skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, 1M sounds super fishy. Is this like when websites publishes total number of accounts, but not DAU?

> our systems have now seen more than 1 million apps integrated with Crashlytics!

If you parse this, "have now seen" != "today has active"
there certainly are sysadmins that build their authority and power only on having exclusive access to root account.
I'm currently on Republic Wireless. The base rate (call/text only) is $10 vs $20 for Google. RW has a $25/mn 3G plan and a $40/mn LTE plan (5GB). Google Fi has the advantage of always having LTE speeds.

RW is able to have cheaper rates because they are doing WiFi calling, which is exactly what Google is doing; no doubt leveraging their Google Voice/Hangouts infrastructure to handle WiFi calling.
I've been collecting info about this kind of companies for quite a while, and warmly welcomed the creation of the Open Company Initiative (http://opencompany.org) in 2013 -- co-founded, among others, by Chad Whitacre from Gittip/Gratipay, who holds a pretty strong stance regarding organizational transparency.

Unfortunately, the model they've chosen for building up the directory is based on a specific pledge taken by the companies themselves, which makes community participation in expanding the list pretty much impossible (https://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/10...)

So I decided to follow the example of the many awesome-x lists that have been sprouting up lately, and start a community-curated one for open companies, too. The list is by no means complete, so feel free to contribute your knowledge of open companies or other related resources that you think should be there.
Apache Spark is a good replacement for Hadoop now. It's written in Scala.
The two companies are different in lots of ways, this being one of them. We're not disagreeing. You simply rephrased my point that the company needs to be this valuable to match the dilution.

And thanks for finding that PG post, it influenced the thinking here. At the end of the post, we come to the same conclusion: YC is worth it if it makes your company more likely to succeed.
That's the point of this game (according to the article) - the hack is the game, the cheat is the side effect but it's part of the game - so you have to hack to play the game.
Ask HN: Are accelerators for bio/chem based startups any good?
While there are plenty of accelerators in the software space, a team inclined to solve a problem in the wetware/hardware domain is much less lucky to land in a sweet spot that gives some funding and caters to its specific needs.

Here are the questions:

1) Does YC offer a special package for teams that come from the biotech sector e.g. in the form of lab space, access to analytic hardware, etc?

2) What are the leading bio/chem/hardware accelerators?

3) What are the 'packages' of the leading bio/chem/hardware accelerators e.g. initial funding, percentage of company shares taken, infrastructure, mentoring program, track record? E.g. Indie.Bio takes 8%, fives roughly 50$ in cash and 50$ for the possibility to use the labs in Cork for 3 months and for accelerator program participation.

4) Is it even recommended to join a accelerator as a bio/chem/hardware team? The parameters money (and time) to prototype/product are larger as for software solutions - how do accelerators compete here with, let's say, a solid industry collaboration that may offer significant infrastructure and know how from the particular technology sector?

I would be happy to hear some opinions, or perhaps, even better, some hard earned experience.

Cheers!
That's a pretty big assumption.
I'm curious, which result did you get from the worksheet?
Hence "consumer-grade"
5-10 years may be, 4K seems promising, but 1080P isn't too bad either, and mostly people upgraded to 1080P just recently, so I do not see 4K becoming very popular (or somewhat popular) in next 5-10 years.
This is why CRT monitors remained popular for as long as they did even with the advent of LCD technology; they tend to be more accurate color-wise, so graphic designers would prefer them.
I'd argue it's not actually cheating if the game is meant to be played in such a fashion.
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I think we just need to convince gun owners that gun companies are saying this about their guns. And then this problem goes away.
Are you a software craftsman? here is why you should become a Gopher
Remember when LinkedIn wanted to intercept your email (and also add "helpful stuff" to it)? It's that, but Facebook and for phone calls.
As a EU infidel, chances of me getting NSA to delete and stop collecting my dick pics is about nil for foreseeable future.

