skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could easily have been there. Stop being condescending.

A lot of "normal" interactions between men and women are fraught with creepy weirdness due to the way we're socialized. This is well studied, even if you find the conclusions of those researchers unpalatable.
Ask HN: How to find a user acquisition person
I am an engineer who has built a full working beta of a new startup in the e-commerce domain. The service still hasn't launched and has almost zero traffic.

In the past I've made few projects that have failed with traction.
This time I'm hoping to improve: I received very positive feedbacks and from the few beta testers that used the service there's even tiny revenue which is very encouraging. However the fact that this is still almost with zero traffic make it hard to attract people to join me, and also means that probably most of the work will be grunt work, with no compensation.

I'm hoping to find a person who would become a co-founder and invested as myself in the project and would help grow the traction and be invested in the idea as myself.

The question:
For engineers, it seems easier to find people who are interested in the same domain as you are thanks to services like GitHub or StackOverflow, however I am not sure where I could find someone who would be interested in the same domain and would like to partner.

Are there any quality social networks (Angel List?!) where I could look for people?

Am I doing a mistake for looking for a user acquisition person as this stage? Should I do the work myself and get help with a paid intern?
well this is the same hoby project that i am working on. The thing is this is not remote control for "browser". This is remote control for the api integrated web page. Mine project called "peegle" works with a chrome extension. So I can call it remote controller for browser. Just check it maybe we can do something together.
Why do you require registering to upload? You want it to be as quick to get started with as other services and on top of that you get to collect the ad revenue until they decide it's worthwhile doing so.
Show: Google Maps in Underwater: The Underwater Museum of Isla Mujeres
There was quite a lot of what I would consider to be victim blaming in the previous thread where it was less clear what the allegations were. Or at least, my impression of the thread was that there were a very high proportion of commenters saying we should reserve judgement and at the same time hypothesizing about all the ways that the woman might be at fault.

While this is all true (on the information we had in that thread, it was possible that the woman was the one at fault, and it's good to reserve judgement until more information arrives), it was really weird how many people felt the need to point these things out.

I do agree that this thread seems more balanced, although even in this thread people are surprisingly quick to point out that these problems are not 'sexism' (despite the fact that the situations described would have been an order of magnitude less likely to arise if she were a man).
Is that source code from a toaster?
I think the 100% unlimited coverage health insurance plans have slowly disappeared. The OP says he has 80% coverage, which costs him personally $10K per month so far this year.
> "And it seems like every single one of these problems could have been solved by a halfway competent manager."

One of the hazards of un-management
I'm constantly amazed that people will rent out their own homes to total strangers, and then blame Airbnb when things like this happen.
Opensimulator + Firestormviewer + Namecoin = Internet 2.0?
Sparkfun (http://www.sparkfun.com) has some good tutorials. "Beginning Embedded Electronics" is a good place to start.

I personally got started with microcontrollers and digital electronics by reading "The Microcontroller Idea Book" by Jan Axelson. It's a bit dated, but very well-written, and for me it was the first time that hardware really "clicked". I still refer to it from time to time for ideas for interfacing I/O devices.
I agree. I wish python had the capability to infix functions. Maybe the topic for a new PEP ?
Not just travelers. What content do you serve to people with an IP from Belgium? Switzerland? Canada?
Sigh... No it's not, it is just comparing apples to oranges. If you cite the 20% number I know you have no interest in understanding the issue, because that number is a comparison across all jobs, and it ignores education, part time, everything. You don't have women and men working in the same company with 20% difference in wages (at least not significantly many - of course such things happen, but also with men vs men).

The 20% number definitely is not from the tech industry either.

So you have women picking different jobs. You have different incentives and preferences (motherhood is the big one here), different preferred industry (like media vs mining or whatever).

You also have women getting half of the income of their husbands, having the option to drop out of unpleasant jobs, not being under the same pressure to feed their family, and so on.

There are many many aspects to this. So far I haven't seen anything that convinces me women are being treated unfairly.

There are issues, but only if you consider staying at home with kids degrading. For example I suppose the incentive to get a good education is less if you know you will miss out several years where you could earn back the money invested. I don't think "unfair" is the right way to characterize that issue, though.
Non-flat PCBs would be a massive hassle to solder components to; normal pick-and-place+reflow is out of the question as the components would fall off, so you'd have to resort to gluing them on or soldering one leg manually.

