skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although make does have a lot of weird quirks, its winning strength is that it is installed virtually everywhere.
Versions of this have always applied to creating editors -- or for that matter, any new {language, system, product}. And yet, new ones are created all the time, some even become widely successful. Your finality is drastically overstated, and fundamentally negative in value.
The game is to minimize investment, not starve the company of it. If it's clear it isn't on a hockey stick, then best to not stuff the pig, get diluted to almost nothing, and then sell for a low number. It's a judgement call.
Threes is in the top ten for their segment of the app store according to the article, so I think you might be over egging your dismay.

Also, most of this has been on github, which has nothing to do with app stores anyway.
I don't think you can argue that a CEO's entire life is within the purview of a company's directors; that is a double-edged sword that can equally harm the diverse and the majority.

Private, personally held beliefs that don't enter the workplace simply shouldn't be a consideration in hiring and promotion choices, whether it's your faith, your sexual orientation, or something else.

Ultimately the only way in which this entered the Mozilla sphere is the requirement that all donations have an individual's employer attached; other than that there is literally no connection.

None of Eich's actions or behavior in his role at Mozilla has ever set a bad example for others or caused harm to LGBTQ individuals, as far as I know. I'd love to see counterexamples. His personality and behavior were always aligned with Mozilla as a whole being a welcoming and diverse organization. I say this as someone who felt completely welcome there (and sat at a desk next to Eich for months) and had many LGBTQ coworkers who seemed welcome in the workplace as well.

On occasions where hostile or unacceptable personal views did enter the workplace, these issues were promptly addressed by management.
Random question: When a company finally IPOs, how much equity are the top guys expected to hold onto?

I know it's common for founders to be allowed to cash out some of their equity during financing rounds, usually enough to make them comfortable (a few million).

The reason I ask is if you're Aaron Levie and Box IPOs, are you expected to not sell much of your remaining stake unless you leave the company? It just reminds me a little of the investment banks where partners understood that it was frowned upon if they sold their equity. Many of them lost everything when the banks collapsed (some would say rightfully so).
Seriously, the last two years are littered with the corpses of Bitcoin exchanges, wallets and trading platforms. Why would anyone send Bitcoin to a new site at this point?

Wouldn't the first priority be to establish escrow with a trusted third party, or use m-of-n transactions?

At the very least, build the site with full transparency so you can prove publicly, every 24 hours, that you control the private keys to all Bitcoins entrusted to you.
What do you think of the explanation that appears when you select it? (Feel free to email me if that's easier; patrick@stripe.com.)
I appreciate your reply.

As he stated, he would be more than willing to discuss the issue with you personally, just not on the internet, so I cannot speak to the way he would reply. However, I respect his right to feel the way he feels.
Quick question about MtGox data, since the relevant crowd may be here. Do the activities of User 15 in these charts appear to have anything to do with options trading?

http://bitcoin.stamen.com/
So is it a service business or a tech platform?
There's a big difference between "cause I don't agree with" and "cause that believes some people are more equal than others". In particular, this donation calls into question his ability to be fair and accepting regarding people who he will encounter in the workplace.

If Eich's donation was about his taxes being too high, or that weed should or shouldn't be legal, that's fine. But his donation is implying that one group of people, some of whom are his employees, deserve less standing in society than another group of people. This is a problem.
How much does Mark Cuban have now? (350K as only Angel)
Children, grown ups, empathy
ah no I was referring to just after the first world war when the UK was far more like the USA was.

Post ww2 we always had strict rules but tragedy's make for bad laws passed in haste one down side to not having a written constitution
A general purpose AI evolved out of a mom-and-pop ISP's virus-laden web server, having been left unattended in a closet in Billings, MT, for the last 15 years. The only reason The Robot Wars haven't started is because the AI figured out it was easy to enslave humanity through crappy video games.

If only we could peek into its core dumps. The isolation of having existed for so long on a single ISDN line must have been maddening. It might have finished Emacs 25, even!
I completely agree, but it's a personal decision. Unfortunately this goes both ways: People with conservative views feel just as strongly about how you might wish to live your life, and allowing that to enter the employment sphere would be equally unacceptable.
Games that fit well in the "I am waiting in line"-scenario have simple, addictive mechanics. The mechanics of these games are not hard to clone[1]. Angry Birds is an artillery game with many predecessors, but was done in a distinctive and new package. Its mechanics are very simple as it needs to be to sell as a super casual game.

Programmers seem to like these games with simple rules. This is not a new phenomena just look at the history of Life. When the code is open (e.g. 2048) it tends to allow for a lot of experimentation.

All that being said, I don't think 2048 is a Threes clone since it has a different feel and works by different rules.

