skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop being a baby. Someone even commented on your post that they had the same idea months ago. But instead of whining about it, he shrugged it off and said "Great minds must think alike."

The current Tox logo wasn't even the first proposed logo with the chat bubble/padlock idea. There were a lot of other ones. People were taking the idea from other logos and improving it. That's innovation.

You weren't the first one to come up with the idea; and even if you were, that doesn't give you exclusive rights to it.

Grow a pair and show some "professional courtesy" yourself by not giving a fuck.
Point taken, but won’t that mean that if someone figures out how to make a time machine, they will simply not apply for a patent and try to keep the design to themselves? (They could for instance sell time travel as a service, but not sell the machines or license the tech to other companies)

In theory, patents grant the inventor exclusivity for a limited time so that they can recoup their investment, in exchange for sharing the secret with the world.
I was an art major that learned Objective-C and launched an app in 3 months (calculated the most drunk for your buck in my college town - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/red-cup/id477350446?mt=8). Now I have a job creating iOS apps for a living with 2 years of Objective-C experience, and tinker with different languages and side-projects as well. As an artist, I've always been a builder and maker, just now I'm using code and silicon as my media more than paint or clay.
> especially considering storage density won't increase in the coming years as we seem to hit a wall there as well

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/jul/13_13...
BOMBAS - Tom's Shoes for Socks Surpasses Funding Goal After One Day
The one-on-one aspect is huge. Our startup is trying to facilitate these kinds of informational coffee meetings:

Treatings: www.treatin.gs

We think there's something special about dating sites as compared to, say, Facebook or LinkedIn: everyone who has signed up has implicitly opted in to the possibility of being contacted by strangers to possibly meet up offline (though they aren't guaranteeing anything). Knowing that people have opted in like this makes most people more comfortable reaching out to strangers.
Compare the cost of anything in Norway, and well, anywhere else. Norway is one of the most expensive countries in the world for foreigners because of it's abnormally high average income.
>I'm a little surprised there is no mention of their definition [for 'ethical'].

No you're not. ;)

If they define it, people can/will disagree with it. If they don't, they can't/won't.

Or, think of it this way: how many studies with similar outsets but which included a real attempt at a definition for 'ethical' do you think go viral enough to a) make it to HN, and b) get 46 upvotes in 60-119 minutes?
Complete gacha is forbidden. Not the max number of purchases. The spending limits for minors are self regulated.
Also see this doc from gree what complete gacha is:
https://docs.developer.gree.net/zh/assets/file/doc/en/Exampl...
Or, "Why can't Google retain talent?"

Or, "Average Googler works 4 years; stockholders see consistent gains."

I struggle to find the author's point. By the title alone, this tenure seems to be some vice of Google and tech in general. Furthermore, it's an indictment of an entire class of workers.

Is Exxon really that much better a company than Google? It must be, because the employees stick around for 2 more years!

Google, as a company, still changes entirely over a four year period. That average tenure sees through a whole generation. I could write an article claiming it to be the defining characteristic of a successful company.

This is as good as gossip.
Android can support SIP protocol in the native dialer, but most phones I've looked at do not have SIP in the dialer they ship with the phone.

If you have a Nexus 4, it does support SIP, but your audio quality is usually terrible in a real world, on the street situation, where there is background noise. I have had no end of complaints, regarding the audio quality on my Nexus 4, from people on the other end of the phone call.

Finally, after much grinding and nashing of teeth, and assuming I had bad hardware, I finally found the following thread.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228361

Quoting from the thread

SIP is unusable on the Nexus 4 because the device doesn't provide an
AcousticEchoCanceler[1], AutomaticGainControl[2] or NoiseSuppressor[3].
Additionally, the VOICE_COMMUNICATION[4] audio source designed for VoIP
applications returns the same audio as if the application asked for raw
microphone data, which is completely unusable for VoIP calls.

This has been a source of great frustration to me, since I run my own FreeSWITCH installation, and wanted to use it via my Nexus 4. At this point, I am forced to go back to non-VoIP.
This depends on programming culture. For example, at Google, if you commit a CL to a shared library that breaks another team, they will tell you to roll it back and fix the callers first, and you will. It's doable but it slows you down. Doesn't matter whose fault it is; they're long gone anyway.

In other situations you don't have to listen, but if a popular library doesn't pay attention to backward compatibility then they'll end up in a situation where major customers keep using an older version of their library and nobody wants to upgrade. And unless you want to keep maintaining multiple versions, you want them to upgrade.
Will there be a cart api soon?
As an MBA I can tell you for sure it's one or the other. I'm not sure which though.
I'm a huge fan of what you guys do at VentureLab, I think it's nothing short of amazing. I'll admit, that first paragraph was a bit of an exaggeration - but I genuinely believe that the large majority of the undergrad population didn't know that startups were an option. I feel like that's a huge issue. We have an amazing support network around the school with VentureLab, ATDC, Hype, etc but the undergrads just don't know about it.

