skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm curious to understand is, are you at a competitive disadvantage if you don't follow this strategy? Or is it the case that a company structured around sane hours employing older, more experienced workers will be more effective, all else being equal?

In other words, is this pattern followed because it works, or is it just a cultural artifact that these companies would do best to abandon (but maybe can't for whatever reason)?
Historically speaking "outside knowledge" is what we call as religion.
Twitter said to be testing two-step security in wake of AP hack
Just wondering, is there any provision in any OSS license (or scope to add one) that prevents the code being used in any DRM software or firmware?

I know it wouldn't act retrospectively, and I'm not sure if any OSS libraries are actually in use in any DRM software, but it may at least set a trend. I'd love to see the next open source game changer be open to all except those who oppose openness :-)
Which providers are they? Do you have any experience of using them?
I think that’s a matter of implementation. In my ideal scenario, market makers would be out of business.

This is hardly a new idea, and it is clear the system needs to be improved. From Wikipedia:

“Keynes was among the first proponents of a securities transaction tax. In 1936 he proposed that a small tax should be levied on dealings on Wall Street, in the United States, where he argued that excessive speculation by uninformed financial traders increased volatility. For Keynes, the key issue was the proportion of 'speculators' in the market, and his concern that, if left unchecked, these types of players would become too dominant” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Secur...
There is a secure store solution available from a company located in germany. They call it "Secure Incremental Store" - an enhancement for Core Data.
Cooper has a $600M endowment. $120M of that is non-real-estate, and $60M is restricted.
That's hardly AI. It's just algorithms. Parametrized, using a probability distribution to randomize the environment, user programmed algorithms.

EDIT: Well, if this AI in game development, then so be it. But it's still not AI in the generic way, IMHO. To downvoters: I didn't contest the fact that they don't work. I do enjoy this games a lot and I praise the programmers that make such games work.
Reason for posting on HN: "come to our start-up and work for free. We will compensate. Maybe. Sometime. See that one hedgie-trader did that and was OK!"
> If I had to guess why it is, I'd say that back-end technologies naturally evolve slower.

I think it is this way because back-end development requires more expertise than GUI development. Steady more experienced developers are better suited than new hires.
There is truth to this. For example Ikea, is actually a seller of extremely cheap furniture to poor people. They even make you pick your own products from their warehouse! However the marketing cleverly inverts that so that shopping at Ikea is portrayed as an aspirational goal.
Not quite. They borrowed money to build a building, but used the leftover cash to invest in the stock market. They calculated that capital gains would outpace the additional debt interest. But then the recession hit, and they basically lost that money.
A conversation with Mr.Naidu Darapaneni, Founder and CEO at MeraEvents
Welcome to a recycled three-year-old TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/silicon-valley’s-dark-secre...

Now here's the key claim: "increased dramatically for engineers during their 30s but that these increases slowed after the age of 40. At greater ages still, salaries started dropping, dependent on the level of education. After 50, the mean salary of engineers was lower—by 17% for those with bachelors degrees, and by 14% for those with masters degrees and PhDs—than the salary of those younger than 50. "

Two points:

1. Would we expect a linear increase in salary with age? I would not. At some point the salary would likely 'top out' in any job.

2. The part about over 50s ignores a very important fact from the study: the over 50s work less (and therefore earn less). To quote the book: "Workers over the age of 50 are much more likely to work less than a full year [...]. One in six engineers aged 51 to 65 reported being paid for less than a full year of work in 2005 [...]". The book goes on to make a confusing claim about whether that's voluntary or not (jumping to the 2002 downturn and talking about interviews with engineers but with no data).
Eh, was there any modesty in that project at all? I think that, in startup terms, Blauwestad is an excellent example of the "if you build it, then they will come" attitude. The real estate version of Color.

EDIT: Oh wait, that's exactly what you meant.
Ah, yes. The perennial curse of AI: as soon as it works, it's not called AI anymore ;-)
I'm less concerned about physical access to the device, but more concerned about third-party services like Mailbox increasing the number of attack vectors on your inbox. Mailbox has total access to your email account. Now somebody can either attempt to hack Google's servers, or Mailbox's servers. It's enough to convince me not to sign-up for their service since email provides the gateway to virtually everything else.
I believe they can use "web+litecoin" in the meanwhile. When they'll get enough traction, they may get their designated "top-level" scheme.

Same as with MIME types: application/vnd.org.example.foobar for anyone, application/foobar when you're famous.
I am sure somebody in Washington can authoritatively convince people that these attacks are terrorist attacks (attack on our financial system, designed to cripple American economy etc. etc.), and try to gain public support for laws that will allow greater government control in the working of the Internet (something like TSA for the Internet).
It depends if all the content needs to be consumed or not. Twitter/Facebook where I realistically won't read every entry it's fine. In some ways the list can be considered infinite.

