skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he means "The ability for apps to pull down remote state from the internet in the background without weird geofencing hacks to accomplish it."
Yeah, it maintains just enough compatibility to be confusing. I'm not impressed; I'd like something more radical.
Let's use your equation with k = 20, alpha = 0.5 and beta = 0.1. This gives the probability of a person being assaulted as =>
1 - pow(1 - alpha, kbeta(1 - alpha)) =>
1 - pow(0.5, 20 * 0.1 * 0.5) =>
1 - pow(0.5, 1) =>
0.5

There's a 50% chance that a person will be assaulted. Divide by the number of women (10) gives a probability of 0.05 that a particular woman will be assaulted.

Now let's do the same thing, but changing alpha to 0.05
1 - pow(0.95, 20 * 0.1 * 0.95) =>
1 - pow(0.95, 1.9) =>
0.09

However as there is only one woman , that 0.09 probability is all her. In other words her odds of being assaulted have just about doubled.
"I think my co-founders are idiots, that they fouled up their side of the deal, but I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now."

This is the feeling! I remember this.

Let me be extremely clear here: forget about your time investment. It does not matter. If you don't believe in the company and especially in your business partners, leave NOW. Each day you stay is delaying the next big step in your life that will get you to a better place and a happier life.

I've been there. Did it for years with the wrong partner because I didn't trust my gut and leave early on. I should have. I left after 5 years, abandoned all that work, and I've never made a better decision in my life.

Startups are hard, and they do have their ups and downs, but that is not how a startup is supposed to feel. Get out now.
What this shows is that Google has given up on product improvements for features. Instead of solving the inbox problem, they are selling "priority emails, now with bigger flames!".

The email problem isn't figuring out what the sender wants me to do with each message, it's figuring out what I want to do. This is e-junkmail and has less to do with making the recipient's life better and more to do with advertising.

Pop-up blocker for email, anyone?
If you install fish on your local machine, you'll still be able to run bash and punch those commands right into it—just do

$ bash

And hey presto, back in bash land.

I agree that it makes sense to know the lowest common denominator well before you go after something better—especially as you'll know straight away if and why it's "better".

Slightly OT, but I honestly think that "community best of" projects like oh-my-zss and the Vim ones actually do people a disservice since they are not zsh or Vim, but rather someone's opinionated, non-standard version of them.
Between the really obviously bad stuff (people being physically assaulted in general, whether at an event or not, and having a decent way to handle reporting for that kind of thing), and stupid things (people telling jokes privately in an audience and being overheard), there are some situations where I actually appreciate learning how some behavior might be unintentionally offensive and could be easily corrected.

Essentially in the same category as wanting to learn about some people being colorblind and how using certain color combinations alone for UI distinctions is thus a bad idea, or that scheduling a developer event for which you'd like to attract students around traditional finals time is probably a bad idea.

Whether or not some behavior is "wrong", it's still good to know if certain things have consequences you don't want. I think every developer community wants to be as inclusive to competent/interested people as possible, so when there are no or low cost ways to make an event more appealing, that's great.
This is a feature. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/683. It appears to work in bash, but only because globs simply write themselves if they won't find anything. The behavior is misleading. But also having to escape ? is somewhat annoying.

Also, URLs with & don't work in bash anyway. Or rather, they will work, but do something you wouldn't expect - it would ignore & and everything after it, and run command in the background.

Please note that zsh works similarly to fish. Well, mostly. It seems that zsh has special logic that automatically inserts backslash before ? if it detects an URL. Perhaps that could be implemented in fish. But it also feels somewhat magical. Why "\?" would appear when I type "?"? But perhaps it's the best way. In your case, it's possible to break it. But the break looks really contrived, so perhaps zsh behavior would be safe.

[glitchmr@pineapple tmp]$ mkdir -p https://news.ycombinator.com
[glitchmr@pineapple tmp]$ touch https://news.ycombinator.com/itemsid=5723235
[glitchmr@pineapple tmp]$ wget https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723235
--2013-05-17 13:39:09-- https://news.ycombinator.com/itemsid=5723235
Resolving news.ycombinator.com (news.ycombinator.com)... 184.172.10.74
Connecting to news.ycombinator.com (news.ycombinator.com)|184.172.10.74|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-05-17 13:39:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Can somebody please describe the most basic use case for this server?
This post is a must-read for any technical founder - not just the designers. The advice is great, of course assuming you were able to hire people good enough to delegate and focus on leadership/management.
Rackspace launches “Fanatical Support for Developers”
It's not so much that there's anything wrong with it, but it feels like a shim. Functionally, it's awesome, but it could do with sex-ing up a bit. I'm just envying the fact that Fish appears to have style; it's pretty. I like pretty.
That was a good read, I would say that some tech conferences are that worried about the bad press they are becoming a little misandristic.
Here's the best strategy at this point. Talk to the VCs. Thank them for sharing their opinions. They did a good thing that a lot of investors don't do: they gave you an actual rejection, rather than wasting your time with "we just need more information" and indefinite deferral. Knowing nothing about your situation, it still sounds like you ended up meeting some good-apple VCs. Reach out to them and ask if there are any open positions in their portfolio companies that might give you the skills to create a more viable business in the future.

