skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the idea I stated above there is nothing stopping sales / marketing people from going. While they may not be techies per se I expect them to be knowledgeable out their products.

My proposal is purely to get rid of the "Pretty face, no knowledge, hired solely for the event" style of "booth-babe".

Of course companies could hire people for the require X months but I am hoping the monetary aspects of that would discourage them.

Also, enforcing the proposal would be tricky I think.
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You're right! Thanks, I'll get that fixed up in the next batch of edits.
Thanks for writing this, Fred. I'll be honest, I never thought about the failures from a VC's perspective other than "Oh well, I guess the other wins will make up for that one." There's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes that you would never have heard about if you weren't a part of it, because it's not sexy enough to put on display (nor is it advantageous to the company of the VC).
Good point, even better.
How does this differ from spout except for being in Node?
Along a similar line is the book by Niel Postman comparing and
constrasting Orwell and Huxley, "Amusing Ourselves to Death:
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" (1985).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
US DOS, please refund my visa fee.
Every year millions of people around the world applies for visitor visa to US and more than 75% of them gets denied for no valid reasons. And what does US dept of state does with the $150 we pay , they keep it. It should be refunded if visa is denied. My father in law applied twice and both the time they denied the visa without even looking at the supporting documents I sent and every time I paid them $150. There are no rules written by DOS for these denials. All depends on the mood of the consulate officer. Millions of illegal immigrants roam the country for free. Law abiding and tax paying residents like me can't get my relatives to visit me ? Injustice at its peek.

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Totally different. In all of those cases, the developers have access to devices that run the hardware, and they have economic incentive to target all of those devices. Whereas with your suggestion, developers ship and test native builds for all of the CPUs on the market, plus one extra "portable" version for posterity, one that no immediate customers will ever use (because they'll be using the native versions for their architecture instead). I suspect developers wouldn't even ship the portable version (too much of a pain), browsers won't optimize it (because nobody will use it), and developers won't test it (because nobody will use it).

It's like saying that images are no problem for accessibility on the Web, because designers know to use alt text. Of course they know they should, but we all know what the reality is. A backup "portable" version of an app is like alt text in this way. Some developers would do the right thing; many won't, and the Web will be de facto locked in to x86 and ARM forever.
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That's exactly why. Because they're acting out of responsibility to the company and the VCs.
I put mine together a year ago (http://adit.io). It uses hakyll, a very flexible static site generator written in Haskell. But I want a better design, hence this post.
No, I just mean--why admire someone who is doing something "responsible" with negative marginal utility? Wouldn't it be better to kill the company, start a "better" one with higher likelihood of "blowing up", take investment from the same VCs, 5x their investment this time, and redeem oneself that way?

As an entrepreneur, growing a "runt" company is basically wasting your talent, and that of anyone else you have working for you. Your own skillset, and all the company's other assets, are locked away doing something that's not making anyone--especially you!--nearly as much money as you could if you tossed the current company out and rolled the dice again. If a larger company was responsible for the project you were managing, they'd shut it down and move you to something else where you could make them more money (see: Google Reader.)

In economic theory, this is why layoffs and recessions are good: they kill companies that were just getting by, and release the human capital "stored up" there to move to newer, brighter ventures.

I mean, it's fine if all you really wanted was a lifestyle business--but lifestyle businesses don't take investment.
As someone who also made the jump from primarily using PHP to Python a while back, I have to say that a lot of this is very trivial stuff.

Maybe my experience was different because I was already heavily using ORM's (SilverStripe in particular) to build complex apps very rapidly, and moving to Python+Django was a far more natural process.

> "the fact that Django makes most of the decisions about how the database will be structured just baffled me"

You define your structure with your model, so this is baffling to me. If you're worried about trivialities like column or table names, you're worried about the wrong things.

Anyway, I think that a bit of time with Django and you'll never want to go back. I certainly don't.
When I went to school, junior high was heterogeneous and I was miserable. High school was tracked and pretty good. It was divided like the article said, into Applied Arts, College Prep, and Honors. Applied Arts was where kids who would likely work or go to a trade school after high school took classes that taught them skills, College Prep was for kids who would go to a mid-level state college, then work in a white collar job. Honors was for kids who would end up at the University of California or a quality private university like Stanford or Cal Tech.

