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I appreciate you sharing your experience, this is something we founders are not enough prepared to go through.

Two comments IMHO:

- Would you have said yes and looked into the details of their offer, you would have realized that the $12M are not upfront. Through retention packages and revesting, most of the price is typically paid over 3 or 4 years. So the offer was probably less attractive than it initially looks.

- $12M is never a good outcome for investors (at least big angels and VCs). They make their returns only on big exits.
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Such an amazing project!
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

These large corporations only want a more female and diverse workforce because they have the perception that they can pay these groups less than their white male counterparts. They claim what they're doing is completely egalitarian, but in reality they abhor the idea of equal pay. Just look at the recent spat with Satya Nadella:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/10/microsoft-...

All this comes down to is paying workers less under the guise of social progress. It's absolutely disgusting.
Just because you grew up poor does not mean that you didn't benefit from privileges awarded to whites. Admitting that these privileges exist doesn't mean that individual whites had an easy time.

"You will hear a lot of crap about African-Americans and Females having a hard time..."

Your argument, in a nut, seems to be that barriers to learning are low, and therefore, blacks and women had opportunities to learn, they just chose otherwise, and the consequences are on them.

Of course, even if true, this is simplistic. You see why, right? Your sum total of success is due to more than learning how to program in a basement. It has to do with mentoring along the way, finding peers, being seen as able to do things. If you're in the minority (within discipline), it's harder. If the minority has the odds stacked against it in the wider society (and we're not arguing about that, right?), then things get harder still.

It's hard to see why this is controversial.
You can do both: use a different key for each purpose on each physical machine. This addresses two different threat models: each machine has a different set of keys to address compromise of that machine, and you use a different key for each purpose so that forwarding your agent to a compromised machine doesn't compromise your other keys.
I'm completely sick of hearing these comments on HN. As someone who also grew up white and poor, yet made it into the tech field, there's no way I could deny that people of color experience life differently than I do. We don't live in a post-racial society, white people do get treated differently in a variety of ways, and just because a handful of minorities have made it in tech doesn't mean they speak for the potential success of all others.
I don't think so and I don't think that's the reason behind this move.

I'm pretty sure this is about gaining back some developers. All the cool things happening these days on mobiles and on the web are not happening with Microsoft's platforms.

It's important to remember from where .NET comes from. It was part of a larger vision of Microsoft that included Windows Longhorn, .NET Passport, project Greenwich and Trusted Computed. Of course this vision screamed "Lock-In" and it was about just that (too bad that it is happening anyway, yet people aren't paying attention anymore). So .NET wasn't opened because it was seen as a way to keep people on Windows. Sure there was an ECMA standard, but that was just like putting lipstick on a pig (though ironically that ECMA standard is much stronger and useful than Java's JCP, which is a complete farce).

Unfortunately they missed the forest from the trees. The web developed outside of their walls, mobiles developed outside of their walls. All the cool things happening right now are happening outside of their walls. And now all of a sudden, a Windows-specific platform becomes a liability, a way to keep people out of Windows or whatever Microsoft wants to do.

Personally I'm happy about it. It's a pretty solid platform and a good alternative to the JVM. Given the dickish moves by Sun against Apache Harmony and by Oracle against Android's Dalvik, I think it's about time the JVM had some competition. .NET is still missing a healthy ecosystem though. For Java / the JVM the ecosystem is intimidating at first (e.g. so many choices, so much open-source, multiple IDEs, multiple languages, WTF), but it's actually its biggest strength. On the other hand if there's enough interest, then .NET can catch up as the basics are taken care of.
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This submission (and several others) were all merged into one big post here [1], along with all of the comments.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905
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> Performance improvement plans are not for performance improvement. They are for firing employees. Management already formed an irreversible negative view. It is too late.

While this ends up mostly true in practice, I have known people who were able to turn things around after being put on a PIP.

> You cannot win a case against the company. Because a) companies have more resources and b) even if you do win then other companies will mark you as a troublemaker. Getting hired is going to get a lot harder.

There is a flip side to this. The company wants to ensure it has a water tight case against you, to ensure the complaints are dismissed before going to court. Otherwise, if there is any merit to your complaint, despite the company having more resources than you, they do not wish to be tied up in legal entanglements. This is why HR and Management document everything heavily.

I don't have the source handy, but in the US workplace legal disputes is the number one costs to companies.
When you say Indian American do you mean Middle Eastern Indian, or Native American Indian?
The majority of people below the poverty line are white. Several "Rural" folks are well off.

