skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to what? They're no more patent sick than other companies, they just get reported on by the news more often.

Have a look at patents for car companies, you'd probably be shocked at how common this stuff is. Patent attorneys don't exist for just the tech world, they make money for a reason.
You seem to be saying you need two hands to pinch and zoom on an iPhone. You're doing it wrong! You should also know that something is wrong with your argument when you have to resort to fabricated anecdotes.
I strongly disagreed that the concept was't unique and original. I'm clarifying though, not trying to give you flak; like I said, I don't much care about this leg of the thread.
Because you'll lose the ability to refactor the internal structure of the library without breaking people's code.
I honestly don't know, should test it and find out. Will look at it later today.

Edit: curiosity got the better of me
https://gist.github.com/mitchty/0c2089445c1400d46cb9

Basically exactly what you'd think.
10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers [2010]
Median time in position means that if a company hires a lot, it goes down. For example Amazon was high on this list, but anyone who's been to Seattle lately knows they are hiring like mad. I think you need some kind of metric that accounts for recent hires. Maybe some of those recent hires will leave in a year or two, but some of them won't.
Why should I be loyal to a company? What benefit is it to me? I can not expect the same from them, why should they expect it from me?
An indicator with fewer false +/- than taste buds
I have an MBA and I have created a (very small) business (https://realpropertyexchanges.com/) within two months during late nights and weekends. But I also have a family with small children, a great "day job" and other activities and interests (including some other development: https://github.com/mattchoinski).

Just from my limited participation in this community, I sense that several other people are doing great things with limited resources.

It's great that the author accomplished so much, but he's not alone.
Show HN: Platform for data scientists
Hi there Hacker News,

I've started a side project http://datasourcehub.com which aims to be a platform for data scientists. The project is still in the idea phase so the UI/UX and functionality are all subject to change. Feel free to play around, below is a guest login, and make sure files are content type of 'text/csv'. All data is subject to deletion, it's just a sandbox right now!

By reaching out to the Hacker News community I hope to reach expert data scientists and get their feedback. Below are some questions I'd like to answer and some proposed directions that this project can take. Any advice will help!

login: guest_account / password: foobar

Questions:

1. What core feature/s would data scientists like on a platform made for them?

2. How difficult will it be to get people / organizations to contribute data?

3. Who would be good resources to reach out to initially?

Directions?:

1. github for data scientists (shell command wrapped around diff and patch for data files)

2. dribble for data scientists

3. hosting of large datasets (pastebin style)

Please reach out to me here or email me (in profile). I will respond to all feedback. Thanks again!
Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, surely?
clickable http://datasourcehub.com
I still don't get why people are attached to the concept of company loyalty in the first place. Maybe it made sense back in the era where you'd work for a company for 2+ decades and retire on a pension, but we don't live in that world anymore.

Loyalty is earned, not implicitly deserved. There are thousands of companies out there where a software engineer can show up, do quality work, and draw a salary and benefits. The fact that a company like Google happens to have an on-site masseuse or slightly better 401k plan doesn't really mean anything at all; there are way bigger factors to consider: work/life balance, healthy management and corporate structure, good project planning, opportunities for personal growth, etc.

A company that big tends to have a lot of project churn and waste, too, so it's not unnatural for some of that churn and waste to result in more people leaving than might be the average at a smaller company.
JVM languages.
Many people make plans, few carry them out. You posted that March 21, 2012. Now, 1 year and 4 months later, someone apparently independently created a similar logo and is actually doing something with it, not just planning to do so. If you do something with it as well then great! I don't see what the big deal is.
Yen is the equivalent of cents, not dollars, thats why the confusion, yen doesnt have a concept of 100 cents=1 xxx. In Rupees case it is an equivalent of dollars, 100 paisas = 1 Rupee.

So in this case 60x is a reasonable assumption except not including the Purchasing Power Parity.
Data Structures using C++
> List is a recursive data structure by definition

What's the justification for that assertion?
HI!

If you wanna get an idea of how stuff actually works in VoIP, we cover the topics in depth every two weeks in our Expert Q&A sessions (next one is on Porting here:[0])

Here's a link[1] to 4 of the past ones so you can get an idea. We'll be publishing the videos on youtube soon. If you attend these, you'll quickly start to get a good handle on the world of communication; it's just a TON of acronyms.

Here's a link to one of my favorite blogs on VoIP [2].

Hope that helps!!!

[0] http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=7476736119

[1] http://blog.2600hz.com/post/52151527067/2600hz-expert-q-a-re...

