skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of performance reviews should be to change behavior. If neither the manager or employee leave the review with a plan to do something different than they did before the review, then it effectively accomplished nothing.

Anything that doesn't create action is just noise.
> and ultimately not a ponzi scheme (by this I mean growing by an ever slowing amount, that gives added value to those who mined early and held, punishing any sizeable withdrawal, dividends paid only due to more outside money coming to the fund..

Yea well that's not what a ponzi scheme is so you need to adjust your meaning and use the correct words. Here, let me help you out...

Ponzi Scheme: a form of FRAUD in which belief in the success of a NON-EXISTENT ENTERPRISE is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.

Nothing about Bitcoin is or resembles a Ponzi scheme; stop spreading FUD.
Nothing to do with the IPO but I found the Hero3 both hard to learn and operate. Maybe I'm spoiled by user friendly tech, but it seems the compromises in usability to achieve durability severely limits the ability for an average person to use the product. The tiny control interface and cryptic symbols required much time in the tiny but dense instruction booklet.

I was only helping a family member (as the resident family geek) but was left with the impression that it would take a solid weekend (or three) to fully understand the options and how best to get the footage you want.

To contrast I have a "tough" Lumix digital camera which is water, drop and generally abuse resistant that is drop dead easy to use, records in high-def and also has a large LCD and dedicated record/photo buttons that make operating it easy. And I'm not talking about normal recording conditions, I've used both extensively on the trail, in the cold (winters in Maine) and mounted on various vehicles and body parts.

I do think the reasoning behind many of these inconveniences is toughness but the net result is a very difficult product.

/rant
> Anyone can 'program computers'; computers are a universal language.

If that were true, programmers would be making minimum wage and would be ranked alongside people who wash cars.
so the question of the day I guess is will Dogecoin do the same thing? (it's "cheap" now)

I almost think that it will... in other words a bitcoin-like bubble will happen again, but maybe just once, and then not again (because there are so many people like me who feel like they missed out the "first time" on bitcoin)
What are you saying exactly? Apple doesn't take raw materials as input and produces iPhones as input. Apple takes components as input. Those components didn't exist.

If someone built a few of them using today's knowledge, it would be expensive. Very expensive.

Only at scale are they cheap. They are only at scale if everyone is buying them. The same process that would cause the scale in components might cause the change in commodity prices.

So your point is hard to understand...
GoPro's are most useful in situations you wouldn't want your phone near (mounted on a helmet, attached to the outside of a car, underwater, etc). They tie in with phones though so you see the current video from your camera on your phone (handy if the mount is in an awkward spot).
Giving marketing teams the ability to test and optimize transactional emails opens up a new customer referral and upgrade channel. Love what these guys are doing.
Exactly! California can go F itself. They should not be legislating this crap.
Imagine a pawn shop that loans money on cell phones. Now imagine someone comes in and pawns their phone. It still has service and all, but he thinks he will come back next week and redeem it. A few months pass and he never comes back. Now the phone is legally (the pawn contract says one must completely own the collateral, so carrier subsidies etc. shouldn't be a problem) the pawn shop's property. Mr. Defaulter calls the phone company and has the IMEI blocked. Now the pawn shop is out the money and owns a useless piece of metal and plastic.

I've seen this problem with phones, tablets, and even tasers. The company will not activate them if they've been reported lost or stolen. But "finders-keepers" is legal and people can lie about theft. Of course the company also has a second interest not to help create a used market. Just like encrypted firmware schemes, this erodes personal control over our property. The legal owner with physical control should be able to use the device. Period.

There are also concerns over government or corporate disablement. Aside from obvious government malice during e.g. protests, does anyone really think either the government or the phone company can run a blacklist without false positives? Obviously not. Nobody can when your population size is >300 million. And the customer service grunt is just following the rules when your device is disabled and he cannot re-enable it.

The argument for this law is that it will reduce thefts by making the phones worthless. I understand this. I just don't think that is worth losing control over our property and devices.
If you aren't yet familiar with OWASP, start there.
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

Here is some OWASP material specific to Django.

If you like reading
http://blog.mikeleone.com/2011/10/security-django-and-owasp-...

If you like watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sra9x...
> The Silicon Valley touts itself as a meritocracy where people climb the economic ladder based on the power of their ideas.

Maybe it's not worth pointing this out over and over again, but a meritocracy is not a system whereby you climb the economic ladder based on the "power of your ideas". It's a system in which you climb a hierarchy by scoring well in some externally defined "unbiased" evaluation process. The irony, which was intended in the coining of the term, is that such a test can never be unbiased and the institution that defines the test has power over everybody (read: The College Board).

