skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company now operates 15 data centers that handle 55 million unique visitors every month, each of which watches an average of 106 minutes of streaming video a day.

That can't be right, can it? 55M x 100 minutes ... the superbowl is around 100M, so that is a half-superbowl equivalent every day.
The larger issue here is that it's common and expected to have to trademark a logo, so if you're ever going to need to do that a logo made with stock art may be problematic.

Other than that I'm a big believer in asset stores, stock art, etc. Especially for prototyping.
I think the author of the article went looking for stats to support a title. Corporate America has been disrupted however I think this article was looking for financial failure versus adapting to the market pressures.

The corporations below have faced massive disruption:

Kodak, HP, GM, Ford, JC Penney, Sears, McDonalds, Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy, Borders, Barnes&Noble, IBM, Microsoft, Xerox, and Target have all been disrupted.

But most of them have adapted as the market changed because they had the resources to do so.

A small company has fewer resources so when adversity hits (housing crash in 2008) or the market shifts (Digital music versus record stores), those business are less likely to be able to shift.

Regarding the comments in the article on Entrepreneurs:

I think the article is using too much of the 2000's data to make a correlation to today. 2001 - 2010 was the dot com bubble, 9/11, unemployment at 9%, and the housing / financial crisis. Banks weren't lending money and people had little capital to borrow.

Compared to today: Banks are lending again, unemployment is 6.2%, people are spending and earning more, and everywhere you read about startups and entrepreneurs.

One last thing: I find it humorous when articles say that government regulations, licensure, or taxes prevent innovation and entrepreneurial activity. I have never heard somebody say "I'd totally build X but the tax incentives just aren't high enough".
I keep saying to people in valleybubble.io that the rest of America is in something like a depression.

It might not meet the strict economic criteria of a depression, but the general sense is that there is no opportunity and that the future is only for the 1%. Wages are going down (or nominally flat and losing ground to inflation) and everything else is going up (or at least keeping up with inflation).

This is particularly true if you're not in the top ten to twelve (mostly coastal) major cities: San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Boston, "San Angeles," etc. The gap between rich and poor cities has noticeably worsened in the past 10-20 years. In the rich ones, the poor are being priced out. In the poor ones, there are no jobs and no routes to advancement. The long term trend is toward something resembling The Hunger Games, with the alpha coastal cities as "the capital" and the rest as "the precincts."

It looks not terribly unlike Japan post-bubble, but perhaps with streaks of Gilded Age and the 1970s cultural malaise. It's not pretty.
I'm pretty sure that any attempt by me to learn Illustrator and whip out a logo will be neither cheap (as I value my time) nor look good (even to me). I imagine that's the case for a lot of (most?) non designers.
That's sort of what I was trying to get across in my last paragraph. I consider it a failure of the interview process.

Granted, keep in mind that I'm not privy to all the details. He very well may have been granted a generous severance pay-out to ease the burden -- I honestly don't know.
And a very loose interpretation of socialism and communism to boot.
Perhaps such 'sightings' trigger an avalanche of calls, emails, FOIA requests, and lawsuits, consuming resources that are better spent on their organizational goals.
> If the engineers are sent back to India/China, their chances of getting a job is higher (because of their marketable skills) than people with no valuable skills moving from one US city to another.

Maybe so but the engineers there make less than the baristas in the US. Hell, an engineer in Canada makes less than a bartender in SF.

I grew up in Toronto and lived there for 17 years but the tech jobs are so bad I can't really afford to stay. Not without living with my parents or spending 65% of my net income on rent and transportation. I don't feel entitled to stay, nobody owes me anything. I can either move or figure out a way to earn more money.
Please stop spreading this lie. It's been debunked many, many times. Just because something doesn't provide 100% security doesn't mean you should give up and use nothing.

Once again, self-signed SSL raises the cost of an attack from "basically free" passive monitoring to a much more expensive[1] MitM attack. It's a travesty that apache doesn't simply auto-create a self-signed certificate if it doesn't have one so plain HTTP can be retired forever.

Note: this is about transport security, and the UI presented should not suggest any kind of authentication has been achieved. In firefox, this means not showing the "locked padlock" and other changes usually associated with SSL.

So please, stop undermining the security of the web. We could have been all-HTTPS a long time ago if this nonsense wasn't brought up each time.

