skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, some of this is also over exaggerated. I have spoken with some of the people who work at these "ship multiple times a day" companies and they only do this for their less critical systems. Their core money making stuff is less frequently updated.

It also depends on what domain your company is in. If downtime doesn't lead to anyone's death, doesn't send you to prison or millions in lawsuits from Enterprise customers...sure ship daily.
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I've been using this one for a few years now and love it: http://www.rei.com/product/862927/rei-sahara-tech-long-sleev...

SPF 50, tons of pockets, quick dry material, vents in the back and armpits for air circulation. It even has little snappy things to hold your sleeves when you roll them up.

The added benefit of a shirt over sunscreen is that the shirt keeps bugs off too.
Way to go, Greg!
Another great hardware platform, the Jetson TK1. Much more capable than the Pi (I can't speak on the BeagleBone), and even though it's new it has great software support (OpenGL, OpenCV, CUDA).

http://elinux.org/Jetson_TK1
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I think that while having heated discussions on redesign/changing a specification can be important, it is better to try and wrap up these discussions before you move into actually implementing your project. If you have too many debates while actually working on the architecture (IMO too many of these debates take place at this phase, rather than ahead of time), then the engineers work on implementing one feature only to be told they must abandon it and start implementing another feature, etc. Consistency can be a good tool for keeping projects running on time without growing costs, even if the overall design is not as optimal as it could be.
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What is the meaning of "white" in that pie chart? Does a pale-skinned person from Jordan or Lebanon count as white? If not, then what category? "Other"?

What is "hispanic"? Is a white person of Spanish descent "hispanic" or "white"? Wikipedia says that this is "is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain".

So a Greek or Turk would count as "white", but a Spaniard as "hispanic"? Pop quiz: Ricardo Montalbán: white or hispanic?

The pie chart seems to be mixing "ethnonyms" with skin colors.

Then there is "Asian"; what exactly is that, and does it lump together the people of Indians and of Korea?

About "white": suppose that 70% of applicants are white, but they are largely Slavic, from central and eastern Europe; and suppose that the 70% of the employed whites are Germanic whites. Nope, no discrimination there!

Maybe the "white" category is so large because it includes many ethnic groups: someone from Iceland could qualify, as well as someone from Israel.

Since the Arabic and East Indian people are "caucasoid", any pale-skinned people from those regions can represent themselves as white. A person with albinism of Indian descent is very difficult to distinguish from a European, if at all. (Do a Google image search for "indian albino").
Then they're effectively "leaving money on the table" by avoiding female founders, because they're being too risk-averse. The risk of false accusations that will blow up are too small to worry about.

If they're not outright bad investors, they are at least investing a suboptimal way.
say the pot contains 20, and you pay 80, you will have 80% chance of winning 18 in addition to your 80 and 20% chance of losing everything, if you do this many times you will still on average lose
As far as I know that comparison is still up to date, but if the Cheerp devs are here maybe they can comment.

I may do a followup post now, since Cheerp is at 1.0. Seems like a good time to do some benchmarking.
Thank you Armando. We would have been nothing without you and I owe you a ton of gratitude for joining us so early on. Miss you man.
> Is there anything specifically about GitHub which puts you off, or is it just that BitBucket works so you don't want to change?

The latter + all the hype surrounding the GitHub (thousands of 10-line "Ruby gems" and "JavaScript frameworks" don't help the browsability either). I generally dislike monopolies of ideas/implementations.
There's a few hundred people in the "private" chat that I just generated...
Ask HN: Who consults on tech content/documentation architecture?
I've got an early stages project going where I'm looking at how we might refactor/restructure some of our product documentation and information. Basically we have all the tech data/reference material anyone could ever desire, it's just not arranged and structured in the optimal way for how people use our software, nor is it indexed optimally for making it easy to answer questions.

Does anyone know of a firm or team that deals primarily with this sort of problem? I'm not looking for just a couple of tech writers to clean things up, I want basically UX experts for documentation and support content.

Any ideas?
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Apple’s diversity compared to Google and Facebook
Makes sense. Mine is connected through a thunderbolt display so I only have to make/break one connection.
Extremely excited about this project. Anyone that wants to get into robotics for the ocean should check out http://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Robotics-Science-Design-Fab...
I saw a really novel water tight propeller system where the shaft of the propeller had permanent magnets on it, and inside the boat there were coils that pushed against them. The propeller was in a hermetically sealed shaft. No crossing points at all. Probably not as efficient as other solutions but I am sure it did not leak anywhere.
How is falling in love with somebody (or even just being infatuated) displaying a complete lack of sympathy, empathy and general kindness towards others? Maybe you should work on your empathy...
This is silly. If I, as an investor, never find any female-led startups that are worth funding in an already very small pool, then I should be punished?
> If you look at a $30,000 robot for flipping burgers, and imagine it replaces one person working for a cost to the company of $8 per hour around the clock, you'd pay for it within a year.

