skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people misunderstand what an acquihire actually entails, so they get up in arms over a statement like this.

It's not uncommon for even male founders to not join on in an acquihire. In an acquihire, the only thing the acquiring company cares about are specific talents/skill sets. The product, business, and assets of the startup are worthless to the acquirer. It looks like in this case, Google was only looking for the engineering talent and nothing else. There's no sexism here on Google's part because they're doing exactly what's best for Google. Gender isn't part of this equation for them.

Now, the lines on the startup's side are less clear cut, but if this was a failing startup, this would not be sexism, but a clean way out for people to get jobs. If it wasn't, it just sounds to me like she cofounded a startup with people she shouldn't have trusted. Men make that mistake all the time.
I've not had a problem with the comics we've gotten from Amazon. If anything, the reader on the Kindle Fire HDX takes a little getting used to because you need to click to zoom to read a good bit of it. I've tried reading them on my laptop but can't get into it; I can't read books on a horizontal screen. Things will be much better with electronic paper, so it will be like a comic book again. Sure, I could buy an actual comic book, but what fun is that?
There's more wrong with this hiring essay than what we've published about our hiring process. :)
DATA Act, Which Make Government-Spending Data Available Online, Passes Senate
Why do they call them "defectors"? They seem more like escapees.
Great post. I'm fascinated by bitcoin. I think that a lot of good papers will be written about it, we as a world will advance our understanding of economics a bit, and it will inspire things that will outlast it by far. I'm not interested in buying any. Very unusual natural experiment.
Ruby uses a version of it they copied into their source tree. You can't really fault OpenSSL for another project copying one of their internal, static functions. I've never looked at Ruby's code base before. Did they just fork all of OpenSSL?

EDIT: I see you made a patch for it. High five!
Atlassian co-founder on making a fortune
Then what is your point?
May I ask where you buy servers using Bitcoin? That definitely sounds like something I want to do, can you provide information for that?
QuickSprout is also a good resource, but their advice like Moz is mostly anecdotal (we tried this and it appears to work) mixed with what Google says.
http://www.quicksprout.com/university/

But the best resource is Google and Matt Cutts in particular:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...
> Gold only has value because people believe it has value. It's also somewhat volatile and not immune to bubbles.

Gold and silver don't really have bubbles, they are kind of anti-bubbles. When it seems the music is about to stop in the musical chairs of the world economy, people pay a premium for precious metals because they feel safe in that they have value. Bubbles tend to happen in a go-go economy, precious metals become temporarily overpriced when people are worried about the world economy. Like the era when the Hunt brothers were buying silver.
Paper currency can be used to pay taxes in a country, and settle debts with people who have to pay taxes in a country. I can issue my own currency and it will be worth something to people who want something from me.
National Australia Bank drops Bitcoin-related firms as 'too risky'
Feigned surprise! I read about this today!
It's certainly not without its problems (see, e.g. news in the last few weeks) but GnuTLS is (in my opinion, of course) technically superior to OpenSSL. Unfortunately, its license will prevent more widespread adoption.
I've been studying Atlassian for some time and I really admire their approach to enterprise and this is why I think they have been successful so far:

The majority of their tools can be installed on site. SAAS for enterprise is a lot harder to sell.

Most of their tools are built with Java so things are self-contained which makes it easier to install. Also their installations will most likely not need root access. Anybody who knows enterprise knows root access is usually clamped down in enterprise.

Their pricing model encourages a bottom up sales approach. Traditional sales channel for enterprise is top down where you go after execs, senior management, etc. and work your way down. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. can afford the top down approach. For most startups, this would be impossible. By making it very affordable for disgruntled employees/departments to use their product, they are able to create internal advocates for their product if it does make their life easier.

tldr; Don't make SAAS. Try to make your tool installable with non-root/admin access. Make it very affordable for individuals and small teams because they will become internal advocates if your product is good.
If I open a thread "Drop HN", will it be published here? The site did more than enough during the last week to promote hate and intolerance. What do you think?
I totally agree with this. About a month ago I created a site that puts up a new programming or logic puzzle every day Monday-Friday. The exercises usually take no more than 30min and the community has been steadily growing. If you're interested you can check it out at http://problemotd.com/
Not the GP, but there's a pretty extensive list of providers here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Virtual_private_server
R 3.1.0 is released
It was posted yesterday by someone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557239

The Sam Altman CNN story got posted twice before there was traction. Are people skipping New submissions?
Congratulations guys, good to see it out there, and I'm glad to see you're better at building a business then Chris is at Foosball ;)
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Wow, this is unexpected. Microsoft is trying to redesign itself and now it is doing this? Google have much more public approval and trust than Microsoft. Why anyone would prefer to pay Microsoft to be its main email hosting rather than pay the same money for amazing Gmail features? I am using Live.com at the moment for my own domain, but the news will probably make me to move to Gmail. Live is really nice service but if priced the same as Google - Gmail is in the lead. To be honest I would prefer to see untargeted ad in main inbox field (thus no tracking) rather than pay... What happened to basic FREE features on the web? If free business email was possible in 2000s, why now in era of cheap hosting is becoming extinct?
>Rust does have multiple returns, but that's just the obvious result of supporting tuples in the language (to say nothing of tagged unions).

