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As a VP of Operations trying to hire 3 support engineers right now, this post is spot on.

I'm paying you what I think you're worth, and that's a stab in the dark based on what other support engineers in $locale are making, how sharp I think your skills are, and most importantly, how much potential I think you have (I expect one of my candidates to grow into my position at some point when I leave to be a CTO at my next org).

TL;DR People are the hardest part, and we're all still learning how to do it right. Interesting times such as now don't help.
Fake it 'til you make it. If you act like you know what you're doing for long enough, that will actually end up building confidence.
While your point is valid, I'm left wondering if too much openness becomes a problem. When I was single, I made an OkCupid profile and decided to, for better or worse, be as open and honest as possible (a principle I adhere to in meat space as well). I had over 1200 questions (this is a lot) answered and never tried to make myself seem like something I wasn't.

I figured I was doing everything right, and I was optimistic (a good handful of my friends had great success on OkC), but I barely got any dates, and the ones that I did ended up being duds. I did this for maybe 8 months.

Contrast that to the couple of months I signed up for a paid match.com account (pro tip: paying for a service and looking for someone else who has paid for a service shows a mutual seriousness about the service; OkC's barrier to entry is practically zero so many people don't end up taking it seriously) and here I am with a going-on-three-years-now happy relationship. Match barely has any information to fill out and it makes me wonder if that ends up being a more successful model, as it pushes much of the "screening" process to meat space, where it's a lot easier to discern people's idiosyncrasies.

Of course, being open once you're offline is absolutely key. I'm just not sure how well it works for the first online impression.

Edit: I don't mean to attribute my relationship success to my choice of service, that was pure luck. I just wanted to point out that it'd be interesting to see more data about openness' influence on dating site success rates.
CORRECTION -- that should say: "Otherwise, for global-graph algos, you would feed Fulgora from Titan directly and query Fulgora's in-memory graph" (sorry if I confused anyone).
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To be honest, I wasn't sure whether or not the noidea application was live. I had to go look at the source. So it looks like we de facto killed it by never enabling it for s13. Frankly it's not a big deal either way. We only accepted one noidea application last cycle, and IIRC there were only about 50 applications.
Aside from that, even being able to plug things in doesn't guarantee a useful connection.

I can plug a tablet into a computer by USB, but it can't be a keyboard. Even though it contains a keyboard - is a superset of keyboard components - it still doesn't have the software to do it. Nor can it be a USB soundcard, or a USB display.

(But it can be a second display over TCP/IP and that can be done over a USB-Ethernet dongle which it does support).

Quite precisely what can be usefully plugged into what, is a website I've considered creating for a long time.
Interesting timing for your Ask HN. I just went through the process of moving off of two Google services that I consider to be "critical infrastructure" for me: GMail and Blogger.

I used to use GMail as my primary email, and forward all email from my own domain email account to GMail. I notified all of my important contacts to change their address books to reflect my own domain email address. I still use GMail as a backup, and for sending large pictures to family members, and other non-critical stuff.

Moving away (slowly) from GMail has been easy.

Moving away from Blogger has been a painful experience. I first exported my data, set up Wordpress on an unused EC2 micro instance I paid a three year pre-pay on. This was easy to do but the micro instance fell down occasionally because of CPU throttling. I moved to a "professional" hosting Wordpress hosting company, prepaid for 3 years, and am not so happy with them, but I will probably use up the 3 year buy in (or not). I have learned some tricks for making Wordpress sites more efficient, but this is knowledge I bever wanted :-(

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and LinkedIn all have fun and useful services, but I would not want to depend on any of them for things I rely on to earn a living.

BTW, I would like to give a shout out of thanks to Google for always making it so easy to get data off of their services - a good one on them for that.
"You won't regret positive feedback."

This was the standout quote from this pack for me, because I think positivity opens up a lot more doors than the realistic skeptical viewpoint which is (at least my) default. Would others agree? Or is there some time when you've given positive feedback and caused unrectifiable damage?
I once wrote an email to Jobs at 8am on a lark and got a reply within 30 minutes. It seemed like if he was using his iPad and wanted to respond, he did so immediately.
Check out this post he wrote:

http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/
Thanks to you and floitsch for answering. My concerns have been allayed about the DOM, and cutting up a program into components.

I don't want to focus overmuch on the specifics of the Google Analytics example, but it's illustrative so I'll continue. While GA can be isolated, if you want it to track any events that involve your script code, they need to call out to the API that GA loads onto the page. Its their intention that they can push code updates to my page (which may change how it communicates to GA servers), without me needing to redeploy my own code.

