skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm getting tired of seeing this interracial marriage argument here: they are in fact completely different. The movement against opposition to interracial marriage was an acceptance that there was no substantive difference between a black man/white man or black woman/white woman. One cannot say that there is "obviously" no substantive differences between a man and a woman, even if we restrict our consideration to the context of love. You can certainly argue that there aren't, but this conclusion does not follow from the conclusion regarding interracial marriage.
As a policy, no.

But when they've taken a public position that implies they consider some employees to be less equal than others, yes.

Anything should of "I was wrong" implies he is not fit to lead a diverse organization.
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> Since every end user is running their own instance of your app, you never need to worry about scaling. You can pretend your app only runs on a single machine.

What about "big" users? Scaling is not just for multi-tenant systems.
If you can afford the bandwidth, put up a mirror of the Tor executables and also consider becoming a Tor bridge.
The actual conversion numbers are higher because, as I noted in the article, I'm only reporting number for web forms in order to keep things simple. There's also email and phone inquiries to count so you can basically multiply by 3x.

As for sample size, we're vigilant to make sure that we reach statistical significance. Typically our tests will encompass about 2,000 data points per group.

Our job is made easier by the fact that we're looking for huge wins so when we see a 10% gain with a 99% confidence, that's still a "fail" scenario for us.
Funny, I didn't buy threes until after I got hooked on 2048. I bet this just gets him more sales. Threes has a great soundtrack and a good feel to it that the clones will have a hard time replicating. These viral game crazes tend to be pretty short lived anyway, so I guess we'll know soon enough.
I'd read the thread on hacker news, and then, a few weeks later, I bought something at a very niche site. There was a checkbox that said "Remember me everywhere". Even though I'd recalled the discussion here, I was afraid to check the box because it's so vague. Remember me why? And literally "everywhere," really? It wasn't clear that I wasn't opting in to some new kind of advertising tracking or location spyware service.

Anyways, Stripe made the right choice here.
https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/ has Brendan's response to prop 8 donation.
While they are similar in many ways, the way the games operate is quite different, too. And I say that as someone who bought 3s on Android and enjoys 2048 in its many variants.
It's typically discouraged for startup founders to pay themselves very high salaries. Box isn't a startup any more, but compensation of $189k (not $155k, notice the cash bonus) doesn't seem bad for a young company losing over $100M per year. As others have said, he may have cashed out options along the way as well.

Keep in mind, he was paid ~$2M in stock options in 2013, and owns 4% of shares overall. The IPO will make the other executives/shareholders very wealthy. Box likely had this IPO in its sights for a while, so that probably made it easier to take home "just" $189k.
Discretionary spending is different than fixed costs and contractual liabilities. I am saying that you should think of costumer acquisition as an upfront expense that leads to future profits - if the business is growing, and has reasonable margins.

For example, Amazon has 'razor thin' margins and is operating at a slight loss. Does anyone really argue that they are not 'Profitable'?
stop marginalizing this issue by calling it a "political stance." Hitler's "political stance" was to get rid of jews. Political stances affect real lives. Get your head out of your ass.
Yes, I keep every test app I've ever written on hand just in case an infamous language_X troll demands proof anytime I mention that I saw the sky once and it looked blue.
Technical executives have an innate concept of what is and what isn't possible. This allows them to better evaluate proposals for new features, refactoring systems, etc. This is one reason why I believe Microsoft succeeded under Bill Gates. Due to its size, Microsoft still made a lot of money under Steve Ballmer, who is non-technical, but it definitely lost its place as a technology leader. We will see if the new CEO, who is technical, will change that.
Well, current Android versions support starting the device in safe mode, not executing any third-party apps then, so that you can remove misbehaving apps. Looks like this is made exactly for such situations. Though I'm not sure if that mode is available on all devices, might depend on OS and boot loader.

That attack is then annoying and might cause device wipes due to not knowing that option, but looks not that blocking then. Google might also filter that attack by looking for that in their Google Play app check routine.
I agree with the article that since startups are pass/fail, the founders must due whatever they have to do to succeed. Marc Andreesen says to even take that highly diluted fourth round to get to product/market fit and increase your chances of success. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee204/ProductMarketFit.html
Couple things:

1. Would be nice to have some sort of 'hint' or 'solve' button.

2. Since you have the copy regarding how it's a work in progress, I'd suggest throwing a link to the github issues page so it's easy to submit bug reports and whatnot.

