skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla has released an official video of Musk explaining the broad strokes of the financing plan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twC1d-HEfJw&list=UU5WjFr...
Just as a note... remote work is not okay with them anymore
Courts will generally refuse to take on manufactured cases. Their job is resolve real disputes.

A lower court would probably just throw the case out.

And if it didn't, the higher courts, which would set a widely binding precedent, would exercise their discretion simply not to hear the case. Yes: they get to pick and choose what appeals to hear.
Are there other options besides product mgmt?
Android app is currently being beta tested, and will indeed grab files from the team server as you requested :) --yuri
What would be the benefit of Go over Haskell in this case?
Of course they do, and many of them will make it as difficult as possible to switch without making it look like they're doing just that. Something you're taught is to make the "cost of switching" as high as possible.

I, personally, have continued to pay for a service I no longer used simply because it was such a pain in the ass to cancel.
I've been debating using something like Parse or Azure as a backend, and this looks like a nice alternative as I'm usually a roll-your-own-solution kinda guy.

But I worry about how it would hold up in terms of performance, given this recent benchmarking fest featured on HN. http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/28/framework-benchma...
I wish it were a bit more robust than it is. The ZooKeeper version we run (3.3.4, admittedly not the newest) reports the wrong version number (3.3.3) and has a major bug in the way it does snapshots. We found that it doesn't serialize the tree of nodes to disk correctly so there is a race condition where it writes a node even though the parent of that node has been deleted. Then ZK tries to reload from the flawed snapshot but it cannot so it crashes which results in endless leader elections that never resolve..

All software has bugs and these specific problems have been fixed in newer versions, but they are super scary issues to run into with your distributed coordination service.
This is excellent news. PyCharm has been great to work with, along with every other JetBrains product barring AppCode. I attempted to try to replace Xcode with AppCore for C++ development as I was put off by some of characteristics of Xcode and had many positive experiences with JetBrains. AppCode ended up modifying my preexisting Xcode project that I had opened, changing several settings that silently broke my build. I don't really recall what settings it broke in particular, but I just reverted so it wasn't that big of a deal. It didn't end up suiting my purposes very well as the C++ support just wasn't that great at the time. It seemed like a decent IDE if you do ObjC work, though.
2013 Best Companies to Work for In America
Yes - we've built out pages for careers in Sales, Social Media, Editorial, Marketing & PR, and Bus Dev so far, and a few more (esp Engineering) are in the works.

You can find them all by going to the blue bar on the top that says "Choose a Career Path to Explore" and selecting one from the drop-down menu
In reality it is an option, but given the artificially constrained "world" we're dealing with in this article, it made sense to skip that to make a point. Also, depending on what you are trying to accomplish, it might not make sense, depending on your liquidity needs. It's one thing to own a big chunk of a company which is actually very valuable, but quite another when you do not have access to that money in order to actually, ya know, do stuff.
Wait, nobody's even bringing up the fact that maybe the game developer didn't get the pass on merit alone? Yeah, the comment was rude (people are rude everywhere, always), but maybe he had a point.
Actually, Halliburton (among others) has a pending patent application covering patent trolling, "Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party":
http://www.google.com/patents?id=lx-wAAAAEBAJ
I have a membership there also, RoR is very widely used by startups nowadays.
Possibly Offtopic - If you are going to link directly to blog posts of companies (especially if they have been in private beta) could you PLEASE have a "What is $product" bit.

Either one or two lines in the initial part of each post or preferably in an easily noticeable sidebar.

