skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or...

Try to build any product that offers larger amount of free evaluation period.

If before 1 year, you have $paid_customers > 100.000, continue, go on, otherwise, just kill it.

Also there is more services in AWS, than EC2 and S3.

Only exploring them gives plenty of ideas... machine learning, transcoding, no- and sql scalable databases, mailing or dns services, world-wide advanced networking and delivery, etc, etc, etc... on an scalable and elastic way, high composability and awesome APIs and docs.

wtf, even you can use that money on yourself, purpose it for your own self-learning of AWS... put your $idea on world-wide high availability, automating all the AWS integrable components, and provision it thinking about time zones and world-wide timezones, usage peaks, etc.

Any ideas related to social-network-effect, or massive concurrency, are nice with an "elastic" architecture. For example, build a game that you can play from different social networks!

Last, if you're free to choose where the money goes, in your situation I could donate a some part, to my favorite opensource projects and supporters. Should feel good.
First, the number of women starting tech companies is rising in absolute (if not yet relative) numbers. To illustrate what’s possible, we’ve highlighted a cross section of 230 women on this list who have collectively started or led 298 tech companies across all sectors and stages of growth over this period. Approximately 29 percent of women on this list are serial entrepreneurs.

The women on this list founded heavyweights such as Lynda.com, Nextdoor, Houzz, VMware, ASK Group and Mozilla; growth-stage stars like Stitch Fix, Slideshare, Indiegogo, LearnVest and StyleSeat; and earlier-stage startups like Lumoid, Heartwork, Other Machine Company and Trendalytics. On this list alone, we were able to identify 13 IPOs and another 54 exits through M&A. The average amount of capital raised per company is approximately $34 million (for a subset of 167 companies on which data was available).

Link to the list: https://medium.com/@sukhindersinghcassidy/choosepossibility-...
I've frequently been unable to pause or change the volume of the music for tens of seconds because the user interface stalled. Completely inexcusable for an app that is ostensibly for playing music.

On the good side, since all the webviews are right there in the app as renamed zip files, I suppose they could easily be edited to cut out some of the bottlenecks?
It's been like this for some time – I remember I was able to inspect elements within the page some time ago.

One of the problems though – the user experience of the app is rather unpleasant. It's extremely laggy and noticeably non-native – using incorrect keyboard shortcuts, and so on.

I'm sure it's possible to do it better, but the UX of the app used to be great and is slowly declining, which is a real shame.
So someone is essentially attempting to raffle a house? I can't even imagine the legality issues with this.
This is spot on. There isn't anything inherently difficult about what entry-level professionals (as defined in the article) get up to. You'll be doing powerpoint slides or reading documents until you fall asleep, but it's a skill that many, many more people have than are needed. Basically anyone can bone up on a few accounting ratios (what is xyz technical term?), read a book about brainteasers (100 people on an island...ugh), and read the general news (tell me something interesting?).

So who do you pick? You have all these well-educated, similar people. So of course you go for the ones you like. You ask them stupid brainteasers and stock questions (what's your greatest weakness? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?) and just see who will say something you like. They are just as capable as the ones you don't like. This is also the reason you need to have gone to a top uni: why bother looking for a skill that everyone has? Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM.

Oh, one exception: the children of the powerful. A buddy of mine worked in investment banking and there were a number of kids whose parents were CEOs of known firms, or other important people. Those kids are going to be able to do the job at hand as well as the future job of getting business. It does tighten the pyramid for the other capable kids, but they know the game.

Contrast that with a job where the skill is roughly as available as the demand. Where it is possible that the random guy off the street cannot do it (eg iOS developer). What do you do then? Well, now you can't just show up to the interview unprepared. You need to spend time asking real, discriminating questions (How do optionals work in Swift?). You also might need to balance your opinion about the person's character with your need to have that skill in house.
No. There may be some magic formal definition that would work between contexts. Until we have such a definition, though, he says it's better (at least between contexts) to work off of an informal, inexact definition, and to be aware that you are doing so.
I'm guessing this problem is similar to the one I vaguely recall reading about regarding Google: Almost everyone who applies has the intellect required to perform well at Google. That's why intelligence isn't a good criteria for recruiters at Google to use as a differentiator.

I would guess the same thing applies here (please correct me if I'm wrong, given your experience) -- almost all the folks who apply will have a fairly solid grasp on accounting, valuation, etc. (the technical/knowledge parts), especially if they're coming from Harvard/Stanford/et al.

Therefore, since "knowledge" isn't a very good differentiator (everyone who gets a resumé on your desk is competent), folks in these prestigious positions have to filter for something else -- and it seems they've chosen "fit".
There's a little difference between the amount of information in a noisy AT&T iPhone model 1 conversation and a functioning brain. Just sayin'.
That's called "instinct", and the partial implementation "imprinting". "Learning" is how we rush the process ahead of evolution
Some unsolicited advice: I think you should change your webpage. You have all the skills of someone who could be charging a good deal to do mobile/client side development, but I can see how some might interpret your personal page as a red flag.

