skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anybody could waste months and months working on the long-term vision and culture. In a startup, that's next to useless as everyone should contribute to the long term vision. It's the day-to-day that's important.

Months and months for culture? I've spent the better part of a decade and multiple companies trying to perfect the perfect culture startup culture. Not having a vision for the culture of a startup is, in my experience, plain crazy for the mid-to-long term health of the company.

Not having a long-term vision for the company itself also seems crazy for any of the founders. I always have a long-term vision. It usually overlaps heavily with my other founders. It changes when it is clearly the wrong path, but then we come up with a new vision and it certainly doesn't take months to develop. Sure, you take input from the team to smooth out the rough spots, but it is the job of the founders to be the genesis.

For goodness sakes, the center of my pitch when raising VC money is getting people to buy into the long-term vision. I use the long-term vision to hire employees. I use it on early customers. I can't imagine not having one.

> That's what an early startup is -- figuring out product/market fit, largely based on ad-hoc decision making like this. Picking a vision that just works is incredibly rare.

It is not normal to scrap your product every time an investor suggests something different. That way be dragons. Every time you pivot, you have to have a rationale for doing so. It certainly isn't willy nilly ad-hoc decision making. Pivoting is a deliberate act. It involves developing vision for where the company will go, who the customer is and why they would use your product. You don't just take a random stab in the dark every time you try to get user adoption and don't immediately see 100 million users. And on angel money, you certainly don't have the runway to pivot more than a couple times.
It's hard to downvote a thoughtful comment from a smart person, but you're just plain, flat out wrong.

Bitcoin is a heuristic for Byzantine concensus that requires 50% + epsilon of mining hash power to subvert.

This is not explicitly stated in the original paper, but the original paper comes very close.

I don't know what else you would want.

Regarding economics: All you need for a functioning currency is a supply of speculators who will bet on its future value and thus prop it up. That is only sustainable if the currency is the best at what it does for some meaningful niche (e.g. untrusted digital transactions). This is not part of any proir school of economics, but it's close to common sense, and is strongly supported by the success of bitcoin thus far.
CSS property to be aware of: -webkit-text-size-adjust
I've been having Glucerna for breakfast every day for the past two months and it hasn't left me hungry. I don't know how well it works out as a complete meal replacement, but at least as a breakfast it's filling (and I'm normally a heavy breakfast eater whose very sensitive to hunger).
It's open source and they've had a node.js package for some time. The VS integration is just icing on the cake, if you like that sort of cake. As a side benefit, there are interface definitions for many popular libraries, like jQuery. So you get IDE support for those, with types, where applicable.
To Live, The Oyster Must Die
... electrical engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship ... Industrial and Systems engineering. He has worked in finance, procurement, and logistics ...sales, finance, and marketing.... early stage technology companies ... Big Data ... operations and sales ... drives the sales channels ... sales engineer in the desktop video conferencing market ...

...and that's it. So I'm supposed to upend the foundations of my health & body based on the... "research" of a bunch of 20 something electrical engineers & marketers? I don't want my body to be "disrupted", I don't wish for my health to "fail fast." This is not a photosharing app you're building.

I find it profoundly bizarre and irresponsible that these people are recommending a total dietary replacement and they don't have single nutritionist or even anyone with a medical background on staff. Soylent team: you are MARKETERS, not nutritionists! Go disrupt something that either a) has fewer potential disastrous consequences or b) you actually know something about.

on the other hand USian diets in many quarters are so bad that this stuff can't be much worse. :) But seriously, even for the veneer of legitimacy, hire a nutritionist! The lack of one makes me think you couldn't find one who would touch the project with a 10 foot pole.
Show HN: 3D Virtual Tabletop for iOS and Android
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I think you might be waiting for awhile unfortunately. Implementing await would result in a lot of autogenerated code. Typescript is largely meant to be almost 1:1 with the Javascript it produces.

Anders talks about that problem in this video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/9-006
Man, dude got exposed.

I mean it's easy to extrapolate who the person is, call around, figure out which recent YC startup is laying off people, figure out which biz-dev person they let go, which YC startup is raising money via AngelList.

If I was going to do a Yelp-style tell all, I'd definitely shield my identity much better. Instead of giving away where they are raising money and at what round they are failing to raise the money at. The nature of my position and specific's of my work history.

I wish the man's identity remains shrouded lest he becomes the next Mr.X from American Airlines.
OpenX ad servers "pre-compromised" - contained remote code backdoor
> It's a long-standing practice of many civilized nations that the nation itself does not enjoy immunity from prosecution.