The analytics world is now proliferating with a number of script-loader services that serve the same purpose: update tracking (including interacting with other parts of the page), without integrating into the deploy process. There are plenty of arguments that this is a Bad Thing, but nonetheless enough people are willing to pay for this service to keep afloat multiple companies where that is their only product.

It's totally possible to load scripts like that in via the JS FFI, especially ones with a well-defined API. But, if both parts are separately Dart, it would be nice if they could integrate more easily than round-tripping through JS. Among other things, it would be nice to have the type information carry through.

So that's where I'm coming from, and the use cases I'm interested in. And if you say that those development practices are something you don't want to encourage I wouldn't entirely disagree. It does seem like something rather different than the approach your taking, and the best way to reconcile it would be for library authors to publish a header file for functions/types that Dart2JS could assume to exist. Dunno if that's a route you would want to go.
> So...90% of people, give or take, are straight.

And a lot of those straight people may one day get involved with, have been involved with or may find themselves interested in someone who isn't straight. Many of whom are bi (or queer or whatever label) and most of whom do very very much care about being on a site that doesn't just serve straight people since they're open to dating both straight and non-straight folks.

So if a site is inclusive, the straight dating pool should be larger too. Even if you decide the only thing you care about is straight people.

> Online dating is a clusterfuck of failure for straight people (ask anyone who's tried it, or the OP.)

Funny enough, I can just ask myself, since I did use online dating to date plenty of straight people before coming to my senses.

Also, I have a fair number of straight friends, a lot of them appreciate OKC a lot and use it regularly with good results.

The people I hear complaining about it most often are usually people who are just angry about the fact that they can't get dates... online or offline. It turns out there's a lot of frustrated straight people out there, but there's also just a lot of straight people out there. Assuming that online dating works magically well for gay/lesbian folks but doesn't for straight people seems like a really large leap to make and also seems really untrue from what I've heard. (I've known LGBT folks who haven't found online dating to be that great and I should also note that in general offline dating can be harder for LGBT folks (especially in some parts of the world) than for straight folks and online dating looks pretty good by comparison.)

> And this guy is an idiot for trying to cater to the straight dating market? Precisely why?

Well first off, I never actually said that. What I did say was that the way the site felt it felt like it was designed with a pretty narrow frame of how dating worked and that narrow frame was likely going to be a problem in a bunch of ways. For me, it doesn't work at all for a bunch of reasons. For others, it'll likely be something else.

Look, if he was making a conscious design choice to only care about straight people, that's a thing you could do in a defensible way and you could probably design something pretty cool. But it didn't feel like a conscious decision, it felt like a decision that was made because someone didn't think through their problem well enough to even realize the things they didn't think about. And that's the real problem.
178 packages to test a system that is designed to give the same result every single time. How is that a "small sample size"?

I picked a random article from Nature Medicine. They used groups of 6 mice, you know, the living organisms, to test the result of some obscure DNA change on bone formation, you know, the process with hundreds of intermediate stages and a bazillion of environmental factors. These studies are rarely if ever reproduced.

But it's here that all the theorethical scientists come out of the woodwork to give some off-remark on how it has a "too small sample size" or didn't control for X.
I was looking for a second letter. It took me a minute to realize the two letters were "OK."
Yes, highly dynamic:

(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (space 0) (debug 0))
(type sb ,c)
(type (simple-array sb (,n)) ,copy))
The thing that sucks the most, is that Steve is not here for us to ask, I am sure the answer would have been confusing and interesting.
I think you'd find that there are other people who share your values regarding quality. Eventually, you might be able to share the work of maintaining the site with these people and the site will grow more quickly. (And maybe you'll enjoy seeing some new templates appear.)
Otherwise, (I think) what will happen is that you'll get tired of maintaining the site and updates will stop.

Anyway, I'm glad your site exists and I appreciate your work.
Interview: Epic goes all-in on HTML5 with UE4 support
It seems like a good possible solution for some people and it has a natural virility to it that shouldn't be underestimated. (Once your friends do it for you, they tell their other friends they did it for you and it should grow).

I get that you are not straight and feel like services should always consider you, but less than 20%, (and by most estimates 10%) of the population is not straight. Spending 90% of your time to go after that market seems like a waste when it will be difficult enough to get the straight market. I'm sure the OP will grow in to gay/lesbian market if they have success in the straight market, you can be patient and relax until then.

Just a few thoughts:

But the whole feeling of a service where friends are setting up friends without having a dialogue about consent or you know, whether I'm even at all interested in them being involved in my dating life (god knows I have plenty of friends where I'm not interested in their suggestions) is just not really okay.

The service doesn't put a gun to your head and make you go on the date.

And did I mention creepy? I did. But I should say it again for emphasis, because this doesn't feel like friends helping friends, it's just creepy.

