skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that I have the access to reply again.

Suggesting that it's ok to accept that automatically thinking a woman at a trade show is not an engineer is simply irrational. We are humans and with that comes the ability to override animal thinking. Dare I say, I expect the person to have that thought to override it, think rationally, and say something other than what most of them do? And is asking for that somehow in and of itself irrational? Look, having heard these bullshit arguments hundreds of times, I am right tired of having them. We've been discussing this issue long enough that the people who keep doing this, need to not be tolerated. We need to stop expecting those without power to always be the ones to take the high road.

Anger is a valid and rational response to continued discrimination. To say otherwise comes dangerously close to tone policing.
I wonder if Nadella was involved in this move.
> Both are valid strategies in my opinion and appeal to different customers

Absolutely. One is for customers who don't want to lose any file or data. The other is for those who don't mind losing old stuff, no matter how important it may be. Now that's bold and innovative.
Sorry, should have clarified that O1 wasn't the best fit because they're the hardest to obtain because they have the most subjective requirements. Other visas, no longer available, would have been easier to obtain.
Thanks HN! Although, there is an element of overcompensation in finance, as well as a lot of overconfident people with more testosterone than knowledge, it still does provide hell of a lot of services. I'm happy to see that the HN crowd doesn't really "just believe" whatever is said in that article. True, I agree the management fees are high. However, the argument about HFT is basically "kitchen level" of someone who doesn't know a thing about it and just read some blogs and watched something on TV. HFT firms get paid for providing liquidity in the market. How exact that happens is actually easy to understand, but not many people bother. All these stories about front running "fair investors" are almost a complete fake (there was some issue about flash trading but that has gone away now).
> My thought is that it's not because they mean to be rude. It's because they pattern match. I've noticed when folks see the same pattern over and over it's difficult to see outside it.

Most rude people don't mean to be rude. They're just thoughtless. That doesn't make their behavior less rude.

For example, the zillion people who, upon learning I'm a computer guy, bust out their computer questions and put me on the spot to diagnose and possibly fix their issues. Are they just pattern matching? Sure. But are they also being thoughtless and self-centered? Definitely.

The problem isn't the pattern matching. Anything with neurons does that. It's the lack of consideration about how other people will feel.
Synthetic are ripped from this file:
http://d2c3nvafyekx5z.cloudfront.net/soundfonts/piano.oga

It's surprising how seamless it works. This would be the sort of thing 18-24 months ago that we'd argue Flash would hold over traditional web. Not anymore.

EDIT: With a bit of JS and audio hacking you could actually replace the synthetic sounds with something from here: http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/ I'm sure they plan to add additional "soundfonts" as they call them later on. Can only assume that piano works best.
Why Mexico City does not have BattleHack? I was lucky to organize AngelHack last year and our winners also won the finals in San Francisco. Overall, we have plenty of talented hackers down the Bravo river, so I think it would be a great choice.
I don't see any claims of "government subsidization" or "special privileges". I think this kind of visa would allow people to move to the US to start a company, on equal footing with "equally hard-working, economy-growing, business-founding citizens".
Romanian Bitcoin Billionaire Mircea Popescu Tells SEC To Lick His Boots
Recently, the SEC knocked on the sovereign door of Mircea Popescu‘s MPEx exchange, which he was polite enough to answer. But boy were they in for a wake-up call (and not the nice hotel kind that you order the night before).

When asked to provide shareholder documents, MP told the SEC:

"As a key step, the commissioners of the SEC are to at their earliest conveniene adopt a resolution, to be jointly drafted at teh expert level, which is to include a) a plain statement of the SEC’s lack of jurisdiction with regards to Bitcoin, thus aligning itself with the US FED and US GAO ; b) a statement recognising MPEX’ regulatory authority over Bitcoin finance as a SRO ; c) an appointment of any one of the commissioners as authorised Bitcoin liason, which would include the creation of a dedicated PGP key and Web of Trust membership, which would be recognised as such by MPEx, and on the basis of which all further communication is to be conducted."

Note the inimitable authority, the years of preparation, the replacement of zeds with esses, the complete dismantling of a formerly-feared USG agency.

Once upon a time, Daniel walked into the lion’s den...

http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/mircea-popescu-the-sec-wont-let-me-be/
> Would people feel better about this if YC donated their 7% stake in those 50 companies to a charity?

It would still be beneficial to YC directly and uniquely, and a special privilege, so no.

On top of which, there are serious ethical concerns around a early-stage investors essentially controlling a founder's visa allocation and ongoing status.
Recently priced out Xamarin for my organization, that is super expensive. Do most people buy just 2 platforms (Android and iOS) per developer?

