skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are my thoughts with limited knowledge of your situation.

As employee #2, you are a technical co-founder, period.
The problems you have outlined will not be solved be staying at the current company. It's apparent that the owner has chosen to keep you as 'just a dev', even though your contributions are outmatched and significant. It seems opportunity to seize more than what you could have has unfortunately passed you by.

From what you're describing in your post, it seems you're showing regret. Other people have been hired for these positions, even though you built it.

The thing is about being an early employee is that it's a blessing and a curse. Most people don't realize this but the thing is the feeling you get for being the guy that put this company where it's at today is unmatched.

The problem is that once it's built, you go into maintenance mode and it turns into a corporate machine. Everything you enjoyed and discovered during the process is now going through "procedures" and "process". The freedoms gone, other people are here now and they start getting the ears of the owner instead of you.

You feel like you own this company, you should, you built it and partied with the owner for years (guessing here). The biggest regret at this point is that you probably don't own enough (equity) or you were never made co-owner.

You have a choice, stay and give your last effort to be in the position you earned. Or leave, full well knowing that you will likely not be #2 at a successful startup again. We all know that startups getting successful is about the same as winning in the lotto. However, you could be the guy you are describing in your post, the VP of Engineering that gets hired for a startup that is starting to grow...

In either case I wish you the best of luck and as another dev can appreciate the weight of your decision.
> Depending on the registry, it's unavailable or at least against the rules for some tlds.

And yet other TLD registries are sensible enough to make privacy the default for private individuals. .EU isn't bad in this regard, and others like .SE even go so far as to hide your name (most only hide your postal, email, telephone)

Frankly I don't know why anyone who can avoid it would want to touch Verisign TLDs with a barge pole... they have the continued gall to keep putting their prices up despite more competition than ever, and fail to raise the bar on basics like whois protection. Even .UK domains can be had for $5/year with registry level whois protection for heavens sake.
I'm not sure if this belongs on this site. This is .. utterly political.

Reading that article leads me astray and I have to question the sanity of the persons involved, both on the acting side (police) and the justification side (spokesman, random "Yeah, criminals are dangerous and all" crap).

This is the prime example of a cultural clash, of an article that is relevant for the US of A only (I hope there's a debate over there and people that think this usage is okay are somehow considered sane, locally).

For a foreigner like me this is tragic. Every single example in that article was bullshit. Inexcusable and mind-blowingly stupid. I'm aware of the fact that I might be deluded and that the 'real world' - over there - looks different. But seriously, what do we have in common if this is acceptable and 'best practice'?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840261
Writing comments in language other than English is probably something like пизда коровы.
...and what they call "well-intentioned" I call "doing a job despite its moral indefensibility."

(and to be clear: I'm talking specifically about pre-dawn violent raids as a measure to ostensibly enforce drug laws, not policing in general)
I grew up in Ellijay, GA and many police offers were bullies in my highschool. The city doesn't really have the cream of the crop or the pay to choose otherwise.
I was a beta tester for Google Domains for a long time. Here are reasons I'm very satisfied:

- Unlike other domain sellers, Google Domains is NOT trying to sell me anything other than domains.

- Canceling is easy! I don't have to wait in calls with 1&1!

- Customer support was great. They get back to me after an hour if I email and if I call, responses are very fast.

- User interface is clean and clear.
Does anyone know anything about migrating a domain to Google Domains if that domain was originally published through Blogger, then migrated to Google Apps?
The most I've ever heard is 1M from someone on Wall Street. I'm even more jealous!
> "For example, a mother spending time knitting a scarf for her child would produce a higher value in terms of intrinsic goods than if a mother went to Walmart to purchase a scarf for her child - even if the scarf she knitted and the one from Walmart are physically identical. The time spent knitting is valuable, intrinsically. You can compare the time as well - She could have knitted a small woollen finger ring, or a scarf - and it would be a clear the latter has a larger intrinsic value because of the larger effort spent."

Would the scarf have less value if my mother were particularly skilled at knitting? If time is even one of the factors used to determine the value, then surely the value of that scarf should change one way or the other when you push that 'time to knit' knob one way or the other.

It doesn't though. At all.

> "If mainstream economic theory can't understand why people don't relocate to find jobs with $100 more worth of utility, in exchange for losing access to close family members,"

The idea that you really think that mainstream economists do not understand this just floors me. Of course they do.