"Struggles" are relative to the people going through them.
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The next sentence in the article is:

>Water boils at lower temperatures as pressure decreases.
The comet is in fact very very black, but pretty much all cameras are greyscale. Most 'colour' cameras are just a series of filters placed over the pixels to sense only light of the desired colour (usually RGB)

When science has to be done, it's easier to have a selectable set of filters you can put in front of the whole sensor at once. This way you can use the full sensor resolution and you can have a wider variety of filters. They also tend to bring along spectrometers of some description which are again much much more useful.
But not personal enough not to be the basis for an argument about what github should do to display Go code.
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Pedantic comments like yours do little to move the conversation forward they merely distract from the real issues.

I would argue that making incorrect and oversimplified premises is far more distracting to real issues than some person's brief pedantic comment. You can't have a debate if you start by poisoning the well and declaring false axioms.
It's the number one thing that makes me get down about freelancing. But now I know - it's not just a matter of firing clients you don't want to to work with, it's a matter of attracting people who "get" you. It's made all the difference. Thanks for the read!
Yes I am sure. I paraphrased the exchange to fit into a HN comment.
this is pretty awesome. Congrats!
It's not like we haven't ever seen people swearing they won't sell out and then selling out later because of changing circumstances. When push comes to shove will he really lay off half of his employees?

Fundamentally Valve is two companies and Steam's chances of conquering the world and remaining independent don't seem great to me. Business today is great and they have many users who love them.

They are however, ultimately an extra middleman on an increasingly irrelevant platform that they don't control. They're also about to enter another market with fading relevance against established players with much deeper pockets. That's not a bet-the-company move but, if it's a mild initial success, it may spiral into something like it. That could be worse than if it flopped out of the gate as Valve may end up issuing lots of stock to support growth in the cutthroat console world, where the competition spends billions on subsidizing hardware, marketing and gaining exclusives and is also facing growing pressure from Android and iOS. Yes Steam has millions of avid fans today. Ask Sega, Nokia, RIM and others how long that lasts in the hardware world.
I'm not sure what your point is. Everything that you've said is true.
Legal or not, I cannot thank him enough for bringing it up. He did a service to all who are or will be looking for employment. It was certainly eye opening for me.
This reminds me some of what Livblends is doing: https://twitter.com/LivBlends .
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S3 already has a feature where you can configure per-bucket apache style access logs which log every operation and may solve your purpose. This feature provides realtime messaging for uploads.
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From a casual glance: it's kind of like Heroku but with Node.js, and it scales automatically?
I couldn't find any information on who manufactured the automatic activation device, but it was almost certainly not an off the shelf model. Airtec created a specialized Cypres[1] for the Redbull Stratos project, and Cypres has had other applications in space, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what was used.

[1] http://www.cypres.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...
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If true, that deal actually seems reasonable. Can't believe they couldn't come to that without six months of mudslinging.
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Who said anything about Asian and Indian Americans having white privilege? (The linked article doesn't...). Of course, they are quite well represented in the tech industry, but that neither means Asian and Indian Americans have the full constellation of cultural presumptions as default referred to by "white privilege", nor that the tech industry has no need to investigate its issues with diversity. Asian and Indian Americans have their particular struggles as minorities, with some commonalities with and some differences from other minorities' struggles.
This reminds me of http://www.Webscript.io

Similar single event -> function service
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It is completely possible. Consider that the major uses for a server are interacting with clients, storing data (backend database) and manipulating that data. Here the clients can interact directly with S3/Dynamo, this in turn will trigger Lambda functions to manipulate data, and the round trip can be accomplished via SNS.

Of course, it would be much more viable to have some sort of server running (for example I doubt Netflix has replaced their entire backend with Lambda functions), but a great majority of workflows dealing with stateless data manipulation and events can now be streamlined and even replaced.
Here's the link to our Show HN. Updating the post momentarily

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4538949
Can gofmt really change semantics? I would assume that's a bug?

It is definitely not supposed to change semantics. If you ever see an instance of that, then it is a big fat bug and should be reported to the developers ASAP.

I doubt you'll see such a bug though. The language is designed to be easy for a computer to parse.
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As a few people have pointed out, don't try to make entrepreneurs. But you seem to be on the right track to be a good parent which is what counts!

