skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> having two labs nearly on top of each other in Santa Barbara and the Valley doesn't make much sense.

I think you may be confusing Santa Barbara, which is close to Los Angeles and approximately 5 hours drive from the Valley, with the closer Santa Clara, which is in the Valley, or Santa Cruz, which is about an hour south of the Valley.
Sure they are. The decision process is so complicated, if you were aware of every step in the algorithm, it'd be slow as hell!
I agree with you, though other people may be entirely trusting of the SaaS in question or not care that much about security.

Commando.io is basicly the same service command-execution wise, however, it also offers the possibility for customers to run commando.io self-hosted (presumably enterprise pricing). Having a SaaS I presume, which is working (and successful) can be a boon to future enterprise sales that are concerned with the risks you mentioned.

I wish that all SaaS dealing with access to remote servers have some kind of (more up-front) disclaimer, noting that no matter how secure the service is advertised it will not be responsible for future mishaps/breaks/leaks.
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Here's an old (18 months ago) exhibition of Elixir's improvements upon Erlang oddities and difficulties:

http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/01/22/the-excitement-of-elixir...
> There was no link to more information in his (her?) HN profile.

'His' apparently. I didn't know either, but apparently he was the first to crack Cloudfare's Heartbleed challenge:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-results-of-the-cloudflare-cha...

His LinkedIn / twitter for reference:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/indutny

https://twitter.com/indutny
I believe that in the US they have to have interest payments (although these can be deferred for some period of time), otherwise they are not legally considered debt.
If you have a USPS PO Box, some allow you to specify the street address as the address, and they can match your box to your name.
You mean figuring out answers to important business issues like "who are you users?", "how will you acquire them?", and "how will you make money?" and then having a plan how to clearly communicate them is cramming and nothing more?
Its all method calls. Specifically, its all calls to #send, most of which get relayed to another method (either based on the message name or, if no such method exists, #method_missing.)
This seemed bad when I initially read it, but now that you raise the "4chan problem" this goes from bad to really really bad. People will absolutely get "joked" via this at some stage.

The thing I really liked about Android is that for a one time $35 fee (plus a domain) you could make an app, and even charge money for that app. That's a very low barrier to entry (which is good/bad depending on who you ask).

Now with this requirement (and the risks associated) I need to pay for a PO Box or rent another business address. PO Boxes seem to start at around $10/month for the smallest one (via the US PO).

$120/year + $35 + domain/hosting is a huge jump (more than double) the cost to develop on Android. Apple "only" charge $99/year, however you do also need a Mac.
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Ah, iodine. I've used it in airports, hotels, cafes - it's great. The only drawback is that it's slower than dialup and latency is off the charts. But when you're stuck on a cruise ship and internet access is $8 a minute, being able to ssh somewhere and browse the web and check your mail very slowly through links is worth it.
Sorry to be the negative-nancy, but did Nagios (specifically XI) suddenly become hard or something?

Maybe I'm just an old neckbeard by now, but what's with this trend with cloud-hosted middle-man applications (read: expensive web 2.0 frontends) for standard software? If you can't install and configure your own server monitoring, what are you doing hosting your own servers? Am I missing something obvious here?
My immediate assumption is that they're just moving it to Santa Barbara, where they established a facility in 2005:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/stationq/default.as...

That's not so far away; it's easy for an organization like Microsoft, with no ties to SV or need for them, to relocate when real estate becomes a problem.
It seems like a misguided attempt by an out of touch group of 50-something marketing managers to be hip/relevant.

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. Apple circa 2004 nailed marketing. It seems recently they've stopped 'evolving' and are looking to past concepts that have worked, but no longer relevant.

Beats was cool because Dre is a legend and a celebrity. I hope Apple starts using some of Beats' marketing people for their own brand.
> watches are an unstructured control flow system, similar to GOTO

Any callback is a GOTO. in fact, any function call in C like languages IS A GOTO.

So i'm not sure what is the point of saying that.

$scope.$watch is at the center of angularjs architecture,there is no way to avoid it.

And that's what makes angularJS awesome,seamless integration between the view layer and other app layers,without a single explicit event handler registration,mediator,observer,... (except for directives obviously). No JS framework but angularjs does that,not even React that needs a 3rd party library to integrate itself with a domain layer.

That's why angularjs is so easy to use and beats everything else.
Possibly one of those companies down the road from MSR SV with the multicolored bikes.
I think it still is true in mobile, but in mobile the general computing components just need to be good enough not to lag, build quality and interface elements are the things to buy on with laptops, tablets and mobiles.

