skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you talked to the founders? State that you are not looking for a full month salary right at the moment but you need the minimum to pay your rent and feed yourself. You need this money like this week and if you don't have the minimum you are being in a very difficult spot. Also, strongly indicate that you do not like debt and are already over leveraged.

There is no shame in doing this. Now, there will be a couple of scenarios that will play out and both will give you a strong indication of where you stand with this startup.

If you are told that there is absolutely no money to give you the minimum (but you know that there is - believe me there always is some money), then they are basically giving you the finger. At this point, I would ask myself, why the fk am I still in the building?

They may also tell you that they can pay part of your salary but you will have to wait another month, 3 weeks etc. Don't fall for this. This is as good as a no.

If they are serious about the startup and its future (and more importantly your role in the startup), the founders can and will dig into their own money to keep things going. If they do this, then you have to decide how long you can keep going with the company with a reduced salary.

Also, another very likely scenario is that they tell you that you know what its very tough and its likely better that you move on to another job. Please, if this is the message, then take it as a gift. They are basically letting you off a sinking ship with mutual consent. If they start to play the guilt trip (ie. we haven't made any salary either, others aren't taking in a salary either, we are all in this together, etc.) then politely say thank you but under your circumstances you can't stay around. It doesn't matter how many friends you have in the startup. It's a business relationship. What's your upside for no salary? Are they substituting that for equity? Likely not, so don't be a sucker.

Anyways, just my thoughts on this. The main thing is that this is not just your problem. It's also the startup's problem. If they care about your contribution then they will help you.
> If your money supply remains fixed to any of the factors I've listed, you have a deflationary currency.

This seems sensible on it's face, but you're ignoring the effect that speculators have on the market. If consensus is that a commodity will increase 10% year over year then investors will pile on, driving up the price until the expected return is 0%.

When the expected return is 0% (like it is for buying a bushel of corn on a random Tuesday and selling it a month later) then your currency is no longer deflating.

In other words, expected economic growth will be priced in to Bitcoin.

Of course, when the speculators turn out to be wrong about economic growth, you will see the price move. But it won't be deflationary just because the economy is growing.
Anyone have a sense of how the new Ack 2.0 compares to The Silver Searcher[1] (aka Ag)? I've been using TSS for some time now and it's been completely awesome in both performance and functionality compared to Ack v1.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
Ah, I hadn't check the safari link, much better thanks!
I'm going to try to throw together a blog post.

basically though, I've used requirejs for the js both for single page apps and for general js like plugins and galleries.

compass/sass for the css which does minification and concatenation already, and also ensures there is no illegal css

js is processed by requirejs into STATIC_DIR/r/

css is compiled into myproject/static/myproject/css and then uses django's staticfiles system to collect and deploy

grunt is what calls requirejs. it could also concat and minimize css but compass has already done it. it also has watch and does live reload so that my browser will reload the css and even the js when either of them are edited.

on my pages I use a tag:

{% vcss "nestseekers/css/front.css" %}

which renders a <link css tag with a ?v=HASH appended

and

{% r_url 'nestseekers/js/libs/dist/html5shiv.js' %}

for the js
An inside look at the fraud blight
Sure, and the cases where it's particularly useful is when there's a lot of data and nothing is incredibly cut and dry. Or in finding the people after they've been identified (which is why the FBI released the photos on Thursday even though it looks like they had the evidence for > 36 hours).

It turned out not to be too useful here given the identification process was trivial and the suspects started a crime spree the next day. This isn't always the case.
I don't recall Glass ever being touted as a Sousveillance technology, but I'd be happy to be corrected on this.
>> http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/04/why-do-people-hate-thei...

Good insight from the article: "Note, not everyone hates their jobs. There are some entre-ployees out there that love their jobs."

A new species was discovered: the brainwashed employee who thinks he's an entrepreneur.
It would be interesting to see benchmarks on this. I know TSS was faster before, and this release didn't seem to highlight any performance improvements.
Marissa Mayer Defends Her Work From Home Ban
hm, i thought the last letter was an O. I get "This video is not available." using the following id. ShpcjWG_MeO
The verbal promise was to full-fill back pay on this next round, and to cover previous unpaid taxes. I filled for an extension and I did not spend money on an accountant yet.

I don't really know how deep my tax risk is.