As I have pointed out in other posts, I am a serial entrepreneur. My mother and father, also both serial entrepreneurs, did not set out to make me an entrepreneur. They did spend a lot of time with me and my brother. I remember fondly going to the build out of a new store with my mom, or to my dads office, or sweeping (some of the businesses were actually not technical, and required a lot of sweeping, which I did, for a little spending money). My parents went to every one of my brothers baseball games and helped me with every science project and paper and "invention faire". When I grew to the point where I was starting a company and needed advice I would call my parents and the answer would often be something like "Remember the time when we had to balance the books in the store when so and so was stealing? This seems similar." And the light bulb in my brain would go off and off I would go, knowing what I needed to know to handle the situation I was in because of the experiences they had given me. It wasn't forced or "do this so you can be a good business man someday," it was far more of a situation of "hey, would you like to hang out and help around the shop today? I am making a piece for a client and could use a hand."

One other small point. My parents were and are still very wealthy. I grew up in a wealthy area. My friends always had allowances and such. My parents on the other hand never allowed me or my brother to have a dime we didn't work for. Many important lessons were learned from that. I remember as all of my Freshman Spanish class mates left for Spain and I couldn't afford the trip even though I know my parents could have easily popped down the $1000's in cash for it. Can you imagine the business acumen I have now gained from having financial experiences like that? I am grateful every day for them. (And I have made it to Europe on my own many many times at this point, so I am not left out).

The point is, be a parent and make experiences with your kids and nieces and nephews. Don't try to force it. I am now an entrepreneur, my brother is an executive at a large, Fortune 25 company. Build Lego's on Sunday's and be happy to know that in 20 years your kids will say, "I am so glad I got to build lego's on Sunday's with my parents".
It's fairly typical. Though I usually get preview to any service reasonable fast just by clicking on their website.

E.g. Amazon Kinesis:

Preview 14 Nov 2013: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-real-time-pro...

Got access less than week from that.

GA 16 Dec 2013: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/16/amazon-...
how much can the rest of the world practically do though?

only 3 of 13 root servers are outside of America's direct jurisdiction, and those servers splitting off would only cause confusing disarray, while America continues to be the main authority in the western world
Wasn't there just an AWS announcement yesterday about the ability to register VPC-private DNS records in Route 53? It screamed "SkyDNS competitor" to me but I couldn't figure out what Amazon wanted such a thing for. Makes sense now.
On the other hand, in no other market is there effectively only one retailer for a wholesaler's product.

(Yes there are plenty of other readers and ebook software options out there. They don't have the market penetration or mind share that Amazon/Kindle does - Amazon has an effective monopoly here as far as most consumers are concerned.)
Actively assume it means "Special Effects"? Probably not.

Be confused and wish the title was clearer? Much more likely.
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Agreed. However, Amazon's pricing and rather complicated infrastructure means that there will always be a market for people like the DigitalOcean's of the world (I just want a cheap VM, now).
So this is an aggregation address, right? That's not individual people sending hundreds of bitcoins in ransom...
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Weird things also happen when a request is fired but NOTHING happens - no failure, no response. It's what happens when you connect to one of those annoying paid airport wifi APs (and don't pay). No failure, no response, just a black hole for packets.
Depends on your requirements. I use F# day-to-day, but I think Haskell overall is a better language. There's some ugly aspects to F#, like its OO grammar, lack of typeclasses and seeming randomness to the casing (sometimes camelCase and sometimes PascalCase). These are all artefacts of it being a pragmatic tool in a toolset: its requirement to work with other .NET languages and frameworks (and Mono).

So for a bit of ugliness, and some loosening of the type-system shackles, you get a whole ton of stuff.

Haskell as I'm sure you're aware is much stricter and much harder to interoperate with. But much more refined as a language. Whilst you do get the "If it compiles it will probably work" thing with F#, it's nowhere near the level of Haskell. Haskell tends not to play as well with Windows, but again it depends what you're doing. I've had very few problems with Haskell on Windows by writing stand-alone services that talk to the rest of the world through RabbitMQ.

So if you're writing something that must absolutely be provably sound, doesn't need to talk to much else, then I'd go with Haskell. If you need lots of core Windows features it'd probably be best with F#.

I went from Haskell to F#, and I'm glad I learned Haskell first because it gave me a much stronger grounding in functional concepts. It's much easier to 'break the rules' in F#.

I hope that helps.
Ah yes, tension is resolved.
Every age has its little people whose entire contribution to public discourse is to complain about how dreadful everything is. They add nothing good to the world. They don't feed the hungry or clothe the homeless the way creative people operating within the framework of capitalism, the rule of law and global trade have been doing for the past several hundred years. They just complain about how awful everything is.

