skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, send me a message :) We're in Dübendorf, near Zürich.
This sounds like a lot of buzz words.
You do realize that setting up a company is a waste of time/resources, as getting a verified and valid patent is quite expensive too?

Take all the resources people are providing you and also try to find a nice lawyer friend who can draft up a type of document where the initial patent is filed under the friends name until a certain point where it is feasible to setup a company.

Once the company is setup (51/49??), you then transfer the patent to the company, to prevent the patent owner from exploiting any future profits through legal means.

Also remember that no VC (even in Silicon Valley) will give you seed money if the patent is not under a corporate name.
I've been a beta-tester of Google Domains for months, and it's just such a nicer experience than GoDaddy/Namecheap. Particularly with GoDaddy, I feel like there's always a chance I'm going to click on the wrong thing and then get subscribed to some ridiculous service. With Google, it's a clean, transparent, USABLE interface.

I'd encourage people to try it out with a domain and form your own views. As for me, I'm moving all of my domains over to Google (as they get close to renewal.)
You're thinking of "rules" as in externally-imposed rules. The parent is using "rules" in the sense of social contracts and market incentives: best-practices that emerge from the game-theoretic equilibria between players.

For example, "don't start a nuclear war" isn't an explicit rule by some world government, but it does seem to be a rule all the world-leaders are implicitly following. For another, "don't appear to be physically weak in prison" is a "rule" that everybody knows, despite no single authority enforcing it. The environment itself—made up of the other players and their incentives—enforce it, through their self-interested reactions.
> I wrote a post about what happened using his real name.

Be careful giving this advice.

This only worked because A) (minor) you filed a police report and B) (major) he didn't have enough money to drag you through a serious defamation lawsuit.

If he decided to drag you through a defamation lawsuit, you would likely have lost because you wouldn't have had enough resources to defend aggressively.

It's good to out bad actors, but do make sure that you aren't putting yourself in a vulnerable situtation.
In short form- an analytics software that analyzes what people are saying and the meaning. yes, i know there many variables and algorithms and it will never be 100% AND there is a way to monitize the data
A new provider? Us old timers stay away from those.

Do you remember RegisterFly?
It is now complete. With Google Fiber, Big Brother Google will looking over you every step of the way.
We love Bad Dragon! They are true artisans (www.bad-dragon.com -- SUPER nsfw, but truly amazing).

We met their founder at Arse Elektronika in October, and I think they 3D print their masters, but still do all their molding by hand.
USPTO approves Apple patents on camera controls
Absolutely. It's good to have an "in the zone" playlist of your favorite music. Preferably energetic songs that you can enjoy and yet tune out, so you can focus on the tasks at hand.
ZenPayroll is hiring full-stack engineers
Yes, CABAC and techniques surrounding it are heavily patented. For this reason, both Opus and Daala use (different) range coding schemes instead, which can also deliver higher performance.

One problem with CABAC is that it is highly serial, and ends up being directly clock rate limited in a lot of hardware engines.
There's e.g. the Chordite project (a chording keyboard), with plans and software available for DIYers. It's been out there for many years already, but as "wearable computing" didn't catch up yet, it didn't either. See:

http://chordite.com/teensypictures.htm

http://chordite.com
Have a look at Steam top 100 and you'll see loads of games made by lone developers. I think it's a great time to be an indie game developer!
https://www.google.com/patents/US20050074176

The general concept of arithmetic coding isn't patented.
CABAC has some notable performance issues when done in software; IIRC they messed up benchmarking different algorithms, so instead of a multiply in one stage there's an array lookup. Unnecessary memory accesses will kill you.
One day, someone's gonna patent the sun.
Ah I've been using iwantmyname as my domain provider and they didn't do this. Your domain provider clearly offers more features.
>> People always seem to know why stocks move - after they have moved.

Hindsight is perfect, you just get all the survey results from the buyers and sellers and see what the common reasons for buying/selling were. Then you post an article before the closing bell that same day. Easy.
in other news
http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=2948
But the website still has a coming soon sign and the GitHub page still says it's 2 days past due. So, has it really been released or did somebody jump the gun?
$10 + $3 private registration. Spam snail mail sucks.
First, congratulations.

Second, let me focus on the management point. You wrote: "I managed an entire team of 10 people without ever missing a deadline of the whole team, and now they brought in an engineering manager"

a) Do you think the (now-bigger) team needs a full-time manager?
b) If yes, did you want to become that full-time manager?
c) If yes, did you make your desire known?

If the answer Yes, Yes, No, that's ok- lots of people want to continue being individual contributors. It's still on you to work with management to define the right structure that works for you and the company. Maybe you become some sort of Chief Architect. Maybe you help hire the manager.

