skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone in the know shed some light on how a CEO of a corporation this big gets selected, from searching for and vetting candidates to the competition involved amongst nominees vying for the position? I imagine it's less about an admissions-type board reviewing applicants' credentials and accomplishments and more about years and years of strategic positioning, favors, and relationship building with people that matter. Or a bit of both.
Any number of innocuous posts have already been blocked. You don't notice them because, well, they're blocked.

I think there is a value to transparency and a space for a better alternative to HN with that as its founding principle, but communities don't form overnight, and how many sites have been successful with transparency over moderator actions?
I believe the implied advice behind that was "and if need be, have a judge and a bunch of lawyers present when you talk to them".
Tangent: fusion will require carrying...how much hydrogen? I once calculated that trying to gather it along the way (interstellar hydrogen) is pointless, as a 1m^2 swath from here to Alpha Centauri would net 0.01g of the stuff.

ETA: Yup, I was considering the Ramjet design. Scale of the scoop overwhelmed itself trying to acquire enough to function. I was just startled at how little interstellar hydrogen there is; I knew it wouldn't be much, but 0.01g in ten million cubic kilometers was even less than I'd assumed.
As we say in the guidelines,
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HN is a news site, not a forum for people with praise for companies we've funded
(even when concealed as Ask HNs). So I'm killing this.
If you have praise for Dr Chrono, please contact them directly
Is it really? Can't say I'd do differently. I'd bet the company will be reached by PG about it, despite the thread closing, because it was a near PR hit. If we're interested in a constructive process, then it would have only hurt them to make it a public ordeal.

EDIT: not allowed to reply to jacquesm, so putting it here:

Good points. I just don't think the community is that threatened by PG's moderation in this case. I know it looks bad, but sometimes the Internet can be a bit reactionary, so I can see why he tried to protect his company from a firestorm (like this) when it may not be substantiated.

As for the favoritism, well, it's YC's forum. It's mild enough that it doesn't really worry me.
The app is based on the open source https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus
Disney to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees in Social Gaming Unit
Agreed. Good cops cease being good as soon as they look the other way and keep quiet when a bad cop does something wrong.
Firesafe: Add Complex Security Logic to Your Firebase App
You're conflating "easy" with "familiar".
Bringing Together A World Of Databases With Orchestrate
Aren't the layouts the Hard part?
North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system
No, there is no button. Maybe because its "Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint"? Did they fork Firefox and disabled updates?
Pretty weak when you compare it with Steve Job's “Fuck Michael Dell” talk when he came back to Apple in 1997.
http://lilly.tumblr.com/post/11230723028/steve-jobs
I think it's fine; you get the TOC on one tab and the content you're reading on another one, without having to wait to load the TOC every time you change subjects.

In fact, that's the way I browse all this kind of sites.
Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services
Satya Nadella: His first interview as CEO of Microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI
I agree! We've been building a CLI that uses an SDK [1] against our new API and so far it's been tremendously helpful in identifying bugs and other problems -- if we hadn't gone through that exercise then we would have inadvertently shipped some of those issues out to our users.

I think SDKs are great. The intent of the article was to document why I will sometimes opt out of using them.

[1] https://github.com/heroku/hk
That's great, I didn't know this existed. Thanks.
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If you are willing to invest a few bucks, http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/ is a comprehensive reference and good introduction for c# and the .net framework.
I question whether the philosophy of an adversarial system to arrive at justice works as well as we think it does.
Come on, 53. That whole story is the best thing that can happen to you. Publicity.
The general motivation behind the improvement of technologies is money and power given to those who control them. This could work for AI.
If you're using Firefox Aurora/Nightly, or Firefox Beta for Android, you can install it as a native app too https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/devdocs?src=search
The Supreme Court disagreed long ago. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178777
1) Trademark rights are generally effective from date of use in commerce, not the date of filing.

2) Filing for registration isn't the same as filing an infringement claim.