There cannot exist even a model of a society where people succeed based purely on how "good" they are that also doesn't discriminate, since sorting the "good" from the "bad" is itself an act of discrimination.
And setting vague goals which may, or may not, have been achieved is better for the employee or the company?!

But you're right to an extent, and I skipped over it. There's a class of things (call them skills, behaviours or competencies) which aren't suited for evaluation through measurement: "teamwork", "leadership" etc. These are not goals and it's important to understand the difference. For competencies it's best to evaluate them on a simple scale (say 1-10, we don't even label the exact score) so the discussion naturally becomes a bit fuzzy and less concrete — because the concepts are fuzzy. Let's be honest, you want employees to improve in these competencies but there's really no effective way to evaluate them.

Plans and reviews should be driven by the measurable stuff (goals) and the employee's development is driven by discussions not scoring of their skills/competencies/whatever-you-want-to-call-them
In fact, "sing happy birthday problem" sounds offensive to me -- this is an incredibly stupid and annoying song. No reason to promote it. Sure firing squad is about killing people, but we already have laws regulating that and in most countries you won't see a sudden mob of gunmen lynching somebody in public places. I have seen no laws about subjecting innocent bystanders in say a restaurant to this horrible "song". I don't even mention the the main victim, who has to sit there with strained smile and suffer through that atrocious repetitive and dumb "singing"...
I wanted to help bloggers find copyright-released images to use in blog posts, to attract more social traffic (Pinterest mainly, but also used for Twitter, Facebook.)

I got to work after sitting on the idea for a while and ended up building the product in 10 days. You can read about the development process here: http://antinecktie.com/idpinthat-com-idea-launch/

Or just check the site out: IdPinThat.com

The project is OSS so you can check out the code on github (read the about page of IdPinThat.com for more info and repo)
I thought Flip was popular, they were bought by Cisco and summarily cancelled.
I think the wisdom is "the market for dedicated general-purpose mobile cameras is getting eaten up by general-purpose mobile devices", and Flip didn't have a compelling niche.

On the other hand, GoPro cameras have a reputation for usability in some very extreme situations, use cases outside of the smartphone story (if you are going to mount a device on your helmet or elsewhere, you better hope that it can withstand the elements and a crash or two
Thanks! We posted our go-bitbucket api today as well. https://github.com/drone/go-bitbucket

The Bitbucket patch should land next week
'Doc Shock' Reaches the Masses
Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry
Divided by two for each cycle (each doubling of transistors). 3560000/2^12 = 869.140625
Maybe for web development. For everything else... no.
I don't think that any of the music in this article was procedurally generated, but composed. You're probably just confirming the opinion that you expected to have.
Turning table on NSA, US diplomats' phone call is bugged, leaked to YouTube
We use Gerrit/Gitweb here for our 2000+ node Puppet infrastructure. It's really nimble, and (when paired with Jenkins) is pretty much set-and-forget.
That's not the issue here. The issue is that Hacker News is on HTTPS, but the link he posted to dictionarydomains.co isn't. Browsers don't pass a referrer on links between HTTPS->HTTP. So, visits from HN don't have a referrer. Custom Channel Groupings won't help in this case, because GA is completely blind to what visits are referrer-blocked HTTPS

I've seen people bypass this by either:

1. Having a HN specific URL (sometimes just ?hn attached to the URL)

2. Just having HTTPS landing pages.

One thing that could help fix this behavior (on newer browsers) would be for HN to explicitly authorize passing the referrer using `<meta name="referrer" content="always">` or "origin"

EDIT: Filed a bug to get this implemented on HN, since Chrome and Safari support it, and Firefox support is ongoing: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/68
Also, the outcome when reviewing a goal doesn't have to be a binary achieved/failed. You could have something like failed/nearly-met/met/exceeded/wildly-exceeded
How To Fund A ‘Fat’ Startup
A simple answer is that the pawn shop should be careful about the contracts it takes. That is, if the owner will not or can not cede control of the IMEI, the phone isn't worth very much as collateral.
So is Docker really a safe alternative to VMs? I was under the impression that you can't run untrusted code in a Docker container yet.
My guess is this will get killed. The owners of the site don't want it to devolve into complaints for or against existing companies when there are other forums to do that. (If it were allowed, that's all people would talk about, and it's not a customer service or investor relations site)
First of all, once again we have that dreaded AP CS exam where the media voluntarily ignores the fact that the rates for the whole country were abysmal and instead focusing on a particular minority where it's statistically likely that they have virtually no representation whatsoever.

Second, they're fallaciously assuming that the AP CS exam accurately reflects technological literacy and social demographics of people pursuing careers in CS. In reality, the exam is little more than an idealized Java course and is often an afterthought in many places.