[1] and hard to use against everybody simultaneously
I leave my wifi open because I like being a nice neighbor. A little QoS and a firewall for my home network, and you're free to connect.
"If the vehicle has enough time to detect someone has fallen in the road to be able to swerve and hit a wall (killing the driver), then the vehicle should also have been able to detect that someone was close to the road (or that there was a blindspot near a crosswalk)"

Those are two different problems and an ability to do the former does not necessarily indicate an ability to do the latter.
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It's better for society as a whole to distribute limited resources based on some kind of merit rather than "I was here first".
I like this. Just switched back to dumb phone about a month ago. I wonder if there would be a market for a touch screen phone with a really nice and simple interface, but no apps; just call and text.
Google Maps Street view camera car, not a self-driving car, in case anyone else thought that.
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I'm not denying any of your other issues with the browser, but

> With the latest update, for some reason my address bar is gigantic

For some reason? What would you expect if you have UI-altering addons installed (Classic theme restorer and oldbar), which might or might not work correctly under the most recent version of the broswer?

Someone in the comments worries that recent firefox versions are not entirely compatible with pentadactyl. But they are forced into enabling the awesomebar (which, admittedly, is useless when using 5dactyl) only because 5dactyl doesn't restore addon icons on browser restart, which is a bug in the addon, not firefox (sorry if I misunderstood the issue, but that's the way it looked to me).

If you are using some UI altering addon (which I understand the need to and also do), you should be aware this kind of behavior can happen, and that it is not entirely the browser's fault.
The author is looking at the economy broadly, not just tech and not just Silicon Valley.
I don't see how this applies.
Facebook Engagement Rate Redesigned
Not a bad start.

This can be pared down even further:

* Adjust search results based on your own clickthrough rates. If you bounce out of a site a few times (hello, quora) then it grays out or falls off. Sites you go to and stay on become more prominent.

* Kill downloads. I know this won't be popular, but the ability to download a thing isn't necessary for everyday use. There would be a heightened awareness for the user if they had to switch browsers to download something.

* No cross-site loading of any kind; all source material MUST come from the domain you are on. This would seriously break some sites but it would close large gaps in security and tracking.

A browser just for browsing!
wrong dir /opt/kubernetes/bin The right dir it's: /opt/bin like show official references: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-coreos#quick-s...
Websync – the missing rsync manager
Well one could just set the price they want for others turning off their phone. If the other party thinks its worth it, then they do it.
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Well, really it's Amazon saying no more agency model for ebooks, so they can set the price (and change the price) to whatever they want. Just like they do now for physical books. So that is a wholesale model, and that is typically 50% of list price for physical books (if the price on the book jacket is 19.99, the publisher's proceed on a sale is roughly $10, and the retailer can set the price to show a discount, like $12.99).

With agency being 70/30 split (like apps and mp3s), a publisher could net 70% of the list price on ebooks (Big pubs tend to sell ebooks at or near the physical books list price, which is a whole other debate). Now they're looking at close to 50% of list (maybe Amazon is pushing this even lower?). You'll see a world where all ebooks are cheaper on Amazon than on say iBooks, because Apple is not going to bother with anything but agency model. Big win for Amazon. Big suck for publishers.
Howsabout an app that performs terribly and does nothing - except teach you to improve your Ruby code?

Yeah, there is a button for that https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-ruby-kata
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>When faced with two browsers offering basically the same flawed UI, then users will use the one that offers the best runtime performance and the lowest resource usage.

I don't think that Chrome wins decisively on resource usage. It cheats a lot, and if you use your browser in uncommon ways, it degenerates.

I think that Chrome will win over Firefox's 'be like Chrome' strategy because people like leaders rather than followers, and would rather have Chrome-like features now on Chrome rather than waiting a year for Firefox to copy them, slightly differently.
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Non-ionizing seems like a safe level.
Looking at some details on the technology, I would have to disagree. Nanodiamonds seem to be a much better fluorescent label than what is traditionally conjugated to antibodies. Traditional conjugated fluorophores have high susceptibility to bleaching, so you have to sort them out from natural signals. With nanodiamonds, it appears you can bleach all the natural signals and get a clear signal from the nanodiamond. This is pretty cool.
This story was used by Stephen Pinker in "How the Mind Works" as part of an attempt to reject the validity of Searle's Chinese Room argument against Strong AI. IIRC Pinker's point was that Searle's argument rests on a narrow definition of what it means to "understand", and he used this story to illustrate his argument that a broader view of concepts like "understanding" is required.

Personally, I wasn't convinced but I liked the approach.
There's two costs at work here -- marginal cost and absolute cost. eBooks don't reduce the absolute costs of any of Scalzi's books -- the work he and his editor put into it and the marketing expense, principally. But they do reduce the marginal cost, and so if you sell eBooks at the same price as physical books, that's more profit, split up however the parties involved agree to.

