skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Ballmer's Wikipedia entry:

"In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University and graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, with a perfect score of 800 on the mathematical section of the SAT... In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in applied mathematics and economics... He scored highly in the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, an exam sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, scoring higher than Bill Gates."

I'm not sure if he coded, but Ballmer definitely has a mathematical/technical background. I'm not sure technical background is necessarily an indicator of success as an executive.
It's definitely not vendor specific since I've seen manuals for various devices.

When successfully started Android, you should be able to access it by long-pressing the power button to get into a popup menu, then long-tapping on the power off text button there. Also different hardware key combinations might work while booting.

Also, just speculative, Android itself might detect a boot loop or crashes while booting and then automatically restart into safe mode.
You know, I get the feeling that you are just not taking this seriously enough.
Yes. But we know how to fix it, it's just work.
I'm unfamiliar with how Angular works: would you need to duplicate model logic on the front and backend with this model?
I was looking into the API and the gnip api also--- gnip provides anonymized data, but it's not clear to me whether they retain age/gender in their anonymized data.
I think what someone uses their paycheck for is their business. It'd definitely be unacceptable if Mozilla as an organization was involved in prop 8 or anything similar, but I'd bet you anything that Eich isn't the only employee of Mozilla that spends part of their paycheck on something you object to.

From the other perspective, how do you think staunch conservatives feel about their business's profits going towards supporting things they find objectionable?

Fairness in this regard protects everyone equally.
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> To add to this, so what if it is "$200K"

Depends on if it's $200K while working at market rates, or $200K vested over 5 years while working at 50k under the highest market rate you could have had because, hey, you had equity.
Using the Foursquare API for this sort of data aggregation service (i.e. for stalking people) has been done many times before. Unsurprisingly, Foursquare didn't like it one bit [0] and ended up changing their API to prevent this sort of usage [1].

[0] http://aboutfoursquare.com/foursquare-api-change-girls-aroun...
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/foursquar...
Nothing, because I didn't check it and see an explanation (you need a little "?" icon, or at the very least an instant-tooltip).
Using an unrepeatable windfall as the down payment on a loan seems wildly inadvisable. The point of the down payment is that you're able make good on the loan.
Step one, have the app on a separate subdomain from your marketing site.

Initial version, use Unbounce or Squarespace or whatever gets you moving with the least wasted effort.

Later on, you probably want a CMS so it's easy for non-technical users to update. WordPress is happy because of adoption levels, then throw money at WPEngine to handle many of the more common issues for you.

You could use Drupal or some custom thing if you WANT...but make sure you have a benefit equation that justifies it. The more custom your solution is, the more maintenance overhead you commit yourself to.

For stuff like landing pages, set up a site style guide. It may also be helpful to standardize on a style library like Bootstrap or Bourbon Neat. Don't make people reinvent the wheel every time.

Then add tools like Optimizely, Woopra, Kissmetrics, Intercom, Snappy. Your major bases to cover are generally testing, tracking, and customer interaction.

It may also be helpful to add a content management tool like GatherContent. WordPress may be easy to update but planning what to update and aggregating assets for it is a completely different problem.
This sets alarm bells off for me, of the kind saying the large investors are looking to claw as much back as possible via IPO because the core business isn't as viable as they thought. Demonstrating profitable quarters in the run up to IPO is highly valuable, so if they aren't doing that . . . yuck.

DropBox, for better or worse, appear to have cleaned up on the consumer front, and you'd have to be blind to not notice the trend these days is consumer tech getting into enterprise IT, and not vice versa. GDrive isn't too hot, yet, but I'm sure they'll eventually get there. Then MS probably have the biggest motivation to chase the enterprise market.

Sorry Box, I just don't see this working out at all. Something smells bad.
Startups that pay employees well are not scams for employees. Startups that give >0.1% are not scams.

Anyone getting 0.0002% expecting to get rich is not being scammed, they are being stupid.
My apologies -- I meant 100, hit an extra key. And for the record, yes I am currently living mostly paycheck to paycheck, although I make decent money (my own fault -- I've got a live-in significant other, she can't work any more due to disability, and I've had to take over her expenses, including car payment [her's and one of her kid's), meds, etc.) But even so, I'm able to do odd jobs for people, and that all goes into a buffer balance. Yes, I can't compare myself to someone on minimum wage, but when everything you make goes to existing obligations (again, I could have said no to a lot of things, but when it is the choice between more credit card debt for a vet bill, and putting down a pet that has been instrumental in drawing a certain family member out of deep depression...)
Give me back my Internet privacy
End of the beginning or Beginning of the end?
Hi! Perhaps the people of HN can offer some advice:

I’ve happily been using Emacs for about a year now, with loads of customizations from where I worked. Now that I no longer work there, the customizations don’t really make sense for my own projects. I started from scratch today, and now I totally hate emacs! I want to just start coding, and not spend a whole day setting up my IDE. Do you have any suggestions for other IDEs/reasons for me stick it out with Emacs? (I’m on a mac, doing mostly rails and node development btw)
I'm not a fan of either, Google Drive is enough for me.
I got the impression that the author wasn't frustrated, but rather mocking the common responses new IDEs like Light Table or Atom inevitably get.