[2] http://200ok.info/
Sony and Panasonic join forces to create 300GB+ optical disc by 2015
Excellent article. I'm certainly not an expert networker myself, but I would agree that being friendly with your business associates is very important to future business. It doesn't mean you necessarily need to hang out with them - even just chatting a little bit about personal stuff once in a while helps to oil the wheels of business. People are human after all, and most people prefer doing business with people they like.
Also, Andorid now supports SIP in the native dialer client and it works over wifi and cellular data, so you don't even have to install anything extra to get it working on an android phone.
Ooh a desktop app with a bunch of custom UI? Great, it will fit in with all the other useless shitty chat apps I've ever seen for Windows.
Why didn't you make use of existing projects like SecurePhone and OTR?
Same here. I liked it (even if a little flawed) but never donated. I think this gives me the motivation to self host something that I know won't go away.
How the PGA is using real-time mobile data
Cold exposure activates brown fat and causes fat loss in intervention
Some of us actually do cook dinner at home. I come in to work quite late, stick around till 8PM but skip the dinner at Google. I have a few teammates who leave at 5PM, some others who leave at 6PM and the rest who leave around the same time as me. There is really no requirement to stay in late, but the availability of dinner for days when I am too bored to cook is a great thing.
I would have quit Pinboard in early 2011 if (...)
A short ballad dedicated to the growth of programs
Oh wow I missed it, lol
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Both your logos might look nicer if the avatar moved up and to the left to make the chat bubble look more like a chat bubble.
Well if they use your private members thats all in theirs responsibility. What if they just want to make the thing work, ship the product, whatever else, and don't care about new versions.
If you want a CAS, you want Brad's other current project that is really just hitting some very interesting milestones: camlistore. It's his datastore to store "everything" and I'm convinced.
I'm confused. Bas Ording is the designer at Apple who invented it. Scott Forestall is also listed. I'd guess that all of the investors listed were Apple employees.
Right now each individual hospital eats and writes off a massive amount of indigent claims. A lot of that is about to be shifted onto the insurance companies.

Also, there are a lot of people out there today who are suffering, but don't have the insurance to pay for their operations, medication, etc.

If it's not life threatening and they aren't on medicare, etc, right now they are unserved.

I hope people don't get the wrong impression that I feel sorry for the insurance companies.

My perspectives are purely from an accounting point of view.

Companies will make their money first.

You can count on that, even if it leaves the average American with a poorer health-care experience than they enjoy today.
My actual answer: "While that does sound cool, is there a place here for the kind of guy who likes his wife's awful casserole?"
It's not entirely clear whether or not they're counting contractors and those in traditionally high turnover roles like support and commissions-based remote sales.

If the turn over for technical staff is indeed greater than industry and location average (and I suspect it isn't), then I think the reason is a bit simpler than most suspect: especially with less experienced engineers (0-3 years out of university), working for a company like Google quickly builds more career capital (as a result of strong engineering culture, social proof, ability to do fairly unique work, etc...) as opposed to same length stay elsewhere. In other words, it becomes easier for many to go elsewhere if they seek greater responsibility, better projects, flexibility (e.g., being able to work remotely full time), equity/salary, to move from SDET or SRE to a pure software engineering role, to get a position at a growing company that would have previously passed on them, and so forth...

While I'm inclined to believe commentators promotion mechanisms on Google's technical ladder could be improved (and I am sure this is something Google is working to improve continuously), I don't necessarily think this kind of turnover is unhealthy. If a great person leaves and it's apparent to everyone that they've been overlooked and Google should have promoted them before they attempted to resign, it helps show a pattern of what kind of workers are overlooked; if a person leaves and the opposite is true (e.g., they weren't performing in a way that warranted a promotion, they weren't technically qualified to take on a project of their choice, etc...) then it serves a safety mechanism: those unhappy with their role leave -- meaning the average worker is happier with their role than otherwise.
Never exiles people? What about Snowden?
First of all congratulations or Parabens :)

Nice to see some portuguese projects here.

On a unrelated note, how did this end up on as the musicbox website framework? I worked in this project a while ago (backend and frontend clients only) and had no idea who did the musicbox.sapo.pt frontend.
> What you're probably feeling is that they're not making things that show up on Hacker News that you're excited about.

I disagree. What I'm feeling is that the large majority of students don't even know it's an option. Especially when you move out of CS. I've heard people with great ideas for products who never did anything with them because they had no idea how to. That's what we aim to fix. If someone wants to build something, and start a startup, they sure as hell should be able to. Georgia Tech has the resources out there, with VentureLab, ATDC, Flashpoint, etc, but you can't keep throwing money and programs at something and expect the culture to change. You need dedicated, motivated students for that.

> My advice to undergraduates is thus to build something more difficult than you at first think that you can complete, and write a couple of blog posts about what you have done.

I completely agree. It's an incredibly rewarding process.