Yes, but it's (from a user standpoint) practically the same thing!

>The hidden out-param you speak of is just there to guarantee return-value optimization

Yes, which allows for the efficient return of arbitrary-sized structs, i.e. multiple return.
This is nice! A few comments:

When you are on a closed node, hitting "l" (lower-case L) would be a nice way to open that node.

When you are on a opened node, hitting "h" would be a nice way to close that node.

It seems nicely vimish. I have a very similar set of vim-ish keyboard hotkeys on the tree widgets in git-cola.
Falling, falling... everything is relative :) Bitcoin is still +150% up over the last 6 months ago.

I expect Bitcoin to start raising again after April 15. Why? https://plus.google.com/100577178258662783679/posts/crrFWPrc...
No. This makes dynamic content static, by definition. However, you can exempt certain content from cache, exempt certain people from cache, exempt certain pieces of certain content from cache, or any combination. You can also invalidate cache when content changes (if you're able to do this absolutely, this is effectively dynamic), or set low TTLs to not have new content roll in on a certain time basis.
It sounds like you're not aware of how the non-profit Mozilla Foundation own the for-profit Mozilla Corporation. This is not a minor difference.

(former Mozilla employee here)
I live in Boise, ID. Cost of living isn't quite as high as the bay area. So $120k there might be the equivalent to $84-96k/yr here.
Having a blast building a photo-sharing app
Can't wait to see 2014. Right up there with... hmm, maybe not.
Mfr cost ==??
While I certainly share your dislike of NAT, this is just absurd.
Ya, intentionally running in the negative for years on end should be considered dumping. Maybe a rule if you IPO you can't be in the negative for the previous two years?

That might help.
Do you consider the drone campaigns in Yemen, Pakistan and Somilia to be wars?
I don't think it's bad, especially recently.

The interface is rougher than Chrome, but it has the benefit of Sync and AdBlock.
I'm also not trying to figure out why Rice is on the board. I'd like to think she's on the board because she has intimate knowledge of how Washington works, and how privacy van be invxed. I seriously doubt she's been hired to promote a serious agenda.

On a more practical note, I've stopped using Dropbox (and any other cloud service) for storing the few things that I really want to be kept private.
+1, didn't buy due to back
How I feel on a Friday morning
I don't follow it closely like you but I'd look at the chart relative to the US IRS ruling. Prior to that BitCoin had a lot of potential as a currency and financial asset. That ruling really knee capped the currency potential and thus limited the upside.
In addition to the bitcoin wiki there's also plenty of ads on bitcointalk.org and #bitcoin-otc IRC I've negotiated for shell accounts, rack space, and even AWS instances.

Thanks to services like Bitpay most hosts accept Bitcoin now and if they don't email them with Bitpay's (or competitors) rate page showing no monthly fees, and next day bank deposit, and they'll go for it. What's to lose, Bitpay guarantees you will receive the price you ask for, provides an easy payment API, handles all the coins, and deposits it by end of day if you're US based.

What I don't get is why Gold/Silver websites haven't created a 24hr, live trading site using bitcoin for payment. Buy all the gold you want through Bitpay with insured and guaranteed payment, no need to phone agents to get a price quote. Maybe there is some kind of law regarding identity of payment or something I don't know about.
Sure it does. SSH to a remote host, do nothing, then disconnect the cable connected to your router's uplink. SSH (for example) won't notice as long as you do nothing in your SSH session.

On some connections where I have SSH keepalives disabled, I can suspend my laptop, go for a drive around town with it, come home, resume, and still have my session connected.
Care to explain? Taxes apply to capital gains, which are only realized when you sell. Not to holdings. People who have large coin balances don't owe taxes unless they sell coins, and then the tax is a percentage of the sale.
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Humans speculate. You can't change that. And it isn't mutually exclusive with Bitcoin the Currency being successful.

The dollar fluctuates in value too. It is just older and bigger, so it moves far slower.
If you are suggesting peter Fenton & not benchmark owns the shares - that's probably not correct.

