skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what's wrong with many tech startups and what makes caricatures of them. You're view is to be a stingy miser and just believe that you will be filtering out those that want to exchange work for money (what a horrible idea in a capitalist economy). So you get the kids that do understand what equity means or what "vesting" means or "at will" employment means that are excited, they burn off a couple years of their 20s not realizing that even if this supposed great idea was successful that they basically get nothing anyway, and you're arguing that is the proper way to be? It's hard to argue the economics of that for your favor .. but you can see how unsustainable that would be if all the founders felt the way you did and the works ... gasp .. actually figured this out. I think there have been a few events in history that have occurred during such realizations ... something about October? ... :)
That's absolutely not true. It's simpler but the final value fee is quite a bit higher. Yesterday I listed an item for $1200, which would have a total fee of about $56. Four weeks from now that would rise to $123. I assure you that I checked my facts and figures carefully before choosing to post here.
Because everyone has Google, and the lowest setting on Sign in with Google+ contains some personal information from your account, including things like DoB, Full name, etc. Google recommends OAuth2 over OpenID for authentication, and I'd rather be using the service Google supports the most in order to provide the best experience to users.

Just because you use OpenID and Persona doesn't mean that the majority of people will. But the majority of people will have a Gmail account, or a Facebook account.
I killed a slim keyboard the same way. Keys are non removable. There is no way to fix it.
I have more issues with even the concept of software and design patents far more than copyright.. wrt copyright, I only feel the terms have gotten out of control.

With software patents, I firmly believe that if an implementation isn't either difficult or novel, it shouldn't be patented... Example, the apple page-flip animation. The effect is a simulation of a real-world behavior (non-novel), and the implementation details are very simple (given the hardware interfaces are mostly solved, as are the computational logistics as problems solved). The hardware involved could certainly be patentable, as could the original implementations (now older than patents). For the most part, anything that simulates a real-world activity on a generally available computing hardware should not be patentable, it's usually very obvious, and often trivial to implement.

I also feel that even if software patents were to be protected, it should be much more limited, perhaps 5 years. If you can't gain an advantage in software with a 5 year head start, you don't deserve to win. That's just how I feel about it.
Created this app because nothing like it existed. I've always wanted to be able to sort products from my favorite online stores by how much each product had dropped in price. I think we're still the only site that does this. Please let me know if this is not true! What are some ways to get exposure? Google has already indexed over 600k of my pages and most of our traffic is organic search. Thanks, any suggestions or feedback would be appreciated.
I get a blank white page, is it down ?
The repo they use for demos at GitHub says something like "fork? fork you!"
You might want to add "... and you think we are cool personalities and you want us to get rich of the back of your labor." :)
Do you handle Bitcoins? If not then I can imagine it could get you lot of attention.
Taking it in means I'm without my work machine for a week. Ridiculous in this case where it's really a software fix.
That does not automatically imply reliability. One can see the fact that the unit lasted long enough for resale as an extended QC cycle at the reseller's expense.
For someone who's only selling one thing every now and then it's a totally bad deal.
I was sitting at a table and a friend set his travel mug down too forcefully. You've probably seen this happen many times. Set a travel mug down the wrong way and liquid will slosh against the opening you drink through, causing a single drop to pop out. In this case a drop of coffee arc'd neatly across the table and landed right on the cracks of one key on the upper-right of the keyboard. The Air was still running, but I powered it off immediately and turned it upside down to try to get the liquid out. I thought nothing really got in and tried to power it up a minute later, but the Air was kaput. I doubt one drop would have shown up on the spill detection gizmos Apple uses, but I was honest about the incident. For my honesty, Apple declared it spill damage and offered to repair it for an exorbitant fee, which I declined. To add insult to injury, the geek I encountered was one of the most obnoxious tech-support people I've ever run across. Stereotypical fat, pimply teenage nerd. He actually joked, "Gee! That was an expensive cup of coffee! Hur hur hur hur.". This guy was worse than all the Microsoft fanboy stereotypes Apple ads have lampooned over the years. I swore off Apple products on the spot and have been free and clear ever since. It's actually kind of amazing, but an outsourced Indian call center or even a complete lack of customer service would have been better than the insensitive and offensive way that geek dealt with me.
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Reading the headline, I kind of expected the entire blog post to consist of "Because we're funded by Google".
I don't get actual spam in gmail, but I get occasional bounced messages when spammers try to send email with my address in from field. Even google groups would bounce back the email I never sent. I even got spf/dkim for domain, yet they still inform me they couldn't deliver a message I never sent.
I don't disagree with anything you have said, but I also can't tell if you are disagreeing with anything I wrote in my comment either.
> what kind of medication the OP stopped taking