Organizers say their goal is "a Silicon Valley that lives up to the dreams of Dr. King."

Stats prove that it doesn't.

I'm not very familiar with MLK's philosophy in detail, but wasn't he for equal opportunity? Equal opportunity != equal representation.

Then we seem to have a misunderstanding of what a meritocracy is. I'm not saying we have one, but even if we did, that wouldn't magically mean that we would have affirmative action and ridiculously high rates of minorities in certain professional areas. That makes no sense. The ideals of a meritocracy are that those who have more knowledge and skill will advance higher. If no one is pursuing such knowledge and skill in the first place, that's not the fault of the meritocracy itself. They should not be pushed to participate in things which they have no interest in, either.

But finally, the icing on the cake... clearly this is all Silicon Valley's fault and its hideous "brogrammer" culture that everyone talks about, but no one is really sure if it even exists. I can tolerate all of the other things, but how the hell do you go from "minorities are underrepresented" to "Let's blame Silicon Valley!" without any real data to support this?
Just cut 3.56 million in half 12 times.

3,560,000 * 0.5 ^ 12 ≈ 869.14
Strictly speaking, Moore's Law doesn't say anything about price, but I suppose that's implied.
Facebook Now Lets You Edit Your "Look Back" Movie
Not with a 10 minute talk.
The point is the one the OP learned. Talk about their own lessons learned. When you read Paul Graham and Steve Blank you read someone who has passed through a lot and spent a lot of time thinking about it. So when you read one of these essays you can understand how that apply to your business. Is the same when you start a conversation with someone and he says "When I tried to sell to big corporates I did this and worked and I did that and that didn't work".

That is a good thing to listen to from an expert. I should have maked explicit in my comment that I thought it was a great thing to do from the author.

But the key point is that is always BS when the person you are talking to thinks he knows better about your business than you. And that there are some obvious thing you should and you aren't doing it that will fix your startup. This could happen with random people too - the same way an expert can be humble as the author new attitude - only is more common with experts.

I think the objective answer of why I think is BS is that an arrogant interlocutor, almost by definition, lacks empathy. If someone is sure about what your problem is, it is probably because he didn't actually listen to you, he is picturing you as a straw man and giving advice to it.
Government already can do that by co-opting the phone companies.

@wehadfun, I like the general concept of identifying and taking action against the bad actors, but there are two flaws in your plan.

(a) Most of the users of stolen phones are not the thieves, they're secondary buyers. And amongst them, how do you propose to distinguish knowing buyers of stolen goods from innocent purchasers? Maybe in some cases the circumstances are suspicious, but what if you buy from someone on craigslist with a reasonable story and pay a market price?

(b) While in theory it's possible to trace back to the thief, in practice police don't have the resources to do the necessary investigation when the value is only a few hundred dollars. In many jurisdictions they won't even send an officer unless someone is bleeding.
Would it have made this guide longer? If so, you're adding unnecessary complexity for what it essentially a beginner guide (says so in the title).
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If you're talking about for company projects, the enterprise version of Github is self-hosted (e.g. on a VPN): https://enterprise.github.com/
13% error rate in a self-driving car, hilarity ensues...
Very excited about the Docker integration!
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." (don't know the source of the quote)
I think that was a little joke.
Staying on topic, Feynman found it hard to explain spin.

> Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, "Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics." Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But he came back a few days later to say, "I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it."

If Feynman couldn't do it, perhaps it's okay to give a pass on how spin is described in this article?
I disagree. Companies should allow and embrace cultures other than those of their founders. Not doing so is ignoring the issue. Yes, schools need to reform and a majority of the blame lies there well before SF companies have a chance.
> Here are some questions I found helpful to ask when meeting investors:

> What kind of companies do you invest in?

> Who else have you invested in?

> How much do you normally invest? Is there a range?

> How does your decision process work?

Whoever wrote this article doesn't live in reality. An applicant can't expect answers to these questions, because it allows the applicant to tune his appeal to a refined knowledge of the investor's expectations and methods.

If I were an investor and was confronted by these questions, I would write the applicant off as hopelessly naive.
This is from the Plain Language Act, which requires any writing published by the US government to be clear and easy to read. They created this list of unfriendly words and their friendlier alternatives.
>I think for a justice system to work, people need to have options.

This. One million times this. At a time when wealth disparity is accelerating and the top 85 people in the world have as much wealth as the bottom 2.5 billion, we need to invest in creating opportunity--this instead of implementing a surveillance state to supposedly hunt down those who have been marginalized and, thus, turned to crime.

And, here we are battling over increasing the minimum wage to allow full-time workers a chance to lift themselves out of poverty. At the same time, corporate profits are at a record high.

