skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure that can be inferred. Is innovation really catalyzed in Kansas City more than San Francisco? I would guess not.
Great. Whoever the major commercial users are have a financial incentive to keep the service performant. They should all at least be sponsors at some level if they're not already.
Lots of CEOs' salaries are public, but that doesn't stop people from resenting them for making so damn much. It's really hard for people to accept that someone is 3X or 5X or 100X more valuable than they are--either way, it's not a positive thought. I think more important than exposing salary numbers is being transparent about why those numbers are the way they are. Having the company tell me that Bill makes twice as much as me, by itself, might actually make things worse (especially if I don't think Bill deserves it), but knowing that he makes twice as much because he is highly specialized in a specific thing that the company really needs is useful because it gives me a hint as to how I can reach that level.
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I think sticking to the speed of light for scrolling transitions would put things even more into perspective (though make the content a little harder to reach haha).
> The things I could do with better focus and less of a need to seek novelty....

Isn't it a need to seek novelty that makes you want to do those things?
> "Over a year ago iOS and Android phone apps were dead even in revenues. [1]"

From the Forbes article:

"A year ago, that lead shrunk to iPhone users being 50% more valuable – and right now, if the app is designed specifically for Android and some segmentation is considered, the revenue generation potential is the same."

That's a big if, and a qualifier to boot.. I don't think what that article is saying (potential for revenue can be the same in some cases) is the same as "dead even in revenues".
I've found the Entypo [1] collection to be a more useful set of icons for small sizes. The glyphs are well drawn and have a very consistent style throughout. Well worth a look.

[1] http://www.entypo.com/
Instead of a headache I prefer simple, copying a site be offline. :)
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> A society with research as its goal would have an eternal national challenge, which would inspire its citizens from birth to learn and contribute to the world.

I don't know if I agree that we should have national challenges, but that sentence is easily the best political statement I've ever seen on HN.

I'm curious if anyone else is interested in actually pursuing this?
* The author is not perfect.

* You are not perfect.

* You missed the point of the article entirely.

* You responded to this story just to be smug.

* You are very rude.
But they are just using Amazon's Cloudfront. They aren't using SQS or anything.

What technology risk is there in setting up Varnish and nginx on Digital Ocean? Or better yet some kind of out-of-the-box open source CDN. You would save a lot more than $2-3k.
Select all --> copy --> paste into editor works too.
If it's just the sync delay, you could track each mirror's last-updated time and only direct users to a mirror that had synchronized with the master since the package in question was released. Otherwise, serve the content from AWS. Though I'm sure this couldn't beat the service that Fastly's donating.
That and the Japanese police also will try to get a conviction even if it means convicting someone with little evidence. Combined with their seeming incompetence at investigating cyber crime this does not bode well for the MtGox investigation. The Japanese police have a 99% conviction rate with prosecutors being fired for threatening to kill suspects if they don't confess. The Japanese system of "Justice" strives for convictions, not justice.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20810572

Summary: Police arrest 4 separate suspects and get confessions from 2 for having a virus on their computer.
I don't know what it's like in the US, but the rise of Android in Australia is overwhelmingly because the telcos and phone stores are pushing Android over iOS. Sure, they have the marketing posters in the shop window and the inkjet printed signs confirming they have stock of iPhone 5S in gold. But walk in the store, and it's a completely different story: Android everywhere, and salespeople that seem to universally push alternatives.

It's understandable. Whenever a new model is released, Apple's constrained supply means these store's daily profits are dictated by whatever supply Apple decides to give them. They're likely getting much smaller margins than other brands, and therefore limited in their ability to lure customers with discounts.

--

As far as I can tell, Android owners fall into these categories:

1. Educated customers that genuinely want an Android-only advantage (e.g. oversized screen)

2. Uneducated customers who bought whatever the salesperson recommended.

3. People with tight budgets or low expectations that might otherwise have purchased a feature-phone.

4. Counter-trend hipsters who think Apple is too mainstream. Seriously. I know quite a few people who fit this category.

5. Stupid Google fanboys who are convinced Android is amazing open source nirvana, and probably haven't ever owned an iPhone anyway... because they're not an stupid Apple fanboy.
The guy uses his real name on brightjourney (also his entire profile is up) and now this post is on the front page of HN just makes things worse.
I'd love to know the actual numbers and the job involved.

Thinking in terms of developer salaries (just a hypothetical tangent here, there's nothing saying this lady [I assume lady based on the name?] is a developer), 3x is a pretty huge spread between one employee and the rest of them without some sort of jump into a clearly more senior level position, even when the others are all recent grads.

