skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft only has license to the Nokia brand through the end of 2015 (Nokia is still a separate company).
http://jolla.com/
This is a great idea, and very generous of you. I hope it works out.

I am working on a website for small farmers to make it easier to sell what they are growing through marketing and simplified sales. I would be interested in setting up a small test farm, or just providing early access to what we are working on for whomever does use the space.

Send me an email at brad.bdavis1 gmail (or anyone else interested). I would like to chat.
Report: Malaysia Airlines flight crashes in Ukraine
The triads are at a higher level. Once you get down to individual contributors there is typically a high ratio of Dev and QA to PM (maybe 1-2 PMs per team of 15), and usually a couple more Devs than QA. I'm not sure how widely those ratios are enforced or how much it varies from team to team.
4. Verbal offer and acceptance.
5. Email offer letter and acceptance.
6. Official offer and acceptance.
7. Send contract over in advance to review.

This seems like the wrong order, as I would call that the opposite of "in advance". Job seekers should see a contract before accepting any job.
Can't wait until it reach version... 5
True. I should rephrase that to say that if the Android phone isn't in a market where local apps can possibly invalidate the need for the top tier apps in Google Play, for example Weibo in China, then the AOSP phone isn't going to fare well (I'm looking at you Amazon Fire Phone).
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There are some early reports indicating that the plane was shot down. Absolutely heartbreaking!
Plane shot down with missle over Ukraine
Generational collectors can pick any strategy for each of their generations. What to pick depends on language, and what characteristics you want to get easily.
I would love that so much, but public choice theory makes it clear that that is anything but the easy solution. I'm fully and 100% in favor of that idea though.
1) GA is arguably not 1 of their core businesses.

2) Most people do deep analysis with GA and it's hard to do that with a mobile app. So it's not critical to release one so fast.
The best 4X game I've ever played is called "business". It's incredibly deep and complex, never ceases to surprise me, has unbelievably versatile multi-player options, and requires constant creativity to come up with winning strategies. One of the great features of this game is that the points earned in-game can be spent in any shop in exchange for goods and services. For example, you could earn £5000 points in-game and, after paying tax (one of the more annoying features - who asked for that?) you can spend that at the Apple Store to buy a spanking new computer. How cool is that?

There are all sorts of scenarios available, and depending on your starting resources and chosen strategy the game can provide a vastly different feel. It's really good, I recommend it.

One big downside compared to traditional 4X games, though, is you're never really in control of anything. So if you really crave that sense of control that you get from having a well-organised empire and steamrolling over your opposition in the controlled environment of Civ-like games then you will want to go back to the traditional computer-based versions from time to time.
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I have worked in two industries that hire a lot of ex-military with essentially a high school level of education.

The first is nuclear power. A lot of the people working in the control rooms are from the military, and it is a very high paying and comfy job for someone without a college degree. The other is high skill technician and assemblers in manufacturing.

The things these jobs have in common is they need a strict adherence to rules and procedures, which is something military training makes people well suited to.
I hope the ex-Nokia people start a phone company.
That wasn't a merger that was IBM dumping a low margin business unit.

These Uber mergers never seem to create any lasting value
I was just thinking of doing this yesterday, you should email it to him! Could be fun to try to do this for all overly wordy corporate email/announcements.
re: #1 point is less about cost cutting per se in a lot of cases and more about creating a more efficient and productive organization by firing people who are a drag on things. of course, this is microsoft we're talking about here, so ymmv.
Being in YC does not guarantee that the companies will use ethical marketing strategies, unfortunately.

Remember the InstallMonetizer incident while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
Reuters: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile
The problem with the $25 handsets is that they are unusable abysmal pieces of junk. I've used an $80 Android and it was impossibly horrible. The 520 is pretty neat and performs well. My daughter has one.

I'm one for Android though so I settled for a Moto G 8Gb which is just about the lowest price Android handset that actually works properly.
I want to be clear that YC has no preferential treatment on Product Hunt and you'll find TechStars, 500 Startups, and other accelerator backed startups featured with as much adoration as YC startups. Earlier this week we also helped promote 500 Startups' WMD conference in the email newsletter.