> "Mainstream economics theory cannot explain or value intrinsic goods like - kindness, generosity, acceptance, status, love of a parent, romantic attraction, being attractive. These are all things valuable and yet completely unaccounted for."

Complete and utter hogwash.
Can someone explain something to me. When using a cross-platform engine, like Unity3d, why don't developers release it on more platforms? Is it difficult to do so? Is it a lot more work to release on other platforms?
As someone who follows (or tries to) the cutting edge in machine learning and data analysis I have found that I often see really useful ideas on arxiv first which may latter appear in some form somewhere else (conference, journal).

Conversely some more prestigious/general interest journals like science and nature tend to favor papers based on novelty in a way which often results in them highlighting an interesting problem domain but not a best-in-class method. Indeed they often reject follow up pieces that improve on the published method.
The lottery is not a bad thing. And, I'm not even against non-lottery based selection for schools. They are allowed to do so.

The only issue is when trying to compare private school type X vs public school Y. Public school Y is required to take all comers ... no exceptions. If you want to claim that Private School X is better, worse, etc. you need to control for that because the worst students consume the most resource--even the expulsion of just a very small number of students can make a disproportionate difference.
Really Google Chrome? Right next to the tab open button?
Tesla Declines as CEO Musk Says Sales Have Dropped in China
Hey, this is neat, I've always liked the Blender node editor, and now a clone of it is split out into its own library.

I'm also happy to see the tools open-sourced, which is sadly not common enough in the game development world.
I have made games for almost twenty years and only one thing has been a constant: People always say it is a terrible time to make games, and a terrible time start a game company. I'm not saying it isn't hard now, or the odds are aren't against you. But its easy to look back on past successes of twenty years ago and forget that most people were failing then too.
Does it come with built in custom NSA backdoor creator?
The message is that our personalities are encapsulated by objects and media. These items of evident importance are of course legitimated by the benevolence of facebook's curation. Facebook is not a social experiment, it's a marketing tool.

Anyway, the accuracy of the study depends on a self-report.
SendChat Allows Users to Send Bitcoin
Yes, I would love to ski as a sasquatch
Who is "we?" At first I thought you did the whole thing by yourself and was going to say I'm always amazed by the people who can design and code, especially a game. Seems impossible. Great stuff regardless how many people worked on it though. That's insane you did literally no marketing and the App Store picked it up like that, especially these days, congrats!
While potentially more efficient than bogosort for larger input size, this sorting algorithm has a serious limitation. I am of course talking about being limited to 140 characters per tweet. This seriously restricts maximum input size you can sort, which in turn severely cuts down on potential applications of this technology. Moreover, without deployed SAAS (sorting as a service) bot, algorithm is not deterministic which will complicate handling logic as you need to account for being forever alone without anyone to sort your numbers.

In short, I would advise against deploying this on production until technology is more mature.
"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."

I'd submit to you that both of these are arguably true, once the all too routine decision to take "direct action" has been made:

America is a legally well armed society, and these home invasions are indistinguishable from ones done by Official Criminals, especially since the latter are known to pretend to be police.

That "the death of the targets is" entirely "acceptable" should be evident to any unbiased observer of these direct actions. Especially since the Badge Gang, as some are taking to call them, are almost never held to account; if ever there was a case to do that, the one of Bou Bou's maiming should have been.
I don't mean to question your basis for your assessment because your comment is otherwise wonderful and agreeable, but why it is that every time an article is written that impugns a government's use of a particular technology, it is regarded as "utterly political?"

Even if this article weren't about flashbangs, whose particulars are examined in the article from a perspective consistent with the norms of this website, the drug war, as a exercise of prohibition policy, is largely on-topic here per se because it represents a pain-point (and according to a majority of people, at least in the USA, a failure) which many entrepreneurs and statesmen are actively seeking to fix via innovation.

This article seems utterly on-topic to me.
That is cool
Or even better, github could have an opt-in (or even opt-out) server side variant for pushes!
Not the snowman, but there is an In-App purchase for "The Bear"
> cheaper alternatives

As a side note, regarding placebos, the more expensive ones often work better than the cheaper ones. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304173339.ht...
You've got that backwards. America <edit>and Canada are</edit> the only country in which truth is a defense to defamation.

Remember the British guy with the Nazi fetish? The tabloid that published that story lost even though it was true. In other countries (notoriously India), criticizing a government employee's performance is defamation (even if true).