You're comparing the one-time acquisition cost of the robot to the ongoing cost of the worker; you are ignoring both the acquisition costs of workers and the maintenance costs of robots, and comparing unlike components of the robot and workers total costs as if they were the total costs of each.
Anyone know who the DNS provider was? This seems like a perfectly appropriate time to name and shame.
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Yes, it's an annual subscription the renews each year. Most of the time with SaaS annual billing you are pre-paying for the full year, so if you cancel you don't get a pro-rated refund. Customers are ok with that as long as you're clear about it.
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This weeks SFH covers Supervisord (The eBook mentioned there will cover forever and Circus as well).

I've tried to add a little beyond the usual tutorial on Supervisord to include things like adding environmental variables your application can use, and setting up Supervisord's web interface.
> the most challenging aspect of the build was creating an interface between the motor and the propellor that was waterproof in a reliable way.

There does not have to be interface. Put stator inside and rotor outside, aquarium pumps works on similar principle.
“Yet it persists in these strange classifications that have no basis in any scientific system.”

It is likely even woven into scientific systems. This is precisely what Foucalt referenced in his “The Order of Things.”
> Quit your job just to ask a woman out?

No, but you can recuse yourself from that particular deal.
When Apple came to my university to run an engineering recruitment event, they flew in 12 employees to speak with us, zero of which were female. When asked by the audience about the presence of female engineers at Apple, they sputtered some non-sensical reply. If not enough women are applying for engineering jobs at Apple, then at least one of the reasons is that the company is not making sufficient effort to try and recruit them.
Their web page disagress with you:

"No Java Software
Java is responsible for 91% of security attacks. Backblaze's code is native to Mac and PC and doesn't use Java."*

It even has a big logo with Java logo crossed out.
I remember articles discussing how Microsoft's experience developing DirectX for the Dreamcast helped them craft even better/more-developer-friendly ones for the XBox.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/1998/may98/segagmp...
yes, yearly. Thanks, fixed!
I'm pretty sure their clients are all native.
>'However, to really determine whether a company is being as diverse and open to equality as possible, the same measurements should be applied to the applicants as well as the employees.'

That impresses me as the sort of information no company would want to release in total. There's just too much room for criticism.
At least both sides learned something. Better to love and loss than to never love at all.
How are the Lyft people better than the Uber people?
> it suggests that it isn't necessary to have female employees to make products for women

Congratulations on murdering that strawman.
Why did you quote "white" and "males"? Is it because you suspect many of them to secretly be black women wearing whiteface?

Anyway, there is a reason that white males are not allowed to talk about bigotry against themselves, and it's not about some conspiratorial hipsterism to sabotage you. It's because if you are a white man born in America complaining about discrimination pretty much everyone else in the world will you see you like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90HhZ-pyC2Y
Freerdp's server component is pretty experimental and mostly undocumented. The freerdp package you're referring to is a RDP client, not a server. This was the best result I got for googling "freerdp server": http://askubuntu.com/questions/475776/can-freerdp-be-used-as...

Very much still a compile-it-yourself experience. When I was setting up my RDP server on my Mint media center, I went with xrdp + x11rdp setup detailed in some guides at ScaryGliders.net, although the same guy as released a bunch of scripts to do it for you, see https://github.com/scarygliders/X11RDP-o-Matic

I don't really want to deal with recompiling stuff and manual updates though, and expect others to feel the same, which is why I advocated x11vnc to the GP.
NASA and military are using a whole lot of different technologies and languages, including, but not limited to assembly, C, C++, ADA, Haskell, Coq, Python and Java. Saying they use C++ for correctness, when they are using Coq or Haskell as well, is again - exaggeration. I believe they use C/C++ more for performance / low memory overhead rather than its correctness related features.
This reminds me of HR departments that send out emails to the entire company telling them to watch their asses on their sick time because BY GOD some single person misused it and it will not happen again.

OK YC how about counseling the person that did it instead of treating everyone else like trash.
Not including my time, a few hundred dollars a month for servers and other services (like intercom.io). Gross margin is over 90% which is probably typical for micro-SaaS.
The Fiercest? Not Apple vs. IBM? Apple vs. Microsoft? Samsung vs. Apple? Google vs. Oracle?
Thanks, but I'm sure I could roll out my own implementation. (I actually like writing code :D)
Who comes to HN and starts signing their name and credentials? Steven does.
That was in response to the original comment suggesting an Investor should at least consider quitting their job before asking out a founder they met at a demo-day event.