Don't let your co-founders know that you're doing this. They probably see those VCs (for rejecting them) as an enemy. They are, of course, the opposite. They did a really good thing by pushing you away from a bad idea. Not everyone in that world has the courage to reject someone (as opposed to delaying indefinitely, which has the same effect but is less honest). You should reach out to them for general career advice and see what happens.

Regardless of whether the VCs help you, it's time to wrap up your startup. Do any documentation work that's needed, get your specific equity amounts in writing (founders will often get resentful and try to steal your equity if you don't, and you won't get much sympathy from the courts if it's just a verbal agreement; that means you fucked up). Try to leave on good terms so you can keep a good reference, but don't hold high expectations because usually a startup breakup causes one side or the other to burn the bridge outright.

Good luck! This is not an easy thing to do. When you leave as a founder, it feels like defeat-- it's not just changing jobs, but it feels like you're admitting that you don't belong in charge. You can't let that get to you. You made some bad choices-- it sounds like your co-founders were not made of the right stuff-- but you've learned a lot, and now it's time to recover.

If you can get consulting work or a really good salary job (i.e. one that will improve your career, not waste your time) then that is the best way to move forward. I wouldn't recommend trying another startup for a few years. Startup failure is really hard to recover from; you need time and a low-stress environment.
Eurovision is biased so why watch it? An older article but still applicable http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/news050516-13.ht...
The client is not paying you for your hours. It really doesn't matter to them whether you take an hour or a day to do the job, as long as it gets done.
Google Lays Out its Future for Everyone
Plenty of good ideas there. Are you aiming at the more serious photographer? You could ban iPhone pics!

I think it's key to understand what people will pay for, and where the gaps are on competitor sites. You'll have more clue than me about all that.

I used to pay for Flickr, but I lapsed and it felt like a shakedown to have to pay to be able to access my pictures. Left a bad taste. I understand the model, but between that and all of the Yahoo integration I got fed up with it.

However I now use Imgur a lot and recently went 'Pro', though it is mainly for screenshots and image hosting, as opposed to decent quality photos.

The key, in terms of marketing, is to either have a brilliant story or brilliant content (or both). If you have the former then the latter follows naturally. Your content is largely the photos, but I think you should take some ownership over content creation - a blog is a no brainer and could be crucial for your SEO and social efforts.

There are plenty of things you can do on the user experience front, though you've made a great start on that score. The detail matters. For example, I'd use synonyms on the homepage for 'fantastic image', just to mix it up.

The ranking algorithm is always a fun thing to work out, and experiment with.
3D printing bikes to make them go faster
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AdamN, am in Nairobi and would love to chat concerning this.
You can ping me on email mokua83ke [at] google's email service.
I get that, but between the opt-out popups trying to trick you into broadcasting stuff on facebook and disabling signups for the old login system it got to be a bit much.
The songs, the choreography, the kitsch, you just can't miss that :)
The bystanders didn't know they were inconvenienced, and when they figured it out they couldn't figure out why, nor find any route to seek redress to fix the problem.

What this means is that the authorities can impose any block they wish without any accountability whatsoever. This is why this is a big deal. This is like the no-fly list but for the Internet.
Probably, and you can't really get around that.

Client side encryption in JavaScript isn't at all secure either, no matter how much Blockchain.info would like you to think otherwise.
Hey wsieroci, all the best on your new endeavour. You have trying a lot of stuff and asking a lot of stuff on HN. :)

You will surely do awesome.
To have a party?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070hvg/features/party

http://www.joel.co.uk/eurovision.php
This comes across to me as more of a rant, than a constructive exit description from a company. When hiring new candidates, and doing background checks alarm bells would go off if I saw people whining about their previous jobs in a blog post. Be professional, accept that some jobs are shit, and find a new one. This post will do you no favours in the future.
I interned at a big telcom and worked at a bank. Amount of crappy software that needs to be used is mindboggling. Amount of money that is spent to license that crapware is even more mind boggling.

There is a real market for these beautiful b2c software products that can make their services store data on the bigco's servers (as opposed to their own - security is a concern) and write decent, mostly .NET interface to communicate with the company dabatabases.
IF YOU READ THIS, YOU MUST TRY fish NOW!!!

Really, this 100x better than bash.

