skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fifth is not in the list itself, but here they are.

* Obsess over Customer Service

* Explore Uncomfortable Opportunities

* Invest In Culture

* Be Data Driven

* Have a clear path to monetization and charge for your product right away.

After point 4:

> The last tactic is something Tint focused on from day 1 and that sets them apart from most startups: have a clear path to monetization and charge for your product right away.
This is generally the case; however, for those truly gifted at math, high-school math, and for the most part college math, is fully understandable by intuition alone.
Your nebulous black box is also not a safe place if someone really wants to get it.
First, I'd echo people here that say to be confident. You'll never sell yourself to others if you don't believe you are capable and a good worker.

Second, try not to quote a salary or range (at least at first). Before that, discuss their plans, where they are headed, your abilities, and how you can help further their goals. Here is a great post I recently found helpful, regarding the 'don't say a number first' conventional advice: http://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/6059/2364

Third, as to what to realistically expect, it depends on where you are located, the industry, your experience/age (are you fresh out of school, etc), and more. If they have really posted that they're paying 80-120k that is a great data point and a great advantage for you to know in advance.
I've had similar experiences with poorly-architected SOA.

If your services are inter-dependent, your uptime probability suddenly becomes probability^n, for n services.
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What concerns me about developing browser applications is the idea that there are precious few ways to protect your code. I know we all love open source, but sometimes you want or need just the opposite. Not sure there's a way to truly achieve that with JS (limitations or not).
I think the complaint is more from a perspective that there has been relatively little activity in the information space for Renaissance Painters. I do not necessarily know if that is a true statement, but I do think it is fair to say that the majority of the information out there has already been heavily vetted in that area.

Also, it falls into the category of searches that you'd likely just as soon hit up wikipedia directly. :)
I don't share that online, but I have sold about 80% of what I bought at different levels. I'm holding on to the rest in case bitcoin gets north of $10k. I'm not a bitcoin millionaire, please don't kidnap me and force me to send you bitcoins :(
Previous to the past couple of months, I had never seen any interviews with the founder of Sriracha. The Google Trends data also shows a big increase for searches on his company, Huy Fong Foods.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Huy+Fong+Foods#q=Huy%...

Aside from increasing awareness about his product, why do you think he started doing interviews?
Can someone give some use cases?
> Other countries have their equivalents of the NSA, but as far as I know none of them have a law preventing companies from announcing that their respective agency has grabbed a user's data.

It's hard to know exactly what the US law is too because it's classified. I would not trust that any country is safe from snooping--always assume it will happen.
Can you post a link to some discussion around this? A google didn't turn up anything obvious. Thanks.
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It's primarily just chilis. From the bottle:

Chili, sugar, salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite and xanthan gum.

Remove the last 3 ingredients then just shoot for texture. for any given bottle, probably 75% chili, 10% vinegar, salt, sugar, garlic for the last 15%.

If you can match the consistency, you can probably match the flavor. You just need a line on fresh California Red Jalepenos.

I'd probably throw out the salt and just go for MSG.
This is absolutely true. People worry about building on top of platforms, but when it's an open source platform, they don't seem to perceive it as having the same risk.
I get 7.2MB/s on my 3G...
A great API helps me print cash.
Does "embeddable programs everywhere" [paraphrase] sound like a maintenance nightmare to anyone else?
Californian NIMBY-ness strikes again.

> a request from the southern California city of Irwindale to close the hot sauce’s factory because of complaints over smell from neighbors.
I recently wrote a calculator which will tell you how many days it will take to run an A/B test to 90% significance.

You just plug in

1. the number of pageviews your page got in the last month

2. the number of conversions that resulted from those pageviews

http://abtestcalculator.com
> why do you think he started doing interviews?

> On Nov. 22, a judge is set to hear a request from the southern California city of Irwindale to close the hot sauce’s factory because of complaints over smell from neighbors.
Yeah, targeting weapons is a great idea if the enemy has low enough shields (based on your weapons load) that you can punch through them, disable weapons completely, and then do the same for the shield, while they sit there unable to shoot you, scrambling to repair.

