skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting rid of the stigma doesn't mean "treat people with illness exactly the same as otherwise", it means "don't shame people for being ill, and don't shame them from seeking treatment".

But would I put a mentally ill person on the team? It depends on the illness and the role. I wouldn't put a hypomanic in charge of procurement, but they might glow in sales. Some people say that autism spectrum disorders make for good software testers, better than people without. What do I care (for the company) if a staff member struggles with depression, as long as the work is getting done? I've also worked in a couple of places where the 'company clown', the joker that everyone loves and raises morale, had a mental illness.

And most mild mental illnesses are not a problem, because most mild sufferrers have jobs that they are productive in. Having a couple of days off a year because of your mental illness is no different to having a couple of days off a year because you eat dodgy food and get food poisoning.
You mean any Mozilla employee who's never actually talked to Brendan, right? The people who have interacted with him have this to say:

https://twitter.com/Jason_Duell/status/449276922359320576

http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of...

(And I saw a few more along those lines on twitter, but trying to search twitter on this topic right now is a bit difficult.)

Oddly enough, the only Mozilla employees I've seen calling for Brendan to step down are employees of the Foundation, not of the Corporation, and as far as I can tell don't deal with him on a regular basis, if at all.
If you expect people to work more than eight hours or on Saturdays, pay them by the hour. Otherwise, any negative feelings you may have are your own fault. If you can't pay them, don't have such ridiculous expectations. It's that simple.

EDIT: Also, don't release after noon (or some other set time) and never release on Fridays. This is just common sense if builds have problems. That way, no one has to stay late.
That's called efficiency. When you're just a middle-man adding overhead, technology replaces you.
Reducing risk and building alliances.
Jade for Meteor
Show HN: Route Optimization API
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Another frustrated would-be customer here. Way to fail twice, Ramen.
How about you downvoters actually provide some kind of reasoned response telling me why I'm wrong, instead of just blind downvoting? Or are we so wrapped up in celebrity worship now, that you can't disagree with a YC partner without being downvoted to hell?

Seriously, if somebody can provide me any actual evidence that you can conclude anything meaningful about someone's level of commitment from one data-point, I'll happily eat crow. Until then, as far as I'm concerned, all of this "coming to CA equates to commitment" stuff is just hand-waving.
Yeah...I imagine that the original poster is going to be making a very similar post in 1 year, saying "We started in React, but switched to <sexy new tool> because <some fault of our own that we then blame on React>"
you are not prepared for 10x or 20x bigger tough situations Start-up is going to throw at you

Such as?
After reading your comment, I was curious and looked up the site, and was expecting amature hour, but I think you're being too critical. The website looks well put together and communicated the product idea just fine. It's actually a very interesting idea that I think has real market demand if it actually works and produces better results than manually segmenting users (what all the other products do right now). That being said, I think it is very non-trivial to make a general recommendation engine that will work well for a variety of different apps and goals that isn't overly complicated. These things tend to sound good in theory, but fall apart in the details of practice.

#1. How do you know? Did you contact them? Obviously it's not open to the public as self-serve right now.

#2. I only glanced at the site, and didn't spot any. I'm sure they're there tho.

#3. They're demonstrating why you should care about push notifications. I'm sure they'll replace with specific case studies when they get some.

#4. I'm sure they've only begun to explore pricing at this early stage, but it seems reasonable to me. It's actually almost identical pricing per user compared to mixpanel, a YC company with a product in a similar space, at $0.002.
That's a bit too analogous to "not being against" black people but being against interracial marriage.
They're noticeable in the "f" and the "t", on the left side.
Tire changes and bodywork are probably in the top six or eight most common things people have done to their cars (after car washes and oil changes, which are revenue races to the bottom anyway). Somewhere in the top twenty are probably subwoofers, replacing bulbs and lamp assemblies, window tinting, detailing, windshield repairs, and brake work. Most of those should be possible on a Tesla without unusual training.
Not a Tesla owner, but I believe it prompts. Lots of owners were not installing a specific update at one point that contained a feature they disliked. Not sure exactly how the "blocking" of the update happens though.
> will I face discrimination from Mozilla's new CEO?

That's a legitimate question, absolutely. The openly gay people who have been working with him over the last several years at Mozilla seem to be saying they haven't faced any discrimination from him in the process. And Mitchell, who has worked with him very closely since 1997 or so, was very surprised when she found out two years ago about the 2008 donation [1]. Which implies that he had kept any thoughts he had on the matter out of his closest professional interactions for those 15 or so years. Make of all that what you will.

