skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good point. but there is a very small engineering team in france (the remainder of the musiwave acquisition) and the rest is sales and marketing that spans EMEA (europe and middle east). if there are cuts, likely not broadly hit.
What's up with that pricing? Why $6.35/mo and then $13.25? Mark it 8 dude, make the next step 15.
Indeed, great interview... thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it! Here are some of the popular ones we've done: http://blog.filr.io/we-heart-webcomics/ If we've missed any of your favorites, let us know and we'll get it done.
Rebooting the ISEE-3 spacecraft with USRP Software Defined Radios
Sorry, I took your opinion out of context. You're right of course.
How are you competing with new taxi apps? The trend today is moving towards hailing a cab through swiping a finger over a smartphone app whereas you are taking a step back to providing phone numbers like the older days? Is this based on user feedback that they are still willing to make taxi calls?
"Algebraic data types!" [waves hands vigorously]. Seriously though, I agree. It's a very solid run-down of all the main ways OCaml is cool. I'll probably link people here if they ask my about why they should bother with OCaml.
And "powerful type inference"? For Go? Doesn't it just do local implicit typing using the RHS type straight as the LHS's?
Introduction about the Aluminum PCB
Then creating a "skip break" button would probably be a better option.
Hurricane season and electrical outages will still exist in 15 years and paper has proved to be the only storage medium that doesn't change every 20 years.
I get what you are saying, but you do make it sound like the (older) people with children are the worst ones, by virtue of having children or being older. Also there is a reason why these measures are in place, being that people with children have more risk (more expenses and responsibility) and are less mobile. And older people typically have a harder time in the job market.
There are plenty of people without in-demand skills who are locked-in to their shitty jobs because they need the money.
Google Adds Support for Bitcoin Conversion
As much as it will sound as a non-answer, the best solution I could find regarding cold email was not to cold email.

Beyond the spam issue, I can tell that I had horrendeous statistics when cold emailing, and I've found that the extra work of getting introduced was worth it more often than not.
End of WWII Model Shakes Up Aerospace Industry
as someone who was there during this time as well, this is a truly excellent write up and captures the issues really well.

I don't think the company ever recovered from the drag out of the cuts, and many people stopped taking risks and instead kept their heads low and looked over their shoulders to ensure they wouldn't be let go.
They are looking for Digital Nurosynaptic solutions. Traditionally it has been Analog. Can someone explain how would it work out?
As far as I know (which is very little), you're right - disabling the ability to produce light doesn't disable the camera as long as the software thinks the light is on. There are likely hardware-only approaches but they may be prohibitively expensive for a feature no customer wants to pay for.

That's the big difference between designing a light for the owner's protection (who probably won't disable the light and will notice if it breaks) versus a light for the protection of others (who might not know to look for a light in the first place, especially once Glass evolves to look like regular glasses).

There's a laptop accessory market for physically blocking camera switches with state determined at glance. Wearable cameras may need to adopt a similar mechanical approach for today's social expectations, but putting switches on your face is somewhat at odds with designing away from the Glasshole Borg look.
The person who needs instructions for reading a research paper probably ahouldn't even bother. I've seen way too many graduate (including doctoral) students need to be spoonfed how to do things. These people never turn into original thinkers who are capable of even slightly meaningful output (contributions to their field), in my experience.
Yeah, I doubt this has anything to do with mobile. Microsoft has a lot more technologies than mobile. This has way more to do with the insane hierarchical structure they have in place.
Depends on the country, to be fair. I could earn 10 times more if I could just bite the bullet and relocate to west.
you should assume ~200k for an engineer in a market like seattle
Mindhacking
AirBnB's new logo sucks, this guy made a better one
pulses? I typed it into google and found this:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=597698...
I ask my students to read this: http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf
Yeah, in fairness I can see that's kinda insane. I guess I just get aggravated when I perceive people treating the issue as a simple decision, whereas the emotions around having/not having children are anything but.
What do you mean "again"?
A reasonable question; I don't know why you were downvoted. Per the article, the spending will be in the US and Europe, but I don't know which European countries. If you're engaged in research then your best bet would be to contact them through your institution.
I don't know this in particular, but these days just about any analog circuit can be implemented in digital with better resolution, smaller die area, and lower power consumption.

(In analog domain, your resolution is limited by SNR, in digital, it's limited by number of bits).
I'm intrerested in that as well. And why would it want to know whether the call is active and what number is it connected to?
Nice explanation. I had some similar problems with my project found here: http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html

In the end I had to use the queuing of AudioBufferSourceNodes as explained. In Chrome I could use the loop function and refill the loop buffer myself with a timer. Unfortunately this didn't work under Firefox.