I'm not even sure If in the US I am allowed to collect unemployment this time around.
Ionic Security Closes $9.4M to Secure Company Data in the Cloud
Not necessarily antennas. Antennas are in physical layer, not transport or network layer. 802.11n can have multiple antennas but if you are at the boundary of the coverage, multiple antennas won't help much. Multi-path TCP is more about multiple transport streams. Of course it would require separate antennas for Wi-Fi and 4G but that's already the case on current mobile devices. So nothing changes in this sense. It won't affect battery life much from aspect of antenna power consumption because you can only set 4G to backup link, and MPTCP won't offload to 4G until Wi-Fi is not responsive. If you are using full MPTCP (using two links all the time), then that's the tradeoff between performance and power consumption.
And replaced them with the knowledge economy right. Which has some structural issues right now across the developed world i.e record corporate profits, less than record employment rates.
How about rejecting a new thing because it lacks the backing necessary to succeed? Both Firefox OS and Ubuntu are backed by organisations with larger pockets, and Firefox at least has agreements with phone providers.
I'd be delighted to revise or update my views in light of any evidence you could provide.
Google "ground fault interruptor." What are you are talking about already exists. And it doesn't solve the problem.
I use Sublime as my editor as well. Sublime's search functionality is pretty good too, and I can't there's anything bad about it, for my typical use cases... but I've become very used to reaching for ack, and I love the highlighting it uses. On the other hand Sublime does support double click to open on file names in search results.
Thanks, I'm in Australia though and I can't find a similar company.

I'm not talking about the weightless feeling you get when you're in free fall (or on a roller coaster) either, I want to float around!
Apple stores your voice data for two years
I'm surprised there are not more viable OSs.

I'm not surprised. Mobile OSs are faced with an enormous challenge, which is hardware support.

The PC platform (while there are variances) is relatively uniform environment compared to the current crop of SoCs (system on chip) used by phones and tablets. There is hardly any standardization on things like power management, security, and other on-chip peripherals.

Each port for an OS is a lot of effort, so only the most popular OSs (sometimes only one of them) is supported by the manufacturer of the SoC.
No Jailbreak, Chinese Pirate AppStore
I disagree. I don't typically watch a video linked on the internet unless I know what it's going to be about. The article let me evaluate the content of the video to determine that I wanted to go ahead and hit play.
I'd think the best would be a mix of both.
Cool post! Love the illustrated approach you took.
I, for one, like to know a little more about what I'm getting into before I watch a video. A video seems like a bigger time commitment than reading some text. If you sent me straight to YouTube, I'm much more likely to just ignore it.
So true, gave you an upboat. I can seriously try 5 startups in 4 years and I'm a millionaire afterwards, can research on whatever I want and don't have to prove myself to nobody ever again. If you choose to do a PhD, you're still nothing afterwards and you still have to prove yourself to everybody, uargh...

Also, when I talk to PhDs, they seem like little kids who don't have an idea of anything in comparison to startup founders. --> Do a startup
Is There A Link Between Intelligence And Entropy?
No mention of mmap in the ack release notes, so I'd imagine ag is still much faster.
> "Our modern software community", referring to the current generation of the software community

How about the current (or probably already the previous) generation of Ruby programmers? I think that would fit the bill a lot better. And that probably would need the word 'subset' in there somewhere.
What does getting on the HN front page get you?
Absolutely true.

I think it is the 'equivalent value' principle.

Everyone should only work as much as their salary equivalent value, and no more. At least that's what I do.

The rest of the time... ssh to my private server and do stuff for me. I will appreciate it.
...and that SCTP has higher overhead/complexity. But 'slowness' is an imprecise term.

Some applications will perform much faster over TCP because the link is short, reliable, and the application only needs to stream data in-line. Heck, even with network loss you can see gains in TCP vs SCTP.

Some applications will be faster with SCTP because of either the nature of how the application handles network data, or the properties of the network they're traveling over. But speed was never a design consideration of SCTP.

If you want speed, use UDP. If you want something that's fast and "just works", use TCP, or this multipath TCP thing. If you want something designed to pass multiple independent unidirectional data messages across a single "connection" that can span multiple network paths and never miss a beat, use SCTP.
the company is on vapors, and we can not afford salaries right now.

i think i am the least leveraged person, but that's because i planned for some extent for this, and didn't spend any money in the last 6 months. i didn't even visit family for christmas.

it's hard when you know someone with a family might loose their house if you quit, and that spooks the VCs.
Why don't they just support the thing that is most reasonably expected and not surprise n00bs like me.
Sounds good. The Boy Scouts introduced a similar one last month as well. http://www.scouting.org/media/pressreleases/2013/2130306.asp...
I am a girl. I would like to date a hard working and knowledgeable PhD guy like that rather than some small minded people who work in some companies just for money. People who do PhD are often curious people who are very passionate about learning. That alone I found very attractive.
Obama needs to be held accountable to VETO CISPA
If transaction A, drawing from source G, is confirmed six times in blockchain M, the longest blockchain, with length 20, and transaction B shows up, also drawing from source G, but confirmed in blockchain fork N, and N becomes longer then M, then that is a double spend.