And let's not forget that our prison system is now largely for-profit. Spend more to catch them. Spend more to keep them.

It really is insane from society's point of view. But, for a few people, it's insanely profitable.
This isn't a worthy argument. Pawning and selling your device is nothing new. There should be paperwork for all of this in case someone calls the phone company or wrongly claims it stolen.
>It's tunneled through UDP...does that mean it's NAT-friendly? Presumably so.

Not as NAT friendly as you might think. There's a fair bit of discussion in the QUIC design document[0] around how NATs screw up the protocol and how to mitigate the problem.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs...
And yet the army was built up and arms manufacturing was built up, at the expense of food production. Troops and tanks were being sent to Africa, even as Germany looked poised to in invade Britian. Yes, it was tight, but Britain was in it to win, not defend. British production outstripped Germany and when the Empire was included, it was vastly superior. It took time to ramp up, but Britain wasn't facing defeat. The tonnage of ships controlled and owned by Britain actually increased (though numbers fell), and additionally those controlled by not owned by Britain also helped. The actual loses weren't that big. In a bad patch, Nov 1940 to June 1941 it was 3.4%. There were later times when it reached similar rates. The British diet was vastly better than those on the continent by and large. Britain wasn't starving.
Either nothing or infinity. You couldn't build an iPhone in 1991. Maybe if you built a time machine first.
I have a similar issue with reading and writing (instead of doing more pertinent things). My current self assessment is that I'm adept at these things and they give me quick psychological rewards for delivering some kind of result/output. The tasks that are really important, require learning, or have a lot of ambiguity have long, big reward cycles, which I think make us averse to them by nature.
Well, then, Goog, tell them to fix what they've been doing to their Thinkpad line. Thanks.
He's also providing this blog post. Something he doesn't have to do and has taught me something as I try to improve myself.
>Assuming that there is a fixed number of states, regardless of how many soldiers there are in the line...

I think that this line may be your best indication. How exactly should you interpret this sentence? I don't know!
1. Step: Create a software and sell it (or give it away for free).

2. Step: Offer to create add-ons for that software.

It has been working fine for me for a couple of years now. The software is B2B and the customers are mostly small businesses. I get a couple of feature requests per week from those existing customers. And not only convert those requests quite often to new projects, I also get to offer the add-ons to other customers. That's always part of the agreement.

The costs of the add-ons have been in the range from $250 to $2000.
"You can only have health insurance until someone actually needs to use it."

What a shitty company.
Although you probably should factor in the possibility of several years of compulsory $0.30/hr labour, plus forfeiture of all your ill-gotten gains (and probably some healthily-gotten ones too, they're not so fussy)

And that's before legal costs and possible restitution.

</jokeruiner>
Did we really just make an "In Soviet Russia" joke? That was appropriate? Man, I love this place.
The whole market depth is very important. Should they report thousands of numbers now?

Just because there's a buy bid at $700 for 1BTC and a sell bid at $703 for 200BTC, doesn't make these two prices equivalent or equally important.
We mount them in various locations on our aircraft during tests. GoPros have nice experimental science applications when you need a rugged camera with an integrated stable mount.
We all know how this is going to end: Someone is going to hack the method used to disable the phones and massively disable millions of people's phones. As always, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I'd much rather see technology that temporarily disables access to my phone's private contents while turning a permanent GPS [on] switch so my stolen phone can be located.
Yahoo Confirms It Has No Plans To Update Flickr’s Windows Phone App
Yes, I agree that it's hard to define what is true distributed computing. That's only from my personal opinion.

A good reference could be from Wikipedia: a distributed system is a software system in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages. The components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal.

You can find from the blog page here about distributed computing: http://bit.ly/1jkySqU
I love GoPros and I wish the company well.

My favorite GoPro video is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2AfsBrpwRQ#t=1m10s

Skip to 1 minute, 10 seconds if it doesn't place you there automatically.
Gitblit [1] is a nice option if you want an easy install (standalone app or Java WAR) and it runs fine on Windows if that is a constraint you have. It's not as feature rich as some of the other choices out there, but it is actively developed and stable.

[1] http://www.gitblit.com/
Giver.io is a for-profit. I have worked with several nonprofits and still do. What I wanted to do is build a tool that made life easier for a lot of smaller nonprofits.

Many of the nonprofits that I have worked with have real trouble managing their needs, accepting donations online, and staying connected with givers.

With every donation online, nonprofits have to pay for credit card transactions and bank fees at the very least. Giver.io wants to make that process as simple and organized as possible for the nonprofit.

We do not see it as amoral in the least, but I am very glad that you brought that up. We must not be doing as good a job as we could at explaining the app.