skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitHub pages + CloudFront (with SNI) does all three. It costs ~$2 a month and you can deploy via Git. It's lovely.

Example links:

CloudFront: https://rockymadden.com

GitHub pages: https://rockymadden.github.io

Compilation repo: https://github.com/rockymadden/rockymadden.github.io

Source repo: https://github.com/rockymadden/rockymadden-web
Review: An iPhone Case That Claims to Boost Your Reception
But exceptions are values too, i.e. you routinely have an object of type IOException. All of the patterns presented in the article can be done easily with exceptions.

I think maybe "errors are values" is a general principle and not meant to be specific to Go.
Also (later on in the same thread) a comparison with Drill https://www.mail-archive.com/user@flink.incubator.apache.org...
Deep and unique?

It’s like a mashup of Naya’s Quest [1] and Fez [2] (or Crush or Super Paper Mario).

[1]: http://terrycavanaghgames.com/nayasquest/
[2]: http://fezgame.com
This is exactly why I resisted getting into management for a long time while other developers at my level were doing it. They rarely seemed happy or to be in a position I'd want to trade places with.

Right now I have a great position now where I still do a significant amount of development but also have authority and a fancy title and a management structure above me that's mostly concerned with business decisions and lets me make the technical ones. It took me longer to get the title but it was worth it to wait. I couldn't have done it at a large company.
It is really not cool for you to spam people and ask for upvotes. Pretty sure that goes against HN guidelines and is also just rude.

Please stop doing it.
It is odd to read this just after checking for updates on http://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/.

Otherwise, this is no different than any other medium, is it? Content curation is hard. Pretty much period.
Navy Decides to Buy V-22 Ospreys for Carrier Delivery
The Doctor Will Text You Now
Estimote does this with beacons: http://estimote.com/indoor/. I've been using their SDK and it's pretty good.
A Getty images of graphics?
You could live in a small town decently well for $40k/year, and 5% equity could be worth millions if it was equity of the non-toilet-paper variety (some dilution protection) and the company did very well.

If I were to even consider such a position I'd involve a lawyer in examining the equity part, and I'd really have to believe in the company.
> Your assuming GMO's where modified in exactly the way intended. Realistically, attempting to insert segment X into something’s DNA and verifying the organism produces Y in no way insures that the only DNA modification was inserting X or that the only change from X is producing Y.

Both the processes and the regulatory compliance requirements around GMOs provide a lot stronger (though, still, not perfect) assurance of that for GMOs than the processes and (near complete lack of) regulatory clearance requirements around crop modifications that result in rapid genome changes but which are considered "traditional breeding" rather than "GMO" because they don't involve directly inserting genetic material from a different organism.

(I have an immediate family member who works doing both kinds of crop modifications, and has been involved providing science support for regulatory clearance of products, as well.)
???

YC, like most other accelerators, gives a stipend that's only really enough for just out of college bachelor/ettes capable of metabolizing a full spectrum of nutrients from ramen noodles. This whole field is structurally biased toward people with no family who can move on a whim and sleep in a coffin.
Sure, sure, but who cares? If you're going to be in business you kind of need to have a thicker skin than this. No one is making him take any offer. No real offer was even extended.

So what if it's deceptive? Either tell them that you don't want to be distracted by interview-prep, or just take the free trip to Google HQ and reject any offer that you don't agree with.
We're rising again. We're just building VR software instead of mobile games.
Hi yummyfajitas-

My apologies. I did not mean to spam anyone at all. I'll stop sending the emails.

Sorry again.

-Mike
They're Watching You Read
In my experience Blizzard games has worked fine with wine. Did you try running the games with wine?
Interview with Stephen Hawking
In my vocation, architecture, professional liability insurance is useful because in most {all?} US jurisdictions a licensed architect is personally responsible for the work appearing under their seal [Professional Engineers are similarly liable]. So professional liability insurance covers the gap between contractual non-performance for which liability can be passed to a corporate entity such as an LLC or S-corp [in most but not all US jurisdictions] and liability for errors and omissions in the delivery of professional design services.

For programming/software development services it is unlikely [in the US] that there would be any liability which could not be assigned to a corporate entity because there is no licensed profession with regulations prohibiting such assignment. That's not to say that errors and omissions insurance isn't useful, but rather that owing to the lack of an established reasonable standard of care for the practice of programming and a lack of direct personal liability, it's less clear cut.

My recommendation would be to talk with an attorney familar with the software industry regarding your liability.

On the other hand, it is very common for established businesses to require general liability insurance for anyone with whom they contract and such policies are essentially commodity priced starting at a few hundred dollars a year. In many US jurisdictions, established enterprises will also require proof of Worker's Compensation policies.

