skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the guy who can ensure those rail tracks get repaired does have a ton of leverage, and reaps the reward.

It's not just the guy who pulls out a broken rail and nails a new one in place. Finding someone to do that isn't hard or expensive. It's the guy who knows who will do that for a competitive price in a timely (urgent) manner, can ensure such guys are available to thousands of miles of track, has enough replacement track on hand & well-situated, owns (or can rent) equipment to move such long heavy rails to where needed fast, has personnel handling all the QA & regulatory burdens to ensure those rails won't likely fail soon after installation, etc etc etc; few people are willing & capable of pulling all that off. Rail replacement also includes paying some to do "BS jobs" which those with the money & responsibility know are needed, even if seem largely pointless or distasteful to most casual observers. And yes there's some abuse buried in all that; human nature is far from perfect.

I didn't fully appreciate how some earn their keep until I joined a startup. Organizing productivity demands talent and risk, without which (and obtained/retained by salary) very little resembling corporate productivity would happen. Yes, swinging a hammer is valuable; knowing who should swing it, where, when, and to what purpose - moreso.
I disagree with your point. IPO implies a hope for future return, whereas lotteries are gambling for entertainment.
What, if anything, has already prevented any nation-state from conducting this synthesis?

Isn't the cat out of the bag already?
Reminds me of http://www.p01.org/releases/20_lines_Castle_Wolfenstein/
> We know the NSA has found weaknesses in certain implementations of elliptic-curve based cryptography in the past

No, we don't.

Even djb wants people to use ECC. Note that End-To-End supports not only NIST's curves but also djb's.
> The helium balloons are all “floating” around 1,000 feet to the southeast of New Zealand

I can't make soup of that.
There's actually a hard limit. e.g. Retina displays are as good as you need because they are finer than the eye's ability to distinguish.

Likewise there are only so many hours in the day, and days in your life. There is a hard (large) limit to what you can do in a lifetime. We may be increasing what we desire as resources become cheaper, but it is increasing asymptotically to 'what a person can consume/experience in the hours they have'.
We should have an email-only signup option very soon. Is there any other 3rd-party signup you'd rather use?
Well, thanks. I don't yet have enough infrastructure in there for the elegance to come out quite yet. Working on it.
Politicians are in nearly direct control of their own pay. Or at least much closer to the source of decisions when it comes to deciding salaries.
Heh, that's actually a neat idea. The profile of people which regularly send/receive encrypted email is basically geeks right now. Key off of the "-----BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE-----" bit.
Take any notion of "beta" off your site. You want people to sign up thinking it's production ready and start test and improving your funnel based on a trickle feed of new visitors. Use A/B testing and talk to people that leave their details on why they did or did not use it and improve accordingly.

Watch this video for background: http://vimeo.com/54118238
Deciding "worthless" is up to the person paying them. I may have an opinion of what my job is worth, but my employer has a much larger view of that worth than I'm privy to; if he's willing to pay me $X, then (perhaps to my bewilderment) my productivity is worth $X.

Sure, there are stark anecdotes, but on the whole the aphorism applies: a thing is worth only and exactly what another will give for it.
According to Lattner himself, looks like the decision to open source has not been made yet.

"@Ahti333 right now we are focused on finishing it up for the final release this fall."

https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/473907124288770050
My ECMAScript 7 wishlist
> There's actually a hard limit. e.g. Retina displays are as good as you need because they are finer than the eye's ability to distinguish.

I'm sure someone will see value in a gold retina display. And if we get that done, I'm sure we'll start selling retina displays that have been baptised on pluto by the pope himself.

There is no limit.
> I did quit for real.

Oh, I believe you. Been there, done that. I figured I'd absolutely never be back here.

> Eventually it got better (in some ways anyway) and I started sniffing around again.

I'm really happy that you're back.
This seems like an awesome project. I have two issues. One people get tired of moving between systems, it's an easy sell for me to move to something better, but a hard sell for my team. Two, how does this product ensure security for intellectual property?
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Frantic energy as a defense against impotence.
I just get this after clicking the extension icon: http://imgur.com/oBoNgI1
If Swift has namespaces why are classes still prefixed? "SKScene" for example.
Segment.io (YC S11) is looking for an Android team lead
We're looking for an extremely good Android engineer to help us change the way people approach mobile analytics.

This is a perfect position for someone who loves building clean APIs for others to use. You enjoy not only building mobile apps, but writing the libraries that power those apps.

You'd be working on current and new features of the mobile SDKs themselves, as well as helping to write code for where they touch our Node.js backend, where we process hundres of millions of events per day. And you'd be in charge of our entire Android offering, which is used in product by lots of big companies like Live Nation, Nest Labs and Angie's List.