Edit: changed one to six.
Completely understood. I can't speak for other companies, but mine has a very strict policy and also many ways to accommodate exceptions to this policy provided the employee has a valid reason for needing an exception.

I agree that strict policies with no recourse for exceptions is a bad thing. I don't know of anyone who would stand up under that kind draconian stance.
How can you even develop software with a chromebook? I though those were browsing/google docs only.
That is how Backbone and all other current frameworks work.
Apparently, graphite shavings in air filters are bad news. One has to wonder if nice mechanical pencils would be too bad, though.
Wasn't sure if there was something particular about SCTP that could induce algorithmic latency such as a buffering requirement, setup/negotiation, congestion control, other overhead, etc.
Bemmu, Google recently removed the $2/month minimum charge when you have billing enabled.

Have a look at http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/04/app-engine-177-r...

Thanks for telling us a bit about yourself, it felt very personal :)
The silver searcher (Ag)[1] ignores files from .gitignore/.hgignore by default, so I find that this sort of project-specific configuration isn't generally needed. There are various editor plugins for Ag, e.g. Ag.vim[2] based on mileszs' excellent Ack.vim[3].

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
[2] https://github.com/epmatsw/ag.vim
[3] https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/t...
The guy is just really good at implementing one of the rules of PT Barnum: "Always keep them wanting more".
One of the less-publicised facts is that working in the pressurized gloves sometimes causes their fingernails to fall off.
True. I think it's also a covert argument for static type checking, though ;-).
Since you advocate inflation, is it okay to distribute new money among everyone proportionally to their balances? If so, isn't it equivalent to mere change in denomination? (By the way, all bitcoins are divisible to 2000 trillion units.)
Chances are that if there are any performance changes, it might even be a decrease in speed because of having to find .ackrc files. We haven't gone profiling 2.0 yet, but that's near the top of our list.
me too, i've tried ack several times but i'm not stuck to it because i've always been able to find anything i was searching for with, tataaa : simple grep and locate.
Are you coding for change or for stability?
Marathon Bomber's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/J_tsar #conversationswithothersuspects
Awesome post! I loved the part about building up the long-term network to reach out to later.
Marathon Bomber Jahar's Twitter and VK account
http://vk.com/id160300242
It would. I wasn't expecting this thread to turn as heated as it abruptly became, or I'd have thought my words out more carefully. Forgive my sloppiness?
I see this as no different than being able to do

for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) { }
Perhaps they want to sell the x86 business and focus on the emerging ARM/alternative architecture business. I wonder what sort of non-compete the deal would include.
The Internet’s shameful false ID
If they're really your friends they'll be understanding — the key word is "if".

1. Are they aware if your personal financial situation? They need to understand if you crash and burn that won't help anybody.

2. What is their situation? Are they in the same boat? If they are there needs to be a bigger conversation. If they aren't they need to be willing to pay you or lend to you or something.

3. Do they have a plan to crash land the plane? When my company imploded in 2002 the best thing i had going for me was a COO who had a crash landing plan: We put a metric on money that needed to come in, set a deadline (so important), and then had a plan to crash.

But it sounds like there is a lack of communication, and sometimes things can actually be worse between friends because they don't want to hurt each others feelings or fear damaging moral.

Side note: The best thing that happened when my company imploded in 2002? I was able to keep the friendship of my co-founder who I knew since high school. And it took me a few years after the failure for me to dig out of that hole.
This is again assuming that the person who fills that $50k/year job contributes exactly $50k/year in value to the economy.

And at some point, when you are talking about investing public funds to create jobs in a period of high unemployment, you need to think of it in terms of subtracting the cost of that person's potential unemployment benefits, medicaid, and other costs that an unemployed person imposes on the public.

So, it's kind of complicated to do a full cost/benefit analysis of this.
Vim users, don't forget the essential ack.vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2572
NSHipster - NSSecureCoding
Ack is a nice tool. I wrote a blog post about how to use it for ClojureScript within Emacs: http://inclojurewetrust.blogspot.de/2013/01/searching-in-clo...
No it's a great tool for learning without going to the fully fledged laptop. She's able to work through codecademy training courses, tools like ShiftEdit and Cloud9 IDE are the next step. Tons of tools out there now for using a chrome book - maybe not for a power developer but for a beginner, particularly one who I don't want to trust with an expensive MacBook just yet, it's good enough to begin with.
Not being honest is more embarrassing! Embrace failure, and learn...
Here in SV, it takes me 45 minutes just to cross the stupid Dumbarton Bridge to get from Fremont to Stanford. There's a lot to miss in Gunma by comparison.