Thus I will proceed with activities more fruitful than trying to fight the windmills.
Likewise, I pay right at $200/mo for 3 subsidized smartphones with 10GB of shared data and unlimited text/talk on Verizon. We do typically go through 8-9GB of usage monthly too, so it's not much wasted. Fi would be like $15/mo/phone less expensive + that marginal data rebate except... I can get LTE on Verizon nearly everywhere, unlike with T-Mobile and Sprint (especially once you leave metro areas out west) and my phones are subsidized. If I want to subsidize a Nexus 6 through Fi, it's now an additional $27.04/month/phone, or for the 3 of us, $30 more expensive every month than Verizon.
In my experience it's rare to see someone with solid technical skills that doesn't have passable interpersonal skills too.

I've worked with some developers who are brilliant technically, but are not people you would hang out with outside of work. You don't want to duck out or pretend you have a doctor's appointment just to avoid going to lunch with a coworker. You also don't want an arrogant know-it-all on your team, even if he is a genius with code. I remember interviewing a guy and asking him how he would accomplish something in PHP, and he said "PHP sucks, I would write it in a real language." That's the kind of person you don't want to hire to work on a PHP app.
What do you mean by "continuous" versus "line-by-line" scrolling? When I use the mousewheel to scroll a man page in xterm it behaves and appears the same as when I use the mousewheel to scroll a webpage in Chrome (the content moves smoothly up and down, disappearing at the top and bottom edges of the viewport).
Few startups choose between $1M and getting into YC, so how does this make sense? It seems like a better comparison would be raising $120k from an individual angel investor.
I presume that the kind of people needed to do most of these things won't work for minimum wage. And, make no mistake, Kickstarter is mostly about hiring people to do the things promised using the money, not about the people pitching the idea doing it themselves.
I don't see the problem here, there are other ways to hunt terrorists then parsing everyone's emails and phone calls.

Regardless of what terrorist do, most still have to act outside of the internet, and those who do terrorist activities solely on the internet are already using encryption. Also, the government still has access to tap phone calls and get copies of people's emails through the warrant process, the only thing the private sector is doing is making it harder for people to break the law, isnt this a good thing?
Searching for a better way to do on-call rotations
Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Introduction to Modern C Programming
Ubuntu MATE 15.04 for the Raspberry Pi 2
I attended an elite UK university having had a poor upbringing. This article reads painfully to me. I don't have the words to describe why, but I can try.

The closest I can come is to say that this idea of inclusiveness is terminally broken. It's a sort of bandage over a huge chasm of differences.

For a poor person to become wealthy requires them to discard their baggage. Change the accent, the clothes, the pop culture references, the 'back home...' stories. Avoid the discussions about parents. The list goes on.

My transition into adulthood at present is essentially a game of throwing away my connections to that past. Not intentionally, but because living a double life is just too difficult. Visiting my hometown I feel like more of a tourist each time.

Money is a huge divider, the gulf between the working class and middle classes in this regard is enormous.

I am hardwired to assume that people cannot afford anything. My basic instinct is to design activities that are free.

Wealthier people do not always appreciate this. They might want to go and do something more expensive - and why not? They can.

Friendship groups.

I could waffle on seemingly forever but words can't really express how odd I find all of this.

Different species...
In order to be able to usefully debug perf issues you need to have a fairly deep understanding of systems architecture though or you're no better off than the software devs that you're slamming. There are a lot of "I don't need to learn programming" system admins whose knowledge of how to debug performance issues I could teach to a decent software developer in an afternoon. There are even more SAs who cargo cult completely incorrect assumptions and tend to throw money semi-randomly at problems because the last time they had a wonky server they upgraded the RAM so this time if they spend the money or more RAM that'll fix it too.