Scalzi's comparison to fountain sodas missed the mark -- the reason those cost so much more than the cost of the good itself is that the soda needs to cover the costs of owning, maintaining and providing utilities to the building where the fountain is, and the employees who work in that building. Amazon doesn't HAVE that kind of overhead, and they want to pass the savings on to the consumer. The publishers want Amazon to hold onto those savings (or share them with the publishers), so that Amazon can't undercut the other retailers who DO have that kind of overhead.
Is there an option to install java applets?
trans :: (b -> a) -> (c -> a -> c) -> c -> b -> c

in Haskell is just

trans f reduce c = reduce c . f

isn't it? What am I missing here?
The article is certainly plausible, and very probably correct—but it always seems worth noting when someone completely anonymous writes something like this. This person is quick (though not necessarily incorrect) to call others' motivations into question. But since nobody knows who this guy is, nobody knows his motivations either.

Maybe this person just a concerned observer. But I don't think it's necessarily crazy to wonder if it's another attempt to discredit somebody like Krebs, who has had SWAT teams show up at his door and had heroin mailed to him because of his work.
There's a "reply" :/
You articulated the situation (and my thinking) very well. Any thoughts on what future early employees could do to protect themselves?
> a CPA also could not get hired, and let go for no reason, within 2 weeks, without having several avenues of recourse through his professional governing body.

What's his professional governing body going to do?
There needs to be an easy way to get the data into it though. lets say I have a migraine when out to dinner I can't really open a spreadsheet and edit it. Needs to allow me a easy way to add.
This is great. I imagine similar tutorials for sounds/music can resonate with different folks.
Sure, it happens for me both on OS X 10.10 (Chrome) and Windows 8.1 (Chrome). It looks like you might be picking up the scroll event and then using that to scroll smoothly, rather than letting the browser actually scroll. The experience on my Macbook is that I sort of "swing" from one place to the next, rather than gliding like I usually do. On Windows (using a scroll wheel), I notice that the scroll is more of a glide, as opposed to the natural "jumpy" scrolling I experience with the scroll wheel.

It could be the case that the Macbook, being much more sensitive to scroll, is exaggerating the smoothing effect, causing the "swing".
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"For superior beings they sure like to rub it in."
- Marge Simpson

"Obviously, I. Asimov was a robot."
- I. Doo Notremember
Of course it doesn't suit everyone.
I agree with everything in OP, and this admittedly makes me sound like a dreamer, but I think there's a good chance that computer-aided radical decentralization is going to have a major effect on these numbers in the next few years.

The possibilities of blockchain technology (and other technology inspired by it) has barely even begun to percolate through society, and in theory it allows free agents to fill roles previously only viable inside of corporations.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization/
>Kodak, HP, GM, Ford, JC Penney, Sears, McDonalds, Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy, Borders, Barnes&Noble, IBM, Microsoft, Xerox, and Target have all been disrupted.

The irony there is a lot of them started out as disruptors themselves!
Because dem aliens is coming to terk r jerbs!
+1 Plain text.
Demo here: https://jsvine.github.io/notebookjs/demo/
I think it's a fantastic idea to create Comment Forms-as-a-Service. Two thumbs up for including a FAQ with Videos. Do you have an enterprise version for corporate contact/support pages? I'm only half joking.
An open letter to Valleywag: Why your snark is going to get us all killed
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When you're 90ms into your bid calc and Go pauses for 10ms STW you will loose all your connections and timeout your bids.

It's fine for basic stuff but if you want to really listen to full RTB bid stream and have real time responses you need pauseless GC to win. Or you have to budget for considerably less time to make a decision.

Also there are places in RTB where you have 10ms RTT and Go fails ought right in that situation at scale. :-)
First of all, it's pretty clear that the Valley isn't "disrupting" the establishment. It is the establishment.

The elephant in the room: the death of the middle class.

Thirty years ago, unions were strong and average people had savings. Venture capitalists were wealthier than average, but not of a superior class... and they still hung out with people who wrote code for a living. Class distances weren't nonexistent, but they weren't nearly as sheer as they are today. And venture capital wasn't a requirement because bootstrapping was really possible, because average people actually had money.

People complain about how the Valley is cranking out apps for spoiled 20-year-olds instead of regular people, and missing the much bigger point, which is that "regular people" are cash-strapped, time-poor, overworked and generally disenfranchised altogether. The people building apps for spoiled 20-year-olds are staking out the new, post-large-middle-class world.

Now, to bankroll a business you either need elite connections (usually to people spending others' money) or outlandish luck, you have to have people in your pocket who'll ensure coverage, and you'll probably end up taking a back seat in your company as soon as you hire a "business co-founder" who can deliver Sequoia and A16Z.

No one has a good idea what to build, and products and technology aren't really the point (the point is getting bought; "startups" are a long audition process for would-be corporate executives looking to jump the queue) but one sector that isn't being targeted is the (disintegrating) middle class.