You'd be joining a team of very talented engineers that are in love with open-source (we have more than 200 open source projects). All of our SDKs are open-source, as is tons of our codebase[1]. So if you enjoy working with smart people and getting to make a name for yourself releasing the things you work on to other developers, you've found the right place.

Not only that, but you'd be working on a few of our still-secret mobile projects that we're pretty confident are going to change the way people integrate third party code into every mobile app they write afterwards.

[0]: https://segment.io

[1]: https://github.com/segmentio

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To apply, email us at jobs+android@segment.io with:

1. a description of an app you've worked on (code is a bonus)
2. a description of a mobile library you've built (code is a bonus)
3. a link to your GitHub if you have one
4. the most interesting mobile SDK you've worked with and why
PC shipments will continue to fall, says IDC
OP here. I'm a molecular biologist at Harvard and have published several times in Nature, Science, and Cell, premier journals in our field. Ask me anything.
Evidently the "100% of users experience instant terribly painful hyper-death" mantra many would like to believe just isn't true.

His book is mainly case reports, but that doesn't mean that higher level evidence doesn't exist.
I think it very likely Apple have all kinds of 1, 2, 5 and 10 year road maps for all their products (software and hardware).

Given that almost all of them rely so heavily on Objective-C, I expect they've had a road map for that (and XCode and the whole tool chain) for a very long time.

Given the plan is now to phase out ObjC and replace it entirely with Swift, I think it's extremely unlikely Steve didn't know about it, and endorse it.
But a "cryptocoin IPO" is more like a seed round; most such investments are losses. A few have (and likely will) succeed, and quite likely at a better rate than lotteries/casinos. Why can't people choose the "entertainment with small chance of net rewards" in cryptocoin investing?
FCC's Website Crashed Following John Oliver's Net-Neutrality Rant
I thought the claim was that you don't need calculus for coding theory, not that there exist branches of advanced mathematics where calculus isn't necessary. So it's germane to produce a book on coding theory and show that the mathematics of the continuum begins literally on page 2.
hardpanel or IdeaPaint?
There are multiple distinct issues here: A) The first order effects of streaming DRM (i.e. can't watch on device without DRM); B) The second order effects of streaming DRM (i.e. device without DRM is unavailable in the market because majority of would-be users demand availability of streaming video); C) Will the studios distribute content without DRM.

What you're saying is that A) doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that B) really does matter quite a lot, and in a way that has nothing to do with downloading vs. streaming.

The ironic thing is that Hollywood is shooting itself in the foot. You want to commoditize your complements.[1] DRM is doing the complete opposite and creating a huge barrier to entry in the markets complementary to streaming video. Look at the book publishers and Amazon -- is that really the position Hollywood wants to be in when negotiating with Apple or Google? Hollywood benefits from more competition in the systems market. Dropping a boat anchor in the form of the inability to display their content on any small timer who tries to compete with one of their powerful third party distributors is masochism. Which is why C) isn't half as implausible as some people seem to think.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
Feeling that ios 8 heat, huh?
You don't have to use runtime dispatch in C++. It's pretty easy to just grep and make sure no methods are virtual. You pretty much have to go to town with runtime dispatch with languages like Java.

On exceptions, the Ada people also came to the conclusion they're necessary and that return code checking is not viable.
Odd. Have you followed the steps on https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/wiki/BuildInstructions?... then loaded the e2e_dev\end-to-end\javascript\crypto\e2e\extension directory as an unpacked extension? Maybe you don't have java so csscompile failed?
More dissatisfying jobs? Really? Have you seen what most people used to do in the past, and with what resources?

If more are indeed "dissatisfied", methinks it's because they have the relative luxury of dissatisfaction in place of the harsh existential reality of survival. As the Tappit brothers noted: the difference between two headlights and one headlight is a lot less than the difference between one headlight and no headlight. Those with Bell phones complained little because the alternative was writing a letter or walking - or not communicating at all - to another person; we complain of phones as we do now because we can't imagine not having at least a landline handy.
https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/windo...

> This is experimental, community-supported Windows port of MicroPython. It is based on Unix port, and expected to remain so. The port requires additional testing, debugging, and patches. Please consider to contribute.
Similar semantics to git... it's a super robust approach.
> Even single inheritance with multiple subclasses makes following the potential code paths mentally as many times harder as there are classes that extend or override the common base class

But that is a property of inheritance and virtual functions, not something inherent to C++. You could be using another object-oriented language and the logic would be as hard to follow. We could discuss why or why not that property is problematic, but that would be straying from the topic, which is C++.

> Exceptions do control flow, even if you just use them to report errors. They're often effectively hidden gotos.

Again, same logic can be applied to any language that supports exceptions.
Low discoverability and less efficiency are not necessarily bad.