The problem the stealth ship has is when the enemy ship has shields and weapons in abundance (those Zoltan ships are EVIL). In this case, you have to take the harder task (and almost always take damage) and knock out shields first. I loved the long beam weapons because I could drop shields for a moment and burn apart weapons and shields on most ships.

Another important thing I would always do is not fire missiles if shields were down unless weapons were still up - you will need every one of those missiles later.
Apparently his factory is being threatened with shutdowns because it makes all the surrounding properties smell like Sriracha.

Edit - apparently the judge denied the shutdown, possibly in part to the huge amount of outpouring by the community.

http://www.refinery29.com/2013/10/56374/sriracha-lawsuit-fac...
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Without ReSharper, I find Visual Studio code editing to be a very unpleasant experience. I'm guessing the online editing will be even worse.
Instead of the semantic web trying to create knowledge from data the author wants to take all that data and create more chatter and noise, oops, I mean buzz.

Don't waste your time reading this nonsense.
The author is from a company called Bottlenose, which (Wikipedia says) is a "company that analyzes social media and business data to detect trends for brands."

So it's pretty clear that he has an angle here.
They might not be strictly Navier-Stokes but the way in which real fluids deviate from N-S is completely unlike the way in which lattice gas fluids deviate from N-S. Absolutely, you can discretize time and space and get a useful fluid model, and (as Wolfram showed in a very good paper in 1986) you don't even have to worry too much about isotropy, as long as your lattice obeys certain constraints. You do need Galilean invariance, though.

Look, I do get your point about lattice gas fluids being interesting conceptually, and I do think they make an interesting point about how little you can get away with and still yield a useful fluid model at the macro scale, but I don't think they're a good example of a trend towards NKS-style methods. If anything the trend in that field since the late 90s has been away from NKS and towards seeing the lattice Boltzmann method as a solver for continuum treatments at the Boltzmann (rather than N-S) level.
> Besides increasing awareness about his product, why do you think he started doing interviews?

Because he's in court facing a factory shutdown?
This worked great, thanks.
Likely easier for them to penetrate a typical corporate network than Amazon's
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It's all matter of risk assessment, which will depend on what your security requirements. Trust that they won't issue an interception certificate when a government agency asks them (with a warrant)? No.

But, if you choose a well-established CA, I believe that the risk of fraudulent certificate is small enough to be accepted. Besides, how many cases of fraudulent certificates have been there? Very few actually, relatively speaking, when measured against millions of issued certificates every year.

The current arrangements where CAs are able to issue certificates for arbitrary sites without owners' consent is clearly unsatisfactory. Hopefully we'll get key pinning abilities one day to improve the situation.

At the end of the day, security is hard. The arrangement with public CAs is flawed, but we don't yet have a better solution that scales. For small (close) groups, a private CA with manual user pinning should work well enough, when deployed with HTTP Strict Transport Security.
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Part of what makes (re)learning basis math difficult is the lack of math textbooks written for adults. Most math books are either too advanced (assume prior knowledge) or too basic (assume reader is retarded). In both cases, an otherwise intelligent adult with some gaps in their knowledge will get discouraged.

I wrote a math textbook which starts off from the very basics (numbers, equations, functions) and proceeds all the way to university level topics like calculus and mechanics.

Check out the "No bullshit guide to math and physics:" http://minireference.com
For starters, do not use online threads where people are complaining about annoyances as a guide to finding the best practices for a given area. :)

But when it comes to resumes (in America), 1-2 pages is the conventional wisdom, short and sweet as opposed to exhaustive. Highlight your big-win accomplishments and ability to get stuff done. Don't worry about tiny details that you're only putting there for completeness. Benefits, not features!

Treat it like a landing page: the goal of each header/paragraph is to keep the reviewer reading, and ultimately, to want to contact you because you are awesome.
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So it's popularity has a lot to do with the 2$ a bottle price?

Sure, it tastes good but can we track down a fair bit of the popularity/availability on shelves to the cost factor?
Thanks for the link. It makes sense now.
Sooooort of. There are major differences, differences that make a difference, so to speak.

Lisp: everything is lists.

Wolfram Language (prior to V10): everything is an expression. An expression has a head, and parts. The head is the primary place you attach rules. The head can be List, but can also be, say, If, or Disk, or Entity, or Timeseries, or Image, or Graph, or Graphics, or Button, or Frame, (and on and on and on).