EDIT: To reiterate what leoc posted below, the format this is presented in is a well-used "meme" in the tech world.
Atom could have been Github his expansion. Its final monopoly settlement. A web based IDE so modernly written it would only work on Chromium nightly (for few months). A business model in which your IDE is in the cloud backed by Github. One private repository for free, public unlimited and after that maybe $0.99 per private repository/IDE-project or something. Synced all across the cloud, responsive, adaptive, buzzwords alike.

You log in to atom.io and boom there is your IDE. Partner with Google for Chrome OS. But no, instead we get some poorly optimized, hacky IDE with half of a Sublime Text look-and-feel. In Javascript. On the desktop.

This could have been it. They had all the ingredients. Too bad. Maybe in the future.
>I think what someone uses their paycheck for is their business.

It's funny you should put it like this, because I think who someone falls in love with and gets married to is their business.

Edited to add - the comment in reply to this contains a false quote: In no way would I seek to prevent Eich from being CEO of whatever business. I would just not financially or morally support that business if I had an alternative choice. I consider that an essential part of equality - I have a right to support businesses that I choose and I prefer to exercise that right with some respect toward the moral and ethical consequences.
You're looking for Sublime 2:

http://www.sublimetext.com/

(Note: I personally use vim, so I'm not plugging Sublime based on any bias.)
It's not? It's got an interesting community of commenters. The Tuscan Whole Milk and Three Wolves product pages are legendary, and I personally check out any product George Takei comments on.
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That's not its name, it's a designation. It's the sub that's assigned to spying on Jimmy Carter.
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Has anyone found a 2048 clone that is fast and nice to use on android? I find the swiping mechanic painful compared to keyboard online.
If you apply the 'Eich shouldn't work for Mozilla because he's a bigot' principle equally, that means bigots can prevent you from working anywhere. This is obviously unacceptable, and as it happens the law forbids it.

As much as I don't agree with (or respect) his politics, equality has to be paramount here. It's not false equality, or equality-when-convenient: In these matters actual equality is incredibly important, so I will continue to defend it no matter how angry people are.
Yes, I also have an OVH server, and I've gotten the email "You're getting DDOSed, we're handling it" (paraphrasing) about a half dozen times. Each time, it's a seamless transition.

I'm a big fan of OVH.
Good point! Although, you didn't really talk about what the engineer gave UP to work at the company.

Depending on the time, $200,000 over 4 years is not a really good reward. In the mean time you have forgone:
- better healthcare (if you have a family this ups the cost a lot)
- lower stress job
- better bonuses at 'big companies'
- better options at public companies

Remember, that a great sr engineer, the kinds that startups allegedly hire, tend to be getting $30-80,000 a year in options at companies like Google, Apple, etc.

So now your $50k/year is looking like... well it's looking like a loss frankly.
Could someone explain to me how they were able to get theirs released so quickly? I submitted mine last week and I'm still just waiting for review, not even in review. Is there some secret or tips to getting reviewed faster?
I think that him wishing to write off a class of people as of lesser standing is a bit disingenuous. Unfortunately, marriage has become a mix of religious, economic, and legal meanings. In my experience, it isn't so much hating another group so much as feeling like something sacred to them is being coopted and horribly distorted. Having something with the same economic and legal standings but not called marriage generally seems fine by them. That's at least been my experience talking to friends/family/etc. I live in South Carolina for reference.

At the end of the day, we really don't know Eich's personal politics and shouldn't pretend to. Unless he starts on z crusade to "hate the gays" or something equally horrible under the banner of Mozilla, what does it matter?
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It is easier to pretend that Vegas is "over there" and thus the things that happen in Vegas are easy to dissociate oneself from. (i.e., "What happens in Vegas...")
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The US is far from the only country to make DDoS a crime or tort in various situations.
As Paul Graham wisely pointed out, when the Inquisition demands to know, "Are you with us or against us?", it is safe to say, "Neither."
We're actually testing a variant that does exactly this.
I'm curious what kind of warped perspective allows someone to scoff at a $200,000 windfall and where I can acquire such a perspective.
There was a period in time when $500 or so in FB ads would result in a $5000 sale, so the math worked for me. FB ads work surprisingly well if you target them properly.