Can you name any of these countries so we can do a fact-check?
This is only the most visible examples of how our representatives are actively acting not in the best interest of almost all of the population. There is waste and graft so vast it boggles the imagination. Seven of the 10 highest income counties are the counties surrounding Washington D.C. All these people making high incomes, and all producing exactly nothing that anyone in the rest of the country wants or can use. This year the US federal government will spend $38,000 per household ($9,000 of that spending is borrowed.) I imagine the three selectmen in my little town of 10,000 households could field a pretty good army for the $380,000,000 that will be spent on behalf of our town this year.
>>This is hacker news -- I don't expect everyone to know how jbig2 or other compression scheme works.

As opposed to what, ImageCompression News where you can expect everyone to know it?
That's only in regard to a phishing attack, but two factor authentication protects you in the case that you lose your password to an adversary who tries to log in themselves.

If said adversary can steal your password through other means (for example, you use the same password over multiple sites, and the adversary happens to run one of them), they still would have to coerce you into giving the Allow on your phone.
I hope the plan involves taking WaPo's news gathering expertise and delivering seamlessly through all possible channels -- don't just fix a newspaper, fix the news.
Try searching for python or javascript on http://search.jobvite.com/web/modules/layout/home.htm

You might also check out dropbox, I think they are a large python shop.

Also keep an eye on the "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" posts [1]. I checked the ones for August 2013, and there are lots of hits for python and javascript.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139927

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139937

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
How isn't Yelp ethical?
Ask HN: Wordpress Plugin Ordering
Hey everyone,
Quick (and I'm sure easy) question, but I couldn't find an answer that worked for me on Google. In the posts of my Wordpress site, I use two plugins that show up at the bottom of my article. The current order they show up in is backwards. I'd like the plugin that currently shows up on top to be switched with the one showing up on the bottom. Does anyone know a way to switch the order of these plugins?

Thank you,
Wes
Go buy your lunch with a lump of gold if you need to be reminded that gold is not used as a currency outside of a few highly niche markets.
> There are a lot of organizations with the resources needed to perform the "51% attack" on Bitcoin and no compelling reason to think that a faster attack is not possible.

I'm aware of that. There are also lots of organizations with the power to kill you, yet you won't lose your sleep, because they have nothing to gain from that, so you are pretty sure that it won't happen. It could be argued that the central banks have a lot to lose to Bitcoin, so they should attack it. But after giving it a bit of thought, I remembered that most people just try to pass the current problems to the next guy (think of presidents, bankers, etc), so why would they bother? Right now, Bitcoin is not big enough to be a threat to anyone. It will keep growing as a threat, but everyone will pass the problem to the next guy, until Bitcoin becomes too big to be stopped. If there is a future that makes sense, this is it. Bitcoin takes over because lazy politicians don't do what they have to (in this crazy world, where their function seem to be to ruin everything), and ironically, that will be the best for everyone.

> For the same reason you should care about what cryptography theorists, physicists, and doctors have to say.

I was thinking about economists mostly (which in many cases will have vested interests), but still, if it works it works. Many theorists have spoken against the phone, the internet, the email, the aeroplanes, etc, and see what happened. I'm no cryptographer, but Bitcoin doesn't seem like something that would require one to begin with since all its crypto was done at the user level, it's pretty simple. Satoshi didn't try to create his own hashing algorithm or anything like that.

> You are calling the informed opinions of dozens of experts in cryptography and economics "raging" because they are saying that the system you love and support is based on dubious technical and economic ideas. It sounds more like you started out believing that Bitcoin is the future and are not willing to accept any argument that concludes anything else.

There are quite informed people on the other side too. So what do we do about them? Ignore them? I said raging, because Bitcoin has this crazy effect on a lot of people. They will hate Bitcoin for no reason, spread outright lies, and try to convince everyone that it is a scam. Why? We still don't know what causes it, so we just call it fear of the unknown.
The domains were not squatted. The .ORG registry never permitted 1 or 2 letter .ORG domains to be registered until now.
this is more of a stackoverflow question.
I don't think that's a big deal in the US. I wonder how much penetration Facebook has in Brazil. Is it as popular as in the US? You could almost do a Bay Area focused review site which required FB/Twitter/hn/bitcoin/AWS and have enough users available to be viable, but I'm pretty sure in Russia or China you couldn't require Facebook and still be viable. I only have one Brazilian FB friend, but that seems more a limitation of my social circle than an indication of FB's Brazilian success.
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check out http://buysellads.com to see how different sites stack up against each other.
I'm aware - I'm merely responding to the previous commenter's point about how the compression algorithm is "starting off with a bit mapped image that your brain happens to interpret as the number 17", and pointing out that if this were the case, the likely outcome should be a fuzzier-looking "17" and not a "21".

