skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is one of many reasons why we are hiring. A dozen people can only do so much and we're looking for smart people with new ideas to help us start accelerating the development of BB.
Tell that to Tom Preston-Werner.
Their company is a family... one of those cannibalistic ones that eats their ancestors.
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I meant to say "bind data to elements". It's been a while since I programmed in OpenGL so the terminology is shaky.

I saw your other answer below too. I am not able to visualise how the duplicate data could affect caching postively. But anyway, I don't have deep knowledge about the hardware.

And I didn't know other 3D APIs had the same problem. Thanks for mentioning that.
I would certainly like to see the data, but I'm not sure what I think about the topic.

Age discrimination feels like it could be the other side of the coin that presents so much opportunity in this field to begin with - a system that values intelligence, willingness to learn and work hard on par with or lieu of experience.

I jumped into tech without a degree or much in the way of experience. Now that I'm established can I reasonably expect that the situation should reverse to suit me?

I just turned 35, young by most standards yet older to old by seeming tech standards. After 17 years working full-time, I'm a better asset than I was 15, 10 or 5 years ago in every way, but I can think of plenty of reasons why someone would understandably prefer to hire young me versus old me.

It's the difference between a guy who will work 65+ hours a week year round and someone who wants to spend every hour possible with his child. It's also the difference between a guy who is learning certain things and one who has fully automated those things a dozen times over.

That's an oversimplification on both fronts, but hopefully you get the idea.

How much 'done it before' value can there be in the context of growing companies which are creating things which don't yet exist or are constructed with tools that are <5 years old? How many opportunities are there for people whose most effective position would leadership or strategic?
I didn't claim that most investors Y Combinator works with are harassing women. I stated that it is preposterous for Y Combinator to suggest that it knows that "nearly all" investors it's dealing with are "completely upstanding and professional." As I wrote, "There is simply no way for anybody to know all of the investors who are behaving badly." As Sam Altman has acknowledged, most instances of this behavior go unreported, so most of the folks engaged in it are not known to be engaged in it. If you can't follow that logic...

Your suggestion that I somehow claimed most investors working with YC are harassing women is so absurd as to be comical. I don't know what your agenda is, and frankly don't care, but if you're going to try to distort what I wrote, I'm confident you can do a better job.
About a year ago, I launched the first run of Breaker 101. It was a huge success, and I'm happy to announce the third run of the class today. I'll be around if anyone has any questions. I hope to see some of you in class!

(P.S. The submitted link has an automatic 15% discount code for HN folks.)
The second, for sure. You are right.
> Can you point me to an institution that's managed to consistently pull that one off?

Sure, hoards of shops founded and run by developers with PM's who have actually done the grunt (coding) work in the past.

I've noticed that this problem usually pops up when the PMP certified suits end up managing technical staff.
Ask HN: Has anyone seen this kind of secrecy in a negotiation?
My startup is negotiating with a potential partner. The company that we are working with is another startup in a similar space. There’s quite a bit of synergy, but the deal has an odd factor that I’ve never seen before.

The CEO of the other company has mentioned a secret deal that he can’t disclose to anyone due to personal liability via a NDA. This deal would supposedly drastically impact the terms of our agreement. He has mentioned that he cannot disclose any details of the other deal – partner, terms, anything – to his other co-founders, board members, or investors under extreme financial penalty.

Has anyone out there heard of large companies that operate this way? (Requiring such an extreme degree of secrecy?) The whole situation strikes me as odd, but this is my first rodeo and we haven’t had very many interactions with larger companies until now.
i can host a chat, but what is the advantage vs one that is hosted by the chat solution company?

The one that is hosted by the company is very simple to use, only copy and paste their java script to the html header file, create a username, and can be used within 5 minutes.

The hosted one takes a little longer to setup, but other than security factor, what other things should I consider? cause i provide chat just to improve conversion and customer service only.

since i m just starting up, i think hosted solution is too overkill?

Thanks for the suggestion.
Does it actually use mturk?
I suspect this is a response to RDS introducing Postgres support last year [0]. I switched to RDS from managed Heroku DBs at that point because there wasn't enough added value from Heroku to justify the abstractions (plus I wanted to have at least part of our infrastructure not bound up in a single vendor).

But these automatic profiling and diagnose features look great, and it can be a headache to find problematic queries in my RDS instance even with tools like NewRelic. I may yet regret moving...

