skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Productivity" is the wrong metric to measure for developers anyway. Development is not a factory job, developers aren't cranking out widgets on an assembly line and developers who crank out more widgets aren't somehow superior to those who crank out fewer.

What matters is the value of what devs have created, and that's almost impossible to measure objectively in many cases, with some occasional exceptions. That often takes a lot of work and usually requires someone who is also highly skilled making a subjective judgment. I complete agree with the author here, hiring and culture is hard, and most of the time that fact is ignored and the result is failures on both counts. Taking the time and effort to be good at either is usually a huge competitive advantage.

It's similar to software. Does your product solve easy problems or hard problems? If you only solve easy problems, how do you expect that to keep you ahead of the competition? Determining the talent of a developer is not an easy problem in the general case, and if you only hire the developers that are easy to hire you're probably doing it wrong.
Widescreen in the office is really good and has a huge advantage over 4:3 in one key aspect - When you halve the horizontal resolution (8:10 or 8:9, though 8:10 is better at it) you quite closely match what two normal A4/letter documents, inside word editing applications, cover. So you can place two text documents side-by-side and they fit reasonably well.

This is incredibly useful to a whole load of office employees, who want to refer to two word docs, or 1 word doc and 1 PDF, etc. This is where widescreens shine (and 16:10 is even better than 16:9) and why I think they've excelled well in the workplace.
As usual, with credentials.

It's just that credential must be something you can handle by yourself and not require a third party to provide to you. A third party may assert some aspect of your identity by providing a statement that the person who's in possession of the certain credentials has been verified by this notary to indeed have certain properties. But if me and some website are starting to become acquainted why do we need any third party as a strong requirement? When I walk into some office I don't have to show my passport, I just introduce myself and we get to the business. And then, if there's a necessity (!), business owner may ask me to provide some assertions of my identity. I don't see any reason it shouldn't work in a same manner on the web. Like, for example, "Hey there, you may call me Aleksey and here's my, say, public key so you could authenticate me at a later time."
>It'll be very interesting to see what this does to Bing's marketshare in six months or so, since Yahoo's search runs through Bing.

Does Yahoo do their own tweaks? I just checked my site's ranking for a few terms in Bing vs. Yahoo. Bing gave much the same results as Google, whereas my site ranked significantly worse in Yahoo.
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What I think you're missing is that in JS, this is not being run concurrently. Existing JS runtimes are single-threaded—if you actually want to take advantage of multiple CPUs you must run more than one process. It's very easy not to have concurrency bugs when there's no concurrency.

In Java, you have access to real threads and can actually run two pieces of code concurrently. This introduces a lot of potential issues, but also allows you to take advantage of multiple cores.

If all you want is non-blocking IO (what node gives you), there are a handful of great libraries that provide that on the JVM.
That's a feature.

From the API docs:

> Multiple callbacks may be given; all are treated equally, and behave just like middleware. The only exception is that these callbacks may invoke next('route') to bypass the remaining route callback(s). This mechanism can be used to perform pre-conditions on a route, then pass control to subsequent routes if there's no reason to proceed with the current route.
What are the rules here for Uber? Are they compelled to respond or can they just ignore this letter and move on?
Why not? Plenty of people here can read it so there can be a discussion, which should convey most of the information that's in the article. In the end, everyone reading HN benefits.
You need to have a "come to jesus" talk with him and get him to commit to a solid launch timeline and plan and for both of you to compromise on the points you brought up or it's not going to work. If you can't work through these kinds of things and come out stronger and more focused you are not going to make it anyway. Hopefully you have a solid operating agreement in place with vesting etc that says what happens when one of you walks.
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I see what you're saying, but there are two things that make this more egregious than other (assumed) offenses.

First, Uber did this brazenly and, one could argue, openly. Their hubris needs to be curbed this way.

Second, Uber explicitly wanted to go after a member of the press. The press is our shield against all the evil that is done against the public by governments and corporations.

We need our journalists to feel absolutely safe in their chosen profession. We may disagree with or even hate some of them, but we have to show people considering such an important career that it won't put them at risk.

As far as I know, Google and other companies are using/gathering our information equally legally. They might be doing something nefarious with it, but at least they claim to be responsible and honorable. With the exception of their press releases, Uber seems proud of their ruthlessness and lack of integrity.
Other planets would definitely help stimulate the mind. But depending on how isolated the system is, galaxies in the night sky might be indistinguishable from clouds. Especially if the planet has lots of clouds.
I have slowly moved to Microsoft Office Online. It has worked fine so far. I had become a heavy GDocs user and became accustomed to the simplified feature set. I think Office Online is decent free alternative.https://office.com/start/default.aspx
Repressive regimes like the UK and the US, et cetera.