The OP has a really "sane" take on things imho (yes, it's incredibly opinionated, but it's blog post featured on HN, not a SO question someone like you can close in minute :) - and I'm glad he bothered to write it, as I'd probably just send the link to it to any newbies asking me about "the magical vim" instead of bothering to tell them what I think) and he's right on one thing: vim will not increase the productivity of a new user. The actual productivity increase will only happen months later (basically too late to worth it), and it will not matter that much because 90% of the time spent coding is actually spent either:

(1) plainly writing code (no advanced editor functionality helps here, Notepad++ is basically good enough!),

(2) making simple edits to code (again, more editor functionality doesn't really help because 90% of the time spend editing code it actually spent thinking about what to edit, not actually pressing the keys)

(3) reading code,

(4) exploring codebases (the only thing helpful at this is a full featured IDE - it just takes too much work to turn vim in to something like this, and you'll just end up with something mostly matching Netbeans feature-wise, so you could just as well install Netbeans or something else better for your language/framework in 5min and spend 1h to really learn how to use it),

(5) debugging (again, the only thing that could, for some, including me, increase productivity, is a full-fledged graphical debugger).

...and if you need to improve that last 10%, then you are far from a beginner at anything, eg. you are not the person that vim tends to be recommended to nowadays.

And the OP also expressed why I like ST so much: "To code in Vim, you have to keep Vim in your head just as much as the code that you’re editing. You have to constantly think about what you’re doing." - at most (not all) things ST beautifully follows the "don't make me think" principle: eg. arbitrary multiple cursors (no other IDE or editor besides Notedpad++ has them yet, no matter how many users requested this for JetBrain IDEs for example), that just let you "edit without thinking", keeping the code in your working memory instead of the sequence of search and replace commands.

But all that said, I absolutely love vim's keybindings and modal editing concept, so I tend to enable vim keybindings or install a vim-emulator plugin on most IDEs and editors I end up using because it also spares you of having to commit the different shortcuts that every other IDE and editor uses to "muscle memory". I see vim like more like an uptional UI/X layer that should be addable to any decent editor or IDE to enable experts to improve their 10%. Fortunately Sublime text has such a "layer" so OP's post is kind of valid.
Awesome. But for easier on-page search, it would be cool if the name of the speaker(s) would be shown on the overview lists.
The "dude" didn't complain that there were bugs. He complained that the bugs had no official fix after hundreds of people have reported them.
I want to agree, I really do.

But I have had the same graphics corruption problem mentioned in the beginning of the post, and it most likely is a hardware failure. It took a few phone calls and 4 visits to the Apple Store (5 minutes away) spending a few hours waiting to talk to half a dozen different people because they didn't want to fix it. This was after I had video/pictures documenting the problem (complete with hardware serial #) but no reliable way to reproduce and it wasn't reproducing for them with their stress tests. All that clusterfuck for one repair. Plus it was a MacBook Air, nowhere near as big as an iMac. If I wasn't so fuming mad and I was just being logical, I would have picked up a new laptop instead of waiting. Oh wait, this was a laptop I had bought because the last MacBook I owned keeled over after repeated repairs and the store manager offered me 20% off this one for my troubles.

Yesterday I went in to the store with my iPhone that had shattered glass all over the front and the genius looked at it and wanted to know what I wanted help with. No, really, you think I'm coming in for a software issue? It was so hard for me to assume he was being helpful rather than thick.

There are times when I deal with really awesome Geniuses, and I have countless stories of how awesome the Genius Bar used to be (red phone and actual geniuses and all, when all the Apple Stores in the world were countable on one hand). But there are times Apple really sucks for support and I can't say I blame the OP for not wanting to go. I always think twice before I think about going to the Apple Store nowadays :(
I don't think there could be a slimier company then Ebay. I wish Taobao would come to the US and crush Ebay like a Zhong Nan Hai cigarette butt.

"Ebay may be a shark in the ocean, but I am a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose — but if we fight in the river, we win." --Jack Ma.
Your comment is obviously grossly disingenuous, lizzard, especially considering PyCon has officially documented procedures for exactly this issue:

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...
the user don't care at that time - they probably have something more urgent to look at the first time they run their browser, and if you bombard them with questions, it gets annoying.

I agree with the default being ON (that is, DNT is turned on). The analogy with the doughnuts and pre-printed message isn't quite accurate in this case, because it is _clearly_ a better choice to not have tracking done on the user, whilst with a box of donuts, its not always clear cut whether sharing it or not is the right thing to do.
your twisting our words, its not being women in tech that's eeww, its the phrase "women in tech". it sounds so... i dunno, something that i can't put my finger on. I'm a women. I'm in tech. they are two separate things. i see no need to explicitly point out that i am a "women in tech" except when silly things like this happen and i have to.