1. download and install[0]
2. read the tutorial[1]
3. ...
4. profit

[0]: http://fishshell.com/#platform_tabs

[1]: http://fishshell.com/tutorial.html
> prove or disprove if technology conferences are in a higher risk group of sexual assault

Sexual awkwardness and unintentional offence at a tech conference I can entirely believe; but is there really an (even perceived, if not proven) higher rate of /assault/ among nerds than average people? :S
I find Bitcoin cool. I love open source and I love web services. That having been said, I will very happily use an offline client for my Bitcoin needs. Not one that connects to the Internet and not one that primarily or even secondarily works via it.

(Yes, I'm more paranoid than most, I do keep them on an "offline" jump drive and sign transactions offline. But at the very least, I'd use Bitcoin-Qt, or Armory with encryption. I'll give this a closer look but it gives me the heebie-jeebies, maybe I'm wrong for feeling that.)

It certainly looks nice and usable, though!
Eric Holder endorses warrants for e-mail. It’s about time.
PHP pre-loading library for better scaling
"completely ignoring the standards group"?

Look at their off-line standard. They took it to the standardization body who changed it so completely that it was a different beast. Google did the right thing and phased out their old legacy stuff and switched to the standard. In fact IIRC they didn't even put the legacy stuff in Chrome.
Out of the box, no. I've since switch to rbenv, which I actually like much better, and https://github.com/adambrenecki/virtualfish is a very nice port of virtualenvwrapper to fish.
I cannot comment on the inner working of Samsung or a similar corporation of that size. But having grown up on a farm I can very much sympathize with the joy and, can we call it freedom, farming has to offer.

I often wonder if we, who code and spend quite a bit of our lifetime in front of computer displays have distanced ourselves from the nature around us a bit too much from time to time.
so he left corporation because it was, well, a corporation? welcome to the real world =,=
This was 10 months ago. So how has it worked out?
How much would you pay for that? I ask, because Google is doing this for free...
cygwin + mingw + zsh looks quite good to me. Been using this for few years now.

EDIT: I meant mintty .. it is small, pretty and configurable.
TDWTF has several anecdotes. Try this, for one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Uniquely_Secure.aspx
I know this is against the rules, but I just wanted to say thank you. This is super convenient and I hope to use it on a regular basis. Thanks!
I can recommend console2+powershell. Powershell is basically bash but with object pipes instead of character pipes. It's all built on top of dotnet, so if you're familiar with c# you should feel at home with the API.

You can do stuff like

ps | ? { $_.Name -match "iexplore" } | % { $_.Kill() }

to kill all instances of internet explorer. The `ps` command outputs System.IO.Process objects. The ? { ... } syntax is a filter, inside which you can use $_ to refer to the element you're matching. You can access the 'Name' property directly and use -match to match it against an expression. Finally the % { ... } syntax executes some code on every element, in this case it calls System.IO.Process.Kill() to kill the process.

Console2 puts a nice face on things and supports tabbing and resizing, as you would expect from a usable terminal window.
If this is a joke, it is well over my head,;-)
I feel for you, friend. Some days (weeks? months?) I am in the same boat. First off, you shouldn't get down because of this. Software is complicated. I also invested a substantial portion of my career in Windows development. A younger me looked at Petzold and that that was all there was. How mistaken was I! Then came MFC, COM/DCOM/OLE, .net, ... I stopped paying attention at that point. Think about it ... the tech we use changes every 2-3 years. Some tech ages well. If we had only jumped on Python or ruby when it first came out, we'd have been gurus now? Would we be as broad today?

I'm actually pretty handy with Python. When a younger me would get depressed, I'd code to get happy. These days, Python gives me similar happiness. I love coding that much. Yet, when I had an interview with my dream startup, I froze up (just as you describe it). The dude on the other hand probably thought, this guy knows shit. It sucked for a while .. but then I get over it. Just keep coding, my friend! And stay happy.
It's not a private conversation when one is in an audience. (See: talking during a movie.)
Professors take side quests too in their lectures. Sometimes they turn out to be quite lengthy.
Try kitty + puttycyg with cygwin (or alternatively, just puttycyg[1], but it's no longer maintained and not as feature rich, but still works). I think that is what you're looking for from my own experience. You'll get all the features of putty and a 256 color terminal if you enable it, plus utf8 support. No local sshd required (I used to just ssh locally into cygwin with its built in sshd before I found puttycyg and kitty).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/
Noi aspettiamo, loro agiscono. L’esempio americano…
Poll: is your startup profitable?
Also - http://microha.us
no: but we have (non-funding) revenue
no: we don't have revenue
Do you guys Vim is as good in non-Unix environments?
I am doing startup, but actually I do not want to describe it here now, maybe I will do it later :)
"felt happier" when you got home, right?

It's an interesting point that risk makes you feel alive, I've experienced it myself and you feel brilliant afterwards.