The lack of good public transit is probably going to be the reason I eventually leave California. I've spent 27 years of my life here, and most of that in the bay area, but I don't love it here.
It sounds like you are heavily invested in this company and are taking risks on the same level that a co-founder would. If they can't pay you consistently, you should be getting the equity and title of a co-founder.
There's a developer mode to gain access to a shell, and it's also possible to use SSH or an online IDE.
Running Made Me Trash My Patent Recognition Plaques
It looks like a big commit was just made to the site repo... New site?

https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com
Transplanted brain cells in monkeys light up personalized therapy
Chronicles of the Cannon: We dared to dream
Yeah this is the best way to serve rendered pages to search engines. I also found this project: https://github.com/ithkuil/angular-on-server - Which might be worth looking at too.
I might be mistaken, but it looks like it's available for purchase now: https://gumroad.com/l/TMIC
I've never used link aggregation, but it seems that link aggregation would require routers/switches support. And it can be disabled. But this MPTCP assembles multi-path streams using normal TCP connections, which are enabled on all devices that works with Internet. I guess the advantage here is MPTCP is more practical.
I have a friend who is very active in guiding in the UK (a "Brown Owl", I think?!) and my first instinct upon reading this was to copy the link and paste it on her Facebook wall with a positive, encouraging comment about how cool it is.

I got as far as pasting the link and FB detecting what it was before I noticed the original title: "In move to pwn boys, Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge". I didn't even clock that the first time, I just went straight from the IMO perfect title here "Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge" to the body of the article.

I'm now in limbo before posting the link, having replaced the link title with the one here (I really like how FB lets you do that), and considering my positive comment a bit more carefully. It's a niggle, and I anticipate accusations of "reading too much into it", but that title gets under my skin and I think it's because it's misrepresentative - as though the only reason for doing this is to keep up with the lads and "show them what for!". Rubs me right up the wrong way.

[Edit: reading the other comments in here I almost want to delete this because it's a negative nitpick on the presentation of the article rather than, as others are doing, a right on "whoop whoop" about this very cool news, but I had to get it off my chest.]
To all the introverts, outsiders and loners
Faster than what? V8 can be an order of magnitude faster than Ruby: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
Funnily, I believe you're both right, that there are several paths to success.

One is the "knowing the right people, buddies/PR" route. I've known several sociopaths and unethical people that do well along that route. Many have the "skill" of making you believe they're your best buddy (and then backstab you), or to sell you a bridge (or sell you a shitty job with unpaid extra hours).

The other is to provide something people will pay for, excel, and get known - which also involves some sales and PR, or marketing, but depending on your profession can be going through the speaker circuits at conferences, writing a blog or some other way to convey expertise, or getting writeups for your product somehow, if it's B2C - see Paul Graham on why he hired a PR:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Make your online content talk
I remember when they spun/sold off a lot of their peripheral production to Lexmark. Now their systems are going to Lenovo... I think IBM is really following Microsoft/Oracle... interesting that this comes as the likes of Oracle and MS are losing mindshare regarding up and coming developers.
Such a well written article on what doing a PhD is all about. Too bad that people start focus on the whether-PhD-worths-the-time debate or the PhD-earns-so-little-money talk again... That is not even the focus of the article
The Importance of Finding Your Un-Comfort Zone
what is fair expectation?
At least in Clojure, it's considered bad form to extend your own protocols (aka instance type classes) to types you don't own. Isn't that also true of Haskell?

Haskell's type classes, unlike ML functors (I think), are "coherent", which means that you can't have scoped or multiple instances for the same type, lest you risk breaking the type system. With that in mind, extending Maybe to Num would mean a reduction the number of type errors caught in other code that uses Maybe and Num near each other.
Lenovo -- moving into servers? [video]
I want to see them start open sourcing more of their i18n and translation tools. Most people aren't aware of this, but one of the coolest problems you can work on at AirBnB is building out tools and features that let two people, who don't speak a common language between them, transact with one another. There is no other startup I know of as vested in solving this problem.
Right. Ssh into a VPS and use vim is another option.
Amazon Posts 14 TV Pilots Online And Asks Viewers Which It Should Greenlight
That's pretty much what I figured. If we wait a bit, I wouldn't be surprised to see a writeup from Geoff, the author of Ag. His blog posts when he started development on it were really interesting.

http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-...
I am learning vim using vim adventures.
Moreover, 3[a] appears to be supported solely for backwards compatibility with C since it works only for pointers - you can't do this with classes which define operator[](int).