3. I like it. Really aesthetically pleasing to use and each level is such a small incremental step forward I think that even the most timid of noobs would get a kick out of using it.
There are a lot of ways to express yourself without referring to kittens, too. But when appropriate, one should feel free to refer to kittens.
Is hola really a p2p proxy? I thought it just inserted a proxy.pac into Firefox/Chrome to do whatever it wanted with your web browser. Either way, it might be good for watching streaming video, but I wouldn't trust it somewhere that Twitter is blocked.
Having read the original post when it was trending, I'm ecstatic to seebthis beimg implemented already. I believe I willbforbsure bebusing Stripe when I set up an online store in the next few months!
A simple way to mitigate this is to set up the BTC exchange like CBOE like NYSE, where all of the members are broker/dealers and have clearing brokers and real-time margin requirements.

So suppose, I'm WantToBeBTCBillionaire.com broker and want to offer my customers outlets to trade, I have to pay for a seat to Internet Board of Bitcoin Exchange (IBBE), a non-profit which funds their compliance staff which will audit my finances to make sure that I'm sufficiently capitalized to take on the risks on my and my clients' option books. Also each trade I execute on behalf of my client will deducted a fee to ensure the operation of BBE.

In addition, I have to have a clearing broker, BitApex Clearing or Bitman Bachs Executions LLC whose sole role is to provide capital reserve necessary in case I default on my contracts. They'll also take a fee to ensure for each trade. And all trades that take place during the day, will be transmitted electronically to their virtual clearing house and settled T+3 days.

In addition, I as a broker will enforce strict margin calculations on all of my clients, e.g., (https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=margin&p=o...) and enforce margin calls/liquidation and force my clients to wire money overnight in case they exceed their margins.

Isn't BTC suppose to be without fees though? What a scam!

EDIT:
For 2), I will use the MtGox mid between bid/ask as the settlement price as a few months ago, all of bitcoin exchange display this as the most authoritative. To avoid underlying price manipulation, I'll make an esoteric settlement price that is the volume weighted average of all BTC traded prices across major exchanges at a special random time on settlement day.

For 3), I will also open WantToBTCBillionaire.com as a bank where all of my depositors have to sign an electronic signature allowing me to lend their BTC out temporarily to BTC punters for short selling purpose/lending facility. The daily bank interest will be determined at the market price at which the BTC punters are willing to bid for, with me as the broker skimming a few pips to make money as well.
Rates markets let one borrow and lend capital. Whether that capital is in U.S. dollars or Bitcoin is irrelevant so long as one can freely convert between the two. The deepest and most reliable rates market is the U.S. Treasury market. This can act as a proxy for Bitcoin - I can borrow U.S. dollars and convert them to Bitcoin. The risk of the BTC/USD slipping while I convert my dollars to Bitcoins would comprise the extra risk to Bitcoin borrowing.

Collateral markets would let one borrow and sell the underlying, in this case Bitcoins. The deepest and most reliable collateral market is the U.S. Treasury repo market. U.S. equities stock borrow markets, which enable short selling, are another example.

Collateral markets are critical to a functioning options market. Not being able to borrow Bitcoins means not being able to short. Not being able to short means not being able to convert calls into puts. It may be possible to account for this bias by dynamically adjusting the call and put margin requirements. Done improperly that risks mutating a structural risk into a counterpart one.

None of these problems are insurmountable. There are clever ways of accommodating, both in how the contracts are structured and how the market is built. This takes time and every market is different. Derivabits is, for now, in the "play and speculation" versus "serious risk management instrument" bucket.

Does that clarify my thoughts?
Thanks, I'll give it a listen! I still hope people here will share their personal experiences though.
From the readme:

At present, Sandstorm's sandboxing is incomplete. Malicious code probably can escape. Malicious code definitely can DoS your server by consuming all available resources.
How to do Yeoman+{AngularJS,JQuery}+RequireJS Right?
In the "Using Bower with a project scaffolded using yo" in the "Getting Started" document, there are instructions for generators using RequireJS and not using it.

What Yeoaman official generators include RequireJS?
How can i use RequireJS with a "webapp" app or an "Angular" app, but with Yeoman "Injecting dependencies into my RequireJS configuration"?.
Do you recomend AngularAMD?

The answer should be "What Yeoman says" as it is claim: best practices.
I'm moving up to SF this weekend. Very excited to see this in action!
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I was Pat McGovern's elf.
And if it fails?

It's obvious that founders prefer to keep more of the company, however tortured of a phrase you use to express it.
It's not as clear-cut as you suggest. You can't just draw lines between his role as CEO of a company and his public stance on an issue and call them separate. It does affect the company and the impression that other employees get. It affects the company culture. It on one hand makes homosexual employees feel that the CEO despises their lifestyle so much, that he's publicly willing to donate to not allow them to lead it. On the other hand, it enables the bullies to take this as a green light since their values (based on hate) reflect that of the CEO.
I agree; shot in the dark big changes can be very useful to give you a starting point to optimize from. I wouldn't say they are more likely to give you a conversion boost, though.

