skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but those apps nevertheless have a footprint and (hopefully) a codebase to improve upon. At this point in time Digg has none of that -- just a once-well-known brand and a new redesign that's failed to capture back the audience/community lost to Reddit and others. This looks more like a hail mary than a solid business decision.
Never noticed the arrow, and it seems I'm not the only one. The font weight and contrasting colors overpower the subtle negative space.
Ask HN: Have you ever been sued by your startup?
So, I'm being sued by a startup that I used to work for. I don't want to go in to the details for obvious reasons, but it's been really stressful and difficult.

I was recruited to work as the first employee for this startup, spent a good deal of time and effort on it, and then had the founder turn around and sue me. They're demanding more money from me than I was ever paid to begin with, because of some vague damages that I (allegedly intentionally) caused.

All of his claims are patently false (and I have documentation to that point), and boils down to the founder trying to scapegoat me for his own mistakes. However, he's independently wealthy and knows that I don't have much money and likely won't be able to defend myself. So, in essence, it feels like an adult form of bullying.

I have no idea what to do. I can't afford an attorney. I'm also concerned that there's this public mark on my record (e.g., a future employer googles me and finds this lawsuit).

So, what do I do? Have any of you been in a similar place with an early-stage startup? How do it go? Why do people suck so much?

EDIT: I was apparently responding to too many questions, and am rate limited, so I can't respond anymore.

I am a student and I have called my student legal services. This case is too big for them to handle. In the words of one of the people I spoke with, "you would have been better off getting a DWI."

It is a lawsuit in federal court, not just a threatening letter. I have considered going pro se, but I'm too concerned about following proper procedure.

I was W2 not 1099. I've reviewed my employment agreements, and that's part of what makes this whole thing baseless. Without going into details, their allegations suggest that my employment agreements require me to do things that they don't actually specify. It's akin to firing a airline pilot because they didn't serve enough soda to the passengers.

Thanks specifically to the users that recommended Grellas. I'm speaking with him later today :)
HN HTML code is just… creepy. FONT element everywhere, tables, etc. I think my phone would love to save something and profit the responsiveness of the HTML5 and CSS work. And why not my 3G connection, or my laptop. Why should I waste resources when this can be done well.
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Unfortunately, lots of stuff in HTTP headers and such can't be checked by feature detection. Additionally, you want your site to load fast.
It speaks more or less what has been buzzing in these countries.. And the distribution is cool too, as per my assumptions!
For what it's worth, E. E. Cummings most often wrote his name with proper capitalization.

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
You'll go very far with that one. I haven't clicked the link yet but this is definitely the way forward. Don't sell for less than a billion and please do a version for Android that can be used offline using Cordova.
> Bandaging peoples irrational fears might simply not be a very viable business model.

Are you kidding? It's one of the best business models ever.

In this case I think you have it backwards. Instant charging isn't bandaging a fear, because you rightly make the point that the fear of running out of power is already covered by ensuring the device has sufficient capacity for the worst case. Indeed it will create a new fear: forgetting or not being in a position to top off the charge when necessary.
This?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727321
When using the work-in-progress lxc provisioner, tsuru will behave like Mesos, but it's no that stable yet. First we worked on getting it working with EC2 instances, and now we are working on lxc and frontend integration.
That's not how a healthy team should work. If your team is actually working properly, there is absolutely shared responsibility. Peak productivity is way, way lower if things only happen when your manager tells you to do them.
This is the generation that can extinguish gender issues, and this is the kind of news that should be coming out of these conferences.
No, they re-used a trademark. DirectWrite refers to their new text rendering subsystem:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/dd36...

Note the backport:

>Windows 7 or Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Platform Update for Windows Vista
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Thanks a bunch! On it!
Yes. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but whatever client-side code is affected by this violates principals of Progressive Enhancement/Graceful Degradation and the Browser Sniffing anti-pattern.
The number of browsers offering an RSS button in the address bar is decreasing.
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Awesome! We're looking into making a more general-purpose city explorer.

And thanks for the feedback---we're on it!
> When you move such functionality into HTML you will just get "thousands" of browser specific datepicker implementations, in each version of said browser.

My phone has one phone-optimised date picker; my PC has one PC-optimised date picker; my screen-reader has one screen-reader-optimised date picker. Sure there might be other versions for other platforms, but I as a user would only interact with three, and those three are all consistent and optimal for their situation.

Seems much better than our current variety of scripts which all target the desktop PC and fail at it, and don't even attempt to work on any other platform...