Looking at some specific 3x multipliers:

$100k->$33k

$150k->$50k

$225k->$75k

$300k->$100k

If it were a developer job (and again, there's no specific indication it is) she's either making out like a bandit (consider that she said she works for a 30 person startup, not Google or Facebook) or her peers are really getting shafted relative to market rates.
Also worth looking at: http://www.ledger-cli.org
I think that bandwidth consumed by Circle should be free, since we're also hosted in AWS. Maybe somebody who knows more about the details of Amazon's billing can confirm/deny.
I've been using it for a while, thanks! I had my own cli-based password manager, but yours is simpler and better.

I've made a few tiny hacks to make it work better for me:
- add a default length to the generate command
- allow abbreviating 'generate' as 'gen'
- default to copying to clipboard instead of stdout
- use xsel instead of xclip (no real reason except I already had it installed everywhere)
"I guess stabbing a close partner in the back by releasing a clone of their flagship product is not being evil."

What is the product you're referencing?
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I guess host it in AWS is a benefit for the integration with other services hosted in Amazon like TravisCI (the most popular CI for open-source Ruby projects) and Heroku (the most popular hosting for Ruby projects)
EXCELLENT feedback - I really appreciate it. We piggy-backed LinkedIn to "build on the shoulders of giants" but agree the explanation is necessary. Thanks again!
Often good design is what you leave out just as much as what you put in to a product. The biggest reason I resisted the iPhone at first was its late adoption of 4g. At the time I had a galaxy nexus, one of the earlier phones with 4g, but I ended up getting a 4s as well for my startup. Even without 4g, I noticed slowly moving over to the iPhone, because at the time batteries were not good enough for the 4g radio. Even if the speeds were much faster, if I wasn't diligent with charging (which I'm not) I rarely had the opportunity to use 4g (or the phone at all actually). This was by design on Apple's part, as clearly it wasn't technical inability.

I agree that screen size is crucial, but I have an iPad for reading etc. If I had to choose only one device, then screen size would be a bigger deal.

Regarding profit/revenue, what about articles like these (also from last year):

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/31/android-in-app-downloads/

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/27/apples-ios-brings-...

I find this understanding of the numbers far more prevalent then what your article described.
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Google fonts is incredibly frustrating as soon as you look beyond skin-depth. For one, it's annoying to use Google Fonts for professional work, because more often than not the font you want to use is available in only one weight, or it's missing an italic style, etc. So, you walk in thinking you're going to come out with a terrific type solution for your client or project, and you walk out realizing you are effectively being upsold by a type designer. Not that it's a terrible thing.

Now, let's say you look at the full catalog of commercial fonts. What's happening is a sort of acceleration of fashion. No sooner did the squared serif font come into style than it is on its way out. People are designing new fonts, other people are enjoying the new stuff, and the old stuff gets pushed out (not completely, ever, but enough that your average designer starts to really get annoyed seeing the same old fonts).

So this tool is probably a great thing--it should help boost the industry and it will also put more downforce on the value of the same old junk that has been around forever. So if you are really OK with standard fonts, or plan to use free fonts forever, there should be an increase in the amount of that stuff that is available for you to use.

This should also help commercial fonts take hold. People will start to notice fonts more, and they will start to understand the difference between the amount of work that goes into paid fonts vs. unpaid.

Fonts are not a solved problem by a long shot.
The review process has undoubtedly been refined since 2009, too.
I'll put that on my todo list.
How did this guy know he makes 3x, without knowing peers' salaries?
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Way off the mark.

The number of independent iOS Developers that are out there, who make a great living building a few apps and supporting their users grows everyday. They didn't alienate Apple, they reaped the benefits of a well thought out system that works for everyone.
At this point, you might consider a more manual verification of people. Do things that don't scale, remember? :)

From experience, you can manually verify a lot and have a very few false positives. You might just require a bit more person to person interaction.
What? There's no reason for the employee to correct it.

Via a quirk in the system an employee ends up making more money than they're worth. Manager notices it too late and decides to correct the problem by firing them, aka "conversation about a future elsewhere".

The word picture that ChuckMcM painted wasn't that difficult to grasp.
The caching mirror configuration achieves nearly the same thing. In the past, people have wanted to run their own mirrors that we directed people to, but that's got reliability and security issues.
His stand ups are worth watching in their entirety too.
Thanks for the feedback! We're adding a bit about the LinkedIn verification. For this MVP it is an easy way to check (within reason) someone actually works at a place. Sure, they may lie to linkedin, but for the MVP it was an 80/20 decision.
Would be good to add Task Warrior on top of Todo.txt, though.
My impression of this is that Apple and Android still cannot 100% guarantee that your personal information is safe from apps, or that content is used as licensed.
Apple's mitigation for this is aggressive curation of the Appstore, while Google attempts to automate this (there is a delay of a few hours), which is far more developer friendly.
Hopefully over time Android and iOS will improve further and reduce information leaks in the platform, make granting permissions optional (no take it all or leave it), and perhaps add an ARM version of Intel's software guard extensions (SGX) so we can have mutual distrust between apps and the platform, and have the platforms be far more open by default.
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Ask HN: How to split equity share for non-technical and technical co founder?
Non-technical: Has entrepreneurship experience. Has sales experience. Knows key people for the market (Korea). Has acquired a first customer through there.

