skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on board with most of your examples, but in my mind the iOS example is different from the rest. iOS is an operating system designed to run native apps with a default UI. Apps can build on top of the SDK and optionally build it using the default UI. I've had apps that did these and they've been fairly stable throughout the years. It's even functional for iOS 7 if I wanted to leave it alone. I also have apps that have its custom UI that won't be changing at all for iOS 7. Of course, the same way that a developer might want to update a Win 95 app for Win 7, he or she might want to update apps when new iOS versions come out.

Is the criticism due to the annual version update? Or is it because there are API changes every new version? If it's the latter, wouldn't updates be expected, and in fact desired? It may just be me, but I've had good experiences when it comes to API stability with iOS. I've been unable to keep up with the newer features (I'm indie and only work on apps jn my spare time) but the new features rarely get in the way of my app being able to run with the calls they are already making.

I'm aware of the UDID deprecation from before, but devs were given plenty of time to transition from it. Actually, I was surprised how much time they gave.
Hmm, if it is so outdated, should we close all 45 of the identical General Electric-design reactors operating in US cities soon?

Or, we could extend their operating license each for 20 years and see if they can handle it.
Interesting, and similar to https://spillnow.com/, which I think is targeted more towards college students.
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[8] doesn't seem to be quite the smoking gun they are making out. I did some digging into other hosts near that one and it looks like pretty standard business ISP stuff to me. Outlook Web Access, phone systems, a few company websites. (Although the companies themselves are interesting, military and pharmaceuticals from my brief survey of SSL certificates.) Not directly NSA.

Doesn't seem implausible for it to have been running on a compromised host if there's publicly accessible PBXs and stuff around there.
What you're essentially saying is this: stick with Google because you're still likely to be subject to surveillance outside the "Google-sphere" but with Google, at least your data is secure from network attacks.

He says quite clearly in the article that he moved away from Google to own his data and online identity. What does it matter if his new setup is less secure that Google? Now that he's stopped using some of Google's services, they no longer have a detailed record of his behaviour on the web.

Good on him for taking a principled stand and acting on it.
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I mean the price charged to people from other countries who shop different hospitals for particular medical procedures - "medical tourists".

Ordinary tourists who come for other reasons and happen to seek medical care are a completely different story - they'll be charged the "highest possible fee, 'cause we can" rate.
I'd bet tomorrow's lunch they already have.
U.S. extends embassy closings; warnings renew debate over NSA data collection
Whether you fully misrepresent the story (tell a complete lie) or omit a portion of the story (tell a partial lie), they are both still lying.

This is completely and utterly wrong. Please stop spreading misinformation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury

Further, statements that are facts cannot be considered perjury, even if they might arguably constitute an omission
Creating LXC containers without root privileges
These guys came out of Start Norfolk( www.facebook.com/startnorfolk ). Love what they are doing! Great founder and team, serious solution to a huge problem area.
Trust me photographer's really love their cameras :-)
Too bad the Droid line of phones with physical keyboards is dead. For those of us who write long paragraphs of text for work or need to ssh into a server, it's a big loss...
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Keep in mind that preventing a wage increase is, over time, no different from undercutting wages.
Typically, a shortage would spur an increase in wages - so allowing people to pay only the "prevailing" wage could still end up suppressing wage growth.
One way around this would be to set a higher pay standard for H1B hires (perhaps requiring pay at the 90ile%+ level for the position, or creating a "prevailing wage + 25%").
When do you think this space will reach full saturation to the put that new entrants will find it hard to notch out a spot in it?
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Same here. Data notwithstanding, I've done a lot of job interviews for candidates with the right resume and most are not hirable. Software engineering is a field where quality is hugely important.
Thanks a lot. To answer your questions
1. Yes we do have other investors (we raised a very small seed round)
2. Yes - there are options issued
3. Yes some of the issued options are unvested.

No, I wont be the sole owner after the transaction. Thank you for the very helpful links - I would go through them. We do not have the option of merging with another company - but we do have the option of officially changing the name (the current brand name of the company is not the same as the legal name - we were going to change the legal name - but it kept getting postponed for some reason. We are exploring couple other options as well.
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Yes, currently I believe the cost is due to a single professor making it in a lab with lab assistants, ordering small amounts of materials, preparing in small batches.