I like when people use the word "creepy" because it doesn't actually mean anything. It is simply a description they use when they don't like something. "That girl/guy is creepy" means, they don't like them. "that social service is creepy", well you get it.

I think adding a social aspect to dating is a great idea, but it's something that has to be done carefully and IMO this implementation seems radically bad.

Why does it have to be done carefully? Taking a bold approach might work here, and I applaud the OP for taking it. If it is over the top, it won't work.
OKCupid actually has a question that you could use to filter out non-Jewish people or people who want to date only Jewish people. But unfortunately it sounds like she decided it mattered only when the relationship was underway.
I don't care if I get downvotes for saying this, but I think this story is full of crap.

Such a small sample size could only be considered acceptable if there was overwhelming consistence.

Also, the USPS system is not a black box, it is well known that they optimize for cost, not speed. e.g., if the adresses happen to not have the 9-digit zip, the packages will have to go through manual sorting, probably understaffed.

I'd say no real atheist would trumpet for this crap quasi-science, only those who pretend to be one just for making a quick buck would.
Yep, your server will need to support Range requests. If it doesn't, then assets will just load over HTTP normally.
Of course I said im non technical not non having a brain .
Your opinion is crap. 10X difference on such a sample size is statistically significant.
Sure. I think your social thing is going to need a lot of work to feel comfortable to people though, but I'd be happy to talk about it when I have time to spare.
You do make a good argument. When I read blog posts and they make a statement like that I tend to just read it as "Most X do Y" instead of "All X do Y." It's like the word literally. Everyone that uses the word literally use it instead of figuratively, even though they mean the latter (jokes I make are bad).
Companies ought to have fundamental value (although one may be skeptical if a company has no plans to give investors access to that value via dividends or acquisition) but Bitcoin doesn't. Also, I think of Bitcoin as more of a bubble machine than a pyramid scheme.
Heroku 2X Dynos: Resize your dynos with twice the resources (private beta)
Apache Jena is a graph database and has been an Apache project since 2011 and graduated from the incubator in Apr 2012

http://jena.apache.org/
I guess that's right. Someone with enough computing power could harm bitcoin to the point it'll be unusable. But the people with those motives (government, banks) are much less likely to be part of something like that than people with financial motives.
It covers a lot of subject matter, and all of it seems to be from ways of interacting with the world that are alien to me. Public complaining about your ex? Pick up artistry? Inteviewing cliques of women in bars? Bizzare charactures of the idea of romance? Weird superiority/inferiority posturing? Trying to reduce a first impression to one-liners?

It feels more like cable television than real life.
It was interesting short story that put a tear in my eye (seriously) but since you knew Steve (even little bit), why did you put "SJ R.I.P." at the end?
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How often do students learn about real-life failure stories? For famous historical examples with books about them: GO Corp (1990-era pen computing) and the Chandler project (personal information manager, mid 2000).

I've personally found some stories about failures to be quite informative, because they help show failure modes I had never suspected. But I had to learn about most of these post-school.
They never have gone after FOSS projects, which makes it all the more strange that they haven't been willing put all their patents under this. Presumably they have no outstanding suits that would be affected.
To be fair, slides usually accompany a talk. If he stood there and just read off the slides verbatim, yeah, that'd be lacking in substance. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that his actual presentation went into more depth.
I went to Rutgers & it was day and night in 2004-2005 & 2006 onwards as far as house shows were concerned in NB. Unfortunately, NBPD has been known to use a heavy hand in a lot of things. Not too long ago, the Prosecutor's office was investigating an Internal affairs guy for mishandling 81 cases.

On a side note, NYPD had an elaborate, illegal surveillance operation spying on Muslims in the NJ area that was outed when a building super inadvertently walked into the apartment being used as their base.
It's at least reflective of his low-filter personality. I'm more surprised that his friend in the linked Grouper article posts a picture and labels one girl as the grenade.
wow... love some examples and comparisons to help us see this better!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442728
The LawDingo dude is a non-technical sole founder. The bar will be higher for you for sure, but it's not impossible and you wouldn't be the first. Good luck with your application, I wish you all the best.
A campaign to expand the definition of "a foreign language" to include computer "languages" would be supported by a lot of powerful interests in tech and lead to dramatic economic benefits for the individual and broader community.
Assess. FTFY =)
Bitcoin is still a baby. I think many people who say stuff like this are missing the point and not seeing long term. This is like saying the internet will never be useful because it's just text and 14.4 kbps is the fastest modem.
Just sent an e-mail, no need to reply. I'll reach out again after we've built this.
Yeah, I think there should perhaps also be a 'time' factor. Because I know plenty of people who've deleted facebook altogether, returned, and are in the same boat.
I'm with you on this and I'm almost hesitate to say it because I want widen my head start ;)
While this reaction is definitely understandable, I think along similar lines of some others here that someone that busy just doesn't always have time for a verbose response. "OK" may have been exactly what he had time for, and if that were the case, I'd say his response was likely sent faster than it would have been if someone had asked him an interesting but less urgent message.