[1] https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/03/26/building-a-global... next to last paragraph.
We have outline of how Ramen works here (we actually funded Ramen on Ramen): https://ramen.is/projects/ramen

We're currently working to boil all that down and bring it right out in front to fix this problem. Basically what happened here was this version of the home page was somewhere between a teaser and functional homepage. We've been working on so many other parts of the business, we let one of the most important pages slip. We're hoping to fix this with our new design coming out soon.
In the bottom of the page
"Disclaimer: some of the reviews above are meant to be sarcastic and not by real people. Please Google don't ban this app. Kthxbye."
Yes, I agree that this will not have much of an effect on our chances at YC. Our objective was not to get on the front page of HN. It was to have a conversation around the pros/cons of applying for "ivy league" accelerators. (All the added feedback on the website is a plus :-) )
> Every time I finish up a React component, I'm blown away by how much simpler (and shorter) the code is compared to a traditional Backbone view — particularly when multiple subviews are involved.

Have you considered that this is now (presumably) your second time implementing this code, and you get to implement it in one shot, as opposed to (presumably) piecemeal development and feature additions that happen as part of organic feature growth.

I suspect that if you reimplemented your backbone stuff again in backbone, you would find the code to be better/more readable/shorter/etc.

That isn't to take anything away from react(I haven't used react or backbone in my life), but you should keep that potential bias in mind when comparing frameworks using "porting existing code to new framework" methodology
It would be incredible if they would opensource their iOS app at this point.
Broken windows fallacy. I'll leave it to you to figure that out.
There is a definite irony in silently downmodding a comment calling for constructive criticism and explanation or discussion of flaws.
I had written the post yesterday and submitted it - now the email list is STS [Seattle tech startups] and on that we are fairly active and know personally almost all the active members [seattle has a relatively small startup community]

All I said was up-vote if you like – isn’t that what we do anyways. This is an alias for fellow founders/entrepreneurs it would have been stupid to expect I would game the system there using these people -- we genuinely felt we had put in some thought behind the post ...

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Ritwik Tewari <ritwikt@gmail.com> wrote:
Given we are in the season of accelerator applications & that there is a perceived disadvantage to Seattle entrepreneurs like us coming from big cos. I thought some of you might find our story helpful.
The post is @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 – In case you happen to like it please up-vote or re-tweet.
[If HN has issues try https://medium.com/p/d639607056f6]
Techstars shares similar attributes hence much of the reasoning applies there too & yes it is amongst the other two I mention in my post. 
…

Today a friend re-posted the link from my Facebook feed
https://www.facebook.com/ritwik.tewari/posts/101522829864591...

this was a place I could have asked for free upvotes -- please see that I really did not

Think of us in some positive light and you might find us with a different take - not one that you may like but different none the less :)
I think you are right. They bought Minolta and use that as a start in regards to their SLR range.
mbreese didn't say that it eliminates all such founders. I think the argument here is that some number of startup founders (where the exact number would be hard to pin down) are unable to move to San Francisco for 10 weeks due to other commitments, and that this factor is probably going to be more pronounced with older founders - who are more likely to have spouses, children, mortgages, and other entanglements that work against letting them move.

The other argument, that I'll make, is that as nice as the Bay Area is, you don't have to be there to be successful.

Assuming that all of the smart, talented, hard-working, $INSERT_SUPERLATIVE_HERE people in the world aren't already in the Bay Area, then if you accept the above premises, it stands to reason that a YC expansion to some other parts of the world could be very effective.
Visual representations are not terribly hard to come by in this day any age. It's almost trivial to write a little script that can visualize your tree data-structures or relations. Plenty of good environments allow us to mingle all kinds of data.

I'm more interested in programs that understand programs and their run-time characteristics. It'd be nice to query a system that could predict regressions in key performance characteristics based on a proposed change (something like a constraint propagation solver on a data-flow graph of continuous domains); even in the face of ambiguous type information. Something like a nest of intelligent agents that can handle the complexity of implementation issues in concert with a human operator. We have a lot of these tools now but they're still so primitive.
The dying of third-party resellers and the rise of direct sales must be why consumer electronics prices are becoming so high.
Most of us wouldn't know the back end of a plane from the front end of a tube train :)
In Egypt, high hopes for mobile wallets
The startup freelancer
We really have none of these - yet wanted to apply and encourage others like us to apply. We laid out our reasons with the hope to encourage a few more to polish their customer pitches using the framework we used ...

For us it came to two things:
a.	Did we FEEL that the guys running the accelerator cared
b.	Had we developed respect for their OPINIONS
As I said we found 3 fitting our criteria and YC was only one

That Ethos seems to be have been lost :( ..
"but you can't run a startup at crunch time with devs putting in 7.5 hour days"

You can at 8 hours a day / 40 hours / week. The only reason more hours would be required from engineering is bad management that has unrealistic expectations. So what if it takes an extra week to develop the product? It won't matter. You can most certainly run any company with with a 40 hour workweek. If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.