Which is very much cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I spent a long part of this article thinking it was about poker.
All of which used to be features of cab companies, and regressed once the cab companies had the run of the place.

Re: your other reply: yeah, eventually someone will come along and knock hypothetical-monopolist Uber off their perch, just like Uber is kicking cab companies' asses right now. But in the mean time we're looking at decades of the Dark Ages where the monopolist pillage the market for all it's worth.

This is the crux of why this abuse by Uber shouldn't be given a pass. In order for the transport market to function there must exist competition, and any anticompetitive behavior - whether it's coming from Uber or cab companies or elsewhere - needs to be shut down, hard.
Heroku needs to open source the testing (UPDATE: and data) it has used to claim 3X performance.

Adding a single graph for a $2000/mo DB, only performing read only transactions at 30% of its connection limit doesn't sound like putting the DB through its paces, and not real world.
I had struggles when using my iPad with Guacamole, but it works great with Chromebooks/Chromeboxes!
From a cursory glance it seems to be a pretty presentation layer on top of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgstatstatements.h...

If you use Rails, there's https://github.com/ankane/pghero . Other frameworks / languages have equivalent projects, but I haven't used them. But in the end, the data comes from querying special views in database, so it's easy to roll your own if you so desire.
The merchants needs to have a copy of the Google Maps API on their site and need to follow Google's terms of service in that regard. If they have a ton of traffic they may need to pay for a license.
I've been using supervisord for a while, but never knew it had a built in webserver..
In-office communication tends to be distracted by off-topic stuff like "Hey, nice t-shirt!" or "How was the commute in this morning?".

Remote communication will have technical issues once in a while. If not that, then it's the "telephone tag" game you end up playing. Also timezones.

I'm convinced that good communication is a symptom of other things being good. Project has clear goals and everyone knows what they're doing? Communication is good! Project is unclear, scope is too big, or just plain boring? Communication is bad.
"Optimise for fan noise"

http://prog21.dadgum.com/61.html

Is there an equivalent for mobile browsers? Seems even more relevant there.
Can't wait to attach a gopro and make an underwater drone.
If I could give you a thousand upvotes I would.

This is exactly part of the seductive nature of “data” in EuroWestern culture.

Knowledge as power, but not in the rather trivial sense of education being empowering, but in the crafting of knowledge. As cited below, well explored by Mr. Foucault.
Names named:

https://www.secret.ly/p/pivdbsyntyokipbsamvffpbvfy
Right; absent a control (who applies to other companies? how qualified are the applicants really?) any bias can be misconstrued.
Discouraging. Folks like "Masseuse" that most need to shape up are probably least likely to have the capacity to listen. Maybe it's because having wealth melts ones brain, or maybe a certain level of sociopathy is advantageous in accumulating wealth. However the cause-and-effect works out, I struggle to imagine a person who exhibits such behaviors being fixable through sound reasoning.

The battle to get scummy dudes to behave appropriately feels in some ways like the battle to get thieves not to steal. You can tell a thief not to steal, you can describe to them how a victim feels when their house is broken into, but it just doesn't register. A certain subset of the population lacks the empathy to respond to such appeals.

If the thieving analogy holds, the only way to fix someone like the masseuse would be to threaten punishment, but good luck creating/enforcing that.
lol broken as all hell
No 5000 orders and cancellation for one. One documented example http://valleywag.gawker.com/ubers-dirty-trick-campaign-again.... There was also another front page post recently that was an interview with Uber's CEO on the same matter.
Corporate release cycles... In large corporations, you rarely get access to the production environment and everything is managed by different departments. At my current client, we can only go to production a few times a year (except for hotfixes, but they need to be approved by a special board).

Luckily, our deployments are automated and we deploy to our testing environment multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times per day. That at least enables us to get feedback from the test team, which results in tickets either being moved to 'really done' or moving them back to 'in progress'. It's not the same as shipping, but in such an environment it at least reminds you of the important fact that things are indeed still moving and getting done.
Looking beyond what other people have mentioned, these are things that plague teams:

1. Fear of failure. Too many people are afraid to ship too soon. They fear a bad product out the gate, rather than getting out the gate in the first place.

2. Lack of focus. You'll spend too much time focusing on things that don't really matter, such as building the perfect messaging system rather than reusing something that exists and works now.

3. Busywork. You'll spend your time doing things that really don't matter, such as optimizing your icons to use fonts instead of a PNG, and then dealing with trying to make it work in older versions of IE.
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A single counter example is enough to prove that something isn't necessary.
The losses across that gap are expensive, though. Aquarium impellers are moving water at very low pressures.