I don't think it's fair to blame Google if they are complying with the law of the land and the wishes of society as expressed through the democratic process.
In my own experience, folks with blogs or public projects are great to interview because it makes it a lot faster to skip past the basic bozo filter of whether or not someone can code at all (fizzbuzz, etc.) That's fantastic because that's one of the suckiest parts of interviewing in general, but so often necessary. But that rarely tells you how talented someone is.
Google's actions are increasingly negative from a personal freedom and personal privacy standpoint.

Mozilla specifically mention that supporting DNT (Do Not Track) user preferences was part of the deal with Yahoo.

Google's whole business model relies on huge numbers of users of their "free" services to monetise eyeballs on ads (plus of course further building profiles on users) - I find it very hard to believe they initiated this change.
The short answer is no. Space is really, really, really, really big.

Tourism usually requires that you be alive when you finally get there. At that scale, if you chose to visit even the closest galaxy to ours, not only will you be long dead and thoroughly recycled when your vessel arrives, but the passengers that disembark to snap a group photo might not even be considered Homo sapiens any more.

That kind of commitment can only come from existential necessity. Any visitors to a galaxy that came from outside of one would undoubtedly have a technology that allows travel without actually traversing the intervening distance.
A shame this one didn't get any discussion, especially from those who didn't see the benefit in the original version.
I beg to differ. C# is a perfectly usable tool to introduce you to programming until you're ready to move on to F#.

Wait, did I just agree with you?

-Neal (Roslyn team)
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I've been in contact with some tutors (and tutoring agencies), but the book is kind of competition to them. For $29 students get a lot of content, and will need less tutoring.

I'm thinking a good partner would be university departments who offer tutoring for free---the incentives would be there since they'll need to hire less tutors.
Thanks for the link. Applied to be a mentor :)
They could ignore it, but then they could be subpoenaed, which they cannot ignore.

Completely ignoring it would likely bring quite unpleasant results. Even with the subcommittee chairmanship changing party hands, Senators aren't going to look kindly on a company ignoring a request for information.
It's not that simple. HN prefers accessible stories, but it also prefers original sources and demands substantive ones, and many of those are behind paywalls. Are we to ban the NYT, Economist, and New Yorker? That would be chopping off a foot to spite a hangnail.

Not all paywalls are equally problematic, and most of this content is not truly inaccessible. There are standard workarounds that everybody already knows or can easily learn. It's not as if HN users are shy about pointing them out.

The status quo isn't great, but the brokenness of online content models is not something we can just fix by decree in our little corner of the web.
Add astro-turfing to the list of thesis topics, e.g. use the HN API to perform clique analysis of the many systemd threads on HN.
So how is Chris (et al.) planning to make Light Table a sustainable business (e.g. "pay the bills").

It's great they have the kickstarter money but I haven't seen any announcements on them making this a product for sale. If anything, it appears they are doing the exact OPPOSITE and distancing themselves from the project all together.
Thanks. Those look good. Less radical than I could wish for, but certainly good.

Hope the existence of those features will be well-marketed, so they'll be enabled by sufficiently large amount of people to be able to blend into this crowd.
You're an experiment/startup until you're profitable, at which point you become a real business.
They do. tDCS isn't exactly the first thing that's been attempted here.
Maybe bringing in another person involved on the project will shed some light and talk sense to your other co-founder? Even just somebody participating in your conversations may help actually.
Companies might WANT to ship it, enhance it, sell proprietary plugins for it, etc.
I've been in this exact same position once in the past.

Ask yourself this: do you really think successful companies start out this way?

Your co-founder can't execute. It doesn't sound like he knows anything about starting up.

If he were destined to be a successful CEO, he would be pushing you to release an imperfect product, not the other way around. His hair should be on fire, and it's clearly not.

Cut your losses and work on any of the countless other useful things there are for you to build. Ideas are a dime a dozen.

Edit: After reading the other responses that encourage you to try to make it work, I strongly (and respectfully) disagree with them. His personality is wrong for startups, but it's also a mismatch for yours. Be discriminatory with your time and stop giving it to someone who is squandering it.
Franken supported the NSA as the surveillance scandal broke: "I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people." [http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/the-nsa-has-at-least...]. I thought it was relevant.
Well certainly there is no law against using made-up words. If that's what you want to do, have at it.

At least it will help people get their buzzword bingo cards filled up sooner.
“The first odd thing we noticed was that some of the quasars’ rotation axes were aligned with each other — despite the fact that these quasars are separated by billions of light-years,” said Hutsemékers.

This seems like it might be a breakthrough result.
>ATCV-1 exposure in mice also resulted in the altered expression of genes within the hippocampus. These genes comprised pathways related to synaptic plasticity, learning, memory formation, and the immune response to viral exposure.
They can ignore the letter. The committee could then issue a subpoena to force them to answer questions.

