skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most developers don't aspire to run a crazy dominate-the-market-or-implode VC-funded start-up. They just want to run a little life style business that will pay them well and allow them to work on what they want. This is what you are competing against, not their "romantic notion of doing a start-up".

And it is not that difficult for decent developers to create such a life-style business. Certainly, no where near as hard as you suggest creating a start-up is.

Such lifestyle businesses might include a SaaS, a few iOS Apps or a consulting business. I have such as business myself. And I know personally other developers who have done the same.

Lifestyle businesses don't have to be hard. They don't even necessarily require you to speak much to customers (if your products are games in the app store, for example). And you really don't have to work that hard, if you don't want to.

You only have to work hard if you create a business that makes you work hard (ie bet on winning big with dollops of VC cash). Try creating a business that doesn't require you to work hard, and you may - surpise, surprise - find you don't actually have to work that hard.
Or you know, use BitBucket that offers free private repositories for everyone and anyone.
as much as i'd love that to be true, i just don't see it.

macklemore (and ryan lewis! - no love for the production, ever!) are the exception, not the norm, and i don't think represent the beginning of larger some trend..

i think the music industry is very analogous to startups in the tech space.. most fail, some make it alright, and some make it big. the difference between them usually comes-down to the right combination of talent, luck, and external support (from people who know the industry, have capital, and have been there before). in the startup world vc fills the support gap, in the music one it’s the labels..

as an aside: i genuinely do wish it were true though.. i could easily put together a really good case study charting the composition of a growing artist’s fanbase before and after signing to a major label. in the case of hip-hop, i’ve encountered countless data points where sentiment among an artist’s early fans takes a sharp nosedive down once signed and under the pressure from labels; this usually tracks song quality very closely and is a perfect inverse of trendlines for radio plays and itunes sales..
Well they have some method to facilitate the "marketplace" usecase - payouts to members of a defined group. So if it's not ACH, it's something very similar.
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Guy Steele: Musical and Mathematical Design of Square Dance Singing Call[video]
Actually you forget that performance when you need to train for days at a time is critical, if I use Octave/Matlab/R my current project might take months to train instead of weeks. All my ML code is high performance threaded C++. I recommend you use a good template linear algebra library like Eigen, you can do plenty of experimentation in C++. I find with a set of a few modern libraries and the required experience a C++ programmer is just as if not more efficient than a Python/R/Matlab programmer. It comes down to the skill of the programmer and the proper choice of libraries.
Another way to read it is that labels put more capital and effort into developing artists that could produce albums instead of chasing single-oriented bands that tended to flame out quickly. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were trailblazers in this area because they were able to produce 8 or 10 good songs that people would pay money for in the form of an album.

I'm no fan of the RIAA, but amount of cognitive bias on this thread is ridiculous. The record industry didn't kill singles at all, I bought plenty of them growing up.
> There was a story of a failed startup on HN a month or so ago that had a co-founder who stated (jokingly) that they'd no-hire engineers who used Linux as their primary OS

This blows my mind. I'd think that would be a prime quality, since you're almost certainly going to be deploying on Linux platforms. Intimate knowledge of your production platform is invaluable.
Google Glass runs Android 4.0.4, which is subject to the adb restore race condition; com.google.glass.logging fits the needed configuration.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/327857009754001408
The subject was 'ability to optimize' and you have changed it to 'how optimized the framework is already'. Most of one's ability to optimize is not dictated by anything about the framework.

Benchmarks which artificially exclude common optimization techniques are avoiding the interesting question of room for optimization in favor of meaningless pissing matches about 'language speed' or 'framework speed'.
spot on!!
I think his point is that you should avoid mocking people who don't happen to know about your sub-culture.
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Why did the alarm was set off? Do these locks work only with a key that passes through electricity or have some other built-in secondary check? Really curious.
If FTL is not possible, this makes for a very good reason to conquer the nearest habitable planets. If they are overcrowded and able to conquer Earth in reasonable (for them) time-frame, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't want to. That of course is only if "habitable" means the same thing to them as to us (liquid water, oxygen etc.).
Xkcd on a Bad Threat Model
I'm actually pretty angry about this. A much better plan would have been to offer free private repositories to any not-for-profit entity. Offering exclusively to women seems, to me, discriminatory.

Edit: Reading the article more closely, I'm not as bothered as as I was. Technically, Github granted unlimited private repositories to the Ada organization, who (I suppose) delegates their use to its members. It's not as though you can go to github.com and say, "I'm a woman, give me free private repositories."
>She then talked to me about robotics and physics and programming and how none of the other girls in her class understood anything she was talking about. They thought she wanted to build the next Terminator or hack into Government systems, when she just wanted to build self-driving cars. All the other girls would talk about fashion labels and gossip and she would be bored out of her mind, wondering why nobody else watched Doctor Who. None of them understood the joke on her Darth Vader t-shirt. One of them listened to her podcast and asked her what “Marvel” was. One of them told her to stop making them feel stupid all the time.