It works if the isolation layer is very thin. However, that prevents you from going deep because of the pressure differential. Now, I wonder if you filled the sub with something inert and kept the layer thin, then the pressure differential would be a lot less and the layer a lot less likely to rip open. Might work.
The blog post gives a brief summary, but if you want to view a demo of the technology, or view higher-res images, skip the blog post and go to the actual paper:

http://transattr.cs.brown.edu
Ask HN: Examples of beautiful code?
Do you have any examples of "beautiful" code in any language?

I don't just mean textbook code that's clean, or well-formatted, or with helpful comments, but code that is also concise and clever and solves some difficult problem elegantly. Maybe something like Duff's Device or Carmack's square root solution ... something that, when you see it, you think, "wow, that's amazing." (I'm looking for examples that might be compared to classical artwork, to make a point about programming-as-art.)

I've googled around a bit but I'm not really finding anything that stands out. jgc briefly had usethesource.com (http://web.archive.org/web/20100704053307/http://news.usethesource.com/), but unfortunately it didn't go very far.
Thanks for the link, so they are using a brushless motor. I really like that solution for water integrity. I would guess they seal the magnets in epoxy. That would make it reasonably durable.

The surfboard is interesting. Having listened to some of the issues the wave-glider ran into in order to operate autonomously on the ocean I expect the same sort of folks will come talk to them. I heard a story (and it could be just that), that one of the wave glider experiments was going to be to count whales along the California coast, the plan was to put an active sonar pinger on the robot and ping once an hour to see if there were any whales nearby. The story goes that the project was shelved when the Navy called and informed them they would not be putting active sonar pingers into US coastal waters.
There are some good solutions to remote teams, as covered elsewhere. I work at Sococo; we have teams in 5 states and 2 continents, and we communicate well and continuously.
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It's against the HN rules to editorialize titles (i.e. rewriting them to emphasize what you think is important). Please don't do that.
Please fully describe how the age, race, gender, height, orientation, and religious aspects of employees for both Lyft and Uber are relevant and intertwined with the actions of the company. You say "better people" but I think you mean "acting ethically" and I see no relation to how that has anything to do with the above 6 descriptors I listed.
I meant considered appropriate within their moral framework.

I wrote it to stress that it's often group behavior, with the enablers and supporters that go along with it, and that you shouldn't think about it in terms of the 'lone distraught person.'

Just to be clear: I would never, ever, wish to be associated in any manner with a person or organization that operates on such a moral framework.
Can some bored billionaire please throw $100M at this project?

Talk about revolutionary, true automated pure math would be a human milestone on par with very few developments in history.
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"The United States has the highest dropout rate of any developed country for kids who start a higher-ed program"

that worked out pretty well for him.
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I've fantasized about making a more responsive, consistent traffic light for years. Every time it's the middle of the night and I'm sitting at a red light for no reason --- or when I figure out that the sensors are broken and I need to get out of the car and press the cross walk to have the light change, or when I'm on my bike and have no chance at all to trigger the sensors.

All these things I want fixed. I want stop lights to stop sucking.

I want an unprotected left to have the signal on the opposing side turn red sooner if there's a lot of people in the queue ... so that more than two cars can turn per green.

There's countless improvements that could be done but aren't that are purely in software and would use the same signal installations. We're not moving mountains here.

But clearly nobody has done this. Stoplights suck exactly the same ways, in exactly the same amounts, as they did 25 years ago.

And then, instead of making them suck less, we slap cameras on them to make sure that people put up with the suckage or pay a stiff penalty. "This technology has annoying bugs that have never been fixed. But luckily, we've just spent a lot of money on making sure you don't work around them."

Who does that? This is absurd. no new features - just fix the damn bugs.
If you were to ask Uber they would tell you that that is what they did.
I have the same problems as well with the OS X client. It definitely has issues handling external drives. It somehow doesn't display my exclusions of files on external drives anymore, but somehow is still following them.

I'm really happy with their service (had it for ~2 years now), but would love to have a tool similar to how you describe with reduced bugginess and more tweaking ability.
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Changing requirements.

Us: "Well, we just got the roof on and all the walls sheetrocked!"

Them: "We want all the walls moved now."

Lately it's also been the strangely recurring request to do the impossible. I've actually been asked to use cross site scripting ("like the hackers do - why can't you do it") to implement features a customer just had to have.
Hugs to our lawyers at Perkins Coie are always "free" (they said a bunch of numbers, muttered something about future payments, and it ended with free .. that means free right?)

Anyway, I got the impression that by the time lawyer bills come due, we either have enough cash for it not to be an issue, or we've failed as a company and are going under anyway...
I do that. I've done it as part of my private consulting business for over a decade. Find me on LinkedIn. Same username.