skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! This is really cool.

In statistics and machine learning this would be considered an unbalanced data set: predicitng who will start a company when the vast majority of people will not is a very difficult task. It's similar to predicting who will be a terrorist (another really difficult problem).

I think the threshold they are using is way off however. Even if someone has only a 5% chance of becoming a founder (or less), that's pretty significant. I understand that would probably increase the population by many orders of magnitude, but only capturing 17% of 350 means ~60 startups will be found as a result of this program. Given that the large majority of those are likely to fail, the numbers could be better.

Some really interesting predictors might be what meetup groups does the individual belong to, what is their current job title, what is skills and connections do they have on linkedin and facebook, how many founders are they "connected" to, and who are they following on twitter.

It's also worth mentioning that this is probably biased, because the data set of individuals includes data points for founders only after they became founders. You would ideally want the data from before they became a founder. Perhaps over time this model would get better, as non-founder individuals become founders.
That tells me he's doing the right thing for his company and his shareholders.

It's not like Google and friends are the only tech companies in the world. They simply cannot really screw over engineers. All they can do is bargain. Everyone bargains in trade and tries to get the best price.
Actually ceramic materials make the best protection against missiles like bullets or meteorites. So an advanced race of star travelers would not use metal-skinned ships, they would coat their vessels with a thick layer of porous rock. All we can see is that outer protective skin. Inside the star travelers live generation after generation patiently waiting until they find a habitable planet to take over.
Whining in one place does not constitute "going around" whining.
> But both Apple and Google get a pass

Seems like the opposite. Apple and Google are being called out for their behavior on a regular basis in the tech press, while the other companies named in the suit (Adobe, Intuit, etc.) are barely mentioned.
I understand that all SREs wouldn't have access - but if one SRE was able to gain access to look at some personal emails, surely it would be fully possible for other employees to manage it as well? I think the stance that a lot of Google employees are taking - that gmail data is secure - seems to have a lot of holes in it. The data can't possibly be that secure if this guy got fired over looking at it.
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With an even shittier interface.
To me the smiley implies: You bitches danced for me, I like that very much.
Bribery is still a major problem in Russia. It takes a long time for a population to adjust to things they are used to being part of every day life.
Add up the cost to salaried employees. It's a multi-billion dollar crime.
What you said is just made-up nonsense. You can claim that when somebody says X they really mean Y, but without evidence for that, it is a bogus claim.

Sipmle logic states that Steve Jobs actually cared about maintaining the scheme he had with Google and couldn't care less about one particular Google employee.

Why would he? If he really were some kind of perverted power-luster he had plenty of his own employees to torture, but he just wasn't like that. He was always pursuing HIS GOALS ruthlessly, he wasn't out to get his rocks off by hurting people or exercising power.

(None of this is from direct experience, but it's evident from public information.)
There are two cases where the "obey me without question or else" atmosphere is particularly useful:

1. In the military, where debates and disagreements could create fatal communication problems and delays

2. When the people in power need to suppress a truth that would otherwise be outed in the normal course of discussion
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Yeah, but it's more interesting than reading an (n+1)th opinion on Oculus/FB or another angry, well-paid engineer that doesn't understand the difference between no-recruit and no-hire policies.

I have an old car (no HDMI or anything! It doesn't even have an automatic transmission) so this kind of gets my hacker juices flowing in a way that would have otherwise like 1) gps + wireless addones & google maps in some creative way 2) figure out how to attach a couple of cmoses on it and create a 360 degree display.

edit: or infrared cameras, that could be fun. That said, the article itself is severely lacking.

edit: strawberry pie :) ok, that's funny.
Well who would be naive enough to think you can make it to the top and play with the big boys by being Mr NiceGuy?
Being acquired by Facebook/google/Microsoft/apple is probably what saves a lot of "founders" from becoming the next "charismatic" sociopaths...
Collusion is, if not immoral, at least inconsistent with free markets.
And that wouldn't be strange at all - "Citizens are required to keep their fingernails between .8 and 3 millimeters long. Violators will be shot."
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even email is free over there
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Interesting - I am curious if that's common in North Korea. I can imagine there are a lot of under the radar rumblings about how things are supposed to be as opposed to how they are. Thus I could assuming that most obedience is fear based as opposed to actual loyalty.
It really comes down to this:

If you are working, you don't want to jeopardize your job with a lawsuit against your employer. Lest you do, you get blackballed.

If you aren't working, you cannot afford a lawyer. End of discussion.