Edit: Looks like Canada also allows for truth as a complete defense to defamation. That makes two nations out of 180+.
Apparently their certificates are only SHA1. Ugh. What happened to the whole SHA2 promoting thing?

https://twitter.com/geeknik/status/555150703090364416
maybe ala heroku? whispering-glades-5487
7 Project Management Lessons I Learned from the Ocean’s Trilogy
This is supposed to be a developer kit, like the DK2. The website makes that pretty clear [0]. That said, it's definitely being marketed to consumers more actively than Oculus' own dev kits.

[0] https://www.oculus.com/gear-vr/
Thank you, TrainedMonkey.
Yeah, Android version is coming soon, hopefully before the end of Jan. I did use Unity3D, and while it is very easy to port, releasing on two platforms can be time consuming for one person while I'm freelancing fulltime. Dealing with tracking bugs, IAP, GameCenter, Google Play, optimization, Screen sizes etc adds up. Also I lack an android device at the moment for reliable testing.
$15-17 for .com/net/org, but as well as whois protection you also get a 1 year SSL cert. Unlike StartSSL, this includes fee-free revocation. Probably not worth much given that 'Lets Encrypt' is just around the corner, but it's still a respectable gesture. They also have a really good management UI, responsive customer support, free (roundcube) webmail, and DNSSEC management (Namecheap lacks this). Also, they're French, if you're feeling a bit US-wary lately.
> America is the only country in which truth is a defense to defamation.

Citation needed.
Why spend a bunch of money upfront on servers? you should know how much you'll save by switching to a server but just use a amazon or something like that until your sure you can build something people want. Also, what happens if the business doesn't work. Has this person invested his life savings?
Is there anyway to push for or endorse research into police weapons use in USA? I seem to remember a discussion some time back pointing out there was no central registry or even need to report gun use for all police forces.

It just seems that blowing the face off a sleeping baby ought to be the point you start filling in forms and asking questions like "is the person throwing a grenade well trained? Has the information they are acting upon come from as reliable source? Is there post action public reviews?

It seems that some parts of the USA lead the world and some parts still have hay stalks in their mouths.
It doesn't really say in the article, but did they actually get an even split on the signups or just limited the sign-ups to force it 50-50?
Yup. Chrome is offered as opt-out bundleware with quite a few Windows apps and Google pays the publishers for this. This is how quite a few regular users switched to Chrome. Even just updating Java in Windows it'll try and sneak a copy of Chrome in with the update.
I don't live in the US, so I am maybe missing something but, if the police wants to arrest someone, wouldn't be easier to wait until this person leaves the house, grab him on the street and tell him: "Hi mate, we are the police and now you are under arrest".

I don't see the need of assaulting a home.
1. Blizzard only ever had extensive mod tools for their RTS series, not any of their other games, so this is not new.

2. Starcraft 2's mod tools are vastly more powerful than those from Warcraft 3 and especially Starcraft 1 (in some ways this is actually a bad thing).

3. Blizzard implemented a major overhaul of the custom games interface for Starcraft 2's first expansion in 2013, so clearly they still care.

4. Starcraft 2 is still under active development; the latest expansion is expected sometime this year.
Google has always creeped me out because of their "don't be evil" slogan. This slogan resonated well back in the late 90ies when Microsoft dominated everything. Now it's just creepy.
There seems to be some room for innovation here. The police are throwing these things blind. Evidence? Well, I refuse to believe anyone, no matter how debased, would intentionally throw a flashbang into a baby's crib. What's needed is a flashbang that either won't go off if in close proximity to a living being (e.g. perhaps add an IR sensor) or a flashbang that is triggered remotely, so it can be thrown, spotted, and triggered only if in a desirable location.

Personally, I think building a flashbang that's harder to injure people with will simply result in increasingly idiotic behavior on the part of the police. The real solution is to use flashbangs less and with better training. That means regulations and oversight because the police apparently suck at policing themselves. However, the U.S. loves to solve problems with tech even when it's not the best solution, so there's money to be made here.
Noticed this today after I accidentally clicked it trying to open a new tab. Very poor placement and user experience IMO.
When your job ads say "not much pay, but you get to carry a big gun and scare people with it," this is what you get. I wish cops and primary/secondary teachers were paid enough that the people reading this post would consider those jobs, because they kind of matter.
I would just leave and solve an interesting problem at another company. You have a large chunk of equity. Unless you want recognition - that's a different topic.
one question, why do you say that the concept of emotional intelligence went south?
Well, that's all fair and all stuff we're addressing this year.

