skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would use this service, but the 10 millibit limit might be quite restrictive. At two bucks a letter, that is going to cost me $1,400 to send an ASCII character.
I had this service for about two months and just cancelled it. My reasons were:

1. They weren't picking up my mail or delivering my magazines/packages with the consistency that they promised. This gradually eroded my trust the more times I found evidence of it happening.

2. I don't want to lose access to all my mail if they go under or get hacked. My only way to access it is via their apps and website, which could go away at any moment. To make matters worse, they shred all the physical copies after 30 days.

Those things plus the general lack of trust started making me very, very nervous as time went on.

Edit: more details
It's the Silicon Valley equivalent of the political ad's patriotic fanfare with a not-so-subtle flag and crying eagle in the background. :)
I appreciate the information, but my comment was entirely an off-topic jab at Scientology. Where applicable, I apologize for the lack of sarcasm indicators. :)
Nothing, it's just gibberish I made up. The worst thing is that it actually looks like plausible Perl :P
I totally agree. Its one of those tools that stays out of your way unless you `need` to do something weird (unfortunately when you need to do that some times it can get really wierd). I feel like with git the base line is fairly complicated.
You can hardly say iOS supports only one resolution now can you? Thing is - Apple dictates certain limitations AND provides the tools and api's to make it more convenient to support those different resolutions and dpi.

On Android you not only have to worry about resolution and dpi, which you could do on simulators, but you also have to take into account which display technology is used. Text on pentile displays can look horrible on the real device, while looking perfect on the "same resolution" in a simulator (real world story here).

That and designing a good UI which's size is dictated by an unpredictable aspect ratio, size (resolution + DPI) is bloody hard. Just look at the total lack of tablet apps for Android.

So yes, if a developer pours the same effort into an Android app as it does in an iOS app, you get poor results. Welcome to the real world.
I'd prefer not to manage finances at all, really. If you want to get paid for inventing, patents are just one part of that.

Too lazy to deal with licensing isn't a good reason to eschew patent reform btw.
Apropos typo: "Your account password is excrypted using modern encryption technologies (SHA-512) and a random encryption salt."

(https://www.outboxmail.com/learn/privacy)
Love bitbucket - use it exclusively for private projects and small group shared projects. If you sign up with a .edu account, you get free lifetime unlimited collaboration, which is awesome.
Yes, and I think it's true of many platforms. It's best to be there in the beginning, before the flood haha. Look at Youtube, it was much easier to become a Youtube celebrity (or just garner MANY views) if you were on there since/near the beginning.
What do you mean? Excel by it's nature of using rows and columns to store information is a database...
Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it. However, I also don't think social games are a flawed model. Just that it's a model that I don't believe will survive on the public market and that's why I think they should have just stayed private.
Board member travel expenses makes sense because you are extracting value of their interactions (assuming they are working as they are supposed to), since they are part of your board.

Legal fees for investor related actions don't benefit the company at all unless they happen before the checks are signed.
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JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order.

Really? I use and love BitBucket, but the last 2 places I worked at used JIRA and it was the worst project management tool I've ever used. I'm sure someone will say they didn't configure it right or educate the devs or something. Seriously though, it was pushed down from upper management in both cases and it was a terrible experience. Then they thought Greenhopper would fix it, ha. (This was about 4+ years ago)

Edit - According to the comments below it sounds like my experience was a result of trying to do too much with it. I just might play around with a bit just for some bug tracking with some of my BitBucket projects.
Thanks. I just meant that if we killed the concept of IP in general, patents would also die (as a subset).
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Maybe red paint was cheaper historically, but I'm seeing 1 gallon of red barn paint at the same price as white barn paint:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/BEHR-1-Gal-Red-Exterior-Barn-Fenc...

http://www.homedepot.com/p/BEHR-1-Gal-White-Exterior-Barn-Fe...
Never said it was disbelief, just pointing out that AI is not a reliable source for news.

But, I misunderstood the parent's point. So I stand corrected.
So the BBC using DRM-encumbered video-streams is perfectly ok with you? :)
Taking on Patent Trolls to Protect American Innovation
Yes, providing it's appropriately prefixed with Soft or Hard...
Doesn't the US have any laws against cartels and monopolies? Wouldn't this fall into that?

I can understand only one official dealership per area, but it seems odd if there are no other dealerships allowed.
Another reminder: If you're running DNS servers, make sure you are not providing recursion: http://openresolverproject.org/
He didn't start Xanga, he started Blogger.
In fact a snail mail refers to email not sent in real-time. And Epost is awesome btw, years ahead of this ..
- Yes, the whole affiliate thing is iffy to start with. Do agree it is something shaky to base your business on.