Potentially, it could be as simple as making soy protein or Smarties (that's an American candy btw) https://www.google.com/search?q=smarties&client=firefox-a&hs...
Nor me, to collect a 1% change:

> power.prop.test(p1=0.1, p2=0.11, power=0.8,sig.level=0.05)
Two-sample comparison of proportions power calculation

n = 14750.79
p1 = 0.1
p2 = 0.11
sig.level = 0.05
power = 0.8
alternative = two.sided

NOTE: n is number in *each* group

Edit: so that's 30,000 samples. To do the same with a 5% change in the same area is still 1300 samples (alpha=0.8, p=0.05)
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Specifically shitlist.domain. Should I go for something less... conspicuous?
The apple software is not written in obj-c 'cause it gained traction by developers preference, it is written in obj-c 'cause Steve Jobs, after returning to apple post NeXT experience and buyback, imposed that as the only apple officially supported language.
Expecting this to be unpopular, but the name is confusing by its proximity to "Three Cups of Tea" (which had me confused for a second, because I couldn't remember if it was 3, or 7, and why Mortensen would have gone to YC).
I see this "guy with macbook air and coffee" picture on a few landing pages lately. For example here http://www.timecamp.com/
~500ms with optimized Common Lisp: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18065714/2423072
This is a massive, massive concern for us. We're an agency. We can't trust software like this for something as fundamental as our creative mockups.
Yes.
They are huge, and mostly horrible, and only get contracts because of who they are, not how well they do it :)
No problem. It is a valid point. We hear that from time to time. No worries!
I will guess: By looking at a nuclide map, the neutron flux in seawater should activate the NaCl, and produce 36Cl, 38Cl with a half life of 3e5 years and 38 minutes respectively. And 24Na with 15h half life. Additionally there may or may not be nasty reaction products, if we look at reactions of Oxygen with neutrons. ( I did not find any, but that does not mean there is none.)
No, it isn't illegal.

By 'that position' do you mean the position being replaced, or the new position created in order to hire the H1B? And are you taking account of the market price of the additional skills that employee brings, or is that not relevant?

So here's just one loophole: companies find a lower-paid title, and base the 'prevailing wage' on beginning level employees. Now that the 'prevailing wage' is set, try to hire young people with advanced education, special skills, etc. Congratulations, you now have a legal way of paying about half of what a comparably experienced citizen would cost. Bonus: sponsorship does provide good leverage.

Consider H1B employees getting paid the prevailing wage. Is this how you compensate the best talent during a talent shortage? No. It implies you'd pay less if you were confident you could get away with it.

You can't honestly dispute that the program is being used to undercut wages. Legally.
I think I might be doing it wrong, because I didn't do any looping. I'm a bit too lazy and impatient for that, who wants to spend their afternoon adding all those numbers up even with a computer.

[joe24pack@staropramen ~]$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, May 1 2012, 13:52:17)
[GCC 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def gauss(x):
... return (x+1)*(x/2)
...
>>> gauss(10)
55
>>> gauss(1000000000)
500000000500000000
>>>
I'd be interested in knowing how much deep learning is changing the algorithms used in this field, given the performance of restricted boltzmann machines on the netflix data set http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/netflixICML.pdf.
I don't think there's anyone here on HN who doesn't agree that 'hardened marijuana users' probably don't belong in prison.

But once you pick that low-hanging fruit of prison reform, does the original point still apply or not?
He doesn't seem to understand that everything on this planet has its purpose and that of animals is, that it is to be consumed by us. I do not condone the current ways of killing animals en masse but certainly artificial meat isn't the answer either? We are dealing with a lot of unnatural food these days and no matter what the motivations are, it is hurting humanity.
Thanks for posting these links. Nope, not a result of our PR efforts : ). I think we'll see a lot more research support for online treatments.
Electric demand has been dropping for the last five or so years in the US. Not increasing exponentially.

You could cover 1/4 of the roof area in the US with solar panels and have enough power to close all other power plants. Add panels over parking lots and you get exponential demand back.
If a restaurant can be fully booked sixty days in advance,they aren't goign to care who's making the reservations, as long as butts are in seats and bills get paid at the end of the meal.
But if the free market was truly operating would we be building any wind and solar plants? When it comes down to it aren't coal plants still the most economical from a market stand-point?
Reinvention of the For Dummies series.

One of those dev bootcamps sales pitch was the average coder makes $83,000.

This one is pushing the ante to $120k.

Do you know why developers get paid on average $120,000 or more at some of the world's fastest growing companies?

It's because of various contributing factors. But for $49 you can buy the dream.
Unless its a parody site, yeah, prolly not a great idea.
Pooler - is socket acceptor pool for golang.
As long as Apple owns the best platform in terms of potential profitability for developers, yes.
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Probably at least as well as the Fukushima reactors did.
My "estimation" is not an estimation. It's the contract. I didn't make assumptions about the work week, I stated facts. We all know teachers do after hours work, however, it isn't required by the contract. Why not make the contract reflect reality? As far as being "dismissive," once again I state facts. You show up at the board meetings and you tell me if these teachers I mentioned were qualified to teach? A teacher should lead by example and the ones I mention set a horrible example.