Either way, if you were as pivotal as you say you were, you should certainly have the CEO's ear to bring this up in a constructive way.
Some are uncannily similar to Celtic knots.
Link to source(?) at patentlyapple : http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2015/01/apple-gr...

"Apple's newly granted patent covers their invention relating to the field of digital video cameras, and more particularly to a digital camera having a remote control."
What is the provenance for this?
How did it get released to the public ?
I am unable to see what exactly "you" want from the company. Did you speak to the founders about your career aspirations and they turned you down ?

Did you want to be a manager ? VP of Engineering ?

The way I see it, being developer seemed a natural thing for you. I also assume you must have got significant stock options and you must be drawing lot more salary as well.
Personally if I could eliminate all the aspects of my job that aren't just writing code I would be ecstatic.
Gah, I hate stats that a) don't say where the information comes from b) don't say which part of the world they're talking about (US sites are particularly prone to this). I'm assuming this is from US census data, but it's not particularly obvious. There's a rest of the world, you know....
[EDIT: looking at the app, maybe it is worldwide? Still, referring to things like "Republican" doesn't inspire confidence that it's international]
Specifically which database?
Congratulations! You literally built a company and now have what it takes to found your own.

I would vest in peace, learn from senior management (seems like your company hired good senior folks) cultivate relationships both in and out of the company (VC + advisors)... then start tinkering in your free time. Once your options vest you should be ready with an MVP and solid contacts to hit the ground running.
There's way too much black and white in the blog post and these comments here. It's more art than science.

The reality is as a manager you're an influencer and leader. You also need to have personal integrity or you'll just end up depressed. If you have no ability to influence upper management, you need to work on how to connect with your boss.
There is a stand at the Mount Pleasant Farmers Market in Washington, DC, that does LN ice cream. I've never tried it--partly because I don't eat much ice cream, partly because I don't see the point.
I'm looking for a technical partner for this concept.

http://crumz.biglaunch.net/
Do you think the company's management already knows that you'd prefer to keep a more management-oriented role? They may be mistaken in assessing your desires...
So, a lot of folks are missing the point, which is that the investigation asks for perjury charges.

Verizon swears up and down in FCC filings it is not a title II common carrier FOR THE FIBER LINES (it always has been for PSTN). But in it's statements to state regulatory commissions and it's franchise agreement with states/municipalities state specifically that it is upgrading/building THE FIBER LINES under Title II.

This is because Title II allows them to do so without getting further permission/process from the state.

You can't tell the FCC one thing, and state regulatory agencies the other.

The rest of this filing should have been removed. Press statements/etc are pretty much irrelevant, and they should stick to the simple facts. Anything else will just be fodder for arguing over when it doesn't matter.

For those wondering about perjury, there are a number of federal perjury statutes (the most general that i'm aware of being 18 USC 1621, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1621).

If you tell the federal government something, and it includes the words "I declare under penalty of perjury, ....", and you are knowingly misrepresenting something in that document, you have committed a felony.

(In the case of tax returns, it's at least two felonies, since there is also a specific tax return perjury statute, and in either case it doesn't matter whether you owe the IRS money or not)
> It amazes me how people just put up with [...] having to search via some random search engine that has been imposed on them

Yes, exactly. It's as though your yellow pages phone book had its pages replaced with green paper, the entries were all written in comic sans and all of the entries just gave the same phone number for Dominos Pizza. And yet, you continue to use it to try and look things up, stopping occasionally to phone a friend of yours who works in the dictionary industry to complain, and he tells you to sell your house and move to a different street, so that you will get a new copy of the yellow pages delivered.

Of course that would never happen, so why do we put up with it here?
“Charlie Hebdo”, not racist? If you say so…
I understand, but you are right it's a double standard. The Founder/CEO usually got that position for reasons other than
their their technical know how. Personally, If a CEO doesn't
understand most of the nuts and bolts of the company they are running; bye! bye!(That is unless they are brilliant in other areas in business.)
Crumb's cartoon: http://cloudfront-media.reason.com/mc/jwalker/2015_01/crumbh...
The god login is really an interesting idea ! Could you elaborate on your choice about the random feed?
Neat exploration of a solution - but I wouldn't consider this a complete product - more of a test of auth-less logins for a randomized guest book.

There is a lot more that would be needed before people used this. I can almost guarantee that random posts will be worthless and I have no feedback on the messages I personally send.
But I can already edit rerun and share them as a text file, its what a bash script is - it even has annotations (comments).
You could actually convert this into some kind of social network. Just enable people to follow each other in some sense, i.e. their messages appear in your feed with higher probability or so. It's nice and somewhat artistic to follow other persons only based on what they say/said, not based on who they are.
If you're going to complain about originality, you really should be pointing at Echochrome. The Fez stuff doesn't really kick in until the MV DLC Forgotten Shores. That said, Monument Valley is a phenomenal improvement on Echochrome in style and art direction (though I really do appreciate the stark black and white style of Echochrome).