Uber could refuse the subpoena. If they did, Uber could be held in contempt of congress. But, that would require a full vote -- which seems very unlikely.

Hilariously, the last person to refuse to testify before congress was an IRS director (Lois Lerner). She was held in contempt... and then nothing happened whatsoever.

Congress's real power is to pass laws. Franken won't be doing much of that with the Republicans in control of the Senate.

I wouldn't be shaking in my boots if I was Uber...
This link seems to be broken :(
Apparently you need to also do the things described in this readme to get it working properly. https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable#initial-setup
You mean Chinese developers couldn't do this all these years? I'm really surprised, even shocked, given how much Android hardware and firmware come out of China...
I agree that the hard part (even more so for a business looking to change) is the docs suite.

It still surprises me a little that there is no web-app capable of editing ODF files. This would allow the email/calendar etc concept to be carried over - host the content (in this case files) on a server in version control, and allow users to either keep an offline copy that syncs, or access via a web app.

From a personal usage view, I disagree with your statement that Apple is no better than Google. No, their software is not open source and doesn't run on any device you want. But their software is also not intended to capture all your personal information and use that to show you more ads. It's basically a perk for using their hardware.
They are a really cool company. Taking things that are normally difficult and not very nice to look at all the while keeping it in reach of the masses. I'm really impressed with these guys.
Thousands of XMPP servers serving millions of people had S2S properly enabled and working among them. Or one has to be a single entity as large as MSN or AIM to be considered worthy to enjoy openness?
>Can i just say that clearly everyone knows its not the best tool for an actual serious project, but theres nothing wrong with whimsy.

Besides it just starting and not having a big community atm, I don't see nothing "clear" about it now being "the best tool for an actual serious project".

Is it the "eww PHP" knee-jerk reaction some people have?
I treasure the occasions on which you and I agree.
Cognitive impairment is formally saying stupidity. Do they need to spell it out?
Not since iOS8/Yosemite - Apple now gets weather data directly from The Weather Channel, who also supply Yahoo with their data.

In that situation Yahoo were just a middle man, and supposedly didn't make the full set of TWC data/functionality available.
In my opinion, this is simply a distraction.

Where is the outrage over Target, Home Depot, et al carelessly storing and allowing credit card information for hundreds of millions of customers to be compromised?

Where is the outrage over my landloard losing my sensitive information and having no liability if/when my identity is stolen?

Use/abuse of data by companies is nothing compared to the damage that is done when data is stored improperly. How are we allowing companies to hold so much information that is so potentially damaging to us yet not able to hold them legally/financially accountable when our data is compromised because of their negligence?

I'm not sure what it would look like, but regulation and penalties should be focused on sensitive data storage not use.
> the special things that make JavaScript distinctive (callbacks, artisanal object systems, the interplay of JS and the DOM)

If you're coming to Javascript from pretty much any other language, prototypal inheritance is probably going to be the biggest difference in paradigm to wrap your head around.
>and then other people have to maintain said things.

Only if they chose to. Last time I checked, developers aren't slaves.
How's the pattern matching spec coming along? ;)
use ssh keys or use iptables whitelisting on all your boxes
That's absurd. By that definition, Amazon, a 20-year-old company with $74 billion in revenue, is a startup.

Profitability has a lot to do with how you spend your money. "Startup" is commonly used to connote a small, new business. The dictionary says it is a "fledgling" business.

If Uber's revenue were the GDP of a nation, it would have 40 countries ranked below it. That's not a "fledgling" business, even if it isn't profitable.
As the article points out, Woz was Chief Scientist at Fusion-IO [1] as well. That company struggled [2] before being acquired by SanDisk for less than the IPO price.

It was a different story in 2011 when Woz went on CNBC and said that the company "has grown as fast as Apple so far" [3] pushing the stock to the highest point it would ever reach just a month before the share lock-up expiration [4].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion-io

2: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/25/fusionio_flasher_fla...

3: http://m.cnbc.com/us_news/45074931

4: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/12/06/fusion-io-...
You're assuming that those lurking planets harbor forms of life that even remotely resemble us.

Imagine an alien lifeform with an average lifespan of several million years, perhaps the size of a mouse (not much mass) and with extremely slow metabolism (not much supplies needed for travel). For them, traveling to a nearby galaxy at relativistic speeds (only a few years from the traveler's perspective) might be seen as little more than a nice long vacation. Sure, a dozen lifespans might have passed by the time they get home, but maybe they don't care because they don't have children like we do and their civilization doesn't change much. "They released the Galaxy S9 already? That's crazy! Three new models in a billennium!"

You don't even need FTL transportation if you can afford to spend a few eons strapped to a seat.
The only "realization" they hit was that both GTK and the port was poorly maintained in most platforms.