Perhaps the Justice department can do something... But then again, I'm sure it will be smoothed out with greased palms to both parties.
He's specifically talking about outrage over the attitudes, as in how the execs handled this one incident. His entire point is that the attitudes displayed in this e-mail chain are unrelated to the larger wage-fixing scheme.

Of all the discussion forums on the internet, I'd expect HN to be one where it's possible to discuss things rationally and discuss individual aspects of an issue separate from the whole in a reasonable manner, without being called out for failing to express the proper quantity of outrage at every step. Of course, this is completely naive of me as it ends up being proven wrong over and over.
Well if you consider drawing periodic functions in two dimensions like:

cos(t) = x
sin(t) = y

you get a circle. Adding extra terms to those functions gives you the epicycles.

But, I agree, its not as intuitive because the extra dimensions get in the way of understanding the basic transform.
October 7, 2009: Eric Schmidt, responding to a question about why Google would not go the same way as Microsoft now that it is so large and powerful.

“There are many, many reasons why we are not going to be like Microsoft. The first has to do with the culture of the founders, the culture of the company, the value systems. The second has to do with the majority of the users, and usage is one click away from moving to a competitor, which is not true of more embedded platforms in high tech. It is very difficult to move out your database system, it is very difficult to move out of Windows, for technological reasons whereas it is quite easy to move out of these online services.

“The third is that, having taken such a strong position as a company, if somehow we went into a room with the evil light, and somehow evil came all over us and we exited that room and we announced an evil strategy, we would be destroyed. We would be destroyed in reputation, we would be destroyed in consumer behaviour, consumers would mass against us, and so forth. There is a fundamental trust relationship between Google and its users.

“And the fourth is that none of us would ever want to go through the kind of legal proceedings that would then follow in enough countries to make it painful. So there are positive reasons and there are good negative reasons, plus I do not think any of us are going anywhere and we have not yet found the evil room on our campus.”

For those keeping score on the timeline, this quote is two years after the incident mentioned in the pando.com article.

Reference: http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2009/10/eric-schmidt-thinks...
I don't believe he made any reference to the sex of the VP of HR, either explicitly or grammatically...
I've worked on projects with single executable deliverables that needed two languages: Python for the interesting bits, and C for the fast bits. FFI is not always fun (I used ctypes) but there was really no other way.
I'll avoid the legality of the suit, but I think the smiley face is being spun a bit by the article.

Jobs wasn't sending the smiley face as some sort of grave dancing gesture, he was sending it as a "here, I took care of this problem for you" gesture to the team member that more than likely brought the issue to his attention. HR had a problem with something Google's HR did, so to cross borders they needed the boss to make the comment.

It's still sort of callous, but I don't think the author's framing this the right way.
Yeah, it's not bad. Are you put off by the little flare at the bottom? Remember a "bodice" has different constraints than something designed to be worn on the outside.
I am not an expert; and could be way off base, but I would assume, that knowingly following a corporate policy that is against the law, would be illegal, even if you aren't the one who implemented it. I am also making the assumption from what I read that everyone knew what this policy really was, from the way the emails between the two companies framed things. Again, this could be off base as well.
> "In general, we have a very clear ‘do not call’ policy (attached) that is given to every staffing professional" ... "Unfortunately, every six months or so someone makes an error in judgment, and for this type of violation we terminate their relationship with Google."

The recruiter knew from the how the Google HR to Eric Schmidt email reads. The 'secret' part of this agreement is being over emphasized, if you're going to have a non-poaching agreement your staffing employees need to know or it's utterly pointless.
Apple engineer reveals where the iPhone's original software came from
Right, and I have no problem with all the good points you just mentioned. I like their success, I like the engineers doing good work there, and I get their business position.

But I'm going to use an exaggerated metaphor: Facebook is like a surgeon that quietly removes and sells patients' organs, then handles complaints with "hey, you can't beat my price!" It's part of IT ethics to protect users from things they lack the expertise to handle themselves. Facebook has done the opposite: they've pushed people to over-expose themselves.

They had the resources and the position to create a self-hosted product that meshes with their network and keeps the social dataset segmented and private, but they didn't. It matters that they didn't. Not in a nerd-rage way, in an ethical way.

You may not agree with that, but you should try to understand the position as something deeper than "nerd-rage."
So you're saying there's a technical solution to this problem and the $1M threshold isn't necessary.
Steve Jobs's reply was almost cartoonish.
What is the authentic source for this? BBC says "it is reported". Who reported it and where?
I know that part, but boycotting the language he created over 10 years ago & doesn't actively develop is a stretch is more what I was getting at.
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The sociopathic CEO stereotype is affirmed once again.

