skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not sage advice.

First, percentages are meaningless. The OP needs to quantify what's at stake in absolute terms. If he has justification to negotiate or otherwise take action to protect his interests, he should do so based on an understanding of the dollar amounts involved, not percentages. When you negotiate around percentages, it's very easy to win the negotiation but lose money.

Second, the scenario described is a huge red flag. The OP's company raised capital from investors. Ostensibly the options pool was addressed as part of the funding. The OP's post suggests that the options pool was way too small but instead of expanding it (and diluting everybody), which is typical, the company's founders and the OP are forfeiting a portion of their piece of the pie, which is not at all typical. Why?

The OP needs to understand the true state of his employer's equity structure. What you refer to as a "newly valuable company" could just as easily be a cap table disaster. If that is the case, negotiating around percentages won't save the OP from a bad outcome.
Yes, in addition to adding to any city, why can I only add a location when I'm there/I manage it.

I have a few spots in mind from when I was in Montreal but am currently in Nebraska.
No-power Wi-Fi connectivity could fuel Internet of Things reality
Random note on on scale-out, caching, etc: check out CloudFront's "whole site delivery". You can set min TTLs to zero on CloudFront, configure your cache headers correctly and get many of the benefits outlined in the article. See:

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/05/cloudfront-dynamic-content-support.html

http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2012/05/14/amazon-cloudfront-gets-whole-site-delivery-and-acceleration/

WARNING: CloudFront will dutifully cache non-2xx responses, so you can get a long-lived, but very fast, 500 response...
> Amazon reviews are so crappy. There is tons of reviews that say JUST "I haven't used this product/read this book yet." plus any number of stars.

While it's extra work I love those reviews.

"I haven't read this book but $THING IS WRONG, thus one " mean I can ignore some of the low ratings.

While reviews and ratings are weird and probably need some tweaking at some point[1] they are not nearly as bad as the weirdly broken search. I've got to the point where I would pay money to have better Amazon (also ebay) search*.[2]

[1]along the lines suggested in this thread - I might dislike a movie but love the genre; I might love a movie but generally dislike that genre; etc. So some method of saying why you like something so much would perhaps be handy.

[2] I go to Amazon.co.uk and I search for [microwave oven]. I chose a department - kitchen & home. I then sort by price, low to high. I am flooded with totally irrelevant items. (Egg cup; aluminum foil; salt&pepper shakers; children's cutlery sets; etc). You're not supposed to use search to find microwave ovens, you're supposed to drill down the tree of department, items, specific items.
Author says that only hiring from the top school is elitist and discriminates against people coming from lower ranked schools.
"The people who are really bringing in the big bucks are VCs/investors/incubators/etc (with the real estate and media companies coming in in second place)."

During the California Gold Rush (1848–1855), few actually got rich from gold. The ones who really got rich were the ones who provided services (bar, housing, food, etc) to the people rushing in to find gold.

History does repeat itself.
I agree, it's pretty sweet! Doesn't stop people from downvoting me though.
Diverse Teams Outperform Homogeneous Teams | Hacking M-Pesa
I suppose they must have a lot of extra costs. I bet you don't come cheap, for one thing.
Firebase (YC S11) Is Hiring a Senior Front-End Dev in SF
It always puzzled me why Microsoft forced the new interface through in spite of their user research showing users didn't like it. The beta version of 8 for developers had an option to switch to the old interface or the new one I believe and then it was actively disabled to force people into the less popular option. Dunno why - internal politics perhaps?
pg weighed in a while ago on this in his essay "Why To Not Not Start A Startup" (March 2007, http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html). See point 8:

"A lot of people look at the ever-increasing number of startups and think "this can't continue." Implicit in their thinking is a fallacy: that there is some limit on the number of startups there could be. But this is false. No one claims there's any limit on the number of people who can work for salary at 1000-person companies. Why should there be any limit on the number who can work for equity at 5-person companies? [3]

Nearly everyone who works is satisfying some kind of need. Breaking up companies into smaller units doesn't make those needs go away."

[more in the essay]
try not to use !important if you can. Just be more specific with your rules.
Rolling shutter effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
The audio from the 60fps video sounds pretty bad though, which I suspect is mostly because of inherent maths/physics limitations rather than anything that software can improve.

Edit: They mention capturing frequencies up to five times higher than the 60Hz frame rate, which would mean a maximum frequency of 300Hz, which would suggest the equivalent of 0.6kHz audio, which is a 73.5th of the audio rate of a CD. I doubt you'd get intelligible speech from current consumer hardware using this technique.
That would be a a silly rule, for better or worse 10 lines of Haskell might perform the computation of 500 line of Java (even if they took you the same amount of time to write.. heh).
IIRC you can't run a HyperV image inside a Parallels VM because it doesn't have access to the Intel extensions it needs. You could do it via Bootcamp, though.
Not sure you're looking at the same list. All conference on the front page have open calls for speakers. The deadline counts down to close for the call, not the start of the conference.