You're right that voting rings, if not dealt with, can hurt the authenticity of the rankings. We have mechanisms to curb that and thankfully guidance from YC/HN on how to deal with this as the community grows. In fact I met with Daniel Gackle a month ago to chat about this.
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Coincided with yes, but saying it was the result of is making a fault with logic as I am sure you are aware.
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Good catch, I was not aware that he was involved at that time... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_%28game_designe...
The Russian/Ukranian border isn't very safe these days, specially with a plane being shot down just a few days ago... and this just happened a few hours ago: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/ukraine-claims-...
Wish this wouldn't have been yanked off the front page!
I think a lot of this won't be dependent on whether or not the submission is for a YC company, especially since the submitter is often not associated with the product being submitted anyway. I do agree with you about the practice being part and parcel of the startup world though!
Dup. There is an earlier link to cnn
From the NYTimes:

The Interfax news agency said the airliner, with 295
people on board, crashed in Ukraine near the Russian
border and that it may have been shot down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/world/europe/malaysian-jet...
Dup. There is an earlier link to CNN
I've been nabbed by police in China for walking in the wrong area with a camera. It's not the end of the world when it happens, they just have to make sure you're not some smart-ass intelligence agent trying to pull one over them. They're generally quite nice and just doing their job. I suspect the US and UK would be less lenient. China's actually surprisingly relaxed as long as you're a little bit adaptable.
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Hey! Don't tell people that! We build rockets! And all of our software has to be manned-flight-rated! (Including people.nasa.gov!)
I agree with your overall sentiment that you can't just lay bald facts out there, devoid of context and expect great things to happen.

However,if I were famous enough to propose a Sokoloff's Law, it might say "If your goal is to increase transparency, you've failed once the phrase 'realign our workforce' or 'work toward synergies and strategic alignment' creeps into the draft."
Interesting - where is Ansible clumsy?
Malaysia Airlines plane 'shot down by Russians' and crashes in Ukraine
It sucks that people have to lose their jobs, but Microsoft isn't a welfare program, they exist to make money, and that drives all of their decisions.
Reuters quoting Interfax reports that it was brought down by a surface to air missile. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/489795394411712513
If the job is unnecessary why would it be a good idea to "save" it?
Reports are stating they believe it may have been shot down.
I found the disclaimer interesting.
The product started out as an invite-only platform for "product people" who Ryan Hoover "knows and admires" so it was a voting ring for a valley in-group since day one.

That it's managed to get so much traffic and now seed funding says a lot about how the Valley works, and probably not in a good way. It's literally a platform for someone's friends to upvote each other - "conflict of interest for YC" doesn't even scratch the surface.

I do think the platform has value, but only insofar as that it helps those who are playing the VC game by showing them what a certain "in crowd" thinks is cool.
Malaysia airliner crashes in east Ukraine
I wrote a small driver for the NT kernel, a mini filter driver ( for a project named SyncDisk a thing that did the same thing as dropbox but windows only, in 2007), I was not a device driver per se but I do understand the concepts.

What I'm implying is that the architecture of new computing devices such as the surface or ipad, imacs etc, is changing the nature of the interfacing with expansion ports; devices are getting connected via standard connections like usb which is now very fast (5Gb in v3 IIRC?), and now sport their own system on chip with built in drivers to the hardware.

At the same time, standards are solidifying, and as such, standard drivers built into the os are getting to be good enough for all the features. For example, my midi usb keyboard connects to the ipad without any drivers. My camera connects to the surface and shows up as a usb drive without any drivers.

The last time I manually downloaded a third party driver (not part of a vetted distribution) was to use up the last ounce of performance for a video game on a pc rig, in 2011.

So if device drivers are now part of the OS burden, they are at the cost of the os provider; and as such, how are the abundance of unmaintained- semi-maintained pieces of code derived from winDDK samples floating around an advantage?

Thanks for reading this far, I'm really interested in this discussion! And I won myself another down vote!
Why do you feel the need to escape spaces?
Malaysia Airlines Plane Crashes in Ukraine With 295 on Board
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Reportedly it was over pro-Russian rebel territory at the time, and that's where it ended up landing.
Facebook is in a much more efficient business. Presumably, many Microsofties are doing on-site hand-holding, stuff that Facebook just doesn't do.
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I don't know why your submission wasn't visible (you might want to contact the PH team directly about that), but with regards to your point about the startups trending that have existed for months: it doesn't matter when you launched, it matters when you were discovered by someone who uses PH and then decides to submit you. All links are hand picked, but they're hand picked by members of the community, then voted on by the community.
You know capitalism works when a company gets $5 per handset for doing absolutely nothing. The patent system is totally farcical.
Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine with 295 aboard
The majority of the tweets you're referring to are notifications to founders when their product is on Product Hunt so they can answer questions that arise. This leads to (1) a more interesting conversation and (2) fewer bummed founders. We started doing this more actively after receiving emails and tweets from disappointed founders that didn't know their product was featured until days later.

Also, we're not using an automated script to send these tweets.
Well unfortunately given his background not surprising shows a cultural cringe and poor leadership by using long 10dollar words where simpler less waffly words would be better.