I personally don't have any problems with what you've put on your page, but when someone is looking to hire a short to medium term consultant, they don't want to see a page that screams "I am a unique, creative, thoughtful individual".

Maybe move everything you have to an anonymous page and put up something simple like "here is my skill set, here are some examples of apps I've created, contact me for rates".

I really don't mean to come off as offensive or disparaging of your site. I'm just thinking of the very risk averse business folks I know who are also desperate for iOS developers or whatnot. They have a very clear picture of boring developers that will work hard for them. I'm confident if you compartmentalize a little bit more in your public persona, you could be making gobs of money and still have plenty of creative expression in other outlets.
AFAICS, the 'hivemind' here is really a crowd sourced checker for broadly worded unsourced comments. And that's not a bad thing.
I concur that Towne is a great speaker on this subject, and would like to add that he's an HN user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=emhart

I discovered this by reading this comment, and as soon as I read "security anthropologist", I figured there couldn't be two of those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8156030
Clickbait for engineers?
What about having the necessary knowledge and skills, having good grades and good recommendation letters?
Altcoin mining on the amazon gpu machines was still viable, last I checked.
It's pretty amazing how the use of Tor drives this kind of wishful ignorance. You see it all the time on /r/darknetmarkets
Our tide is rising even within these firms. If you look at their strategies it's now all about diversity and the power of combining different viewpoints. They are not looking for diverse stakeholder managers, they understand that the new economy is driven by people who in the past they would only meet by chance in a lab as they were inspecting a factory. And they want some of these people (potentially the least capable? I cannot judge, I am one), because it's all about client relationships, and you have to fit with the clients, not your peers. Compare that to a few years ago, when even dress code was more or less a uniform. I don't want to disappoint you, but they are not complacent and they have seen it coming since the last 10 years. These organisations are built to their core to manage shifts like that. Whether they will succeed this time is to be seen. But they have weathered such changes in the past, usually boosting their performance out of the broader change.
Congrats on shipping! My first reaction is that you need to hit the value propositions much sooner. People aren't going to click "learn more" if you aren't already giving them a reason to, and while the teletype-effect headlines are nice, they aren't sufficiently making your point. You're jumping into an extremely crowded market, which makes it all the more important that you differentiate as much as possible up front.

Typographically, I think you need to reconsider a few things as well. That "Poiret One" typeface isn't exactly a stunner, and definitely isn't a great pairing for Lato (one of the classic rules of typography is never to mix multiple sans-serif or serif types on the same page). Lato is a beautiful type family; try just restricting yourself to a few of its many weights.

Good luck!
> But other gaps in the science are less well known beyond the field's circle of specialists. Such holes do not undermine the fundamental conclusion that humans are warming the climate, which is based on the extreme rate of the twentieth-century temperature changes and the inability of climate models to simulate such warming without including the role of greenhouse-gas pollution. The uncertainties do, however, hamper efforts to plan for the future. And unlike the myths regularly trotted out by climate-change denialists (see 'Enduring climate myths'), some of the outstanding problems may mean that future changes could be worse than currently projected.
You can't extend VS Code, at least not yet.
The Story of Science is a great six part BBC documentary that talks a lot about the phenomenon you are describing, and episode four talks about Watt specifically. I highly recommend it, and it can be found online.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xxn3o_bbc-the-story-of-sc...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s9mms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Science:_Power,_Pr...
Yes. Indoor pools.
If you don't like this then I'm sure you'll hate the eventual, "Where did we go wrong with the electric car," articles after Tesla fails to deliver a $20,000 EV before going bankrupt. If the government pulls its corporate welfare, which it probably will under a GOP administration, Tesla is going to die a quick death.

Elon can't bring Li-Ion down to any level for compete with ICE cars, has terrible financials, and there's something very off putting politically about hard-working middle-class families subsidizing ultra-sports cars for the wealthy.

The title of this article is amusing because it seems to suggest that SpaceX is Elon's side bet and Tesla is some grand vision. Its not. If anything SpaceX is the great success here and if I was a betting man I'd say Tesla will become a footnote in history when SpaceX succeeds. I just wish he wasn't so anti-AI and anti-robot. I'm assuming he really needs to sell the public on human, not robotic, spaceflight for his company to succeed.
Show HN: Scorecard , instead of papper card game, golf
No, that's not the best. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-mode is.
Is Wi-Fi making your child ill?
So

"foo".into()

could be expressed as

String::from("foo")

I would personally use the latter form as it is easier to parse and reason about. Thanks for the explanation!
The great distortion
The hole this article doesn't point out, and which has perhaps become more salient to the scientific community over the last few years, with incredible new sea ice lows, methane release, the newly understood vulnerability of antarctic and greenland land ice, dramatic weakening of the jet stream and major ocean currents, tar sands/fracking/arctic drilling ... is the prospect that we've dramatically underestimated the sort of feedback loops we may be creating, and the possibility of a rapid runaway climate shift.