All other cases of finite lists shouldn't use infinite scrolling. It breaks jumping back to a specific position and the length is not predictable.
That's what "AI" usually means in the context of game development.
Well, that's exactly what Peter Cooper did. Education being "as free as air and water" is even in Cooper Union's charter.

With that being said, that's exactly what I would do too.
Online SQL editor for CakePHP
Why do you assume that people who shun Facebook are 'disconnected'?
Disagree on spam. I don't think it's high-quality content-- nothing against the idea or writing, but it's one anecdote and I think the conclusion is wrong-- but it can produce high-quality discussion and that's why we actually come here.
A fake tweet caused a sharp drop in US markets
Mirroring the growth of the Unity development platform is the Unity Web Player which had reached an impressive 125 million installs. The install rate of the Web Player also continues to grow and now reaches over 5 million new computers each month with all indication that this rate will continue to rise.

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/unity-reaches-one-mi... (April 2012)

Yep, that's zip alright.
You've clearly never heard of Edge[1]. Adobe are now putting great strides in providing HTML5 tools.

That said, I personally would still avoid Edge just because of Adobe's past record. It might seem petty, but I've lost faith in the company so there's little incentive to pay to join their HTML5 services.

[1] http://html.adobe.com/edge/?promoid=KAGMS
Basically the same article (s/Silicon Valley's Dark/The Tech Industry's Darkest/) from 2 years ago, discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1641763
The problem with families is a real one. If you choose to have a family, well, you are going to have a lot less time and energy to put into your career. It's as bad as a MMPOG addiction; worse, probably, most people don't have the guts to ask for time off for a raid.

But, I don't think that has a lot to do with what we see as age discrimination; It does give the young kids a boost, but most people start families in their mid to late '20s, and even in the computer industry, that's young. By the time you are hitting 50 and seeing real age discrimination? your kids are almost taking care of themselves. (or, at least, they are leeching money, not time.)
As long as there is fragmentation then flash will not be obsolete. For example the lack of a common supported audio format or shader language in browsers to name two.
The fact that such people consume big media content now does not mean they wouldn't rather dispense with such content in exchange for the elimination of such laws.

That is true.

In fact, an argument could be made that the production of such content smothers other, less capital intensive content made with lower expectations of large returns

That is also true, I agree.

However, the overwhelming majority of commentary I see on all sides of the debate doesn't particularly support either of those premises. As far as I can tell, I am fairly unusual myself, simply because I actively avoid most DRM'd products even though I would probably enjoy the material and would consider the asking price fair if not for the downsides of DRM.

The only exceptions I make regularly are low-end copy protection on things like DVDs that I'm quite sure I could crack if anyone ever abused it, and high-end systems that come with expensive software I have little (legal) choice but to buy for work. The former have never caused me any problems. The latter have stung me on several occasions, and are one of the main reasons I think DRM should be regulated so if suppliers want to use it, they also have to accept the consequences if they get it wrong.

It seems most people I come across will simply buy DRM'd content anyway, even if they later whinge that it doesn't work properly. Just look at all the people buying AAA games even though the companies running them mess up time after time so the games often don't even work properly on launch day. EA has been voted "worst company in America" more than once, but just look at all the kids still preordering the latest titles for their game collection! People complain about DRM on their favourite forum, but then they still buy whatever it was they apparently couldn't live without anyway.
Reminds me of this passage from Douglas Hofstadter's GEB:

Loocas the Thinker comes across an unknown object--a woman. ... "Behold! I can look upon her face, which is something she cannot do--therefore women can never be like me!"

And thus he proves man's superiority over women, much to his relief ... The woman argues back: "Yes, you can see my face, which is something I can't do--but I can see your face, which is something you can't do! We're even."

"I'm sorry, you're deluded if you think you can see my face. What you women do is not the same as what we men do--it is, as I have already pointed out, of an inferior caliber, and does not deserve to be called by the same name. You may call it 'womanseeing'. Now the fact that you can womansee my face is of no import, because the situation is not symmetric. You see?"

"I woman-see," womanreplies the woman, and womanwalks away . . .
How about instead of continuing to ramble on with poorly spelled and grammatically flawed comments that claim all sorts of things about Unity (and Flash, for that matter), you provide the vaguest amount of evidence or even speculation to support your claims that Unity's web player is some sort of security nightmare?

How about some CVEs? Or descriptions of botnets using Unity to infect end users' machines? Or even descriptions of bugs in the web player that cause the slightest discomfort to users?