Footnotes in page 120 imply that are representing the VC firms holdings
the other issue i keep thinking about related to miners are the people who sank millions into mining rigs. if you look at the hash rate / difficulty of finding new blocks, compared with the cost of the equipment and time required, seems like the incentive for mining is going to drop pretty significantly.

so perhaps they hold onto their supply, instead of selling at what they think is an artificially low price. but perhaps they panic and decide to unload - prices falls further. either way, the calculation that got them started is much less attractive.

plus, if the incentive to mine drops, the processing power of the network drops, could eventually increase the likelihood of a hack.
You have a great outlook! Without exercise and getting out
I get so depressed.
I'm sure since you're casting the first stone you boycott these companies? If not, you should try it. It's really, really hard.

Have you ever tried living without search engines? It's tough. Have you hosted your own email? It's a hassle and emails get lost constantly.

What if I want to boycott the phone companies? Should I quit using a cell phone?
brilliant idea, lets have 500mil people leave their computers/laptops on 24/7 just so you can check their status and look at lolcats
On 20 March 2003 I was a student studying accounting at Portland State University. By the end of the night I tried to block the Burnside bridge and the cops beat the shit out of me on the south-side steps for protesting the war..
Creativity in education? The unexpected as creative possibility
see http://www.sonami.net/works/ladys-glove/ too
the dollar's 'inherent' value is linked to the long term stability of the US regime, which has a lot more utility than dental fillings
Give some large gold coins to someone and let them play with them for a few minutes. I am no gold bug, but there is something about gold that makes it feel intrinsically valuable.
No, and for the same reason a plane takeoff is never called an upwards "crash". "Correction" is just a term for a smallish or slow-moving crash. It's just how the word is defined. When skeptical people reference increases, they'll call it pumping or manipulation or whatever.
Another theory is there's no liquidity so the true price can't be determined.
Really? I use it every day and have none of these problems. I love the thing.
I've also paid for some server infrastructure in bitcoin (allgamer.net). Less expensive than using credit cards in some cases.
I don't know about other markets, but here, the majority of the absolutely cheapest Android phones (45€ inc. 23%VAT) run at least 4.1.2 and have 512MB of RAM.

I don't know how lower you can realistically go. Is a 128MB RAM really that much cheaper from a BOM cost perspective? Does it make sense for manufacturers to create a phone equipped with 128MB of RAM?

Also, while getting base FxOS running on 128MB of RAM looks neat this doesn't say much about how the phone actually works on the Web.
This is relatively upsetting... I really liked the service, and had been planning on moving a couple domains of mine to them so I could shut down my mail server.

Really not worth over $5/month per account to maintain a half dozen custom email addresses. And a few for friends/family.

Also, not fond of running my own mail server any longer. Any suggestions for a hosting service that supports accounts with multiple domains that doesn't cost an arm and a leg... if I could get ~5 domains and ~15 email addresses in them for < $20/month I'd be up for it... similar features to outlook.com/ymail/gmail, spam filters etc would be top priority.
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I see the bagholders and snake oil peddlers have downvoted me into oblivion (Edit: Actually my parent post is ping-ponging but in negative territory at the time of this edit)

Here is a post I made 143 days ago, at a time when Bitcoin was seeing high after high every day -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753545

Bitstamp Bitcoin was worth $460 that day. Today it is worth $350.

People who would have listened to me and those who agree with me then would be a lot better off now, especially if they had shorted Bitcoin (which is doable, sort of).

I was right saying Bitcoin will go down. It will continue to go down. That the Bitcoin bagholders and snake oil peddlers of HN will downvote me into oblivion is instructive. Not that I mind, I am only losing a little bit of HN karma while they have obviously lost thousands of dollars. They would be better off cutting their losses and trying to learn a lesson about their mistaken belief system then deciding to remove karma from those who observe that the emperor wears no clothes.
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Why A/B Testing Could Decide a Startup's Success (or Failure)
Well, if you're only looking for logic languages instead of Prolog itself, then there's http://www.princexml.com/ written in Mercury.
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>There is speculation that Mt. Gox had been fractional for at least 6 months, and that Karpeles tried to buy back his losses and wound up igniting the $100-to-$1200

This is one of those moments when I feel like I'm missing something obvious (or a key piece of info), but wouldn't the fact that Mt Gox had gone fractional mean that they had created a lot of artificial supply that should have put downward pressure on the price? Further, wouldn't that pressure be somewhat proportional to the upward pressure he created with the buy activity, given that he was trying to make those fractions whole again?

Edit: It just seems that there had to be some outside demand that subsequently dried up. Otherwise, we would expect to see at least a gradual, steady decline in price as he created more and more artificial supply. I suppose that could have then been folllwed by the dramatic rise if he was in too big a hurry in his recovery buying, but again, there seems to be some actual demand that went missing at some point.
Saw these guys tonight at a Demo Day in Louisville, fantastic presentation, good traction and a knockout no-brainer product that has a powerful sales hook. $69 for a massive safety boost.
I currently use outlook's services on my own personal domain, a simple me@myname.com

I have no business aspirations here with my one account. Google apps would have been my first choice, but now that it is not free and I'm a mere college student, I looked elsewhere.