She sounds very cool.

And it goes to show that "sexism is the barrier" is not the whole story.

Those girls in the school never had any encounters with such sexism in the tech workplace, but they still didn't like the thing even as a hobby.

Which reminds me of my university years (computer science). Those days (early to mid-nineties) we didn't even have internet at home or any outlet to know how a "tech workplace" even is. We expected to work in some bank, some big company IT department or teach CS ourselves. How that work environment would be, we had absolutely no idea.

Still, it was mostly men that preferred CompSci, whereas biology was mostly women. Math and applied math also had more women.

(In actual university CS nobody cared if you were a woman or a man. And we had the outmost respect for geek girls that were in the whole thing. There was just no sexism of the kind people complain about in the US. If you could do it, you could do it. And high school kids enrolling to the university had no idea either -- they were the typical high school kids, having typical high school relations).

That said, it was mostly boys who cared and nagged their parents to get them computer systems and game consoles. Girls, being more socially mature earlier, had a larger social life and could not care less about spending hours every day in front of a screen.

It's like girls give up the "dolls" phase much earlier, for a more serious and balanced social life, whereas boys extend the "toy guns/race cars" thing into puberty and early adulthood even, substituting their toys for FPS shooters, fantasy novels, superhero comics and RPGs. Which builds some ties to computers early on...
> You can't assume they're rational motives either. Why should aliens be incapable of something like religion, egotism, mass delusion, or hedonic desires?

I think the question would be if irrationality, egoism, delusion, and hedonism allows (or prevents) a species to advanced to FTL travel.

They might also have an idea that the only life that should exist in this universe is theirs. Or they might believe that connecting with all other sentient beings is a primary goal in existence. Or they might be incredibly altruistic and want to help and benefit all others.

Though the author's other points are all valid... There is no reason to invade this planet for its resources when a few asteroids in their own solar system contains everything they need.
He's cheating, he doesn't have a dealership network that subsidizes their sales operations with overpriced repair services.
This is like being upset that someone referred to a Bentley as a car, which you consider a conspiracy based on people liking Ferraris more.

Alternate theory: the media calls it a smartphone because it's, well, a smartphone.
If you are scraping for dollars on budget VPS and the optimization is easy without any tradeoffs, it's a no-brainer.

I hope you appreciate that this does not represent all or even most real problems.
Google Maps update a loss for Joplin MO
Founder here. Questions/comments/nitpicking appreciated.
We are starting to use Dashboard at NxtpLabs. Great features for founders and staff. Awesome support team.
Arturo
I don't think it's reasonable at all to assume that the pattern of our species is universal or even common.

The problem with the assumption is that our sample-size, as far as our species is concerned, is one. The very concept of society may not exist for an alien that is a single collective intelligence or for one that has simply developed a very advanced set of instinctual responses without higher-level thought.
Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features
IANAL, but this appears to be a breach of the Equality Act 2010. Are they offering this in the UK?
2 Googles: 1 for Europe and 1 for everyone else
The debug mode gives you locked-down adb access, not root.
Apparently there are parts of the Santa Clara County jail that are very old. This occurred in a dorm-style housing unit, and the key he made opened a stairwell door (the door to the stairwell being inside the housing unit, which is how he was able to repeatedly test without scrutiny). The door was alarmed and went off when it opened. Most modern jails don't use skeleton-style keys, and the doors are opened and closed electronically, but the part of the jail he was in was decades old.
How to run a two day Virtual Conference for $10
You should consider using Eigen for linear algebra, I have personally found it much better performance wise than using bindings to ATLAS or other more standard linear algebra solutions. ML algorithms tend to be multistage (think about the update of weights with momentum in a Neural network for example), and the primitives available in ATLAS or a blas library are really too low level. Eigen since it generates code for a whole complicated expression can blow a standard linear algebra library out of the water for a certain class of problems. For others obviously the highly tuned vendor BLAS code would win, but I've seen huge speedups by using Eigen it fits well for complex ML operations.
Don't get me wrong. I definitely agree that it is possible. I just think that when running a business it happens too frequently that the decision makers are put in a position to have to make a choice that is not in support of social good. This is made more complicated by the fact that in many cases those people may be rewarded financially for making that choice.
That lets you flash the device, it doesn't give you root. To get root from that you need to make a bootable image, which requires a compatible kernel, which you normally pull off the device as root. Thankfully, there is a race condition in the backup/restore mechanism that lets you do a symlink traversal to unlock root adb (by modifying /data/local.prop).

