skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>'It seems like a number of newer, growing startups are making sure there are individual contributor paths for growth. What would you like to see as a solution?'

I think that making available a number of paths for growth is certainly a good thing. I expect there are size limits on such a structure - either for the company as a whole or the extent of the company that gets to experience that track.

This is something I'm very curious about - small companies which have managed to keep their employs happy, well-paid and continuously growing (as individuals).

>'Also - do you think it's that their overwhelmed, under-trained for the new demands of the role, or something else that causes so many managers to fail?'

I doubt there's ever truly a single source for manager failure, but if I had to bet on the most significant variables in failing in a typical situation I'd say:

* Promotion Beyond Competence:

Happens for all sorts of reasons - nepotism, stereotyping, political maneuvering (puppet appointments), adherence to tradition and many more.

However it happens, the person is not properly equipped for the role, in the worst case it's to such a degree that they don't recognize how far they fall short.

* Lack of Ambition / Urgency:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, don't fix it. There's too much risk. No reason to rock the boat and jeopardize a steady, comfortable paycheck.

* Unmanageable People:

I expect lots of people have never worked for a good manager of any measure. That bad experience makes them utterly certain that anyone who isn't 'in the trenches' 100% of the time useless - a drain on their productivity.

So, once the good one comes along - the one who will make him/herself an impenetrable human bullshit shield for 98.6% of every day in exchange for a 5 minute status report - they refuse to offer up that barest minimum.
I do it by choice. Win is a solid platform with many ways to get the perks available under *nix.
Don't sweat it, I recall Meteor went through the same thing way back when - cool core technology, no security or other practical considerations - and look at them now, $11.2M Series A from A16Z. You can never have too many JS frameworks doing cool new stuff pushing the limits on what's possible on the web, launch warts notwithstanding.
There are several well-moderated subreddits. AskHistorians, AskScience, and Science all come to mind. Even some of the very highly trafficked subs do amazingly well (yes, with some bumps).

And there are exceptions as well, as there is abuse. The ability for fringe interests to effectively hijack subreddits is a particularly troubling dynamic. See the case involving, of all things, xkcd discussion on reddit:

http://www.dailydot.com/news/xkcd-reddit-moderator-drama/

http://wizzley.com/reddit-holocaust/

There are some interesting reddit rules which play into this:

• subreddits are considered community, not personal, resources. If a subreddit's moderator goes AWOL (fails to log in to reddit for 2 months), the sub may be assumed by another moderator. Note that merely failing to moderate a sub isn't considered AWOL.

• Once installed, moderators are not (or are only very, very rarely) removed by reddit admins.

• To clarify, moderators are ordinary reddit users who moderate subs. Admins are actual paid reddit staff who run the site.

• Senior moderators can remove more junior mods. There's no provision for voting among subscribers or moderators in the event of perceived abuse.

• The generally recognized remedy is to create an alternate subreddit with different mods. This happens with some regularity. You'll now find /r/xkcdcomic as an alternate to the original sub, and with a subscriber count approaching that of the original.

These rules are generally laid out in the reddit FAQ: http://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_moderators
"Some more great features: [...] Billing"

"COMING SOON!: [...] Billing"

Looks like a nice service, but things like these always make me cringe a bit. Also: No pricing :(
Not knowing when someone has to go or worse, having the confidence to make them go. Far too many cannot organize their thoughts properly to justify it to themselves or even HR.
By choice. It runs my older hardware better than anything I have found and with 8.1.1 pro I can run Ubuntu Server in Hyper-V which is a Type I Hyper-visor. That combo gives me the best of both worlds. I would also consider purchasing a Mac book pro to run this setup if I could get a guarantee from Apple not to "sabotage" the setup in someway, still honor the warranty for the hardware and let me boot to windows without using Bootcamp. As the the rest of the world catches up to the Mac book pro's screen quality, if Apple officially supported different OS's I think they could steal a huge amount of users from the OEM's.
Starbucks logo looks nothing like those round icons they've used under "Some more great features" but why did I immediately think of Starbucks when I was looking at them?