As far as "not having the cash" it's interesting how the Jersey City Teacher's Union president earns his FULL teaching salary paid by the taxpayers yet is the full-time union president ALSO making a salary from the Union. He has his own office, paid for by the school district and has zero educational responsibilities.

Blame the union. If you just took his $100K+ salary (and benefits) that could fund 1000 teachers' supplies for a year.

Let's not forget the Jersey City Schools has a 630 MILLION dollar yearly budget and a central office filled with people with no-show jobs. You spend some time going through the line items of the budget and perhaps you'd see the light.
Yeah that would totally make sense. There is quite a lot to work with in the OpenXML library (as PP documents are essentially just XML in a zip file). If you could segregate regions of a slide and delegate ownership that could be a reality; I guess the UX problem is having different behavior from similar actions (I.e., how do I know when it's going to merge or if I have to do it myself?). We were thinking the best way would be some document-based version of a 3-way-diff (TortoiseHG have a good one on windows). Regarding the PP COM API, you want to stay away from it as much as possible and stick to proprietary XML serialization..! Cheers for your feedback, and ping me an email whenever: leo@kivo.com
I totally agree, personally, I would still use a product like this but store exports of each site design in git.

worse case scenario you have to go back to hand coding.
"Because companies with almost identical products and value propositions succeeded."

There's so much more that goes into a product and its success or failure than what such a simple statement would imply. That's a very thin premise to launch such a big position with.

One word rather sinks it in fact: luck

I've yet to run across an interview with a candid successful person that didn't count dumb luck as an important part of the equation. Right place, right time, right marketing, right people, right choices, right capital, and dumb luck.

Also, no two products or companies offer identical products or value propositions. That means the author isn't being objective about the situation one way or another.
Only his side of the story? Rather the opposite. As far as I know his side has been told just this once.

I don't care about the "autistic spectrum", but I know this type of programmer, and if Lewis' portrayal is accurate (note the if, here and in what I said above), then this really is a mitigating factor. As a "legal ploy", it's far from obvious. Do you think Fabulous Fab could have used it?
A few things to consider:

1. Internet makes small town news national news in a heartbeat if outrageous enough.

2. Currently it is a perfect storm for law enforcement - there is a decade of visible overreach, NSA, TSA, general tiredness of war on drugs and the lost wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on "using war for almost any government effort, republicans hate everything government related because Obama is in office, democrats are disillusioned with him on civil rights and there is global demand for that kind of stories and the journalists supply.

So maybe the first.
Say what you will, but at least most US citizens have cheap access to quality medical services. You can also buy as many guns as you like or sell them to known criminals, how sweet is that?
I only known of dingledine.

>> I believe both of them(Nick Mathewson and Roger Dingledine) have very high ethical standards and are great people;

This all issue of cryptography is ethically complex. One the one hand, too much state power can lead to bad things, definetly. On the other, strong crypto/anonymity can be a risky tool at the hands of terrorists. And in reality , terror can cause very bad stuff[1].

Say you are roger dingledine, and a very convincing NSA guy comes to you, and shows you the evidence that some terror act , that killed X people, has used anon-remailers. How would that make you feel ?

Except the guilt, one implication would be that USG would fight hard against mixminion.

And then he offers you to lead tor, with funding, and explains that this is a network that is hard to break ,so even if NSA can break it, it wouldn't do it for silly stuff , only for emergencies.

You don't need to be a bad person to accept. It's seems like a perfectly ethical thing to do.

Regarding bottom-up or top-down:

My guess is that NSA has a top-down strategy regarding cypherpunks.That's the way military forces work. And it would make sense for this tactic to be part of their strategy.

[1]WWI , The iraq war, and the cease of the israeli peace process were all at least partially caused by terrorists. And we still haven't seen WMD based terror.
I normally consider relative minimum discernable effect. Your 5% absolute change is a 50% increase is the base rate. I also typically go for a higher power (e.g. 0.9). Under these conditions 60K samples is more typical.

Sample size calculator here: http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html

You'll need to change the defaults to match the above to get the figures I mention.
I would agree with many of the other commenters but chime in with the "correlation does not prove causation" there are many other factors why the other startups could have failed: the other companies were better capitalized, had better processes, founders that worked together better, etc.
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Things are getting worse. This is not the country I expected to grow up into. People here grumble a lot but don't do anything about it. Most people are only passingly aware of things like government spying, police excesses, etc. Except when it happens to them. All I can hope is that it gets bad enough that enough people collectively say "Enough" and things get better again. It's a long road.
They are handy for sleeping, vacations, and having someone else to lean on. Sometimes they actually contribute to the business too :)
Do you have something that isn't quite as deep technically as the slides you linked to but still explain the math behind a/b testing? Statistics were never my strong side.