(To be clear, though, this was a known exploit: it is normally done to the Android Settings application, which isn't present on the Glass, but it turns out that the Glass Logging service also has the right prerequisites to pull off the attack, so I adapted the restore payload. The tweet I posted right after this one made it clear what exploit I was using against what installed package.)
WoW and UO are both in the realm of fantasy / swords-and-sorcery, with UO being closer to EVE on the spectrum of player freedom.
I would argue it is also a very good heuristic for finding Star Wars fans. Your point being?
The relationship is that lots of people in the technology/hacking/software community like Star Wars and Star Trek and science fiction in general.

To the point that you get references to said things all the time in programming circles.

I'm sure you are aware of all this, but still wanted to make your point. But the fact that you have some outlier experience ("engineer who never watched Star Wars") should not come into the way of you researching the matter. It's as if I, as a fat person, say "who are those all those fat people with diabetes? I'm fat and I don't have diabetes".
The liability depends entirely on the academic environment and the attitude of the faculty and students. I had to switch schools to get into a better environment.

It takes an exceptional teacher to be able to deal with an exceptional group of students. The class sizes need to be smaller, the material needs to be broader and often disconnected from the content strictly required by standardized testing.

I really would not want to be in a class that's subjected to the insane No Child Left Behind standards. Nothing is more demotivating than having to do something remedial in order to pass and where absolutely no incentive is given for moving ahead of schedule, learning at your own pace.

Maybe with distributed networking being so prevalent, where a video conference call or distribution of video lessons is a practical reality, that alternate channels of education will open up.

Many of the school systems out there, under-funded as ever, can barely keep up with the 80% of the kids squarely in the middle. The 10% outliers on both ends with "special needs" are just left to fend for themselves.

How can we avoid things like the allegedly "World's Smartest Man" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan) working as a bouncer in a bar? Is something like the Khan Academy a step in the right direction?
As a government IT employee, I agree with all points listed.

In particular, the most major issue for me on the positive side is stability, and the most negative issue is lack of growth.

I interviewed at Microsoft (as a courtesy to a friend who works there), and one of the interviewers was genuinely curious about life in the government. I told him that, barring severe budget issues or personal lawlessness, I could not be fired or demoted. But, I'm also at the top of my scale, which means I can't be promoted either. It doesn't matter much what I do (or don't), I can't go up, I can't go down. I'm just "here".

In some sense, that's supremely freeing. I can put in exactly as much effort as I feel comfortable with, learn new technologies and techniques right up until I don't feel like it anymore, and so on.

On the other hand, I'm kind of a lazy guy who works better when there is a boot up my rear. I know in the private sector I would learn a lot more, and grow professionally a lot more, because there is always that "up or out" mentality. You can't stagnate and survive in most businesses.

With more modern government employees, some of his advantages are lessened. For example, our retirement plan is a traditional defined contribution plan, which invests in a stock portfolio of our choosing. Likewise, our time off is two weeks per year plus federal holidays. Neither of these seems more "generous" than the average established private industry, although I don't have direct experience so I'm not sure. Startups of course I wouldn't expect retirement plans and more than the minimum time off.

Also the more money part would be nice, with the possibility of things like bonuses. For comparison, Microsoft offered me $110K/year base salary, presumably with the opportunity to earn a bonus on top of that. My current government position pays $84K/year fixed, no opportunity for bonus.

That's almost a 50% raise by making a lateral move into private industry, plus then there is further opportunity for advancement once there. (I didn't make the move because of the whole toxic environment/sinking ship, among other considerations.)
Smaller artists have it better than ever: there is a new generation of distributors like cdbaby, magnatune and the orchard. They carry a magnitude more different releases than majors/record shops ever could. If you play something, you can now reach all the audience in the world.

But of course listeners become very thin. With such enormous choice, every single artist isn't going to have more than several thousand fans on average. But it's just numbers at work.

I think that aggregators are going to surpass majors and then we'll live in a new and interesting world. I think this is coming to Europe first.
With nginx you can easily rate-limit connections, requests and downloads (which you can throttle also). Can also do this by GeoIP - country, etc.

No need for extra steps - this module shall be compiled and part of nginx-full package from nginx official PPA, if OP is using Ubuntu.
My great mentor taught me that every time someone might have a blank face at what you say, look at it as an opportunity for learning. Most people love it when you get excited and say "yeah, memset is this awesome way of getting data ready to copy on a computer. You know when you watch a movie on Youtube it preloads while you watch? Memset is helping make sure your computer is prepared so you can watch it without annoying buffering". People start thinking it's pretty cool as they can relate to it.
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I wouldn't phrase it as a question of Good vs. Bad, but rather Necessary vs. Unnecessary.