It is highly likely that the anthropocene has altered the earth's atmosphere and ecosystems more rapidly than at any point perhaps since the comet that took out the dinosaurs. The longer we continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere, the higher the risk we push the earth over the edge of an abrupt climatic discontinuity.
I thought this would be an article about getting through regulatory bureaucracy - which is one of Uber's greatest strengths IMHO.

This article mostly regurgitates old advice about good hiring and company cultural policies. I'm disappointed.
"Substantial creativity" may get you past being a derivative work in Europe, but not in the US. Copyright law differs between jurisdictions. You'd have to be very careful.

I like the original idea. What I'd do is make sure the resulting images don't have any significant reliance on any small set of originals. So if challenged, you could re-create the scene w/o the challenged images and show a court that the scene is not closely derived from any single source.
Ahh! That's it! Thank you!
Thinking of Selling? They Already Know
True. But he has successfully edited his reputation by using philanthropy, so you got a downvote. Which I reversed because you're right (taking "all of computing" to be mild hyperbole).
There is a certain kind of crazy, the one where you can have $10M in the bank after a lot of hard work and struggle. And then put all of it at risk for something you believe in and everyone else is telling you is stupid. In gambling it is that person who has a fortune in their chip pile and they say "let it ride", except in this case bankruptcy is on the other side.

I think Elon deserves all the credit there. I think of it as a Ferris Beuller complex, people who just "go for it" without a safety net, betting they will be able to adapt, avoid, and overcome any obstacle that gets thrown at them. It is a level of fearlessness that is not supported by any rational process, and it is the thing that turns people from ordinary into extraordinary.

It doesn't always work out. There are always stories of people for whom they didn't dodge when they needed to. And like stories of "can't miss" hedge fund traders, are suddenly just as broke as most of the world. But you have to respect people that can operate at that level of stress. The money quote is this one:

“What he went through in 2008 would have broken anyone else. Most people who are under that sort of pressure fray. Their decisions go bad. Elon gets hyperrational. He’s still able to make very clear, long-term decisions. The harder it gets, the better he gets.”

That is a rare thing
Well then I wish you'll have success enough to also port it to Android.
Web Security Negligence
Microsoft has put effort into extending C# for systems programming:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2013/12/27/csharp-for-systems-progra...
Microsoft Just Dropped a Big Update for Windows 10 Mobile
He's a really smart guy, but there are lots of really smart guys out there.

He's a really lucky guy, but there are lots of really lucky guys out there.

There aren't many really smart, really lucky guys out there. One of the challenges is when we see really smart, really lucky guys, we tend to think of them as unbelievably smart and kind of lucky. One of the bigger challenges is when they start to see themselves that way.
As someone in this 62%, I can tell you that the numbers may be correct but the terms are anything but. Men hear "rape fantasies" and think real rape, while women think "intense sex with a hot stranger which requires no effort on my part and furthermore absolves me of any decision making so no one can brand me a hoe".

As always, it helps to remember that women are people and therefore the overwhelming majority do not fantasize about actually being tortured and possibly killed or maimed for life. (Not saying that the parent actually said anything to that effect, just trying to drive home the point that these stats use bad terminology).

Edit: for some reason I cannot reply so I will post an answer here.

Is the survey methodology flawed in what they ask the respondents?

I think so. The linked study said it counted self-reported incidents of fantasies of sexual encounters that fall within "the legal definition of rape", and that's where I have a problem. The central point of the legal definition of rape is the lack of consent. So how could sexual fantasies, which are by their nature something you want in that moment, be counted as non-consensual? You are asking people about a consensual sexual scenario that's only staged as non-consensual but then you are counting it as non-consensual. It's like asking people if they fantasize about the doctor/nurse scenario (or whatever) and when 20% report that they've had that fantasy, you conclude that 20% of the population wish they had a serious illness.
How many people owned Teslas before Musk took over?
If you are going to program I would make sure I understood negation.
Empty page on my iPhone.. Is the site down?
The core of the story is likely fabricated. Parallel construction?
Also,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
Some of the same crowd is at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. It's not all teens there, but there's some of the same mentality.

