skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The greatest challenge will be to see how Dropbox is able to integrate so many teams/developers successfully over time. It will be interesting to revisit this post in a year from now and see how many Predictive Edge (or their other acquisitions) former employees are still with Dropbox.

AcquiHire is becoming a real trend in the market. I think the key drivers are a lack of available talent willing to change companies and misaligned remuneration. The lack of talent is a common thread. Misaligned remuneration is something more interesting and likely to affect existing devs and companies more and more.

If you are in that high echelon of dev talent, you can find someone willing to offer a good salary and the promise of x% of potentially something large in the future. Or now, you can launch your own company, throw out a flashy project to demonstrate your skills, and by acquired by a Dropbox (or it's ilk). This way, you will likely get the same salary, the same promise, but a significant signing bonus upfront.

How companies are going to react to this trend will be interesting. Will signing bonuses and ongoing bonuses make a significant return?
Not only does HN not support markdown, but it breaks links you write using markdown :)

Really nice work. Question - if you generate the private keys client-side and use a password only to decrypt them for use (still client-side), wouldn't this make associating accounts across devices kinda difficult? As insecure as email/password auth is, it's pretty portable.

Looking forward to playing with bitauth!
Blue Sky White Clouds Sun Umbrella
Let blue sky and white clouds always be with you!

This is an elegant, stunning, and beautiful umbrella. This umbrella has a double canopy - which means a top and a bottom cover which covers the ribs of the umbrella. The outer canopy is black and the inner canopy is blue sky with white fluffy clouds.Keep the UV away and still leave you blue sky and white clouds.

This fabulous sturdy umbrella also has a good opening mechanism and a really comfy handle too.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that you are effectively blocking someone from participating in their chosen profession if they don't continue to work for the same company for whatever reason. Just because his connections were valuable doesn't change the fact that he was also valuable - Amazon shouldn't have the right to keep him from using his experience in his profession.
Let me translate that. "don't blame me i voted for kodos"
Oh, c'mon. It's the iMac minus a monitor. Any developer probably has a monitor.
All but four nations are subject to NSA surveillance – new Snowden leak
Here are some that I've asked:

1. "During your most recent budget period, what influence did politics rather than the merits of budget requests have in distributing resources, and in what ways?"

2. "How heavily influenced by politics (or upper management) is the performance review process?"

3. "Has anybody recently been let go as the result of being ranked lowest on a performance review?"

4. "Are managers subject to performance improvement plans?"

5. "When was the last time your HR department found in favor of an employee over management or upper management when a dispute arose?"

There's a bias to these (if it isn't obvious). But experience informs me that answers to these questions offer a good insight into how the company really operates. If they are honest answers (they won't be, most of the time, if they're answered at all).
I like the interleaved comments with the header and body format. I wonder if the authors knew that unidiffs already support comment lines? From the PATCH(1) man page:

"After removing indenting or encapsulation, lines beginning with # are ignored, as they are considered to be comments."
i personally like having the oauth option. saves me from remembering what username i used with the site, and I dont have to type a username and password since i never sign out.

i set up a pinterest style pig sharing website for fun, and i really enjoyed it when i added the fb login option
If legit submissions are getting booted by your voting-ring detector so often that you need to ask readers to take action to prevent it, then the detector is broken. It's not the readers' responsibility to change our habits to make up for your broken mechanisms.
So the workflow is generate asymmetric key pairs, generate SIN, sign the request with your private key to verify?

How exactly does it work for multiple devices? Each device has its own key pair and an unique SIN? How do we connect multiple SINs as one user?
The right to free speech is meaningless if it encompasses only the speech with which we already agree. Unless speech represents an imminent danger to society, restricting it is wrong and an abridgment of fundamental western values. This principle applies to hate speech, bomb-making instructions, and reviews of prostitutes. Distastefulness and moral indignation are not legitimate grounds for restricting speech.
Jacobi's Method Gets a Makeover and Yields Answers Up to 200 Times Faster
A Way to Reverse Coronary Artery Disease? [pdf]
There are many interesting programs that don't ave any guarantee that they terminate. A a few that don't really terminate, ever.