Clearly, the compression algorithm is designed around human perception (i.e. looking for visually-similar segments to, I assume, tokenize), and therefore does relate to the actual semantics of the document, albeit in a coarse and mechanical way. It did know enough to replace character glyphs with other character glyphs, but didn't know enough to choose the right ones.

My point is that it's not coincidental at all - this algorithm is obviously in a sort of "uncanny valley" in its attempt to model human visual perception.
http://cpmcalculator.com is neat little tool that I use.
It's recommended for nonprofits, but not restricted to. I have sleepingcyb.org, and I am not a nonprofit.
Agreed, but I know there's a bunch of savvy people here as well who use WordPress. Doesn't hurt to ask - I'll try asking there as well.
Don't worry, you can pay $1,000/day to unlock a new core when you need the power of two smartphones.
Based on my experiences with their product, I think some top-down direction is precisely what they could use. Just because so many managers and/or management paradigms are inept does not mean that we should throw the baby out with the bath water.
"Minutes" is not "unaffected" if your site is now down.
Is GoogleZon Becoming a Reality?
FWIW, the most expensive one ($975k) is Helen Frankenthaler's
Adirondacks, 1992

http://www.amazon.com/Adirondacks/dp/B00EBQ4B0Y/ref=sr_1_1?s...
I was a juror on a murder trial and the number one reason for me voting not guilty was the absolute glaring disparity between the budget of the defense and the budget of the prosecution. The defendant essentially had no representation. I would do it again without reservation.
No problem, glad I could help. Your use case sounds pretty interesting, HDFS should fit the bill for sure.

You should take a look at Parquet (http://parquet.io/) for storing your data. It's an open source columnar format that was designed for Hadoop, it even supports nesting (https://github.com/Parquet/parquet-mr/wiki/The-striping-and-... <-- really interesting). Also, it already works with a lot of the Hadoop ecosystem components (MR, Hive, Pig, Cascading, Impala, ..), so your data doesn't have to move once it's in HDFS.

Good luck!
Vim is a blocker for me too..
Some of us had m88k systems (not bad actually) and 88open helped that architecture take over the world. It even merits two whole sentences at wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88open
Oh, you're one of the people that believe that a perceived "sugar rush" has something to do with diabetic glycemic excursions? They're entirely different phenomena. Dismissed. But thanks for the irrelevant link!
Sorry, I should have clarified. When a node goes down, there isn't any sort of "minute" interruption...When there's a full scale outage and you need to perform an actual recovery, that can take minutes.
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try http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
You'll need to specify what the two plugins are that you are using. Most likely it will involve removing and re-adding a filter hook (typically 'the_content' filter hook) and setting it with a different priority to account for the order.
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This is a really cool camera. The only thing that would make it "perfect" would be to have the firmware for the camera be hackable. If you have ever played with the Canon Hacking kit (CHSDK) for their point and shoot cameras, you can can do amazing things (like interesting time lapse things, or motion sensors different compression schemes etc etc)
FB is pretty popular here...

But if I was planning to make a site for reviews, I would not be putting barriers just to view it...

disclaimer: I don't have a facebook account...
How should a PM/biz-dev guy handle this type of situation?

I'm curious how much do PMs really do push backs and shielding for the development teams and to what extent are they just taking marching orders from upper management.

It depends on the specific company and politics, but I'm guessing for me personally, if I was a PM, I put in the work to get into lowest rung of management. I make more than a engineer but not in a worker-bee role anymore so I'm pretty expendable. So I'm going to look out for my own self preservation first with upper management. Some engineers have combative attitudes and analytical view on creating business value without taking into consideration of expending political capital to get things down and massaging people's egos. Sounds like this guy is approaching a social game with still a programmer's mentality. PMs, please feel free to chime in how you pick your battles and push back with upper management correctly.
You can run any WM Linux has on Ubuntu. I've heard good things about evilwm and have personally used ratpoison. They're both in the repository I'm sure.
Thanks! I was working on a side project that needed to access my GMail, and I couldn't believe that a good library didn't exist already. If you find any bugs or use cases that aren't covered well, file an issue or make a contribution!
The release notes did say "removed"; apparently, this is inaccurate.
Never be anyone's doormat! We have a word for that type of relationship: abusive.
I built it because of a project I was working on :). Feel free to create an issue if you need some new features or have use cases that aren't covered.
I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas
Oh. I see these example:

I like my relationships like I like my source, open
I like my coffee like I like my war, cold
I like my boys like I like my sectors, bad

Wow, these feel as hallow and empty as the Shuttle Challenger's hanger.
wp.org belongs to a squatter. Would have been nice in the hands of the Wordpress Foundation.
I agree, the crank is really cool!

