skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what's the point of exercise backdating anyway - once the option is granted, the base price is fixed (and thus the base from which the tax is calculated), and all you can do is to change the resulting stock price, but the result of exercising at date X and holding to date Y and just exercising on date Y seem identical to me - you still have a stock priced at the spot price of date Y. Maybe some tax law details matter here - which would reinforce my point that it's too complex for its own good.
I'm a big fan of the "don't worry about your competitor" mantra.
But at the same time, it'd be silly not to pay attention and to learn from your competitors failures/successes. Doing so, IMO is quite productive.
OK, even I am getting buzzed at how these blatant self-advertisment-wrapped-in-a-cutesy-blog don't even take the time to write a proper blog post with at least 1 nugget of interesting information.

Frank note to author: This is not the way to grow your startup. Hacker news visits are fun for getting a few comments, but they are useless in growing your startup. Even more frank note to author: the startup idea isn't quite appealing or even original.
My understanding is that they have difficulty with customer retention. Many people are drawn in by the amazing videos on youtube only to find

1) Video editing is tedious and often greatly underestimated.

2) Their product usability is wanting. I have both a v1 and v2, I still have to read the manual to figure out what the different modes are.

3) Battery life has been disappointing and I understand the v3 has issues too.

I've heard first hand evidence from insiders that loyal customer retention is a big challenge. Growing out of the niche they're in is hard to envisage.
I feel your pain, that is me too most of the time. That said I'm the only technical person around to fix these things, so I often can't step back and spend time sorting out the big things, or even figuring out how to prioritize things in the most efficient way. I think a big part of the problem, for me, is that it's hard to switch between the focus of coding and other things like people management and creative thinking about marketing. Personally, my solution is to get a good project manager involved. Someone who has technical aptitude so they understand the issues, but also able to gauge and manage the priorities of the people and everything else that matter. That way it simplifies your time management around coding and that type of problem solving.
Its after 2PM here and I was just saying to my lab-mate that I might as well head home since I haven't done anything useful yet today, but instead I opened up HN and found this!
I like your approach, and you've helped me understand something just now about the 'invitation to hear'. The 'inside their own narratives' makes sense too.
If you want to stay private forever and always have full founder control, then you should never offer stock based compensation (maybe profit sharing instead) or have plan to cash out that stock based compensation in the future, that you communicate when you hire people.
As my January personal code project, I created an experimental game that considered what would happen if you crossed an RPG with a UNIX filesystem. The result is RPGFS.

You have some simple commands available (ls, cd, pwd, rm) and you fight "bugs" in the filsystem using the rm command (everything is a file). You also consume "items" with rm. The goal is to descend the filesystem to find a special file to unlock another command to destroy the filesystem.

This was written as part of a monthly project I'm undertaking in 2014, and represented a small amount of work (hack). It's written in C for Linux, and you can grab it at the URL if interested.
I haven't seen this before, and didn't sign-up because I have no idea what I'm actually signing up for.

"right message at the right time to your website visitors."

Then why haven't you shown us this on the hellobar website? What does it look like on a site. How does it work?
I know that reinforced concrete is often used in construction, so I figured that printing a huge house would make it more fragile, say, during an earthquake.
Nope. I am sorry. i don't buy it. There is no anchoring involved when the new currency is still not used to determine prices. People that still want to use dogecoin as actual money will have to do the conversion anyway. the large number will mean nothing when they cash out and realize that their MILLIONS of DOGE won't be enough to buy them a sandwich. Ask people in Zimbabwe if they care about carrying thousands of dollars in their wallets. they dont. such zeroes, many numbers, no actual purchasing power.
prelude to the industrial replicator!
That is very true. Improving your product is a big part of growth. The trick is to not waste time working on code that doesn't matter.
Increasing No. of impressions to convert into a sale is definitely making it dirty!
I love how he starts the video posted in the article off with "We are in the most intense talent space in the world" Well good sir don't expect to keep any of that talent. This sickens me.
I found their email template editor to be amazingly powerful yet easy at the same time!
Patio11, thank you for continuing to inspire and help others understand their value. The biggest hurdles are often in the mindset and belief system of the individual. I know that's been the case for me.
yes! there is a CLI that let's your run your builds locally, on your laptop. Navigate to the root directory of your repository and run `drone -v build .`

you need Docker installed and the .drone.yml file in the root. it's a great way to test locally without having to push to the CI server. As an added bonus, you could even setup a pre-commit hook
Ok, should've been more specific -- it doesn't catch any exceptions and lets them bring down the program and have the project maintainer check what they did wrong.
Endorsements serve a purpose for LinkedIn. They keep users coming back to the site when they receive the "X has endorsed you for Y" emails.

