skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully you are still reading the comments here as I'm just catching up on all of this and watching how it is continuing to unfold.

Please don't apologize.

As other women before me already have, I want to apologize for this incident; honestly I probably would have been giggling myself if I was in an earshot of you. With respect to Adria's past and her sensitivity to the triggers she refers to, a comment like this is not demeaning to women and her reaction has nothing to do with supporting the future of this industry and the women who partake in it. In fact I'd say just the opposite. Just a few weeks ago we had a similar conversation when Torvalds replied to a woman with the term circlejerk (in regards to the argument they were having) and a few people raised their pitchforks thinking it was offensive in the context of her gender. It has nothing to do with gender.

Taking the photo and posting it for her global audience was just too much. The appropriate course of action would have been to show the picture privately to staff and have them talk to the parties involved individually and maybe bring everyone together to talk about it after-the-fact. I can't even fathom losing my job over something that I know I have made jokes about in the past, jokes that may have a juvenile slant, but that I thought would be acceptable because I was in the company of people who could - if not appreciate them - at least understand what I meant by them, and especially understand that it wasn't sexual.

Some jokes are not okay in the presence of certain people or during certain times. This was not one of them, and again I'm so sorry for what you're dealing with because of it. Best wishes to you.
Relevant prior art, publicly disclosed on or before February 2001, which quite explicitly includes the "follower/following" mechanic:

(The blog article was written in relation to a different patent, but the prior art is most directly related to a Twitter-like service.)

http://thinkinghard.com/blog/PossiblePriorArtForKootolPatent...

http://web.archive.org/web/20010223204516/miski.sourceforge....
Oh shoot, you're right. It seems that it's only an error on Chrome Canary. It's fine on Chrome (and beta), FF, IE, Safari and Opera.

It's also fine on 25.0.1364.172 m and 26.0.1410.40 beta-m

Odd stuff, it's debug time!
While I don't have enough background to personally pass judgement on Allan Savory, Chris Clarke apparently does. It's not the full-on kookiness of vortex math, but apparently he feels that to an ecologist, his TED talk is "full of red flags":

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/east-ca/l...

I don't feel that one counterexample automatically disproves your main point, but it is a TED.com talk.
I don't buy it.

They state:

> Thanks for the heads up on this issue. The letter that was posted next to the review on DigitalRev was not sent in response to the review. Obviously, we welcome editorial reviews of our products. This letter was sent because DigitalRev is not an authorized reseller of GoPro products and they were using images and had incorrect branding and representation of our product in their online commerce store.

Original letter contains:

> Accordingly, we hereby demand that Softlayer.com immediately remove or disable access to the Infringing Material at:

> http://www.digitalrev.com/article/gopro-hero-3-vs-sony/Njk3M...
In America you say "elevator", in England we say "lift". In America you say "TV", in England we say "telly". In America you say "'erb", in England we say "herb" because there's a fucking "H" in it.
He didn't explain how DOCSIS works.
node.js is the best tool for this job. a PHP/Rails/Django framework can get you there as well but you'll have to worry about code deduplication and slowness associated with translating pieces of language from one to another, especially if this is UI heavy.
Seems like great timing with the ember conversation on the front page too. Isn't ember a offshoot of backbone?
You just pressed a key on your keyboard.
Simple, isn't it?
What just actually happened?

The electromagnetic forces comprising the atomic structure of your fingertip repelled against those of the plastic polymer forming the key with which you made 'contact'. The two atomic matrices combine kinetically to move in the direction of overall force...

To add to your penultimate sentence: "Reality has fractal inordinate complexity".
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I haven't studied his vortex mathematics thoroughly, but it seems the "universal numerical pattern" he identified is completely biased towards the decimal base?
Medical problems and family misfortune can do a lot to destroy your finances. All it takes is one trip to the doctors or a split second of stupidity by someone else.
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I think it matters, and I don't like Stuffak very much. Like somebody else said, it sounds like something you take when you have chest congestion or a sinus infection or something.

I would warn against being too attached to names that you come up with. We all have a tendency to fall in love with our own ideas, and sometimes we need a 3rd party to tell us "that's crap". To illustrate, let me share an anecdote from my own adventure:

We have 3 "real" projects that make up our product suite at the moment, and a fourth project that might or might not continue to exist as a standalone project. All are Open Source and the projects are all named after light-houses. All along we figured we'd eventually have a different name for the "branded" release, vs. the OSS project name... kinda like the way Fedora -> RHEL. Anyway... we had the idea of an "umbrella project" to refer to the entire suite. Since all our branding is based on light, illumination, light-houses, etc.