> If you instead set out to "learn rails and do a startup", my prediction is that you'll slowly learn that most people talk a big game, web programming is more annoying and complicated than difficult, and making money is hard; all of which I can convince you of in 5 minutes.

Everything you say there is completely correct, but I'd argue it's a very valuable experience, and you even if/when you fail with that first startup, you come out with a tonne of skills and valuable insight. Maybe the first time around you didn't do any customer discovery. The second time around, you'll make damn sure there are customers before you build. And really, how many successful startup founders make it the first time. If you're going to fail, it's a hell of a lot better to fail in college where you have a support network to fall back on, and a backup plan if you absolutely can't handle it.
Straight talk: "As a startup we expect you to work long hours - often into the evening. To offset this somewhat we do pay for you dinner with some pretty good catered meals"
Passive Aggressive: "We have amazing catered dinners at 7PM"
I've personally found most networking events to be terrible when it comes to making meaningful connections.

I've found it's much more effective to just email someone you're interested in connecting with, introduce yourself, and invite them meet up sometime for a coffee (or beer, depending on the time of day).

If they say yes, it's because they are also interested in what you're doing, and this acts as a quality filter to ensure you're both moderately aligned in your interests and not wasting each other's time. Plus, the one-on-one setting lends itself to more interesting and personal conversations, which tends to have the friend-building effect the original author appeals to.

Networking doesn't come naturally to most people, but being friendly and personable usually does. I find that combining the two removes some of the awkwardness, and makes your efforts that much more effective.
Without any specific knowledge of Google's practices, I can say this is certainly true - this is standard nowadays.
> It's my unqualified opinion that you're reacting emotionally...

Oh, I see, so if ANYONE disagrees with you about ANYTHING EVER, it must only be because they are reacting emotionally and have no logical basis for their disagreement? Huh, REALLY? (See, I just used black-and-white thinking again... See how we could go around and around like this until the end of time? Aren't internet arguments fun? Hit me back, it's fun coming up with these.)
What priority does his design have? People have similar ideas disconnectedly, and the evolution of the Tox logo is clear. There isn't even a trademark. He isn't even using it in a project. latitude can go back to Apple with this drivel.
Then it would not look like a keyhole. :(
This is why every time Mozilla starts whining about Google playing with new things without consulting everybody else first (e.g. Dart, NaCl), I lose more respect for them (actually, at this point, they've pretty well exhausted it all). Basic advancement comes from somebody deciding to try something new, not from getting everybody to agree on what comes next.
I'm not sure if you understood what MITM(man in the middle attacks) actually means.

I will give you a high level example of what he is talking about. your software displays a public key to perform encryption. what 'the NSA' can do is put a proxy (or use your isp) in between you and the person you are sending data to. Then they can pose as the person you are sending data to by hosting their own public key to both you and the person you want to send data to. now they can decrypt information that you send, and then encrypt it with their private key and send it to the other person. NOW THE NSA CAN SPY ON YOU USING YOUR APP.

man in the middle attacks can get much more complex than that, but this should help you understand what is going on.

If you are attempting to write security software you should really at least learn crypto AND networking. it seems like you have not accomplished either of these.
I wonder what positions the good MBAs tend to be in vs the bad, for example which kind are more likely to be big company CxOs.
> If that’s valid prior art, then patents for functioning time machines won’t hold up either.

Good.
Umm, most policies have caps of Rs500k per year (or is it incident). Am I mistaken? That's laughably low even by Indian standards for a serious illness.

I'm assuming the the HN-India audience can hustle Rs500k. My two cents is that you shouldn't sweat it in India if you don't have health insurance.

However, if you get something like cancer in India, not insurance policy will help: the cost of treatment is just too high. You will go bankrupt.
Recruiters are jerks… aren’t they?
The SIGHCI/CHI community is noted for using Word more often than not. It is ironic for a field that is supposedly well connected to design to have such horrible looking papers on average.
We realized we weren't using Stripe in-house at Stripe, so we decided to fix that.
The article seems to imply that there's a large imbalance between employer and employees, specifically that companies go to great pains for employee retention. Employee retention is expensive and it could be construed that the article writer equates perks with 'loyalty.'

So, to answer your question: all the time. By continuously offering perks they remain 'loyal' to you.
That's hardly what I would consider a problem, since the app also supports pinch-to-zoom. The double-tap and slide method is purely additive.
The question was ridiculous in the first place: "Can a MBA design & develop an iOS app in < 2 months?"

Well, yeah. Duh.

What value does the answer give us? Nothing. It literally gives us nothing to take home.

Anyone capable of starting from scratch and in 2 months learning Objective C enough to successfully launch an app has my respect. The fact they have an MBA is meaningless.