If I need to have specific functionality available but it's not something I use 90% of the time, then I gain nothing by making it more visible and efficient. If anything, interfaces may become more cluttered.
> There are two kinds of programming languages: those that have been used to create horrible messy codebases, and those that haven't been widely used.

I think Bjarne's original statement, "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" [0], has been widely paraphrased.

[0] http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that
Board of Directors usually meet once a month. Their job is much more than deciding to hire/fire/keep the CEO.
Or maybe they could support native clients better instead of putting crypto in everyone's favourite infection vector.
Did some quick research out of interest.
Melamine and porcelain steel seems to be the most common.

References:

http://mywhiteboards.blogspot.se/2012/06/melamine-vs-porcela...

http://www.whiteboardsetc.com/laminated_panel.htm

http://dryeraseboard.com/aluminum-trim-porcelain-steel-marke...

http://www.usmarkerboard.com/s/Unframed-Whiteboard-Material/...
That's great! I did miss it.
PC manufacturers should start making planned obsolescence a feature. Just like the new phones we get today.
I don't recall making that claim.
This is exactly why I left my last company.

Two other co-founders where obsessed with doing this type of shit.
1. The site looks alright. But what's your target market? Are you selling to the Indian market? To the US market? You have this overly broad look, with a currency selector. The prices are pretty damn high for the Indian market. I can find way better stuff walking through M.G. Road in Bangalore. Have you considered that? The prices are actually pretty crazy for Indian clothes.

2. Live chat: it asks me to fill out my name and email, and then says "Offline". That's bullshit.
Let's get something straight: You have zero customers. You have zero sales. You have one job: that bar says "online", and has ZERO barriers to chatting with you. You make that thing go instantly into a chat bar (no email barrier), and pipe every single thing written in there to your phone. From now on, you are 100% online. If you get a chat at 1am, you answer those questions. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Qh-vwpYH8
Generating graphs for tracking frontend rendering performance
Another common name for these boards is "shower board."

One thing I noticed with the one I previously built was that different color / brand markers made a big difference in how easy it was to erase.

IIRC red and black Expo brand were the hardest to erase while green Expo would wipe clean even after a couple months (we left a couple of test marks on the board once we realized color made a difference to see how each fared).
"At the same time, these companies are willing to shell out huge amounts of money to paper-pushers coming up with strategic vision statements who they know perfectly well are doing absolutely nothing."

Ahh. So for some reason, private companies (or shareholders, if you like) are willing to give their money to people who they know are doing absolutely nothing. Well, I simply don't believe that.
Because then next week you go out, shoot for another 10% growth, and get another 2 users. The following week, you go out, shoot for 10% growth, and get 3 more users. And so on.

The point is to set some concrete, measurable goal for the week so that you know you're always making forward progress. I had a boss once that told me the point of Agile & 2-week iterations isn't to be optimally efficient or to do progress reports for the hell of it, it's to make sure you're always progressing forwards in a well-defined direction. The biggest risk for a project or startup isn't really moving too slowly (unless you're moving really slowly), it's going around in circles.
Thanks for a great comment. Please find my response below -

1. My target market is USA, Canada, UK, Australia and new zealand. There are lot of indians living in these countries. I think it is does not matter whether they are immigrated or born in a foreign country as long as they like indian clothes. I have seen lot of non-indians too wearing indian clothes but the percentage would be very low for obvious reasons. My target age group is from 16-45.

2. No calls on my US number but few calls on india number but they did not got the number from site

3. I know indianroots.com. I am also offering free shipping. I think they have advantage of being a big media house like money, plenty of access to media, lot of current customer base

4. I have newsletter based discount on top of site but only 4 people signed up and no one validated their address. I have live chat also but no one initiated it. I will look into your recommendations.

I will change my chat software so that we can talk with users as they browse through my site. I will offer another feedback based discount to see what they are saying abt my site, if they fill up the form.

my site is unknown\new may be that is why people are not buying anything from me.
Attn: Kivy can really use this for mobile deployements, but we use Cython and almost everyone needs cpython C modules. We need to investigate making drop-in replacements for Python.h and other cpython headers to stub out reference counting etc, which micro-python doesn't use. The compiler will just skip the calls entirely in some cases.

If these drop-in replacements are technically feasible, not only does Cython magically work, but so does a lot of the Python ecosystem. There's probably more work to get linking and other aspects working, but this might also be a model for moving to alternative Python implementations in general. As long as straight Python "just works" and the headers are available for compiling C modules, we're very close to having a sensible alternative to cpython that can grow without being wedded to it.

Please comment on technical requirements. Issue opened here:
https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/658
"... ditch all traces of the ideology that says that work is a value in itself, but rather redefines labor as caring for other people."
A friend of mine introduced me to this... one of the best moneysavers I've come across. I've had a smaller section, 2'x4', mounted on my wall for about three months. It was $7-$9! I use it heavily and it erases just like a normal board. Maybe a little more ghosting than a good metal whiteboard, and sometimes I have to put a little more effort in to erasing older marks, but nothing worth spending an extra even $10 to rectify. I've never had to use cleaner, but will just use some diluted alcohol if it ever gets bad enough.