I'm not sure why they consider this a worthwhile thing. Clearly they are capable of identifying problems, but aren't capable of doing anything about them. As such, they should get out the way of the people who are actually solving them. A hundred years ago such people were complaining that capitalism and global trade were evil and destructive, and they and their fellow-travelers attempted several more-or-less violent approaches to overthrowing them, which held back human development by decades and destroyed tens of millions of lives.

Despite those abject failures, the same anti-empirical wingnuts are back today, when capitalism, the rule of law and global trade have created an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity--exactly as their irrational predecessors predicted would never and could never happen. But they don't let anything so Enlightened as mere empirical reality prevent them from continuing their litany of complaint and opposition to progress.
Work with a friend who encourages you and keeps you on-task.
For what it's worth, the linked article never actually uses the term "white privilege".
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There's the concept of passing: a minority group that might be discriminated against in one context is accepted as and afforded the privileges of a member of the majority group in another context, often to close ranks against a different minority group the majority sees as more of a threat.
I think it's completely possible. Amazon has all the pieces you need (compute and storage). That being said, you may need to wait for ec2 events to do some really complicated stuff.
Is it oversimplified for a short article? Maybe if it were an a longer or academic piece I would agree with you. But the focus of the article is how individuals deal with bias against social groups they belong to moreso than which groups are granted privilege. Not every article needs to be an exhaustive treatise that engages every concept exhaustively.
The obstacle is the way. If you've lost motivation, find an empowering focus.

Tony Robbins has some good food for thought> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5PMShQHas
I assume he's talking about Asian Americans....Foxconn is in China (and mexico and S America etc, but not in the US).
Hold it. We're talking about East Asians in Silicon Valley. Not across the globe.
Still terrifying.
Sounds like you're toiling in the wrong career field. Is there something that you have been or are particularly good at or enjoy doing?
> Basically cut the sucker open on the side.

Fine, thin, looped resistance wire - if you drill or cut through it, its resistance changes (either to infinite in case of a clean cut, or a couple ohms in case of two or three shorted-together loop).

> Also by using a time sharing OS its likely you can induce a large network based load externally slowing its IO speed to the level you can open the cabinet, and "close" the cabinet from the sensors perspective while leaving it opened.

Use a Raspberry Pi together with a UPS-backed fiber modem and a cellular modem backup uplink in case someone cuts the fiber, and the threat is basically neutralized (okay, someone may jam the phone signal, but then again this can be detected by carrier loss).
Since Intel already ships CPU for them, maybe they should ask for an CPU with asm.js as their assembly language :-P.

The jokes ppl make are starting to get a bit more real: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
At a guess, Container Service was built in order to build this. I.e. Lambda is probably an ECS cluster creating and running Node.js-based Docker containers. (A bit like Heroku's original Ruby stack, actually.)

It's a bit amusing to note that they could have built Lambda on top of their own previous Elastic Beanstalk Docker offering instead, but chose to build ECS presumably for cost reasons (which everyone who has evaluated Elastic Beanstalk's Docker support will understand.)
No.

Our pediatrician is not a developmental specialist but is of a similar mindset that there is just not enough evidence to support a lot of the mind/gut theories. Same goes for the metal toxicity and vaccination links. She's not dismissive of diet having a link, but does not feel the risk in the more extreme cases is worth it.

She also mentioned that many families experience a great deal of stress as a result. Autistic kids can be difficult when it comes to feeding (textures and sensations can be an issue)... so introducing more restrictions causes the family to have to spend more time on diet and potentially more effort in getting their child to eat... Everyone gets more stressed.

That would all be worth it... if it was clear it was effective. Unfortunately often times it turns a difficult situation into a more stressful environment.

We deal with many other specialists but they are mostly physical and speech specialists... they are by no means trained in dietary issues.

I find a lot of the information out there overwhelming. There's no shortage of claims (both from doctors and parents). It's tempting to latch on to cutting edge studies... but sadly very few have very comprehensive studies.
>GABA doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier

I have taken that stuff and while it may not have crossed the barrier it definitely made be feel really weird. So much so that my roommate and I both had to stop taking it after a week or so.
I didn't realise that. Are the depositions online somewhere too?

To be honest, I don't believe he's lying. But I also think it's bad behaviour to condemn someone after hearing only one side of the story, which is what some people are doing.
Have I missed something or is there no way to get notified when an object gets deleted?
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First time I've heard about such a service. Sounds useful.

Just curious, no offense intended, but how would I go about trusting a third party company which likely has much lesser reputation than the potential acquirer.
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