I've played lots of Unity games in my browser and I know lots of developers who use it. I've literally never heard complaints about security problems or had the Unity plugin crash my browser, and I have to terminate plugin-container all the time when Flash hangs, so I'm no stranger to plugin crashes.
Does anyone else have trouble reading this on Android? Every time I touch the screen to scroll it bumbs the text to an unknown location.
How about making it more secure! Won't it solve the problem? It's just not about Mailbox app it's about all the apps that should protect user's data. Should they care about their user's data or leave it up to the device to protect it?
Are those Silicon Valley numbers? In my mind, anything over 10 employees is no longer a true startup, and should have a decent amount of revenues. It may not be profitable, but only because it chooses not be, it's investing in growth rather than taking profits.

Outside of Silicon Valley, I've seen grants in the 10% range before, but such are either considered late founders or are C-level executives. I've also seen grants of 0.5-5% for senior engineers. I also know that kids straight out of school have seen good sized grants too, but those are for people with a proven ability. In other words offers given to former co-op students & interns.
This is a bad idea. I believe that hn actually will weight every comment you make based on your total karma to a degree. I've certainly heard people make anecdotal claims that if they have a lot of karma their comment, even if not heavily upvoted, appears near the top frequently.

This algorithm makes sense. Since upvotes are supposed to mean something like "I want to see more comments of this type and quality", it is giving the majority what they want to promote people who typically make such contributions.

As soon as you try to value an upvote as something different (here as an impromptu poll) you damage the entire system. What if I would dream of this but don't want to see more comments like yours since it's effectively spam? What if I like the idea and want to upvote it for visibility but would 'never dream' of this somewhat specialized idea?

The point I'm trying to make is that this is a bad idea without even going into how incredibly inaccurate such a poll is. This comment will not give any useful data, actively "abuses" hn's value system by asking for upvotes, and doesn't breed meaningful or intelligent discussion. Good for you I can't downvote yet :-). (notice how I added a smiley so that it would seem childish but friendly? Excellent tactic!)

If you want to do a poll I believe the polling option google docs provides will be much better suited (if perhaps slightly tainted by evil).
Show HN: Some stats, how are we doing?
We launched our site - GetInspired365.com exactly 10 weeks ago. In that time we've had 36,000 users, of which 30,000 have been unique. We've also just broken 100,000 page views and the average duration on the site is just shy of 2 minutes.

We started very slowly and in our first 6 weeks only had 130 users registered (email addresses given to us to receive daily doses of inspiration) and averaged around ~ 100 users a day coming to the site.

But now, we are averaging around ~ 1000 users a day coming to the site and have just broken the 500 mark for number of users registered on to our system.

We've made no money thus far (we plan on exploring ways of making money once we have an active user base) and have spent $100 on advertising.

We wondered how these stats compare to other sites who are in their early stage. If interested we can put a blog post together to explain exactly where our traffic comes from and how we've grown the site thus far - as we've learnt an awful lot in our 10 weeks thus far.

Finally, if you have any ideas on how we can improve the site further then we'd welcome suggestions. Thanks!
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I think of it differently. There are maximizers, satisficers, and doormats. Maximizers are the ones who will go all-out to get the best deal, and sometimes even play the system. They're the ones who know that you can get a box of cereal for $3.79 instead of $5.29 at another store. They'll also come up with excuses to line their job interviews on the same week so the offers roll in at the same time and they can start a "bidding war".

Most people look at maximizers, in the context of negotiation, as being a bit sociopathic. I disagree; I think it's sometimes quite reasonable to take a maximizing strategy. It can be exhausting, but I wouldn't call it sociopathic.

Satisficers have a goal and a sense of "good enough" and, as long as they're north of it, they're happy. Doormats are the ones who take what's given to them. Being a doormat is the worst. You never win by being a doormat.

The problem with "ask for nothing at all", in the workplace, is that it makes you a doormat, not a satisficer.

On the other hand, you have to know when to maximize and when to satisfice (is that a word? It is now.) There's a time for each. Usually, you want to satisfice on salary and maximize on project quality and work culture. But there are exceptions to that rule.
"A DRM plugin framework is by definition a plugin framework. I relly don't want DRM in html either, but I have a hard time finding logical arguments against it"

I'm Australian so this probably won't translate, but if I go into someone's house, and they have a brand new gun rack on the wall, with no gun in it, a few thoughts go through my head:

1. They have a gun but have secreted it somewhere while I'm around.
2. They are going to get a gun.
3. They bought the house with a new gun rack, and don't object enough to guns to remove it immediately.

Now, as was stated earlier, DRM (like a lot of guns) was invented with only one purpose. If I see the governing body of an open web standard starting to stick in frameworks for DRM, I think 3 very similar thoughts to those above.