On the subject of DIY cameras, I always thought this guy had such a cool post: http://www.collection-appareils.fr/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37...
... making a film SLR from scratch basically. Though he appears to be very talented/handy to put together something like that heh.
How about caning?
http://wp.org
At this point, customers are asking me for active-update static page generation systems.

I like the idea of frameworks, but at some point, you might as well write a plug-in for a CMS. I don't see this as a bad thing.

If anything, it means more well-maintained code.
I'd really hate to say it but people who abuse authority in this manner don't deserve to enjoy being members of society. How many lives do you have to destroy before we destroy yours? 10, 100, 1000?
From what I've seen of review sites, being moderately exclusive on review authors early on is totally fine; you just want to make sure Google/etc. can bring readers in.
I find it surprising that so many people here are reluctant to try soylent and afraid to "risk their health" because it is made by "a bunch of 20-something computer scientists".

Do you really think the traditional food industry as it is is looking out for you? Most people I know have terribly unhealthy diets and almost anything that anyone put any thought in will be better for them. I'm not saying Soylent is perfect or doesn't cause any long term ill-effects, I'm just saying that it can't be much worse than a lot of "normal" diets.
I'll take it one step further and say being really good at engineering means you don't need anyone else managing product
I like how the "system" is such a vague and amorphous concept that you had to put it in air quotes.
I'm not surprise at all.

Their products are a bit shotty and so is their website. I can go on and point out even more problems with their websites... but that would be consulting.

I applied there and got shot down, it seems like they only hired people from prestige university (caltech, stanford, etc..). This view is also backed by a few reviews on indeed. They're very smart and create some very very unique stuff (rolled their own db on top of riak, live auctions, erlang), unfortunately all those awesome algorithms doesn't help their shotty products.
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A friend of mine is an EE doing something with chip production. Through a bit of bad luck, poor timing and lack of foresight, he ended up in a career cul de sac where he basically is stuck due to the technology that he is an expert in.

Basically, he'll get laid off in the next 2-3 years, and he'll need to start at a lower scale and work his way up again with another semiconductor company, or do something else.
Yes, but does he prefer Emacs or Vi?
I always play with a Rando Calrissian and he won the last 3 out of 3 games. It's quite intriguing actually
There have been many stories about Yelp like [this one](http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...) alleging extortionary tactics.
Allowing business who pay to have better visibility/remove negative reviews. Might no longer be the case, but they've had a few "scandals" related to this.
Ask HN: the Internet wave created billionaires - did the mobile app wave?
If not, why is that?
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Probably Amazon bot bidding wars: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
I just ordered one and it says "Ships by Aug 12". (No way of verifying that until I get a tracking number, but I'm hopeful)
It has been possible to produce dupes of keys for ages now the old fashioned way. 'Printable' keys is just adding novelty.

More of a concern is bump keys and the fact that Lockwood dominate the industry when they can be opened with 2 paperclips (although you do have to flatten them with a hammer). You can also get lockpicks and pickguns off the internet for under $20 delivered to your house.
> But for some reason this isn't good enough - and I don't know why.

The same reason "separate but equal" wasn't good enough for black people in the mid 20th century: It isn't equal at all.

It's not about redefining a term or forcing people to think a certain way. It's about being recognized on a legal level as being equal.

> why do gay couples get to marry and not polyamorous people? Seems like there is a double standard here.

There's a stigma against polygamy due to it being used almost entirely as a way to abuse and imprison women and children. That's also ignoring the legal hurdles; for example, power of attorney gets tricky when there is more than one spouse. Same with inheritance.

> What bothers me the most is that so much time, effort and money is spent on something that is a rather insignificant issue.

You think it's insignificant because it doesn't affect you. However, for a lot of gay and lesbian couples, it's a huge issue in their lives for many reasons. The fact that you can't even imagine this being a serious issue for someone else is quite telling, and it's something all too common amongst people who argue against gay marriage.

You should take some time and look into yourself to see why you have such trouble empathizing with others.
I am honestly a little shocked that the two numbers for Republicans are identical to 3 significant digits.

Also, your numbers are for House Representatives, not congressmen.
U.S. sues Bank of America over sale of $850M in mortgage-backed securities