I had to go to the main site before I could figure out what aerofs was.
These are wins for the buyer, not as clearly for the seller. Of course, if the seller sold voluntarily then it seems silly to argue that it wasn't what they wanted.
I don't expect people to go searching for treasures, but anything you would do with the phone short of just throwing it into the trash will involve you taking the case off.
It probably depends on the person. With a guy who uses phrases like "because tits", "fuck off" might be the only thing that makes it through his thick skull.
PR Situations You Can’t Control and How to Deal With Them
How does it different than existing "built-in" folder sharing (e.g. SMB)?
You can keep building when you have $10M in the bank. You can build a lot of things, not just websites. You can build a hotel. There's so much out there to do. Working on the same thing my whole life sounds miserable.
There's a bright side to bigots publicly announcing their bigotry. For example, now I know I don't need to bother applying for work wherever Ryan Smallegan works.
Seriously, please do this. The grab on the homepage is great, but we have to click away before seeing what AeroFS actually is!

The grabpoint "AeroFS encrypts your data end-to-end, and only shares your files with those who you invite. Files are never stored in the public cloud." is good, you should stick that into the header, especially for a press release / HN submission where you will be getting attention.
I am experimenting Dropbox + Truecrypt. The trade-off is between limited free space v.s. hassle of maintaining your own cloud.
The "Me Too" trap of Competitive Advantage
I'd be interested in hearing from a lawyer whether this would constitute interception of or tampering with telecommunications. In a lot of places that's highly illegal except for installation/maintenance/repair, law enforcement or where it's been invited and approved.
I recently sold my company and I agree with Jake.

What most commenters don't understand, in my opinion, is that real entrepreneurs don't start their company to get rich. If getting rich is your priority, become an investment banker (If you really want to code, make some automatic trading algorithms and financial models for investment bankers.)

In that regard, selling your company is, very often, a failure.

In my experience, the worst is to have to give up your values. As a young entrepreneurs, I started my first company 10 years ago with not only a strong vision for my product, but also an quite idealistic goal for the values of my company and my team. We wanted to be different. We wanted to do things as we thought it was right to do. And nobody could tell us what we had to do. It was such a strong feeling. It drove the success of the company. Ten years later, we got acquired by a large corporation that is not better or worse than you normal large corporation. And we had to give up all that. That's failure.
Congrats Yuri. I love the product.
That isn't really what I mean. I'm definitely OK with functional style collections and futures and the like. I'm annoyed with implicits, macros and other action at a distance language features that it make it hard to reason about something locally.
This paragraph from the post is key in understanding the significance of the lawyers taking the fifth:

I'm a criminal defense attorney. I cherish and support the Fifth Amendment. Its invocation here was completely lawful. But its invocation will have catastrophic consequences for the Prenda Law enterprise, which cannot possibly continue. When they appeared today, John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, and Paul Duffy were not merely individuals facing the overwhelming power of the state. They were also officers of the court and, according to the testimony of Brett Gibbs, the very attorneys who directed nationwide litigation for the Prenda Law enterprise. Judge Wright ordered them to answer for the conduct of that enterprise in his court, as he had the right and power to do. Their invocation of their Fifth Amendment rights in the face of that order is utterly unprecedented in my experience as a lawyer. In effect, the responsible lawyers for a law firm conducting litigation before a court have refused to explain that litigation to the court on the grounds that doing so could expose them to criminal prosecution.

The lawyers in questions are not on trial. They are there as part of the court. So when they take the fifth, they are essentially saying "I am not a disinterested member of this court." That's not normal.
even neglecting the money aspect entirely, this is bullshit. as a hacker, i want to build things. not "implement a vision", just build something that is useful to someone. if some larger company sees the thing i built and says "wow, this is exactly what we need to fill this gap in our product/service/lineup" and acquires my creation (with or without including me to continue developing it), i would consider that a resounding success.

as a real world example, does anyone think the keyhole vision was somehow killed by becoming google earth?
It's one thing to own a big chunk of a company which is actually very valuable, but quite another when you do not have access to that money in order to actually, ya know, do stuff

Further illustration of exactly the sort of strange mindset I'm talking about. This mindset where a business does not exist to make a profit, oh no, but to be sold to others for a profit.