In fact, if you click on the launcher menu on your computer, I'll bet most programs there just keep going, until some random event (AKA clicking on an "x") throws them out of the loop.
- How do / would you interact with [role]? What do you most want from people in [role]?

- What do you like / dislike most about working here? (I'd typically lead with like for obvious reasons).

- What surprised you the most after you started working here?

- Relevant questions you discovered when you did your homework on the company.
"There will never need to be a jQuery equivalent in Dart."

You should read the "Criticism" part of this page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%29

Apple, FF, MS are all against Dart.

Google "percentage of website power by Jquery" and tell us how are you going to convince 50% of websites to abandon JQuery and use dart.

Dart today = GWT of yesterday!!!
Well shit. Much like 90% of their acquisitions (Sparrow, Simplify Media, etc) this means the death of a great and popular service which will no doubt be shut down by December, or at best on life support, with the engineers raided to build stupid G+ features nobody wants.

I hate Google.
I know you think it might come across antagonistic in an interview, but I wouldn't be offended if you came in and asked us these:

> Who's the weakest person on your team?

The newest hire to our company. It's not a total ordering though, every person on the team has weaknesses.

> What do you mean to do about that?

Make sure to put people on things that they're good at is the first thing! Don't put someone on something where they're not set up to have the ability to achieve success. My main job is to figure out what's getting in your way and attack that directly so you can just focus on being successful. If there's doubt about whether someone would be successful here then we'd rather pass on a candidate.

> When's the last time you lied to someone here? How did you rationalize it?

Never. It destroys any credibly you have to lie. That's one of the biggest red flags I could think of. I'd encourage anyone encountering a boss that lies to quit.

>Are you on any medications? Do you cheat on your spouse?

No. No.

> What are you most insecure about?

I used to be insecure about my ability to obtain sales from customers, but after having to do it over past 3 months and focusing on the basics I've become much better and we're now on a great track on the sales side of the company. Be aggressive about going after your weaknesses!

All of my answers are honest and I'd encourage you to hear about the experiences of other people on the team. I'd also encourage you to reach out to anyone who has worked with me in the past through any backchannels you have- that will give you the most unfiltered picture.
The Binary Strategy: Why Businesses on Extreme Ends Will Win
Even the EFF now is recommending Bitlocker. Interesting.
"Results: Of the 198 patients with CVD, 177 (89%) were adherent. Major cardiac events judged to be recurrent disease totaled one stroke in the adherent cardiovascular participants—a recurrent event rate of .6%, significantly less than reported by other studies of plant-based nutrition therapy. Thirteen of 21 (62%) nonadherent participants experienced adverse events."
Crackpot conspiracy theory: Microsoft is whispering in the IRS's ear. The joke's on them: Once a piece of open source software has a foundation around it, it's pretty much just a bunch of people re-coloring widgets.
"Methods: We followed 198 consecutive patients counseled in plant-based nutrition. These patients with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) were interested in transitioning to plant-based nutrition as an adjunct to usual cardiovascular care. We considered participants adherent if they eliminated dairy, fish, and meat, and added oil."
It's not just money. Modern regulatory agencies are highly technical. People outside the industry simply lack the necessary experience to be effective. The intersection of people who have the relevant technical experience, who don't come from industry, and who want to work at the FCC or FDA is very small. Usually when regulatory positions aren't filled with industry people, they're filled with career bureaucrats. Would you want an agency full of career bureaucrats to oversee say the software industry?
This same argument applies for almost everything related with the internet and technology.

When you use TOR you should be aware of the trade offs.