Company: Fogbeam Labs

Product 1: Quoddy (named after the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine)

Product 2: Heceta (named after the Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon)

Product 3: Neddick (named after the Cape Neddick "Nubble" Lighthouse in Maine)

Product 4: Hatteras (named after the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina)

So, when trying to come up with a name for the "umbrella" project, I had this bright (pun intended) idea to name it "ScrewPile" since screwpile[1] is a technical term related to lighthouses.

Brilliant, right? Except... like 3 people in the entire world actually know what "screwpile" means and would "get" the connection, and - even worse - if you don't know what it means, it just looks... ugly. Almost vulgar, to be honest.

It took the VP of Sales from a former employer of mine calling me out on it, in no uncertain terms, to convince me to change it. But once he really pulled the wool from over my eyes (wool I put there) it was dead obvious to me what as stupid name it was.

So, we renamed it Fogcutter and so far everybody is a lot happier with that. :-)

What's astonishing though, is the degree of rationalization and self-delusion I experienced before finally changing the name. Hell, I knew it was a bad name in many ways, but I was convinced "it isn't that bad" and "at least it's consistent with the other branding", blah, blah, blah. None of which mattered in the least when we have a product name that sounds like it should be the name of a porn flick or maybe a personal lubricant. :-)

Stuffak might not be as bad, but my honest opinion is that you should change it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-pile_lighthouse
This post is great. Having been through YC and TechStars (separate companies) and founding a crowdinvesting platform, it seems to me that early stage investing is very much about who you are and the relationships you've built. You can raise money and survive without significant traction a priori.

What's interesting to me is how the barrier for investing is being lowered (e.g. JOBS act) and how that's going to impact the dynamic of raising money. Startups are going to be able to find people in their industry who grok what they're doing (e.g. their customers) and raise small amounts of money from many people. It's going to be easier for investors to make more small bets ($1k instead of $50k), so I think the need for obvious traction early on (graphs going "up and to the right") is going to keep decreasing and it's going to be more about speaking to a niche of investors in your space and being great with product and communication.
If you try to log into your bank with PASSWORD instead of password, does it work? They could be converting your password to numeric as a first step to using it for anything.
Of all the JS libraries/frameworks I've used Backbone.js is the one I always come back to. Great to see the 1.0 release. Keep up the great work
> It's not at all obvious that without Apple there would be no utra efficent CPUs.

That's a very slippery argument. It's pretty obvious that without Darwin, there still would have eventually been a theory of evolution (as seen be Alfred Wallace's work), but Darwin gets credit for being first. Similarly, it's not at all obvious that without Dennis Ritchie, there would be no C. I'm sure eventually somebody would have created a similar language, but Ritchie made it happen first, so he deserves credit.

Sure, Intel may have eventually come up with ultra-efficient CPUs without Apple, but the point is that Apple helped make it happen.

To be clear, I'm not comparing a CPU design to the works of Darwin or Ritchie. I'm simply saying that arguing that an invention would have occurred even without the inventor could be said for anything.
Defamation.
As an aside, the article points out how the City of London is a separate entity from greater London, but doesn't go into a lot of detail about it. This video does an effective job in explaining how things work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?internalcountrycode=NL&v=Lr...
Just this morning I listened to the Voyager Engineering Team on an old NPR Radio Lab episode where the crew mentioned that every day they check their Google Alerts to see if Voyager has left our solar system. I imagine their celebrating today.
I've probably done a bad job of communicating the sentiment. As a Libertarian the ABSOLUTE LAST thing I am going to do is tell you how to spend your money.

That said, I can express opinion as to the choices you may have made. That does NOT mean I am right. It's just one man's opinion.

My general sentiment is that if you are in a position to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on pet projects you have a responsibility to society to make the right choices. Call it a moral or ethical judgement on my part. I do not resent him having money or having fun with it. That's OK. That's more than OK. Pulling up junk from the ocean bottom? Nah, that's bullshit.
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Only if it were a timeline, put alongside services that we use every day--I'd like to see the uptime on Curiosity or something next to this quarter's cloud outage.
Why don't they just code new software from scratch?
It's interesting hearing about the thing my co-workers have been doing on the front page of HN before they tell me themselves.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C Clarke[1]

This article has been posted at least once onto HN, and I liked reading it then, too. One of the first major insights I remember from my CS curriculum was the concept of abstraction -- in CS it's applied to code-as-data, the OSI model, etc, but it exists everywhere, including all engineering, large bureaucracies, etc. Thank you Prof Harvey!

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_three_laws
If it said that it was asking for it and why, I may have allowed it, in any case it doesn't seem to ask for that anymore... :) Now, if my import would process already.
My understanding is that coinbase uses a "hot wallet." This means that your actual bitcoin wallet doesn't contain any coins. Rather, when you want to move coins, they are taken out of a centralized wallet and then sent where needed.
Maybe coinbase is playing hedging games with your coins...
Hopefully someone else will chime in with actual citations, but we've seen a preponderance of evidence from our own user studies, from MailChimp, TechCrunch, and Voo.st's published comments, from Gawker Media's creation of an in-house non-social mechanism shortly after they tried to go social-only, and from private conversations with companies who have daily active user counts well into the millions.

