skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same has historically applied to google search misclassifications and ignored bug/error reports for any major company. Publicity is to be the only recourse for anyone without a contractual agreement.
Good to hear that other areas are growing.

Boulder has the same issue of people leaving though. Both because of a lack of money and because of a lack of physical space for companies to move to. Rally Software manages to find space inside Boulder, but it's difficult.

So, then companies that incubate here leave and make it seem like startups aren't flourishing. Like Next Big Sound or PlaceIQ. Investors sometimes need to help companies stay where they are from instead of artificially perpetuating the idea that small startup communities exist solely for feeding the Silicon Valley brain pool. The valley is an awful place to actually live.
Hmm, this outcome should be interesting.

Probably a headline similar to the following some time in 2014.

Unbelievable Mistakes I Made in My Last Startup (figure54.com)

139 points by ry0ohki 5 hours ago | flag | 78 comments
convienient bug, I wonder how motivated they will be to fix it.
Curso de Gestão Integrada de Recursos Hídricos no Brasil
I remember finding this comic very useful when I had to implement AES for a crypto class.
In an ideal world, even the worst doctor in the world would still be pretty good.

Of course, here in reality, it seems that about 90% of the population of any profession is basically incompetent, and doctors are no exception.
I agree and disagree. HN is not massive, but it is a force.

HN can be one scary angry mob which is nice to be backed by, but horrible to be on the end of. Remember the Aria Richards debacle which was heightened by this community. Just one of many. (That wasn't my intention by the way and everyone's been pretty calm.)

The HN effect is a strange one. :)
Is the website broken? When I click on See Video, nothing happens.
I am biased since I am a local, but Utah Valley is on the cusp of recognition as a tech hotbed. Just in our office park in the corner of Provo, we have

1. http://www.ancestry.com/
2. http://www.qualtrics.com/
3. us, http://i.tv
4. http://www.moneydesktop.com/
5. http://www.vivint.com/en/, recently bought for $2 billion[0]

There are also a bunch of other smaller tech companies.

http://www.domo.com/ and the Adobe campus are also about 10 minutes away, and there are various tech companies scattered all the way up through Salt Lake.

http://www.ng-conf.org/ is coming to SLC next year, and the local tech meetups are active and widely attended. Combine the good tech scene with the extremely low cost of living and it is a great place to be.

0: http://seekingalpha.com/article/878211-blackstone-buys-vivint-what-you-need-to-know
Another thing of note here are the different databases RDF traditionally uses.

Take a look at:
https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource

This is the triples store traditionally used. You will also want to look in to sparql.

An example link:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/j-sparql/

The syntax is a bit weird, but it's not that different from a document store.

For those of you who use the Facebook API, you can also get RDF data out with the rdf Accept header. Something neat to think about.
Anatomy of a paralell trial to me.
On the nain page of speakafter.me: is 'practise' the right spelling ? ("Not only will you practise").
I disagree with the assertion that this website will most appeal to people who turn off JavaScript on websites intentionally.

And it's not useful to be informed that your website won't work if a critical component is turned off. It just isn't.

I'd even go so far as to say that people who disable JavaScript should be ignored entirely.
That assumes they want to be in a mental institution and deal with the restrictions the mental institution puts on them. That is not a valid assumption in all cases.

Now, in some cases you can involuntarily commit people. However, the catch 22 is that in most of those cases, medications make them no longer a threat to themselves or others in a short amount of time and then the legal basis for holding them and compelling them to take medication vanishes. At which point, if they didn't want help in the first place, they leave and the cycle continues
The problem with the Orem Provo area isnt the jobs but the fact that you then have to live there.

The food choices are sparse and honestly compared to places like Seattle, Chicago, and SF down right terrible.

Shopping is mostly limited to big box shops like Target, Macy's and the like.

To be completely frank the biggest issue is the monoculture. If you aren't white and Mormon you don't fit in and it is very obvious.

Granted there are upsides like the mountain sides for camping and skiing. Also Harmon's is an extremely nice grocery store.
I can't help but read `I'm anal` when somebody uses this acronym. It always take me a couple seconds to remember `I am not a lawyer`.

Sorry for the off topic.
I challenge the assertion that Silicon Valley is "so rich".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties...
It is, in fact: http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-prac...
Good

It means that legal departments have to stop the "shoot first ask questions later" strategy

It's very easy to just go around threatening legal action against people unchecked.
It's not "thinking." It's a question. It's annoying that I can't ask a startup question in a startup community without being characterized as an evil capitalist.
I am happy to hear that you too are on the same boat as i am. I will take your advise and try to contact blogger sand see if they will review.I wish you luck with your app.Thanks
Who called you an evil capitalist?
HN, and its readership, simply isn't that important to tumblr. If it were reddit, maybe the cynical reaction would be accurate.
And by the way, this is not (mainly) because it was front page on HN.