Technical (me): Has engineering experience. Has experience in designing, building and shipping software. Does not know the market well (foreign market) but has a good idea of what to build and deliver.

Is 50/50 good or should I be taking less equity since the market validation and possible sales and marketing channels exists and accessible to only the other non-technical founder (I don't speak Korean very well lol).

The market we are targeting is already big in North America and Europe but not in Korea. I don't know anyone in Korea, I have to rely soley on the other non-technical founder.
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Hey Michael,

Sorry for the lack of explanation. We're adding some copy to explain why we require a linked in verification. Basically, it was of the few ways we can check where someone works without sending an email to their work email - hence keeping it 100% anon.

We're working on it!

-Madison
Wow, 19 comments and not one of them questioning how the person knows their salary is 3 times their peers ? Isn't it obvious that anything that can be said about the HR's actions can also be said about the manner in which the person themselves got the information to make the comparison ? Why is this even a legal issue ? overreaction, much ?
Thanks for the feedback. This is our MVP so we're interesting in all things related to transparent HR practices...

-Madison
Roger that. Thanks for the feedback.
So? Show some spine about why you earn that salary.
Both molecules are very similar and have been theorized to act very similarly in the way they affect neurotransmitters. However, as anyone who has experienced both will tell you, they are quantifiably and qualitatively different.
Package Control is a far cry from the scale of RubyGems. PC uses a little over 2TB a month, whereas my calculations show RubyGems using around 50TB.

That said, early on I chose Linode because of their generous bandwidth that is included with the boxes. For the price of less than 1TB of AWS bandwidth, I get 8TB, plus a decent box. The bigger boxes have an even bigger proportion.

I'm not posting this to give any suggestions for RubyGems - I know nothing of the complexity of that setup. Mostly just figured I'd share the research I did for finding reasonably priced bandwidth.
If they make 50k and he makes 150k and they are all paid under market but have stock in the early stage company, this could make sense. Especially if the guy has tons of experience. (And obviously, this could be true at 60k/180k or 70k/210k, just depending.)
Am I missing something, or does it only support the ASCII character set?
Yep, totes.

I deleted my LinkedIn account months ago. This service could be pretty useful/interesting/funny to share around the office, but requiring LinkedIn is a killer (in a bad way) for me.
I've heard that rapid-fire updates to Android apps can hurt rankings. Have you had any problems with this?
At some point, after a series of raises for doing excellent work, your employer may reevaluate the situation and come to the conclusion that, while you're excellent, you might not be worth what you're getting paid. (This can get particularly fun when there's a high-performing employee who isn't very high up the totem pole, making more money than people with fancy titles). You aren't often the one who's going to initiate the next conversation.
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Really, why would that be the case? I mean the difference in Latency.

A self set up Linode CDN with all six location
Tokyo, JP
London, UK
Newark, NJ
Atlanta, GA
Dallas, TX
Fremont, CA

Would have provided 48TB of Pooled bandwidth at a very decent speed and cost around $480. Linode's Network are great, much better then DO. I am not sure if it match CloudFront, which isn't exactly the fastest CDN anyway.
I work in HR and it's unimaginable that the person wouldn't be fired. "Do not disclose anybody's salary" is as close to a Prime Directive as it gets in the HR world.

Edit: Thought it over for a bit and now I'm suspicious of the original story. "HR told somebody my salary over lunch and I happen to make three times as much as everybody else" seems really fishy...
It's not worse than the initial application.

One crazy thing is : They force you to renew at the Embassy in your home country, in person. So, once your application is in, they give you a date to turn up. But they won't give you any time-line about when they'll send your passport back (with the visa). So you can't really book a cheap return flight. i.e. in order to be the person in charge of a new business in the States, they require you to periodically leave the States for an indeterminate time, and sit in your home country (which is potentially just dead time business-wise).

OTOH, I have found that (i) having prepared the paperwork myself, (ii) actually being an entrepreneur, and (iii) having actual real-life experience of running the business to relate : The embassy person is actually interested in hearing about how things are going, and willing to 'relax a little'. I'm guessing that many people turn up with lawyerly papers, which don't really match the lines they are taught to say, and have marginal-to-misleading reasons for wanting the visa. So an actual real deal entrepreneur is a breath of fresh air.