The good news is that it is relatively easy to purchase insurance and insurance agents produce standardized documents (binders) that document coverage.

Finally, you can roll the cost of insurance into your proposal. It will be helpful to know exact coverage requirements when speaking to an insurance agent, but my experience has been that it is usually the minimum requirement for Worker's Comp and a very basic general liability policy. Anything more expensive prevents them from hiring ordinary services such as janitorial and lawn maintenance.

Good luck.
I last tried this about 4 years ago, using only linear accelerometer data. Been meaning to try it again, for some Structure from X ideas.

EDIT> ... forgot the point ... years ago it wasn't good enough -- noticeable drift in a matter of seconds.
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Chromebooks Boot from USB Support
1. Often non-technical people have not the skills and experiences in being good managers to lead engineering teams.
2. Having strong technical skills (engineer or programmer) and then moving into middle management can often help you get buy-in from those above and below you. They may look up to you, ask for your guidance or defer to you decisions.
Have you played it? It's like watching an animated movie. There is negligible repeated content, at least as far as the art and levels are concerned. Unlike 99% of iOS games, I felt as satisfied in level 1 as I did in 10. (And in fact, some of the best content is in the last few levels.) Everything feels alive and dynamic, from the crows to your friendly neighborhood totem. I even felt feelings. In an iOS game. Can you believe that?!
So, while I may be a baby-killing enabler (I work for the DoD), at least I've never bundled crapware with my software.

The truth is, if you look far enough, you can always find something to be guilty about. I'm not going to blame programmers working for any of those companies, but I will squarely place the blame on companies with hypocritical culture.

Apple upper management: Hey, let's bundle all this crap with something that people actually want!

Years later

Apple upper management: Wow! People are bundling crap with things that people actually want! We should put a stop to that by fucking over our customers' right to choose in a free market!
CES 2015 Recap for Makers and Product Managers
mentioning $2M as a cap for acquihires was not an offer for an acquihire and was definitely not an acquihire offer for $2M. if you come back and say $2M seems nice, you just fell for a nasty trick.
I always think about the tough state of existence for the "iTunes for Windows" and "Office for Mac" dev teams.

I'm sure they get no support from corporate IT, their company's marketing constantly makes fun of their chosen field of expertise, and they probably even have their own table in the cafeteria. :(
> And further, to take advantage of this status as Title II to increase capital investment and then turn around and claim that Title II decreases capital investment is glaringly hypocritical.

The problem with the argument is the phrase "take advantage of this status as Title II." The default state of affairs is that a company does not need a reason to raise its prices. Title II forces rate regulation. So Verizon didn't "take advantage of Title II" to raise rates. It raised rates despite Title II. Doing that is not at all hypocritical against the argument that Title II will decrease capital investment. Indeed, it's entirely consistent with that argument. Investors are less likely to throw $23 billion into building a fiber network if they have to work within a regulatory regime where they need permission to raise prices to fund upgrades.
As far as I know, Brigade isn't open source though. :/
I visited a fire station in the country in my province a few years ago and on the wall were names of the volunteers.

Nearly every one was John Gallant, the surname is very common and it's a small community.

The funny thing is the surname is so common people have nicknames such as John 'Rabbit' Gallant but that name becomes so well-known his son will be called Rabbit Jr.

So the plaque is full of a wild mix of actual surnames and given names and of course nicknames but also the junior of the nicknamed people.

Add to that one family has seven daughters all named Mary.
Goats fighting America's plant invasion
they don't go broke - they still generate positive returns. I am not sure why they actually need to beat S&P 500. I think this is misunderstanding portfolio theory. As long as they are not perfectly correlated with investors overall portfolios and they have positive returns, it's ok for them not to beat S&P
Yes, not my proudest moment. To be honest, I wasn't really sure what to with all the err's.
What company do you work for if I might ask?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+speakers+make+sound#!/story/fo...
Even worse, nobody snobs at the smokers who take a few 10-15 minute smoke breaks, however if you were to take a 30 minute nap you are 'sleeping on the job'.
I've been part of an ISP startup -- go find out what happens if you try to pay the local power company for access to utility poles. A de facto monopoly is still a monopoly.

You can't "purchase" a public good like a segment of the wireless spectrum and do with it whatever you please. Exclusive access to that segment can be granted to you in exchange for money by the government, and it comes with many conditions.
Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?
Howdy

I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from the ground up, which I loved. Now, the company scaled up (about 45 people) but, instead of being happy, I feel like everything's been taken away from me:

- Technical strategy: I strongly shaped the technical direction of the company defining a lot of critical points, and now they brought in a VP of engineering

- Management: 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

- Customer facing roles: I was having a lot of customer interaction and support, now they brought in a support engineer and I don't even know who our users are anymore

- Infrastructure management: I took care of building a state-of-the-art scalable and fully automated infrastructure in the public cloud, and now they brought in an operation guy

- Developer: This is the only thing I still do, full time

Essentially, and I understand it's just my ego speaking, I feel like there has not been any career advancement for me. The only benefit has been the gazillion things I learned in this ~2 years journey by doing the above roles.