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-sla/
Something like Umbraco?
I remember this project from 2 years ago:
http://skli.se/2012/10/14/i-like-what-i-see
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I can't imagine how utterly disheartened I'd be as an entrepreneur if I went to an investor's home and had an experience like that when starting out raising money.
As a remote team, communication may be what slows our team down. But on the same token, in-office communication can slow things down too.
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The first dozen companies that tried this idea couldn't make it work, so they've set a high bar for themselves.
Is there any way I can get str's by buying them somehow? It seems like I'm a bit too late with registrating my Stellar account
Ask HN: What are your favorite new-product/service websites?
I'm interested in really well-designed sites that do a great job of explaining novel physical products and services.
How decaf is made
It seems like an RF shield on the male end is unnecessary. Apple's current iPhone connector does without it. I have no idea how they could see the lightning connector, then go and design a next gen standard that is across the board inferior. The Apple connector is sturdier, and has much more latitude for insertion angle. Surely Apple doesn't have a patent on a housing-less male plug.

My guess is the housing serves more as a mount point providing the friction and spring, rather than being necessary for shielding.
To address the "explore using tcomb with React.js" point in tcomb's README, you'll find that it's a perfect fit, so go for it! Already having immutable instances all-but guarantees an easy performance boost down the line, and React's rendering takes so much fluff out of displaying and redisplaying forms in any state. Just have a component give you a callback to let it know when state has been updated and it should be easy enough to integrate.

I switched my port of django.forms away from using my own DOM library to generating React components: https://github.com/insin/newforms
Except you don't really have a choice given that we all share the roads.
Where are all the intermediate Rails resources?
Donuts and other crappy food. Typical office food treats like donuts, pizza, and beer will all have negative chemical effects on team members. They will be more sluggish, less creative, and less communicative in general.
Yeah, I don't think they replace drives in pods until they fail. Even if they're old 1TB models. The drive costs just outstrip their infrastructure costs by so much that 4 racks of 1TB drives is still cheaper than retrofitting even 1 rack with new 4TB drives.
Hmm, while Lightning connector is rather nice, I don't like MagSafe 2 at all... it keeps falling out from the connection, especially if I use the laptop on a bed or similar surface.

The original MagSafe and the connector on my previous Dell M1330 were significantly more reliable while still providing enough protection.
Can you define high and low status programmers / programmer culture? Because the most competent and productive engineer in my office is also the biggest sticker for the planning / pointing process.

Ultimately I think Scrum needs to be for the team, and the process should be defined by the team. If pointing stories isn't working then the team can stop doing it (we pay it lip service, but that's about it). But you do need some way to agree on what's to be done and who's going to do it.
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They don't need 80 hour weeks. That just underscores the irrationality of these employers.

If developers honestly track their time, I'd be surprised if many who claim to be doing 60-80 hours a week are doing more than 8 hours a day of productive work. I'm not talking about coding. I'm just talking about doing work related things that aren't watching Youtube and writing on HN.

I got kind of annoyed at a buddy of mine would humble-brag about staying until midnight to get things done. Of course, he arrived at 11, made coffee and surfed until lunch, and then got down to work around 1:30 or so. While working, he'd have a Youtube window open continuously on a second monitor, and be bidding on penny auctions, etc.

He's a great guy, and got a lot of stuff done. But he basically worked an 8 hour day.
What are the enumerated qualities of founders that can only be discerned live in person in relation to profitable product development in an age when you can hire out your PR to another person? Genuinely curious about this. I grew up on the internet, before people used their real names, when people were debating ideas and not entrenched with identity politics. I earned my first freelance job as an 8th grader and those people in the UK had no idea my age or gender, just that I could make something for them.
>iPad mini connector (whatever those are called officially)

It is called the "Lightning" connector.

http://i.imgur.com/GSYJTI1.jpg
I'm actually pro this blanket cover, but I just see it as band-aid with pretty unclear non-business related consequences.

As for you argument, I'm considering looks an asset to be employed alongside intellect, presentation/communication skills. I mean, I wouldn't want to live in a business enviroment where we're assigned numbers as our names, modulate our voices to sound the same, and use same unisex avatars in a VR-powered business conference all the time. Would you? That would alleviate all possible business-related concerns of yours.
I agree that the comment was strongly and perhaps not carefully worded but it seems this was not just a "fork in the eyes" comment", see http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/sam_altmans_sexism_st... where yummyfajitas summarizes some good points.

You can criticize the format and language of the comment all you want but implying things like "I think you're too smart to believe in BS like this" is condescending.
The key with ageism in tech is to move into mgmt. You're not supposed to be a code monkey at 30.

To suggest that one must move into management, and not do a particular job, because of age, is quite possibly the most ageist comment I've ever heard on HN.

Assuming you have a degree, that means you have 6 or 7 years of experience. To think that's the full extent of your development "career" means that our entire industry would be exceptionally shallow skills-wise.

I'm 37, and I love to hack. And no, I'm most definitely not making $30K for 80hr/wk.