I was shocked to discover that there were no Applied Arts at my kids' high school, everyone was being prepared for college whether they liked it or not, and my kids considered college prep as classes for dummies. It seemed like a typical modern euphemism intended to make people feel good without actually improving anything.

I feel sorry for the kids who might have enjoyed metal shop, wood shop, auto repair, graphic arts, or other applied art classes, and who would have gained skills that could bring in decent pay, but who instead drop out of the totally useless (for them) college prep classes and go into low level service jobs or become single mothers.

They still have the tracks, they just have different names. College prep is for students who likely drop out or barely graduate with no skills and be miserable, honors is for students who will likely go to a state college, and AP is for students who will likely go to University of California or a quality private school like Stanford or Cal Tech.

The only change is the names and the fate of the lowest academic track. They are the losers in the current system.
I'm tired of THIS shit.

I'm tired of unprofessional activities like this being ok, because FOR THE MENZ. Because we have "a very special culture". Because the 'intent' was pure (because intent is MAGIC).

I'm tired of having to fight to have my technical skills recognised on an equal footing as men. I'm tired of my baseline pay offerings before negotiation being less, even after accounting for the difference in perceived skill level. [1]

I'm tired of women being perceived as dominating discussions when they are only providing a third of the input [2]

I'm tired of the issue of women being less able to speak is swept under the carpet by the very group of people that repeatedly (like right here) re-enforce this, and then go and blame the victim! [3]

Which, if you haven't noticed, is exactly what is happening here.

Inappropriate entertainment for a professional space is laid on. Women present and directly affected by this sort of thing [4] complain publicly - and rightly so. If you are supposed to be representing the women within an organisation that has done this, your damage control actions are pretty much limited to quit and disavow all involvement. There is no other safe way to recover from the destruction of trust just caused. This is the same throughout business, unless you are so well entrenched that trust is a moot issue, or you really are the only person who could possibly see it right again.

I'm not going to go into all the other reasons why this entertainment was completely messed up, and I shouldn't even have to.

This stuff belongs on hacker news, because we don't live in a world of just finances and code. Because hackers should question their own assumptions and prejudices. Because a company that pisses off 50% of clients and employees needlessly is stupid [5], and understanding how people interact is utterly fascinating and extremely useful.

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...

[2] http://people.ucalgary.ca/~qinli/publication/ajet_cmc_harass...

[3] http://jezebel.com/5944642/women-speak-75-less-when-theyre-s...

[4] http://blog.katylevinson.com/booth-babes-street-clothes-and-...

[5] Actually, the figure is much, much higher than that. Most men I know care about this, or at least care about their families.
Well, it's not. RPython compiler is written in Python.
Thats starcounter numbers. Do you really think IE is bellow 30%? Chrome numbers are inflated.
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I don't believe so. There will be some downs for sure. The main difference with Bitcoin is that every coin is accountable. You know if you possess it or not. Compare that to Tulipmania for instance where one of the reasons for the crash was that people would buy tulips from others that didn't exist.

It's the same as a run on the banks. It happens when the bank has lent out too much money - money that it doesn't have. When people try to withdraw their actual money they put in, it leads to the bank going belly up because they actually created money out of thin air.

I think this is a big difference with Bitcoin and a reason why it will survive the inevitable ups and downs and stick around for the long term.
Every time the donation bar for wikipedia comes up, I think about making a project like this to reduce their bandwidth and server costs. I have no idea if something ad-hoc would work for their workload (they may have way too long of tail).

On the other hand, I think a lot of people would be willing to permanently donate some upload bandwidth and processing power to wikipedia if it were feasible to take advantage of it.
>Will be interesting to see how Google reacts...

I hope they don't come up with the dumb idea to create a Google+ phone. People tend make irrational decisions when confronted with uncertainty.
For future Google browsers, maybe.
> In all fairness sharpening your erlang axe might take 24 months not 24 hours.