In short, not being able to find an argument against something, doesn't mean it won't leave you wondering what the actual use case of this will be, and start thinking if it really needs an argument against it. I personally think it needs a whole bunch of better arguments for the proposal than those that have been raised til now.
Less then 1% is pretty typical when you consider an option pool is 10-20% at the most. With 20 employees, I'd bet only a quarter of the options at most have been doled out since you usually save the big grants for exec hires.
Seriously though, why all the yellow?
The consumer web is often a culture of 'pop hits' and lots of media; hence the justin bieber-esque love affair the Valley has for said entrepreneurs. So, yes -- I do believe that people in their 20-30's are better at identifying these fads moreso than 40-50. But they're just fads, and fads usually die fast like the startups born from them. Certainly not all, but most.

That said, I also believe the consumer web is in for some pain (the notorious A crunch). I get the impression a lot of unqualified 'super angels' felt it was more important that entrepreneurs become professional money raisers and media darlings, rather than help them focus on their core business.

When it comes down to it, if you're a seasoned entrepreneur with repeat successes – you'll be unstoppable for the rest of your life. The Biebers of startups are edge cases that simply get a lot of attention because it compliments media's goal for driving pageviews.
I think you misunderstood parent. He didn't imply atheism is a religion but that atheists who behaves like religous/zealots are as dangerous as their couter-parts on the religious side.
Fluid simulation - position based fluids explained
Bitcoin’s Dystopian Future
“I know for sure that banks don't forbid camera phones at least in general”

I gave examples of settings where camera phones might be forbidden. At most regular branches of banks, they’re probably fine. I worked at the headquarters of a bank that also served as distribution center of most of my nation’s cash bills.
> Take away what functionality? The ability to download audio/video?

The ability to download audio/video already exists in computers. DRM prevents you from doing what you want with the bits that are sent to you; hence it restricts native computer functionality.

> To be fair, this isn't. EME is just a way for people to create addons that leverage native encryption. The same is true of the current plugin system.

This is a red herring; EME only exists to facilitate DRM. EME was designed specifically with DRM in mind. There is no other use case. It's a convenient way for EME supporters to ignore the real issues, but it's valid to talk about a technology's real world uses when discussing its validity.
Discussion from a month ago (hit the front page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405371
I'll agree with your swap outs as a general rule, but I'd say code quality drops from 'not so great' to 'you shouldn't be pressing build' after 12 hours. Up until then you might get something done.

The last part is mostly about employers not willing to pony up for developers who know what they're doing inside out, and are willing to sit down and get it done and go home. I'm sure there's plenty of people who'll work for significantly less and get the job done as well.
Scribd is a Y Combinator investment.
It depends on what kind of company you're trying to build. If you have short-attention-span investors who want to see shiny shit every 2 weeks, and you're trying to force yourself into a B2C red ocean, then you may want the 90-hour-per-week plug-em-burn-em-dump-em Clueless young programmers. Remember that most of VC-istan right now is social media, and most of that is marketing experimentation that happens to use technology, but not technology itself.

If you're trying to build Real Technology and you don't have a few 10+ year programmers, you're probably fucked. Different game altogether. Unfortunately, it's hard to get money for Real Technology because the payoff happens in the longer term. Most Real Technology companies make most of their money by consulting.
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Most zombically inaccurate show ever.
With ASM.JS and Native Client Unity can basically run their plugin without needing a plugin :) For the rest of the browsers there is still ASM.JS (which just runs slower on browsers not directly supporting it) or the native Unity Plugin. So for Unity Technologies, Flash is pretty much obsolete.
Is Google Chromebook the Ultimate VDI / TS / RDS Client?
Why has the UK become "substantially and significantly" more peaceful?
Are people simply taking their anger out on others via youtube commments as oppose to physical violence?
It's one thing to gamble with an endowment, that can be couched as investment, and another to borrow money to gamble with and endanger the operational budget of the non-profit you are overseeing.

That may well violate the fiduciary duty of prudence under the New York Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act.
Apple’s Solid-After-All Quarter In Charts
I still find success despite being 55:

http://thecodist.com/article/yes_i_still_want_to_be_doing_th...
Adjusting enemy spawn and behavior by a calculated 'emotional intensity' of the player - very nice.
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Significant enough to be considered valuable by millions of viewers.
> You can't ever be 100% sure you have a valid product before launch

Beta / quiet launch will give you enough information about the product to be much safer when you make your launch. I agree that 100% is an overstatement though.
I'm glad some manufacturers aren't jumping into the "big screen" and "minimal buttons" trend. Now if we could just remove the "social networking" trend. Understandably, a phone is considered a social device but there's calling someone and then there's tweeting/facebooking (is this the common verb now?). Will we start seeing physical buttons on laptops for facebook or twitter?
My apps are more like (n * 100). But that is on Android...
"Use tweet button very smartly" -- elaborate ?
Humans do things in exchange for money, the low hanging fruit is gathered before the hard to reach fruit up top. Given a choice to make a million dollars making a website or making a million dollars building automated self-flying cars, rational beings will always choose the former.

It's cost benefit analysis and if you think that can be changed you are delusional.