Of course, as with everyone else's opinions... this is 100% speculation.

I have the same like-or-hate reaction, though for a different reason: This sort of thing encourages the irrational hero worship that Jobs fostered while he was alive and that's only grown in some circles after his death. Yes, this story shows that he did something good for someone. Once. And I'm sure there are other similar anecdotes. But the takeaway here will not be "this is something that Steve Jobs did that was nice," it will be "OH WOW STEVE JOBS WAS A SAINT."
Bitnami the YC company?
Learning Design: An Initial Curriculum
I don't claim much knowledge of the far east, so this is just a gut reaction: to me (in the USA) I have always looked at India as being a very good partner for the USA. I think both countries share a lot of common values and have aligned interests.

I hope for an as good as possible relationships with China, but it seems like China's interests are not so well aligned with ours. (I am still waiting for China to join with possibly Russia, South America, and other regions to jump off of the US$ as their reserve currency.)
The OP here. I'm a programmer who wants to learn design. Any other resources I should consider?
Which is a very very useful skill to have in its own right
Those low numbers would be expected, not having an idea would certainly be an exception or a minority among entrepreneurs (the type of people who constantly can't fall asleep because of some new crazy idea eatting away at them).

But it was certainly an interesting experiment to see if there are people who accept that they have the skillset to build a company but not have the idea part figured out.

Although requiring them to come up with an idea could be a good ability test, even if it isn't what they end up building. Because a large number of companies end up doing something different that turns out to be successful.

ala "getting to plan b" (or the abused "pivoting") http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Plan-Breaking-Through-Business...
Are you a lawyer? Do you know at all what is necessary to prove the black letter elements of fraud in the jurisdiction where the contract between the dev/client originated? Are you licensed to practice there?

No? Well then it seems by saying that it's definite fraud, you've made a false statement with reckless disregard as to whether or not it's true, with the intent that someone reading these comments would rely on your statement and form a conclusion which would negatively impact and defame the developer in question here.

Now of course what I'm suggesting is ridiculous, but no more than your completely unfounded statement that this situation is "definitely fraud." You don't know what you're talking about, your URL citation makes that inherently clear to anyone who does and it's just unnecessary to comment like this.
I'm not sure who you're responding to, because:

Not entire: half. And not dumber: negative.

But I rest my case.
eshell interfaces pretty well with tramp (well, not over FTP obviously, but ssh) so if you're editing a file over tramp and start eshell, it'll be in the directory of the file on the remote host. you can also use tramp-y paths in eshell:

cd /user@host:/home/user/
If you're on Ubuntu, there's an apt package available in ZFS On Linux project's ppa. It downloads the source, builds it against your installed kernel and installs it. Rebuilds on any kernel update. Very handy.

https://launchpad.net/~zfs-native/+archive/stable
Maybe the story around it primed my reaction, but the terseness struck me a little differently.

"Every minute I spend writing this email is another minute you will spend waiting for the response, and a minute less you will have with your friend."
I haven't delved into the whole logics, but it seems from the wikipedias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Soyga) that there's much more to be decoded from the tables. Given their likely magical or esoteric nature, the contents themselves of course are likely to be much less interesting to HN than their encoding... but a challenge remains.
I'm pretty sure if you don't think the word creepy has meaning attached to it and don't understand how it's applied, you're very unlikely to be able to build or design a dating site that people (particularly women) are going to find comfortable and will want to use, straight or otherwise.
" The US government is increadably well run when compared to just about every government throughout history"

Do you have anything to back that claim up? I have quite a few friends who go on rants about government inefficiency and would be nice to have some hard data.

I always just resort to asking: what's a more laissez faire country that you'd actually want to live in? is their approach scalable and sustainable?
George Box 1919-2013 (statistician)
I think your viewpoint is unduly pessimistic. Yes, if you're a Java programmer at a BigCorp, you can be making considerably more than a programmer at a startup. But a programmer at a startup is still making considerably more than average income in this country. Yes, some startups are badly managed and burn out their employees. But I've seen plenty of death marches at BigCorps - witness the tales of terror from the game industry especially.

In the end it's up to you to judge the company for both human and career aspects, and to choose wisely who you work for. In ten years of working in the bay area, I have not regretted working for startups once. In short - mileage will vary.
What a silly and misleading article...shame
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