Why would that be the case? Let's say I design my product and page. It's well thought out and I put some time into it, and the UX isn't bad. Why would changing that drastically be more likely to give me a boost than small changes?

Now, the shift might be larger with big changes, that I'd agree with. With a small change you're talking about small increases leading to an aggregate large increase. Then again, if you're established, you're also not risking your customer base.

I'd agree that you can go with this as a concept at the start, I just think, as it appears you do, that after you've established a good base you need to go more controlled from there.
I would be ecstatic if the businesses I chose to deal with had such principles, yes, and would gladly join their boycott. We are all involved in the civil rights "debate", whether we like it or not.
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This is really disappointing.

I can see how, for example, a CTO role is not necessarily tied to a person's political and philosophical outlook. I think it's productive to actually disregard a person's political and religious views when working with them on tech matters.

However, with CEOs it's an entirely different ballgame. For better or worse, the CEOs personality is the company's personality. A promotion to CEO carries with it an endorsement of the whole person, there is really no way to spin it as if his personal views are not connected to his professional ones. In this case it's especially jarring given Mozilla's role and mission.
Totally. Our experience around checks has been interesting: basically, there are some customers who absolutely do not want anything but a check. They've been using checks their entire life, and they don't want to change. Fair enough.

Some other people just simply don't understand how _quickly_ they can get money via ACH. It's a matter of venturing into the unknown vs. what's tried and true. So when we say "You'll get your money today, in your bank account, if you use Wells Fargo, and tomorrow otherwise," they say "really?" And decide ACH is good enough for the cost. Then again, that's on the payout side rather than the pay-in side, though I guess if your website accepted payment via check, it'd be much faster there, too.

There are also all kinds of other complications in dealing with paper checks that may make it worth the $5. Here's the issue where we talk about Balanced and paper checks, and this comment in particular is very insightful: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/69#issuecomm... Checks are also not reversible, which we feel is a significant drawback.

Anyway, no matter what you do, feel free to ping me if you have any questions payments related: I've really enjoyed learning this domain, there's so many details, and they're all so important...
He's almost certainly cashed out partially. You don't get to Series F without cashing out.
> The interesting outcome is this directly lead to various missile programs including kipat barzel, arrow, spider, and others.

Good for you guys. One gets the sense that the US defense industry is breathtakingly inefficient, and overcomes this handicap only through a massive infusion of funding.
Interesting suggestions.

As a UX designer I'm curious how you would validate these painpoints with customers through qualitative research.
And the average engineer who thought they'd be rich, probably owns 0.0002%. Have fun with your 200k! Startups are such a scam for the employees.
I don't know it seems to me that Silicon Valley is littered with folks who've made a shit ton of money by founding companies and taking chunks off the table during funding rounds. Kevin Rose/Digg come to mind. This way if you become huge you still get a payday but even if it doesn't you're still a millionaire (and maybe an angel investor in companies that do become huge, Kevin Rose/Digg comes to mind).
One of the reasons Levie has so little equity is because of the equity that was allocated to the employees' options pool. I expect the average employee will be quite happy.
Curious why they didn't go with Kickstarter for the BatteryBox. The product looks really interesting, and I think I'll order some.
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Ha - no problem, just happy to get people signed up. Gaming the system is "fair game".
I'd love to see the accounting on that (see it; not do it). It makes sense since they're not customers and free accounts are part of their lead-gen strategy. Good pick-up.
But for a CEO, group memberships could easily be seen as part of his or her qualifications. I would see nothing wrong with boycotting a company that hired a neo-Nazi CEO, and I see nothing wrong with boycotting a company that hires a homophobic CEO.

No one is demanding that Brendan Eich be forced by the government to step down, they're doing things the market way, by speaking out and using whatever economic power they have.
Who knows, might be even more popular!
The average engineer likely wasn't taking a (cash) pay cut to work there.

Working at a company that has raised $400M is closer to a post-IPO experience than a startup.
>Scala's type-system is much more static, leaving much less room for accidental bugs. Scala's compiler does things that in other languages you'd need to run specialized tools to get the same results or to write more tests

That is a bogus excuse. Languages with better type systems have faster compilers: haskell, clean, F# and especially ocaml. Paul Philips makes a pretty convincing argument that scalac is slow because it is a big mess.
> Read the linked FreeNAS forum thread. The answer is yes.

These are the same guys who took how long (15+ months!) to run down the memory barrier failures on Linux on ARM that gradually corrupted every single filesystem?