Wolfram language (v10): expressions can be numerically indexed (i.e. Part[{"A","B","C"}, 2] == "B"), or symbolically indexed (Part[<|"A" -> 1, "B" -> 2, "C" -> 3|>, "B"] == 2). This new datastructure is called an Association (analogous to a hash map / associative array / dictionary, of course), but eventually it could have heads other than Association.

Anyway, its all quite uniform. No pointers, no references, nothing you "can't see". And the new Association data structure interacts beautifully with lists when you allow it to interact with Part -- you end up with something like XPath, but capable of expressing, for example, almost all of SQL, or LINQ, but in a very functional way.
It's called the corporate we and it's fine to use! You might be a one-person company but really there's always at least two people: the natural person (you) and the juridical person (the company), hence "we".[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality
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...what is happening right now in this comments section? I came here to get a thoughtful response about the video, or a brief description at least (videos at work aren't a fantastic idea), and all I see currently are "great video!" and "Steli is neato!"

Also, title seems click-baity.

This smells.
Suicide is a symptom of acute mental illness. Framing it in terms of personal responsibility is often cruelly ignorant because it ignores much about the actual experiences of the person involved.

Would you blame a diabetic who loses his foot because he was unaware that he'd contracted an infection? Would you give a lecture on personal responsibility to the mother of a child whose first asthma attack ever was fatal? If someone dies of an infection contracted because someone else threw them in a septic tank; is it their fault for swimming in sewage?

In Aaron's case, we don't know exactly what was going through his head when he killed himself; but we do know he was being put under extreme pressure by prosecutors who were less interested in justice than in punishing him for imagined slights, especially the PACER affair.
The smell they're complaining about... does it smell like the product? Because if it smells like the product, I'd love to live next door!
This may be a legitimate grassroots social media phenomenon - the sort that big multinationals try to create but fail at.

Sriracha has obviously been a mainstay at Asian restaurants for years. But like bacon, it didn't become A Thing until Digg/Reddit/the greater internet subculture rolled around.

Folks like the Oatmeal started writing digital love letters to the sauce[1], which helped boost its mythical status amongst the Reddit crowd.

I'm guessing he started doing interviews when people actually started wanting to interview him. Prior to the internet's obsession with sriracha it was just an easily-overloooked condiment associated with Asian food.

[1] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha
I see your point, but that's a bit harsh.

First of all, having a github profile doesn't mean you "don't want to spend evenings with friends and family". It means you spent some amount of time doing stuff on github. Ignoring people who get paid to write code that is on github (most open source projects are mirrored there now, so there are quite a few), all it means is that coding is one of your hobbies.

Aside from quality time with your family, perhaps you spend a few hours a week playing the guitar, or reading epic fantasy novels, or playing soccer, or perhaps you spend some of that time hacking for fun. Some very good hackers are exactly so good because they love hacking on software so much. Not all - some just want to forget code outside of work, that's cool too - but certainly some. More than the opposite, in my experience.

Again, I see your point - to just categorically reject people without a github profile is both insane and immoral (insane, because you are going to lose out on a lot of talent; immoral, because it sends a message that unpaid work is necessary).

But I would say that a github profile is a positive. Aside from showing an honest love of hacking, it also provides code samples that you as a possible employer can just look at.
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So, a concrete example from my recent past: a system designed to allow agents in the field to submit contracts, and have them crop up in an ancient legacy system.

This had a single purpose, but it was structured as several discrete apps. I'm going off memory here as I didn't work across all the apps, but it looked like this:

1. a single-page Javascript app (Angular, CoffeeScript, Nginx, static site)

2. a web service to accept the contracts (Ruby, Sinatra)

3. a web service to pre-process the contracts and queue them for insertion into the legacy system (Ruby, Grape, Amazon RDS)

4. a service to de-queue the contracts and insert them into the Windows-based legacy system (.NET, SQL Server, IIS)

There were many, many advantages to this structure:

* each individual component[1] was trivial to understand - in the order of hundreds of lines of functional code

