skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno where I'm going with this, but, if I were a manager and wanted to date a subordinate, I imagine I could quit, get a another job, and then ask the person out.[1] Is this route not available to an investor? Are they in the position of "permanent boss" to a founder?

This is a good plug for my general advice: make sure your employees have enough time to date outside of work.

[1] I never did this or was in a position to do this. And, speaking from general life experience, I would want someone to shake my shoulders vigorously and tell me "get over it, find someone else, there are plenty of fish in the sea," but people can't always see obvious things like this if/when they fall for someone.
What language is Visual Studio written in?

What language is the .NET infrastructure in?

I don't think Microsoft has ever produced any self-hosting language except C/C++. Until that fact changes, C/C++ will still be around.
A few weeks? Well, they've been two years excavating as of the date of the article, and so far it looks like they've found a strange tomb. It may be years rather than weeks before they know anything definitive.
Yes it is. Assuming your IT guy at work runs linux, then when you ask him: What backup should I get, if his answer is backblaze that brings a lot of business to you.

Personally I assume they don't release a linux client because then people would backup their server to it.
Don't worry, buddy. White dudes still hold all the positions of power in the industry. It's still way easier to get a job as a white dude. People will believe you if you're a white dude, about both things that happen to you and about your abilities.

If this is "racism" or "discriminatory", it's the least effective ever, and any comparison to the biases experienced by women and people of color is insulting.
Daily: Buffer's fully functional “Death Star for content sharing”
Better lock the bathrooms during working hours too, don't need people in there on company time.
"Any request to .js file resulted in a valid javascript. This script was loaded and executed instead of Qbaka tracking script."

Who would do that?

"The TTL value of the corrupted DNS record was one week."

For a parking page? Who would do that?
If it's a choice between democratised micromanagement, and highly political feudal lords and their serfs, which would you pick?

OK, having the right people manage might be better. Can you point me to an institution that's managed to consistently pull that one off?
So, like mobile Mechanical Turk?
Isn't that for adults though? My understanding is that kids tend to need much more vitamin d than adults (for growing bones).
WindMates – your excess assets are the new currency of crowdfunding
Sun screen doesn't block sun exposure though. It screens it. You're still getting sun exposure, just not amounts that are going to burn you.
Since there are some founders who go through YC more than once, that's not good enough.

There are 6 billion people on this planet. It's not that hard to figure out as a YC investor: if it's a YC founder, they're no longer part of that pool. Period. I'm amazed at the amount of "but what if ..." discussion here
Savioke Unveils Its Delivery Robot
Check out Solumbra products - http://www.sunprecautions.com/

I have one of their long sleeve "jackets" that you can wear in the water. Their products are not cheap, but they do last a long time, mine is over 10 years old.
At least when compiled with emscripten, the same memory-access-related optimizations used in native code also apply to cross-compiled JS code since the memory layout is exactly the same. emscripten uses a big linear memory buffer (a single big JS typed array) as heap and dlmalloc for dynamic memory management within this heap. If your code is cache-friendly in the natively compiled version of the code it will also be cache friendly in emscripten compiled code. Cheerp seemt to use a different approach though and seems to generate 'traditional' high level JS objects (which also means it requires garbage collection, which emscripten generated code doesn't).
Any idea what the durability of Backblaze is? S3 is 99.999999999%, is Backblaze anywhere near that? I can't seem to find it in their FAQ.
Discriminating and then accusing someone of not seeing discrimination. Classy.
This explains everything.

I hadn't frequented Ars for ages when I downloaded one of their podcasts last fall. I listened for a while before I realized the cacophony of giggling and memes wasn't pre-show foolishness - it was the whole show.

Now that I know the name and look back, pretty much everything I characterized Ars with was written by Jon Stokes.
I like the Columbia Omni Shade clothing, for example: http://www.columbia.com/Omni-Shade/Technology_Omni-Shade,def...
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MuchQuestion, a Bitcoin enabled QA
Do you know of any brands that don't get greasy? I've been using Green Beaver, but it stays visible all day long. It's not white, but there's oil.
Shift's (YC S14) Debit Card Spends Digital Currency, Loyalty Points, and Fiat
> Looks like there's a typo

Good catch! thank you, I'll fix that asap.

As you've pointed out, I am excited by the opportunity to implement this cycle

Domain (tcomb.js) --> UI generation (React.js, with validated props)
^ |
| |
| |
+-------------------------- Input validation

Some example off the top of my head

| T | input |
+----------+------------------------+
| Str, Num | textbox, textarea |
| enums | select, radio |
| struct | form |
| list(T) | table of T (recursion) |
USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB Type-C Connector Ready for Production [pdf]
I thought this was a little weird:
"melanoma diagnosis increased by 1.9 percent annually between 2000 and 2009."