Doesn't matter if you have a powerful gizmo if the hinges are broken and it overheats, however with PC's you can buy a high-end motherboard and find a power supply in a skip and just nail them to the wall if you like. Build quality is far more optional.
I've been reading technical books on it for a year now. Currently reading through a few Haskell and Scala books for fun (all pdfs). I wouldn't recommend picture heavy textbook, for example something on Biology, but for Comp. Sci. books it does the trick imo.
Here's the thing that's left out of this investor-friendly analysis, and why Suster is wrong about the "irrationality" of no-cap deals: For smaller angels, access to the deal itself is valuable.

Small investors don't have access to Series A. That's why the analogy with the stock market is broken:

"Can you imagine investing in the stock market where your price was determined at a future date and the better that company performed the HIGHER the price you paid for that investment."

The reality is angels don't have the option of purchasing the stock after the seed round. So, it can make perfect economic sense for an angel to pay a premium to get access to a deal. And if that premium comes in the form of pre-paying for a chunk of the Series A (one way to look at a no-cap deal), that can make sense -- perhaps even more sense that an enhanced seed valuation would. A discount would be sweetener on top of that. But to be clear: there is a rational case for smaller investors taking no-cap deals in order to get a chunk of the next Facebook, which they otherwise wouldn't be able to get.

Seed rounds present a unique intersection point for founders & smaller angels where their interests overlap. I think the bigger-sized investor community are somewhat threatened by that, and that's why we're seeing such a sophisticated campaign against no-cap convertible notes. But the climate is now competitive enough and small-angel platforms are getting enough traction that you can sense their anxiety that no-caps may be coming back, to the great benefit of founders.
Interesting. Why is the Highland council area so red?
> En-dashes have one use

Actually, the en dash has more than one use: http://cddc.uchicago.edu/qanda/data/faq/topics/HyphensEnDash...
> How to Get into Y Combinator

Luck. Competence, execution and a decent enough idea are requisite, but mostly luck.
Building a product, one interview at a time
MSR Station Q (at Santa Barbara) is 12 researchers. MSR SVC was about 75.
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Yes you should use it. We name feature branches after JIRA tickets for accountability and transparency. It's made tracking branches and tickets associated with them super easy and fast.

You've got nothing to lose, it's essentially just a naming convention for git. You won't be locked into anything.
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I've not yet made an Android app, but I'm toying with one, and I echo the concerns of the developer that posted. I can't imagine a lot of indy devs want their apartment information available to the toxic zone that is app feedback. "FC everytime! 1 start and I'm coming to your apartment!"

What's Apple's policy with respect to this sorta thing?
"I like to make stuff that solves a real, concrete problem."

How does the idea of spending 30% of time on refactoring sound to you?
Well, Apple does basically have enough money to buy the entire US Government...
A shameless plug, I guess, but although I've seen Scalyr before, I will take another look at it today. Thanks!
I think the discussion is really about Rails, not Ruby. Ruby itself is fairly minimalist and easy to follow. Probably the biggest legitimate complaint about the language design itself is that it mixes functional, procedural, and object-oriented paradigms in a way that makes it hard to fully capture the benefits of any of them unless you really know what you're doing.

Now Rails on the other hand relies on a good deal more magic than say Django, but it's recognized in the community as a tradeoff and it is done carefully. Some of the things that rubyists accept in Rails they would never put in an application or library because it is deemed okay only by massively adopted convention at the framework level, but not generally a good practice.

Then you have libraries like rspec which started out being full of magic but which gradually got refined and cleaned up so that in rspec 3.0 you have zero monkey patches; it's just pure ruby, providing a totally modular set of DSLs that work together nicely and allow for amazingly readable test output.
The extra irony is cutting jobs and research while spending billions to buy a game franchise.
This is the wrong place to speak the truth :). Let me share your down-votes with you.
Considering iPhone has their custom processor design, this information is most likely confidential. However, it isn't inconceivable that some sort of memory protection method similar to IOMMU can be added to the internal fabric to prevent baseband processors (or any other peripherals) from accessing arbitrary physical memory.
While I agree that SV is expensive, I think most people agree that the talent there is really not restricted to startups. Google, IBM Almaden Research Center, to name a few, and then there's obviously Stanford and Berkeley very close.
Please do.

As an addendum, I just thought that the service industries where the customer is always right are also the first ones where you won't notice very much when the employees get swapped with robots.

This is probably why supermarkets were some of the first to cross over.
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I don't understand why you and the other person are trying to "correct" them? I thought their point was obvious: MS Research innovates, and then links examples (including F# which goes on to be a successful product as you pointed out).

