skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current versions of Opera use V8, so it's lagging behind as much as Chrome.
YC itself didn't do convertible notes — other investors did. YC's investment as far back as 2011 was an equity mechanism (which I think was similar to the new Safe).

Other seed stage investors used convertible notes. These technically "debt", but only as a mechanism to keep from having to go through valuation exercises on <3 person companies that had plenty of other things to worry about.

Debt term limits and interest rate limits were bad for companies. It was not possible to have debt with, say, a 50 year term and a 0.1% interest rate. Instead, the debts had 5 year terms and non-negligible interest rates.
Scrabbler – Generate words from any string
Pareto distribution
I did a lot of research in advance, I think I have a third gen keyboard on it. They must have added a backplate or something because its pretty solid.

I won't lie that the display is flimsy as cardboard, though. I was torn between the Sputnik and it, either I get performance or I get build quality, and I figure whats a warranty good for if not to subsidize a better CPU inside.
This looked quite interesting and useful right up until it asked me if I /really/ wanted to close the page.

That's very poor negotiation in my books.
First of all, you need to distinguish between content that is illegal and that which infringes copyright. Child pornography is illegal, copyright infringement depends on legal jurisdiction. There is no such thing as pirated media, that is specious nonsense made up by the marketing department of some media association.

In some jurisdictions, it is permissible under copyright law to make a backup of media that you own, and in others it is not. If you were to host the service in the latter jurisdiction, you may have an issue, if the former, probably not.

If you were to encrypt the files when storing them, and decrypt only when a user has been authenticated, that would be a strong argument against claims of copyright infringement, but adds a technical hurdle to your application.

At any rate, IANAL, so seek professional advice if your finances permit.
This just seems to be a very ranty way of saying that identifying the boundary where separation of concerns takes place is difficult.

It seems almost a tautology to me that of course you want to put all the data-related functionality in the database and of course you want the application business logic to be as small as possible and not enforce data integrity at the application level.

But a lot of this perspective comes from the long tail of hard-won experience and is not obvious to a lot of developers.
Average car life on the road today are pushing 11 years. That's average.

That's actually borderline miracle considering how complex average car is.

With average new car price going pushing $32,000 mark, people would avoid making large purchases like this even every 10 years.

Sure they would love to change it every 5 years, but it's out of the question for most families.

Car companies fear being commoditized, because it's already a very competitive industry.

With global supply chain, computer aided design, parts sharing, and talent poaching, car business is already commoditized than many realize and it is very difficult to differentiate.

Long gone are the days of unique-company know-hows when a Mercedes Benz was literally 3-4 times better than cars that cost 3-4 times less because it offered many things others weren't capable of producing.

More so than electric vehicle, autonomous vehicle is what car companies fear.

I personally think combination of autonomous + electric vehicle will usher in an exciting era, and there is plenty of time for these car companies to adapt.
So you are suggesting they can do no wrong, because they are the largest? This makes no sense at all.
Another reason to love Wikipedia (and maybe consider donating a little).
I try to work on my startup on the side between a job and studying for a masters. I spend time on my company (an ecommerce based wearable startup) developing and shipping product.

The free time I have I use to run around Hong Kong Island where I live and elsewhere, in the university library reading various books.
> A system where 0.1% tell 99.9% how to spend their precious time alive is not morally just.

Says who? Where's the cutoff between just and unjust?
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Internal referral but only because it at least guarantees that my resume will actually be looked at and I'll get a response (see the ICIMS bullshit for the other side of that coin).
tl;dr

The article describes how gender disrimination works in practice, though many other articles have covered the same ground. The effectiveness of this solution is interesting (but it's more an off-hand story from a third party than data):

> Google's own data showed women were promoted less often than men because workers need to nominate themselves. Women who did so got pushback. Based on her studies, Williams found that women are rewarded for modesty and penalized for what men might see as "aggressive" behavior. Google began including female leaders at workshops to coach everyone — men and women — on how to promote themselves effectively. The gender difference among nominees disappeared, Williams said. [Joan C. Williams, law professor at UC Hastings College of the Law and coauthor of "What Works for Women: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know."]

However, this article offered no data to support the sensational headline. All they offer is,

> A Harvard Business Review study from 2008 found that as many as 50% of women working in science, engineering and technology will, over time, leave because of hostile work environments.

That leaves many questions: How many men leave? And how many of them over hostile work environments? How many is "as many as 50%"? (I don't doubt it's a problem, but we need some good information to work from.)
Given that we don't know the number of active users of either service, I think it'd be difficult to draw any conclusions about their relative failure rates [based on horror stories.]