> If there is a badly implemented datepicker written in JavaScript you can use a different library.

Not if it's on somebody else's site I can't.

> A good JavaScript library will make sure it works with consistency and as expected in different browsers.

A library written and deployed today will work flawlessly with the browsers of tomorrow, including things like screen readers which the library author hasn't even thought about?

Taking your logic further, why bother having HTML parsing, layout, or rendering in the browser? In fact, if you object to the idea of semantic markup and would rather manually specify every detail of every element for every situation, why are you using HTML and not giving users a .exe? :P
Just curious, how did you guys derive to this number? "Reduce iOS development cost and time by 80%"
Interesting article. We had a similar issue with the previous government in the UK that tried to "hide" unemployed people by allowing them to go on disability benefit instead.
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See also https://workflowy.com/ for a nice web-based collaborative outliner. The iOS app even has offline support.
How to find? Go to meetups, hang out at engineering clubs at your school, post fliers or find other appropriate means of putting it out there that you are looking for a cofounder. You don't want someone who is going to "learn on the job" if you want a chance at making this successful. So finding CS students at your school won't be that useful unless you can find someone who's published some web sites or apps before. Look for someone with proven ability to start AND finish projects (non-school ones).

Outside of school, attend meetups. Learn to code, but not to build it yourself, but to have an excuse to be around developers. That's a reason to be at meetups. There are also meetups specifically for people who are looking for cofounders.

You can also post online (as you did here), to find co-founders, or on things like craigslist in the jobs section.

Other options are to outsource on e-lance or something like that. People offshore can build stuff pretty cheap, but the quality is terrible once you want to scale or maintain it. That shouldn't matter too much because if that becomes an issue, that means you're succeeding.
This was a great talk, find it on pyvideo.org in a few days
Well okay not rich, but enough to pay a student developer at your school $20-30/hr or so.
Why the most important word of an early stage startup validation is missing here? "Customers".
The only thing that matters of your whole paragraph is "validation". Explain this better, somehow I feel that it isn't exactly validating the idea with customers.

The main thing a non-tech founder can bring to the table is customer development. Focus on that, as they are practical things. Don't try so hard to be the "self-taught MBA guy". Just do your customer development very well. If a tech co-founder trust that you know your customers, than you have chance to attract a very good one.
You can't be serious. Check lines 388-400. Now, even ignoring the fact that github itself is chopping those lines because they're too long, they're simply not meaningfully readable. The ridiculous repetition (which is the proximate cause of those awful line lengths) totally obscures the meaning.

Note all the repeated use of this weird dictionary name "my_stats[condition][strand]". This thing appears, often multiple times, on ever line of that loop. You're telling me that this couldn't be made more readable by using a simple local "stats" reference name "st"? Repetition of expressions is the sign of lazy code, it's the same kind of thought process that gives us cut-and-paste bugs.

Note likewise the repated use of "kc_stats[condition]". Same deal. Same treatment.

Note likewise the oddball commented out line (assigning a tuple of m2_ci_lo_fwd, m2_ci_hi_fwd) which is disabled without explanation. Remember my list of attendant symptoms?

And, on the design side: note the mean/median/stdev calls. Those are generally pretty well-defined properties of "sets". Why is there a "Metric" postpended to the method names needlessly? Surely the reader would understand "st.stdev()" already, right? And why do the methods take five named parameters?. That's insane -- they should take zero. It looks like this is trying to pass in some extra "stuff" (maybe to control some side effects, or to filter the data) to what should be an idempotent operation on a fixed piece of data. If you have to filter, or if the object does some extra counting or whatever, those should be set up on the data ahead of time.

This code is crap. Sorry.
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self.opts.modified_positions_fwd = [ int(p) for p in self.opts.modified_positions_fwd.split(",") ] if self.opts.modified_positions_fwd != None else []

Without explicitly attacking Python's syntax, I had to horizontally scroll left and right multiple times to understand the entire impact of this statement.

Both yours and my claims are anecdotal. Unfortunately I don't know of many research studies, though I'm sure some has been done for this issue in typography.
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"The technologies that could be called "the internet" solve more well defined problems than the technologies that could be called "the web"."

I'm pretty sure the original problem the web was meant to solve was the problem of enabling hyperlinks between documents that are distributed across many servers. The original concept solved this very well, scaled very well, and was then hijacked by people who thought that "document hyperlink system" means "application delivery platform."