What other information are you looking for? I provide the link to the application, as well as all important dates for the conference.
Looks interesting.

One minor thing is that if the sorting of the bus lines was numeric rater than lexical I think it would be easier to find a specific bus line. Also the limited lines should be right after the regular lines (like 5L should be right after 5, 9L right after 9), though with a numeric sort this would just be fixed for free.
The reason is Google. Bear with me.

Ask most people to name the second largest search engine, and they'll draw a blank. Google is the alpha and omega. This means that most tech and tech-adjacent business like media is at the whims of Google's search results.

So with the modern internet, as far as consumers go, it's mostly winner-takes all. This trickles all the way through to everything else, including VC investment, "disruption", and cargo-cult design. If you're not following the current zeitgeist you're kind of left in the dark.

As for solutions, I don't think they'll come from designers. You can't ask the soldiers to just stop warring. It's a systemic problem and requires a systemic solution.

I don't see people understanding this or rallying together to combat it anytime soon, so I think it will end like most wars do. One side wins and writes the history books to make it all seem obvious in retrospect.
I feel like I'm losing my mind having to justify that Yo is anything but Stupid Stupid. The technology is easy to copy, not defensible, and not novel. It does not move the needle in terms of bringing us closer to a technological utopia. It is in my mind, a glorified Hello World app with some modern colors / UI treatment. There is no revenue model and no form of scalability (unless you consider adding a word after "yo" to be scale).

This is a dud for all intents and purposes, and yet I can imagine being down voted to hell, all along the way being barraged with a point-by-point breakdown on how I'm wrong on all points with some pseudo-intellectual handwaving. This app is nothing more than popularity-through-absurdity, that it even glazed the eyes of millions is a testament to our culture's obsession with irony, which only further feeds the fuel to the fire. And yet I further this irony by commenting on it as making it something to talk about. It's a vicious cycle.

/rant
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
I submit, as argued in my other comment, that greggman is the one assuming his/her experience should take priority.

If you are able to work years on end at 70 hours a week then more power to you. But that doesn't mean other people who do burn out are to blame or inferior b/c they didn't follow in greggman's footsteps or didn't choose "a career you don't get real enjoyment from".

Moreover, seriously consider this: Is working 72 hours for just 5 months enough to burn someone out? Especially if your young and responsibility free, wouldn't it take a lot longer?
Ask HN: Where can I find short term, remote programming gig?
Something like, look I need an android app around this MVP, simple 6-7 hour gig, and some XX$ upfront payment on work completion.

Is there any short term, remote job board ?

(Thought it would be nice to ask if something liek this already exists, before I start creating one.)
One thing I need to clarify (similar with Ripple). If in the future, there are enough trust hops between nodes, then the currency won't even be required, right? Because the currency is just a way to hop between untrusted nodes?
For reddit you should use the .compact url. E.g. reddit.com/.compact.
Location: New York, NY (Moving to Seattle, WA)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: To Seattle, WA

Technologies: Python, Flask, Django, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Git, AWS

Resume: http://bit.ly/1tOjyaU

Email: imauld@gmail.com

I recently made the change from working at a small e-commerce web site as the shipping manager to being a developer. I have been learning on my own for the past 2 years but this past month I graduated form Codefellows in Seattle. Codefellows is an intensive 8 week Python boot camp.

I am interested in almost all aspects of web development with a focus on Python, especially Flask. I have deployed projects to AWS and Heroku while managing the projects with Git/Github. I have done front and backend work. I like making tightly coded applications that have the most usability/functionality while keeping the complexity as low as possible.

I have a special interest in developing tools for people working in e-commerce/customer service/shipping. So if you are a small to midsize company or a start up gearing up to expand I can help you.
Why do you need to detect if mobile? Why aren't media queries enough?
To be fair the overall look and feel is not that bad, it's just a regular case of programmer colors, which is easy to fix.
Please refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131650
That website is very smooth in how it handles the demo and signup process. Yours ends it abruptly with the sign up page that opens up a new page.
dat XSS:
http://yournemexurl/nemex/index.php?view=%3Cscript%3Ealert%2...

Looks like it was written by designers...
That doesn't make sense. You have at least one obvious card, which is that the board wants you to continue working for the company.

That's true of any good employee, whether or not they were on board early and received a stake in the business.

However, the value of that card will progressively decrease to near zero over time whatever you do. Like any good poker player, you want them to pay to stay in the game before they know what your hand will be worth if they call you.