If we assume google counts Drive users the way they count Plus users, it probably has a stellar track record. :)
There are few things in discourse I hate more than this sort of "just", the kind of ignorance-encouraging, status-quo-supporting "just" that tells people to stop thinking.

Given that we have a millennia-long history of gender discrimination and given that women got the vote less than a century ago, this "just" is ridiculous.

Look at this graph:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...

I guess in 1970 women "just" didn't like medicine or law. (That's certainly what people said then.) And now, using your helpful explanatory framework, they "just" do! It's unexplainable! Things just happen without relation to other things. Who could possibly know anything?
I've seen VCs sleeping during partner meetings. I don't want to defend that type of behavior, but I don't think it is necessarily indicative of some deeper issues.

If your company isn't in the area of expertise of a particular VC, I would imagine those meetings aren't the most exciting thing in the world and it would be easy to be uninterested.
Not too many female SEALs either.
Perhaps the SEALs training and workplace should be made female friendly.
Pastel uniforms, pink guns and regular kaffeeklatsch should go a long way towards addressing the imbalance.

After all, surely the SEALs would benefit from more diverse insight. And they surely cannot ignore the talent in the 50% of humanity that they do not recruit from.
Any sources on your wildly baseless claims?
This seems to be the case for female Yale grads:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/national/20women.html

I feel that we would be a better company if we're able to hire more women, but on the engineering side it's challenging. The number of women in engineering programs is just not large enough. Do a search on AngelList and 9/10 people with a given skillet are men. The industry demographic makeup can't increase the proportion of women without increasing the proportion of incoming talent.
It worked fine for me until I got more data than my plan supported. It was screwed after that, I deleted some stuff I didn't need, but it had already gotten into a borked state and support couldn't even help me fix it.
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My sister has a saying she picked up from somewhere that runs along similar lines: Luck is a poor substitute for strategy.
"So if you know about this, you can make it produce a valid certificate."

Since Filippo Valsorda already went public with the same findings (I held off on the details and let the community figure it out while working with the vendor), here's the thing. SSLSplit does wildcard SAN out of the box. Any WiFi Pineapple with the SSLSPlit infusion can be up and running, MitM'ing Superfish in no time at all without even knowing about the Superfish SAN validation issue. As such, it wouldn't surprise me at all if people MitM'ing WiFi connections already got in the middle without even trying. Keep in mind that Superfish was running on consumer convertible devices like the Yoga 2 which functions either as a laptop or tablet, in short, a device you'd expect to be connecting to WiFi nearly exclusively, thus making the attack surface much larger than a desktop machine connected via a LAN cable to your DSL router.
You can't deny that ECMAScript 6 has given some much needed CPR to the Javascript language, but I think we have yet to see the true potential of Javascript discovered. I love the addition of modules, classes and all of the other new additions to the spec including my favourite => arrow functions. Small steps towards being a half-decent language.

I am already thinking ahead, ES7 is definitely going to be the pinnacle of the language I think. The implementation of a native Object.observe() means we will not have to worry about poor implementations in SPA frameworks like Angular that currently use dirty checking and other hacks to make up for the lack of native object observing. Lets hope the yearly release cycle proposed for Javascript specifications means ES7 happens sooner rather than later.

We have classes in ES6 (which is great), but they are currently nothing more than syntactic sugar over the old tried and tested prototypical inheritance. There are plans to add statics, private/public variables and classes to further extend them beyond just eye candy which they currently are. Plus Async/Await, Typed Objects, etc. There are also plans to better supported multithreading without the need to use WebWorkers which are pretty limited in their use.

Get excited. ES6 is only the beginning of a great suite of changes coming to Javascript. We'll eventually weed out the hacks and non-pretty parts of Javascript one specification at a time.
all of the above are valid json. especially the last simple variation where you literally just have a 2-level nested array.
Wow, I wish the nyt piece mentioned the fletcher angle.
What you want is a universal basic income from the government (X thousands per year just for being a human wanting to live with dignity) coupled with the platform I'm building, JoatU.org where the people create 'currency' out of the value they bring to society. We're building the welfare state from the neighborhood level upwards.
The article mentions that a hostile environment extends beyond sexism. Men may be more likely to put up with hostile environments because like it or not they may be the breadwinner in the family.
If we calibrate our expectations in a culture of bravado, then humble sincerity will seem underwhelming.
Mostly click bait. No stats to backup the "leaving in droves" statement. Only a few anecdotes from women that were passed up for promotions over the years so they quit.
The part about not asking permission to work on a specific feature was very interesting. People keep chanting "disruption" and "meritocracy" but it is plainly obvious to anyone that has worked in a bureaucratic setting that the tech industry is not at all disruptive or meritocratic. I'm guessing the situation is even worse for women because of inherent biases and associations between gender and specific kinds of work. The architects being all male being one such example.
Spiegel is at least saying things slanderous of other people, whilst our boy Zuckerbeg expresses his willingness to share private information like social security numbers and other things to his friends of his own site's users: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