And yes, I've had to painfully explain why Linux servers report nearly all their memory as being fully used and what the VM free is was to a Principle Architect at a major internet firm with a string of PhDs and who had built the software architecture of the company from its founding. Controlling a huge chunk of the technical direction of the company and doesn't know the first thing about the VM or how to tell if a server is really out of RAM or not. There's still going to be a skillset which is closer to the hardware, but people need to really have that skillset. Most people who call themselves SAs do not actually have that skillset, they're just semi-technical people who wield root power and throw their weight around the company.
Thank You for the Wikipedia link - I was looking for the name of the "thing" people are doing when they write all those WebGL JavaScript frameworks and such. Now I know that they are creating poor replicas of things that normally run on the desktop itself.
>> "There's no API so you can't integrate with any of your other tools."

There's no API but they do offer some integrations with things like Asana, BitBucket, Slack etc. through the settings page.
I would caution against too much class consciousness.

My parents came to the west in a boat, much like the ones that are sinking every day in the med. They scraped together a living and tuition fees running Chinese food joints.

When I arrived in Oxford, I did realise there were some interesting characters around. One guy with a posh accent stuck waved his chequebook outside his room during a tuition fee demonstration, offering to pay for everyone's tuition if he could just be allowed some peace. There are dudes walking the street in top hats. There are kids with sports cars.

But why should you feel alienated from them? You can be friends with the ones who want to be. They are just as curious about you. Some of them actually feel a bit guilty about having ridden into a top uni on their fathers' coattails. There's also people who've had it worse than you. One friend actually fled from shelling, and was lucky to miss a boat that got sunk by helicopters.

When you meet people, start with what you have in common. You're all young, and academically gifted. You're in the same place, you speak the same language.
That is not how I read down voted into oblivion until no one can see them.

I could be wrong but "oblivion" and the emphasis on "no one" are what I am going on.
They roll it over but it is the last used and is only rolled over a single month.

Month 1: Get 10 Use 5 = 5 rolled over.

Month 2: Get 10 Rollover 5 Use 5 (of the 10) Lose 5 (already rolled over) = 5 rolled over.

Month 3: Get 10 Rollover 5 Use 5 (of the 10) Lose 5 (already rolled over) = 5 rolled over.

Month 4: Get 10 Rollover 5 Use 5 (of the 10) Lose 5 (already rolled over) = 5 rolled over.

By Month 5, you would think you would have 30 (10 + 5 rolled over from each month) but you only get 15.
Frankly, given the number of startups, I too think it must be easy to raise money. May be not from A16Z, YC, LSV or other experienced ones but I see so many new VC firms now days.
This resonated with me - a poor farm kid from Iowa going to Stanford. I had my student loan plus zilch. Other students were off to Hawaii for vacation. Me, I had to bum a place to stay over breaks when the dorms were closed. I never asked questions; never used any tutors or talked to a professor; never studied in groups. It was a lonely life.
Color theory has been extremely well researched for quite a long time. If you are not familiar, I would suggest reading up on the CIE 1931 color space [1].

Some of the confusion in the article relates to terminology.
>When we say “yellow” we typically mean a pure monochromatic light with a wavelength of about 570nm.
This is not actually what most people mean. Colors like "yellow" usually mean the tristimulus values that produce the visible color yellow. This is a totally different concept than a single-wavelength light source. This becomes more important for colors like "purple".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
Way back in the day, GCC's gcj compiler would do AOT compilation of Java, however I believe it stopped being developed at jdk5 support.
Any suggestions on where to start learning?
Knowledge is power, I mean, you can't just give that stuff away!
Digital marketing job opportunities are immense
Having just moved to the interviewer side I appreciate the remarks about wanting the interviewee to succeed. I know how stressful it can be doing an interview and really do try to make it something where I can judge the ability to code, not just ability to interview. I usually try to start with something simple to just get some code going - like "We're going to need some random numbers. Make a little function that returns a list of 100 random numbers between 0 and 10." At that point I can start asking questions about why they do something a particular way and what conditions would make them do something different. Once that gets going the stress usually drops noticeably.