F# being in full production doesn't disprove what they said, it further proves it.

PS - I disagree with the person above's proposition that MS Research is the "only" innovate branch of Microsoft. I am just posting to get clarification on what you and the other poster are getting at.
Singularity has evolved into Midori project but to the latest rumor it was cancelled and the team disbanded.
Why is there no web browser on the tablets without backlight?

I have wanted a laptop or tablet without backlight for years. The backlight not only makes it harder to get to sleep at night, but it also makes it harder to concentrate. A laptop where you didn't have to stare at a backlight would make it easier to get shit done. I can't just dim the screen on my MBP. It is even some research that suggests there is a hypnotic effect of staring into a bright lit TV or computer screen.
How about this: "Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas using systematic observation, controlled experiment, and Bayesian inference" :-)

The notion that these circles are the result of large-scale self-organization on the part of the grasses (and maybe other creatures) is an intriguing one. I have a very speculative novel that plays around with the idea of evolution operating on all scales: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...

While Newtonian physics was the go-to explanatory metaphor for several centuries, it's plausible that in the 21st century we'll start to see metaphorical evolutionary explanations become more common. If we can encourage that habit in ourselves and others it may help us see more creative, non-linear solutions to our problems, rather than the simple Newtonian action/reaction, force/motion model.
I believe he meant local variables (or if he didn't he should have).
Anyone able to explain how to read this?
Ask HN: Scrum practicioners Does this ring the bell to you?
I'm just testing a video of a product and I'm wondering if it makes any sense at all for agile professionals. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-c189bd_w
You mean the inventor of LaTeX. And by "mean", I mean "also".
Thanks for explaining this. I would also love to read your opinion. Would you be willing to share it in a separate comment?

(And hopefully it doesn't incur any downvotes and readers understand it is just an opinion.)
I wonder what the high level thinking at Google is these days around user privacy. They must be aware that the growing noise about it means it is going to be the stick they are going to be attacked with, and yet their business relies on people willingly giving some of it up.

While this particular announcement seems fluffy, I do somewhat applaud the intent. The question of how we expect to run the internet economy and preserve user privacy is becoming more pressing for everyone though.
We use the idea, but I think most of our team has abandoned the actual git-flow scripts. We manage our pull requests via Github, so the git-flow feature finish workflow wasn't being used.

That said, git-flow was a great way to introduce sanity to our branching. Our designers figured it out very quickly, too.
The numbers in the circles at 21:00 BST time show the likely time when the results will be announced.
I guess they already figured out all the things?
I just got back into Django heavily after a 4 year hiatus -

It's a little frustrating that even though the platform has evolved, the documentation has gotten much much worse.. back in 2008 the docs were one of the best things about Django but today they are just a total headache.

The documentation is impossible to search using the built in search functionality, because it only returns a fraction of the right results. There are tons of omissions - key classes, methods etc that are only mentioned casually in bits and pieces. Lots of pages of documentation you can't even find without Google which half the time indexes docs for pages that are 4 versions outdated...

Also frustrating how much the admin is still frozen in 2008, the options out there for responsive themes are really clumsy at best.

I was trying to introduce junior devs to Django this month and all they see is an outdated interface and really really confusing documentation, it's a real turnoff
Additionally to then there's also the various things that track identity and behaviour. Tell me what you search and click, and I'll tell you what you think? (That's not fixed with a simple add-on of course.)
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This article(http://blogs.seattletimes.com/microsoftpri0/2014/09/18/micro...) has details on the numbers. The lab has 75 researchers.
For most people Ghostery and AdBlock Edge are good enough. I'm a pretty conservative, default-deny kind of hacker, so the results of my cost-benefit analysis are a little... different... than most. :)
Looks nice, but a bit pricey.
low Scottish National Party voters
They likely wouldn't. Your asking people to bet a lot of money on the fact that somebody you'll be running a successful business they can profit off of.

Selling dreams is significantly harder then selling snake oil. And you don't even have snake oil yet.
is it possible to put the source files on gitub (i ask because the book is CC licensed. I understand if you are not keen on that idea.), so that i can take a gander at converting it using pandoc?
> It is true that all message responses (including accessors) are implemented using methods.

An object can respond to a message even though it doesn't have a method with that name. A classic example are Rails' dynamic finders:

User.methods.include?(:find_by_name)
=> false
User.respond_to?(:find_by_name)
=> true
How do I (a non dev) manage the development of a commercial product?
Hello all. I realize I am out of my depth when it comes to managing the development of a software product.
In essence, I am looking to offer a hardware/software solution for my industry. For the sake of this question, let's call that industry, "custom video integration and installations".