Only at a few points in history are there opportunities like this. Do it while you can. It may not come around again in a lifetime.
Question: how do you get to a list of your comments / submissions?
Chromebooks: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-chromebook/

Used ThinkPads: http://ktgee.net/post/49423737148/thinkpad-guide

Cheap Laptops: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-budget-laptop/
Add to that the massive start-up time for the Windows client. A fresh instance Spotify from a rebooted machine takes ages to gain full functionality. If you quit in the middle of a good playlist, most of the time you'll be able to continue playing from where that playlist left off. If you opened Spotify to find a song or move to another playlist, you'll be waiting a while.

I just started Spotify with a stopwatch:

2:26 for the main Browse to completely render

2:42 for the live search window to give suggestions

2:52 (+10 seconds) for the search to return a result

I once thought it was because of the massive local library that had to be loaded and sorted into Spotify, but I've done away with local files to try to speed up the start up. The results on my laptop are not any better. Maybe it's because I've been updating the same client since 2012?
Hey.

Thanks, but.. That's not quite what I had in mind. For one, somedb-only (sqlite or anything else) is usually not enough. I would hesitate to introduce a system that just supports mysql when everything else is using postgresql for me, for example. And on top of that, this schema is .. limited. My dspam setup learns and can do that for each and every user (though system wide training seems to be the norm, as far as I can tell). This is really just a storage engine as far as I can tell and not really comparable.

That said: I guess I would give rspam a try if I saw a lot of positive reviews/reports. It's just that it certainly doesn't do the same thing as dspam. It's quite a different animal.
I looked at it again and now I see that the code examples don't necessarily constitute the whole file. And the parts in question happen to be the same in both files. My fault.

Maybe it would be interesting for the reader to see the number of the lines of the shown code, something like "error-impl.rs, lines 3-12 out of 51".
Instead, I take these studies with a pinch of salt and also judge how I feel sitting all day (fairly bad) vs taking breaks to jog on spot every so often (fairly good).

EDIT: But I do think the title is overly optimistic, personally
I have no problems with Dashlane
Nice Halt and Catch Fire reference.

Why does it make any sense that these jobs with ridiculous numbers of qualified candidates would "get to be" the 1%, as opposed to those others you mention (iOS developer)?

Not asking you specifically, lordnacho. Just a question to the universe that's probably as useful as asking "why me?" whenever anything at all happens. Still though.
A bit over 400. Of those, 75% of them needed to be recalled due to manufacturing issues. [1][2]

My perception is that Musk brings very capable executive-level management to his projects. Tesla was dying without strong leadership (and had a string of temporary CEOs prior to Musk).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-recalls-345-roadsters-2...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-1...

EDIT: Fixed citations...
Regarding Paypal, I think it's fair to say it was a merger of equals (Confinity and X.com). This post gives some more insights into the merger, I found it an interesting read.

http://gawker.com/230076/an-alternate-history-according-to-e...
The recent removal of the system tray icon is anti-user. It provided users with easy access to Play/Pause from the system tray, but that meant users spent less time in the app, so the system tray icon was removed completely.
I think copy may be rarer in terms of the number of types, but I suspect it's not rarer in terms of actual use, since shared references (&) and integers are used a lot.
Reasons to Avoid Mcrypt
yeah! it took me some time to get it right. I did not planned it well.
Oh, nice! I wonder if that should be added to the wikipedia article?
The 10x Manager
Stanford CS 161: Design and Analysis of Algorithms – Spring 2015
Genome sequence is a dead end and full of bioinformatics folks who have an unachievable dream.
Mods are a really important part when you talk about "protect people". I frequent a subreddit [1] where the mods are so pro-active and invested into the healt of the sub, that they have a rule [2]:

>If we find that you are active in any subreddits that promote hatred toward any particular group of individuals, your participation rights in this sub will be revoked.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn
[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/wiki/index
Does she still have some vision?
if so, more of a combination of speech and magnification would be best. For example, Windows full-screen magnifier and either TTS or free NVDA screenreader set to speak only under mouse and with verbosity turned down.
iPad has all of this (no matter what the vision). lot of my senior clients with low vis use one.
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Wow.. I agree that Spotify isn't the most lightweight application, but it doesn't feel much heavier than, say, Chrome on my Linux installation.

Are you on a mechanical hard drive perhaps?

The network performance though is quite bad, searching for some song often fails or just is very slow to load and render.
Do something that matters: https://folding.stanford.edu/
Cask is hiring a Sales Engineer
I think you're right. About them evolving, that is.
That doesn't actually make any sense. If 100 people can do the job, why pick the people you like the most instead of the ones who are willing to work for the least? Why filter it down to 10 people based on pointless criteria and then pay them all a bunch of money? You're essentially assuming that professional services firms are irrational.

The reason these firms don't screen for knowledge is that they don't care what you know, they care what you can be taught. These are fields where you can't learn the job without actually doing the job, and where relative skill often matters more than absolute skill.
We're talking about $100,000 here. Not $150/month on some shitty cloud. I used to work at Microsoft.