For me, it's a return-on-investment question, whether the 2 years and $100k+ in tuition would advance my ambitions more than 2 years of building and $100k that could go towards self-funding.
Is this originating from specific country or all over?
FYI, another bonus on Eigen is if you are using a Matrix-Matrix operation you will get multithreading with OpenMP for free. It isn't the most efficient way (you can do better threading yourself probably), but it gets most of the way there for stuff that will use GEMM operations.
> This reluctance has good reasons behind it: fear of being told they are bad programmers, fear of being publicly mocked or harassed, and even fear of losing job opportunities. All of these are greater risks for women on average than men.

[Citation needed]

Edit, to expand on the kneejerk reaction: I find it difficult to accept the premise that this is a female-only problem. I've been reluctant to post my code before as well, and I'm male. The sometimes ruthless mockery of code isn't confined to code written by females.
Another game in a similar vein that came up on HN a couple months ago is http://bombermine.com/ -- that's the game that changed my perspective about the possibilities for javascript MMOs.

Bombermine's source code is not open though, so it's nice the source code for this one is open, to dig in and see the mechanics behind it!
Exactly, other life would be a minimum of a million years ahead of us or a million years behind. Using earth as a reference. Life has been on earth for 4 billion years, and nothing remotely interesting until the last 0.5 billion years. All of human civilization has occurred in the last .000012 billion years.

From our perspective 'Alien life' will be either the faintest traces of ancient ruins or pond scum.
Thanks Arturo - glad to have you folks onboard!
If engineers are VC's, contractors are Kleiner Perkins; get your BEST next job
well since Ada is paying the sponsorship, I guess they can distribute them however they like, yes?
Viewing it as a 'density issue' takes the root issue (dearth of women in STEM) for granted, as if that will always (or should always) be the case. The lack of women in STEM fields can be largely attributed to cultural and social pressures, not a "natural" tendency for people who identify as women to avoid those fields.

Saying 'a solution to feeling marginalized is to move to a place where you are not marginalized' doesn't really make sense when you aren't applying it to a single individual.
It was hard for me to grasp your point from your previous post. Sorry, I just didn't realize the tone of it and I took it as sarcasm (didn't mean to offend you, if I did by chance).
FWIW, it seems like this will not give you private repos under your own Github Account, but just a private repo under the Github "organization" for the Ada Initiative.
Thanks for the popurls plug
Good point. Vinyl has seen a slight resurgence in popularity because it's hip, but the long-term decline is easily understood when you consider that pressing plants continue to close down.

http://www.attackmagazine.com/features/the-truth-about-recor...

I don't know why you'd want to bring back cassettes - total pain in the ass. I still like them for recording because analog tape distorts in a pleasing fashion. But for listening, nope.
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Great point. I just wanted to counter the prevailing wisdom that an MBA is not worthwhile & show how my perceptions of it changed over time.

ROI: Most choices result in opportunity cost - expense and time were considerations, but the skills gained will stay with me for life.
Burglary all the way down.
Awesome! Thanks for checking and verifying, awesome to see the response.
Search for "Customer Development" for a lot of insight.
The way I see it, ADA is not paying -- Github is donating. This is, actually, much less incendiary than the headline would lead us to believe...
Feminism split off from Marxism in the 2nd wave of the 60's/70's when it was decided that class based oppression is a derivative product of patriarchy. Gender took the center stage to class, race, and other forms of marginalization.

The discourse of modern day feminism is best characterized by writers like Michel Foucault. Where discourse is viewed as a postmodern power play. Where the logical validity of the discourse is secondary to the function it serves in power relations.
You should just put a preview here.
Hey Ricky, we've definitely had some billing related issues recently. We've just finished the initial stages of moving onto a new system which should help clear up the cause of the issues like the one you mention in your last post. Sorry about the delays. If you email me at chris [at] heroku [dot] com and I'll make sure you're taken care of.
"Cultural Marxism" is an ahistorical term and suggesting deracinated American nerds whining about "sexism in tech" are in any way successors to the likes of Stalin is absurd. Marxists viewed this kind of thing as an effort by bourgeoisie money-driven "democracies" to neutralize and discredit revolutionary consciousness. Marxist-Leninism, as it actually existed, was masculine, authoritarian, implicitly violent, autocratic, militaristic, and overwhelmingly white. They considered people who act like American liberals to be mentally ill or criminals.

The American Left are Jacobin libertines - they owe nothing in their program to Marxism.