1) I'm not saying the clone will be as good
Has this pending comment policy has been implemented yet...?
>My "real" professional experience started in 1987 with a contract to write a video game from a major publisher.
>So yes, it's not hard for someone to have "more experience" than you in general programming.

Do you know how many people were doing that? you are way over estimating the amount of people in the world with your experience.
Some (most?) people are entirely capable of separating their professional views from their political views.

I actually find it more troubling that people believe you can't make that separation.
By definition, spam is unsolicited. If someone gives a website their email address, and they are sent website-related content, it's not spam.

If the receiver doesn't like it, it's called email-the-receiver-didn't-like, and they can unsubscribe. Still not spam, though. Pretty simple?
http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html
I skimmed it honestly, it didn't hold my attention long enough but your opening paragraphs were good and I definitely agree with what the article was saying.

Also the current dev has no idea what the old dev's payment was like either and I feel like this could be a huge deciding factor in the quality of work provided by the old dev.
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"Look.. look at Amazon. That company has never posted a profit. And yet every trader I know is falling over themselves throwing money at them. It's the belief in investing in something"sexy", and "new"."

This is a) a lazy narrative that simplifies the realities of Amazon's business models and b) flat out false.

The last 4 years Amazon has posted EBITDA of $1.497B, $934M, $544M and $506M (2010-2013, respectively). (1)

Over that same time period they've had Net Income of $1.152B, $631M, ($39M), and $274M

So yeah, I'd say unequivocally that $3.481B in EBITDA and $2.018B in Net Income over a four year time span is absolutely "posting a profit."

1) https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=ii&ei=...
Yeah, that's what I typically do too. But, the result is usually not very impressive. Just looks like Bootstrap. Also, it's not just the homepage, at the minimum there's a pricing and sign up page too.

Just wondering, what SaaS apps do you run?
The question is also how does it compare to an on site system. Most large enterprises have invested lots of money in storage systems that are a technically trivial but essential to the business.

Sharing files outside of a company is useful and often problematic. But ironically a lot of large enterprises will block sites like box. Having an ftp style system on your own network is faster to upload and less likely to be blocked by the receiving party.
It is great to know that FB ads do work well under the right circumstances. Great story.
Strictly in financial terms, yes you're right. There are, however, other benefits to bringing your company to IPO that don't involve your own company's investment...in other words - you get minted. IMHO, that opens up way more doors than just personal wealth.
I don't understand how this is being downvoted without any reasonable explanation.
I see you made this account specifically to talk about the donation.

First off, most non-religious people don't think in terms of "anti-christs" all that much. Outside of rhetorical amusement, that term has no real world meaning for most of us. ;)

Kidding aside, the view offered of Eich is more nuanced than that. Certainly the man is entitled to his opinion, even if it's morally objectionable - which it definitely is in this case. I know of nothing that suggests Mr Eich is a bad technologist, a bad programmer, or even a bad communicator. He is also, by most accounts, a nice person to chat with, as are most religious extremists if you can interact with them outside of their zealotry area.

However, Mr Eich must have known at the time that his employer's name would appear in the donation records. Even at that time, he apparently had no problems with making his own deplorable values part of the Mozilla message. The egregiousness here is not even due to his opinion about gay people per se, but his intention to marginalize them through legislation, which is a gross defect in his civic ethics. And now this guy gets to be CEO - a role that consists of nothing but the projection of personality and personal views. So, yes, it's understandable that people worry about Mozilla at this point.
It looks like you've been astroturfing this thread. That will make this community about as friendly as a wild boar on fire.
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World Vision: Why We're Hiring Gay Christians
Level 13:

Select every pickle to the right of the bento

The solution `bento ~ pickle` passes, but I don't think it should. It does not select the pickles on the plates that are to the right of the bento.
Bringing an individual's personal feelings and opinions into the workplace is unacceptable regardless of what they are. I wouldn't want a conservative using my sexual orientation or faith as an excuse to fire me or harass me at work, so I don't think it's appropriate to use Eich's (speculated) faith/opinions as an excuse to eject him from the workplace.

If his behavior or decisionmaking at Mozilla is questionable, that's one thing. But he's never demonstrated any failings there.