The origin of business is to turn profits for the invested via the operations of the business. It gets more complicated in large corporations, but if I start a strawberry jelly business and make & sell strawberry jelly, I directly profit on the operations of that business. Because that is what businesses are for!

Now I suppose if you start a business that is unprofitable and will never be profitable, then you better take whatever buyout you can get and run, making sure to leave someone else holding the bag. But hopefully that is not the businesses you folks are trying to start, else this is just the set for another remake of "The Producers".
Compensating for the regressiveness is easy: give it back in cash.
Ask HN: There is a New Relic for Data Bases?
Guys, I don't have a DBA in my startup, and using MVC, I feel that my queries are sometimes slower than they could be. There is anything similar to New Relic only focused in the queries?
Reply: M$ and crApple. Have a nice day!
Ask HN: I want to provide free research.
I've always had a dream of starting up an online marketing research firm. I've been in the space for some time now and I feel like it's time to start setting things up.

The vision I have for the firm is a hybrid between DIY research and full-service consulting. In order to get some movement, I need to start working on some projects for free.

That's where you come in - can I conduct research and help answer your business questions (for free)? In exchange, I get some solid work for my portfolio.

You get - conjoint analysis (product design), pricing analysis, discriminant analysis, questionnaire design, crosstabs, or any research objective that you can think of for your startup. Give me your objective and I'll give you a proposal.
I'm confused. I thought seed rounds were small amounts en route to angel investments, which might lead to a Series A.
Pretty much. I agree with Niggler's advice that you also need to be looking at firing your hosting company, but even companies like Amazon mess up sometimes so YMMV. You can't afford to let good leads go cold though. And if this lead doesn't bite, don't despair - you can always contact that person again in a month or two, and in the meantimekeep plugging away.

Hope things work out for you.
Agreed. If I were one of the 71, I wouldn't bother requesting a refund. I'd just call up the number of the back of my card and say "I didn't authorize this charge."
I see it the opposite way — I do not want my service arbitrarily canceled just because I didn't see an email sitting in the bottom of my spam folder. Unless we're talking about some exceptionally expensive service here, any plausible price increase is unlikely to be more upsetting than total loss of a service that I apparently considered worthwhile in the first place.

IMO, the best thing is to grandfather people in. The next best thing is to just let people know what's going on, move them over and offer a refund if they are dissatisfied with the new plan.
Well that sucks, I don't use the app-store because I am against it for a thousand reasons. But I thought, what the hell I am going use a promo-code and give this guy some feedback.

So I go through the trouble of actually giving apple all that invasive information they want in order for you to download anything, and all the codes have been redeemed and only one person seems to have honored to provide you a review. :(

And in the 12 minutes it took me to create an HN account to post this story, two more reviews show up. :(

Its just not my day evidently.
Just added a comment box on the site for some cool ideas and code. I still don't know what this site will become. Just having fun learning to code.
That's great, I don't expect an academic explanation but just having heard of it is pretty good.
That question by itself is not a deal breaker.
An 'engineer' should at least know about things like data structures or just anything beyond Rails.
Most interesting problems require more than knowing how to create CRUD apps.
Apple Insiders Rumor Mill
That's marketing 101 folks. You should always include a short paragraph describing your offerings.
'New York Times' Ad Shows Paper on Day You Were Born
Samoa Air charges passengers by weight
250K is a NY state rule. Other states may have different limits.
maybe I just want to cash out, fly to Scotland, and spend the rest of my life looking for a 6' tall, redheaded supermodel with a Scottish accent to marry

Having lived in Scotland, I can confidently advise you that you are better off conducting that particular search in London. Your critique of the article was spot on, though.
In what relative normality is it acceptable to tell a group that one of their members received something due to her "award-winning tits?"