HN users do not overlap (a lot) with the target audience for Tumblr. (not a lot at least)

HN is of course an important news outlet in the industry.
No it's not a "risky" move by Tumblr to not sue someone.
grace hopper used to live two blocks from me, but I never met her, I was too young when she passed away, but she has always been an inspiration. Since he was in the navy and although he couldn't code, he was in charge of a team coding a digital inventory system, dad used to talk a lot about her. There's now a park named after her in what used to be an awkward traffic triangle in front of the building where she lived; when I returned to the DC area for a spell, I wrote some code in that park in her memory.

one time I was at a party, and someone asked "what useful things have women ever invented", without a second thought my answers were: "Kevlar. Compiling languages".
It's telling that you feel you can deem some people as being beyond help from a position of absolute rationality as if being an observer grants you a minutiae of perspective into their situation.
Usability 101 for startups
Way to go Nimrod, $300k in 3 days.
If not the absolute numbers, what about the percent difference between your number and the average?
DannyBee (who is a lawyer) pointed out in the thread last night that this doesn't need to be "defended" against. He explained that, since they use the term "Tumblr" to refer specifically to the real company Tumblr, and since it's clear that they're not trying to masquerade as Tumblr or cause any confusion, that this is a legitimate use of the term and does not need to be "defended against" in order to protect the trademark.
It's not that people have to find something to complain about, it's just accurate. It's ridiculous to say VNC can be implemented in 200 lines of JavaScript. Of 200 lines of any language. If the third party library does low level stuff like collections, or http or whatever then they usually don't get counted, but if the majority of the functionality is in a library then it's disingenuous to not include them.
That sounds great, but it's complicated by their use of the word "should," which is often used in both mandatory and optional contexts.
I like requiring closing tags, while I think the Html5 spec says some tags can be implicitly closed (like <li> for instance).

Could be wrong though, my wife often points out that it happens...
A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain
China has confirmed it is on track to land a rover on the Moon later this year
If legality is nothing more than the will of the strong then the concept of "law" is meaningless as nothing can be illegal by definition. It is also senseless to argue that force "establishes" law, since you have already claimed that legality is at all times subject to the whims of the powerful.

Quite seriously, you might want to read The Republic if you haven't yet. Thrasymachus and Socrates have an exchange somewhat along these lines over whether might makes right, and Thrasymachus does not end up the better for it.
They're going to make you all read the Linux man pages now.
No, I absolutely feel I can get a good startup experience in Austin.

I just prefer skiing over humidity :)
How are you defining "side effect"? It seems to be something like "effects which are not the stated goal", combined with "side effects do not define what a tool is". By that logic, we should just nuke all our enemies, since our enemies are in the blast radius. Deaths of everyone else nearby and fallout and all that stuff are just side effects, nukes are totally OK when they are used to attack, not siege.
Yes thats the reason! I didn't have a slash at the end and this one has.
does this really belong here?
I think that one of the sad things, is that kids wouldn't be able to go and try at a standard grown-up level tech knowledge test, that at least somewhat recognized in the industry. Microsoft certification was open for everyone...

As to the usefulness, by looking over some 10 (15? gosh...) years back, I've got a lot more use from effors required to get two MSSQL exams, if compared to a databases design class in college.
With our powers combined....
Animals are deserving of help and need voices in their defense as well. Even house pets aren't safe.

I just submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307569 but I don't think it's going to make front page.

Direct link: http://opensuffer.com/

EDIT: Sorry for piggybacking on the post. Important cause though.
Yes it is. Tumblr's parent is Yahoo and Yahoo will be keen on being friendly to the developer community to attract top talent. Much of which reads HN.
Python Everywhere - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
This title is a bit of an over-exaggeration. As the article says, "Systems to make use of this airborne potable water already exist in at least 17 nations." The title implies that it's relatively new technology.

For some historical background, an early fog harvesting project started in Chile in 1987, and the success from that kicked off projects in other countries. (Based on a cursory search I just did.)

The linked-to article then clarifies the importance of this new work: "But the new research shows that their efficiency in a mild fog condition can be improved by at least fivefold, making them far more feasible and practical than existing versions."
You seem to be outsourcing the trust mechanism to the users, while the page implies that you've solved the trust problem internally through the protocol.

Don't get me wrong, the research is very impressive in it's own right, but that's at best misleading.
I've been I similar situation a couple of times, both if which resulted in substantial salary increases. The main thing is to clearly and deliberately decide what your best case scenario is, what sort of salary difference between the new job and current one will let you stay and not feel taken advantage of.