> The proliferation of sites that only or primarily accept social logins seem to suggest that it's not a sound premise.

I'm not sure that necessarily follows. Google's own advertising for G+ authentication touts its privacy features, which suggests that Google also believes that users are uncomfortable with social auth as it exists today.

(Anecdotes aren't data, but they're what I have on hand at the moment. Sorry! Still at PyCon.)
Based on how he's valuing his PTO, he's valuing his time at either $328, $218, or $447 per diem.

I hope he's not valuing his PTO based on the salary he's getting.

I'm a 24 year old with no college degree and I currently cost about $800 per day on contract. (Not hypothetical, billing at that rate right now.) I'd rather make twice as much money consulting, pick my own damn healthcare plan, go to whatever conferences I want without asking^H^H^H^H^H^Hbegging, and stash that much more money towards runway.

I just left a YC company myself. I would only work for a YC company because it was time for me to learn, it no longer is.

It's time for me to earn, so I'll contract until I get a business rolling.

If you approach working at a YC company like a piker, you're going to be disappointed. It's an opportunity to build up a network and learn how startups work so that you can eventually do your own thing. (IMHO anyway)

Employee equity is consistently pathetic. Not worth it.

It also doesn't seem like he's asking for what he wants. Does he not know how to negotiate? Tell the YC founders what you want.

People are really bad at getting what they want unless it's offered to them on a silver platter.

Edit: The whole post, frankly, seems like an advertisement for his irrationality with regards to the expected value of perks.
I am not a copyright expert, however I am familiar with the Lego Group (the company that produces Lego toys) ... the set is pretty old (1986), which means they're not worried about making money off it. If you just stick a disclaimer after it that it's copyright 1986 the Lego Group, that's probably fine, especially since this looks to be an open source project, so you're not going to be charging people for something with their picture on it.

This page has what is very likely the original image: http://www.peeron.com/scans/7823-1/ Peeron.com has special permission directly from Lego to display the images, so if you wanted to be extra careful you could email dan@peeron.com and ask for permission to deep link to their picture (they'd probably say yes, the admin is a linux geek too). But honestly, a simple copyright disclaimer is probably fine. Lego won't reach out and swat you even if they do decide they don't like it, they'll just ask you to take it down.
Is an open letter just a blog post you start with "Dear such-and-such"?

Please stop saying open letter. Just delete the "Dear such-and-such" part and remove "An Open Letter to such-and-such" from the title. Now look, it looks just like a normal blog post minus the pretence.
The whole idea behind this testing infrastructure is so that we're fairly certain that any deploy isn't going to leave us scrambling to revert to an earlier version. Since we've implemented it, we haven't had to do that yet -- it's caught all manner of issues large and small that we're glad never made it into production.

The 10 minutes is to run the full suite of tests. In the case of an emergency, if we needed to get code out and wanted to bypass tests (e.g. reverting to an earlier version), we could run our deploy task manually, in parallel on all machines, and be done in about 30 seconds. This is obviously a nuclear option that we'd hope to never have to use, but if we were reverting to known-good code after a botched deploy, it might be our best bet.

This process is a safety net. If we want to work without a net, of course we have more options -- this is the tradeoff that we've made.

EDIT: small clarification
If you made a version that exported WordPress themes I'd kill for that!
> I would hesitate to call the mere act of playing with dolls a dangerous activity, I think you're making too big a leap...

Silly me would call that sarcasm, but, sure, ‘making too big a leap’ works, too :)
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Please talk a bit more about Amber. Easy to work with back end REST services? Easy to deploy?

I used it to build a very basic Jabber/XMPP client in a little over a day, integrating with an existing system.

That's the only project I've used it in so far, and I'm still very much a beginner user.

All I can say is that it solved a problem with the minimum of fuss and inside quite a strict time budget, so I'm very happy with it.
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Sure, auto complete tools are great. What I'm talking about is being fast enough that even auto complete can barely keep up, combined with a depth of knowledge that allows you to make the wise strategic choices that cut out huge swaths of time and typing. Like the other day this other developer and I were trying to reorder columns of data and sort them by multiple groupings of aggregates in .NET. We were twenty minutes into what would have been hours of effort before I remembered reading about DataTables, which are in memory databases in .NET. We had our problem solved in a few minutes. No auto complete would have told me that, just careful, deliberate study.
Shoot the messenger, ignore the substance of the argument. Yeah, that works.
We just implemented Persona across all our sites and are very happy with it.