I wouldn't judge her as sheltered, i know people who have gone through some horrible things who are just the same overreact at the drop of a hat. but i sure as hell judge her as oversensitive. And your right everyone is offended by different things, I'm offended by her response to his joke in the name of all women. But so what. I'm just mildly offended, it shall pass.

I've been through my own personal hell and get 'uncomfortable' (ie offended) by things no one would ever think offensive. But is it my right to impose this on everyone around me? no. I have no right to dictate other conversations that are not directed at, nor about me because who am i to say what is offensive and what is not, its bound to be different then most.

She probably does not deserve the reaction shes getting, but then she made a really poor judgement that got someone fired for something they shouldn't have been fired for. Maybe next time she will think twice and exercise some self control before doing something so wildly inappropriate. (he acted somewhat inappropriately to, but she was far far more so by posting that pic)
Let's make this a bit more accurate.

Consider a world where your box of donuts WILL have donuts taken out of it, even if the box is closed, as soon as you walk away from the donut shop. As soon as you hit just about any website on the internet today, YOU WILL BE TRACKED. There's no maybe here, it's a virtual certainty. So this makes it accurate in your analogy.

In this world (call it Doughnet?), it makes sense to have the donut shop print a sign on the box in the event that the sign is sufficient to prevent people from ambushing you and taking your donuts. You could simply ask the donut shop to give you a blank box if you wish to have your donuts taken (opt-in donut sharing) rather than asking them to give you a box with the sign (opt-out donut sharing).

Nobody expects to have their privacy maliciously and constantly invaded. This is emphatically WRONG behavior. And so broadcasting to all parties that the user of your browser is willing to be tracked by default is precisely the wrong thing to do. I don't care what your motivations are, it's just wrong, period.
That might have disabled the malfunctioning part or otherwise worked around it. If it's merely a firmware issue, everyone would have that problem.

Besides, some people in the referenced Apple discussions thread report that even after flashing the firmware, the problems continue.
My 2008 Macbook really works like a charm, always has, always does. That was my second Mac after I tried them in the 90s (and hated it). I was very happy so in 2010 I bought, for a very large wad of cash, a MBP with an i7. Nothing but problems; problems which don't appear when you go into the store except the lousy battery life which they said is because I run too heavy software (which I don't mostly and the 2008 had/has no issues with it).

The magsafe internal part of that MBP is also of much lower quality; one of the pins 'disappeared' and Apple replaced the magsafe and the external charger. Now the same pin disappeared but I'm out of warranty and they want E600 to repair it.

Thinkpad, here I come.
One simple solution that people often forget - at least I know I did in this situation is to save the file in home directory and then move it using su(do).
* Confirmed, an F-1 engine stands tall [1] outside Rocketdyne corporate HQ on Canoga Ave just north of Victory Blvd in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. One can walk right up to the engine and have a gander; it's 18 feet tall. You can admire the maze of cooling pipes on the upper half of the nozzle and imagine the heat and roar.

* In decades past, during development of the Apollo space program, Rocketdyne tested engines at its Field Laboratory test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains a few miles West. The sustained outdoor roar of those engine tests was audible better than 7 miles away. Source: My elementary school classmates, blase about the whole thing, saying "Oh, that's just Rocketdyne testing again".

* Lots of facility pictures of several of the Rocketdyne facilities (with engines under assembly) in the Rocketdyne Archives [2]

* It's a safe bet the name "Rocketdyne" would be a portmanteau of "Rocket Dynamics".

* Some rocket equations and stability discussion at [3]

[1] http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21138479/pratt-whitney-rocketdyn...

[2] http://www.rocketdynearchives.com/canoga.html

[3] http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/~space/ess472/Lecture_Roc...
Apparently he was also charged with two counts of intimidating a witness, which the Wired article does not mention, so maybe there is more to this story.

Either way, it saddens me to know that the instigators, aggressors, and profiteers of this "war" will never spend a day in prison.
I think part of the reader problem is that, like me, many people think of reader as a few servers on the bottom of a rack at a huge datacenter. Just a few blinking lights next to the floor that nobody thinks about or has to really do anything to keep them blinking.

I'm sure people worked on it but in the grand scheme of things it was a drop in the bucket.
Use relatedly in a sentence, please .
Quoting Adria from a comment in her post:
> I don't consider myself a feminist.
Marijuana-scented cards to help track down cannabis farms
Not available in the Australian app store :(
It's OK if you have a store, but you are paying a monthly fee for the privilege and FVFs are close to what they are now. As an occasional seller who does maybe 5-10 moderately high value trades a year, it's a terrible deal - simplicity is not worth hundreds a year in additional fees, or an equally complicated 'store' that I have no wish to rent.
Thank you! I'll look more into the business line of the toughbooks.
I use Readability in Chrome. It makes the text nice with one click, everywhere I want to read an article.
Then why not "port" sublime to the server environment.
> Except for adblock. If the only option to avoid tracking is to block ads, then that is what will be used.