Flexible (polyamide) PCBs are already available, with FR4 stiffeners where components are to be soldered. You could assemble one flat, bend to desired shape and attach to a form.
ROI – The return of interest
Why Clever And Lazy People Make The Best Leaders
Boron treated paper. One popular EU make is Isofloc.

When building new, you may also want to consider straw bale construction. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Straw_Bale_Construction is slowly improving.
You are not alone. I blame PC, overprotective upbringing and "I am offended by that" trend. As soon as some subject becomes taboo to discuss people lose the understanding why something is bad and start to treat everything related as bad and unacceptable. Reminds me of this: http://i.snag.gy/kdu77.jpg (doesn't matter if experiment was real or not). This is very prominent with sexism and racism—these words are losing the meaning really fast. Now merely acknowledging someones race is called racism. Same goes for gender. And god forbid you find someone attractive. I really don't get what kind of society these people want. The one where everybody walks covered in burqas?
You are not allowed to look at attractive person—you will offend them. I wonder how soon a simple glance will accepted as a kind of sexual assault.
You are not allowed to approach the person you like—it will be "unwanted advances". It's "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If woman will say that it makes her feel good when she senses attention she will be explained, that's just because patriarchal society made her to feel this way. More often than not those explaining will be males, ironically. What a terrible society to live, luckily it will die out soon for the lack of reproduction.

As for this story: it has nothing to do with sexism. Nothing at all. Actually the real sexists are the ones who think all this happened because of the sexism.
Guys (and girls): these issues are much much more complex and deserve to be treated with much more respect instead of rubber stamping like it is common now. Women and non-white people can be assholes too and I would like to retain the right call them as such without being accused of sexism or racism.
Though this right might be long gone.
Quite often it is a fun mental experiment to reverse the genders or races and think how vastly different reactions would be (if there would be any). Imagine that black person says: "I am proud to be black!". Now imagine that the white person says "I am proud to be white". Now throw away you knee-jercky reaction and think about it.
Naw I'd call it accurate.
I like the one that is juggling with the toast.
I wondered how long it would take for one of these "no management" cults to unravel.

Put people in charge (call them managers or not, whatever), and you may get the wrong people in charge.

Put no one in charge, and the douchebags, manipulators and sociopaths will end up domination the culture.

I prefer box #1, thankyouverymuch. At least those can be easily identified and removed before the whole thing has rotten to the core. And if I was part of a minority in such a company, like women generally are in tech startups, I would avoid #2 like the plague.

Also, this is just begging for a culture were the founders will remain the only authority. And founders are generally not known for being very good at the actual day to day running of a company.

The sexism is a red herring here btw. Could have been any form of bullying and manipulation.
and the point being that the service allows copyright infringement? Not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely trying to understand.
To get a sense of scale, the largest DDoS ever recorded by Cloudflare is 400Gb/s[1]. Lookback video was 450Gb/s.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/biggest-ddos-ever-ai...
Not dipping the pen in company ink is a well-known and well-adopted adage.
You see it as a play for attention, I see it as an expression of disappointment in a community they otherwise like in the hope that that community will perform a little more introspection.

It seems somewhat dramatic to me too, but I also have found the comments on the stories around this issue somewhat disappointing. That was their way of communicating it, this comment is mine.
It may well be that the greatest damage to GitHub here is not on the issue of sexism so much as their advocacy of lean management and organizational "freedom".

Although it may have sounded like the "cool teacher" way to address things by having your wife take an employee out for drinks to discuss grievances, clearly this should have been handled in a professional setting according to a clear grievance process. That could have led directly to policy changes (e.g. keep pull request comments professional, have management review reverts) and nipped the problem in the bud instead of getting Really Fucking Weird. That goes for any grievances against her as well, instead of being vented on Secret.

Even GitHub's VC backer (A16Z) has blogged about the need to have clear process when it comes to HR stuff.
I think a brain implant requires a BCI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interfac...

Yes, wireless would be possible but the connection to the brain and speaking the same language are the biggest hurdles.

There is a ton of cool stuff that will become available in the medical industry in the next few years. There's no reason why we can't have a miniature "factory" inside of our bodies to regulate levels of everything and even create cures for diseases or viruses that might infect us.

Monitoring the body will also become more popular. A few small sensors throughout the body to monitor vitals and any information available about the human body via your phone.

It's coming soon, just be patient and don't vote for people who will suppress technological research and progress.
So all people who don't confirm to your social norms are fucking assholes? Btw, did you ever travel to countries like Germany or Czech Republic? People there do stare. A lot. Nations of assholes, I guess.