In my case, targeting males who were either married or not in a relationship, age 21-40, and then had a variety of interests really narrowed things down.

I gleaned the approach from looking at our 50 or so past customers who all fit that demographic.l
Thanks, those are the various options I was considering. Have you used any of them successfully for a SaaS app specifically?
The Cuban comment in that thread is interesting:

"I didn't miss a thing. When a company raises hundreds of millions of dollars I would have been diluted to nothing. But the bigger issue is that I'm not a fan of situations where you have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to do tens of millions in sales. It's a lesson learned from the tech bubble

It was one thing when the valuation as a multiple of sales was in stock. It's a bigger thing when that multiple is my cash."
Outside of rhetorical amusement, that term has no real world meaning for most of us.

I very much doubt it was meant to be taken literally.

he apparently had no problems with making his own deplorable ethics part of the Mozilla message.

So essentially, if you are known to be a part of a company, all of your actions and views are representative of said company? I imagine that makes all of the "views expressed here are my own" disclaimers on people's blogs & twitter feeds invalid.

a role that consists of nothing but the projection of personality and personal views

I think the board of directors would have something to say about that.
I'd be happy to use and pay for Sandstorm hosting if that meant I could take all my data and apps and move it elsewhere at any time. I think it's a big win.
Sure, though she could just stay quiet and let him be seen as an asshole. So while I don't think this article means there's nothing to talk about, I do think it should be considered relatively sincere.
The new YC fascination (recent RFS) appears to be in solving big problems without building the big product right away. You can build an add-on that works you towards some level of driving automation well before you build an entire robotic car, for example.

PG's line there is a reinforcing hint for those that missed the Boosted Boards example previously or weren't too optimistic in response to that RFS. Hopefully it helps more people think about how they could approach big problems in an initially accessible way.
That's because mark andreesen has the investment money to benefit from you making that choice.
Except for the poorly written examples that do quadratic string concatenation, this is just a benchmark of string searching, everything else is irrelevant.
It's a nice assertion you make that "Amazon prime is not social".

I find the opposite to be true.
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> I see it a lot

If so, you should be able to find three examples. Can I please see them? Specifically, three comments that aren't in any way rude, downvoted for expressing an unpopular view?

The reason I'm curious is that I try to watch out for that, yet have only seen one comment recently which seemed to me downvoted purely for expressing an unpopular opinion, and even it was somewhat borderline.

> You're training people not to say something others disagree with.

That's not true if most such comments get more upvotes than downvotes.
Cool, it's good to know that foursquare is doing that.

Nevertheless, I think a better way for this app to perform is to wrap around foursquare. I'm already going to be checking-in with foursquare, so now I have to click a second button to check-in using Loca? If mfkp allows users to add their foursquare credentials, then it'll eliminate that extra step.

But I'm also not sure if mfkp is using a "check-in" model or what.
To me that looks like attempted manipulation of the spot rate.
What do you mean by "taking chunks off the table during funding rounds"?
Separating this sort of stuff into "social issues" is I think an incorrect way to look at it.

We're talking about changing normative group positions in a complex society that has delegated huge swaths of norm policing to immensely powerful institutions.

So, shame is one way. You have to make it shameful in the first place - and then you still have to change the institutions.
I don't think there is an IDE slower than Eclipse.

Even NetBeans is faster.
> That's a weird situation all around though, hard to analogize to kicking a country off

It takes a 2/3 vote in the GA to expel a country completely from the UN. (See Articles 6 and 18 of the Charter.)
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It's not about his beliefs so much as his basic human integrity (or lack thereof).

Put simply the guys is an asshole. And that's different from a hypocrite, mind you. A hypocrite tries to hide the fact that what he says and does are different. He may not believe in what he's saying, but needs you to think he does.

An asshole, on the other hand, is very open about his belief that different standards apply to him. He'll tell you not to do what he does openly because that's his prerogative. Not yours, his.

Supporting an unjust, intolerant, hateful piece of legislation is one thing. Blasting those who oppose you on the grounds that they're not being tolerant and inclusive is something else. In other words, it's important for YOU to be tolerant. But he can be an intolerant as he damn well pleases.
The site isn't really clear on what this actually is. "More than just a VM" - so it's a vm? A linux distro geared towards hosting "cloud" services? All I can really tell is that it has (a few) apps.
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Intellij IDEA. Hands down my favorite piece of dev software I use.
I worked at one in Edinburgh for a while.