If it was better done and with more manpower, there would be absolutely no problem with people using it...
Have you checked out purescript[0]?

0: http://www.purescript.org/
"But how Uber could benefit from answering this fishing expedition?"

It's an opportunity to establish publicly that your company won't be engaging in any of the kind of shenanigans that can cost you customers in a competitive industry.
Why is IEEE 1588 so accurate? Hardware timestamping
It's unfortunate that Bram isn't more enthusiastic about NeoVim - it looks to me like they have made great progress and gathering momentum. NeoVim's support for Lua, Ruby and Python plugins, embeddable core would be a big step forward.
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I would say its a tech company that found itself afloat due to some lucky/wise investments.

At the core it is still a tech / content company, even though the tech is not producing the money.
> Please don't make political arguments into personal quarrels on HN

I am not making any kind of political statement nor a personal quarrel, I am simply pointing out that he got the answer previously but jumped on the comment trigger before reading anything linked. Is saying "Do you bother reading" considered offensive now?
So the plan of action when you can't raise more money is "Try pretty much everything and hope it works?"

I realize you have to provide advice that might apply to all startups, but in this specific case cutting the burn to 60k (maybe losing a bit of equity to keep employees happy) and trying really hard to hit 60k in revenue and bam, you're suddenly at breakeven and your runway can start to grow, you can breathe, etc.

Raising money is always good, but it's hard, and if you've received a lot of nos, it's not going to get easier. Planning for the acquihire is pretty much admitting defeat.
>We use an iboss content filter which can decrypt ssl and rencrypt on the fly.

Is it safe to assume this is some sort of trusted MITM proxy?

I think this is really taking it too far. We use Lightspeed and they block SSL traffic during the handshake based on the domain its destined for. No need to decrypt anything.
C# imo doesn't qualify as a programmable programming language and even if it did it wouldn't be the first.
This is the thing that strikes me as immediately weird about this result: as you point out, we can resolve stars in other galaxies. We've been able to for a long time.

So why hasn't anyone ever noticed this extra-galactic population? They'd show up as anomalous field stars, probably with odd proper motions.

If you think of it in terms of the Local Group, every galaxy should have a "halo" of these free stars around it in a radius comparable to half the distance between galaxies. Admittedly that's pretty low density, but is it really low enough that no one has ever seen one of these objects?

Or are they only present at very high redshift (and if so, what happened to them?)
IANL, but at one time I was on H-1B and now US citizen. It is not illegal to own a US business on H-1B. Also, there is no issue with business owned by H-1B having revenue, for example from ads on a blog. If you own a business, you can issue dividend to owners even on H-1B without any issue.

What you can't have on H-1B is the wage from 'unapproved' sources. You will need to get H-1B for every wage source. But there is no restriction on you receiving dividends, capital gains, etc.

Don't confuse "revenue" with income and "wage" with income. Income can be wage, dividend, capital gains, etc. H-1B only restricts 'wage'.
Don't discount the value of screen space that's normally out in the nearer part of your peripheral vision, though. It's not as valuable as screenage that's normally in the centre of your vision, but it's still very useful (assuming it isn't too distorted by the viewing angle). You may have to move your eyes and maybe even slightly move your head to see what's out there clearly, but (I strongly assume - I'm not an expert) that kind of glancing should still be a lot more (yuck) "spatial" and less distracting than having to alt-tab or whatever to reveal the same information and then to hide it again. So in concrete terms, a 40" 16:9 4K monitor like http://www.tomshardware.com/news/philips-4k-bdm4065uc-monito... which has slightly greater vertical height than the 26.5" 1:1 1920×1920 screen as well as higher ppi ought to be preferable if price, horizontal desk space or whatever don't rule it out.

Unfortunately, OSes and other software tend to mess this up: in particular, the fact that those handy fullscreen commands actually fill the screen with the selected window or picture or video or whatever is no longer good news if some or all of the edges of your screen are far enough away from the comfortable centre area of your vision (see http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-large-display-paradox/ ). This was appropriate behaviour in the past, when both pixels and screen inches were limited and expensive and so it was safe to assume that the whole of the screen was well within the user's central viewing area—and in fact was probably covering much less of that central area than was at all ideal. Nowadays the user should be able to define a central fullscreen area that (possibly) doesn't take up the whole screen: then (by default etc.) fullscreened items should be expanded to the limits of the "fullscreen" area and no more. The rest of the screen can be filled with other information: maybe the other open windows pushed to the side in an OS X Exposé-like manner, or things like image metadata for a viewed image. The brightness of the outer area should be subdued to prevent it from distracting from the central image. (A practical use for whizzy translucency effects!). The information out in the "gutter" will be glanceable, but won't feel like it's impinging on your view of the fullscreened item (if it does, you didn't make the fullscreen area large enough).