In all fairness it won't. Erlang is not a difficult language to learn, and honestly, it doesn't take that much effort for the syntax to become familiar.

The semantics of Erlang are different from that of C-like languages, and therefore I think it's good that it has different syntax. You could give it C-like syntax, but that might be just as confusing, if not more so, since it wouldn't mean the same thing it did in C.
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It's a new building right on the Metro North line (which takes you straight into Midtown). But the surrounding neighborhood is otherwise like Harlem (and not the newly gentrified parts of Harlem).

I think average studio in Manhattan is over $2,500, and that includes Harlem, etc, which drags down the average. The above chart seems to top out at $3,250 for financial district. In comparison, the average 1BR in TriBeCa is pushing $5,000.
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It's admirable to make tough choices and try to return as much as possible to your investors even when the prospects of a big payday are slim; and to keep trying to change the world and achieve your vision even if it eludes you for a long time; and to stand by your customers and employees who believe in that vision.

Less admirable to jump ship from a going concern because there's no rocket ship payday and let the VC and everyone else try to salvage as much as possible.

Think about something like Next... was a struggle and had to be scaled back... Steve Jobs could have just let it go and moved on to the next big thing.
This is a really interesting point! Do you think if there was a run on the bitcoin exchanges they would be able to pay consumers back?
The problem with php is that it looks great on (some) micro-benchmarks, but on real apps under real sustained load it certainly turns to cold dog shit from time to time for no apparent reason.
That's only true to a point. In addition to the consumer-directed packets, large volumes of traffic for Google and Amazon never leave their networks. Shuttling data between datacenters for Google; moving data within the many cloud services of Amazon; or transferring between the two companies (e.g. GCS to S3). This means it's no longer a given that telcos must be larger.

The closer we get to living "in the cloud", the more our traffic can be seen as a window into operations taking place within and between cloud services.
"The only way to secure your victory would be to end representative democracy."

That would be why I prefer a constitutional republic to a democracy.

Edit: to be more specific, a constitutional republic that pays actual attention to the Tenth Amendment.
Not at all. We are seeing an extremely rapid adoption of ES6 features and the standard is going to be completely finalized this year (or early next year), meaning browsers don't really have a choice but to implement it.
"I recall a disagreement I had with a friend many years ago. My claim was that anything I set my mind to was achievable; he thought this idea was ridiculous."

You can do anything you set your mind to if you have infinite time (and money/other resources). As a thought experiment if you are an immortal billionaire with perfect health, you can do anything you want.

Fitting a plan (to successfully complete audacious goals) into a context of limited resources is the real challenge. This is why startups talk of 'runways' and scrounge for funding.

(that said, breaking things down into smaller steps is useful)
That's a bit ridiculously alarmist, isn't it? Heck, you could have lead with that, rather than waiting for me to reply -- you seem to already know what you wanted to say.

Won't developers have access to PNaCL runtimes? How is this so different than Apple developers having access to the other target hardware

It comes down to toolchains and the workflow they're optimized for. With PNaCL, the portable version is the primary target of the toolchain, from which one generates other native binaries. You can still generate native binaries separately, but ideally, PNaCL would lead.

If the tools lead naturally in the right direction, then developers do follow. If you're feeling really worried about it, define a distribution format that mandates a PNaCL entry.
> I fail the 40x rule yet I have a lot of disposable income. IMO, the only rule is what you have left over after rent vs. expenses.

In New York, the rules are whatever the landlords want them to be. Renters have zero bargaining power with vacancies as low as they are in the city.
While I admit I don't know a lot about SF, I have a hard time seeing that large scale redevelopment would make sense once an area is already gentrified, not least from an infrastructure perspective. I also think gentrification works best when it "moves around" to new places, something that seems to have happened successfully in NY.
It certainly seems like a good idea until you spend thirty seconds thinking about why it was such a terrible system in the first place:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2009/02/the-most-im...