An eight hour workday may not be a universal human right, but it is well understood to be the standard workday. Any deviation from this like the ten hour days you describe should be stated up front by the employer.
Well, there are East Coast incubators, but no "YC East". Here in the Triangle (NC) region, we have TSF - The Startup Factory[1], which is a "YC like" program, as well as Groundwork Labs[2] who don't invest money.

[1]: http://thestartupfactory.co/

[2]: http://groundworklabs.com/
iOS 6 was released fall 2012, the last release of Android 2.x was in 2011. A better comparison would be Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to iOS 6 - that's 35% of the android base on ancient versions (pre 4.1, relative to iOS's 4%)

cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_6
http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/05/apple-pegs-ios-7-d...
> Should we insist that browsers also be built with different languages

In a perfect world, yes. Then you might not get standards written entirely around ease of implementation in C++, leading to crazy behavior just because it happened to be the simple thing to do in that language.

> if not just that Chromium/Chrome are somehow bad for the web?

What's bad for the web is monoculture, because then people start building sites that rely on quirks of that monoculture that are not codified in a standard. And then if something better comes along it's a long uphill battle to get that something better adopted, because it has to duplicate those quirks.

For example, there is no way something like Servo would be able to happen if we had a Blink monoculture on the web, and I seriously doubt that Blink will be able to parallelize to the extent that Servo is planning to and that I think the web needs in the future.

For another example, once you have an engine monoculture, the developers of that engine become gatekeepers for what's possible on the web. We saw that once already with IE. While Google is not likely to shut down development of Chrome in the near future, they have their own priorities (e.g. getting video DRM implemented is a lot more important to them than anti-tracking countermeasures), so unless you think those priorities are perfect for the web you should be against them having a stranglehold over what ends up in the web platform. Just like you should be against any other entity having such a stranglehold. It was bad when Microsoft was there, it would be bad if Google were there, and it would also be bad if Mozilla were there.
These days, it's not.

Originally, it was beneficial to the manufacturers to let franchisees take the risk of opening new storefronts. The franchise laws were put in place to stop manufacturers from undercutting their own franchises once the market was established.
I'm probably the furthest thing from conservative (Anarchist), but I appreciate your view on families. I was raised in a very conservative christian home and I really believe in the importance of family; it doesn't really matter to me how a family is organised, but having one (in whatever form) is a good and beautiful thing.
The little tiny games topping the free chart may not earn as much as they seem, unless they are played again and again for a long time. They should depend on clicks of mobile ads and mobile games have poor CPI ratios. Yeah. Flappy Bird has been downloaded more than a few million times and is known to garner $50,000 a day. Nice. But that would be a grand outlier and I don't think the game sustains that amount of revenue now.
Obviously, no matter what perverted incentive/bonus system you have in place, the essence of selling cars to a manufacturer and by extension to a dealership is to charge more than it cost you to make or acquire the car in the first place.

Just because manufacturers can average it out across all dealerships doesn't make it less true, and obviously dealerships can never make a car cheaper, all things considered.
2013 : Rockstar [http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/the_godzilla_of_patent_troll...]
Great, thanks! Do you by chance know where to look up package information for CentOS?
I think that with 600+ employees, there are going to be an awful lot of employees who are not going to be comfortable saying, "Hey, boss's boss's boss's boss: why did you put your money down with the anti-gay bigots?"

And I don't know about you, but if I were a) afraid to ask, or b) didn't get a satisfactory answer, I wouldn't be posting about it on Twitter. Because of that great-great-grandboss thing.

I have no idea what's going on in Eich's head, but I am saying that people working for him could be reasonably concerned.
YC will continue to structure our investment as we have always done - ie we use a Share Purchase Agreement to buy shares. The docs are not the same as the Series AA docs that we publish though. We buy common stock and the Seris AA docs are for investors that buy preference stock.

In the most recent batch, the YCVC investment was made using the safe documents.
Certainly no one should expect this status quo to last for long. The dealers will keep lobbying to kick Tesla out, and Tesla will keep lobbying to lift this restriction.

In that light, this is an interesting long-term strategic move on Musk's part. It arms him with a "we've been selling in this state for X years with Y thousand satisfied customers, so how can this be so problematic that it needs restriction?" argument for his lobbying efforts a few years down the line.
Aaron Levie's answer to Box IPO (March 2014):
> but after that, the effects of drag will weigh more heavily on the lighter car (F=ma, so the rate of deacceleration is a lot higher for a smaller mass), causing constant fluctuations in the motor shutting on and off.