* we could choose the technology appropriate to the job

* we only had to use Windows for the bit that interfaced with the legacy system[2]

* the only technology choices that spanned the entire stack were HTTPS and UTF-8

* status of each individual component was available through HTTP requests; most made RSS feeds of their activity available for monitoring

* we could easily experiment with new technologies as they emerged, without changing or breaking All The Things

Some caveats:

* we had a highly skilled dev team, with experience across a wide range of technologies and platforms

* 'the business' understood what we were doing, and why - in fact, the whole purpose of the project was to transform our previously monolithic architecture in this way

* log collection (using Splunk) allowed us to track the progress of individual contracts through the system, and alerted us when one stalled (e.g. was being rejected due to formatting issues)

[1] Except for the last one, because of the ludicrous complexity introduced by interfacing with the legacy system. But all of it except for the legacy interop was easily grasped.

[2] Not knocking .NET or C# here; both are pretty good these days. But the Windows ecosystem is just not as developer-friendly as *NIX.
Thanks. I skipped over the first section when I read the article.
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NOTES:
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Don't conflate why Flash lost to why Java (in the browser) lost, there are very different reasons. For one thing, Java had failed as a browser plugin long before Flash did (as if we don't still see Flash in the browser...I wonder what our discussion would be if not for Apple?).
In fairness to the NIMBYs, the factory has grown immensely in the last few years and the "smell" is aerosolized peppers, basically pepper spray.

To quote the LA Times: "...the hot sauce’s production facilities are, residents are complaining of burning eyes, irritated throats and headaches caused by a powerful, painful odor that the city says appears to be emanating from the factory during production."
I've used Shippable. Superb team, fantastic service. Highly recommended.
This applies to all selling situations. Social validation solves the biggest emotional hurdle in selling, "convincing the buyer that they have a defensible position and won't look foolish if they make the purchase."
Exactly, the more efficient solution is having a government you can trust.
If you're interested in this area you might like this talk from the Linux plumbers' conference:

"Over the past year we've been looking at how a uniform, performant, synchronous programming model can be implemented across all of Google's core languages (C++, Java, Go, Python), while maintaining compatibility with existing code."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
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It's a lot easier to track conversations if you use the "reply" link below a question to answer it.

I want to "improve or maintain" my fitness. I'm a powerlifter who occasionally competes. I'm receptive to this device, but I simply don't understand how I would use it. I care about absolute strength. I can test my absolute strength by lifting something heavy. What does this device tell me, that I would find useful, that I can't find out by lifting something heavy? An abstract score isn't useful.
Why are alternatives to the current mainstream stories have to be 'devolving' into anything?
It's even more amazing when you look at a satellite map of the city. It consists mostly of warehouses, industry and a rock quarry. You'd think they would want companies like Huy Fong Foods. https://maps.google.com/?q=Irwindale,+CA
If you want to test a sales page prior to product launch, it will be expensive to A/B test because you can't use natural visitors.

I have a site with a few thousand visitors per day. I had a product I was going to release. I was working up to a big product launch, building up the anticipation over my email list and on the site itself. In that case, I couldn't use natural traffic from the site to test the sales page prior to launch. I had to use cold traffic such as adwords to see which version of the page people responded to. I probably spent about $8k on traffic just crafting and A/B testing the sales page.

But it was worth it. It was like a university education in marketing. Marketing can be so counter-intuitive. So many things I expected to work did not work and vice-versa. But once I had the final tested sales page in place it worked and it worked well. I still get about a a 4% conversion. And most importantly, I knew that when I did finally launch, I had a well-tested and solid page that would convert the large initial influx of customers I got from the building up process before the product launch.
The natural food and natural products industries are on fire right now. Double-digit yearly growth. A lot of companies that serve this space are growing fast, and a lot of new companies are popping up to meet needs, and even a lot of conventionally-focused companies are turning in that direction.

By "natural" products I mean organic food, fair-trade products, allergen-free products, green products, and so on. There is a lot of money being made in these markets right now, but it's undeniable that many of these products help some people lead better lives (even if it's just the ability to eat a wider range of foods without worrying about e.g. gluten contamination).
Good points. I would enjoy reading about companies that went from single contributor to agency smoothly.