If there is new evidence suggesting ability grouping works better for everyone then that's interesting and certainly worth looking at, but highly unlikely since it contradicts the last 5 decades of research.

Regardless, by coercing states into evaluating their teachers with VAM the DOE has effectively made ability grouping illegal since the tests aren't vertically scaled.
It seems the "level" of education at a certain grade is highly variable in the United States. I grew up in Michigan, who, at the time, was a leader in education in the States, and I was seeing beginning algebra in 5th and 6th grade. We moved to Illinois when I was in High School, and experienced much the same your transition to Wisconsin.

These days, still in Illinois, my 7th grade daughter is doing high school level algebra and some geometry.

For a little context, 7th grade pre-algebra + 8th grade algebra is equivalent to Algebra 9 (she'll start with Algebra 10 in high school). 9th graders can take either Algebra 9 as a freshman then Algebra 10 as a sophomore, and so on, or Algebra 9A as a freshman and Algebra 9B as a sophomore.
my question are these: how is shopping and consumer service a Google thing? And how long before this is shut down and google starts, say making shoes? Focus on their strengths and all.

You cannot build a great customer service team overnight, no matter how much you throw at it.
Why would the JSON serialization test perform so poorly though?
Germany still has this system for the most part. Clear separation between trade school and University preparation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany
A VC makes their money on the few times they win, and it more than makes up for all the companies that lose completey. Just barely making back their investment is no better for them than returning nothing at all. (In fact, they could be putting the money into market securities with risk equal to your company's likelihood of return, so you have to give them [that same risk multiplier] * [their original investment] or they lose money, even if you give a "positive return.")

A VC would much rather give you 1mil five times and have you kill four of those companies and make a 100x return on the fifth one. Sitting around forever on the first one trying to eek out a 2x return means you never build the fifth one, and that's a much lower aggregate return.
Submitted our application few hours ago..:)
My high school had a good response to the criticism that tracking is elitist or that it prevents students from switching tracks. Rather than the school deciding your track (regular, advanced, AP), the student decided which level they wanted to take for each class. In the first week or two, if it was too challenging, the student could simply move down a level.
Yup. The details are slightly different for Cogent (I think we had it setup as a separate BGP session rather than as a community tag like he.net does it, but that was because my customer requested it that way.)

But yeah, you give them /32s to null, and they drop those /32s at the network edge.

It stops the attack, well, almost immediately, but the problem is that it kills the target site completely.

(well, often people have web frontends to this, which, well, work poorly when your pipe is completely full, and for that matter, just getting the bgp data to your peer can take a few tries. but yeah, it's still pretty quick and effective, compared to calling someone to whine.)

What we really need is to get everyone to implement bcp38 anti-spoofing rules. If everyone did that, we'd be able to block the sources of the problem, rather than the destination. But, well, that's unlikely to happen, so for now, you just, ah, finish the job.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Do you see anything in the Constitution that grants the federal government the right to tell me what medications I choose to take?

I don't.
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If you do a startup because you think it has high marginal utility, and you won't keep going when the going gets tough, you're doing it for the wrong reason, and you should save everyone a lot of trouble by not doing it in the first place.
All energy sources have negative externalities. Hydroelectric dams are by far the most effective sustainable energy source yet, but they are terrible for riparian ecosystems. The national movement in the U.S. right now is to remove dams wherever possible, not add new ones.
I used a variant of this code for a project for my students. Just had to clean it up a bit and organize the code into parts they should be reading (game logic) and parts they should ignore unless they're really curious (mostly the OpenGL stuff).
The best way to do this is probably a VC fund. Unlike public equities, a broad-market benchmark for startups faces low survival rates, limited liquidity, and ambiguous inter-round valuations - the tracking error would probably render the index useless.
Why is the fire sale better than acqui-hire? (And to be honest, what is the difference?)
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Interesting. Great work guys!
How would anybody know a particular address belongs to you?

Unless there's a direct connection with transactions, or you generate a vanity address with your name in it, there's probably not much way that you could.
This is really freaking cool. I can't believe how short the code is.