You can tell endorsements are mostly for LinkedIn's benefit when you notice they don't even expose them in their API.
Why is it relevant to say they were Indian? As if your anecdotal experience says anything about managers or Indians in general
I'm wondering if Scott Adams generally provides an alternate for when he draws a strip that might be considered "adult themed." I wouldn't think that Adams or Yahoo would be anti gay but, well, sales are sales, and Yahoo might want to avoid potential controversy.
>Basically, you're removing the implicit assumption that you know better than the person you're speaking with about what would work for their business.

Bingo. I feel that that from a psychological perspective the way you word advice can dictate how well it's received.

"I think you should do X", or even worse "You're doing that wrong, you should be doing X" isn't generally something that people digest hearing that well.

"I've done X in that exact situation and it worked really well for me" can be much more palatable.
Jet Recon looks very promising, but professional cyclists will probably not consider it until they iterate on the design and improve peripheral vision. Proper cycling glasses have unobstructed peripheral vision on the left/bottom/right, and sometimes even top. This is where Google glass slightly edges the Recon Jet, but the Recon Jet looks to have far more stabilization for sporting than the Google Glass.
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Thanks for the recc, I'll take a look. Based on the reviews, though, it seems like they don't disagree that it looked pretty bleak at certain points, regardless of how much whitewashing RFK did of his own part in the crisis. Maybe it was just gamesmanship and negotiation in the case of the missile crisis, but it seems as though it could have escalated beyond their control very quickly.
Also, Secure Sockets Layer makes me think "ouch, that sounds really vulnerable even to me (non-specialist)". It's Transport Layer Security since, well, 1999.
David Ungar about...“end-to-end nondeterministic” computing
This is so wrong on so many levels.
Thanks for the feedback and checking it out. We've begun working with nonprofits, but I wanted a more blunt critique and figured HN would help. Nonprofits are often too kind to express their negative views.
Sure, members of the public or small and medium sized organizations may have substituted, but if yours was the sort of organization that bought, say, a Cray Y-MP for $35 million, paying $3.56 million and putting this thing on a network would have been a bargain, which makes me think that the authors may not have taken the value of this being an integrated system into account. And even if they pegged the iPhone at exactly the same price as a Cray Y-MP they would still be low due to the iPhone's vastly lower power consumption.

Finding out that this article was written by the American Enterprise Institute made me feel dirty until I reflected on the fact that nothing in the article appears to be grossly incorrect, and discarding an interesting article for some possibly bad political implications seems like a bad way to live one's life.

Another thing that no-one has yet pointed out is that even this article's calculation could still probably be extremely low if the cost of developing iOS and the related apps are included.
Just because the Dunning-Kruger effect exists doesn't mean that skilled people who can accurately self-assess don't also exist.
I thought about this a couple of years back and as far as I can make out, we are approaching the situation where you could just about fit a digitised general engineering factory and materials store into a high street shop unit. At that point you could robotically fabricate a car to order and just drive it out the front onto the street when it is finished.
It is gender-biased, since generally everyone is emotionally processing in some way or another. It's just that, typically (but not always), men have a habit of "fixing the problem" as a way to avoid emotional processing.

Before you can solve a problem or take action, you first have to accept that there is a problem and action needs to be taken. That acceptance is an emotional thing. It isn't a product of reason or intellect. It's not so much that men do not emotionally process, but rather, people who are not in tune with their emotions and suck at it will try to use reason to talk themselves into acceptance. And it never works.

For people who are more in tuned with the heart of things, watching someone like that is like watching someone going around and around in circles, using the wrong part of their consciousness. Furthermore, the only way to be in tune with your emotion is to acknowledge and experience those emotions. You cannot force someone to fully experience something. The powers of human denial and aversion are very creative.

However, once you've emotionally accepted that there is a problem and action needs to be taken, it is from there that reasoning and problem solving skills allows you to quickly get stuff done.

Mindfully listening to someone as they speak allows them to feel safe to touch those emotions within themselves. It's called "holding space". And this practice requires you to stop "waiting for the other person to speak". You are simply witnessing someone work this stuff out.
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Because they benefit no one but the TLD issuing authorities.

I as a consumer don't want to know about 12 different urls for the same business.

I don't even want there to be TLDs at all.

http://cocacola.

That should be enough. If someone needs more differentiation they can use subdomains.
Highest valued == Most Valuable ?
>I'm black. So, I think I can speak a bit about the issue. What I notice is that a lot of black kids are/were afraid as being classified as being geeks/white. So, we basically lost them as kids. Way before anything about bro culture comes in.