I wonder what do you think about people who don't speak English or who don't eat their food with a forks but with other ustensils.
"It's creepy only if you are unattractive."
"You put those words in my mouth, buddy"

To be fair, just a few comments up you said

"I think you'll like this:" and then posted a link to a comic making fun of 'socially awkward', 'atheist', 'fedora wearers'.
I don't doubt about the story, but has anyone find out what's the URL of the Airbnb place?
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> What an amazing argument, because there are only two media outlets in the world -- Fox News and Huffington Post. No, I prefer Völkischer Beobachter obviously.

To call a news source "leftist idiots" to contradict what they say was an amazing argument. Very convincing.

> Russian propagandists even had to leak taped Paet conversations

It would be very wrong to hide them. Who hired the snipers to shoot policemen and protesters is a hugely important question.

> Good sources matter (like independent journalists reporting facts), authoritative opinions matter (like opinion about local antisemitism by local Jewish community). Opinions of some leftie guy from the different part of the Earth, who decided to mine some quotes for one side and call that "analysis" -- no, sorry, thing like these don't matter.

You have a very complex system of criteria which news source to trust, which somehow allows you to ignore the obvious. Still, you have to convince me the paramilitary groups in Maidan are peaceful, do not wear Nazi symbols, and do not chant Nazi slogans, and their leaders are not now in the government.

> Nice conspiracy theory.

Yeah, very feasible.

> all the pro-Russian lies ... Haaretz lied.

So Haaretz (Israel's oldest daily newspaper) is a pro-Russian news source? Do you realize you insult any news source that is not pro-Maidan and then call it pro-Russian? I find it ridiculous.

Whatever Azman said and why he said that, it is not possible to take this seriously (text from your link):

There is no anti-Semitism in Ukraine’, was Azman’s comment to the Russian propagandists’ claims

if you saw this [1] or this [2] or this [3] or this[4] or this [5] or this[6].

I actually feel sorry for him - something or someone forced him to say this obvious nonsense.

[1] http://image.zn.ua/media/images/original/Apr2013/58868.jpg

[2] http://bstore.9tv.co.il/images/2014/01/16/b1a881c4546b30b293...

[3] http://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/8777171...

[4] http://gwplondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/oleg-tyanhybok....

[5] http://nsnbc.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nazi_punk_ukraine...

[6] http://revansh.org/wp-content/uploads/Ultras_narodnoeveche_m...
Those sites are not relying on accept-language, but rather on IP geolocation to select the default language. I sometimes use a non-US proxy when I'm feeling vigilant, and Google always uses the IP of the proxy to determine what language to serve me (even though my browser accept-language hasn't changed).
I'll pretend that's an earnest question and give an earnest answer. Hotels paid for the hotel regulation.
> 2. Founder's wife physically inanimate Horvath, making her unwelcome and scared.

If someone inanimated me, I would quite right then and there. Thats some freaky x-men shit.
This. I travel a lot, I've had this happen too often. Sometimes they even lock payment methods based on where you are, it's horrible.
Why are those mutually exclusive? I get that women don't like being ogled upon, but if you are hula-hooping in the workplace, that's bound to attract some attention and not because you are such a smart person (althou you can certainly have fun and be smart). I wasn't there so I can't tell what the tenor was but I suspect that Horvath's state of mind due to the extreme pressure might have exaggerated that incident. I've seen comments throughout the thread saying she should have gotten help on the dick coworker reverting her code. In that environment it's very easy to become unsure of herself. She wasn't getting help with the founder-wife issue, why would HR respond to this? I've been wondering about Atlassian for a while. Maybe I should take a second look.
How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?
are you implying that if it had been an attractive male watching the females, there wouldn't have been any complaint, despite being leered at?
A lot of the value I get working on side projects is using them to grow as a developer. Its my chance to try out new tools or languages, and most importantly it allows me to connect with people with different specialties and learn from their expertise. So with that in mind the idea of a side-project marketplace a bit off putting- it seems to contradict my ideals of a side project. If there is something to be learned from the projects internals, we could all benefit with OSS. And if there's monetary value for the project that's great too. Its always nice to have server costs covered. To sell it seems to cross the line into 'business territory', especially if that was the intent for the project from the start. With a monetary reward in mind, people might feel more pressured to 'make something work' rather than take the time to steep themselves in the project.