But it's easy to forget just how unusual those games are. There's a dearth of well made Escher games. I can only think of half a dozen off the top of my head, and perhaps none that are simple enough to be on the iPhone (4S in my case). Now, we can argue about what counts as well-made, as there are a few that were acclaimed that I didn't really like (I'm looking at you, The Bridge). But MV really is a fairly unique take on the idea, and about half-way through Forgotten Shores really begins to wake up into its own.
This exact situation happened to me. If you are at such a distance from the founder that he doesn't care about your place in the company — namely you're not considered one of the "important people" — your problem is two-fold:

1. Your immediate job won't be as gratifying.

2. (And this is a bigger deal) You won't be in the room during the exit when the money is being handed out.

Re 1, as I saw it, given my equity stake, I should just put my head down and wait for the liquidity event. This worked well, though was a large blow to the ego. Given personalities and priorities of the founder, agitating would have put my equity stake at risk.

Re 2, despite the fact that you may have an iron clad equity stake, there is often money that is handed out in an exit which goes beyond equity. In my case it was about $90mil in retention money. If you're seen as one of the "important people", you'll be in the room when that is being divvied up and can get your hands in the cookie jar (at that point it's just a land grab.) If not, you're shit out of luck, since no one at that point will be looking out for your interests.

So, I would say I would take the long view and not worry too much about the ego/job satisfaction. If you end up set for life, the resentment will fade. (I'm 3 years post liquidity event and the resentment is for the most part gone. Both for the name on letterhead issue and being left out during retention.) I would, however, do all I could at this point to re-establish myself as one of the 'important people' so you can be in the room when the cookie jar is open. In my case, it was impossible since in my obviously biased view the founder was an ass and an idiot, but perhaps your situation is still salvageable.
The Corrupt Philanderer Who Built the CIA's Black Sites
> I'm talking about build-out requirements in franchise agreements

Which section of Title II defines that?
Malware routinely hides in the restore points – it avoids anything which is configured not to scan them (this was surprisingly widespread a few years back, although I hope it's improved) and might even get someone to reactivate it if you restore for any other reason.

Trying to bolt security on after the fact like this is a losing game.
Interview with Microsoft BASIC Legend Monte Davidoff
I think the important thing is to just start, somewhere, anywhere. I got really frustrated with the IT Industry I was working in and left it to work on sustainable food production. Which I did end up doing for a bit. I got derailed, am now back in IT, but, the tools I now work on are used more and more in food security work for the poorest.

What I have seen though is that the startup process we learn in IT projects. Build something iteratively, with a lean startup approach goes a very long way in many business areas. You have skills that few in business posess. Use them and do something good. I did. You can too.
Ownership has its privileges.
> Nobody likes their phone company or their ISP in the USA

I do. Sonic.net Fusion ADSL2+ resold by Omsoft. 14M/1M for $50/mo, bonus copper POTS included with free nationwide calling (nice emergency backup). Purportedly you can bond two lines for twice the speed, and/or Annex M for 5M/3M instead, but I haven't had the need.

No data caps - I've had many months >1TB. And this kind of attitude, too: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/sonic-net-we-delete-user-log...

The few times I've called with a problem, Omsoft has been ahead of me in diagnosing, which is actually a bit unnerving because with every other "customer service" these days, it's your job to figure out the problem and then additionally figure out how to convince them to fix it.

They can do all this because they're able to obtain unbundled copper from AT&T, as per 1996 telcom deregulation. The real problem with this larger debate is that we're having it after the fact. The US infrastructure is still based around DSL, yet most people thought it was a good idea to jump ship to monopoly cable companies for higher advertised speeds. Of course once you're hooked into a cable company contract, traffic caps and engineering congestion leave you worse off than DSL.

If you're in a decently sized metropolitan area and want to actually vote with your wallet (and lower your stress level), check to see if you have any competitive DSL options left. Even if it's just a business-oriented connection from Megapath (Speakeasy), wouldn't you rather give your money to people who appreciate you?
From the bottom of the article under "Origin of the File":

The source was posted on the Korean-language blog
6502.tistory.com without further comment, in a marked-u
format:...
[ lots of interesting background here ]
...
Given all this, it is safe to assume the file with the
Microsoft BASIC for 6502 source originated at Apple, and
was given to David Craig together with the other source
be published.

So my guess is potentially safe to look at, but that's about it. If you have any doubts, I'd recommend not reading the original post.
We think alike, that's been on the todo list for a while :)

Thanks for the input!
> Why is it acceptable for the Founder/CEO to continue leading the company at 40+ employees but not acceptable for the engineer to lead an engineering team at 40+ employees? Seems like a double standard.