I could see him being Graded cat 4 "in need of improvement" and put on a PIP in one company for that less than stellar performance.
Interesting.

'Cisco figured out that mergers between similar sized companies rarely work, as there are frequently struggles about which team will control the combined entity.'

I recall asking people there about why they didn't acquire certain companies that I thought would make a lot of sense from a technical / product perspective.

The typical answer was right in line with that quote - that Cisco stays away bigger companies that others might try to swallow at high cost.

That they look for logical acquisitions of specific products in the few hundred million dollar range, not billions.
> Lenovo has taken the Thinkpad line down the toilet

I think you're overstating things tremendously here. ThinkPad is alive, and from the reviews I've seen, doing well. http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/28/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon.... Many buyouts end with entire products being canned.

I still have an IBM ThinkPad. They were good quality back then, but I really think the standard-bearer today is MacBook.
Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in Ukraine near Russian border
Thanks, Ria. I like your hunts and comments. :)
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I've been looking for a library that handles the CRUD forms, but is not tied to a specific back-end... I don't see a category for that kind of thing. Anyone know of anything like this?
Same here. I think a) It's fairly common to refer to famous people by their last names (Gates, Jobs, etc.) b) The show is "The Colbert Report", so "Colbert" works as a shortened version. Hence, "Did you catch Clinton on Colbert last night?"

In any event this sort of usage is pretty typical.
> No-one remembers Sid Meier's flight sims.

Don't say so :) . One of early books of Victor Pelevin describes "a problem" one avid player of F-19 had because he played too much.

Some players still remember that F-19 had an interesting "unreal" bug, which allowed to fly without fuel arbitrarily long (and quite slow). Upside down. It was possible to start playing the first mission (say, Russian North) ranking as lieutenant and land the first time in the highest possible rank with all imaginable awards. F-19 was, in a sense, interesting enough to be remembered.
ehm... http://jolla.com
http://www.civanon.org

The subpage with the video (feat. Sid Meier) is offline now, but the video itself isn't.

http://www.civanon.org/movies/trailer.mov
Thanks!
A previous similar talk is the first link here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ianmiell
Last known position right around Ukraine/Russian border.
>vorg: That's a fascinating view of recruiting albeit myopic. A recruiters role is NOT to shanghai people or break up a happy home. Given the confidential and highly personal nature of the business, a certain degree of trust and transparency is always required.
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I understand your point. However, its not necessarily people who are drag will get fired. Many smarties , especially one who keep to themselves will be included as well.

I feel sorry for those who are being let go.
Or the rapgenius fiasco
I'm afraid the memory management scheme might cause the Nimrod ecosystem to end up with too many libraries that require GC, and since the building blocks are already using it, why not use it yourself?

Either make it fully manual, or do something like Rust (No small feat). A GC you can switch on and off sounds like a good idea, but programmers don't keep half the promises they make ("It's just an MVP, I'll refactor it to use manual memory later").
We don't have one PM/test per dev, no. My team is currently something like 8 devs, 3 testers, 3 PMs. There was an internal shift to change the test/dev ratio to something like 2/3 or 1/3 (I can't remember exactly) instead of matching it. I don't know of a team in my division that has a 1:1 for PM or test to dev.
I sincerely hope that is not true.
It means less severance packages will have to be paid out because a lot of people won't want to be in limbo and will resign on their own first.
Pretty ignorant to be flying over a conflict zone. I'm sure some common sense would have avoided this.
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No the good people line up a new job and volunteer to take the redundancy package win win!
Where can you get a $25 Android handset?
Hmm, we're not going to kill your application on this alone, but we are going to ask you about it, and talk in depth about how you're going to manage whatever it is. Many people underestimate how hard working in a startup is vs. a more established company. We're not talking in terms of hours either - we work a normal 40 hour week and never weekends. We're talking more about taking responsibility, etc.

If someone is moving to a new place, changing jobs, starting a family, or something else major, we just want to make sure they've really considered yet another factor. It can be no big deal, but we have had some candidates remove themselves from consideration after thinking about this, even if we were willing to move forward.

It's interesting seeing this through the USA lense - we're absolutely not talking about time commitment (which I guess is the default American perception of what we'd be referring to) but instead more talking about general quality of life and sanity for everyone.