- Sometimes is very hard to measure how far off you are. Being in the game skews your whole perspective. Experienced or not (sadly).

- The could is what my argument is against. Everyone has opportunities. Measuring them by what could happen is a bit naive. You analyze the situation and chose that which conforms to your current needs. There might be other opportunities, but they were not as reasonable for those who had to make them option. It is rather simple for an outsider to argue the point. It is the team member the one who has to live with the decision. I don't think they lost at all. They were part of a YC startup, made connections, and ultimately can profit from the whole experience.
I believe "lead" is also acceptable spelling.
Definitely try playing the collaborative story game demo explained in the post: http://stories.derbyjs.com/
I understand it's intentional. What your original post made me realize is that transfer restrictions have become standard terms. More people should understand what that means.

Secondary markets have issues, but so do secondary offerings overseen by the company. There can be pretty big principal-agent problems, both around price and around timing.

I'm less familiar with the traps and pitfalls of RSUs, but in general they seem fairer than ISOs. I hope they're used more widely.
Has bitbucket had any security issues like github has had in the past?
It's awesome to have alternatives (especially those that offer a distinct value proposition compared to its competitors) and it' great to see them growing! :)
yea you can. Email me, I have an idea that needs deep expertise in networking. Its just an idea right now, I haven't tested the market yet. I would love to run the idea by you.
Me too. Public repos github, private bitbucket.
I currently use JIRA and love it. It probably just depends on the team and how they like to organize things.
I think one of the big issues with JIRA is that it's configurable enough to be a project management tool. It's a really great issue tracker (IMO), and I think when you aim to use it as more than that (involve proper releases, milestones, scheduling/time-tracking, etc.), all of a sudden you get into the areas where the configuration and education issues that you mentioned become apparent.

Project management software is difficult, you either have a mess of features that don't work well without customization, or you have few features, and force teams to model their workflow around your features.

In the context of this post and the greater bitbucket vs github discussion - do you find GitHub issues to be better than JIRA?
It does look interesting from here in the traffic-hell of Los Angeles. Good luck.
Awesome and inspiring story. Also, great design.
I don't know exactly how many games Zynga has but I just did a quick check at zynga.com and I counted 33 games. hence on average 90 personnel per game? I think that is ludicrous especially considering the fact that the developers of Tiny Tower (which accused Zynga of a rip-off a couple of months back)build their game with 7 developers
There's a net benefit to eating out every night (it's tasty and we don't have to do dishes), but my wife and I still consider the costs.

Just because something produces a net benefit does not mean that there are infinite funds to allocate toward it.
Right, I was confusing him with Biz, who was indeed involved with all four.
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This is getting a lot of bad press for Mr. Parker--my eco-aware friends on facebook (yeah, I know) are going nuts over this.

If I were him, I'd want to salvage my reputation and quick. Maybe donate some huge amount more (Wedding cost was $10M? Donate $10M.) and humbly apologize. Otherwise, he'll always be "that facebook guy who cut down the forest."
Dont care about DNS, its your problem, fix it and stop whining about hackers.
To respond to a point from the first article you linked (one which I think generalizes well):

"So why isn’t the USPS making innovations and meeting customer needs like Outbox? Simple: because consistent financial support from the government eliminates incentives to do so."

Anybody who thinks it really is that simple is someone to be wary of when getting information or analysis.

The biggest reason USPS doesn't make changes like this is that congress ties its hands -- free market devotees don't want it competing in new areas. Or even old areas, like postal banking/payments (imagine the outcry here if someone decided maybe a public digital/physical payment infrastructure might be beneficial if competitive with the various private services). Some don't want it doing anything at all, but they can't really get rid of it, so they join up with the next group: budget-watchers who want it revenue neutral (which it managed pretty well for a long time)... AND now subject to pension/healthplan requirements well above and beyond any private standards. Meanwhile, cutting service is seen as a no-go.

Some people have actually speculated subjugating the USPS to this set of no-win requirements is actually an intentional strategy to bolster the case for privatization, which would pretty much have been a non-starter before 2006.

You could say that this proves that the US Government is ineffective, I suppose, but in a representative democracy, what that mostly proves is that US politics either prevents good policy thinkers from being elected or prevents them from effectively doing their job. Or letting others do theirs.

There may be an institutional component too (our legislature in particular is less representative than one might think), but I suspect the biggest factor is cultural/philosophical.
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the title is totally misleading. layervault is _not_ going open source.
Totally agree. This left an extremely bad first impression. I don't know why startups ask for money without a single founder or member disclosing their identity, it just boils my blood. I mean it really pisses me off. It like someone's trying to trick or scam me. The about page is the first one that should go up.
Almost every startup fails and almost every founder is a failure almost all of the time.