As a white guy who went to predominantly black schools I have to concur that the treatment these kids received was brutal. Any kid "speaking white" or having alternative interests was essentially alienated from his/her peers.
It was admittedly a good hack for getting into the otherwise non-customizable iPhone mail client.

I feel like if a scrappy startup had done it, it'd be innovative, but with LI, well, the reaction was not that great.
Unless, of course, you are a company like Mt Gox and your technical debt is so huge that it sinks you.

This is not a dig at Coinbase. I'm just suggesting that endorsing technical debt in the finance sector may not be smart.
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> What has been your winning strategy?

I personally try to use the right acronym.
The U.K.'s Year of Code director, Lottie Dexter, doesn't know how to code
Being able to assist you in any small way is really a treat considering all I've learned from your site over the years.

Thank you.
Catch My Diff: Github's New Feature Means Big Things for Open Data
In the jumble, you can do rumble – New startup
My sister works at a small ski resort in our are and all the kids these days want a gopro for skiing and snowboarding.
UNC-Charlotte’s Bioinformatics and Genomics Department is engaged in a multi-year expansion. In addition to the new $35M Bioinformatics Building the department has the leadership role in Bioinformatics in the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis. NCRC is a $1B research park that is becoming home to academic and industrial research. As a whole our programs goals are to use these platforms to perform research and teaching in the fields that bioinformatics touches upon including but not limited to: defense, agriculture, health care, and natural sciences.

We seek a developer to work on site. The developer must be strong in service oriented architectures and this skill set:

Scripting experience (i.e. python, perl, and/or ruby) in environments that make use of HPC resources like PBS/Torque, SSH and SFTP protocols.

RESTful and WSDL web services development.

Web application development using frameworks like Ruby on Rails and .NET (e.g., SHARPSSH)

Relational database development.

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But isn't China's advantage the established (and efficient?) chain of materials supply, logistics along with the availability of cheap labor when needed?
I'm pretty sure many more codebases have been lost through failures to secure internal networks by corporate IT departments than through vulnerabilities in cloud hosting providers.
I doubt this actually. Google is a much more visible part of everyone's daily life than Exxon. If Google were more valuable than the sum of the entire petroleum industry, then we would have a problem, but as it stands, demand for Google's goods and services is much more inelastic, and relatively more valuable, than Exxon's contributions alone.

Then again, people will call anything a bubble. But its easy to see that this is not evidence of it by asking yourself if we'd be worse off if Google disappeared tomorrow vs if Exxon did.
I get that too. I think another reason is that I've been programming for so long that I have that defined as work in my head. I am good at it and I can make visible progress when programming. Taking meetings, doing marketing and similar tasks are much harder to quantify and thus I can do an entire day of that kind of work and still feel guilty about not having done anything.
I don't get why Github just hasn't hired the guy already.
I have always argued that programming is not "intellectually difficult" (for me) but is rather "emotionally difficult" for a lot of the reasons mentioned in the blog post.
I think the contract makes sense for clients, and the donation makes sense for other security researchers who want an incentive for him to keep publishing ideas.
Google's value vis-à-vis Exxon reflects Google having a lightly regulated de facto monopoly on search in most internet connected countries, while Exxon is in a fragmented, heavily regulated industry. Technology becoming the driver of the world economy would involve it (<10%) [1] passing industry (31%) [2] in its contribution to GDP.

[1] http://www.econstats.com/wdi/wdiv_533.htm

[2] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Someone working on or using Azure would be more than welcomed to implement support for Azure drivers. Contributions typically come from the providers themselves, or the users of those providers.
Frank note to you: you're being a jerk.
Do you think that your inability to relate to other people in your organization is related to your obvious superiority complex?

No one cares what your IQ is. There are many different kinds of intelligence and some of them, like social and emotional intelligence, also contribute to your personal success within any particular organization.
Groups is a good idea that's being poorly used. Some groups are set up to promote a single person or group, yet have generic names. Others are used by people not familiar with Stackexchange for asking technical questions.

They make sense for a professional networking site, but they have to be guided towards relevance.
I've hit that problem in embedded systems, too. It's not just web development (though it may be worse there).
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1. That wasn't "their communications", it was a phone call between two officials using common phone line. I don't think US state dept has dedicated direct secure lines available to everybody in diplomatic corps everywhere. It would be way too expensive. Without that, every communication can be - and is - listened to. Looks like State Dept hasn't realized it yet.

2. I'm not sure how that discredits the US. American diplomat uses the word "fuck"? Or humanity! What we came to! Or that American diplomat thinks EU approach is wrong? It's known that there is disagreement there. Of course, discussing it in public is not how diplomats do it, but I don't see how it discredits anything.
Does GoPro do any kind of video stabilization? I am a bit worried about getting one of these and having a video that's completely unusable (I am thinking about taking it for some trail running).