I'm not even a coffee aficionado.
>I could not find a better product in that category

Really? What were your considerations? I'm always told that the Sony Action Cam is better quality.
I'm trying to think of a situation where you could accidentally throw a camera out of a speeding car..
Nick Woodman founded this company on a $35,000 loan from his mom in 2002. The rise of this company has been amazing to watch. It really is a great product line. What's most amazing is how the camera basically marketed itself with the rise in both action sports and online video. Some damn lucky timing.
I run Arch Linux as my main computer with a Windows virtual machine using VGA passthrough for gaming and Windows apps.
Is this app new? Very interesting. Can you give us a run-down on how it's different from You&Me?
Who would buy a Mac when you could just install OS X on a PC? (Note: I don't necessarily subscribe to this viewpoint, but I think Apple do, and have historically. And I speak as someone who was cheap enough to buy a Mac Mini and bring my own monitor - the only way I could justifiably afford OS X)
Blockquotes have been supported in markdown as the ">" prefix since the very beginning. It's a mystery that HN doesn't support it when even reddit does.
I don't think it's bad on its own, it's just cliched. I think its frequent use in the "Peanuts" comic brought it to widespread anti-fame.

To me, starting a story (or movie) in the middle a giant fight scene, and then jumping "12 hours earlier" is the contemporary equivalent lazy opening. It just means you're not trying, you're relying on convention to create drama.
I'd say product releases could introduce a significant amount of variance.
Precisely my point. I've raised the issue specifically with Yonatan Zunger, and got a very typical Google NIH response.
Hi guys, I'm very curious about the effects of this. What is the network like? Can you characterize it in terms of latency, dropped packets, bandwidth?

Say if you wanted to upload/download a megabyte of data to a datacenter in the US using TCP with retries, would it work eventually with high probability?
They are pretty difficult to destroy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-KvtA20v8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6n1MwXCcs
Thanks for sharing - the description of your situation echoes my self-questioning in similar situations. My own post analysis now makes me always consider if there a clash between my personality and work culture? Sometimes these differ and you don't want to be the manager that the work culture has moulded. I am not a whip or hard ass, I am there to take a certain load that permits the workers to do their job. Management requires all the things you mentioned, but sometimes the workplace has developed a culture where this isn't possible. Most companies mess up management, and often the people that aspire to it don't pull their weight and think it is a promotion to tell other what to do.
I battle this daily. IE9 can barely render its own chrome, let alone content on a webpage.

A couple months back, a certain project I was working on was taking over 45 seconds to render. 45. seconds.
Couple has been around for 2 years (used to be called Pair).
noob question - I saw this on HN sometime last week https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-...

"This will allow JavaScript programs to leverage sophisticated optimizations that were previously only available to native applications written in languages like C++ or Objective-C."

Would famo.us have any utility once Apple moves to that version of WebKit?
Weird, why would it fail after reaching the US?
Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer. And as others have mentioned, nothing gets you more battery life than OS X on Apple hardware.

Not sure how any of the various Linux package managers are more "standard" than brew on OS X...
GNU/Linux, in particular Slackware. I always keep coming it back to it no matter how much I distro hop.
I like the general tone of the page.

"Finally, in keeping with the gravitas, high seriousness, and general bignitude of the contest, the grand prize winner will receive … a pittance."
Because I have a 8 year-old boy, and a wife who takes care of him well.

I want him to have a great education, wide knowledge and experience, and be ready to face life well, be kind to others, be equipped to work hard and make good money, be a good husband and a good father.

That takes lots of time and money, and is completely worth it.
I love the Hero 3 too, but I found the footage I shot with it just wasn't that great until I got a quadcopter (DJI Phantom) to mount it on, along with a gimbal to stabilize it. The footage you can get out of a $1000 rig now is amazing.

I wouldn't be surprised if GoPro acquires DJI, or DJI IPOs themselves in < 5 years.
The internet allows people who believe in fringe nonsense to find each other and reinforce each other's beliefs. In the past, this only happened with mainstream nonsense.
Interesting - for a company/app that has to value security in order to keep users (unlike other apps, where sharing to a larger audience adds value) I could only assume that this type of marketing would only deter people and/or cause existing users to think twice about their data. I can just see Sally sitting with her iPhone in Charlotte, NC, looking at this thinking "Oh that's so sweet...what a minute how do they know I'm sending a txt to my bf in NYC?"
This is not true. Unless something has changed recently, college football on ESPNU is not shown on ESPN3. This has caused more than one game I cared about to be (legally) unviewable for me.
Reddit is certainly a model of what a web community could look like.

MetaFilter has taken a different approach. The market is telling its team that approach is not economical. Perhaps there's some ideas they can borrow from sites like Reddit that baked more crowd-power and automation into their models from the get-go.
What revelation from today? This story was originally reported over a month ago in the Washington Post.
Google for "oil tanker algorithms"
Yes, and that's the problem: HSBC avoided criminal charges.