A worker thread for the whole emulation might indeed help, but you have to copy the buffer via messages to the master, which also produces a lot of timing problems. Additional, copying the whole screen buffer with 25fps slows everything down.
Inside Google Brain
It is very hateful for the hackers to put keylogger on the hotel PCs. However, there are some real and legal keyloggers and you have to pay for them. I have used Micro keylogger. Before I bought it, I had compared many keyloggers. Except for slight differences, many of them work the same way. However, Micro keylogger is the cheapest as well as the most full-featured. After having tried the free trial of kinds of keyloggers, I chose Micro keylogger. It is really a good choice at present.
http://download.cnet.com/Micro-Keylogger/3000-2162_4-7537529...
Just remember that when you say

"someone wants to buy a number of shares at a quoted price"

what you really mean is

"a giant investment bank or hedge fund with some privileged
information about a stock wants to buy so many shares that
they actually need to go to multiple exchanges to satisfy
their demand"

and you'll be all set ;)
Still got them? I'd be interested in one .. assuming you're willing to ship to Austria.
Ask HN: Bootstrapping an alpha version of a new app
Hi

I am entrepreneur bootstrapping a new sort of a music collaboration app. Also, I have no technical background.

Just wondering if people have some rule of thumbs for how much they would/should be paying for an alpha version before they reach out to investors.

I had a quote for an MVP by an Eastern European company:

Design - c.$1,100
Programming - c.$7,500
Days to complete - c.35 business days

Just to give a bit of background on the MVP requirements:

1. Sign up screen required
2. Two main screens:
- first main screen is basically a screen where users browse between musical projects and select one they want to listen to. Users basically flip between enlarged images where a bit of information on the project is placed on the image
- second main screen is for the selected musical project. In this screen users can see a list of all the audio tracks contributed to the users and click to play this audios
3. Need to develop a server side to handle audio tracks being uploaded by users for storage and streaming for other users to listen to

Does this sound like a reasonable price? If so, would you bootstrap this or seek early investors?

Thanks
What I see
Perhaps you missed my screenshot later, in which I reveal that this is also possible from Finder's Spotlight? It's equally reminicient of "smart folders" or, effectively, saved searches on either Windows or Mac platforms. I'm not saying the whole thing could be replicated, or isn't easier. I'm just pointing out a potentially simpler approach for power users who would read HN. :)
Biotechs on the level that YC would fund don't have much incentive to ask for this money. The government has this one covered with the SBIR grants, which come with very few strings attached. While these are clearly not perfect, they don't leave too much room for low level investment.
> Nobody is suggesting "just don't have kids".

I disagree. I see people suggesting that on a regular basis.

I absolutely agree that it's much better to wait and plan more, and we need to encourage people to do that as much as possible. We still need to collectively realise that our society will always have poor people. That being the case, my opinion is that denying the poor the moral right to reproduce is unfair.
Data for Good hopes to complement HN and DataTau (today on VentureBeat)
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Well the TCP load balancer is pretty nice. Our EC2 load balancer (HTTP, through heroku) seemed to die all the time.
I wonder if they simply ignored all the negative connotations with Incubus when picking the name because it was 'oh so good a pun'.

I.e. very male-centric, all about preying on women, ...

I also hear Brandon Boyd is a mentor.

I'm possibly exaggerating
This is why you got paralyzed in conversation. And how to fix it
Your first comment:

> Guys are less subtle -- we're wired to be more attracted to the binary good/bad aspect of things. The male power dynamic is powerful/weak. Girls sweat the details.

You clarify latter you are "offering an observation & opinion on a topic of controversy." but there was no way to tell that from the original comment.

A reasonable number of people would read your first comment as a strong held believe perhaps even nearing towards stated as fact. In some the perceived strength of this statement would help them reaffirm their similar believes through the a bandwagon like effect.

Conscience or otherwise, to counter act this effect many seem to respond with counteracting strong statement.

> I assume that you're deeming "Girls sweat the details" as a dismissive statement.

I would think it is more likely the "wired" part of your statement which many would interrupt as meaning genetically or inherently and elimianting/diminishing the involvement of social/cultural momentum.
Airbnb Redesign – What works and what doesn't?
It's an idea and a blog post. It is a good thing to try. For the U.S. market there are many legal and regulatory opportunities for you to grok before pushing forward this scheme. My first question of "will I get sued for placing these icons on some jobs" has a likely answer of "yes".
A redesign that works mostly! Check out my initial thoughts on it. Thanks
Comments / feedback / questions appreciated
In before reddit front page.
Companies exist for one purpose, to create shareholder value. Shareholder value / the net worth of a company is traditionally defined as the value of future cash distributions.