3) The phrase "trademark for/on [some word]" is meaningless. Trademarks only exist for a word or name in the context of some class of product. "Lucky" brand jeans is a different mark than "Lucky" Strike bowling.
Any comment relating to "Oh, I first thought Facebook acquired Paper by FiftyThree" could be used as proof that it's causing brand/name dilution, etc..
What? I did a quick google search and Arranon was approved for pediatric cancer last July.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/druginfo/fda-nelarabine

Also, if you looked up the number of pediatric cancer cases as a total of all cancer cases, the 4% makes sense. I dug the numbers up a while ago, but you can find them with a quick google search.
It has always seemed to me that Microsoft treats every product, company, or standard that is not theirs as if they were direct competition.
We can all laugh but a set of Mac, iPad and iPhone clones sold into the Chinese market could be kind of a big deal.
The hackaday interview talks through some of the options on the business side: http://hackaday.com/2013/11/18/interview-new-mill-cpu-archit...
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Firefox's new Australus UI will be merged to the Aurora channel in just a couple days, if you'd like to try it out (without installing the bleeding edge Nightly channel).
Bruce Schneier has written before on forged boarding passes

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/forge_your_ow...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/hacking_tsa_p...

Someone even created a boarding pass generator to demonstrate their weakness. They promptly got their door busted in by the feds.
> you get the option of opening it in those apps (for YouTube, the Play Store, Twitter, etc.)

Great find, I hadn't noticed that one before! It does make things better.
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Why is there not more info on Josh Levine, creator of High Frequency Trading?
Top startup salaries now go to designers, not developers.
Hah! Call it a design experiment, and either way it's good to gather a data point that someone hates it.

The multi-column layout will only trigger at large screen sizes. The idea here was to fill some of that extraneous white space you get when browsing full screen on big monitors. I may revert it.
Is this really the best usage of your funding cash? Seems like half of 53's $15M can go down the drain with this sort of thing. I sort of expect FB Paper to flop like the Facebook phone OS thing; if I were 53 I wouldn't be going so ballistic over this. Best case, they get the trademark and Facebook whittles down all of their funding in order for them to get it. Better for them to just move on and recognize that their product and Facebook's are different enough and it's not worth having the SEO from people searching the word "paper" to go into an expensive legal battle.
A company who've raised $15m in funding isn't looking for the sort of publicity you get among people who talk about tech company Trademark cases most of whom knew about them anyway.

If the whole thing was mainstream maybe but this isn't really publicity for them, not in any meaningful sense.
Why were people so up in arms over King's attempt to trademark "Candy", but suddenly it's OK to trademark "Paper"?!?
Disappointing that most promise articles/tutorials reference Q as the preferred promise library, rather than bluebird - https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird

Bluebird is not only so fast that it's almost on par with callbacks[1], but also innovates on the ability to filter on catching different error types[2], support for generators[3], context binding[4] among other things.

[1]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/benchma...

[2]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md#...

[3]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md#...

[4]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md#...
There is some debate about continuations and generators :

http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/02/25/on-generators

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4690
I love the quote "Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation". The most profound words I've read all day.

What would our industry be like if it respects tradition? Less reinventing the wheel every decade?
Small problem with the conditional using the array assigment. If a value in the array is not "truthy", the loop will stop at that element -- e.g. ['a', 0, 'b', 'c'] will only print out the first element in your example.
Interesting that they use Modernizr and normalize.css for the web page instead of their own css/js code.
I'm going to guess the moderators don't vet every story. They just run a search for YC companies.
Do you mean North Korean market?
How's My SSL? [1] now reports "Your SSL client is Probably Okay." for Firefox 27. Awesome!

[1] https://www.howsmyssl.com/
The mystery of procrastination is essentially you've lost the compelling, whether is it external or internal, motivation or obligation, deep down you absolutely hate it since it has turned into a pure taxing to your brain and your subconscious has seen through it accomplishing it is not attractive to you.

The reason procrastination occurs is because a viable escape does not exist while you've been constantly attempting.
That's not at all what OP asked.
If you're working 30 hours, they're paying for 30 hours of work. It's understood that you wouldn't be producing as much as a full timer.
Take 2:

"He explained why on that post, but if you're wondering when this page falls off the top of the front page, keep in mind the possibility that it was flagged off by users like me. "

People are honestly interested on how this issue is going to be handled by Drchrono. People are more interested in how pg handles (or in this case, handled) the conflict of interest between supporting a YC company and supporting the ability to have open discourse on what is a public forum.

These are the reasons why this thread is so highly rated, has a high possibility of not being downvoted into oblivion, and why people are taking an active interest in the previous killed thread.

"This thread is pure, distilled drama."

One man's "distilled drama" is another man's intelligent discourse. YMMV.
I'm going to suggest something possibly inflammatory, but I promise I say it with only the best intentions. There's something wrong with the fact that such a big forum for hackers/startups is controlled mainly by individuals who also run a startup incubator. There're issues of conflicts of interest here through and through. This thread is perhaps the best example of things going wrong -- hellbanning/rankbanning (ask michaelochurch about that) is another thing, along with too many threads about serious issues worth discussing getting killed.