Put another way: Two years down the line, with 100 people on board and another funding round in the bank, any one senior technical person will almost certainly be expendable to the business and everyone will know exactly how much his options/diluted options/low preference shares are worth if he doesn't have proper safeguards to guarantee his position.
This is awesome. Nice work.

Accurately shows the N-Judah ridiculousness I experienced this morning.
The OP's language makes it seem like the relationship is already strained and he is isolated from the founders ("half-baked", "shit money", "feeling helpless") while still wanting to continue with the company. This negotiation is wrapped up in two things: 1) the financial issues and 2) the OP's value to the company. I think point 2 is the trickier part. Others have already suggested a few ways that the financial issues could be resolved, but he also has to get his relationship with the founders into a better state. If the relationship stays strained, it's only a matter of time before the next issue sets this whole process off again. Especially when we're feeling isolated, rearranging our own mental state often starts the process of claiming the power to fix the relationship.

Let's say they negotiate and his equity stake is cut back to 8.5% while the others give up 5.25% each. His narrative of the negotiation could be, "They tried to screw me again and I barely held on" or it could be "They gave up more money, I gave up a bigger proportion." Even though the finances don't change, the first response maintains the status quo while second response starts the process of reclaiming the relationship.

(Sorry for the male pronouns if you're not a male, OP. Writing he/she is annoying and I'm lazy.)
Sorry but I have to agree with meritt here. This a SHOW HN, and the project is not ready at all.

Even if one disegards bad architecture,the project suffers from too many security flaws. The creators should have a look at http://www.phptherightway.com/ which is really basic guidelines for any modern PHP project.

PHP suffers from bad rep because of developpers that clearly dont know what they are doing. They have client-side skills for sure.

But i would feel totally embarassed if someone linked to something i've made and that would look like the source code.

I'm not saying i'm a PHP "rockstar". But there are channels where beginners can get code reviews for free (IRC,reddit,...) before making a project official.

They need to find a proper developper
How our wait list grew to 30,000+ users – Fixed (YC S14)
I really didn't like this part: "...even where this meant we would be adding non-standard web platform features."
No, it didn't "go over my head", though if that notion gives you more comfort, have at it. You brought up an absurd anecdote that is baseless and has zero applicability to this issue, but that you think props up your notion. Don't bring up absurd anecdotes if you don't want them deconstructed.

Let me say again, and this relates to the sibling comment to yours -- none of these people piling on the internet circle jerk torch mob had any interest or engagement with this business. They weren't en route to book their wedding party when they discovered this. They're just trying to feel good by joining a misled, destructive, abusive mob.

It is bullies, pure and simple. Some restaurant I have zero concern about put up a misled threat, in a plain and obvious location, to try to make sure that wedding parties didn't mislead their guests, so now we all must rail about "free speech" and attack someone's business. The employers of people.

Yeah, I'm perhaps a little too mature to see that as constructive for anyone. It is vile.

This has happened so many times before. And after there is the realization that it was all profoundly silly and destructive.
One might describe this as "Stupid Hipster"
> Yet I can still go out any day of the week to any one of a sizable number of bars and expect them to be decently full. I've run into all kinds of interesting people...though I don't expect to ever run into anybody famous.

In my experience there is a big difference between "sizable number of bars ... decently full" and "a lot of bars/clubs/places ... full".

In my home town (300k people) you get many of bars that are pretty full a lot of the time, some bars that are full-ish some of the time, and a lot of bars that are mostly empty most of the time. And nightclubs, god help you if your taste in music is not mainstream. You will go to a club on a super duper full night and there will be 20 people there.

Compare that to SF. More bars than I could visit in my lifetime. Most of them decently full most of the time. Most of them packed on party nights. No matter what music I decide to listen to, the club will be packed. As obscure as I can bear, club will still be packed.

And SF is not even a giant city. It's got less than 3x the population of my home town.
What do the short black lines represent? I see some lines start, then abruptly end. Is that a train changing route assignments?
The camera used in most of these experiments (a Phantom high speed camera) doesn't even have a microphone - so that would be quite impossible.
Valid? Yes. Reasonable? No.

As I mentioned before - there are unreasonable customers with a chip on their shoulder.
The service looks pretty great but freesurveycreator.com makes me terrified it's a malware site.
A fun idea, a perfect name and I like the user experience. Take the advice about security and structure seriously, but you have something worth finishing here. Pop this up on GitHub, and I expect you'll find helpers with the code refactoring and feature requests.
The trick is to make those 4 hours as productive as possible, so the rest of your day can be spent on more menial tasks. Finding the right balance comes with time and experience, so I wouldn't stress about it too much.