The title (and question) is clearly link bait and should be judged for being so. It adds unnecessary conflict to an otherwise inspiring story.
I chose to do a two year MBA from Babson College from 2007-2009. I had worked at a medium-sized tech company for 3.5 years prior. My undergraduate degree is in Computer Engineering. Today I run a startup.

I have felt strong anti-MBA sentiment here and elsewhere in the startup community. Some VCs go out of their way to lampoon the idea of an MBA. If the author of this article has experienced a similar sentiment, it makes a lot of sense for this article to be titled this way.

If the prevailing mode of thought is that MBAs aren't useful, or aren't technical, MBAs must present fact-based argument against this.

I learned a ton about working with people, leadership, finance and organizational design in my MBA. I also learned to write Facebook applications[1], cooperated with a friend at Rice to release the first Baby Names iPhone application.[2] (I ran xcode on a hackintosh) I learned a ton about how to turn an idea into a real world thing.

Sometimes things I learned during my MBA offers context to problems faced at startups. However, when I say that things I've learned during my MBA contributed to reasoning on a particular recommendation, I've learned this sometimes detracts from my arguments more than add. That is frustrating.

[1] http://banagale.com/my-first-database-refactoring.htm

[2] http://neutrinosllc.com/products/iphone/applications/babynam...
You don't get payed for how smart you are or how hard you worked. You get paid for how big of a problem you fixed for somebody, and how much they are capable of paying you. That's why good doctors and lawyers get paid so well. Dying or going to jail are big problems, and people will spend a lot of their money to avoid them.
Economic growth cannot continue indefinitely
Are mathematicians going to be using TeX in a hundred years? Two hundred? Five hundred? Two thousand?

Math is timeless. TeX may be, but it's too soon to say. It's a recent invention. It's only been around for 35 years.
Pinch-to-zoom with one hand is extremely awkward, unreliable, and inaccurate. It's also a great way to drop your phone when you're standing on a crowded bus.
The company is probably mostly young single professionals, for whom cooking meals not economical (time+$). Sure, it lets you stay late, but for most of these folks, having catered food is more like the college dining hall than a sign of workaholics.

You probably should have brought it up more explicitly during the interview. Twitter has 3 types of Kombucha on tap in their cafe, and they seem to have a pretty good culture. ;)
7PM? Ah, that means work starts at 11AM, right?

Sounds great for night owls.
I just tried this one handed suggestion - first time ever in my 6 years using an iPhone - and I can see why I never thought of it. Extremely awkward and imprecise. I don't get why anyone would do that. Do you have giant hands?

For zooming, I've always used the double-tap method. This generally works fine for zooming in and out on Safari, and it works for zooming in on Maps. I can do a two-finger double tap on Maps to zoom out, but it's still pretty awkward so I'll keep switching to two-handed mode for those (rare) instances.
You might be thinking of this piece on Jeff Hammerbacher: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
Agreed. After having done interviews at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon at various times over the past 5 years, I never encountered a single one of these questions. I wonder why this myth continues to live on.
So your key is key + transaction ID, where the transaction ID is simply a value that changes when the data changes. You search the cache with the current value of the ID, and if the data changed the cache entry will be regenerated.

An example of a good transaction ID would be SHA1(data).
How about including the treemap[0] approach like in KDirStat [1]? Here are some other techniques that are interesting ->[2]. It may even be interesting to break this into two modules. One that builds the tree for Browserify and another that builds tree visualizations.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping

[1] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net

[2] http://www.randelshofer.ch/treeviz/
A conference on Microsoft Office?
This looks wonderful! I went ahead and applied for my Thread Hero project: http://threadhero.com
Actually thinking about it more you might want to have "Tuple" and "MutableTuple" objects. In languages that use parentheses notation for tuples you need to decide which one you want, but since you have names you can have both just with different names.
The Data Driven Cheating of Moneyball
Isn't the W3C working that way, at least at a certain point in the past, the reason why WHATWG exists outside of W3C?
Is this surprising? It has been true of the software industry as long as I've been involved in it, which is just over two decades now.
Flashpoint is pretty great!

I am going based upon what I have heard in various startup circle discussions. I am usually the "hacker" in the group of others. I have myself stayed as far away from raising funds as possible. I know I have watched friends in the startup community spend months or years courting the angel investment community, going to dinner theatre (pitch events) and come away empty handed and dejected. Most would be better off just building their MVP and marketing it with every ounce of passion that they put into attempting to raise an Angel round.
I am unfamiliar with Newsstand requirements. Are there quality review guidelines like the app store?

As for payment processing, is everything published under the uninkd banner and then payments sent from there? If not, how does uninkd collect the fees?
Hopefully the is a preview to a cart js api.