weak is NOT purely physical strength) and need help to get along in life.

The interesting thing is that benevolent sexism is also widely spread in women themselves.

Here's a fairly recent paper about the spread of benevolent/hostile sexism in university undergrads, where benevolent sexism was relatively evenly spread between male and females: http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/36/4/432.full
In my opinion, the Django core team is full of people who have the same spirit. Many of the core developers [1] are intelligent, professional, introspective and patient and encouraging with new developers. The dedication to civility and quality of community is one of my favorite things about Django.

It's important to take a moment to remember and pay respect when we lose a community member, but as you're expressing here, it is also important to look around and recognize the talent and kindness around us that we can still learn from.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/committers/#...
Would that actually work? I thought for UI, there was some requirement that you be actively pursuing employment in your field.
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In California you're not allowed to be starting your own business while on unemployment. They ask you multiple times if you understand such clause from your unemployment handbook. It's a social security seen to get you back to employment as soon as possible instead of being a subsidy to your entrepreneur lifestyle.

That said, I hear all kinds of stories about people on unemployment. Ranging from someone that's managed to be on it for over a year and a half, traveled to Thailand for eight months.

It's a lenient system and you're the one that has to sleep at night so you make the call.
You missed one: Sold an asset to realize the capital locked up in it.

For my first startup my wife and I sold our house, the proceeds from which gave us a year's runway.
Nope, both because of DRM, AI and general server glitchiness.
... Really? Did they realize they were using default bootstrap? That's pretty dumb of them.

/LoL player here as well
> STRONGLY considering going on unemployment to start my next startup

One doesn't just "go on" unemployment usually, right? You have to be laid off usually. Quitting does not usually qualify. But, I guess it depends where you are and the laws there.
Really nice and clean UI. Love the readability. Keep it coming.
Your example cite doesn't help your case. Nokia shares have been in the toilet since the Microsoft debacle. As soon as former MSFT VP Elop made a big move at Nokia (the burning platform speech), the stock dropped 20% in a week, and continued down ever since.

More than anything Gruber was pretty much right. How different (read: better) is Nokia's position compared to Yahoo?
Might want to fix this: http://jacobirw.in