(OK, there were a few things that happened that I glossed over, but the web's original goals were not as poorly defined as you make it seem.)
This thing didn't work well at all. Strange acquisition. What's the dealio? Yahoo assisting not-so-smart investors from waking up with egg on their faces?

I worked on auto-summary-generation in the late 90s (I know I know, lawn, get off you shall) When I ragged on Summly elsewhere ("yet another example of people claiming genius inventions by under-18s that fall short upon closer inspection of the claims") I came across http://skimzee.com in a comment of an older guy who complained about the attention Summly generated.

Skimzee.com lacks the web 3.0 design finesse, and hipp-ly name, but does a very admirable job summarizing articles in various languages. Tried it out and was very impressed, simple interface, works on non-English languages as well. Deserving your attention/feedback.

(disclosure: have nothing to do with the site, but did communicate with the creator a couple of times. very smart older guy.)
Also worth reading wrt to using SRS software to learn to code: http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html
At some point in life you have to step out of diapers and accept challenge, accept disagreement, accept envy, accept talk-down, accept criticism.

Either way, there is no correct way.
We're here! Preparing responses ;)

We have also created some docs issues[1][2] on our repository based on some questions posted here.

[1] https://github.com/globocom/tsuru/issues/367
[2] https://github.com/globocom/tsuru/issues/366
No, because hoverboards are highly positively buoyant when below a fixed distance from the ground, and negatively buoyant when above it. But lighter-than-air vehicles are equally buoyant at all distances above the ground (unless you run out of atmosphere).
I actually rather like that comment. When reading code I find it useful to figure out how each error condition can be hit, so it's nice to know that something is just a sanity check and shouldn't ever actually happen.
I don't think Zara's supply chain innovation has gone unnoticed. I think many if not most in the fashion industry understand that it's the reason they excel.

I'm wondering what other industries are ripe for disruption-by-supply-chain. Dell did it to PC, Zara did it to fashion, FedEx did it to post...
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I wrote this last time too:
Having a better conducting, higher surface area electrode is a huge step. BUT it doesn't really change the fact that a carbon based supercapacitor requires an electrolyte to form the double layer, and all existing electrolytes have a breakdown voltage below 5V. What we need is a better electrolyte. In calculating energy storage in a capacitor, the energy increases exponentially with voltage, while linearly with capacitance.
I would donate my big dongle.
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Where are the links on the bottom of the page that you speak of? Don't see them anywhere...
Sorry for our absense. This HN entry surprised us. We're aware that we need better docs explaining what tsuru is and it compares to alternatives like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry.

Currently, we're not running tsuru in any public cloud. We _hope_ that will change in the future :-)
>> "And a web version is far more convenient than a desktop one- you can just load it up anywhere"

I just use the mobile app when I am away from my own computer.
I always like seeing people use beanstalkd. It's a great bit of software which seems to have been largely overshadowed by redis these days, which is a shame.
Really. How about iOS 6 safari having support for fixed elements that breaks every time the keyboard pops up?
Thank you -- currently, my main focus is for prototyping web application, as there are already a few big players in the mobile app prototyping space and I would like to learn more about how users prototype applications before venturing into that space -- but it's definitely something I'll consider in the future and thanks for your interest!
I recommend, highly and unreservedly, Beeminder[1]. You create commitment contracts where you have to report to them the amount of an activity you did during the day, and if you fall short of the goal, you have to pay them, initially, $5. Assuming you have a moral compass greater than a toad, you will feel compelled to be honest with your agreement. Each time you fail, the amount of the commitment grows. My commitment contract on meditation is now high enough that I never fall off the road. I have cheaply purchased hundreds of hours of willpower using Beeminder to make commitments. It's the awesomest productivity/habit formation thing I know of that no one uses (and I have used GTD, pomodoros, Power of Now, etc).

1: https://www.beeminder.com/
"> Microsoft also included the command "Like Gecko" which instructs the website to send back the same version of the website as they would to Firefox"

This is a little misleading. "Like Gecko" is not used in the Firefox UA String. It just says Gecko. "Like Gecko" is a component of Webkit-based browsers. So IE is emulating Webkit emulating Firefox, and dries the "MS" of "MSEI" for their string, and going with just "IE".

via Peter Paul-Koch: "IE11 to disguise itself as WebKit (and not Firefox!)", http://mobilism.nl/blog/2013/03/ie11-to-disguise-itself
Does anyone still use RSS? I think social networks have really killed RSS and the only way you get people to somewhat subscribe is through Google Communities.
I agree that there's no need for a map and the dropdowns work okay, but I do also agree that it'd be really neat to have a summary into categories. I know this data isn't human written, but I expect they could be classified into yes/no at least extremely naively.
I'm in that rut where customers say "Interesting idea, show me how well it works" and the technical guys say "Show me customers that are onboard before I build the thing".