I would have thought that this would have went down through this period. I was born in 1973 and wore some sunscreen as a kid and I would assume the amount of sunscreen wearing has increased over time and sun exposure has decreased. Some time before that people were barely wearing sunscreen or limiting exposure so as they die out I would expect the melanoma rate to decrease.

Of course there would be a lot of compounding factors, like longer lifespans, a higher percentage of Americans living in the South, etc. Just seems a little odd.
Nasa and military don't know what they're doing? C++ is the go to language in mission critical systems.
Insight into how startups are incorporating analytics into business operations
I would expect probably not, but my experience with these is that it's generally pretty obvious when one has a correct solution.

(except for the one problem in set 5 where they computed the hash of the ascii string representing the solution and I computed the hash of the actual number)
It's not really how much you need in terms of a volume, but just how long it takes to get to maximum blood concentrations. In direct sunlight in the summer you get to maximum concentrations very quickly, like <15 minutes timescale. And staying out in the sun longer doesn't raise levels further. So if you just semi-regularly get 30 minutes of sun (possibly less), the blood concentration will stay maxed out. (In other words, some sun every day or two might help, but 8 hours of exposure on one day does no more good than much less exposure would.)
Why You Should Forget Pre-Defined Product Categories with Basecamp's Ryan Singer
Maybe not such a good suggestion for a consumer-oriented product, but I've heard that this approach works well for B2B.
Author here. It's as serious as Yo was at the beginning - it's an experiment. I primarily built it for myself (have used it for more than two months now), but decided to make a service out of it in case someone else finds it useful.
I really wish that there was a good document that outlined all the paperwork required to run a "standard" Delaware-based C-corp for an online business located in Silicon Valley.

Things like workmans comp, sales tax, board meetings and minutes requirements, insurance requirements and the like. No need for lots of explanations, just a list of all the major things you need to do to run a C-Corp legally.

Does anyone know of such a list?
Not hard to find: http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_Seventh_generation

In the US market, the 360 trounced the PS3. A large part of this had to do with the launch cost being more than $100 lower.
You Can't Hire a VP That You Don't Love
There is a cohort of people here who seem to be upset with English grammar. It's bizarre.
"each person on the team can shine if they're given independent projects that they themselves had spec'd out"

Be careful about that. It can fail disastrously if they end up flailing around without making progress; you need to keep an eye on (a) what they're trying to do, and (b) what kind of progress they're making.

I'm working with a group fond of independent projects and the failure mode seems fairly popular.
Build a Captcha using jQuery and Web API
Europe and Japan. You can probably order some Garnier Ombrelle suncreen from Canada that contains Mexoryl. That's the UVA-blocking ingredient that we're missing in the US.
Downvotes because you're wondering why there isn't a VC fund/group "explicitly" set up to invest money in companies/individuals in exchange for some sort of sexual favors or for tolerating whatever behaviour you would throw at them.

It may just be an idea that you're not explicitly advocating, but it's an idea that's too close to what professionals here and the industry as a whole are trying to distance themselves from.
I can't believe he doesn't have a lot more subscribers and views than he does.
Since Taxi rides are basically futures contracts for a car ride, why doesn't someone create an agnostic taxi-ride orderbook. Aside from the fact that taxi companies desperately want to avoid market discovery of rates.
They do support external drives but not network drives. I have a 3 TB external drive attached to my MBA that backs up just fine.
Interesting point. But if I rephrase things a little bit, I don't feel it is becoming better:

"A reminder to Clergy people: no sexual abuse on children are permitted."

I think if I was a member of that profession, I would feel insulted.

EDIT: rerephrased according to comment (that may invalidate the commentors' opinions).
20 or more years ago there was a peephole optimizer that looked at generated Turbo Pascal (and other not so advanced (for their time) compilers) and rearranged instructions, removed holes, replaced instructions with better set (turns out some of the "macro"-instructions were not that fast).

Nowadays calling a .so/.dylib/.dll function, or accessing a thread-local variable also generates lots of cruft code that could possibly get optimized once the data is loaded. It won't always work (shared libraries can't be unloaded, but with enough hints, or assumptions that this would never be done, one can gain some benefits). On the negative this may reduce the code-sharing across processes.
I consider myself reasonable and that's not how I read it. It wasn't until I visited the comments that I realized others were interpreting the phrasing differently. And if grammatically it can be correctly interpreted as either an emphatic descriptor or a categorical divider it seems less harmful to simply use a different phrasing entirely.
Is this true even if you don't take any payment initially?