It's not a matter of taxing once or twice, it's simply a matter of how much taxes have to be paid before the owner(s) get the proceeds. A company's tax rate is effectively the percentage of the company owned by the government. Since corporate structure dramatically impacts the tax rate, founders are forced into playing the game, paying for more complex structures that legally reduce the tax rate, in order to retain a greater share of what we build.

Keep in mind, of the 6 million companies which have employees in the US, 5.9m of them have less than 100 employees, with total sales/receipts of $7.7 trillion, in 2008. That's just shy of a quarter of total U.S sales/receipts. [1]

It's a bit better now that dividends are taxed the same as capital gains, but unfortunately what should be the simplest / easiest / gold standard way of doing it -- the C Corp -- is still highly tax disadvantaged to other more complex forms, for the vast majority of businesses.

The tax code as it stands is a massive drag on productivity and growth. There's literally trillions of dollars of opportunity for improvement here through simplifying the code.

[1] - https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
That quote is from the UK high Court judgement. This isn't a journalist with an axe to grind, but a UK high court judge.
I remember seeing Vint Cerf speak at LCA - he's a very good speaker, and great at keeping the crowd's attention. He mentioned that his biggest (professional) regret was not separating TCP and IP more thoroughly - it turned out that the layered model had worked wonderfully, and this mixing of these two layers caused later problems, unforseen at the time.
We use geb which is a Groovy DSL around Selenium which makes for very readable test descriptions.

http://www.gebish.org/
Make it: Valuable, then easy, then fast, then pretty (the startup commandments)
Small nit: the website uses a <video> element and only provides an Ogg Theora video. This means that the video isn't visible in Safari on OS X and iOS, or in Internet Explorer on Windows. In Safari on OS X this results in an empty set of controls being visible for the video element. In Safari on iOS I see a non-functional play button where the video would be. Furthermore, since the <source> element doesn't have a type attribute browsers have no way of knowing up front that they can't play the video and are forced to start loading the video to determine if it's playable.
Clickable:

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/08a2dg/vint-cerf-pt--1

Part 2:

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/x9hnxr/vint-cerf-pt--2
Am I the only one who honestly doesn't see any problem with the new logo?
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

I personally have mixed feelings about Avdi Grimm's approach. Some of his small tweaks are brilliant. Others feel to me like OO going totally overboard for no good reason. That's where I identify more with Gary Bernhardt's views. In that sense, DAS is perhaps much harder to replace.
I tend to disagree. Everyone has to do even the simplest of tasks for the first time and reinventing the wheel is often a waste of effort.

If you think that everyone just knows how to do this, take a close look at your last set of reviewer comments; were all of them pithy, accurate and demonstrating a close understanding of your work?
Which guy? As far as I can see this is a link to 152 different entries, spanning multiple 'guys'.
One challenge is that naturally talented people often don't understand why the facts are insufficient. Others who are less talented often needed to develop political skills for survival. Agree that those links are basic (hence Politics 101), but convincing technical folk to care about this topic isn't easy.

One needs to understand offense in order to play defense. Here are some books with timeless techniques for those with ethical intentions:

1) Herb Cohen, You can Negotiate Anything (general)

2) Chris Malburg, How to Fire Your Boss (labor)

3) Robert P. Smith, Riches Among the Ruins (sales)

Re: big meetings. Herb Cohen points out that most meetings are the end of the negotiation, not the beginning :)
Had to stop reading after you literally used the phrase 'this one weird trick'.
Looks good; I'll be doing the same thing and passing this on to the students.
Transferable buffers solve the copying issue, but I don't know if they are usable for your scenario yet.
Slow and Steady is Bullshit
Well, if it's important, I don't need convincing.

Anyways, at work we printed badges similar to this one: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/449910996832751616/PXOr...

and give one to a person who solves a problem only to be able to continue working. Too bad only a friend and I understand the concept -- makes us laugh even harder, though.
On a related note, I just realized this week that there was an entire category of software dedicated to doing something I've been painstakingly doing manually for years, organizing your collection of papers.

They are called reference managers, and will extract the title/year/author/abstract so you can quickly glance at that obscure "iccp2012.pdf" you downloaded last month and know if it's relevant or not to your current task. Provide full text search on your entire collection, synchronization between home and work, etc.