Once I got trapped in a wave machine as a child and was being spun around underwater, but kept down the panic and managed to work out how to get out again. I was probably underwater for a total of 90-120 seconds. People were going crazy when I came back up but once I'd got my breath back I felt incredible.

I wonder if it's possible to apply this sort of risk-reward feeling to earning money? Is this what people feel like when they put everything into a startup? Money just sort of seems so mundane when compared to physical activity.
Nintendo to profit from user videos posted to YouTube
"higher rate of /assault/ among nerds than average people"

Pretty much the only "nerd rage" incident I can think of was a recent fight between Star Wars and Dr Who fans:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22542222
Right, makes perfect sense of course as the standard goes.
Sometimes just wish URLs were handled in special way in shells. Fish isn't compatible with bash, couldn't it go step further? Some magic isn't always bad...
It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons.

Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk.

Seeing the company you work for doing commercials like http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-... (even if it was by a third party PR company) is kinda.. weak.
Yes, that's why Germany never wins. Or Finland. Or Israel.

So I'm a physicist too and let me tell you: Take these calculations with a grain of salt. It is very easy to underestimate the complexity of what actual people do.

Voting blocks exist and they do skew the results, but they are not strong enough to determine the winner alone, despite what many commentators in the third world of Eurovision (UK, Germany) think. So far, no song has won Eurovision without getting a lot of points from countries outside its alleged voting block. Other biases in the system are also present, such as an unfair advantage for western europeans due to the juries, and the four orders in magnitude difference between vote weight.

If you watch it (or make simulations on it) without the intention of just having some harmless fun, you're doing it wrong.
I've tried fish a few years ago and wasn't all that impressed with the features.

That said, the new version is just ace! I gave it 30 minutes and it basically does everything I do with zsh right now. All that with about 5% of the configuration effort I put into zsh. Plus, it's so much faster than zsh.

I'll give fish a go as my main shell. Let's see were this goes.
I’ve moved to Australia to write code
I love this post. It just screams: Follow your heart.
There is a real market for these beautiful b2c software products

Careful. "Beautiful" software isn't necessarily a large addressable market in B2C...right now. Not saying you're wrong, but bigco's software packages value security, safety, and supportability over beauty, usability, and time-to-build. It's sad but it's true.
Hmm. With Google canning Reader, it removes the only reason I had left to remain logged in, since I use a desktop email client. (Re Reader: I've moved to Inoreader, a clone which is still a little rough around the edges, but if it hangs around, it's a great replacement).

Gmail, as an email client, has always just been adequate. It isn't reliable at notifying me of incoming mails without the installation of extra software or downgrading to Chrome. And the real killer, it doesn't support multiple accounts in anything like a usable way.

I'm putting "logged in Google" in the same box as Facebook, and only using it in a separate browser.
was* if I'm correct.
This actually sounds rational and not hysterical - well done!

Though I'm not a Perl user, I think these women would be a delight to hang out with, drink beer, and talk about open source.
Well the grass is always greener on the other side. Did you already have this awkward moment of missing the corporation?
I thanked Rand Paul for his Internet Rights efforts lately. He replied.
And so great to see that you're continuing the spirit of reasonableness and tolerance!
I could have sworn they announced emulator support in yesterday's Google Play Services session. Maybe I completely misunderstood what they were talking about (was developing at the time).
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Laurene Powell Jobs Debuts on Philanthropic Stage
Hehe, I did consider blocking phone pictures, but some people get some great shots on them and I don't want to miss out on those. I've even managed a few rare half-decent ones: https://photographer.io/p/10

I think most people are actually pretty happy to pay for increased usage limits and the like, though I don't want that to be the only boon. I'm also trying to keep it to one subscription level, as I think the tiered plans on some other sites can make subscribers of the cheaper plans feel less important than those on the higher ones.

I definitely don't want to go down the Flickr route of blocking ex-subscribers from their photos. I'll likely just prevent new uploads in that case.

Imgur is great and I think there's scope for that ease-of-use in the more photographer-oriented market. My uploader at the moment is a bit basic, but I'm working on improving that.

A blog is definitely coming; I've been really lax in getting it set up. I'll definitely have one for launch. I also really need to do some SEO work, as I've done very little so far :D

In the past few days I've finally gotten to the point where I'm happy to do GUI work. It's weird; I have a degree in design, but I always feel like it's wasted time until I have all the important backend work done. I know that's not true, but it's why the design definitely needs some work right now. I'll be working on this quite a lot over the next few weeks!

The rankings gave me a great excuse to play with Redis sorted sets. At the moment it's very simplistic and I don't think it'll scale very well with lots of new users, so I'll be adjusting that. It's really enjoyable to fiddle with though :)
> Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots

Samsung shareholders may disagree with you there....