When you go in to discuss you salary with your current employer, make sure you know what your walk-away number is. During the discussion frame everything in terms of benefit to your employer.
To be a Microsoft Solutions Provider or similar a certain percentage of your people have to be certified. For smaller companies, it was an important marketing distinction.
More like ZRTP style, also not sure exactly what you mean by PGP-style
I would love to see experiments similar to this salary experiment in the vein of 4day/week Nhrs/day. I'd guess that schedules may be shifted so that some people cover different four day periods, and one interesting side effect might be fewer interruptions in the office on Mondays and Fridays. As an early-in-the office kind of person, I find that the first slice of uninterrupted hours in the morning are often the very most productive.
Agreed, but wouldn't those factors also affect your scenario in which lower paid workers free up cash to raise salaries? I only meant to argue that the "what the market will bear" model is closer to reality than the scenario your presented, not that it is a perfect fit.
Fair point given the whole model RC market users end up going for petro based models over the electric ones bases upon usage per charge and charge time and conveniance of charging factors. Maybe when that area changes things will progress, but that need a nice leap in battery technology.

I still feel though the whole electric vechile area needs more personal cheaper options and sadly even the electric bycicles options out there are not exactly cheap and flooding the markets.
That would not be applicable in desert regions.
Someone get me some popcorn, because this is going to be so bad it's awesome. This will be the new Xtranormal.
I doubt this will be fixed in my lifetime, there are too many entrenched interests. Once the government grants new kinds of property rights, it's very hard to curtail them.
Set up your own truly secure, encrypted and shared file synchronization
Many chemical weapons kill by making it impossible to breath. One of the primary intentions of Agent Orange was to kill by making it impossible to eat. I don't see how one is much more direct than the other.
India is bad for entrepreneurs.
It doesn't matter to Tumblr if HNers boycott Tumblr the web site.

It might matter to Tumblr if HNers boycott Tumblr the employer or Tumblr the business partner.
Flowtab: Mobile Drink Ordering
While the story of the rise and fall of Flowtab was compelling, I thought Flowtab did a great job with http://alpha.flowtab.com. This site is a really effective way of telling their story and I commend them for including several "artifacts" (resources) for public consumption. It's never easy to admit failure...
>They believe that because they lived frugally for a few years while seizing opportunities that a middle class existence opened for them they are now able to speak expertly on poverty and what being on the street is like.

Based on this and your earlier comment I have serious doubts as to whether you've actually met someone who makes less than about $60k a year. You do ape your Contemporary Marxism professor passingly well, though.
HN's readership wields significant influence in SV/SF tech, both collectively and individually. Check your server logs, I bet you got hits from inside Tumblr's IP block almost the instant it hit the front page, along with virtually every other tech company, whose employees and even executives were glowering at their friends (and former and future colleagues) at Tumblr.

To use the indelicate phrasing of my first manager, bay area tech is highly incestuous.
[HTML5] Turn A Webbrowser Into Notepad With A Single Line of Code
Get a job offer with a $hard_salary_number. Tell your boss you got an offer with another company, but would consider staying for $hard_salary_number * 1.15. If not, leave and go work with your old friend.

If you actually just want the new job, no reason to stay. But if you really really really like your current job, it doesn't hurt to get the new offer and then ask for a raise. If the raise doesn't happen, leave.
Yeah I was kinda surprised in the US, I got a "burner" for about $20 (at Walgreens, IIRC), charged it with $10 (ok), and it barely last me 3 weeks with minimal usage. Minimal meaning most people calling me. But apparently that doesn't make any difference.

I did enjoy the fact that this simple dumbphone had a very easy-to-use "tip calculator", making it easier to adapt to the local customs :) (until I found out that apparently tip percentage are calculated before-taxes, not over the full bill?)
I know it seems that way, but that's actually reddit and r/programming. Based on sheer numbers, I think most engineers don't frequent Hacker News.

I was just at dinner with an ex-Zynga game dev last night who had never even heard of it.
There is a quote : "Conversation which you resist, is the conversation you must have" .

Nothing to loose , speak out your mind , and if manager disapproves , you are not loosing anything.
No discussion of female computer scientists is complete without a shoutout to Hedy Lamarr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr)
The legal term here, incidentally, appears to be "nominative use". (I learned a lot from that thread!)
Thanks!

Currently they are paid only for music purchases since we don't make any money off streaming. Eventually if and when we make money off streaming, artists would definitely be compensated.
Radio buttons are more prone to logical errors than normal fields, just due to the way they work. They're not rocket scientist hard, but they're totally "I didn't have enough coffee and screwed up the logic" hard.
Dear Californian elites,

It's time to talk about something you don't believe can happen to you, and that's urban decay. It has many causes, plenty more proximate than this one, but the first is the economic stickiness (technical term) of housing prices. People don't sell in a down market. They hoard. This price:liquidity correlation is toxic. Creating new housing (which requires regulatory change) is the only way.