Coming from an engineering background I had no idea these existed, but it sure will save me a lot of time and frustration.
On the same line as the previous comment, I would recommend you to capture hot leads, at least interested in the theme of your business. There are many ways to capture leads that can also become a steady stream of potential customers to convince that your business is their best choice.

If you need more information about this, ask me without problem.

As for the cold sending emails, you can use SendGrid or services like this to send.
If you were running a busy restaurant, and some guy knocks on your door and offers you a website RIGHT NOW, for a low-low price of $100, would you take it?
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Everything looks like it is covered in a thick layer of dust.

Looking at these icons makes me want to lick my finger and swish across my screen to remove the dust from those.
Flexbox is not ready for use in projects that need to work with the browsers people use today.
s/paper/code/g and you get a nice read about code review
That's a really good site. I tend to build workstations these days, but have several friends asking me for gaming build advice; I can point them there.
In my opinion, this is key to all of this.
I don't have those bad experiences and can't understand where all these problems come from.
In my experience, from a country which is not usa, kids and teenagers are perfectly capable of making new friends constantly, sometimes they slowly stop hanging around with some of them, occasionally they get into a fight about some specific situation but they forget the day after, maybe they don't get along with somebody or whatever, some friendships last for less than a year and some last forever. But all of this without the drama and the suffering everybody is mentioning here.

So I can't understand when some say "that's life", because that's not life and saying so stops everybody from looking for an alternative.

When I was a kid and later a teenager everybody used to tell me "enjoy your time in school (and later in college), cause once you are out of college your happiest days are behind". That was, in essence, wrong. But it was true in many senses. And that's how it should be everywhere. We should put every effort needed to make it so.
ugh. embarrassed by my uncharacteristic rambling... :/
> sex differences shouldn't be grounds to accuse people of sexism.

I have often seen people hold the assumption that you have a strong opinion on exactly what the mental difference are between male, female, etc with out good research to back it up then it is likely due to sexism.

What percentage of people are jumping to conclusions arbitrarily rather then allowing their conclusions to biased for their own ends. Most seem to assume the latter is more likely.
So I take it you think the entire field of behavioral genetics should be banned?
If they bumped the numbers up $50k and advertised that, I bet they'd get a lot more applications, assuming they're in a tech hub or allow remote work.
The idea behind cultivating them is that wild ones may come with diseases.
Anyone got a link for outside of US? Or do I need proxy/VPN to see this?

Edit: Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ann2q4VPiF8
I'm guessing it's the dog
if you're excited about decentralized blockchain tech like Bitcoin and darkwallet, you should look up amir taaki and unsystem. they're looking for space:

https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/UnSYSTEM/Opensource_c...
While I agree that this is appalling, I think the article misses the point entirely: she got sued, and lost, not because of her criticisms, but because she told people not to go to that restaurant. The former is fine and a proud part of France's cultural heritage while the later is, unfortunately, illegal: it's considered to be active steps to hurt a business or person.

So while, technically, she did get sued because her article was highly ranked on Google, what really happened was that the article's high google rank allowed her illegal article to be spotted.

Whether or not it should have been illegal in the first place is entirely debatable, but given current french laws, the fact that she was sued and lost is perfectly logical.

And before the whole "but but... freedom of expression!" crowd comes in: that is not a thing in France. There are some subjects that are illegal to talk about - you could, for example, go to jail for denying the existence of concentration camps (Gayssot law of 2005, I believe).
It looks like something rude someone would draw on a bathroom wall.... :S
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SpiceMe is not just another dating or hookup application. It matches you based on astrodata such as birthdate, place and time with someone who is more compatible to your personality. We connect you on the basis of four criteria; love, sex, friendship and physical attractiveness and you can choose to connect with your match using one or more of these criteria and if you choose to match then we help you fix dates and earn points. This unique feature of differentiating between love and just sex will help you find your match in a more reliable and accurate way. So let us help you find your match. Don’t wait because your match is waiting for you.
Soundwave evolves into a group messaging app for music lovers
> I believe that Microsoft has more contractors than it does employees. That is just crazy.

No, that's smart business if you can do it. You basically remove the burden of tax-minimization and continuity of employment for these people from the corporation. Overall cost might be slightly higher in cashflow terms, but it removes a lot of risk and liabilities.

From a worker-rights perspective it's terrible behaviour (back to the XIX century, choo-choo!), but it can be a very good strategy for a company.