If so, how do all those bootstrapped startups manage to avoid minimum wage laws?
In early 2013, guacamole would do video for a little bit, and then get desynchronized from the server. It would be pretty great while it lasted though...
I don't know if I'd qualify this as "longform journalism", the article is pretty small. I can see where the writer may have been going for that style, but that requires a commitment to a certain minimum amount of content (and, for readers, a certain amount of insight gleaned to make it worth the time investment). Definitely a fluff piece, as you said.
Yeah, you got it! :)
Sadly - if any aspect of your business is conducted in California (e.g. you reside there) - that minimum $800++ is still owed - regardless of where it's incorporated.
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Ask HN: How do you host your company's marketing site?
We'd like to switch to hosting our marketing site, blog, and documentation using Jekyll. We've used S3 for other projects to host Jekyll sites, but we'd really like to have HTTPS enabled for all connections.

This made me wonder: How does the world host static marketing sites (or company blogs and docs) that are cost effective, reliable, and secure?
Amazon is no where near that. Software glitches have already distroyed s3 data. More importantly anything over 99.999% has to take into account vary low probability events like nuclear war.
Nobody can reasonably say 'I didn't realize' now. This is not a new 'trend.' This shit has been technically unacceptable for a while.

And just as technically it has been unacceptable in practice that won't change anything.
The submitted title was "Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind". Did Wired actually post that and then change it? Or was this just a particularly bad violation of the HN guidelines?

Either way, we've reverted the title and tried to take out the remaining linkbait.
This is no surprise. There's no metro area in the USA as cringe worthy as SV when it comes to relationships between men and women. Sexually frustrated neck beards and moderately attractive women do not mix. I can't even count the number of times a coworker has confessed his love to another, get rejected, then go out of his way to sabotage their career.
There's a delicate balance to strike between hype and optimism, but I agree that a lot of writing on the subject lands squarely in the realm of unfulfillable hype.
It's not about staring at the screen. It's about using that screen to contact your friends who live beyond your street to come over and sit around your fire.

People forget that 100 years ago that wasn't really an option.
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Web developers are making these errors because of the high demand for cheap web devs churned out of "learn to code!" bootcamps coupled with the fact that the people writing the checks don't understand security.

Also, while basic SQL injection issues are "fixed" if you are an experienced dev, CVEs about SQI in libraries meant to protect you from SQI are common. No doubt there are lots of zero day SQI exploits for every SQL library out there.
I like systemdnspawn much more than docker. Thanks.

But ubuntu is still anti systemd, garh.
Here's their page on external drives: https://www.backblaze.com/edrive.html
A high percentage of the population is Vitamin D deficient regardless of sunscreen use. The Recommended Daily Intake is way too low. Most people would be better off if they supplemented Vitamin D.

Recent studies have shown that people really should be supplementing 1000-2000 IU, that it has a safe upper limit of ~10,000 IU. The RDI is currently like ~500IU.
It was posted within the last 24 hours on Reddit (/r/blackhat). Here's the thread...

http://www.reddit.com/r/blackhat/comments/2d9qba/hackback_a_...
How did he get the php shell started after uploading it attached to a ticket? I did not get this step.
http://www.mccarroll.net/snippets/s3boto/index.html

https://code.google.com/p/bigcache/

https://code.google.com/p/bigcache/
If the information you provided them was accurate, shouldn't the folks that botched the payroll be liable for that?
This made the internet for me today.
Siri’s Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
Ruby/YARV bytecode compiler for λ-calculus
See this Asana post on how they do it: http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/

This still requires Statamic, PHP, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. That would appear to be expensive for just a simple static site.
Tremendous talent, admirable range as an actor, and, most
admirably, he seemed possessed of a genuine compassion for
his fellow human beings. Certainly he'll be missed by those who knew him personally and through his work.

As a child of a parent who suffered from bipolar disorder, his death hits fairly close.

Goodbye, Robin, may all doors be open to you and all obstacles removed from your path.
While not immediately relevant, if you find this discussion interesting, have a look at sshuttle:

sshuttle[0] is a pure-python one-way TCP VPN solution that is very well behaved and quite efficient. The source is highly readable as well. +1 to everything Avery Pennarun has released (including wvdial, bup)

[0] https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
If noone else steps up to it, Ill do it myself.
> I disagree, the data exists, this is fundamental, we are not going towards data impoverishment, we are necessarily living in an environment rich with data. I rather have accurate data by far.

It may be an inexorable trend, but for the time being, individuals and organizations generally have a choice about the amount of data they collect.
>You should probably not form an entity if you are not reading tax ramifications.

In abstract yes. In practice it happens. And several succesful companies started with a cavalier attitude towards much bigger things. In fact without a cavalier attitude in some things, the fact-checking, lawyer and bureacracy cost would be impossible to bear for a new personal business startup.

>Not a front page material.