> I've found that most undergraduates seem reluctant to step into the Centergy building; they feel more comfortable at Hypepotamus. That's cool, we're friends, but don't forget that there's a heck of a lot of resources here in Centergy if you can get past our oh-so-corporate lobby.
Very true. Let's fix that. I'm meeting with Keith once I get back to Tech. I'd love to grab coffee with you as well and talk about how we can get more undergrads to come by the Centergy building. Heck, I've never been up there.

Love the blog post by the way, and I agree with it 100%. I would absolutely love to work with VentureLab on this. I feel like Georgia Tech has some critical years ahead of it and the more we can get the word out about various resources around Tech, the better.
Building de_dust as a 1:1 scale art piece
Previous agency's were named after Typefaces
Ah yes, the conventional wisdom that doing something before a public demo somehow constitutes a huge prior art gotcha.
The fact is that you're going to get discouraged/bored/antsy at any job, no matter how awesome it is, and loyalty keeps you floating through the lows. It's impossible to accomplish anything without both ups and downs. If workers quit every time there's a low ("SUBJECT: Mandatory reorg meeting 11am"), a company wouldn't get anything done. Likewise, the worker wouldn't get the benefit of seeing a long-term vision through to the end.

In the old days, the pot-sweetener for sticking it out through the lows was a pension; these days it's RSUs (for BigCo) & options/ownership (for startups & execs).

It's easy to show up and do quality work when things are rosy at the company. It's not so easy to plow through when things are bad. But if you give up when things are bad you miss out on the good things to come. That's the function of loyalty.
And as long as it doesn't have DRM (although I assume they'll be able to break it easily).
The problem is "drunk" is a range (or "very drunk", as you would have it). Clearly it's wrong to have sex with someone who's passed out. And with someone who's almost passed out. And with someone who's almost almost passed out. After that it gets a bit more murky. How drunk is the other party? Is there an existing relationship?
Using Stretch Goals to raise funds like Robin Hood
Have we learnt from the middle ages, or do we find the circumstances too different from now to draw authoritative conclusions?
(honest question)
There's no trick other than realizing it's not a prompt to guess. (And I have encountered this sort of question in interviews, although it went out of style before you started interviewing 5 years ago.)

It's amazing how many people will take a question like that and think the right thing to do is say "Um, 1000?" Or confidently nod and say "About 5500."
Back again. Sorry for the downtime.
I think a typical DVD is more like 4.5 Mbps...
> There is this Haskell like language with effects based typesystem that might be worth looking at, the name continues to escape me.

Disciple ? (DDC)
http://disciple.ouroborus.net/
Good question. I keep answering this one and I hope it becomes a more common question.

Let's start with at-will employment. Basically, when I'm hired, I sign a document that says that the company may fire me whenever it feels like it, no questions asked, with 2 weeks notice. During my parents' generation, you'd get hired provisionally for a short term contract, and then if they like you you'd be hired in the longer term (year to 5-year).

If this is the kind of loyalty we get from companies these days, then what kind of loyalty do they deserve? At will employment goes both ways, of course. I can quit whenever I want.

It's also up to an employer to keep their offer competitive. If I have a potentially better deal somewhere else, why shouldn't I go there? The default reaction of employers to increasing market salaries is to ignore that fact unless you specifically go ask for a raise or comply with some set of arbitrary rules. How is that a demonstration of goodwill? If you want me to stay, you have to pay me what I'm worth. If you don't think I'm worth that, but I think I am, why is it surprising that I'd change jobs? If I succeeded in changing, clearly someone agreed with me.

If you want me to stay despite non-stellar salary / benefits, you'd better have some other benefit such as: a) your product is my baby and I get personal recognition b) good career development & learning opportunities c) a potential to be great.

Basically, if you want me to take a chance on you, you have to take a chance on me.
There is any number of similar articles you could have linked to. However, there always seems to be a huge disparity between sensationalistic storage innovation announcements and what's actually ending up on the market.

Also, just snidely posting a link that a good number of people here already know without taking the time to write an actual comment seems kind of lazy.
I couldn't figure out why pricing was dependent on number of users. Who are the users? How do I know how many I will have? Do I have any control over who they are?

But most of all, why is this thing tied to that at all?
I'm in academia, so I don't want to claim firsthand knowledge.

That's just a good explanation for high turnover rate.
How should a "normal tech company" behave exactly?

I'm not disagreeing but your point is not very convincing as it seems to be a pathos argument based on your wording so far with the "patent sick" verbage.