The golden rule is don't trust something you don't understand, even if you do, don't trust.
Always Be Coding
https://medium.com/@davidbyttow/abc-always-be-coding-d5f8051...
I am none of the things you mentioned (well, I'm not really a Microsoft booster) and I got downvote privileges within 3 months of opening my account. I'm not sure what it is you've been doing to draw ire, but it's far from universal.
Looks great, super clean and crisp.
"Thus, 99.4% of adherent patients [cardiac patients who switched to a whole foods, plant-based diet] avoided major cardiac events."
Wow! I all ask this on my next interview.
There is 6th edition too: http://www.amazon.com/Internetworking-TCP-Volume-One-Edition...
I agree that this is a problem that hasn't been solved yet. Two things I do:

- Label papers in Google scholar. It's a bit of a pain though.

- I put all the PDFs into Dropbox and have a folder hierarchy. I can access Dropbox from all my devices and 3rd party apps.
If you define it that way, then there is an unlimited potential to extend illegal speech to everything.

Shut down the poker sites because they facilitate illegal online gambling. Shut down the bitcoin sites because they facilitate money laundering. Etc.
Because Skynet isn't Skynet without Songza!
These days: I stick them in labeled subdirectories, sync my machines using BitTorrentSync, and use an org-emacs file or two to keep notes.
Not awesome, but it keeps most of the visible work flow within emacs (which can view PDF files these days).

A friend does something similar, but uses BibTex to keep track of things.
I liked the mention of Ansible (which thankfully abstracts away the need to log into a server via SSH altogether), but the author left out the fact that you can easily use any ansible module (250+ right now, more added all the time[1]) to manage your servers ad-hoc.

Or use the same syntax to build a playbook that you can run to manage infrastructure with the `ansible-playbook` command. Since Ansible uses SSH as it's transport (in most cases—you can do it other ways), if you can connect to a server via SSH (and who can't?), you can have it completely managed/version-controlled pretty simply.

[1] http://docs.ansible.com/list_of_all_modules.html
Not to a moderator; to a YC partner. Moderators' Hacker News looks different, and you're going to have to wait till one of us leaks another screenshot to see it.

I feel like since it was we who slipped up, fair game rules say we owe you guys an explanation of what those bells and whistles do (warning: you may find it disappointingly mundane), so I'll come back and post some more in this thread later. By coincidence, however, I was out all day, so had better catch up with anything important first.

Edit: Ok, I think I've answered all the questions about details. But let me add the most important point here.

The interface that you see in that screenshot is not actually used by anyone [1]. Those links are there for legacy reasons. Their principal role at present is to lure YC partners into accidentally fat-fingering things. (Don't worry; that doesn't happen often, and we see it in the logs and correct it.) They don't exist in the YC-partner version of Kevin's new HN markup, so they won't be around much longer.

1. The only exception I can think of is that Trevor occasionally helps out with moderation.
There is, BTW, an excellent chance that it won't work, since Microsoft stopped making them ages ago and 90% of the available models are shitty Chinese knockoffs with Microsoft branding.
1. no, it helped them.

2. yes, it facilitated prostitution.
Trying to compete with versionpress.net?
I guess I've interviewed over a hundred candidates over the years. I always end with: is there anything you'd like to ask me? I can't recall a single meaningful conversation that ensued as a result.
Papers app for Mac (http://www.papersapp.com/mac/) is probably the best that I've tried. For other platforms I'd suggest Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/).
If you're the fifth person I've spoken to that day, any questions I have about the company have most likely already been asked and answered. Would it comfort you or worry you to find out I'm asking questions I already know the answer to just for the sake of appearance? Or is there something else at work here I'm not getting?
Widely known? I've followed the game for decades and haven't seen this. Messi takes a lot of punishment and rarely flops too.
If the dudebro frat brogrammer scene is the "software industry" you're trying to keep from being "ruined", then I say we ruin it as fast as possible.