Maybe we should move to a place where the power hierarchy is not as objectionable. As earlier suggested, maybe a place moderated by trusted HN members (I'm thinking patio11, potatolicious, grellas, etc.) - we can get started here if there's any interest http://www.reddit.com/r/truehn
Thanks! The project is open source:
https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
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...just read TFA, looks like they did do some trademarkin:

> FiftyThree’s only trademark in the USPTO was for “Paper by FiftyThree”.
Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We've been there, done that and frankly, I don't care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.

No, I much prefer today's world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There's more developer frameworks than ever available to us. More languages. More everything.

No. I don't want to go back.
> ... how much hydrogen? I once calculated that trying to gather it along the way (interstellar hydrogen) ...

FWIW this is an old sci-fi idea / plot device called a Bussard ramjet:

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

But this isn't meant to dispute your calculations. The linked article comes to the same conclusion: it's not feasible, too little interstellar hydrogen.
SDKs built by the provider have the benefit of getting a developer up and running quickly. The downside is that you really don't know the quality of the underlying code without some deep auditing and, as the author wrote, the underlying implementation is outside of your instrumentation, logging (etc.) framework. It's a black box you import into your app. This has nothing to do with abstracting the API . If you wanted to work with the HTTP API directly it you'd just abstract it yourself, because that's just good practice.
And I just ported WebGL Inspector to FF, though it's been waiting in the AMO review queue for a while...

Anyways, powerful new tools for developing WebGL.
Oops, wrong type of SOC, move along.
Or, in a rather less condescending tone, you might have built the SDK for Busy Bob, who is using your API, which is is important but peripheral, to the problem he is writing software to solve.

If his solution works, and is widely adopted, then he will revisit and add all those things that the OP mentions, but right now he is just trying to get something working.

An SDK is great for that.
King used their trademarks to attack smaller players. FiftyThree is using theirs to defend against a larger player. Also, King has trademarked "Candy" across a lot of areas where they don't even have products. The application for "Paper" seems more specific.
What about a duty to the union to preserve the reputation of its members in good standing?
How I hacked my social data to get press coverage and $750K in funding
Twitter Re-designs
Definitely interesting to see the quantitative approach. Anyone else utilizing something closer to this versus A/B testing?
How to run a design studio in 90 min or less
For some reason my experience with Amazon customer service has been subpar at best. On the other hand Zappos (which Amazon.com ) has had exemplary service every time I have had to deal with it.
> On the machine this was implemented, insertion speed increased ~110x, compared with the non-hinted implementation.

That makes it sound like type hints are essentially mandatory for anything where performance matters.

Nice article! It would have been interesting to see how it fares against something like java.util.HashMap.
Just remembered this thread and came back. Thanks for the insight.
What's your host environment and browsing habits like (lots of tabs open, many pinned tabs, lots of video, flash video)?
I'm assuming DrChrono is in PST. The previous thread may have been killed before the CEO even woke up.
Facebook's 10th birthday: from college dorm to 1.23 billion users
You left out the rest of the quote "with this as the primary goal."

Any search which can pick out a small hot interstellar spaceship will be very effective at searching for brown dwarfs and other low temperature objects in space. ("Low" means "not a fusing star".)

I doubt there's anything you can do to optimize a SETI search which makes the identification of brown/red dwarfs more difficult. In fact, since you don't know what the background low-temperature IR sources are, you would need the brown dwarf survey to help characterize what's normal vs. a possible spaceship.

There's already funding for dwarf studies, and it's an area of astronomy which is relatively new and unexplored. (The first brown dwarf was not discovered until 1995, for example.) So we know that's a proposal that many can get behind.

Identification of possible non-stellar objects falls out necessarily and almost trivially (compared to the survey itself) from the data.

Position and velocity data is also important for brown dwarf observations, so you'll get that anyway.

So you can tell me - why should we prioritize a very low probability SETI search when there's a high probability that a brown dwarf survey will be scientifically useful, and end up with useful SETI information?
Anticurious hazards
> It'd take effort for a mixer to log things - it's not something that happens by itself. There's no reason to think the implementor would do that, unless the mixer is already compromised.

This is true in theory but the history of software is littered with obvious counterexamples where theoretically secure software was compromised by admins forgetting to disable debugging / logging, insecure temporary or backup files, etc. When you use a mixer you're trusting the admins to get all of that right even before you talk about malice.