Corporate America, meanwhile, is stronger than ever. The wealth and connections are even more concentrated, giving power to the few at the expense of the many. And these Valley startups are the driving force behind all of this.
I agree. The second the OP mentioned that he would need a visa and that this was a new startup, I assumed they let him go because they were naive about US visas at the beginning. They are not an easy process; typically a work visa will require a lot of money in filing fees and several months of paperwork, often including a labor survey to ensure that the position could not be filled with an American instead.
This package has very, very few and mostly useless features.
made by "sphinx"....another python masterpiece !!
OT: Actually a useful device for cats would be a collar that tracks GPS location and answers its location when pinged. Then they can be easier found and won't get lost.
You are right. The key is to find a structural solution to this, since this is a common occurrence (i.e. joining startups early stage) - and spread information about the "best practice" way of avoiding situations like the one I went through.
Correct it was the only way to get Go to scale to a reasonable response rate for this application and it thus meant my CPU loading was not even since it was based on the randomness of socket connections that persisted on one cpu or another.
You could easily extend this to support email forwarding.

e.g. danariely@inbound.shortwhale.com -> danariely@gmail.com

Messages sent to the inbound email address receive automatic replies with a link to the site, or for bonus points, an HTML form (for email clients that aren't ancient and terrible).
Its called a Nokia Asha and no data connection (because Nokia S40 OS is a pain to set up data on).
My first thought: "Well, this is just the new Spotlight isn't it? Why do we need another Spotlight?"

My second, more intelligent thought: "Oh, most people don't have Macs." I think there's some pretty great ideas here, and since my gut tells me 95% of computer time is spent in a browser, it makes sense for it to be extremely intelligent about inferring what you want.
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Although ironically the locomotion is apparently not very efficient. I remember a good story where the efficiency of a human was compared to other animals and it was medicore, but on a bicycle it blew the animals out of the water, and it then said a computer was a bicycle for the mind.

http://www.cyclelove.net/2013/03/steve-jobs-on-why-computers...
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You can't achieve anything you want,

Technically true for a certain level of pedantry, but I still find that a useful overall mindset in general. shrug

then how do you carry off that suggestion that it's better to work hard.

I don't know exactly how you do it, at least not in a consistently reproducible way. What I'm saying is, we know some kids do take that lesson to heart, despite the lack of obvious evidence.

[what goes here?]

"... but you're smarter than we are, and you'll have the benefit of learning from the mistakes we made ..."

Or something like that. Again, I think kids are smart enough to understand the distinction between saying something is possible and saying that it's guaranteed.
That was a great thread thanks for linking it! If Go wants to be a serious solution in many applications pauseless GC needs to happen and until it does it will be just like all the other solutions that can't play at scale and low latency. If it stays in that zone it'll have to compete with a very large set of perfectly fine solutions with massive libraries and lots of people who know how to code in those languages.
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>I applaud the experimentation so long as the end results are choices we can make for ourselves.

I don't understand why Mozilla works like this, but they won't be. They'll be pushed into an update with an option to turn them off, after 3 or 4 releases the old behavior will be pushed into the about:config, and 3 or 4 releases after that, it will be removed completely.
I'd much rather give the company a bad reputation. It is easy to get another job.
Yes, I started with the frontpage. Apparently people like it so I'll work on the other pages and update the extension ;)
$5k for two weeks is a pretty princely sum for employees virtually anywhere but, crucially, employees (particularly professional employees) have the reasonable expectation that they will have longer than two weeks of tenure at a new employer. If you can only reasonably expect two weeks of tenure, then you're much closer to a consultant than an employee. Nothing wrong with being a consultant, but COO-caliber consultants charge a heck of a lot more than employees in SF and everywhere else on the planet. A company which extends people standard employment offers but treats them with the no-fault disposability that governs consulting relationships is doing something which is highly irregular.

Conversely, if you're a consultant, you can get constructively fired like this two weeks into an engagement. Happens all the time. It doesn't even require an awkward conversation where they say "Hey, startup life yo, plans have changed." They neglect to schedule you for more work, you follow up, they continue to neglect to schedule you for more work, you take the hint, and then you get paid $50k+ because that is what COO-level consultants cost for two weeks.
It's described below, but basically the overall return is the same for the various machines, but some have "lumpy" payouts, with very little paid out and then a big win, while others have no big win but lots of small wins. The ones I like to play are the second kind -- more likely to return a small win to me, but I'm going to strike it rich.
Can't leave off MySpace, for better or worse. It preceded Facebook and was arguably the first massive social website.
> I officially joined as the COO.

What precisely does that mean?

IANAL, but I know that if you and they signed on the dotted line, apart from the ethics, you have legal rights. Probably fewer in the US than other places, but some protection.

If nothing was signed, then I don't think you "officially joined" as COO. From their perspective, it might simply be more of an episode of serious miscommunication, than any untoward behavior on their part.
This is an interesting and plausible reason for why they let him go, but if it was the case, they should have came out and said exactly this. What's to lose by being honest about a visa situation?