Therefore, browsers should come, by default, with an adblock feature (or simply, just bundle the adblock plugin). This DNT business is purely just lip service.
Of course physical threats and misogynic slurs just show that we are not where we should be and there are a lot of sexist jerks in our industry.

The problem is that with overreacting to some tasteless but pretty harmless joke she started the vicious circle of jerkiness.

Sexist assholes felt their world view validated and in turn validate her out of line action by making her a martyr with their immature reactions.

Thank goodness this is just the cyberspace. The same dynamic at work can be witnessed in places where it Leeds to riots and deaths.

I would not want to work at SendGrid (I contemplated applying last week) as long as Adria does not see the error of her actions, it would make me feel uncomfortable.

However I would love to see everyone threatening or slurring Adria over this incident be fired. They deserve it (as opposed to the guy who was fired over this)
Haml - Beautiful, DRY, well-indented, clear markup: templating haiku.
Frankly, YC startups get the lion share of press attention. Between that and Hacker News, it's always easier to get information on YC startup exits than those from other programs.

And generally insiders only get in touch with me around my worst valuation errors. :)
Wait, what? The title is completely misleading. It's not an absulute increase from 9% to 10%. The fee earlier for all the sellers was 9%, now for ebay store owners (which mind you is a lot) get rates like 4%, 6% etc based on what items they are selling.

So, ebay is actually giving great price to sellers who sell at scale (now they can open an ebay store, which is definitely a good deal!). They are just trying to promote the adoption of eBay Stores which helps their business and sellers! What's wrong with that?

When Mr. SellSimple reaches the scale at which eBay does their business, we will see how "good" they play and we start critizing them when they actually try to make money (4% cut won't help you in scaling the business).

For casual sellers (the guy who sells his iphone once in 2yrs): They will need to pay 1% extra, which is frankly not much. I sold my iphone4 after 2yrs for $240 + $6 shipping on eBay. I don't mind paying 1% extra.
> It's logic board started acting up about a year after I bought it. I didn't buy AppleCare. Apple fixed it out of warranty at no cost to me.

Don't know about where you live, but here there are actually laws concerning the minimum warranty. If something internally breaks within a year, you're certainly going to have warranty. I'm not sure about two years.

I think Apple actually got sued once for misleading advertisements, trying to get people to buy the AppleCare pack while they had warranty anyway.
Previous class, 9Gag had been around for a while before they got into YC.
Finally. I was waiting for that to happen so everyone will go home and move on.
How about determine the default setting in a random fashion?

DNT = Math.random()> p ? on : off
You're kinda right here, the twitter analogy is not quite the same, the PyCon incident involved a handful of people and spoken words while the twitter one is much much worse as it is made public to the whole internet and doesn't go away once written.

Apart from this significant difference, both are dick jokes and to me seems to be poking innocent fun but reveals a closed mindedness and double standard from Adria.
Uh.. doesn't it say OPT-OUT is an acceptable browser default?
I somehow got the impression that the author was female. I've corrected my post.
No Bitcoins yet - but it's definitely something I'm personally interested in and when the time is right would consider implementing. Still a bunch of un-tested use cases IMHO.

Right now we're using Balanced (awesome product - http://balancedpayments.com) to process payments & escrow funds.

Do you know of any API's that are similar to Balanced but for Bitcoins?
85 might even be low-balling it. I heard recently that Girl's born in Australia this decade now have an estimated 50% chance of hitting 100.
Are we ready to do our banking via Facebook?
Since there are by now probably a lot of readers who go back to the book and user it as a reference, is there any chance that you include new topics / extra chapters with more advanced topics? Would be great (+ you could charge me again... ;-).
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I am late to the party. I was hoping to see more discussion of the brilliant marketing and people trying to take away some tips on how to grow their own businesses. Nope. Precious little discussion of marketing. De Beers was extremely brilliant. Everyone's short hairs seem to be caught in this vortex, contrary to the usual HN discussions.

I will note that I think there is validity to the idea that willingness to pay a high "bride price" of some sort has actual value. But it's after midnight and this conversation is essentially dead already. So I think I will not waste my time elaborating. No one will read this comment anyway. :-)

Later.
Yes, waaay off.

Just using publicly available data like top 10 social networks, you can see Bump is top 10 in many regions:

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/apps/top10appstoreso...

The MAU numbers are way off for us (and some others I have a pretty good idea about), so I'm not sure you're measuring anything accurately about mobile, FYI.

- Jamie @ bump
You should look at Alexa for world traffic vs US traffic, not many YC companies are targeting international users yet but are very successful in the US. Take into account FB/Twitter followers as well. Even though followers don't determine success, companies that don't grow their social side of the business usually indicate a slow growth or nongrowth business. Also goes to show how much extra time or money they have to throw at it.