One other point I would add is to know the difference between being relentless and just making things up when you run up against the end of your competence. Same as mentioned in the article I will try to push out to the limit of the interviewee and a simple "I don't know for sure, maybe something like ....?" at least lets me know you know your limits. Hopefully it's not right after the first question but really don't just start making things up.
I read blogposts all the time, I do use google first if I don't know the answer myself offhand. I have the background, though, to be able to determine what smells correct and don't just type in all the commands from the first random web page that google kicks back at me...
A good point, and probably helped Amazon's success. But this is no different than Sun. Have you seen the margin on SPARQ processors and machines? Sun had plenty of cash to bootstrap their grid computing effort.

The problem for Sun was a Strategy Tax. Sun was in the business of selling big iron systems. Their grid effort was an inverse of this model:

1- Sun had to pay for/run the systems (or sub contract it)
2- Why buy a big system from Sun when you can just use what you need?
3- Sun's sales organization was not designed to sell utility computing to medium sized businesses.
It's almost as if Kickstarter's business model optimizes for "idea guys." If a particular set of economic incentives creates a particular kind of parasite, the problem is the ecology of the niche, not the parasite. You can't make con-artists cease to exist; you have to change the game so it's not one con-artists want to play.
Just got this email from Jordi.

So, now that we're inulting each other and no longer civil, you're
being a flaming asshole and the reason women don't want to be in tech.
Fuck off and die.

- Jordi G. H.

@Jordi, I think you need to re-read my response.

You WERE being a dumbass. You DO need to take the stupid PC bullshit down.

Neither of these statements is actually that insulting. I did not call you a dumbass, I said you were being a dumbass in this instance. I did not call you stupid. l told you to take the stupid PC bullshit down (which you do need to do).

Now, telling somebody to Fuck off and die, that is insulting. I think your latin temper is showing itself, my friend.
It's abolutely not OK to tell me to fuck off and die. It doesn't reflect well on you, or your organization. You need to wind it down.
I dont have that feature on my device, or rather i cant see it.

I think FB is better placed to do this, given that they have the Phone books of everyone who has the Facebook app and Whatsapp.
When I had WiFi calling on T-mobile it still counted toward your minutes, so there was really no advantage to it in terms of billing, only in case of poor cell coverage.
Crashlytics (or Fabric - I wish they'd settle on a name) is now and has always been better than TestFlight imo. Distributing new builds is as simple as archiving (iOS) and clicking a button in your menu bar.
Why becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think
Hey, not liking people (e.g. racism) and not liking dogs (who poop in your car) are very different things. I find it objectionable for the govt to decide its ok for someone's dog to foul my car.
Good idea. Added an issue to track it here:
https://github.com/digitimate/digitimate/issues/4
Bitcoin and the Closed Loop Protocol
Actually got Django.
> Their support for the Nexus line of phones has been outstanding

That hasn't been my experience, particularly with this issue:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82949

Basically you have to roll a dice whether you'll have sound in voice calls on a Nexus 4 running Lollipop. 500 comments, 1200 stars, and the issue is simply closed as "wrong forum" with no other comment than "contact customer support".

I mean, I'm glad that Google supports so many camera features, as that's clearly the most important function of a Nexus 4, but at the end of the day I still expect my phone to be able to, you know, make voice calls.

Related HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8898669
This post is for people that have the choice that are trying to decide whether to do it. I think they should, but I often see people getting the math wrong.

Especially because YC is getting so good that companies that have a choice of raising a seed and doing YC are getting in. They delay the seed till demo day.

YesGraph raised a $1M seed right before YC, so I have personal experience here.
You want them to spend political capital internally to make Facebook/whatever better for you instead of spending it on what they think would be best.

What kind of broken ass backwards corporate culture requires expending political capital just to report a bug across teams? If someone is letting pettiness degrade the quality of the product like that, they're bad at their job.
cool. if you do, let me know if it works well for you.
> features like formatting, no unused imports, etc.