And especially not having 10 years of experience in a technology 10 years old.
Is this an indictment against those who get in on the ground floor of a technology? Are you suggesting that you should jump to the latest hipster language, never becoming an expert in anything? Not to mention the fact that most languages that drive the web (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, to name a few) are about 20 years old at this point.
You can access your passwords again through LastPass
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I've since gone through the setup of Guacamole and tried things out - indeed, its as you state, you can isolate users pretty well. I was able to set up 3 test users, each with their own WM, and independent logins on the machine .. and it works pretty well. I can see this as being a great facility for a small-office environment that just wants to run a single machine that services multiple users, each logging in with Android tablets or whatever other cheap browser-supporting devices they may have .. pretty neat, and you can't beat the ease of deployment: just point your users at their web URL, and there's their Linux desktop.

(I was even able to run Inkscape and Ardour on different logins, without too much fuss .. worked quite well!)
I wonder if you could game that jackpot. Statistically, with even-odd tickets the net value of the ticket is always less than the ticket cost -- meaning statistically you loose money (ex: a $2 ticket, on average, has a return of $1.50). If you could monitor the jackpot and, at the very last minute, more than double the current pot then you'd have over a 50% chance of winning. You'd win some and loose some, but statistically over time I think you'd end up positive.

Any mathematicians want to chime in?

EDIT: As fela, zck, and thedufer pointed out below, this would not work in fact. Thank you guys for the math lesson!
It was not a joke, lots of teams have come and gone. I had to assume it was not profitable to run a team, much like any other form of auto racing.

Most teams that have endured are backed by large companies that can absorb losses, but I have never seen any books from any teams.
Ugh, sorry. Not sure if that was always the case and I've mis-remembered or there's been a change but my NAS point remains. Personally, I'd rather not faff around with an external drive plugged directly into my laptop.

Edit: typo
I expect to be a programming primate come 30. Some day I aspire to be a software simian.
"Venture capital is a relationship-driven business: a who-you-know world rather than a what-you-know world. First introductions and producers are found through social rather than professional circles, and a good number of those social circuits just don’t belong in this century. Even if the VCs aren’t racist, many of the the social intermediaries and clubs one must navigate in order to get to them are." [0]

[0] http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/vc-istan-6-th...
We are all complete oafs.
Looks awesome, got all excited, then even more excited about the contest and then I read the FAQ.

>I'm a developer outside the United States. Can I participate?

>No. Unfortunately, due to some legal restrictions, this contest is not available to developers outside the United States. Believe us, we'd love to have you join in, but we're not allowed to. We'd like to have an international challenge in the future.

I'll just have to be excited about the platform and contribute anyway with a discourse production ready template (Redis + Postgres + Discourse).
Agreed. I manage to do it in the dark every night plugging in my cell phone. Really...
Human disasters too. I'd wager the odds of a catastrophic massive nuclear war are higher than one in ten million per year. Not that I expect Amazon (or much of anyone) to protect against that, nor would the integrity of my S3 data be a priority afterwards, but it makes the claim kind of absurd.

Edit: reading more closely, their durability number is per object. It's one object lost per 100 billion objects per year. The 10 million number comes from a hypothetical situation where you store 10,000 objects.

I don't know how many objects S3 stores altogether, but if we say it's a billion (presumably a vast underestimate) then that would imply that the probability of losing all objects in the system over the coming year is one in 100 quadrillion. I don't think this planet is that safe.
Well, if you go purely anonymous in all aspects, you prevent a lot of these things from even being an issue and rely only on the merit of the idea, quality of MVP, and thoroughness of the business plan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169051
Unfortunately, the original USB spec recommended connectors with spin-1/2 rotational symmetry, so you sometimes have to rotate the plug more than 360 degrees to make it fit in the port.
that's fine,

but that's evidence that you're probably not a profitable customer to chase (which again, is fine)

if you're not taking out your wallet, you're a waste of the salesmans time, the earlier they can figure this out the better
I'll never understand why anyone would care about the absolute numbers. Look at the relative numbers (relative to applications) and try to find any kind of bias (including preferential treatment for minorities). No bias? Great. Some bias? Not great. Pretty simple really.

Another thing I don't get about absolute numbers is that it seems desirable to have an outcome proportional to society (eg. 0.2% "Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander"). Given the fact that we're all equal; I don't see why that would be any better/worse/whatever.
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I guess it depends on your needs, and how quickly you think you will grow. There's a chance a self hosted solution would save you money in the long run, but then you have to weigh that against the costs and support time.