I am a intermediate level programmer, but a good systems technician/engineer with ~20 years of experience. Quite obviously, my lack of tenure in any kind of organized programming environment implies many impediments.

My concept is to build a system based on a JS framework, likely Meteor or perhaps Sails.

Is there a resource that I can study to familiarize myself with process of building a MVP with only freelance labor?

Can I farm out the components to different teams so as to maintain separation of proprietary codebase?

Go easy on me folks, but I would love a few ideas and to hear about your experiences. I apologize if a similar question has been posed. If so, would you be kind enough to redirect me to that page?
Thanks in advance.
Generally speaking,

rm -rf /

is a good starting point for those open to running random scripts from the Internet :)
Background blog post: http://oobrien.com/2014/09/scottish-independence-referendum-...
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+1 thanks for those links. You are probably correct about Richard's view of Common Lisp.
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Seems to be that the border colours represent previous SNP vote share and the middles will represent referendum declarations as they are announced. The numbers are projected declaration times.
Why are the circles colored to indicate voting results if none of the results have been announced yet?
lol @ the clinkle joke
Here's an AP article on it:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/18/google-will-now-requ...

Not a lot of additional info unfortunately.
wait a minute, you can't force Yelp to remove your restaurant?! and I thought we had retarded Internet laws in my country... here in Colombia, no business can have your information without your consent. If they do, you can force them to remove any records they have on you –it's a principle called Habeas Data.
TOS jiujitsu. Very elegant.
Are there any more details into why he's doing this?
Yeah, they don't do anything like make innovative wordpad applications for tablets.
Huh, alright. You make a strong case. I guess it's not exactly a surprise, but I'm still a bit disappointed.
Co-CEOs? I only know one company that had co-CEOs, and that didn't work out well for them.
You mean, Android Police, not Associated Press, of course.
"When I started to develop this tool, I just used SQL, because it was the only database I knew"

You may want to correct that.
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Probably based on the level of SNP support in either the local council, Scottish or UK parliament elections - traditionally the Liberal Democrats were strong in the Highlands.

Not sure picking SNP support in an area is a great basis for predicting tonight's results though - a lot of people who would never vote SNP seem to be supporting the "Yes" campaign.

I plan on fast-forwarding through the next few hours with some help from our local water of life.

Edit: This might be a good source for where those number come from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/vote2012/council/S12000017...

As it was a council election there appear to have been a lot of independents - so the proportion of seats won by the SNP looks relatively small even though they were the largest political party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Council_election,_2012
Being a stay-at-home dad while co-founding a startup
indutny is no stranger. Highly respected coder.
Cause he's going to be CTO instead.
Ask HN: Can you get into YC while on an H1B?
Most blogs that describe tips and best practices when applying to YC have one advice in common - "Get customers", "Prove that someone needs your product", "Get signups, email addresses" etc. And while that is a very valid and important point, for some of us though its harder than that. Even if one has a prototype, the companies they work for have strict policies that prevent doing business on the side, let alone the fact that the H1 visa also explicitly prevents you from having any other source of income or starting a corp. The only options would be to go all in and go to their home country to develop the product further, at which point they've abandoned everything they've worked hard for all this while, - or - wait for a green card, which is elusive if you are from one of the populous Asian countries.
What other options does one have? Have any H1s successfully made it to YC? Could they describe their experience?

Also, please correct me if I'm wrong here, but despite assurances from YC folk and Sam himself that you can and should apply even if you have just an idea or prototype, blog after blog suggest you need to be much further than that to get through the tough competition.
Maybe it has something to do with him being 70?
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http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/#whowefund

How do we choose who to fund? The people in your group are what matter most to us. We look for brains, motivation, and a sense of design. Experience is helpful but not critical.

Your idea is important too, but mainly as evidence that you can have good ideas. Most successful startups change their idea substantially.

After reading through PG's essays and watching all of the Startup School videos, you'll find the same thing repeated there. YC looks for smart people with a history of building cool stuff. You probably have a better chance if your team has known each other and worked together on projects outside of school or work. If you can show examples where you can see and implement creative solutions to problems (hacking a non-computer system...), you have most of what it takes to be successful at YC, regardless of the startup idea you put on your application. It was possible at one point to apply with no idea at all, so that is some indication of the importance of everything else on the application.

PG said in a fireside chat once that the reason there was a 3 week gap between invitation and interview was twofold: to allow people enough time to get cheap airfare, and to see what progress they make on the idea. 3 weeks, he said, is enough time to build a rough prototype (software, at least) and start getting traction of some kind.
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