Pardon me if I discount the self-righteousness a touch.

That having been said, ZFS has some odd corner cases that people do not expect. The fact that you really want to kill access time modification is one of them.
Really? Balanced has terrible docs? I'd only heard good things...
I expect it would predate the app store concept too, with clones in online or downloadable games sites. The only issue for the clone makers is to avoid tripping over trademarks, copyrights and patents.
Is that the usual quality of techcrunch articles?

OMG I just found out that people are writing simple free apps and some other people are trying to earn money on extremely simple apps?

I actually found all those flappy clones happening great. Of course there is nothing useful about them. It is just that I like idea of people building things just for fun and for the heck of it. Kind of like when musicians improvise together or when aspiring writer play those cooperative writing stories. Except with small simple games.

Basically, it is meme web 2.0 version.
No, Steam was never doing a good job of selling apps outside gaming, and still doesn't.
Armenian Genocide of 1915 was just the first one committed by Turkish Empire (Ottoman Empire) in 20th century, Turkish government repeatedly slaughtered their own citizens, who were not ethnic Turks.

- Greek Genocide that took place from 1914–1923 resulted in death of 700-900.000 people. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide)

- Assyrian genocide 1890s, 1914–1918, 1922–1925 resulted in death of 275-300.000 people.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide)

- Bulgarians were victims of brutalities as well.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batak_massacre)

They were mostly Christian minorities.
Thank you for your comment Norman. I think this would involve both qualitative and quantitative user research. It would be great to see data at each touch point in the user flow and then validated it with real users. What do you think?
I don't think that's how protected classes work. "Person of color" is a protected class. "Racist" is not. "Christian" is (perhaps, I'm not sure) a protected class. "Person who hates Christians" is not.
This might be dense, but why would you measure net loss as a % of revenues? That calculation uses revenues twice, each $ of revenue reduces loss by a $. Surely, it should be expenses as a % of revenue?

Edit : Sorry, I'm not asking what it is, I'm wondering why a trend in that particular metric points towards profitability, one day.
I think you're assuming that the employees were making large professional and financial sacrifices to work at Box. Considering the size of the company and the amount of funding, they most likely weren't. A random $200k payoff on top of a market competitive salary and benefits package is nothing to sneeze at. A job is not a scam just because it doesn't make you a multimillionaire over night.
“Twitter has knelt down [before the Turkish government]. [We are a] nation in love with its independence. And [enhancing] this is what Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has done. We are no banana republic.”

Wait, what?
A nauseating non-apology that attempts to marginalize those that view this as a moral issue -- and many, many people now view this as a moral issue (to say nothing of the courts). He's obviously entitled to his opinions, but as a CEO, he's also held to a higher level of public scrutiny. The donation to Prop 8 -- which, to be fair, was six years ago -- was ill advised, and the non-apology even more so. At this point, he should issue an actual apology (and he can look to any number of politicians on how to express a "reconsideration" of this particular issue) and explain that it is now clear to him that the spirit of Prop 8 is entirely at odds with Mozilla's own policies, that as CEO he cannot have it both ways -- and that he picks Mozilla over Prop 8.

Edit: Fair enough; it's not even a non-apology -- it's just nauseating.
I'm glad that 2048 at least changed the formula some as opposed to being a pure rip-off. And they obviously got some gain from the fact the game could be played online without needing a smartphone.

Making 1024 and putting something akin to 'Why waste money on Threes, here's a copy' in the app description was just classless though. I don't see any redeeming value in that.
Wow, what a colossal piece of bullshit.

I mean, this guy is making an appeal to the virtues of tolerance, diversity, and respectful disagreement when asking people to withhold judgement related to his political activism. And that would be fine if the issue in question pertained to any number of open questions facing lawmakers. But when we're talking about Prop. 8 - a law that was directly opposed to the exact values he's espousing here - it's hard to view his appeal as one made in good faith. That's twice as true when the campaign he supported was characterized by astonishing levels of malice and deceit.*

Put simply: you don't get to demand that others be tolerant and passive and respectful when addressing your attempts to block their 14th Amendment rights.

Just...no.

*
When Judge Vaughn heard the subsequent legal case he asked the supporters of Prop. 8 if they'd like to submit for his consideration any of the "facts" about the harmfulness of gay marriage that they'd repeatedly cited in public during their scorched-earth media campaign. The catch was that they would have to do so under oath, and suffer penalty of perjury if any claims were found to be knowingly dishonest.

And how many "facts" did these supposedly religious supporters choose to supply? Zero. Zip. Nada. None.

The good news was that while these "believers" didn't give a fig about bearing false witness in the eyes of God, they maintained the presence of mind not to do so before the State of California.