Does anybody have solutions for those like me that only desire 1 or two emails for an entire personal domain?
I think the point is that you aren't an objective reporter of 'the implicit standards'. You are a participant in creating them. Each time someone asserts an opinion about what the standards are in a particular case, they are working to make their view into part of the standard.
Prolog is an interesting exercise and occasionally useful as a tool, but most implementations leave a lot to be desired as a general purpose programming language. An example of this is SWIPL's 3 string types and their crazy behavior. You are also stuck in a first order language that is essentially pure, and have no abstractions for common patterns except meta programming which makes code even more difficult to reason about.

That being said I love having logical variables and I would love having them in other situations.
Don't Catch A Falling Knife.

It might stabilise now, but my hunch is it will stabilise around the $200 mark.
Electronics are a new thing, for most of history it was primarily used as money. I also don't think the majority of it's value comes from jewelry.
And that, to me, is the strangest thing about Bitcoin:

https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

The miners, never, stop. Completely disconnected from the market pricing.
The above questioner didn't ask whether it was any good, only whether Google could write and release one.
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I'm in very much the same position as you so any replies would be greatly appreciated!
It is. Not so much if you have to work 2-3 jobs though. Or if you happen to have island fever.

If you want that kind of temp without worrying about island fever, try any city in So California that's within 20-50miles of the Pacific ocean...

ex: Manhattan Beach, CA
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/U...

Average low temp is 25f. Lovely place.
This is the sort of thing a founders agreement should cover off. Relying on "hey, we're all friends" doesn't cut it once the corporate lawyers get involved.
There is an update available to openssl 1.0.1g which fixes the issue with curl. Just run setup.exe again to get it.
I don't know if you've tried using outlook.com lately, but it is refreshingly simple compared to how complicated the Gmail interface has become.
I just hope this doesn't hurt the Vinklevoss twins. ;-)
If we had rail guns 30 years ago, how would history be different?
(It's Thomas). Because it would have made even less sense to define a TLS-specific heartbeat and a DTLS-specific heartbeat.

In the hierarchy of sensible TLS decisions, you have, from most to least reasonable:

1. Not adding new heartbeat extensions to DTLS or TLS.

2. Adding new heartbeat extensions to DTLS only.

3. Adding the same new heartbeat extensions to DTLS and TLS.

4. Adding two different new heartbeat extensions, one for DTLS and the other TLS.
I don't fear that, so much as that she would facilitate it or fail to act to prevent it. I don't care about most of the content of the OP's page, but I'm not really willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when it comes to making sure I'm the only one with access to my data.

As MichaelGG points out, maybe I was wrong to assume that my data was safe in the first place. In either case, yes, Dropbox and its APIs are no longer on my radar.
You assume they're all paying for the power. Once you remove that assumption, it makes more sense.
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Indeed, that has been my solution.

But I'm seeing more and more authentication information being incorporated ("baked in", pre-installed, whatever) into browsers, whether it is lists of "valid" TLD's, certificates for "approved" CA's, or chosen individual website certificates.

Personally, I think this information should be cleanly separated from the software that may use it rather than pre-installed and "hidden from the user".
Zoho is the only one I know of that still offers free domain email hosting:

https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html
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What I don't get is why companies in states that allow non-competes just seem to do them by default. Someone on their legal team or board pushes for them, and then just just become defacto and no one can seem to justify them.

I may have had a conversation with a company recently where a friend was trying to get hired for a temporary 3 week position, and the company wanted them to sign a non-compete in MA that would exclude them from working in the industry for a year. The same company has presence in California. I asked the company if they have problems with people taking their experience and running off to another company and exposing their secrets- the company said they had never had such a problem in California. I asked them why they thought they'd have a problem in Massachusetts then, and why they needed/wanted a non-compete for a problem that didn't seem to actually have any material risk (they've had hundreds of employees now, if an issue were to pop up, it would have popped up by now). They didn't have a good answer, aside from the fact that HR/the board wanted it that way.
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And the moat keeps getting larger. Good for them. Yes, they are kind enough to open source this, but how advanced is the tech that they don't? And how much time have they enjoyed as the first to benefit from this impressive tech? Again, good for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
It was used as money because of its ornamental value and it derived its ornamental value from its inherent properties, for instance the fact that it doesn't perish,rust or degrade.

A cursory read of history would show that jewelry/ornaments are huge factor in the historical value of gold.
Yes! More witch hunts! That's what I was suggesting!

Seriously, this place is like Lord of the Flies sometimes.
You're absolutely right in that its critical to either kick things into gear, or know that its going to take a long time for things to happen. That's excellent focus. I look forward to shifting back to the other side at some point. Maybe in 2015 ;)