It might help to remember that.
99% of Node applications do not need any load balancing. 1% are Twitter or something. And even a lot of the 1% would do it at the application layer using multiple VMs.

And I bet that most of the Heroku apps on Node that use multiple dynos really only need multiple dynos because Heroku's dyno isn't giving them realistic resources on the dynos, i.e. less than one small AWS or Linode or whatever.

Forever will not keep your Node application running. If you Node application crashes, forever will let it crash, and then run it again, and if it crashes again, it will run it again, and it will crash again.

There used to be basic gotchas in HTTP/Express that made it really easy to have an exception thrown that would take down a Node web server. I am not sure those are already there, but anyway I do what every Node expert advises against and include and uncaughtException handler in my Node web servers. That keeps them running. If I take it out, the effect is that they go down briefly, and forever restarts them. So honestly I see no benefit in most cases to using forever except to make it a little bit harder to figure out how launch your application.

And the thing with automatically restarting when a server reboots, honestly my servers very rarely reboot. If they are going to reboot then the VM (VPS) provider gives me warning and lets me control it. So for 99% of applications out there, an upstart or whatever to restart your Node application really isn't that important.

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need to install nginx in front of every Node application.

I will give you the SSL one, that could easily take a good UI developer 2 or 3 days to find the right instructions on Google.
100% 4 year vesting is a day-1 requirement, but how much of vesting resets on a new round is obviously a negotiated point.
The reactions stop at 56 because Iron has the highest binding energy of any element, which the author doesn't mention. Even under the extreme conditions of stellar nuclear fusion, the binding energy cannot be overcome past this point.

However, this doesn't really explain the abundance of red paint. It explains the abundance of iron and lighter elements. The fact that Iron Oxide has a red color has nothing to do with the "physics of dying stars".
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I have used both for a couple of years and the biggest difference I have noticed is that github has an open, social design while on bitbucket you feel like the only person on the site.
I currently work on one of the most trafficked production Derby applications[0] and I must say that this is a very welcome change. Derby's creators have time and time again proven that they care about the nodejs ecosystem. By funding ShareJS's development, they're ensuring that an unbelievable tool (simplified OT) will be sticking around for quite some time. Writing code with Derby has been far and away the most pleasant development experience I have ever had.

If there's been one issue with Derby so far, it's been Racer. The data sync-ing engine leaks memory and is largely unstable. We've suffered far too much downtime due to these issues. Moving to a fresh backend with ShareJS enables Nate, Brian, Joseph and the rest of the team to rework the scope of the framework with some of the larger goals in mind – things like horizontal scaling and powerful conflict resolution. We have yet to upgrade to 0.5 (the upgrade guide was literally just released), but it appears to be a much more stable foundation on which to build a "real-time" web application. I'm sure we'll have to put up with bugs for quite a few weeks, but this is a powerful step towards reaching 1.0. Thanks guys!

[0] https://habitrpg.com (source: http://github.com/lefnire/habitrpg)
Yes: https://www.paperkarma.com/

I've been using it for a few months now with good results.
I think there is a disconnect between what many of readers who have commented here think of when they hear standardization and what the author intended. Bootstrap has not introduced a standard in the way that html5 is a standard. It is a standard in the sense of a common vocabulary shared between users. Anyone who has worked with bootstrap for more than a couple of days will instantly recognize that a div with a span6 class is half the width of the page.

One of my biggest frustrations at my job is not having bootstrap and not having that common vocabulary keeping things in order. This makes the design specs vague to work with, difficult to implement and the end result is a ton of one off styling reinventing the wheel instead of reusing a handful of global styles.
Adding to my previous post,

For a GC application to apply for 485 your PD needs to be current. India EB2 and EB3 is heavily backlogged. China EB2 situation is better than India EB2. If a GC application's or its spouse's country of birth is not India or China (ROW category, Rest Of World) , the PD moves really fast in EB2. I think its current now.
So, Go has message passing. Just like Erlang, since 1986.

Only without per-process heaps, which make crashing processes safe. And without process linking and supervision, which helps systems built using Erlang/OTP achieve nine nines of uptime. Instead, it includes null references, also known as Hoare's Billion Dollar Mistake.

But it's not enough to scorn the industry; Go's designers also look down their noses at academia.

A modern, ML-derived static type system? Generics, which would enable the unwashed mashes to write their own `append`? Ain't nobody got time for that — wait, what? Oh, Rust does?