It is a double standard, but however it's hardly that cut and dry.

Post Series B, if the board does not believe the current Founder/CEO can take the company to the next milestones of growth, they will replace them.

Typically engineering teams need to scale sooner, so you you see a more experienced manager be brought in before the CEO is considered for replacing.

The CEO may also has the additional benefit of having the investors and board help him or her in their decisions.
I'm wondering what can be gained by discussing this exact email again? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7798946

We've also had more recent PHK rants on HN since then, so I don't see what we gain from a plain repost, with no additional context.
Was there a followup to that story? It seems like the author made a lot of assumptions (I read PG article about Corp devs).
Not to derail too much, but I have worked with MarkMonitor, and their price is FAR less than $1k/yr per domain. Much closer to the $20 end, though I'm sure it depends on the specific deal, and I'd guess they probably have some minimum number of domains they'd want to manage for it to be worth it to them.
What's so important or unusual about the age of the author?
Life Pro tip: For some of these, hire a house cleaner and ask him/her about these questions (might have to pay extra for that). You can write down the steps they do and tell you to do, and try to repeat them. You will have a live demo to guide you as well.
On the one hand, any HTTP 2.0 spec that still has cookies is a travesty.

On the other hand, I think we need to get some input from dissenters other than PHK (not that I don't agree with him).
but input is handled beautifully with the mechanical keyboard already. the neural interface was for output.
Thanks for the comment, and I agree, it's very bare-bones right now.

In an ideal world, what would a product like this look like when fully fleshed-out?
Are you really young?

I would expect the first engineering employees to know the most about the stack and thus naturally become the engineering leadership as the team grows, which it sounds like you were. If they felt the need to hire above you, it sounds like you were lacking some cross-section of experience that the founders/board want. You should ask them.
The Derelict
Yeah it is ultra-vague. I guess they invested in the people not the idea with this one.
Go and the Secure Shell protocol
I like the idea of only being able to post once a day, but I think the solution would be more fun if you could read as much you want.
Unlocking the Funhouse (Mirror)
ICazual Entertainment announces there first game Starnet Eclipse
Clearly it should be dil.do
It does seem like if they are already saying that an HTTP/3 is going to be needed then they might as well not bother releasing HTTP/2. Implementors are going to have minimal motivation to actually implement it, and will probably hang around waiting for the improved version that they know is coming.
Moog and Kurzweil at Berklee
> I'm unaware of any dedicated provider that will let me take a $20/mo small instance ...

You are looking in the wrong places. Dedicated server providers offer dedicated servers. What you want is a VPS. There are dozens of VPS providers with a multitude of products and billing by the minute or by the month and everything in between.

> In many places dedi or colo requires contract negotiation with the provider and involves some sort of purchasing dept. There are some places I've worked with where getting a dedi/colo could be weeks or months of different teams paperwork.

This is merely a failure on the part of your employer.

> It's hard to beat the operational flexibility AWS provides, but I can see a few scenarios where creating your own mini private cloud out of dedi/colo servers could be more cost effective.

It's more like the other way around. To refute my point, please give some examples where AWS is cheaper AT SCALE.

AWS might make some things easier or more convenient, but in no way does it come cheaper at scale as their PR flak claims.
Wow.. that is so similar to what I was thinking of. I knew I wasn't crazy. Well, I was pretty sure. I am very broke at the moment but I contributed a little to your Indiegogo.
Could you provide an example of the inconsistency in the Golang standard library? "ParseInt" versus "strconv" has a simple explanation: all package names are lowercase.
I was intending for long-form posts to be encouraged on this site, but I do agree that the current layout may not be the best for that.

I'll take your suggestion and experiment with longer content and find a layout that makes it pleasant to read.

Ideally I'd love to see short-stories or poetry being shared on the site.
The implicit demand here is that some individuals take on greater-than-usual risk to benefit everyone else, and if not enough people do that then We Can't Have Nice Things. It's a miracle of irrationality that this ever happens. Governments exist largely so we can accomplish things without relying on that.

See also: the Free Rider Problem[1], Prisoners' Dilemma[2]

As for organized bullying... well, surely you can see how well that argument applies in the other direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

[edit] fix spacing on links
Don't forget the additional fun that terminal emulators add in the journey from libc to your eyeballs. Some of the most difficult bugs I've worked on involved grep with the color flag and automatic build systems...
JE SUIS CHARLIE is a movement that condemns killing. It is a movement for freedom and freedom of expression. Some people seem to be pissed off because the killings that started the movement were not the ones that happened before or will happen later. That's plain stupid.
Surely Buddy would refer to Buddy Holly, who predates the height of Guy's career, who died young in a plane crash.

Not that I don't love both.
In SF you should start at no lower than 90k. I would start at 110k and let them work you down to something more reasonable with concessions.