If you're selling of a project that people love and use, perhaps it's worth the effort to try and reach out to the community first, asking if anyone with technical knowledge there wants to take over. They'd appreciate the chance to make sure the service they've come to depend on doesn't just get pulled out from under them.
"Try to act your age, not your shoe size" sometimes works when trying to restore order with a group of 25 rowdy teenagers (I'm a teacher).

Recently, however, the smart ones have been shouting back "British or European?"

Thanks for tall children...
My initial thought is to draw the line at rules which are enforced by a group that uses violence to prevent other groups from offering alternative rules and/or is funded by taxation.
Although this is disturbing regardless, someone who puts a rented apartment (i.e., someone else's property) on AirBnB and then complains about abuse by others strikes me as extremely hypocritical.
There's nothing irrational about that. Rationality is about maximizing your utility function. If you care about sending rockets to Mars, then it can indeed be rational to take a paycut.
Google fonts much better here (windows, firefox). Clearer, sharper, not so "bold" and much aliasing.
Yes the ligatures are better with brick.
Really annoyingly, Facebook's selection of photos was way off for me. I've been married over 3 years, with my wife for over 4.5 years, yet it still chose to include photos of ex girlfriends. Facebook has all the data it needs to discern that was a bad idea. Quite an oversight in my opinion as I know several people who it affected too so they didn't publish the video.
Creating a Morse encoder with Arduino
So I take it you abstain from attending any presentations, talks, or conferences? Or do you just turn your chair around and face the back?
Right. It sounds like Horvath completely misinterpreted it, then. That said, the rest of her points look solid enough that it doesn't detract from the overall issue of mismanagement.
The point of "retina" displays is not to fit more content onto the screen, but to remove the pixelation of the screen in order to make it more like paper: the "retina" devices from Apple render content at exactly the same "font size" as the "non-retina" devices, the fonts are simply crisper.
This might be old-fashioned, but I think that the very act of commenting in a thread carries an implication that you intend your comment to be relevant to that thread.
"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” --Isaac Asimov
Show HN: 2048 with shareable replays
Screencast of Engelbart's NLS/Augment system (2006: not the Demo)
It absolutely amazes me how all houses in US seem to be build with 100% wood, especially in areas with termites, dryness or possibilities of hurricanes!

It is not that much more expensive to build a solid concrete block home, insulate and airtight it well

I realise wood is more plentiful in US than here in Europe, but imho i wouldnt feel safe living in a wooden home.
My accept-language header only has en_GB and en in it. Google still randomly serves me pages in Swedish and German (which are both languages I speak, but which I both explicitly disabled in my Google account settings).

The best case of this was when they launched the preview for the new Google Maps version - there was a landing page with some information and a button in the middle. This page was served to me in three languages at the same time (the header, the button and the info text) - presumably served by different internal components that all handle languages differently.
that's why you have a probation period, normally 3 months, but longer if necessary.
Is not for the terminal, but it is a multiplatform multitail with highlighter that you might find handy if are running a graphical UI:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/beobachter
Disclaimer: I'm the developer behind the project.
Secret Of Estate Sales Marketing Success
> Sure, but hotels are regulated and licensed and zoned so they keep those bad situations away from residential areas.

Is it any better that hotel guests might have to stay near this sort of behavior?
Robot controlled by a Samsung Galaxy phone solves Rubik's Cube in record time
oh, I'm really sorry for stuffed animals. They probably thought stuffing was the last time they were abused.
Updates won't do any harm. Going off the dev mode however will wipe your partition, so Chromebrew will go away as well.
Google used have those, but recently stopped asking them. The infographic is old.
I'm seriously addicted to this game, and wanted to be able to share replays with some similarly affected friends, so I bodged together a replay system that records moves and tiles as you play and mungs all the numbers together to make a string you can copy and paste.

I'd love to hear suggestions for how to further compress the data, or make the codes look nicer. I also can't figure out why the game no longer works on iOS since I don't know how to debug javascript in mobile Safari.

Anyway, here's an example of a winning replay in 951 moves:

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Google Wants E-Mail Scanning Information Blocked
I posted that after this convo occurred but I guess they were right, I hate fedoras!
How about buying a replacement Thinkpad keyboard and getting the switches from it?

I've used a Thinkpad as well as other laptop's keyboards over the years, and the Thinkpad ones usually do feel a bit more solid and accurate. They're still a bit too stiff for me, however, as my regular desktop's keyboard is an extremely soft rubber dome one (~40g actuation force). I've tried clicky keyboards, but never really liked them. It's definitely a personal preference.