I look forward to the coming Apple/Google/XXXX apologists vs. Lucid observer comment war.
Haven't you seen the picture? It looks like Chester. I was not the one who claimed they are the same person. If they are indeed different then the CUFP website is at fault for misinformation.
> This is a standard developer response

vs. a what? I've worn many hats in my day, the least of which has been a developer hat.

There's equal risk in relying on a code base incorporating features with underlying concepts that you or your team does not understand.

I'm all for having a framework, where you can review the code and be comfortable with what you're relying on, but in the absence of having a good one, well then build one. The benefits Clojure brings to the table more than make up for the work in either case.

There's just no excuse for not knowing the concepts and not knowing if your product needs them.
When you learn the slogan.
This should be a major red flag to anyone.

You don't make an app/website secure by deciding on a list of things you need to sanitise.

You sanitise everything to start with.

A very common rookie error.
While I tend to agree with your ethical stand point, I think it's unfair to blame them for not pushing a self hosting platform. Without first gathering the personal info of the users they would never had the clout to push anything. They had to obtain a large level of popularity in order to push anything.
> I'd rather filter prospective employees based on an ambitious algorithm or a complex project they've done

I've never needed the former, and only have a little bit of the latter. I wish I had more of both, but I find I have to do hard stuff on the side.

What do you do, exactly?
"Don't be evil." Should have been read as "Don't be evil, unless it helps Google get ahead." This all brings up the age old question..... how much money is enough?
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Apple layed off a bunch of HR people around 2009-2010 as well. I knew one of them.

Why would a company with so much cash layoff part of a single division? It's incredibly suspicious.
Just because you can't remove all dictators doesn't mean you shouldn't try to remove those you can.

Any country with a built up military is probably not going to be invaded; the possibility of a world war is not something we can risk in the nuclear age.
"There was a color printer that rotated ballpoint pens in a holder and drew vectors."

Oh man, pen plotters! In the age of B&W dot matrix, this was like the closest thing you could get to color printing in a cheap manner. I always lusted for the Sharp model that connected to the Radio Shack Pocket Computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVkkii15TLo

AutoCAD users were really familiar with plotters back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iziP0cQhOFY
So the person that was fired was the greedy one and Eric Schmidt was the victim?

Just wow.

I can see why you feel the outrage over this is overblown. I personally think there isn't enough outrage.
I'm not very inclined to share it.

I was trying to fit a potential field, that I knew consisted of a map of 12 dimensions into 1. I could approximate it pointwise, but only with a very slow procedure, and needed both a faster one and a derivative.
> They simply cannot really screw over engineers. All they can do is bargain.

We say this now, because the industry is growing so rapidly that it's hard to feel shafted given the sea of opportunity.

But being shafted is independent of whether or not you could've found another job elsewhere; the agreement they made prevented engineers from being able to bargain to their fullest extent.
It will be useful for any situation where you want to quickly share your terminal. Have you used tmux/screen tools? Nutty will be useful in similar situations where tmux/screen is used but nutty works even if the peer is behind firewall. Plus you can use webrtc when sharing terminals using nutty as it runs in the browser.
And then they immediately die because life is designed for a planet, not the other way around, unless by habitable you mean a planet that is uninhabitable, artificially made habitable.
CSRF protection is handled by Django, for example, by default - an example of something you'd be giving up if you decided that Django is too "big"; now you need to figure this out yourself and find a library that provides it or program it yourself and hope you get it right.
The reason for the firing was trivial the firing was not.

And people can latch onto being fired because almost everyone has experienced it at least once. That moment, of "what do I do now?", is probably one of the worst feelings in the world. And the glee these assholes have in actually doing it (remember no one is supposed to enjoy firing anyone, MBA101) is even more enraging since it confirms everything the 99%ers have been protesting about. These guys are fucking with other peoples' livelyhoods and making a joke of it.
Yeah, IMVU is a company behind a product which most people know about because of the "Lean Startup" book, not because they used the product itself. I must say I read the book with great interest but I never found the product itself interesting enough to even have a look at at :)
Average S&P 500 P/E is hardly a good proxy to evaluate a nascent, fast-growing, enterprise technology company. The "E" part of the ratio is still too small to matter.

Salesforce.com hit 6100x P/E in 2011. Facebook had 3500x P/E in 2013 (now at 100+). LinkedIn was over 950x until recently (now 770).