I'm not saying it's trivial, merely that the bitcoin infrastructure was obviously not designed to counter state-level threats. The perfect identification of all past transactions is just too easy to get wrong and and a prosecutor only needs to show a convincing case, not absolute mathematical proof – I wouldn't bet against the simple timing of transactions being enough in many cases
A simple try/catch around the whole thing would take care of error handling for the generator example.
Sigma is significantly faster than D3 for drawing large graphs; however, it's only able to draw graphs. D3 is a multipurpose library for many different kinds of visualizations.
Sure you can! Right click on the console window bar (top) and look in Settings. You will need to increase the horizontal buffer size or something like that.
It's good that Facebook finally gets a taste of their own medicine (they've sued other sites for using Book in their name).
It's a matter of intent, i.e., theft versus exploration.
A good resource for this is the control operations chapter [0] in Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation [1]. It start off with some motivation, then covers generators and continuations, with mention of threads and coroutines. The base motivation and most code is for an interpreter implementation, but it isn't impossible to follow if you're not familiar with such material.

[0] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/Control_Operatio...

[1] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/index.html
Nice, Nginx!

Anyone know if this version of Nginx comes with SPDY enabled?

If so can it be installed with SPDY enabled in binaries through package managers, and if not, should 1.5.10 be compiled using --with-http_ssl_module and --with-http_spdy_module in order to take advantage of this?

If someone compiles 1.5.10 without that argument and then one day decides he wants to light up SPDY, does he need to recompile Nginx or is there a quicker solution? Thanks!
Imo closing threads like that is a bigger PR hit, it makes both the start-up and HN (and by implication YC) look like they are ignoring feedback if it is public and negative. In a tech world where the norm seems to be that support is a luxury making some noise is sometimes the only way to get action (see countless threads regarding google on HN that did not get axed, implying a double standard) and in a conflict-of-interest situation letting these threads run their natural course would be to everybody's best interest.

Think of them as an opportunity to show that you do care about your customer, and that 'make something people want' is not just a hollow phrase, rather than to muzzle them and potentially adding insult to injury. If we're to believe what the OP wrote then PG's advice was especially bad given that he - by his own words, which I can't check but let's give the man the benefit of the doubt - had been trying to talk to the company for quite a while and turned to HN as a last-resort before suing them.
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The same way the guy did the firing did it?

You don't need to be convicted to be fired; you should not need to be convicted to have your union cut you loose.
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That's better :) I haven't been paying much attention to this stuff but one issue I'd raise is that HN does seem to allow (encourage?) complaint threads about other companies like paypal, and also sometimes google, apple, facebook, and many others. Some of them are things where one might think "contact that company directly" is the answer, but there are reasons that isn't always best, such as the company being non-responsive.

Those discussions often do attract some level of drama, but I don't particularly care. HN has stuff I don't want to read including some drama and some non-drama, and my solution is to ignore it.
Yep we only install virus scanners at email gateways to make the exchange servers not die. The virus scanners are for windows, never had any auditor for sox or pci ask about software, sounds like a shit auditor.
The second paragraph of the following article argues precisely that: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/287435-a-s...

Additionally, the National Math and Science initiative is focused on the dual goals of improving the quality of education and quantity of students: https://nms.org/Education/OurStrategy.aspx
Compare Go in early 2014 to Scala early 2006, that is when they were about the same age.
> (HN is a YC marketing arm, he runs the website and can do whatever he wants, etc, etc).

HN is much more than a marketing arm — it's one of the most central forums for programmer discussions today. And this makes it YC's responsibility to treat it as such.
Great idea!

I can definitely see this as a workable solution. The only thought I have is that once in a while behavior like retry/idempotency support might have to be tweaked on a per-endpoint basis rather than from the general `call` method, and at that point things get a little less pretty.

In general I'd say that the ideas expressed in the article apply more to dynamic languages where you see much more of the convention of SDKs just giving you back hashes instead of strongly-typed models representing foreign resources. In something like Scala, the barrier of having to implement every model yourself might be an extra motivator for just defaulting to the SDK.
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The only way to combat this is through whistle-blower rewards. This kind of behaviour is so damaging to the society that it's worth government monies for this - and meanwhile, you can recoup costs by fining the companies. It will at least minimize the damage, and incentivize companies away from this kind of behaviour. Some companies have billions of dollars of profits to protect, and business-wise, spending as much of that as they need to maintain the sale of their product or service is "smart" business - though if a chemical causes harm to the environment and/or people, then it needs to not be pumped into our environment.