[0]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...
Really like seeing those long distance connections being made. Kinda awesome to think about couples making it work even if they are in the opposite hemisphere.
Someone seems to message from Hawaii to Korea a lot. The visualization is taking the loooooong way to get there, instead of the short path, a portal on the edges of the screen. It's causing a bit of noise in the middle of the map. That's an interesting visualization problem for another day, I guess.
Thinking that native scroll is not important puts you outside of the average. That's fine -great, even. It is where the innovators are. But you need to prove your point, and so far you have not. That's why an opinion like yours has detractors.
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It's unfortunate that Intel didn't consult Kahan earlier in the design process of the 8087, when they could have designed a base 10 floating point unit, as recommended by Kahan.

At least for spreadsheets and other accounting software, as well as most uses of JavaScript, IEEE 754-2008 decimal64 arithmetic is more appropriate than IEEE 754-1985 binary64 arithmetic. It astounds me how many professional programmers report bugs that aren't bugs but misunderstandings of binary floating point rounding. Excel has some ugly display hacks to hide some of the binary floating point number quirks from users, but this results in some numbers that display identically but are not equal according to the = operator.

Given the wide birth that programmers give to floating point number comparison and rounding, I wonder what would happen if a browser vendor shipped a dialect of ECMAScript/JavaScript that used decimal64s to implement Numbers. I haven't read the any of the ECMAScript standards in full, but I imagine this would be a non-conforming variation.
I like the GUI experience of windows. Nothing can beat it. But Linux gives me control. I just feel at home with Linux whereas in Windows there is some kind of uneasy feeling.
There's nothing bad about the phrase "it was a dark and stormy night" per se. However, that's not the full opening line. What follows is the most abysmally convoluted sentence imaginable:

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."^[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Clifford
There's also the Lyttle Lytton contest[0], which is a similar contest that limits entries to 200 words, plus has some additional contests. I'm a fan of the Found contest, which is a competition to find the most unintentionally bad/silly thing that's actually been published.

[0] http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
IANAL but I think the alternative for Credite Suisse is to stop doing business with the US and US-based companies.
#BigData #BigLove
Sounds great, thanks for answering.
No offence by I cannot read anything on your website because the native scroll doesn't work, nor does my keyboard ( I had to scroll using my mouse-wheel and it was not smooth). That is neither 1) nor 2), it's 101.

How can I trust your "Ready to start building a beautiful UI?", when the basic tenant of a UI in regards to a webpage is missing.

If you did this to any popular website it would be a mass exodus in no time flat.
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(Sure, but let me preface by saying I have a B2B startup, but we sell media/ads. SaaS is a bit different... this is just my opinion.)

I'd guess most of the time you do want to list at least some prices. My point was just that, while annoying, it's not always wrong to make people call/email.

Sometimes the price indeed will vary and you want to make sure you understand what the client wants and that they understand what you're offering them. And, either way, you want to start a dialogue. Enterprise products don't generally sell themselves. If you have a product that will save a company hundreds of thousands of dollars, the challenge isn't going to be whether it's $199 or $299. It's going to be, Do I believe it will work for me? Is my data safe? Is there an SLA? It's likely a human will be needed to navigate the sales process. The point at which they're asking, "What's it cost?" might be the best place to insert someone. And if your product costs $10,000 a month, that's probably doubly true. Not many people are just going to pop a credit card number into a Stripe form for a $10,000 buy.

Put another way, it's entirely possible that the people you lose by not listing a price are easily outweighed by the deals you close by encouraging people to contact you. People shopping for products based mostly on price are probably not great candidates for your "expensive" enterprise product anyway.

EDIT: patio11 has a post about enterprise sales that, as usual, is very insightful: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...
By way of Andreas Schou at G+: Malthusianisms

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418

Why, in real life, do we ever encounter hard instances of NP-complete problems? Because if it’s too easy to find a 10,000-mile TSP tour, we ask for a 9,000-mile one.

Why are even some affluent parts of the world running out of fresh water? Because if they weren’t, they’d keep watering their lawns until they were.

Why don’t we live in the utopia dreamed of by sixties pacifists and their many predecessors? Because if we did, the first renegade to pick up a rock would become a Genghis Khan.... [See Aldus Huxley's Island for a particularly depressing exploration of this concept.]