How does Xamarin do with differences like the Android Action Bar vs. Apple's bar at the bottom?
that kind of response is exactly what i'm referring to above. I'm a non technical founder and I work literally side by side the same hours as my technical co founder. Maybe at different times, because he's a night owl and a lot of business and marketing stuff can't be done at 3am hopped up on red bull. But the same time. And there was a line of former coworker engineers for the co founder position, so he's not an outlier.
Agreed. The next tile is 243 so it seems to think that each tile should be 3 times bigger than the previous. For 2048, each time you combine tiles, the new tile is both twice as large as the previous tile and the sum of the individual tiles. I think this version is trying to use multiples of threes instead but then it can only honor one of those patterns. Now, if the game had you mash three tiles together...
or to shut it down quietly.
See Microsoft and Skype for proof that lots of resources fixes these "problems" quickly.
What makes you think there is a conspiracy? It's about oportunity.

I wasn't bitching about those people, just explaining how things work on this planet.

You know, like a manual.
This is a sly redefinition of racism that largely fails to withstand scrutiny: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power
First to invent vs. first to file is largely a red herring. It sounds unfair until you figure out how the system actually works, rather than how the three-word phrase suggests it might work.

First to file comes with a restriction that anything described in a publicly-available "publication" is not eligible for patent protection by anyone other than the author (who has the standard one year grace period, etc., to file).

At the same time it eliminates a cause of controversy that only affects a small number of cases, but which can be exceedingly expensive to resolve. It replaces it with a very simple test: was there a "publication" describing your invention that was dated before your priority date? Go home.

Reducing litigation costs is a good thing. This is also the way most of the rest of the world works. Life may be a little harder for the guy who invents something and doesn't tell anyone about it, but in theory the goal of the patent system is to encourage the publication of ideas.
'Perhaps "booth babes" are part of a successful sales strategy and I'm an outlier.'

Not according to Spencer Chen.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/booth-babes-dont-convert/
I'd say that's what OAuth2, with its scoped access tokens, was made for.
Who said "not in the business of social?" Google, or someone up your Uni chain of command relaying the message to you?

If the former, that would have G+ and YouTube connotations. I don't think someone at Google said that to you or to anyone.
Ah, thanks. Hmm... this requires a lot more thought than the original.
in terms of setting federal policy, are SV software startups really net job creators for the economy? when we think of them from the perspective of "software eating the world" arguably they make a lot of jobs obsolete, perhaps an order of magnitude greater in terms of number of jobs destroyed vs created. that's not to say the jobs destroyed were great jobs, or that jobs should be saved at any cost, but as a social problem, i'm interested in how much structural unemployment we now see is a result of technical innovation, versus secular shifts in demand (less housing demand, etc.)
Save for the fact that as an industry, the VCs are not even trying to be fair. Much as it sucks, asking the government for permission seems better than what that group would achieve.
Oh, it's even worse than you think. The visa category (J-1) I investigated using for a similar proposal I pitched to 500 two years back is controlled by a small industry of academia-affiliated shops to place foreign students. DHS/USCIS farms out its selection process to these firms who have to sponsor applicants.

Under the letter of the law, I proposed using J-1 visas (Specialist or Trainee as appropriate, http://j1visa.state.gov/programs) via 500 for at least for founders from countries exempt from the two-year mandatory return period. But the American Immigration Lawyers Association/American Immigration Council had a staffer who explained the way things really work to me in shooting down the proposal.
It's always great to see a new app launch and I always want to be supportive!

But: I'm the founder of GetCloak.com, the company that makes Cloak. We've been around for several years and obviously are going to have to defend our name. No fun.

I've sent you an email about this. Thanks.
Find a field that has been woman-dominated for the last 50 years. Now put a man in that field, who is rather successful (like yourself in technology), and you will get the exact same result in the contexts you describe. I'm sick of this paradox where men and women are equal and yet men (and only men) are capable of making this mistake. It's simple pattern matching, and when the pattern tells you one thing and it's actually the other you're now a giant sexist pig. Now if a guy ignores you for more than a few seconds at one of these events then I agree, the guy needs to wake up, it's 2014.

Also complaining about getting hit on? Really? A person finds you attractive and wants to talk to you. What a monster.

"But I hate that my physical appearance and gender connotes so many (invalid and ridiculous) assumptions."

What is ridiculous about an assumption that is 95% correct in today's world? Perhaps it will be a ridiculous assumption in 5 years, and definitely 10, but it's not far-fetched to run into guys at these events who don't interact with women ever in their day-to-day work lives.
The initial premise of the article appears flawed. Based on my reading of the community response to Horvath's post and Github's response, most people were in the camp that the founder's wife's actions were outright ridiculous, the coworker's actions (reverting her commits) were asinine, but that the article did not appear to portray sexism, because her only provided example of sexism was ~"some women were hulahooping, I saw some guys gawking at them, the guys thought it was ok". If she had a case for more pervasive sexism at GitHub, I'd like her to lay it out in the open so we can address it.