I'll note, companies using patents are behaving rather rationally from the perspective of use it or lose it. Right now its advantageous to the patent filer to file patents, it doesn't absolve these companies of ethical issues arising from that but I don't label these companies as being "sick" due to it. Its up to us and likely the companies to ask for change if there is an issue. Let the patent suits continue to fly, once companies get hurt in the pocketbook enough things will change.

That said i still don't know what you're arguing for companies to do. As well as why tech companies should behave differently regarding patents than other industries that are less well publicized. How should companies that create an innovation behave with what they've patented? Ignore it and lose the patent? Then why bother with patents in the first place? I don't follow the logic about "defensive" patents as it seems to not address how patents are intended to function.
True, but it isn't the only company serving apt packages, and it isn't even the biggest one. Considering that their apt server was as slow as it was(http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#9) - they obviously did something wrong that everyone else was doing right.

Perhaps the problem was that dl.google.com was being used for too many things at once, but this doesn't excuse building custom software that offers worse performance than free off-the-shelf products that literally everyone else has been using for years.
I don't? I honestly don't know that. If my hosting company does, I'm sure they would pass that additional cost directly to me. I don't see a problem here.
I kicked the tires after the Google Reader announcement, but it was always apparent that the team wasn't able to keep up with the rush of new users. I think the best outcome here would be a sale to a more dedicated party, but regardless of that, I can see why they would want to take this route.

They're working on a free service for love. They deserve to do that on their own terms.
"Considered harmful" consider harmful, then?
There were also some differences in design tastes. For example OSI went with ASN.1[1] for binary descriptions rather than plain and simple. TCP and IP just use 8/16/32 bit fields in a predefined byte ordering and that is it. That makes TCP/IP considerably easier to eyeball.

In higher level protocols like email, the TCP/IP world tended towards ASCII based protocols which are far more flexible and future proof, while OSI again did ASN.1. I once worked on an X.400 (OSI Email) gateway and was highly amused that they defined a different error code for every possible reason an email could be refused. There were pages of them (including recipient is dead!) while SMTP allowed for arbitrary text and an overal numeric code to indicate the type of error. Again you can see which was easier to eyeball and diagnose.

Practicality tends to be very effective.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One
I think this is a more interesting topic than the article.

The results of building flat companies is that employees don't have much room to move up. So it's a much better career move to switch companies in order to get into a higher position. You learn a lot, and then a year later feel like your career is stagnating again and have no good opportunities to move up within the company you're in, so you jump again.

I feel it's almost a bad career move to stick it out with the same company, because the tech companies I've worked at are so terrible and / or slow about promoting from within.
Don't know yet. Any ideaS?
As far as we know, said project only exists in latitude's mind, and the only public information about it is that he may or may not still have plans for a "secure chat" program. I'd be hard-pressed to call that an "existing project", since for all practical purposes, it isn't.
Foundation doesn't isn't completely flat though. Buttons, for example, hint at being intractable by giving a tiny bit of depth using the line at the top of the object.
Agile Mindset for Your Startup
Ah, I definitely brought the conversation around to my concerns during the interview. He confirmed their young, fresh-out-of-school, workaholic-type culture. I said, "As much as I love what you guys are doing, I'm probably not a good fit for your culture at this stage in my life." And he said, "That's fine. It's better to find out now than later, etc." It was a very reasonable, amicable parting. That's good, because it's a small industry, and now I don't have to avoid him at conferences, etc.
...examine ethical behavior by... the kind of car a person was driving.

Let me guess... they found that BMWs are exclusively driven by assholes? Any cyclist could have told them that!
Damn Vunerable Linux [2010]
which I think is a little ironic because the overwhelming mentality on tech forums is that MBAs are idiots with more money than brains that get paid absurd amounts of money to play golf and talk about synergy who could never do what we do.

We've all seen this, of course. As an MBA, it makes me chuckle. As an engineer it makes me sad. If there's one mindset that could be stand to be purged from the development world it is that developers are so damn smart.

The insecurity over intellectual capability is so strong in the software engineering profession that it's debilitating. Developers - get over yourselves. There are lots of smart people out there and they don't all look like you. Embrace this fact and you will be freed. Once you recognize that you cannot even define "smart", constructing your identity around being smart loses its luster.
Now I know I may be stupid engineer but isn't much simpler solution to have someone trusted who to call from time to time. With everybody having smartphones an gps app that for given period of time sends messages to trusted 3rd party about your location and being able to call if something is out of order is also a solution.

Just before going upstairs she just calls to the "warden" and if she is speaking coherent ... do whatever you like. If not - the trusted party can take a cab or signal the police.
> What did you mean by "You couldn't remove it"?

I assume he means that Newsstand cannot be deleted or moved into another folder.
A newsstand app is very much like any other app. Expect for when it comes to quality, Apple also looks at the content of the app (the magazine itself).