I've been told that now, since I don't have to worry about the other things, I can focus on what I'm able to do best, just writing code (which I agree, all the tasks I did were less challenging than some critical parts of the code base I wrote from scratch), but still in the "about us" web page of startups just the management is going to be listed and take the credits. Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing?

I understand this is a first world rant and and I should just "be happy" it has been a success so far, but still I find it hard and I would very much appreciate the opinion of other people who went through something similar.

Thank you
The use of flash bangs by law enforcement is horrifying. These tools were design for to support direct action missions by special operations forces, and are, essentially, burning thermite [1] (e.g. able to melt through an engine block). To be clear, a direct operation mission is the use of lethal force to kill or capture one or more individuals or perform high risk hostage rescue. In these types of military operations, the operators run a extreme risk of severe injury or death and the death of the targets is both acceptable and highly likely. The balance of the risks and the battlefield circumstances make their use acceptable. However, law enforcement is rarely permitted to operate under these types of conditions. Their goal should almost always be capture working under the Fourth Amendment presumption of innocence. As such, flash bangs are simply not congruent with law enforcement operations.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite

Edit: grammer and thermite link
You need a mentor. Someone who is also a manager, you can trust implicitly, and you can talk to about your thoughts without it "getting back" to the people.
Agreed - I don't think that all honesty has to go out the window just because you are in a management position. Communicating decisions is one aspect, but effectively implementing them in your team is a whole other thing. Honest discussion of concerns and what can be improved is important, and as much as management likes to think their poker face is awesome, employees are smart and see straight through bullshit.

Secondly, what I heard in your comment (and agree with) but don't see in the original post is anything about engaging to be an advocate for your employees up the chain, giving them an opportunity to tell you what they need, the questions they have, the things you can do. To a certain extent this might make you lonelier on the "who do I talk to?" side, but helps a great deal as a reminder of the purpose of the job.
One note about Monument Valley though: When they added new levels and charged for it, there was a big backlash at first. Luckily there was a counter backlash but it still shows the expectations of most gamers in the apps store. Especially on Android.
I'll add that those decisions I have to support as a manager are not necessarily wrong, but I am limited in the tools to even analyze them. Or at least in the past, in the face of a challenging problem with no right answer, my tendency would be to discuss, to put forward an opinion, to see feedback and challenges to that opinion, etc. And to watch other people doing the exact same thing about other hard problems, often saving me the effort. Good decisions coming from above don't relieve me of the need to understand and assimilate those decisions.

On the positive side, when I do have the opportunity to assimilate those decisions and the motivations behind them, I feel suddenly far more powerful – then I can engage positively both up the chain and down. Which makes the impasse a middle manager so often finds him or herself in so disappointingly counterproductive – my imaginative self feels there must be another way.
That really should have been in the article…
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Okay, maybe you're right and I'm just biased with serial killer who killed few software developers with K-name living in Kraków

Polish article:
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,9855837,Krak...
Are Front Ends Getting Smarter?
The other thing I would worry about is the source of the liquid nitrogen. If you're actively adding LN to something you consume, I'd want to make sure I knew what was in it. I have a feeling that the LN suppliers for welding don't care if nasty stuff gets in their LN (stored in an unclean container).
My boss will occasionally take a ~20 minute nap on his couch in his office when he's really stressed.

Then again, when you're the cofounder, CTO, a multimillionaire from a previous sale, and you have a nice private office with a door that closes, you can do whatever you want.
You can find a lot of retro-style PC indie games on http://itch.io/, regarding mobile it's probably best to check out the forums or categories on mobile game review sites like http://toucharcade.com/ .
The right answer would've been to respond to the original message with "If you're serious, make an offer. Otherwise, I intend to continue building this business independently."

Once you get sucked into the conversation you've lost. This is business, not social chit-chat. Know what you're hoping to get out of the conversation and direct it toward getting that; if they won't oblige, end the conversation and don't waste time on it.
No Android version; bummer.
Worth noting here that (checking Wikipedia) "triangulation" here is being used in a weaker sense than the usual piecewise-linear triangulation. (Apparently, being homeomorphic to a simplicial complex doesn't mean admitting a PL structure! Not news to any topologists, I guess, but news to me.) If we restrict to that narrower notion of triangulation, it was already known how to build high-dimensional manifolds with no triangulation.
I'd guess that episodic learning is part of building conceptual memory?
Our fault, collectively, just as it is our fault that the environment is being destroyed, or that third world clothing manufacturers pay peanuts to their employees.