What are you going to do about it? Nothing will happen. Both of these guys are doing well and providing return to the already rich, and that's the way this world works.

edit: commenter above deleted his comment sadly, for whatever it's worth, it was:

> A case in point is Snapchat, the disappearing-message service. Last spring, emails that its chief executive wrote a few years ago to his Stanford fraternity brothers surfaced. They were contemptuous of women to a degree that is unquotable in a newspaper.

But not unquotable on HN: http://valleywag.gawker.com/fuck-bitches-get-leid-the-sleazy... Spiegel's "fuckbitchesgetleid" tagline sums up the theme of the e-mails.
The thing that appealed to me about Babel back when it was still called 6to5 was the fact the output was far easier to read. If you compare the output of Traceur to Babel, the difference is night and day. Traceur isn't readable at all (at least not to me) which might not matter, but I think in some cases, Babel's output is closer to more traditional Javascript and more performant. Overall it is a much better transpiler than Traceur. Plus you're right, the author is a great guy and open to suggestions from the community, it definitely isn't a closed off effort.
Does anyone sell an MVS flash card? It would be fun to play with this on my single slot.
> what it doesn't have is anonymous functions

If it's not anonymous it's not a closure though.
The excitement is because Lua is a very nice little language with the explicit goal of being embedded into programs, so when a pure-go port of the language appears that is not just bindings to the C version it is warmly welcomed.

And no, it shouldn't be any faster than luajit (what can really :)
Now at 987% after just over an hour..
In my company, we have hundred machines and tailing done with ansible. If we want customize the log view, we can simply edit the playbook. I think it is very handy compared to we need additional npm package (and not to mention additional effort for customization).
In other words, male employees don't have the option to leave. Female employees have the option of getting married and receiving free life support in perpetuity (at least the marginally attractive ones do).
nice solution! bash looping and arrays always seemed overly complex and confusing to me, but this is not nearly as complicated as I expected.
Intel: Moore's law will continue through 7nm chips
You may have not noticed yet, but it no longer 1996, where "the Internet" is some weird thing that has little relation to mainstream society. Many, many people cannot just say, "Well gosh, this Internet thing is mean, I will quit it." Their participation is professionally necessary.

Twitter is trying to provide a major global platform for conversation. In doing so, they have also accidentally created a smashing tool for organizing and committing harassment and abuse. If they really want to play in the big leagues, they are going to have to solve that.
Just came back from Korea and they have ads running on trains that claims about their authority over the said islands since centuries ago and the Japanese illicitly used the island as their naval base in 1905.
> Pinterest's technical team is 21% female

I find that weird. I would've thought that the rise of "social" and other things associated with women pursuant to our prevailing gender norms would've been the impetus for getting more women into the field.
From a customer service and customer standpoint, I happen to think you were both out of line and it degraded quickly. I am glad to see you not publicly shame the company though.

However, I would like to speak to the original premise that a company should have a wget/curlable url for a Wordpress plugin as a basic need for the DevOps world we live in. This is patently false.

From a company providing a plugin standpoint this makes no sense at all. If they would like to make a package which works with one of the myriad package management systems, that is one thing. If they would like to create chef and puppet scripts which install their plugin and the associated licensing needs for their clients who use these environments, then fantastic. This could be a market differentiator. But giving just a static URL system may not make business sense for even some of the mid and large size Wordpress plugin companies. It could effect the companies security, revenue model, and even the security of their customers. A DevOps ready plugin system would be a nice feature but it would also require thought and preparation.

When I hear that you would like to be able to wget/curl the plugin so you have the "most up to date version of the plugin" without the work of doing this "manually" which is "very annoy", I get concerned. If a consultant I was using for my Wordpress needs were to want to automatically update third part plugins, even if only on initial install, without thoroughly testing and version locking them first, I would be mortified! With RubyGems, npm, and the like, there is a reason we version lock! Particularly in an automated deployment DevOps based environment.