And yes, I realise I misspoke a bit on the parent by using "making sure we're not" - more like "making sure we're intentionally addressing it and discussing it"!
> 3. Aircraft pilot and flight engineers
This was very much unexpected.
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Hey Thibaut! Co-founder of Parse here. I think your use case is perfect for Parse. But, don't take my word for it. You might get more responses if you post in our google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/parse-developers
Err, "the cause of spreading freedom"? Forgive me if I'm lax in my 'meri-rhetoric, but isn't that the same one where we're either with you or against you? Doesn't seem to have turned out so well for recent victims of assistance, now does it? (Iraq, Afghanistan...)
You're describing unsupervised training. It works with computers too, as in this article on using Google Brain to build an unsupervised image classifier.
http://www.wired.com/2012/06/google-x-neural-network
They want MH to bankrupt...
i'm not at Microsoft. But, think from prospective that someone could be having life event. Some put years worth of efforts that including physical, mental energy into MS ( or previous Nokia ) , planned something and now potential job loss could be trigger to disaster.
Nice, congrats! I read Product Hunt pretty regularly.

What's the big picture plan for Product Hunt?

Are there going to be features like a directory of products, in addition to new launches? I agree with others that it's a lot like Show HN still, and have always hoped you'd build more specific product-focused features too.
I actually feel that the post isn't even just about people who don't know that linking to a line number in a changing file will result in incorrect information later. I think it's more that when people link to code, they think it doesn't matter, so it's not something they actively care about. So they don't take the extra time to link to the actual commit since it's not a thing they care about.

I feel the authors real value in their article is a call for people to care about correcting their links for programmers in the future. The article would be better served to say, "Why you should care about linking in time to your GIT repo"
Isn't the Donetsk area a war zone now? Why do commercial flights fly over it?
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So handy, definitely using!

Kudos, specially because it's also working with exotic unicode characters like ☃ (Snowman) or ☯ (Yin Yang).
First thing that came to my mind, too.
Interfax said it was shot down. Russia - via their ambassador at the United Nations - denied involvement already.

Let's hope this plane won't be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.

Edit: I am talking about the US-Russian relationship deteriorating because of the (blamed) intent, not the number of casualties or the strength of the Malaysian army.

Edit 2: Thanks for the links on previous situations like this. Reassuring.
Regardless of what caused this plane to go down, how Malaysia Airlines survives as a company going forward will be study in crisis management for many years.
Well, Chinese sky space is tightly regulated. If you are a law-abiding citizen, just try to learn them first, then post some article with less-misleading titles...
One of the cooler research topics going on now is the use of block copolymers for even more precise lithography, at the nano-scale. Really interesting stuff!
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>At that cost, the licensing fees eat up a significant chunk of profit.

There is no longer a license fee for devices with screens under 9 inches for Windows.
If 80% of Marketing go, I'll eat my shoe.

Actually, I'll be shocked if 10% of Marketing go.

What you're forgetting is those are the people that are best at justifying their own existence.
All the reports have clearly stated 'international air corridor'. Pretty ignorant to be commenting on the issue without actually reading the article. I'm sure some common sense would have avoided that.
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They closed airspace up to FL260 (I believe). The 777 was probably at FL360 or above.
I don't have any specific tech related ones but these are my favorites:

* Radiolab - pretty interesting science related stories with interesting audio production.

* This American Life - pretty standard but always good

* Snap Judgement - another storytelling show, I switch between this and TAL.

* Savage Lovecast - mostly sex talk but the questions provide cultural insight I think.

* Alt Latino - discussion and mix of latin alternative music.

* The Splendid Table - variety of cooking topics.

* A Podcast of Ice and Fire - yes, i'm an ASOIAF fan and like hearing about rereads and book theories.
Still, there are times when GC is fine for a particular application. In those cases, Nimrod is pretty fantastic, especially given its metaprogramming capabilities.
Especially considering the fact non-commercial planes have been getting shot down in the last few days in that area.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28345039
Because the whole infrastructure of the web depends on it. Including Google's $380 billion market cap.
5th hull-loss and 2nd crash with fatalities for 777.

EDIT: I am not saying that 777 should withstand SAM attack. However these numbers are remarkable and show the reliability of the plane that have been in operations for almost 20 years and flew in all corners of the world.
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You know, companies with the size and wealth of MS sometimes employ people just to have them NOT innovating elsewhere. Consider 18K smart people freed of that as the bright side.
Also, the GC can be controlled, so you can set exactly when it is allowed to run, something like this for a game:

gcDisable()
while true:
gameLogic()
renderFrame()
gcStep(us = leftTime)
sleep(restTime)

http://nimrod-lang.org/gc.html
I'm wondering, if it is confirmed it is a missile, are there any precedent of civilian plane shot-down like that in modern history (post WWII)?

Edit: Thanks great replies!
Congrats Ryan and co. Really enjoyed the live chat several weeks ago and good to see things are still going well.