Bottom line: as any other IPO, the valuation is not a reflection of how much the company is worth today, but what the company will be worth in the future. That's why growth is so important for them, and building a successful sales team is the single most important thing for Box now.

They have the model, and it's proven scalable. Now they have to just execute it. Before everyone else.
It's only "simply asking" if you ignore context and subtext. When Jobs said he would be "greatly pleased if google stopped", it carries the implication that jobs would be greatly displeased if google did not. The email is a thinly veiled threat sent by Jobs ceo-to-ceo to carry the implied whole weight of Apple's resources, and the smiley is acknowledgment that google, did in fact, "get the message".
One thing to note that took me awhile to find - Workspaces requires installation of local client software to function, so if your devices or computers have software install restrictions you will want to work with your infrastructure / change review folks to get it approved before buying.
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_as_a_service) "Daas" also means "data as a service". Something tells me you meant "desktop as a service", i.e. desktop virtualization, though?

I guess my point is that "*aas" acronyms are (besides ugly, but that's just my opinion) not always very clear; please consider writing what you mean at least the first time before using an acronym.

Don't assume everyone knows what you know, especially for rather new and up-in-the-air technology terminology such as this.
You say you understand that these agreements are illegal and unethical and at the same time admonish us to put ourselves in the shoes of those people who engaged in this illegal and unethical behaviour.

Okay. Let's do that shall we?

I am Eric Schmidt. I have made a conscious decision to collude illegally in order to suppress the wages of my own employees because I frankly don't think us folks at the top are getting enough of the pie. So we're going to take more - not through our talent, but through our power. Because fuck everyone below us. They're clearly greedy (your word) so they'll get what we give them.
They even went and made it illegal to talk ill about the Eternal Glorious Leader, I mean how could speak ill of the creator of such a glorious socialist paradise?!
If you're working with IRC, your backend will also get DDOS'ed very quickly and very often. So there's that fun to deal with as well.
So in your mind this site is about news concerning disrupting, destroying and irritating things and people? "Hacker" is entirely combative and offensive in your view. That seems weird to me.
Did that actually go into effect after all?
I previously thought the Google heads were pretty cool guys.

However, if you can believe the tabloids, it seem Sergey Brin is engaged in some messy affair with another Google employee:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579067/Google-CEO-L...

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda...

If you combine that with his pretty callous behaviour in those emails, maybe he really is a bad character.
CTO of Mattermark here. It is a really interesting problem, because as you say even if you boost the odds 25x they're still really low. We trained the data set on venture backed founders (e.g. Series A or beyond), which is a bit higher bar than just any founder. The hope being that once you reach Series A you're less likely to fail than just having seed funding. At some point we want to go back and look at what differentiates founders that reach seed vs. venture backing.
I see you left out his note. All it said was:

"I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this."

All Google had to do was remind employees they aren't allowed to recruit Apple employees. Google took the drastic action of firing the employee.
I've done a ton of Java myself (used it professionally more or less since 2001). I understand there are a lot of fine programmers who are quite happy with it. That's okay.

But getting back to my original point way at the top of this thread, lost in the noise... I'm not using Clojure because I'm trying to put a snob filter into my hiring. I'm using it because it's the best tool for the job. I'm working with graph database and a graph data model. When I tried building it in an OO way (in Ruby, but I'd have the same problem in Java), I found myself violating the Law of Demeter and passing internal state around a lot. I felt I was choosing between good OO and good graph design - intermediate objects were messing with my architecture.

When I switched to Clojure and a functional paradigm, it all fell together beautifully. I feel very little friction between the requirements of the problem space and the requirements of the language. Right tool for the job, you know?

So what I'm addressing isn't a plan for hipster language snobbery - I'm finding the silver lining to the cloud of a relatively obscure language. Conventional wisdom avoids using non-mainstream languages because it's harder to find talent (read Crossing the Chasm for why). But in Crossing the Chasm terms, I want early adopters for my programming staff, not early majority. And Java is so mature that it's the choice of conservatives, much less early majority.

So maybe I'm not selecting for talent so much as personality type.
2 out of those 4 just got taken :)
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It adds up, but not so quickly.

RDP is "smart." The bandwidth requirements can vary from a few KBPS to ~100.

What ends up happening is, if you need more bandwidth in this scenario you're going to need it in general - for downloading files, emails, etc..

Email, usually, takes about the same bandwidth. So, if Amazon is taking that burden, you should be OK.
Shameless plug, I've also written an app: https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat

It looks a little something like this: http://i.imgur.com/djnd0Uk.png

It's still in it's infancy, currently working on a big update that includes a REST api and other stuff.