I bought three other "real" whiteboards from big box stores or office supply stores (for about 5x the price each) in the 6 months prior, and every single one has had the surface peel and bubble from the backing, so some areas of those whiteboards are now pressure-sensitive. They are unused since mounting the new board and will eventually find their way out of my possession.
Seems to work great after a full rm -rf e2e-dev and start over.

There was an issue with the html copy step because of the -t option, fixed that and submitted an issue.
Right, I was responding to the "why would attachments be considered part of the body?", not describing whether or not the Google implementation actually did treat them that way.
I'm not sure if this is the same material but I've used what's called "Showerboard" to do this. It was $7 a board if I remember correctly. I put some particleboard behind and made a nice wooden frame for it.

In terms of "erasability" it's more than acceptable for the cost of it. Basically if you erase something within a few day it erases fine with minimal ghosting. If it's longer than a few days then you need to erase a little harder or use windex, which works just like the dry eraser liquid.

Having used the very expensive whiteboards at my previous job I don't see a big difference. The expensive ones still left ghosting and needed to be cleaned every week or so.

Lastly, I would experiment with markers. I've found that some (brand and color) erase better than others.

For what it cost, I definitely recommend doing this.

EDIT: Here is a picture of my whiteboard. https://app.box.com/s/jby2cznhev66ec1izvck
Allowing deletion of comments (especially en masse) can completely ruin a thread by rendering it incomprehensible. The combined value everyone else gets from posts not being deleted is probably greater than the benefit you would get if it was allowed.
And you may be a "qualified investor" and dumb as rocks. In which case, I have a flashy sales presentation for you!
SJCL does not support all of the primitives needed for OpenPGP.
Partner with proven ethical sales people rather than B.S. artists. As a technical person working a job, the best way for you to meet such people is to work with them in a technical capacity. If your current job doesn't give you opportunities to work with the best sales people in your company (including traveling with them to meet customers), find one that does.

And if you are a cofounder, whether technical or not, you are a business person first. If you aren't sharing your opinions on the best way to sell to your prospects you aren't doing your most important job as a founder.
Most of work, especially the corporate work that pays well reliably, isn't improving the world or helping people. It's helping individuals within companies in their campaigns for more money and more status. It's helping one middle manager become a director, or one executive beat out another one. The problem is that (a) 90% of corporate executives are completely worthless, overpaid deadweight, and (b) people have no choice where they land (under closed allocation) and have no say which boss (i.e. private-sector politician) to throw their muscle behind.

It really is amazing how much of the work done by the highest-paid people is completely unnecessary, if not counterproductive.
I wish I had cottoned on to how interesting molecular biology is when I was in grade school. But as regards this outlet, I have two questions:

1. Is the tumblr-like format not a barrier to compared to the more typical presentation of Abstract, full paper and so on? I found the UI pretty unwieldy, but OTOH that's just a teething problem.

2. As a well-established resercher, you still mention the journals as the 'gold standard' of quality. Obviously up-and-coming researchers desperately want the recognition of being published in a prestigious forum like that in order to advance their careers. What do you think would be the 'tipping point' for publication in a new format journal like Onarbor to be sufficiently prestigious for citing on a resume, attracting funding and so forth?

It's a nice site, but I can't help a feeling of 'academics reinvent tumblr, hail it as the future of publishing.'
During construction of my office walls in the '90s I had this same paneling installed over raw drywall. I was almost the same cost because the contractor didn't need to finish the drywall (very labor intensive) but rather used liquid nails to glue the paneling onto the drywall. Don't try using this paneling directly as the wall.
IIT-Kanpur unveils new supercomputer
For example, if Person_1 from a country besides USA calls an American (Person_2), it makes it ok for the NSA to spy on everyone Person_2 calls (lets call them People_3), and everyone People_3 calls (People_4) and everyone People_4 calls... I assume they follow the same rules for internet traffic so they basically get all internet data even if they are technically not allowed to spy on Americans...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/you-ma...
The presentation of the data is extremely confusing, especially with the lack of titles and axis names. Does each bin between each month represent a year from 2001 to 2013? On some charts, like narcotics and criminal sexual assaults, you switch to weekly bins with no indication at all.
> Politicians are in nearly direct control of their own pay. Or at least much closer to the source of decisions when it comes to deciding salaries.

That's only true of some politicians (e.g., politicians with a legislative role -- including in many cases chief executives -- where the pay of elected politicians isn't left, as it is in some states, to a separate compensation committee of non-politicians.)