And yes, Brandon Eich got run out of town because of his political beliefs. They ran contrary to the stated beliefs of the organization he was going to run. When you're the CEO of something as public as the Mozilla Foundation those sort of things will be scrutinized. If he was just running Brandon Eich Consulting, LLC no one would have thought twice about it.
> "High level corporate sales is basically buying a suave guy who has a rolodex of people who can make purchasing decisions."

If you're buying a guy with a rolodex, do you really own his rolodex or are you renting the use of it?

If said rolodex was created on Amazon's watch, with Amazon resources, you can make a pretty decent claim to ownership, but if those contacts pre-dated Amazon, then (not legally speaking, morally) can Amazon really lay ownership on it?
Sure, but this is why pretty much every resource on Tor stresses the importance of end-to-end encryption for sensitive or identifying info.
The article referenced doesn't seem to support your statement.
Gentlemen for rent
So the gist is:

SaaS taken VC funding? Do not touch them if you will rely on their service because they might suddenly disappear in an acquihire and you should have expected it, ingrate. [1]

it is Sound advice, although if everyone took it to heart none of these start-ups would succeed in the first place because no one would use them because of the expectation they will be gone shortly. [1]

Poisoning the well of goodwill for future start-ups.

[1] Unless you can get a contract for X months / years of service as detailed by patio above... I cannot remember this as an option by any of the SaaSs that feature on YC. They try to be low friction "Just put your credit card details in, pay monthly and ignore the elephant." They RELY on people ignoring the above.
I was under the impression that non-competes were legally implemented not to stop employees moving, but to stop an owner from selling a business with goodwill, and then starting up a competitor across the road and reducing the goodwill be retaining their old customers. I have no evidence, but had assumed that the modern non-compete enforced on employees by employers came out of a precedent based on this law and has slowly gained acceptance. Happy to be educated if somebody knows more.
You reminded me of a classic DailyWTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Special-Delivery.aspx

TL;DR Coal futures trader accidentally takes delivery of coal barges at his harbor district office building.
... and then sellers and banks start refusing to do cash-like transactions and they're no good for anyone.
It wouldn't require that all programs terminate, just that all functions terminate.
Bradman survived the 'Bodyline' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline) series where the bowlers (pitchers in American parlance) literally targeted the body to injure the players and to hamper Brandman's prowess. It had the desired effect (Brandman only averaged 56 for the series as opposed to his career average of 99.94) and resulted in multiple injuries.

I think he would do just fine today.
> And Silicon Valley of late has faced criticism over a lack of diversity among its ranks, which are overwhelmingly white and male. Facebook, for example, recently disclosed that just 31 percent of its 6,500 workers worldwide were women, and in its United States offices, more than half of all employees are white.

These are two wildly different statistics to group together. 31% is low for females in the work place. However, programming is in the archetypal "male" job category along with doctors, lawyers, etc. 31% is actually the ratio of female lawyers in the US. It's also markedly better than the amount of females in executive officer positions in Fortune 500 companies, which sits at 15%.