1) It was difficult to balance productive and social. As soon as the room hit a critical number and no one was talking, all assumed that this was the status quo and that talking was inappropriate. They almost needed a quiet area and a social area to clearly separate the two.

2) Proximity to more established startups (lived in upstair offices), who were happy to chat through technologies on the off chance meetings.
If the function you're looking for is integrity or privacy, the statement stands.
Yes... soon we'll be oppressed by gays.
Don't you really mean "have fun with your 100k!"?

How much is that $200k after Federal income (and SS and Medicare/caid and various new obamacare taxes) and state taxes (likely California), and any other local taxes?
But isn't Mozilla, in fact, itself a political organization? Its "manefesto", for instance, articulates broad public policy goals before it talks about its own products or institutional objectives (just the word "manefesto" has overt political overtones). [0] More generally, it is a non-profit that for many is a standard bearer for the open-source movement, not a corporation the success of which can be judged primarily by the value it accrues to its shareholders (who might not care about politics as long as profits were delivered).

Perhaps you could argue that Brendan Eich's personal politics are compatible with Mozilla's politics, but I don't think that you should assert that they aren't relevant, just because they arguably shouldn't be relevant in the context of a for-profit business. It seems prudent to expect that the political views of the CEO of a non-profit like Mozilla will have an integral effect on its mission and trajectory, at least within the policy space that is the focus of that organization.

And in turn, it seems reasonable to expect that the constituency which that non-profit serves would care very much about the personal politics of its CEO.

[0] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
i have started to see it used in the construction industry, when the general contractor already has some infrastructure typically on a windows domain. that is where they are going to push for further and further integration for business and project mgmt
You can arrive at that perspective very easily by buying $400,000 of lottery tickets -- which is essentially what a lot of early startup employees do, by working for lower-than-market rates.
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Not having a 'scalable' business model (or having to prove that the model is indeed scalable) hasn't deterred other companies from going public and having an awesome final exist (from Investors' perspective).
Example: Successfactors.

Here is the excerpt of their S-1 from IPO and their last 10-K as an independent company:
http://mark.ly/KgA6PO/

The point being that as long as Box's bankers can convince the investment managers that there is an eventual buyer, box will have a decently oversubscribed order book at IPO. Of-course roadshow can't and won't mention this.
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I really meant engineer when I said technical. Engineers are both technical and are required to think in practical rather than abstract terms. Is that an indicator of success for an executive in general? It depends on the job and the company. But if you are the CEO of a company that produces technology, they yes I think it matters. Executives need other skills too.
> 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.

Please don't pretend that you speak for everyone who shares with you the fact that they also don't believe in something.
Sure!

A "capability" is just an object reference, like a pointer in your favorite programming language, except that a capability not only identifies the object it points to, but also confers permission to use the object. So if you receive a capability, you can use it. If you don't have the capability, you can't use it.

Cap'n Proto is a capability-based RPC system in that capabilities are a first-class type. That is, any message can contain capabilities pointing to remote objects, and thus the recipient gains access to those objects upon receipt of the message.

In terms of Sandstorm, an app will be able to say "Hey platform, I have an object here that implements this Cap'n Proto interface 'Foo'. Here's a capability (pointer) to it. The user may redistribute this capability at their discretion." Later on, another app may say "Hey platform, I need a capability that implements interface 'Foo'." Then, the platform presents the user with a UI listing all of their matching capabilities and asking them which one to use.

The brilliant bit here is that when the user makes a choice, the platform then hands that capability to the app, and all of the access control _just works_. No need for an OAuth dance, no need to ask the user "Do you want to permit this?" -- obviously they do, otherwise they wouldn't have made the choice. From the point of view of both apps and the user, the whole interaction is trivial. And, critically, the permissions transferred were only for the specific object the user chose, as opposed to broad permissions for the second app to manipulate the first. No "I need access to your contact list, so that I can display a picker for you to choose which friends to invite", instead it's just "Please use the system picker to choose which friends to invite, and I'll never see anyone you didn't select in the first place."

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
I didn't like that apple:last-of-type, orange:last-of-type worked, but not orange:last-of-type, apple:last-of-type. Had me flummoxed for a bit.
Looks like 1999 again.
Ya, I stopped there, thought it was broken (didn't realize how to get around that issue)
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Yep, that's the right way to phrase it, and I believe I've actually seen it phrased that way in older (read: bigoted) opinions on the topic.