I just thought I'd throw it out there :)
That would undoubtedly be the most fair and most meritocratic setup, so I'm not sure why you're deriding it.
True, but sometimes it is not easily visible, or you want to plug it in without looking at it.
I just won the last jackpot of 37682.96 stellar. Not sure what I can do with it hehe.
Why are the race and ethnicity numbers U.S. based, but the gender numbers are global?
You are discussing subjective matters. You can't convince anyone by asserting your personal beliefs as truth.

And calling someone's good-faith comment a "tiresome excuse" is rather rude.
Upvoted you. It's unfortunate that it's so difficult to discuss this without bringing up the sex/race of the commentator, since it invariably invites a bunch of non sequiturs about reverse racism that talk right past the critical point, which is that overt sexism and racism are often invisible to parties to which they're not directed (and in the case of e.g. sexual harassment, the perpetrators exploit the cognitive biases involved to recruit people like the GP as unwitting accomplices in denying the reality of what's happening).
Eyes should not be mandatory to operate a USB cable. I can think of no other consumer cable that requires me to stare at it while I plug it in.
That only works if

1. The cable has a logo.

2. You can see the logo.

3. The device and cable both conform to the standard.

4. The port is not vertical.

5. The device you are plugging in is not on it's side or upside down.

6. The user is sober and of a clear, calm mind.
D'oh! I should have seen those. Sorry, I rely far to heavily on ctrl-f :)
"Cheerp compiles to native binary code backend, JavaScript frontend, and automatically generates RPC communication code"

The RPC feature sounds like it could be immensely useful for day-to-day web development. But the C/C++ is a deal-breaker for most web developers. Are there any projects that only do the RPC autogeneration stuff?

Also can frontend/backend code be shared (if there are no dependencies to the browser/unix system)?
Yup, I agree. I'm not disputing this fact, discrimination happens everywhere. I'm merely pointing out what I think we should do as individuals, because let's face it, legislation is not going to work (passing it is one major hurdle, implementation is another)
I'm not with Onswipe anymore, but I'm happy for the guys that are still there. Congrats Jason!
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Did you check out freerdp? I believe its in most package managers.
The USB ports on my computers aren't all oriented the same way (even on the same computer / motherboard), some USB peripherals are labeled on the "right" side some on the wrong. Sometimes even when you have it oriented the correct way, it doesn't always go in because you have it slightly cockeyed. Sometimes its dark and you can't see which way is up.

There are many reasons why single-sided (but not obviously sided) connections are hard to plug in and most of them don't have to do with the user being stupid.
Lately I stick to purely factual arguments, and as a result ignore most of HN. For some reason I felt like actually having a conversation on HN today.

I don't expect this comment to persuade most people. However, I do believe the argument I'm making here, and I believe it can persuade some people. HN is a pretty good crowd. For example, over a few years, I've observed the conversation about HFT on here has shifted wildly - people occasionally cite my articles, so I think I've contributed.

I've been convinced by Robin Hanson and others that many of the public arguments made (particularly by powerful figures) are signalling of the form I describe in this post. I believe it's a good explanation of why such things are posted.

The fact of the matter is that on merit, Sam Altman's post on this topic is nonsense. It attacks a straw man and draws inference by juxtuposition. See my post criticizing it (which mostly takes the perspective that it's an honest argument):

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/sam_altmans_sexism_st...

Sam Altman is a smart guy. I seriously doubt that he wrote something so nonsensical as a real argument. The best explanation I can come up with for why so many smart people are posting silly things is like this is signalling.

I'm sorry you dislike my comment, but it is an attempt to explain my views rather than simply an attempt to "stick a fork in people's eyes".
Yes, but lets not go around bashing something that is clearly better than nothing, and needlessly belittling the accomplishments of clearly influential movements. Things will always be open to improvement, and we should focus on that, not on how little power we have (oh no!); that's exactly the type of needless victimization that gives feminism a bad name (if you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, google around for 'Suey Park').

In any case, it is still an idealistic ideology, because then at what point does it declare/define 'victory'? That's never been made very clear, and despite the massive strides it has made in the past several decades, we're still talking about it like it's some totally unknown, underdog minority issue -- where are the goal posts? That's a rhetorical question because it's not supposed to have goal posts, just like how environmentalism doesn't -- it's an ideal, one of female rights that people should definitely strive for, but let's not make it out to be some sort of clear-cut political policy that has failed to be implemented, that just does the whole movement a disservice.
https://justcoin.com/ would be an option (appears to currently have the largest Stellar volume out of the few exchanges that trade it). Here are the current prices: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stellar/
"frictions" is the best way to describe this.
Clearly you have not attempted to use an S-Video cable. :)
That's not ageism, that's idiocy. (barring some great equity offer) No business prepared to pay that will function for long, as it suggests inadequate capitalization.