I'm all for multi-lateral motives, but some things are wrong for anyone "in town," whether they rode in on a buckboard or lived there their entire lives.
I attended the Launch conference in San Francisco this year and specifically asked many of the startups demoing their software what they wrote in. The majority of them were written in RoR. Also, if you are just starting out with programming in general, once you get the hang of Ruby (which is the backbone of RoR) rails will be the fastest way for you to get applications up and running on the web. I would go ahead and say "Yes" to choosing RoR. Best of luck!
It works over the Internet. It is basically Dropbox, but peer-to-peer within your personal collection of machines. They do not provide the storage.
Absolutely, and I didn't say anything to contradict that. But there are limits to the availability of the value you have created with your business. Outside of paying yourself a salary equal to the entire profit of the company (or more, for a limited period of time), what do you do if you need a chunk of cash for some specific purpose at a point-in-time? The most obvious, straightforward and common means is to sell equity in the company to others, up to or including selling the entire company.

I, for one, am not advocating the idea of "build to flip" as a generally good thing. But still... the goals of the founders have to be kept in mind, and if selling the company is the best path for them to accomplish their goals, who are we to tell them otherwise?
One thing I can immediately see this being useful for is guessing a companies logo:

http://mebe.co/macdonalds_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/curtin_uni_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/guzman_gomez_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/target_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/microsoft_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/apple_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/flowdock_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/guildford_grammar_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/sunglass_hut_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/trello_logo.jpg
http://mebe.co/android_logo.jpg

That would be a pretty sweet thing to add to your signup forms.
At least the logo goes to the main page of the website, and not the main page of the blog.

EDIT: heh, that was fixed 46 minutes ago.
You haven't given us enough information to even try to answer your question. How old are you? How risk averse are you? Where do you live? (In Palo Alto, $1M pre-tax is close to $700K post-tax and will get you one-third of the way toward one of the cheaper single family homes. Not exactly a fully funded retirement.) Of course this also may be a troll.
Nicely done!

Super innovative. Maybe I'm retarded.. what are the promo codes for?
You sound far stupider than someone speaking Ebonics, and all else equal, I would certainly hire an intelligent and peceptive Ebonics speaker and than someone who displays muddled thinking in grammatical SE.
Apple hasn't had a significant iOS UI change in too long. I know people who have left the iPhone just for that reason. About time.
Well, it's not an option if you've taken VC.

A VC is only looking at time frames of 3-5 years, given the limitations of their business model. If you don't look poised to grow 5-10x within that time frame then it's not worth their time, given they could be throwing money at the next potentially huge company instead.

If you run out of time you might get turfed by your investors when they call in their convertible note, and they'll either aim to liquidate the place or put in someone they think can turn it around.

If you run out of money, it's likely you're screwed because you were encouraged to trade growth for profitability. By this point it's often obvious whether you've run out of time.

Something like that.
Thanks for the suggestion! I just updated the blog with a quick blurb.
> There's no need to be confrontational.

I disagree, I think that the 'real' anything meme is harmful and should be stopped immediately.

> I agree with the suggestion that wealth is generally not the aim that drives the more knowledgeable minds to long-term effect in our industry.

I agree with this as well, I just didn't like the idea that if you are driven by money then you aren't a hacker.

EDIT: added missing word.
They understand that "good code" is code that delivers a lot of value to the person who needs it. Why hate on them for that? You just sound jealous that they make more than you do.
I sent them an email apologizing for any inconvenience and explaining the situation. Thanks so much for your help, if anything positive comes of this and I remember I'll update this post if you're interested!
I stopped reading at "I am tire", as you have shown yourself to be worthlessly illiterate.
Yup, our bad. Turns out we still have a lot to learn about blogging.
Right. There are a number of attempts to generalize the terms of the discussion, but "because tits" guy is a specific wanker. It's OK to say things to this person precisely because of his specific behavior.
He's got it on the Mac App Store, giving away a few copies.
Take half and invest it in a safe and boring way so you don't have to worry about day-to-day expenses for a while even if your next venture fails horrifically.

Pay off any outstanding debts. Help your parents out if they need help with anything (within reason).