I get what you are saying though. Obviously having a product to show customers will be huge in acquiring them.
You might find this article (currently on the front-page) to be useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5435862
That is the way I imagine that meeting would go if it started off with the quote from the article. I don't imagine a team with a manager like that is 'healthy'

I agree with the idea expressed the article (shifting accountability to the team as a whole instead of putting it solely on the manager).. but the way they suggest going about it is terrible (IMO).
Your estimate is very good! Here is the building [1] and I estimate 16 stories. Roughly 160 feet or 50 meters.

[1] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=49.2887,-123.143&ie=UTF8&...
Wow, this is awesome! Did you make this?
Would that be so hard?

Are you being facetious? As far as users are concerned, IE would be broken. Users don't care that it's because of, say, websites with broken useragent sniffing.

I'm sure it's even more complicated than that, to be honest. But the overarching principle something Josh Bloch articulated. He said something to the effect that any interface that you publish, even if it includes strings (e.g. a pretty-printed stack trace), will inevitably become part of the interface.
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Fantastic. One of the most widely deployed open source cloud stacks!
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Does this have anything to do with LinkedIn purchasing Pulse? A competitive move on Yahoo!'s part?
Quick links here:

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- Screenshot: https://a248.e.akamai.net/camo.github.com/422f12e0eb5db07e3b...
I highly recommend the code syntax-highlighting extension to Anki:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/491274358

In a nutshell, pressing the button this extension adds to Anki either pastes the contents of your clipboard as syntax-highlighted code, or applies syntax-highlighting to the text you have selected.

This makes code much, much easier to parse, especially when using Anki on a mobile device.
Out of mainstream support. See http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/
so edgy.
Good idea. I'd prefer it to be slightly more structured e.g. "Microsoft; Internet Explorer; 11.0"

Maker, product name and version should be good enough for everyone.
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reminds me of the early days of reddit, quite cool and minimal. I like it. I think it would be a nice feature if you could submit text posts...
Marketing speech I assume.
Thanks for the advice. I am going through those steps. I emailed a bunch of CS departments and am going to meetups (can't do too many because school takes a lot of my time).

I am really big on the quality and detail of the product so outsourcing is a last resort.
Here that means freedom for the business owner to fire you.
Ask HN: Do you have READMEs or docs in your company?
Hi guys, I've been recently thinking about documentation process in a mega software company I'm working at.

Our team mostly does not write documentation and other teams rarely do. Since our team is writing internal-use-only code, I couldn't convince anyone to write documentation for projects.

We don't have a good documentation system (e.g a MediaWiki). SO, how do you guys manage documentation process at your company? Is it a wiki, or README.txts or something else?
That's the conversation I was thinking of, yes.
I'd say the studios "need" Netflix largely because people want all of their content accessible in one place, and Netflix has established itself as one of the major places people like to get it.

You're right, though, it's a very competitive space, and if the studios could get their crap together, they could certainly destroy Netflix. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced they're flexible enough to do it.
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I think a large number of these problems came about because instead of issuing an RFC for proposed solutions, they just did it. You had a number of renegade developers focused on shipping instead of developing consensus.

Given the scale of the project at the time, which had a very small user base, maybe this was a reasonable approach. It's just that as the project grew in scope, the process never seemed to change until it became what is the W3C in all of its absurdist glory.

The IETF seems intimately familiar with the technical problems they are solving, but the W3C seems oblivious to even the most superficial implications of their decisions. I honestly doubt that even one person on the W3C committee has designed a modern, high-exposure web site.
I would think there's no reason not to release it everywhere (I assume syndication will eventually happen to netflix produced content because why leave additional content revenue on the table?)
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The original motivation wasn't exactly that, but we changed it. At the first moment, we started an open source platform as a service based on Globo.com needs. That's why tsuru first supported EC2 instances. But that's pretty expensive: having 10 virtual machines for an app is not cheap, and does not fit in most company's budgets.

That's why we started implementing support for application containers, and we need to work on documentation and facilitate the life of people willing to deploy tsuru.

Thank you for your feedback!
Fixed — removed the 'user-scalable=no' that came by default with the Tumblr theme.
Yes. Extended support means no updates aside from security.
Yeah I get what you mean. I have some savings, but this isn't a long-term solution.
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