You will get your very own app, but it will be published under the Uninkd banner. The publishers name is writting in very small letters though :-).

We collect all the fees and send them on to you. We'll never take more than $149.50 though.

Publishing through us might not seem like a perfect solution for some, but it ensures that we can update and add new features very easily.
An alternative would be the old lambda-calculus trick of just saving the function with values in the closure.

function Tuple(/* args... */) {
var args = arguments;
this.unpack = function(fn) {
return fn.apply(null, args);
}
}
Don't get me wrong, I definitely do know about the existing infrastructure set up for startups around Tech. I just don't feel like other undergrads do, and that's my problem. We work with them as closely as we can - we had Frank Moyer (http://frankmoyer.com/) come by most meetings we had at sX. We referred a bunch of teams to Startup Gauntlet (http://www.startupgauntlet.com/) and I know of at least two that went ahead with the program. By no means do we want to do this solo - we genuinely want to help change the culture at Georgia Tech, and there's no reason to re-invent the wheel when there are already so many amazing organizations to help startups at Tech. We're just trying to raise awareness about them, and about startup culture in general.

I had no idea that Tech was so pro-startup when it came into grad school, it's definitely something I'll look into.
Statistics: How People Break Up
Well the most obvious way that things have changed is that pensions are largely a relic now with most companies now using 401Ks where they're not liable for the retirements of their workers.
Shouldn't come as a surprise. Most productive software developers I know don't have engineering or comsci backgrounds. Programming, in general, is about problem solving.
If you could rent paintball guns, I'd go there :)
Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps for Mobile Devices
Of all the pricing structures, I really enjoyed Maciej's approach. From the site:

Users pay a one-time signup fee of around ten dollars. The fee goes up by a fractional penny with each new user.

The signup fee helps keep the site from growing too fast, and keeps Pinboard spam-free.

https://pinboard.in/about/
How many meetings have you had at your workplace to discuss these issues? Surely you must have nestled a meeting or two between standup and sprint planning to discuss SOPA or the NSA?

I'm guessing none. And I see it similar to HN -- these are topics that are important and affect you, but they're not relevant to what you do. Personally, I come to HN to discuss technology, not politics.
Is that a startup or established business?
Nah, they just ask the NSA.
Is this 100% cotton?
It sounds like you have a tonne of experience with what we want to be doing. Mind if I shoot you an email a bit later to pick your brain?
The difference between your examples is the reserve currency status of the dollar. Bitcoin doesn't enjoy this status. If there was an Edict banning Thais from owning or dealing in Icelandic Kronur (say because some Icelander had insulted the monarchy, which Thais are notoriously touchy about) then it would probably last extremely well. Banning the australian dollar (a larger currency, from an economy geographically closer to Thailand) is harder to guess; you probably couldn't ban it completely but it might remain hard-to-find.

Putting BTC and the USD on the same plane for comparison is likely to result in errors.
I thought this was built on top of bootstrap.
Yes I think in some regards we definitely have - like taking science as fact rather than religion as fact - is mostly the status quo. That certainly wasnt the case 1000 years ago.
This comment is hilarious. I guess I can now spend the rest of my life searching for the super-performant yet somehow extremely obscure JVM implementation with OS threads, green threads, and TCO.

Edit: I am still seeking the legendary JVM implementation with TCO. I guess the argument is something like, oh well at some point in the future some JVM could conceivably have that feature, therefor it is wrong to say that Scala does not have it! Rather than writing code that assumes Scala is a complete joke of a functional language, one could simply write the code the natural way, verify that it compiles, and then wait until a JVM with TCO exists, so that it will stop crashing! In the mean time, one can enjoy the entertainment provided by Scala's inability to compile shift in an if statement without an else clause. Truly I am writing code exactly as I would if(it_was_synchronous) else { cpsunit }.

I feel as though you told me reset and shift, although you did not. So thanks for that!
How should a "normal tech company" behave exactly?

Rather simple. It should have a base principle to be opposed to software patents. It should not patent trivial things, it should be opposed to functional claiming and etc. If patents are used, they should be used for defensive pools against aggressors, not to engage in aggression themselves. That's what I call normal.

Twitter recently adopted such methodology. Others before them are doing the same thing for a long time already (Red Hat for example).

Patents were never intended to function the way they function now. Firstly software patents shouldn't even exist. Secondly patents are supposed to help innovation and not to ban competition. The former is rarely the case, while the later is extremely common.
For sure, definitely will shoot you an email
It'd be nice if HN allowed us to collapse entire conversations. Maybe with a TL;DR summary.

[+] [137 messages] "Bunch of people arguing about logo copyright & design for an open-source project."
90% of corrupt money in India is with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_caste people.
http://images.outlookindia.com/Uploads/outlookindia/2013/201...
Wouldn't the straws come in handy in that situation?