As for the latter: of course more than half of Facebooks US employees are white! More than half of all Americans are white! Non-hispanic whites are 64% of the population, if you include anyone who self-identifies as white or European American you're at 72%. What is Facebook supposed to do, black it up?
EZchip to Acquire Tilera, a Leader in High-Performance Multi-Core Processors
"No matter Who is talking" =/= "no matter what is said"
this is what I use. The only thing missing is a nice quick cli text search to compete with spotlight/mendeley text search. i have yet to try pdfgrep and such.
"Ability" isn't a single variable either. There's a combination between natural talent and hard, determined work. For instance, many people thought Ricardo Quaresma and Cristiano Ronaldo had similar amounts of natural talent as young players, but Quaresma wasn't as determined as Ronaldo to become the greatest player in the world. Conversely, Michael Jordan's contemporary Charles Barkley didn't really have Jordan's natural talent, but made up for it by working exceptionally hard. So you have at least two (and possibly more) variables, all of which have to reach extreme outliers together, to produce an athlete like Messi, Jordan, or Gretzky.
I'm less familiar with US law than that of commonwealth countries, but in Australia/UK/NZ at least a contract is automatically formed when there's been an offer, acceptance and payment for a service in advance. ie. If you've paid for a year's service and that service goes away after a month you're entitled to compensation for the rest.
The Type System of Mathematics
One more vote for Zotero. It is an awesome nifty software, that I liked more than Mendeley. Yes, you will have to install Firefox plugin. The built-in features automatically pull the paper name, and tag authors too. I got fed up from downloading 4fgh7u.pdf names from ACS sites, and Zotero solved the name tagging, then collating into directories and sub-directories very easy. You can save webpages too etc. I totally recommend it.
So you're saying a company that profits from disrespecting artists around the world is troubled?
Startup lets you sell your job before quitting
Ask HN: How to get a job as a systems programmer?
I will be looking for a full-time software development job soonish, I see that a lot of jobs are frontend or backend. I'd like to sit a bit below on the stack working on a kernel, a database, network programming, distributed systems or the like. Where do you suggest I look for these jobs or what kind of things are employers looking for in a recent grad?
> why don't we have significant outliers in female in tech given the low barrier to entry at the root level.

cause of shit like this at tinder
To be a fly on the wall to watch the internal witch hunt to find this person. Call out the hounds!

Sadly none of this sounds surprising. Maybe I'm just jaded from years of working for others or maybe I'm noticing more and more of these stories lately. Shame.
I'd add:

- when copy/paste is disabled via javascript

- when javascript is required for the form to work
Just my 2 cents, but I'm going to wager that facebook didn't sufficiently anonymize the data. I'm basing this on the fact that facebook merely skewed the existing data.

I wish government officials would at least get with the 1990's. I'm guessing this was little different than switching between the 'hot' and 'controversial' tabs on a reddit page. No data was changed or modified, just the way it was displayed.

It was AB testing with winks and frownie faces.
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Ask HN: I've bootstrapped a tech ed startup. Now what?
My startup does brick&mortar CS ed, but it also does some interactive java tutorials: https://www.ktbyte.com/intro . I feel like most of the companies in the space I'm in are venture backed. I'm not. Should I be?
>> So bad I figured I should do something.

What is it that you're trying to do, by the way? Warn off potential employees? Warn off potential investors? I can't help but feel this is coming from primarily a place of resentment. I'm not saying it's all made up, but I'd take this with a grain of salt as it's likely biased and perhaps taken out of proper proportion.
totally true that negotiating for oneself is very easy than the rest of the team. back when i was working (before taking studies), it was easy to get my pay raised, however later as i became team leader, and when i tried to raise the pay for all of my team and that never really went through.
By Greek culture they mean frat culture, right?

No surprise the company is doomed. They're illegal.
...anything else wasn't encouraged by the legal system. The 2 parties (Amazon and employee) entered into a voluntary and disclosed contractual agreement.

Also, sometimes it's not feasible/possible to design a system where clients aren't so reliant on individual employees. For example, in the legal and finance professions, certain key people have so much knowledge regarding certain deals / events, that you can't just swap them out. It is a major investment on the part of a company to train and get someone up to speed on a piece of business, and one way to mitigate the risk of them leaving is to have them sign a voluntary agreement to not compete for x amount of time.

Obviously, this can be abused in situations where employers have the upper hand. But in many high powered positions where highly qualified people have a lot of leverage against their employer, it could help reduce costs a lot (for the end consumer also, since the risk of someone leaving and taking the business would just raise the prices you have to charge to mitigate that risk, as opposed to a non compete).
It is a huge problem if that guy can then turn around and use the contacts he gained through Amazon to compete with Amazon.

What makes Amazon different than the past few centuries of commerce?
Sounds like like a bad place to work, but this just seems like dirty laundry, and it's pretty personally nasty in parts... not really something that's HN-worthy.