Also, are things like Gear Pro and other knock-offs worth anything?
When did world computing power pass the equivalent of one iPhone? http://pemungkah.com/when-did-world-computing-power-pass-the...
This is a great metaphor for software. There is diminishing returns to refactoring and elegance. Sometimes the open source community goes too far (ever try submitting patches to big OSS projects.. Some are ridiculously picky with minor details like code style.)
Paraphrasing Feynman:

You do not understand "ordinary people." To you they are 'stupid fools' -- so you will not tolerate them or treat their foibles with tolerance or patience -- but will drive yourself wild (or they will drive you wild) trying to deal with them in an effective way.

Find a way to do your programming with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love! This is my advice, my friend.
It's not about the workflow - it's about the fact that things like compiling files, linking libraries, are kind of basic concepts.

For his prior apps (flash) he created objects using only a graphical interface (never wrote a single class), and the 'program' was a single 9000 line file where everything (all vars, functions, etc...) was in the global namespace with absolutely no organization, encapsulation, etc...

Anyhow, for someone who claims to have been programming for 10+ years, I'd expect some understanding of how the underlying technology works, how languages and compilers work, etc...

I mean, I like convenience as much as anyone (my Vim setup behaves like an IDE with code completion, automatic compiling, etc...), but knowing the command line is a good thing when the app you want to build involves a Unix-y server...
eh... doubt it had much impact on anything other than just annoying everyone who spotted it. The companies will shake out as they execute.

The bigger question is the DBA (don't be an asshole) philosophy. If you're a fan of mercenary mantra with no rules of engagement, so be it... but you're a jerk. If you win, you get to be a rich jerk. Otherwise, just a jerk.

I recently met the CEO/Founder of Stripe - he was awesome, crushing it, and talked at length about doing the right thing by his people, the world, etc. He's a rich guy that won by kicking ass - not by screwing with other people.

So if you like to be a jerk, create animosity, and contribute to the general consensus that the Valley is about F'ing with each other... then rock on. Otherwise, why not follow the DBA rule and focus on winning investors and customers the old fashion way - being awesome.
My 6 year old daughter has an iPad 1 which she appropriated from mum. She has taught me gestures that I didn't know about, and that you can click the button twice to get a menu of running apps and shut down ones that are slowing things down. She figured out on her own, that the URLs announced on the kids TV channels can be typed into the browser and she works her way through these sites, saves high scores, wins prizes (pages to print and colour) and so on.

Just yesterday something new came up on one channel and she grabbed her iPad to look up that channel's schedule page to see if it was a schedule change or just a short that they sometimes play between programs.

And she draws all kinds of stuff in a kind of story mode, kind of like the way the Olympics opening ceremony unfolds a story. And she plays some games (only free ones and I decide what to install). These aren't drawings that she saves, because she is continually erasing and redrawing, but sometimes she does draw things and saves them into the gallery. I downloaded a selection of free drawing apps based on review sites that list stuff like X Great Apps for Kids.

She sets up reminders for events in her life including school field trips. Personally I never use calendaring programs so she just figured this out on her own. And she worked her way through Settings experimenting and asking questions about anything that she did not understand.
It really is hard to switch between different modes of thinking. I think that is why it's important to carve out chunks of time where you can really dig in and focus on getting stuff done.
If your biggest competition is an un- or under-funded, not yet widely known or used startup, you've got bigger problems than that startup. I find it amazing that startups will consider other startups their main competition, when the reality is both startups need to focus on the larger untapped market rather than think that each other is stealing each other's non-existent business.

Another way to put it: If the market is really that small that one small startup can take away business from another small startup, then you don't have much of a market at all, and you should find a larger market.

Anyone who goes to such extents to snipe a startup really doesn't understand what it takes to gain market traction.

But it sounds like in this case, one startup wasn't really looking to snipe another startup, but rather capitalize on the press that would (potentially) be generated from that startup's launch. This happens all the time in other industries. Whenever Apple launches a product a myriad of other companies piggy-back on the press Apple generates. It's smart marketing.

It would only be underhanded if the startup was making false or disparaging claims about the other company in public. And that's borderline libel / slander anyways.
I've been very pleased with mine. Not just the durability but how it handles jitter and rapid lighting changes, two things that are very important for filming moving things while on the move.
Extremely well done Brad. With Drone, we can finally ditch Jenkins. Going to setup Drone open source for https://commando.io right now!
Great write-up! What do you plan on doing with your email list?