Again and again, I’ve undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn’t have been a Nash equilibrium. Clearly, then, I haven’t yet gotten good enough at Malthusianizing my daily life—have you?
As an aside, anyone got recommendations on learning the skills scottm01 mentions? "people skills, budgeting, planning, and politics"
I just wish my primary work was on Linux. I started with .net then kind of stuck with it. Not that it's bad but I just wish I had more choices.
Google won't let me put adSense on this site because it's too simple
Similar experience.
I've had two job interviews where I answered a lot of the questions with, "I have no experience with that, how does it work?" or "Not sure, but sounds interesting". In one case they asked me to complete a technical challenge while watching over my shoulder using their tech stack just to see how I would try to solve their problems not a CS 101 exam question - which I would just google anyways). It was a great interview process. We discussed my approach during it, they helped me understand their method, we got to see what it would be like working together. In both job interviews I was offered the position, not based on my immediate IT skill tree, but character compatibility and demonstrated ability to learn.
There was an interesting talk on this at Linux.conf.au a couple of years ago, trying to figure out why modern binaries are so large. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbv9L-WIu0s

> Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell, Matt Evans

> The 'ls' binary on the original release of Unix (version 6) was 4920 bytes long. Thirty six years later, 'ls' on Ubuntu is 105776 bytes. Is this the laziness of modern coders? Increasing features? Does 'cat' really now do 313 times more stuff, or is there something else going on?
No, it wasn't.

Today's revelation is that the NSA records and stores 100% of the phone calls made in the Bahamas.

The Post's revelation was that the NSA records and stores 100% of the phone calls made in an unnamed country.

These two countries are distinct. Read the actual article we're discussing.

I'll quote:

> In March, The Washington Post revealed that the NSA had developed the capability to record and store an entire nation’s phone traffic for 30 days.

(...)

> The Intercept has confirmed that as of 2013, the NSA was actively using MYSTIC to gather cell-phone metadata in five countries, and was intercepting voice data in two of them. Documents show that the NSA has been generating intelligence reports from MYSTIC surveillance in the Bahamas, Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines, and one other country, which The Intercept is not naming in response to specific, credible concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence.
Usually YC companies are newborn (duh). That said, new companies can't afford the hassle of hiring a remote worker mainly because the work schedule is chaotic at first and people need to meet face-to-face in order to achieve the bigger picture.
Also, from a VC standpoint, I rarely trust companies that don't wanna go through the hassle of relocating their people (especially, engineers).
Thanks for all your work Jessamyn. I've lurked since 1999 and found a lot of useful information over the years (has it been 15 years already? it seems like it just was yesterday!). Made a small donation just now.

Too many valuable things die or are simply discarded these days, whilst utter nonsense by 17yo's that have no purpose get funding in the millions, which are rapidly squandered.

I respect your decision. I also suspect that Matt seriously underestimates the amount of goodwill the site has generated over the years... There's no shame in collecting on this.

PS Get off my lawn young'uns.
21 and I can't Wear Shorts?
I used Google Maps in Japan in January 2014. It worked perfectly.
HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2: A Performance Comparison for Python
There are many words on that page but hardly any content.
Maybe as a common mistake, I read a number of "management" books before accepting the promotion. The one that stuck with me was Managing Humans by Michael Lopp. That is much more people skills and some planning.

Budgeting seems to differ significantly by company culture and practices, but is probably the easiest to get help with from peer managers or your accounting department.

Politics I have no idea.
Nice article. Not just for beginners either. Ive been debugging javascript since IE6 and didnt know about

"If you click the braces at the bottom of the developer tools, they will “pretty print” the code. It makes it a little bit more readable, but it’s still difficult to decipher.

(granted, javascript consoles were a bit different back then: http://notetodogself.blogspot.com/2008/08/debug-javascript-i...)
You are only busy if you choose to be in this country. However, how you make the choice is implicit by your level of consumption. I am happy to live on 30k/year even though I make almost 200k, because in 5-10 years, I don't want to be so busy.

You can make the choice--either live an extravagent lifestyle and remain busy, or live modestly for a decade or less and then do whatever the fuck you want 24 hours a day.
Criminal charges against individuals (though rare) have long been part of the mix, but charging the actual bank entity can have a devastating impact on the company and all of its employees. A felony conviction against an organization disqualifies it from many core business activities, and many large corporations have bylaws prohibiting them transacting with such entities. Insurance companies won't underwrite them on certain things or charge higher rates etc. A perfect example of this is Arthur Anderson.
Don't know about you, but that's pretty cold for me!