With this particular scenario the customer service agent had the right idea, though I admit it took the agent a while to get to the answer and the whole conversation could have been better. If it were me I would download the latest version of the plugin when I was ready to test it. I would test it in my test environments to make sure the most up to date version of the plugin worked as I expected it to, then I would load it into a private repository for deployment. I would then write a simple chef recipe to retrieve the latest version of the plugin on system install, or upgrade the plugin on all of my existing systems. Any future updates to a plugin would just require a single download of the updated plugin when I was ready to test, a test run through the test environment, and then a deployment to where my chef recipe could see the update. Simple, safe, automated, and effective.
Replicating SQLite using Raft Consensus
This is why prosecutors and police have to respect the rule of law. When they don't, criminals go unpunished.
The core of the outrage about Superfish is centered on the fact that it is preinstalled, that we are given no choice about its existence. In the case of PrivDog, we do have a choice to install it. Shady software will always exist, it's just that in the Superfish case it was shoved down our throats without our knowledge.
properties and methods, yes. But I am not familiar with any other object-oriented language (is JS one now?) where the names of local variables matter. I mean, is 'local' even the right word, when the names chosen as references have semantic impact outside the local scope?
I remember a few sources saying that equivalent engineering fields have not been hemorrhaging women like CS. In fact, other engineering disciplines have been increasing their proportional representation of women. Here's one such source:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...
What is the reason for rebranding?
A box that unfolds to a full-room furniture
NB: I deleted my comment, because I read over the rest of the emails and my feminist rage kind of dissipated. In retrospect, the one about him getting too drunk and accidentally peeing all over some woman's shirt is more representative of the whole set.
The worst thing about GA for conversion tracking is it's not retroactive, so you have to go though a slow configure/wait a few days/see if the data looks right/reconfigure cycle.
Maybe they don't get labeled as "technical"? I've seen a lot of women doing social media marketing, but this is everything but technical.
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>Dropbox is not a backup. Dropbox is a file sync service with some limited backup features

Agreed. Dropbox is more of a consumer disaster recovery solution than a backup solution. If your computer hard drive dies, you lose zero data. On the sysadmin side of IT, we distinguish between backups and replication. Backups have retention and are usually slow to recover from if you need to recover large amounts of data. Replication is often used to maintain a "ready to go" copy of the data. If a server dies a horrible death, boot the standy replication partner and we are back online. Dropbox can work this way of you have it installed on two PCs.

If your data is important, don't leave it to any single service to protect it. If you have truly important data, go ahead and use online backup/sync services, but also make your own point-in-time backups to avoid the accidental deletion of a file you only look at once per year. A cheap USB hard drive that holds monthly or quarterly backups, kept in a safe deposit box, will suffice for most people as that third line of defense.
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I used to think as you, just recently I understood the fuss about Evernote: It's fast to search notes.

And once my notes are just a few KB of text, I can easily export them to html and make backups.

Ps: Try their windows desktop app, it's great.
> The people who created Evan Spiegel should be held responsible if he creates a company with a discriminatory culture.

You know that that's not happening though, right? I mean, the idea is so far-fetched and unrealistic that it's comical. The first step would be to merely hold Spiegel responsible for what he did: aaaand nothing is happening. Nothing will ever happen. But you want to go two steps ahead and hold investors responsible for Spiegel's behavior? That's laughably naive.

Consider, for example, that one of Reddit's big investors is a pimp. No, that's not a fucking joke. He was straight up selling women's bodies to be used sexually. We're not holding people who sell women's bodies for sex accountable... and yet you want to go a few steps further and hold people responsible for other people's conduct?
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If the future or present influence the past, it undermines scientific study, including, ironically, the hypothesis of the article, because disruption from the future would be an unknown variable in every experiment. It's pretty hard to understand what can happen outside the dimensions we are constrained by.

If the past is malleable, we could keep using the scientific method, but with humility, like: "The experiment's data support my claim so long as there was not unknown interference from actors unbound by linear time, space, and matter."

That sentiment is not too far from the attitude of many of us, rational people, who believe that in addition to humanly measurable causes, there are also supernatural or spiritual realities to consider.
The customer service rep seemed perfectly polite. Both in the conversation that you posted, and in your update here, you come off as a complete narcissist.

It's not even valid to decide whether you're "right" or not - the company doesn't exist to benefit you and you alone - it exists to benefit as many customers as possible. If most of the other customers are demanding some other feature, they have to dedicate their resources to that thing first. They might not even be trying to capture the segment of the market that would want an API.