Sometimes people claim they can be productive for 8 or more hours per day, for weeks on end. But likely what's happening is they are tricking themselves into feeling (and looking) productive, while their actual productivity finds an equilibrium far below what it could be if they paced themselves.
Wouldn't it be really neat to apply this to HD movie sequences, and hear what the sounds on the set and the voices of actors were like pre-production? And how unreal some of the sounds must have turned out with all the visual tweaking that happens in production?
"It's one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life and I completely advocate people 'coming out',"

Seriously?! Where is this an issue? Unless you're running for public office nobody cares what religion you do or don't follow. I've lived in several states, and no one has ever asked me about my religion or talked about their religion (not counting the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses going door-to-door).
Do you have any backup for your arguments?
Suruga: TLS implementation in Rust
If there is demand for an oversupply of everything (which there apparently is, otherwise the oversupplying companies would go bankrupt), it no longer fits the definition of oversupply.
Yep, that's right — certainly for the most popular currencies/issuers, in any case. I wouldn't be surprised if there's always a long tail of lower-traffic currencies which lean heavily on exchanging to stellar.
Startup as Art: On Embracing Unoriginality
Keep in mind that not all are engineers. They appear to do sales in house.
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/mixins/ve...

They are indeed! ;-)
Worse still, he starts with "design needs to stop with the feel-good bullshit", but ends with a bunch of save-the-world feel-good bullshit.

The fact that Silicon Valley has not solved the world's problems goes far far deeper than design, we're talking about fundamental problems of shareholder driven, Tayloristic style capitalism.
What is your relationship like? Any reason you can't tell them the same way you told us?

If they're receptive, you've helped to forge a better relationship. If not, at least you know bailing is the right choice.

Consider having a mental (or physical) flow chart of all of the possibilities before you talk with them so your action can be predetermined based upon their feedback/reaction.
I didn't say there was conclusive evidence, and I agree that correlational evidence is low quality. A large randomized study on Omega 3 consumption would really help here, but in the mean time we have to use the evidence that's available.

(Though http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/omega-3-fatty-ac... judges the evidence behind the pills as "strong scientific evidence for this use" in several categories.)
No reason to remove them when they are there.
I'm not missing the point of the article. I'm disregarding it.
When you're working so hard that you burn out, we shouldn't be discussing how to mitigate the effects. Just stop working.

This author tries to pretend the cause of burnout is not too much work, but too much "unfufilling" work. As if working from morning till midnight is perfectly fine, as long as you convince yourself the code you write in this half-asleep state is making the world a better place (and not just lining the pockets of your boss). This is exactly the attitude the tech industry needs to erase.

Yes, programming can be fun, but everyone needs a break, even from fun things. Furthermore, having a fulfilling job doesn't mean your time is free.
I'm actually aware of systems which were built to identify porn through neural-network training. I don't know if these were sensitive to distinguish child porn from other, but as a method of finding images likely to contain more skin than desired, they worked fairly reliably.

That said, the Google/Microsoft tool does seem to work based on a known image corpus.
Exploring affect in interaction design, interaction-based art and digital art
I'm sure it's such a tiny amount that it isn't really relevant. Easy enough to test. Remove the bag of chips and just film the floor. See how much signal you can derive from that. Not exactly perfect science but gives a quick indication of "signal" that's reaching the system via other means.
Show HN: Tcomb.js – JavaScript types and combinators
Are you sure that's not "the bus driver is waiting for his clock to read the scheduled departure time" or "the bus driver is waiting for people to pay their fare and board the bus" or "the bus driver turned the bus on early to warm it up"?

Every bus I've ridden in has signs plastered all over the front saying how you need to idle it when starting up / shutting down the bus to avoid destroying the innards, so I would expect there to be long horizontal lines at the start/end of runs but I wouldn't expect that to be indicative of drivers being "lazy".
Firefox OS has a Web Compatibility program [0] where they work with the webmasters of the Alexa Top 1000 Sites to achieve 90% compatibility for the mobile content sent to Firefox for Android and Firefox OS. They use the website http://arewecompatibleyet.com/ to check how far they've come along. The Firefox OS user agent is very simple:

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:31.0) Gecko/31.0 Firefox/31.0

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Mobile
You probably only downloaded the DASH video, this should work:

$ youtube-dl -f 18 http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-fro...

You can use the -F option to list the available formats.
There is some small possibility of improvement through software techniques, such as maybe data assimilation, which can use information from surrounding time-frames to improve the measurement. This is assuming that the magnitude of vibrations changes a lot slower than the vibrations themselves, which is usually true, and how most audio compression works. It may be able to clean up the sound a little. However, I would say that the results they have obtained so far are very impressive.
Even if your country is a participant in the VWP program, once you got denied a visa you're no longer eligible for entry under the VWP
The designs he dismisses are props.

Citing specific details would be begging for an immediate derailment directly into the sort details that are directly opposed to the larger point:

>'We don’t need more superficial solutions to superficial problems. We need real answers to real problems — big ones and small ones.