There's a minority of the community who are assholes and will always be assholes. Without becoming a censorship society we can't outright extinguish their ability to make noise. But the vast majority of responses I saw were sympathetic to Horvath's position, if not her sexism angle.
Exactly: just like Horvath said – a sexist environment, and a sexist comment. Read here[1] on the definition of sexism. Notice especially how sexism explains itself away in naturalistic and/or neutral terms, like "free-for-all" and "competitive", while not so subtly shifting the blame to those who can't cope with such an "informal" environment. Usually, "informal" actually means that those who have power feel comfortable, while those who don't feel bullied.

[1]: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/sexism-de...
> since racial slurs are highly offensive, they are very useful in that.

I agree! And the context of this is important, as you note -- as verbal constructions, racial slurs are more effectively offensive than pretty much any other available words, and one can often easily use them after just having looking at someone. And, after having these verbal weapons leveled at him, and being in a subsequent fistfight, he was essentially told that "boys will be boys".

This should tell you something about how the power structures in play deal with minorities.
And yes, there is also political opposition from the left centered around the extra control investors would have if they also determine the immigration status of a founder. I don't understand that opposition, but I've run into it a few times.
I think ajanuary's point, and I felt the same thing, is that the name "Optimizely" does not say anything to me about A/B testing; hence, it doesn't do what it sounds like. In fact, I thought it was something about code/performance optimisation based on the name.
I don't think they're commonly stated beliefs. I think that people commonly behave as if they believe those things, though.

My first technical job was working for my university. I learned early on that the admin people were the backbone of the place. They were smart, competent, and hardworking, and a lot of people treated them like furniture. They were used to it, but I found it rage-inducing.

I've definitely seen a lot of stuff like that here. A number of times I've had words with fellow engineers who apparently thought they were too good to get their hands dirty. I've had engineering managers explicitly tell me that engineers were too expensive or important a resource to do anything but code. It doesn't take a lot of that for an implicit caste system to develop.
3x redundancy is very cost ineffective. See this 2010 Google presentation (slide 13) on the 'Colossus' File System, which uses Reed-Solomon encodings.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

There's really a need for a good open-source equivalent to Colossus, which would allow startups like the hypothetical one you describe to do storage must more cheaply and reliably. HDFS (with HDSF-RAID) is probably the closest.. but it's still a long way off.

I'd be interested in what other assumptions you're using to come up with the $5/T profit margin. Are you considering the cost of ingress and egress bandwidth, cooling, personnel to enact repairs? With a large enough fleet you'll have many drives/machines die every day. What about a team of engineers in an on-call rotation to keep to respond when (inevitable) failures occur? Just pointing out that drives + power is only part of the total cost of running such a service.
Is there such a thing as too much job creation?
You seem to be implying that we should focus on reducing demand. That could be true, but "X implies Y" does not necessarily imply that the best way of eliminating Y is to eliminate X. For instance, "We don't have a murder problem, we have a "people exist" problem."
It's right there in the article. He's requesting that the government grant to YC:

1) An allotment of visas.

2) Control over the allocation of those visas

... possibly to be extended to other venture capital firms (nobody else, of course, and certainly nobody self-funding a company with capital equivalent to that which YC provides). He's happy for YC to be the only beta tester for now, though.
We are humans and with that comes the ability to override animal thinking. Dare I say, I expect the person to have that thought to override it, think rationally, and say something other than what most of them do?

We've been discussing this issue long enough that the people who keep doing this, need to not be tolerated. We need to stop expecting those without power to always be the ones to take the high road.
Not quite. Better enforcement leads to reduced supply. Reduced supply shifts you to a higher price on the demand curve.

Typically for a black market that will wind up being a higher profit margin, and the margin is required to tempt people to run the risks of enforcement. The better the enforcement, the higher the risk, and the better the profit margin that is needed to get people to do it.

The consolidation that you are referring to happens because there are substantial economies of scale to be had for importing and distributing illegal commodities. Particularly once you add into the picture the fact that criminal organizations do their own anti-competitive enforcement...
Next stop, Microsoft to acquire Unity3d?
Your post history shows that you are either a good troll or a deluded radical that is the living embodiment of every Tumblr feminist trope.

What motivates this toxic revanchist mindset that every single white man has homogenous and equally distributed power, simply due to being part of a group due to their skin color?

This type of identity politics is no different than Luce Irigaray claiming E = mc^2 is a "sexed equation" and that it privileges the speed of light. It is postmodern, Western-centric and extremist lunacy.

Ultimately though, most distressing is your sociopathy.
I'm guessing you didn't spend more than 30 seconds skimming the article.
I read the "stealthy" in the title as "hidden from bosses and coworkers", thinking its interface was similar to Office and all windows would hide with Ctrl+Shift+F8.
You don't understand the ethical concerns related to having a huge negotiating advantage granted and enforced by the US government?