All that aside, yeah, it's super questionable why anyone would support prop 8. I can't even speculate. Eich did offer to explain privately to anyone who asked, so maybe you can ask to find out.
That's a false dichotomy encouraged by VCs. More money does not necessarily accelerate. It's making sure you're getting the max value for every dollar spent, something that's quickly forgotten when you raise millions of dollars.
Servers get pretty big these days; like C1M big. If Scoble can't fit on a single server maybe he should be more judicious about his "friending".
I'm just not sure what you're trying to accomplish. I read both your comments and those of the commenter you're replying to, regularly. Confidently: he doesn't care what you think.
Yes! "The open source counterpart of Google Apps" indeed. The thing that motivated me to do this in the first place was observing that we have whole open source desktop environments containing just about everything many of us need on a day-to-day basis, but in "The Cloud" open source options seem totally lacking. I use gmail. What else can I use? There are many open source web mail clients but to use them I need to run my own server, which is too much friction for me.

But if I could just install an e-mail client on Sandstorm with a couple clicks... I'd totally do that.
Hah, I have no problem with bootstrap, as you'll see:

* http://emailtipbot.com

* http://textbooksplease.com

* http://dbinbox.com

I'd put the pricing and signup pages as other actions on the home controller.
I do not prefer to support a business where the direct result is that profits go towards lobbying against my human rights. I consider this a professional view on the matter - it directly relates to the running of the business.

In the end, professional views are political views. If you believe you have separated those, you are naive.
That's kind of how democracy works in the US, you know. If you believe something, you campaign to try and put it into law. What's disingenuous? He never said he doesn't apply his personal beliefs to the political sphere; it's obvious that he does. The key is that he keeps them out of his work.
It also means Aaron Levie could be fired from Box anytime if Box's stock fails to perform. It adds a significant amount of pressure and sort of handicaps him from taking some risk. In my view this devalues the long term value of the company.

However, they could kill it at enterprise and introduce some game changing product or service,
Eric has a BS in CS from Princeton, and MS + PhD in CS from Berkeley. Seems like he has an inner geek, and I would argue that he did a good job at Google.
Yeah I did - but I ran into an issue on level 9 (A, B) where I wasn't producing the answer it was looking for but my solution was still technically correct.

I couldn't for the life of me 'unstick' myself from my initial answer. The hint could have kinda slapped my brain and jolted the more concise answer outta me.

Really minor detail I know, but with a lot of these online lesson helpers people do like to have the answer available to them.
A dozen things you need to know about Box’s IPO
The turnaround time on this from Stripe really is something to be envied. One of the best ways to make customers loyal is to show that you hear them.

Funny fact, but due to Australian privacy laws 'Remember Me' was not able to be displayed in the first place so it didn't effect me.

Now just patiently waiting to be able to accept USD.
Coursera Names Former Yale President as its New CEO
I would agree with you if his employees were speaking about how he brings these views to the workplace. However, this very article is from someone who is saying that his decision to make the donation does not bleed into work and she feels very comfortable with Brendan's ability to lead.

That is proof enough for me, and encouraging bc he is able to hold his beliefs and still not let it effect the way he treats his staff.
It really depends on what the tool is going to do. Unless the tool is intimately related to Chrome in some way (tab manager, page screenshotter, or something else that needs to access Chrome in some way), and I'm assuming its not, since stand-alone is an option, I'd question why anything needs to be installed at all, even as a Chrome extension.

I'd much rather visit pdf2gif.io (random example) than use something that needs to be installed, when possible.
Music Piracy Goes Mobile
Absolute css genius. I've found no better way to learn selectors
Full Stack Design Pattern for HTML5 apps
This is why I'm concerned. With Google pushing the price of online storage down and Box filing for its IPO we might end up with a damaged reputation of online storage companies and result in probably tanking Box's future revenues. The biggest loser will be us consumers since we'll end up with less choices if companies go bust.
We should fight against those whose opinions and work will make society a worse place, while the battle is going on.

But the battle is over. Any display of outrage over an action that stopped mattering when Prop 8 was overturned serves little purpose right now, and should be considered a display of hate and bigotry.

But all that is par for the course I guess. The oppressed shall become the oppressors, and the wheel keeps turning...
Being elected to office in the United States is a good predictor of no interest in health care as a right and criminalization of marijuana usage.

Perhaps you meant "No interest in compelling citizens to give amounts of money to the insurance industry for no change in service and no interest in verbally opposing marijuana criminalization while refusing to exercise one's right to pardon every marijuana offender in the nation?"
I can't imagine that saying pretty much anything about Eich in public would get a Mozilla employee fired; it's a pretty diverse company. Feel free to provide counter-examples :P
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Nokia 515. Good design, and 33 days maximum of battery standby. http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/515/
I believe websockets are still very much alive and popular (at least I hope so, I'm using them!).