Go's tooling is fantastic, and its pragmatism is commendable, but ignoring the last 30 years of programming language research is not.
This has been added now.
Social gaming still has plenty of life in it, with Pocket Gems games, Puzzle and Dragons, and other games continuing to do well.

Until the entire category of social games dies globally, I'm not going to entirely count Zynga out (as much as the misanthrope in me would love to see Pincus bite the dust).

Besides, Zynga still has the online gambling play coming up for them, which could be a serious game changer if adopted in the States.
What's the standard HTML for a login form? That's something that exists on pretty much every site, and the HTML for it is also very different on every site.

And there's no good reason for the difference; if I have nice CSS for a login form, adapting the HTML to use the CSS or adapting the CSS to match the HTML is just busywork.

The widespread adoption of bootstrap means that a lot of sites now have inputs wrapped with div.control-group and btn classes on their buttons, etc. So I can take the CSS from site A and apply it to site B without changing the HTML.

That's what he means by "standard HTML".
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JIRA is really for issue tracking. Grasshopper isn't a fix, they are separate products and thus do not do the same thing. Slamming Jira for project management is like complaining about a rake's ability to dig holes.

Personally I think Jira is a great for issue/bug tracking when using bitbucket.
You must have never used Rally?

Because while I'm not a huge fan of JIRA (I've only used it in the past year so I don't know what it was like 4 years ago), I've unfortunately seen much worse.
What do you consider stupid about OOCSS? It has some valid techniques for dealing with CSS bloat in large web applications. At a certain size, semantic CSS starts to buckle under its own weight. I was able to reduce a ~20,000 line CSS file to ~5,000 by identifying some common UI patterns and changing the markup to use presentational classes.
I've actually moved twice and the company shouldered the cost (once from NY to LA, then LA to SF). Some startups and most big companies will relocate, and will also adjust your salary to meet the market value of the area you move to. Also, geographies that don't have as many devs will tend to be open to relocation (Denver, Austin, Seattle, etc.) The startup I work at (whitetruffle) just moved our full time NY developer to SF. He has been remote for about a year now with us working from home, and wanted to be in SF with the rest of the team. A lot of companies who are also hiring using whitetruffle (as it is a recruiting platform) have marked their jobs as "relocate OK" or "remote OK" and our candidates have moved from LA to SF, DC to SF, UK to LA, UK to NY, etc.
It's great to be able to work face to face sometimes, so I hope you can find something you like soon like I did!
Correct, so it was not a fiasco for people who were able to apply for Adjustment of Status i-485. This happened in 2009 too. I hope it keeps on happening every few years. At least people can get EAD which gives you ability to work anywhere in the US.
My friends and I had this discussion during a camping trip. We resorted to Google, and the explanations varied from the cheapness of iron to it being a good luck tradition to include the blood of your first-slaughtered livestock in the paint (presumably, the paint was also red...or else you'd need a lot of blood).

The OP doesn't add much to the speculation and the headline makes quite an egregious speculation.
Re: JIRA. At work we've been using Jira for several years. While it's very flexible, it does come with a certain level of complexity that makes doing things like simple Kanban heavier than it should/needs to be. I have a billion opinions about JIRA, and a love/hate relationship with it.

Github issues - bare bone basics, but I hear they're working on improving it. You cannot currently run something like a Kanban board off of GH issues without outside assistance.

For simplicity, boards like Trello and AgileZen are, IMHO, in the lead.

I have a billion opinions about JIRA in general, but I doubt anyone is interested besides Atlassian. ;)
Millions of people allow Google to read their email because that's the free option. Also because Google doesn't straight up tell you humans are hand sorting it. A human at Google can probably read my email as easily as some one can open my mailbox in meatspace, but both are assumed to be exceptions.

Edit to add: also Google does not ask for a key to my house.
No. Courts don't wait for the PTO.
You are correct, with enough experience it will suck a smaller amount of time and attention away from your actual project.

Unrelated to the core argument, I think much of what you just posted is bad advice - forever will restart your app above and beyond uncaughtException, nginx or haproxy let you add redundancy on independent processes if not machines, and restarting your site manually on reboot is ludicrous.
Do Americans Take Risk Anymore?
Great essay, but Shaw is mistaken about one thing: our art is old enough indeed. Unix and C in particular were created precisely as he describes.
The only reason Go doesn't have generics yet is that Rob Pike hasn't found a system he likes. He's not against it being added in the future.
We use JIRA at Etsy (although we use Github for code reviews, not crucible). It is certainly frustrating, but I tend to think it's a "the worst except the rest" situation. Do you have something you like significantly better? I've experimented with stuff like trello, basecamp etc. and still haven't found them significantly better.