You think that's a leftist issue?
> If she had a case for more pervasive sexism at GitHub, I'd like her to lay it out in the open so we can address it.

She did. Yet it seems like every effort is made not to address it, including flagging of two articles on HN today, both incidentally or not by women, so that they wouldn't make it to the front page (one did, briefly)[1], [2].

> But the vast majority of responses I saw were sympathetic to Horvath's position, if not her sexism angle.

That's right. Many of the comments of HN were disappointingly sexist. Just to give you an example of how cleverly sexism can be masked (even, and especially, if it's unintentional masking of unintentional sexism), the very same people who were quick to assign blame in the NSA/Snowden story, or the Aaron Swartz story, all of a sudden called for restraint until further "data" is obtained in this case so they could form an "informed" opinion, while views supporting and expounding on the sexism claims were dismissed as "emotional". Actually this masking of sexism is so banal, that it is, in fact, anything but clever.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7416189

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418029
Mt. Gox now lets you check your balance
> Banks bear risk.

TBTF banks don't bear any risk. In 2008-9, they socialized their risk, forcing US taxpayers to bail them out, after making too many bad bets.
Strong underline for the old-style print newspapers.

But look to Brian X. Chen at NYT, Evelyn Rusli at WSJ who cover tech, even if it's just online.

Keep in mind that the reviewing bureaucrats at USCIS have NEVER heard of TechCrunch, just like most of us have probably never heard of Politico (or read it often if you have).

Don't shoot yourself in the face by mocking the process in the process:
To get the visa, Mr. Vine and his co-founders at Zirtual, a business that connects people with personal assistants through the Internet, invented the position of corporate wellness director, suited to Mr. Vine's bachelor's degree in kinesiology.

"My application for the H-1B is different from my actual role at the company," Mr. Vine said. "We've actually had to spin a tall tale because of the difficulty of applying."

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020470710... (might be behind paywall but search "Startup Visas Get New Push" and the closing quote from Collin Vine of Zirtual)
The ambulance dilemma: Making the decision to call for one in the US
Great response, unfortunately HN is probably full of people who benefit from these financial parasites in one way or another so you are probably going to get a lot of crap for your post.
Or perhaps it was simply them trying to brush off an inconvenient situation? That's something many institutions do, it's not just done exclusively when it concerns racial issues. Hell, the fact that it was a racial issue gives them more incentive to keep silence.

As for his friends, they might have simply decided it wasn't worth expending energy on a lowlife punk.
Girl learning how to kiss
The problem is a bad cop can cause much more damage...

Bad programmers don't have weapons and authority to kidnap people legally.
> I wonder if Dropbox have plans to start utilizing their own data center to get costs down...

Mid last year a recruiter from Dropbox told me they were looking into this, and wanted to make it happen in 2014.
I can no longer solve ReCAPTHCA captchas
For a time there were lots of number based captchas on ReCAPTCHA using sites - presumably for Google Maps - but now they all appear to be a random mixture of letters. I can not solve them.

They're things like "rnmnnihmr" which is barely legible in plain text but when obfuscated - grunged, blurred and waved - I find it's taking about 8 tries before I guess the answer correctly.

Reportedly there are bots getting 90% correct.

Mainly this is just a statement of frustration but in part it's a question of "doesn't this mean we've largely solved OCR now?".

[I think the last time ReCAPTCHA was discussed was this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6615326.]
well, there are other OSS figures there too. Nat Friedman...
Depends on how good he was at opsec and how seriously he was trying to be secret. If he had started it as a lark and only gotten worried about secrecy after thinking further, it wouldn't have been crazy to have used an obscured identity, one that would only be available to people searching obscure public records.
You may want to consider re-reading this article as you seem to be misinterpreting it. The author:

a) is a wealth manager
b) is not advocating a populist eat-the-rich" revolution
c) doesn't use the keywords "1%", "rich", or "banker" as you imply (I fail to see why you want to bring Judaism into this?)
d) does not imply "if you're rich you're a parasite and should be stripped of your property's wealth"

Here, for your convenience, is the author's thesis:

"A bloated and out-of-control financial sector does not add any value to society. Society benefits when the financial sector is kept as small as possible."

The author is ranting on the size of financial institutions, not the rich. Hope this clarifies things for you.
In this particular case the Federal Circuit failed to reach a coherent conclusion. 10 judges were on the panel and they produced 7 opinions, of which only a single paragraph was approved by a majority of the court. It's an intra-circuit split rather than the inter-circuit splits you see in other areas of law.
Shouldn't you vote for the party that's best for the less-well off, and not the one that most redistributive? (OK, if you are eg in the US, there's not that much choice in the first place.)