We did it in a way that's completely independent of our normal email/password login as well, but integrates seamlessly. That made me really happy, as the reliability of our system hasn't decreased a bit.

The Persona team was also really helpful, though it turned out we didn't need much help implementing it.
Very odd! My version is Version 26.0.1410.33 beta-m

Updating now

Edit*
Also does it on Version 26.0.1410.40 beta-m for me
Language policing helps your argument a lot.
Random thoughts:

- If, when you say it, you find yourself having to spell it for people, it's a bad sign.

- A name that succinctly describes a service is great for that service, but can make it hard to pivot. Conversely, a nonsense name gives you more latitude (and likely unique Google-mojo) but now you have to teach people what it means,

- If a name isn't obviously interfering with what you're doing then it's probably not that big a deal while you're validating an idea, but of course if things don't take off you're going to wonder how it might have been different if you had a catchy clever name :)
> This isn't entirely correct. Per the DMCA (or, really, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act - OCILLA), the hosting provider must comply with a takedown notice should they receive it, regardless of how idiotic it appears...

That's BS.

The hosting provider has every right to support their customer and keep the notice up. We've gone to court rather than do a takedown and prevailed on court costs, and we've persuaded upstream (colo and backbone) providers served by the same takedown notices to leave customers alone (e.g., not blackhole an IP) as well.

Btw, the number one most effective takedown avoidance tactic is to be an absolute stickler for the letter of the takedown requirements. We can usually get 5 or 10 business days of back and forth on our customers' behalf before the takedown mills manage to generate a fully compliant notice.

And if this notice really was just about a review mentioning a product by name, we would have ignored it or at the very least asked the sender to explain under penalty of perjury why the content was not protected under fair use.

Disclaimer: We're a registered hosting provider under the DMCA.
I don't think it would be that hard.. also, once you have a back catalog, your newer books will raise interest in your older books until it becomes more self-sustaining... fewer sales of older books keeping a consistent income.
this looks awesome. would love to check it out.

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Check out Sketch[1] as an already existing Fireworks-killer.

[1] http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
I supposed it depends where your client is located. In the US northeast, a senior developer makes around $50-80/hr. I've done a few fix rate Rails projects that took about 20-30 hours in all for about $5k, so around $25/hr.
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github: pjr

looked at the pycon demo ... looks awesome!
Nice bit of spin from GoPro.

If you read the DMCA takedown, you'll see that it refers specifically to the URL of the review, not to any other URL, and certainly not to the location of any product sold on any e-commerce site.

In fact, their e-commerce site still contains GoPro products. http://www.digitalrev.com/search?t=pro&q=gopro

In short, either GoPro are lying through their teeth, or their legal team engaged in a monumental cock-up. In either case, this looks like a clear-cut misuse of the DMCA, a claim that can easily be supported by GoPro's own words, if you take them at face value. I don't.
It might be good for the customer at first. In the long term, though, it's not difficult to imagine cheap -> free -> monoculture -> square one.

IOW it's good for the customer right up until the One True Product is shut down, or there's no viable business model anymore.
>Don't judge me! This code is everything from badly written to extremely dangerous.

My code is never good enough. Whenever I release a piece of code, it always seems like a load of crap. And as I have got a bit better at coding over the years, this never changed. (Probably because I do write shitty code.)

So I came to believe that it doesn't matter how proficient a programmer you become, you will probably always feel this way, because your eyes are already set on the next level of proficiency, your standards are always above your current abilities. And that's good, because this is how you get better.

But because of this, your code always seems like a piece of crap and whenever you decide to go public with it, you always feel compelled to make a note about this in your code.
I propose that we standardize the way that we declare this sentiment, and agree on a universal sign much like the copyright sign for this idea, that says:

"I hereby declare that I am not a douche bag, who thinks his code is the best code that has ever been coded into existence. I am just a coder who aspires to provide the best code to the best of his abilities under the circumstances. I am willing to learn though, and I aspire to write better and better code, even though this piece of code might stink. But nobody is perfect. Deal with it."
The problem is that the community is a big part of a framework/language/library these days. If I have an issue and I need some help, I will first go to the community if I can't figure it out myself.

If I feel like it's just going to be met with someone personally attacking me because I don't agree with their practices, I will just find another community (and framework/library).

It's funny because I've seen some of the same sort of issues with the Ruby community...and Trek is part of that community too.

I don't see nearly as much of this in other communities and I often wonder if it's because of the leadership/certain type of culture that the community is built upon.
And what if he both does what he wants, and what you want him to do? Is that acceptable, or will you remain disgruntled until he spends all of his money as you wish?

> or having fun with it. That's OK. That's more than OK. Pulling up junk from the ocean bottom? Nah, that's bullshit.

What? Have you considered that this is both to him? You make absolutely no sense at all.