I personally think these should be configurables turned on by default so you kind of push the new comer to write good code and build better habits but there should be an option to disable it, make it hard to find but it should be there, especially for the people like OP and other small over-the-weekend projects.
Maybe even more skewed towards older folks as younger ones spend more time on Snapchat et al.
It seems like analyzing the video would be much easier, as you could basically just OCR the on-screen scoreboard.
their non-pro drives used to be just "830" or "840" previously and classed as "consumer grade" but still MLC.

then they came out with the less durable TLC (EVO) and killed off non-pro MLC drives, re-branding the inferior EVO as the consumer drive.

they also make SLC (enterprise) drives.
Some of you may want to down vote this comment, however only those who ever installed Gentoo know the deep meaning behind that sentence.
Already have enough internet access, I'd pay for a way to get away from it.
Ask HN: What are some good IT skill swapping websites?
I have been looking for programming languages skill-swapping websites, but the only I could find is http://www.skillswap.in/.

I could not find any other alternative googling for that so I'm asking if you are aware of any other websites for that purpose?

Thanks
But that's the whole point of Google Fi. They partnered with Sprint and T-Mobile.

When your in Alameda and Sprint sucks, Google puts you on T-Mobile's network, and you get better data + coverage.

When you head to the rural Midwest, and T-Mobile has EDGE or no service at all, Google can put you back on Sprint LTE and it's at least better than EDGE on T-Mobile.

If this works the way they describe, then you win in both situations -- you get the best of either network, wherever you happen to be.
It's worth noting that HireVue, the company used to process the applications, is not a First Round Capital-funded startup, which is unusual as VC-firms tend to favor their own startups for external affairs. (Hacker News, for example, has had interaction with YC companies Octopart, Algolia, and Firebase, possibly more.)
If there was ever a time to not care about words and meanings this is it (or split infinitives). Also, Knuth[0] likes to play this way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7159934 too.

[0] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/
I'm not sure you're getting me. I'm saying that eventually T-Mobile and Sprint will not be able to offer $70 or $90 a month for unlimited data. Or if they do, it will be so throttled as to be completely meaningless.

I'm predicting that as more people use more of their data, the network will not grow fast enough to support the total bandwidth. The fact that they can currently offer "unlimited" is a temporary condition, based on the distribution of network users' bandwidth. As consumption grows, it gets to the point where they can't actually offer it any more.

That's my prediction, and I bet Google made the same prediction.

Instead, you're acting like I don't understand that people WANT unlimited data, especially at the prices it's being offered at today.
i'll always concede that these technologies are extremely relevant in the web backend space, but for the most part their are bizarre curios that some technical people know about and even fewer actually use.

gcc has done okay, and its a fantastic project in many ways... some of the optimisations its capable of are really quite smart. that being said though it has usually been held up as example of how hairy compilers can be. there was a period where gcc saw some real use from apple and sony, but other than that its always been considered the outsider in practice... at least during my career. maybe in the dark and distant past when it was even harder to use GNU/Linux and Unices then it compared favorable against borland and the ms vc 5 compiler... but i doubt that is true.

I'm never going to be onside with licenses like GPL when there are MITs and BSDs which do not impose draconian restrictions to help further a philosophy instead of being actually free. The single most common reason I hear not to use a library, borne from practicality, is that it is GPL or LGPL licensed.

The fact that you cite something that, to a close approximation, nobody has heard of as an example of how this stuff has made the world better is a brilliant example of what I am talking about.

Open source is great in lots of ways, but I'm convinced it would be better if its proponents and contributors were a little more in touch with reality.
Is it the difference between raw data and processed? The scan could have things like [I'm guessing] corrected baseline direction of the laserbeam (3-axes: theta, phi, psi??), time of pulse initiation in ns(?), time of pulse reception, colourific data, CRC. Then you process that to create the point cloud?