If 'we' wanted to, we would at least work on getting rid of this kind of behaviour. In an alternative world, the equivalent of GreenPeace would parade the C|NET offices, newspapers would write angry editorials about them, harmed users would write them millions of complaint letters, and class action lawsuits would be filed.

Problem is that 'normal' users have been slowly subdued into "it's my fault" mode.
I will invest in your consumer Internet startup in Austin
> other people reviewed the situation and decided just to offer a generous employment package.

Then why be shady? Why not just say this? Seems very odd to beat around the bush.

"Hey, man. Your app is great and we really like but upon further review we feel like it still needs work. We'd love for you to come work for us and help integrate into product yyy"

^ That seems a hell of a lot more likely to get a bite than basically faking an acquisition.
This is great, especially considering the main download for an app like FileZilla from Sourceforge contains extras in the installer.
Sure, but as I think was discussed on the ATP podcast, it was probably a marketing gaffe more than anything. If they had called it "Monument Valley 2" and charged the same, people probably wouldn't have complained too much, as that sort of branding is more in line with App Store expectations. (Maybe not, though.)

In any case, whining aside, I doubt their sales suffered too much! And I'm glad we're getting more high profile pay-up-front games like MV to reset buyers' expectations.
If people are willing to buy, others are willing to make a profit. As people have free will, I see absolutely no ethical issue here.
For me the real money-quote comes near the end:

"For thousands of years we carried bees by raft and barge, by wagon and train, across oceans and continents, so they could make us honey and wax. Now we’ll try to carry them through the Anthropocene so they can pollinate our crops. The old mutualism, where we make homes for bees so bees can make us honey, is turning into fraught co-dependence. We need bees on an industrial scale to fertilize our food, and the bees need us to keep them alive in an increasingly hostile industrial landscape."

Articles like this really hit home for me and speak to those somewhat behind-the-scenes large-scale transformations of the natural world that you don't always see until you're a part of.

I grew up in IL and attended undergrad at UIUC. I wasn't in CS or engineering, but this[1] program where perhaps my strongest focus was ecology. It is difficult to convey just how incredibly altered the ecology of the IA-IL-IN corn belt is. A giant swathe of land that was denuded, drained, tiled, and channelized. A few random things that stand out as a part of this from undergrad.

I worked with a professor briefly who practically begged farmers to let him install small riparian buffer strips to greatly reduce the hypoxia-inducing agricultural runoff. But no matter how small the width of the strips proposed, it's a hard bargain to just hand over a strip of your potentially producing land.

I saw a series of farms where channelization of streams on their property had led to large erosion problems, and were working to restore a kind of anchored natural meander. The idea being that you would be able to avoid the wholesale erosion, but also control the extent of the bend.

UIUC itself was an utter joke in terms of institutional ecological initiative. We have the Morrow plots, the oldest experimental agricultural field in the united states, but no restored prairie, nothing to hint at what we replaced. You can find some if you go off of campus though, in Urbana.

It's just kind of weird to think back to being in the middle of this giant living machine. Watching it flush its effluent down to the Gulf, and seeing everything else shrivel and die around it.

I went Monarch tagging a few months ago[2], and that is a sad endeavor (but also incredibly fun, everyone should run through a meadow catching butterflies at some point in their life). Everyone involved knows their habitat has decreased dramatically.

EDIT: And just one more thing. This might sound kind of cheesy, but I have always loved bumblebees, our rotund, fuzzy, endemic workers. They remind me strongly of hot, lazy, Midwestern summers from my childhood. I sort of vaguely knew that they weren't doing well[3], but this article reminded me of that, and I'll be sad to see them go.

[1] https://www.earth.illinois.edu/
[2] https://vimeo.com/108187852
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee#Endangered_status
Yes, they're not exactly equivalent, on the other hand, you won't necessarily end up with the same salary and RSUs through an acquisition either. They're not going to acquire you for $2M plus give you an additional $200k vesting RSUs per year.

Point being, there's nothing scammy about a deal being negotiated down, or falling through, and ending up as an employment offer instead of an acquisition, especially if they're only interested in the person, not the company, an acquisition is really just the 'shut down' cost of your business.

Deals fall through all the time and valuations can get reduced once due diligence is done. A business which looks great from the outside can look much less interesting later. And of course, during talks, the other side -- who are usually interested in investing in people -- could become less impressed with you.