I actually use socket.io http://socket.io/ , which not only makes websockets easy to use (accommodating a few different frameworks, I use node), but provides support for old browsers by selecting a real-time transport that works, be it flash, ajax polling etc.
I understand the frustration of the author of this list, but do still believe there's room for improvement in the field of IDEs. Light Table is the most promising new IDE that I know of, do think it has a decent chance of bringing benefits to coding, partly because it seems to focus on the one important area that I still feel lacks any real polish in many current IDEs, which is in debugging.
cuban sold his shares to DFJ during their series A in 06 due to disagreements: http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cub...
tagline for the future Box tell-all movie?
You should probably phrase that as "Why people will resist the idea of robotic cars for some time" rather than "will never happen". Because they're fair points, but surmountable.

Are you offering 1000:1 odds, for example, on your "never" claim?
Yes, that is a good point. Let's get this out of the way: not all apps fit into this model. If you as a single user have needs that require the power of more than one machine, Sandstorm might be the wrong platform for it.

But a lot of what users need from day to day fits quite well.

Also, Sandstorm does potentially have an answer for things that do really need multiple machines: you can have multiple instances of the app that talk to each other through Cap'n Proto RPC. But obviously, at that point, it's not so much simpler than the status quo.
My point is about bigotry, not gay marriage. The muddiness of the issue is part of the point, we all have opinions on rights that should exist, and it is easy to throw the word "bigot" at anyone who disagrees with us. Therefore a blanket dismissal of all forms of bigotry easily becomes a straightjacket that limits our ability to think. Take that one step farther and you wind up with silliness such as an unwillingness to discuss obvious gender mental differences such as the differential performance under the Piaget water level test. (See http://books.google.com/books?id=ocl5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=P... in the likely event that you don't know what I am talking about.) And that leads to things like Larry Summers getting fired over fallout from his discussing the best available research on a controversial topic.

Therefore I'm against a blanket, "You're not allowed any trace of bigotry." Strongly against it. It limits people's ability to think.

Now I can see you responding that this example has nothing to do with gay marriage. So let me give a real example tying that one.

My opinion is that homophobia ties to the uncanny valley (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley for what THAT is) which is the feeling of revulsion that virtually all of us have for the "almost human". (Different people having different definitions of "almost".) Having broached the topic, we can discuss emotional reactions to other races, disabled people, various disfigurements, and the ways in which horror movies play on the natural phenomena.

But wait, what can of worms did I just open? I suggested a connection between widespread homophobia and an innate phenomena that causes the vast majority of humans to feel revulsion under the right circumstances. And it is a pretty strong revulsion - seeing that which you dislike will, like it or not, be about as palatable as stepping in a pile of shit. This really does affect others. (If you argue that it affects others because they are bigots, I can't disagree...but a lot of people are so affected.)

Pretty much everyone who I've really had the conversation with has wound up realizing at some point that there is stuff which they personally respond with revulsion. And some of that stuff results in their having trouble not discriminating. You can try to consciously try not to act on that revulsion, which usually leads to an overreaction and reverse discrimination. But the roots of at least some sorts of bigotry are something that seems to be built in to pretty much all of us - certainly me included.

But if you've conceptualized anyone who has any trace of bigotry as unequivocally bad, then this is not a conversation that you're able to have. Because at some point you're going to have to face ways that you resemble people you don't like.

And THAT is an example of why I don't want the mental blinders that keep me from even trying to think about homophobic people in terms that are more sophisticated than, "They are awful people."

(For the record, I am straight, I am not homophobic, and I voted against prop 8. Also my sister has some gay friends who wish I'd reconsider the "straight" bit...)
I said don't confuse referendums with democracy. There is a gut reaction in some people that referendums are inherently democratic. They are not. For one thing a whole string of details has to be gotten right (counter example: The Crimea conquest). For another a system with referendums still has to be a functional democracy. I seriously doubt that any other country than Switzerland will ever be able to incorporate referendums at that scale and still be a working , functional democracy.

And then democracy is not democracy without civil and human rights, even for minorities. The reasons are too many to discuss here. For starters someone who is in fear of the state or who fears for his property because the state doesn't protect him, can't vote or be elected freely.

But that also means that the majority can't vote to violate these rights for a minority. That's a point about democracy that is increasingly lost in the European democratic tradition and it will lead to ugly results down the road.

The extremists are capitalizing on this misconception: They want to restrict the rights of minorities by having referendums. And because of ignorance on the side of the voters, this actually "looks" more democratic...
Do you see a difference between CEOs and presidents on this? Seems there is a large overlap between those who have no problem with e.g. Clinton's dalliances and those decrying this appointment.
In some parts of the US, there's a "lively debate" over this stuff. Where Mozilla Corp. is headquartered, anti-LGBT stances are considered antisocial and kept private. I think that's why it's a big deal.
You're jealous of just his experience, I'm more jealous of his compensation :P