Take 20K and spend it on a four month vacation where you don't have to stress about anything and unwind from running a startup.

Use the rest of the money to start a new project where you don't have to raise any money until you have a solid proof of concept or even positive cash flow. Or don't. jwz bought a nightclub instead of staying in software, and he seems quite happy with his decision.

Read Derek Sivers' blog post on what he did after selling cdbaby: http://sivers.org/laboratory

Just because you had one startup exit successfully doesn't mean your next one is guaranteed success.

Just because you have no guarantee of further success, does not mean you should not try again.

Congratulations, and good luck!
My total is around 185k in SV. It was 115k about 1.5 years ago...
You haven't articulated any real objective principle to distinguish when two ways of talking are the same language. The decision seems to be based on politics (in this case politics of race)
Oh, it's just awful. It's worse than just "not knowing JavaScript." This is code from someone who has no idea how to program:

function Browser() {
var ua, s, i;
this.isIE = false;
this.isNS = false;
this.version = null;
ua = navigator.userAgent;
s = "MSIE";
if ((i = ua.indexOf(s)) >= 1) {
this.isIE = true;
this.version = parseFloat(ua.substr(i + s.length));
return;
}
s = "Netscape6/";
if ((i = ua.indexOf(s)) >= 0) {
this.isNS = true;
this.version = parseFloat(ua.substr(i + s.length));
return;
}
s = "Gecko";
if ((i = ua.indexOf(s)) >= 0) {
this.isNS = true;
this.version = 6.1;
return;
}
}

But it's not just these people. Code like this is everywhere! Here's what I ran into on www.safeco.com today (NSFL!):

function setupAddress(frm, i, clickevent) {
if (frm["USERESADDASMAILINGMAIN" + i].checked) {
if (frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS1.value == "" && frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS2.value == "") {
alert("Resident address must be entered for this option.");
frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS1.focus();
frm["USERESADDASMAILINGMAIN" + i].checked = false;
}
if (frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS1.value == "" && frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS2.value != "") {
FieldSwap(document.frmMain.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS1, document.frmMain.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS2);
}
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].value = frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS1.value;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].disabled = true;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].onfocus = frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].blur;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].value = frm.NEWRESIDENCEADDRESS2.value;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].disabled = true;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].onfocus = frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].blur;
frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].value = frm.NEWRESIDENCECITY.value;
frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].disabled = true;
frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].onfocus = frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].blur;
frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].value = frm.NEWRESIDENCESTATE.value;
frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].disabled = true;
frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].onfocus = frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].blur;
frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].value = frm.NEWRESIDENCEZIPCODE.value;
frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].disabled = true;
frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].onfocus = frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].blur;
if (i != 0) {
frm["EXPLANATIONVEH" + i].value = "";
frm["EXPLANATIONVEH" + i].disabled = true;
frm["EXPLANATIONVEH" + i].onfocus = frm["EXPLANATIONVEH" + i].blur;
}
} else {
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].disabled = false;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].onfocus = null;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].disabled = false;
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].onfocus = null;
frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].disabled = false;
frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].onfocus = null;
frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].disabled = false;
frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].onfocus = null;
frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].disabled = false;
frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].onfocus = null;
if (i != 0) {
frm["EXPLANATIONVEH" + i].disabled = false;
frm["EXPLANATIONVEH" + i].onfocus = null;
}
if (clickevent) {
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS1" + i].value = '';
frm["NEWMAILINGADDRESS2" + i].value = '';
frm["NEWMAILINGCITY" + i].value = '';
frm["NEWMAILINGSTATE" + i].value = '';
frm["NEWMAILINGZIPCODE" + i].value = '';
}
}
}
My IDE has more plugins installed than my web browser!

Standalone utilities generally have poorer UI and require more effort to find and run.
U is logically parallel to I, and is accepted in (India) Indian English.