Also where did you learn all this A/B testing stuff? I have never heard of it before I started reading^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H stalking you.
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It's purely coincidental and to their luck that they were able to find the hosting provider, and that the provider happened to host so many valuable targets. The exploit isn't at all special.
If someone knows Java, and knows it well -- and all that that entails (good engineering practices like code organization, commenting, testing, optimizing if needed, security, corner cases) -- then why wouldn't they qualify for the title of software engineer?

Actually, my problem in this (non-Bay area) region of the country where I now live is that I don't have a ten-year Java history, and most managers here don't seem to believe that my background in C, Python, Lua, and JavaScript would allow me to pick it up in a very short period of time (and indeed, I've since picked it up for Android development, and it turned out that the Android API was harder for me to learn that Java itself).
I used a T-Mobile G2 for a long time because of the flip down keyboard.

I'm using Swype on my current phone and it's pretty good, but it has a tendency to pick really uncommon words instead of the common word I tried to type.
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Is an unemployable engineer really an engineer at all?
It even does screen sharing! This could be useful for software demos where Google Hangouts are not supported / allowed.
iOS 7 will have a built in flashlight feature.
"Yes. Of course. Why else would Canonical have used the GPL for the software they'd developed?"

They don't. They use AGPL for most of the newer stuff, and do so specifically because they want to make money of cloud services. They want to control those services, too.

I'm not sure what led to the conclusion you have that Canonical is a social enterprise (other than their marketing copy), any more than redhat (which also release software on the GPL) is a social enterprise.

Canonical, from what I see, tries to take advantage of this position (in the same way redhat used to), but I see absolutely nothing to suggest they are any different from any previous company in this space.

If you are going to suggest they are different than every previous company, i would suggest that you bear the burden of showing that.
The last time I dug into it, it seemed like the Michel Thomas or Assimil courses, or the FSI (US government, public domain) courses, were the ones to use.

But then I stopped having a commute.
A list of fast lenses on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_speed#Fast_lenses
There are several lenses around 0.7, and some with even lower f-numbers.
Perhaps then the lure leads to a tree branch, snarled by a poor cast from another angler earlier :) I didn't mean to imply devious presentation on your part.
Makes sense. I was trying to figure out what he was doing with so many in his own code.
It may be more difficult but we have synthetic meet it's just far to expencive to be practical. So the fact that the end product would presumably be with a lot more per lb could be a significant factor.

PS: I suspect you could sell a few thousand 100k coats a year under the 'Animal Free' idea. Which pays for a fair amount of R&D.
There is no strong line between two, but experienced devs would have a gut feeling. The rule of thumb is how much code can be checked during compile time. Since Python is dynamically-typed only, it makes it a script language. It's basically something you want to put on the top of some sort of "core". Another metric is the speed of execution. Python is quite slow - like other high-level script languages. There you go.
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A little birdy says that "Submit" is the worst possible copy you could use for that button

Aren't you being too literal here? Vast majority of internet users have been trained to see "submit" for "okay I'm done filling out this form, next!".
> Will people actually put up with this kind of treatment?

Dramatic much? Some services were offline for a few weeks and that inconvenienced some developers. Nobody's getting beaten or abused. Life will go on. The extreme horror and PTSD that some may feel over a service disruption will fade in time, like tears in rain.
Took his class on Skillshare.

It was not a good first encounter with Ruby or Rails, but a decent class once you have some background experience.

The class moves too fast, and he needs to practice his presentation skills (he types something out in a video, and switches screens immediately). Also, the material was not entirely up to date with the gems.

That being said, I really enjoyed the class and would take more in a similar fashion.
I agree somewhat that "sexy" ads for tech things are dumb. I think that you failed to consider that maybe the woman is the network engineer, and the man who's barely visible is the object of her desire. Possible? Yes.
I took comments on a post to mean "I'm ready for" when I should've realized a lot of what we do as people is talk ourselves up to something.

I wouldn't consider it to be a poor idea at all. I was primarily trying to offer suggestions to help with passively searching when the need arose but I couldn't get around being specific, realizing it could partially sound mean or negative when that wasn't what I was going for at all.
He must be a very hipster and busy kinda guy!
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Very excited to hear from companies in the Southeast VA region - and TC-covered, YC companies, no less!