It's a social voting site. Actually looks like your comment was not comment thread material.
Nice. Reading about an exit intent algorithm - and then a bit later triggering one - made me smile.
Seems like dogecoin would be a better fit.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've seen an 8TB drive, can't wait to get enough of them to drop in to a pod and test :)
The alternative to confirmation bias bubbles is, especially for social media, showing people stuff they might not like or agree with--the problem is that this isn't great for business, and generally get's people up in arms.

A great, very recent, example of this was reddit making /r/TwoXChromosomes, a subreddit dedicated to women's issues, a default sub (meaning everyone, even non-users, are automatically subscribed). The stereotype demographic for reddit is young white males. I have no way of actually verifying these demographics--I'm not sure they do either.

Yesterday, a comic about the casual sexual harassment caused by men was posted[1] and although there was some valuable discussion, most of it was pretty awful to read (the further down you scroll, the worse it gets). Although we'd like to believe that engaging in debate / conversation / dialogue generally cause us to have empathy for and understand the other side, the opposite tends to happen, especially in large, anonymous communities. And this is in a venue where the quality of participation IS (supposedly) based on the value of the discussion.

Although I think you're right that most websites (Hacker News included) suffer from only having up and / or down votes. It's possible that a more complex system might be more useful. Maybe in addition to the like / dislike paradigm, it might be useful to add quality / not quality functionality.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/2d85wt/next...
Debugging file corruption on iOS
Well there goes another person who is "offended". Is there age discrimination? Possibly, but at my workplace there are a lot of slackers and you guessed it, they're usually (emphasis on "usually", stop trolling) older, paper pushers, "Let's have a meeting to talk about changing a line of code" people, etc. Needless to say, I work in a big company.

The best way to avoid discrimination of any kind is to continuously update your skills (technical, social, inter-personal etc.). If you have nothing to show for working X number of years, then why would people hire you? They'd rather have someone who can put in an insane amount of hours. I'm not supporting companies who do this, but I'm rather stating the stark reality of Silicon Valley. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is.

Edit: I should've expected these responses; I've said explicitly I do not support this. But at the same time instead of complaining, invest in your skill set.
While most of the opposite gender population is outside your company (or pool of possible investments), most the opposite gender population that you interact with on a regular basis is likely not.

That's not to say I disagree with you on your overall point. I just found that argument to be a little too dismissive of the reason one might be dating within their company or pool of possible investments.
In addition to quid pro quo, making romantic overtures in professional settings sets up a barrier for women that doesn't exist for men. Men can go to coffee with a potential investor and know walking in the door that they're there to get a hearing about their business. But every woman that walks through that door has to fight off the concern that the meeting isn't about their company, but instead about their own personal availability.

Even if 90% of the time that concern is unfounded, the mental effort you spend dealing with that exerts drag and hurts your performance. One of the things investors are grading you on is confidence!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/polaroid-c3-tiny-action-c...
So, let's actually explore the idea a bit, and you'll see that it actually is not completely worth dismissing outright.

One of the big problems with unwanted romantic advances is that they can come unexpectedly: you're there to do a deal, and the other person is trying to find a way of getting in your pants; you give out your number for business, other person calls you with non-business propositions. It's stressful and annoying, especially with the power imbalance one sees with investment.

So, let's go ahead and start a firm (we'll tongue-in-cheek refer to it as SugarVC) whose deal to founders is straight up "We will fund you if you date us and/or return sexual favors". Let's assume all the contractual niceties are tied up clearly (hah) and in good faith (hah hah). What might we see from this?

First, sexual harassment changes somewhat, because if you're dealing with SugarVC you know what you're getting into...you're not going to give out phone numbers, for example, that you can't shut off.

Second, other investors know that a deal that didn't pan out or was passed over by SugarVC probably was because they didn't get a hookup out of it--not because of some inherent flaw in the business or numbers. In some ways, that's preferable to fixing the power imbalance because it could help limit reputational damage: failing to get funding at such a firm probably doesn't have the same network effects.

Third, you probably see that the people getting funded are more attractive than usual, not selected for business viability but for being a better catch/trophy (deplorable, but bear with me). That being the case, we see that pretty people get more/safer funding guarantees. The possible effect of that is you end up with CEOs who are more presentable in public (simply because they're more attractive) and hence have a marketing/networking advantage--the actual business stuff being handled by a firm appointee or suggested hire, if they're serious about their investment as well. Arguably, this is actually not a terrible deal, if you believe that sales/marketing/networking beats out product.

There are some other interesting ramifications of such a firm--so, let's not dismiss it out of hand.
Backblaze still shows country block due to sanctions that were dropped by US many years ago, for the country which no longer exists.
Oh man, did this start as a Dogecoin thing and you switched currencies?
>> would Backblaze's aggregate data be useful to somebody like Seagate?

Probably not. They posted before that they don't even buy enough drives to purchase directly from the manufacturers.