All other things being equal, a heaver car will experience the exact same aerodynamic drag as a lighter car. Only the cross-sectional area and shape of the body come into play when determining how much opposing force air resistance provides. By the same token, the motor must supply a constant amount of torque to the wheels to counteract that force. If the force remains unchanged, so too does the torque required to counteract it. You're right about the rate being different, but as far as I know the motor doesn't cycle on and off like an air conditioner compressor does. It maintains a steady output.

What we're left with is an additional component of drag due to rolling resistance. A heaver car will deform the rubber tires more than a lighter one, and put more normal force into the bearings, causing that rolling resistance to be higher. I'm not sure what fraction of the total drag is due to rolling resistance vs. wind resistance--like you, I bet it's comparatively small, but still significant enough to show up in reduced range.

> Also, the heavier car would experience greater bearing resistance + friction. This is really difficult to quantify, and my gut is that it's outweighed by the momentum advantage.

I may be wrong here, but I don't see having an increased momentum as being an advantage. It takes more energy to build up that increased momentum, and you don't get it all back from regenerative braking

A heavier car may be more efficient, if you calculate efficiency as [Energy used] / [Total mass], but the better way to calculate the real-word efficiency is [Energy used] / [Mass of stupid driver who doesn't deserve this car as much as I do, when do I get to have one?]
> gave up when it required me to use my Linkedin account

Exactly.
Actually, the purpose of Prop 8 was to insert the following into the state constitution: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California"

It doesn't ban gay marriage. It does explicitly assert that only traditional marriage is legally recognized.
Careful opinions follow,

Something to do with suing users who use their owned hardware in a way Sony disagrees with.

Suck fony and all that. Honestly since the geohots case I've pretty much laughed and ridiculed sales people in stores who reccomend Sony products. None of them get it and they all think I'm a little bit crazy but sometimes you just have to stand up for what you believe in. Openness and being able to mod or hack my hardware shouldn't come with the chance of being sued. Its absurd and detrimental to society at large that they can get away with it.

Won't be buying. The over pricing I can deal with. Sony. Not so much.
The iPad Air is light enough - I use one all day.
The smaller size of the iPad is an advantage for portability.
The iPad battery is more than good enough for a full day of work, so the comparison is empty.
The iPad is highly usable in all indoor conditions. Bright sunlight is a problem for it.

That's only one advantage the Sony device has that matters, and it's a niche one.
Good talk.

I had all this stuff in the first chapter(the history) of my HCI-course at University. So, luckily, the younger programmers learn about stuff that already has been there, back in the days.

But I was baffled by what bad stuff must have happened to the world, that we ended up where we are now and not where we should have been.
mattmanser - thanks for the encouragement. Our website is indeed www.informion.com (flyinglizard got that right). Our service is actually just string and duct tape (a hodge-podge of Java and Python programs running on data sets contained in zip files). We are working hard at getting an alpha version out by end of April that can be used by customers.

And yes, both of us are 1st gen immigrants to the US from India :-)
Does your extension really need all those permissions?

"permissions": [
"webRequest",
"tabs",
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*",
"storage"
]

Does your code really need to be minified? Why do you fetch the HN front page using an external API (http://producthunter.awesome.io/hn.json) when you could easily scrape HN's front page directly?

Finally, you should probably disclose that you are tracking people who use your extension through Google Analytics (https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9847044#file-gistfile1-js-...).

Sorry for being a bit paranoid... Other than that, seems like a nice extension!
What would be the current payout in Bitcoins for $300 per day approximately?
Many engineers here use vim and emacs. We ship integration scripts for both of them -- in `/usr/share/hhvm/hack` in the Debian and Ubuntu binaries, in `hphp/hack/editor-plugins` in the github repo.
Are CC licenses software-compatible now? When CC launched 10+ years ago, they were very careful to state that CC licenses are only designed to cover media and that software should be released under GNU/MIT/BSD. They even had CC-style overviews of some of the popular FOSS software licenses.
It sounds like you are jealous of Musk's intelligence, and so you write something that puts down smart people and talks down to them in a patronizing way.

Why else would you lump all smart people together, and claim they have some psychological issues that you (not so smart maybe, but much more mature), can help with?
Awesome, thanks! This is pretty much exactly in line with what I was looking for. Looking forward to reading more of these.
"With Communism, people breathe air. Since people breathe air in New York, how is New York not Communist?"
If you have used Android's Camera APIs, you would know how bad the fragmentation is. Had to fix various framerate/preview size issues on many Samsung S3/S2 variants because Samsung have their own private camera parameters when you don't use the default MediaRecorder and just try to process the frames yourself. (I work on recording for Vine)
What keeps them from jacking up the prices right now?
Not true: plenty of people have died of a heart attack on the way down before they ever hit the ground.
How is a guy who created javascript singlehandedly that powers the web working to take away your freedom :)