If you don't take care of the poverty caused by the high housing prices, if you laugh it off as "not our problem", your city will not reach maturity but fall into urban decay and it will take decades for your municipality to recover both from the physical damage and disenfranchisement, but also from the damage to reputation.

Sincerely,

Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, D.C., Minneapolis, Atlanta, et al.
You're absolutely right on all counts. You caught me writing that sloppily from memory. Thank you for the corrections!
There are incentives. When cities and states encourage homeless people, or people receiving welfare/foodstamps to move to another jurisdiction, they can spend that money on something else.
Maybe that is a little harsh but I noticed that. Some working groups have obscure people who enjoy generating standards and come up with alphabet soup standard abbreviations and then spend a lot of effort convincing the world that they need it.

RDF is one of those things, JSON-LD is another. Most efforts I have seen so far involve trying to convince me that I need it. It wasn't me looking for a solution. There is a big difference.
Save Redis memory with large list compression
> As an Army officer, I find it amazing that there was once an era where you had so many very bright technical minds who were serving actively in the military. These days, most of the military technical achievements are being made by contractors working for the DoD but most of whom have never actually served.

Not coincidentally, she started her service during an era when war profiteering was still considered an unethical thing.
Hmmm, that reminds of Arakis. Are they called windtraps ? ;)
Storage is a little different since there are some things you can reveal about files while keeping them private (filetype, size, last modified time) which are relevant to providers. Email is much more difficult, with the exception of the sender and the time there is very little information that can be provided from an encrypted email. That makes it harder to provide a feature-heavy client. You of course have the option for using something more light weight; Gmail does not have that option, it would be a completely different product and business model.

Using web of trust signed keys is all well and good for techies. How would Google possibly set that up for average folks in a way that they themselves could not circumvent? I certainly could not see my parents working with key pairs unless the vast majority of the work was done automatically.
There's many well-off people who sour relationships with others for silly reasons, seem beyond help. (I'm certainly like that sometimes.) Fortunately, they're safe from hunger.

I used to imagine, "What if Bob (or Alice) were homeless, maybe abused? Had to actively fight to stay afloat?" And guessed he'd probably sink to the bottom, because I couldn't see the part of his personality which would avoid it.

One 'Bob' I knew was in fact homeless in one country, but went back to his birth country full of sensible social programs. Now he lives in an apartment and lives frugally. It's worse than unnecessary — anti-human — to make such a person homeless and without decent healthcare.

Is Bob frustrating at times to friends who try helping him? Doesn't mean he should worry about homelessness or indignities.

When governments claim to spend $X million, that means nothing. The US has the highest incarceration rate, but that doesn't mean we're effective against crime. To the contrary. (The spending is effective in achieving its actual goals, but not the nice fuzzy propagandistic ones like "fighting crime".)

(BTW, about the 1% thing... that's just a slogan about wealthy elites, who have more power over policy than others. In another society, the 1% might refer to feudal hierarchy, a ruling party, etc.)
I wouldn't make the point quite like you have, but yes. Employees lose a lot less than the owner if the company is run into the ground because it's paying the employees too much.

That's not to say that that is what is happening in this situation - I don't know, but while I love the transparency aspect, I would not expect the 'allow employees to choose their salary' to reliably create a good outcome for the company. (Having said that, allowing management to set salary secretly doesn't always work great either.)

I expect that it only stands a chance of working well if your employees are genuinely bought in to the whole idea of the company.
Estimote, shows why Low Energy Bluetooth is so important
Why no appreciation of the apology? If all people are going to do is find fault with people apologizing, why bother? How should Tumblr reacted? What are they supposed to do?
I'd say that evaluating someone's GitHub account is way more meaningless than evaluating their certifications. Not everybody open sources all their stuff, nor necessarily uses GitHub. And most of the work one does, is usually for a company and can't be shared anyway.
not much of an improvement

I just wanted our thumbs off the scale.

the error must propagate through the promise pipeline instead of short circuiting

Along a queue vs. up a stack, I'm not sure there's a fundamental efficiency difference, if that's what you're saying. Maybe. When it comes to distributed apps, OTOH, just one round trip saved by automatic promise pipelining http://erights.org/elib/distrib/pipeline.html can outweigh a lot of that sort of thing.

stack traces

That post says Q's stack traces are fine if you set a flag, and the same for generator-based libraries (optional because it costs extra). I expect ClojureScript does better because it can compile its own code, and the same would go for a promise-based language (or JS preprocessor).

So this is what you were getting at with "needs to propagate and handle errors" vs. ClojureScript -- you're saying the latter's more efficient?

does JS need sugar for both promises & async streams?

I'm not sure what you mean about async streams, but I wasn't seriously after more changes to JS syntax, just wishing (1) E had taken off and (2) new languages learn from it.