My initial visa was 2yrs, followed by a 2yr renewal, the 2x 5yrs. So it gets easier. But was always really tiresome.
It's accurate, but incomplete (it's a snippet not a complete quote -- note the // snip in there). If you look at the full commit linked in the post, there are code paths in the complete function that would make it return a 1.
I am not one of the anti-corporate tin-foil hat Googlephobes, but I think that having one company with that much vertical integration over everything as important as the Internet is just a bit dangerous.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to cut a wider path fr the power lines through the trees? Why don't they keep trees growth further away?
I'm curious, what is the job market for computational epidemiologists?

The reason I'm asking is my gf is doing her PhD in that area, and I don't think her job prospects are very clear.
And the articles you quote are BULL FUCKING SHIT
We'll add the guarantee your info won't and can't be shared.

No account is Candid required, we simply use the LinkedIn API to check that the current position for that would-be reviewer has a current position at the company they are trying to review.

As you mention someone could scam that of course. We're working on ways to get even better data (i.e. real current employees).

This is our MVP and we wanted to get people scoring companies as frictionless as possible.
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Most effective way is a prediction market, but it's hard to create a legal one.
Thanks for commenting! we're adding an explanation for the linkedin stuff shortly.
I know who may assist you. Feel free to drop a line at my email (address in profile).
I am with Theo on this one. The many eyes argument is a poor one for a large number of reasons. Bugs are one issue regarding security but software design is a much bigger one. It is good design that ensures that software is robust even when bugs surface and that's a far larger issue than the question of bugs.

The problem with ESR's view here is that it occurs in a more general essay on this matter come up with the idea that open source has the advantage because of eyeballs, distributed design and so forth. But you can only distribute design so far, and almost every successful open source project has a small design and engineering team.

This being said there are plenty of cases where I do in fact rely on many eyes. It's not that it makes the bugs shallower but that repetitive review and discussion helps to shake out both design flaws and software bugs. I tend to push a lot of security stuff to the underlying platform for this reason. But part of it is also trusting the design team.

Code auditing is tough work and I generally assume it doesn't get done. What is good however is that a lot of other people are depending on software that is professionally developed in a relatively transparent manner and so chances are somewhat better that people will audit the code at some point.
Looks that we will see the hystory of art repeating itself in games.. imagine a "Van Gogh world" for instance.. with colors and shapes moving/morphing without pattern..

Also reminds me "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" where they were using expresionism in costumes, acting and in the set..

Probably tjats where the future of rendering is.. freedom from reality.. we already have one, isnt? :)
Nice point... this is what we do now for HR (paid) accounts... worth considering for sure...
You are delusional and incredibly vain.
>> iOS users actually buy apps, use them, and spend money in them which is extremely rare amongst android users

> So do Android users. Over a year ago iOS and Android phone apps were dead even in revenues. [1]

That statement was new to me. I'm guessing it is specifically talking about revenue from ads, since the source of the quote works for an ad network. This discounts revenue from sales (which I believe is nearly nonexistent on Android), IAP (which drives major revenue for "free-to-play" games on iOS, but I don't know about Android), and subscriptions (who knows).

I also find the "Android tablets outsold iPads" interesting news. The breakdown of tablet by manufacturer shows Apple clearly winning (36%), Samsung #2 (19%), and everyone else below 6% with a large bucket of "Other" (31%). That's still a strong position for Apple at the high end of the market, and mirrors the smartphone market where Apple & Samsung make all of the profit.

I think Apple has staked out the premium devices, and will continue to be successful there. But, won't most of the growth come from global markets where their products are out of reach for most consumers? Where does that leave them, and can they afford to continue to ignore the rest of the market?
I don't understand it either. JSFiddle is great for sharing examples, but who would choose to prototype there instead of using a browser and text editor?

Not sure why you deleted your comment.
Maybe OP hired/interviewed others teammates. In my experience in small teams, when I've interviewed candidates, I knew the salary range for that position.
He is talking about the way that Google released a full touch-screen based phone to directly compete with the iPhone after becoming familiar with the project due to their board connections.
Yeah, the ability to quickly make my own icons when the icon set I've bought doesn't have exactly what I need is pretty awesome.
Yeah, I get this. I wasn't talking about project based stuff and problem solving, I was referring to the silly things undergrad involves. What good is paying taking boring irrelevant classes that aren't related to what I'm paying to learn about? I still haven't worked that out. I guess it's to obtain an accredited degree. But shouldn't I be paying for knowledge instead of a piece of paper? I've found it's best not to think too deeply about it, lest I drop out in my last year of academia and become a choreographer or whatever it is happens to people who drop out of school.

I don't mind running lots of wire though, that's very zen :P
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Nope :P started community college at 15, transferred to uni a few years later. Bit of an alternative educational history.