The dashboard is, frankly, out of date compared to the UI experience people would expect from us in 2015. We're building that right now.

And we plan to support TOTP 2FA, so you don't necessarily have to rely on SMS at all.

But noted. Just wait -- we've got some pretty cool things in store for you.
The US has a tendency to export its bad ideas along with its good ones, so readers elsewhere might still have reason to be concerned about what happens there. These weapons are already used by some police in other places, like in Canada where a protesting student was seriously injured [1]. French police used flash bangs in the recent hostage situation in a grocery store [2].

[1]: http://rabble.ca/news/2012/03/police-violence-rise-montreal

[2]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/09/charlie-he...
Nope, I haven't even seen it yet. I know that we have a dedicated team working on the domain dashboard exclusively though. And yeah, 1999... close. 2001. :)
Google releases bug info in Windows 8.1 on schedule, two days before fix release
Video content strategy: why do it and will anyone watch it?
Regarding maximum input size, I'm sure it can be forked to implement a tweet-sharding approach.
I believe some of the registrars provide a rolling email address on your whois info, which forwards the mails to your inbox. But the address is changing at intervals, therefore if anybody scraped the address it won't be of use.
I think you just explained peoples problems in your own post. "we're building a better user experience, so that's nothing to fret about". People have the option of "good right now" or "good in the indefinite future", and the decision is pretty obvious. Not saying Namecheap is bad (I use them myself), but the crux of this argument is that GD has the right interface NOW, while Namecheap will have it EVENTUALLY.
I'm not Black
I wonder what's the efficiency of this algorithm in O notation on average.
I do not take it that Comcast is charity, so either they made a horrible deal and lost significant amount of investment, or the narrative is lacking some details. I personally doubt we will find a $250 million investment in Comcasts books regarding the city of Baltimore however, as I find there is simpler narratives that would match in how cities like Baltimore gets fiber into peoples homes. It would also explain why some cities has has semi-monopolies and others don't.

A city that wants fiber has the obvious choice to subsidize the investment of a large ISP, say Comcast, thus severely reducing the investment cost. The permission to build is of course non-exclusive, but the subsidizing is not. Once built, the ISP gained a government granted advantage, and thus a monopoly is born.

Alternative, a city can create a government bid for administrating and building a city fiber network. On paper, this mean that the city owns the fiber, and the ISP that builds it has to sell access on equal ground with competitors. The ISP do still get an advantage in operation knowledge, some payment for doing the administration, and first mover advantage. This tend to result in healthy, if somewhat constrained, competition.

Ars Technica narrative talk about how the cable division paid little or no construction costs. That is very different aspect than if the permission to construct, operate, repair, maintain, and reconstruct a Cable System is non-exclusive.
Why not just say "your domain registrar" or "your domain provider" to clients to keep the name out, if it's an issue?
> In a filing with the European Union, French authorities declared in an emergency procedure its intentions to block "at domain level" access to sites the French government deems to be in breach of its law.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-answer-to-terror-attack...

Welcome to the new world.
I wrote some things, I had a few Geocities web pages, I worked on some DOS Games, I wrote some games in Commodore 64 BASIC, I helped make text files for a community college BBS in 1989. All of which got used without my permission. I never saw one penny for such things.

But I see how it works now, I don't own my own works, and they are free to be copied and put on display for others to use for free.

In the early 1970's and 1980's there was still a 'fair use' clause in copyright. For non-commercial use, for educational use, for parody/satire, etc. The DMCA changed that so after 1999 copyright law and IP law was more strict. That is why you could have a game in BASIC named Star Trek and not have Paramount care that you did. That is why there were several versions of the old BBS game Tradewars, originally written in BASIC for a TRS-80, and then converted to IBM BASICA, and then in Turbo Pascal, and then Tradewars 2002. Because all of that was done before the DMCA passed.

I can tell by the downvotes that the community here does not care about permission and encourages the copying and saving of older material as some sort of library.

Stuff I worked on as side projects way back in the day, appear to be part of Archive.org and other sites. Yet nobody cares.

Will the side projects people write today get copied and saved in the same way? Will all of the time we spend on working on side projects go to support some archive site?
That link is not wrong, but scrypt is probably significantly better than bcrypt, and PBKDF2 is not terrible, if you don't have a handy bcrypt/scrypt library.
It shouldn't be necessary to do paramilitary raids of homes unless there is some desperate situation like hostages being killed.
It's a macbook air. There is no install media.