skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sweden cannot extradite him to the US without the UK's consent.

That's not really true. Sweden _isn't supposed to_ extradite him without the UK's consent. But is the UK going to go to war over it? If not, then really Sweden can do whatever it pleases.

"The most important point is that as long as it is externally marked to show its status, the "bag" has diplomatic immunity from search or seizure,[2] as codified in article 27 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag

Now reconcile that information with this new seemingly contradictory information:

"Action required – Assange to be arrested under all circumstances," reads a handwritten briefing note photographed in the hands of one of the officers surrounding the Ecuadorian embassy. The note says Assange is to be arrested if he leaves the embassy in the company of another diplomat or if the Ecuadorians try and smuggle him out in the diplomatic bag."

And even better, they contradict themselves on this policy from the get-go:

"When it comes to its own diplomatic materials, however, the British government takes a harder line. It issued a strong protest when the sanctity of its own diplomatic bag was violated by Zimbabwean authorities in 2000."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/police_plan_for_assa...

People violate the Vienne Convention on Diplomatic Relations regularly it seems when it suits their purposes. The idea that Sweden is somehow prevented from doing something inside her own borders because of some toothless international "law" (what is the punishment for failing to abide by the agreement?) is laughable at best and incredibly disingenuous at worst.
> If you somehow wish to portray the desire to make some people suffer less as an ideology that's somehow controversial, so be it.

I see it as an ideology. Full stop. Any ideology is fallible and can be misguided, even if it is well-intentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if most ideologies have been bourne out of well-intentioned ideals. But intentions don't really help if the ideology is fundamentally unsound/misguided (we have some examples of that up through history).

> That's just rubbish, and you sound just like evolution deniers

Of course, the go-to shaming tactic of intellectuals. Bravo.

> You don't want to learn even the gist of what's in it -- that's fine, but it's you who are being motivated by dogmatism,

You don't know fuck-all about my knowledge of this. But yes, I could stand to investigate and learn more about it. I could stand to try to find out if some of my beliefs on this field or whatever is misguided. But I have seen "enough" from a long and admittedly cursory glance at the field that I've found that it is not something that I am likely to find worthwhile in the end, and it would be too draining. What I really should do is to stop whining about things like this on forums like this and just lay the issue to rest. That's my bad.

> you want to keep things as they are?

Of course that's your default guess. It's either "our way, or the old way", as some kind of liberal/conservative dichotomy.

I'm not happy with the old way or "the new way", and I think it's preposterous that people can try to reduce it to such either-or-thinking. No, the current mainstream thoughts on sexism aren't the be-all-end-all that all reasonable human beings can and should agree on.

On my beliefs, suffice it to say: I don't like sexism. Any more explanation beyond that and we get into fragmented territory with regards to what opinions are acceptable on this topic, as far as the mainstream thought goes.
The UK might be a better "friend" than Sweden, but they have this pesky problem of an independent judiciary.

Why does nobody stop and think why has Julian self-incarcerated for longer than he would have faced if he was actually convicted of the crimes he has been accused of?
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Can it be put as, a list of ways to counter the signals that your body is trying to tell you to stop? I think survival would mean that you aren't killing yourself. While reading this, I kept asking myself if a medical doctor would agree with you. I think that it would take quite a bit of effort to find one that does.
I'm not sure that you can look at their revenue the same way you'd look at the monthly recurring revenue of say, a SAAS company. I've never used any dating services personally, but I imagine the goal is to find someone you like as quickly as you can and then stop paying for it. It might be expensive to constantly acquire new customers, especially early on in the company's life.

I do agree with your general point though. The vast majority of businesses don't take/need any VC funding.
What about drivers for new devices? Even current hardware manufacturers dont provide XP drivers anymore.
Some good advice in this blog post.

I remember a conversation with Bill Wells about customer research. Key points he made:

Keep doing qualitative interviews and focus group until you aren't hearing new stories/needs/pains - now you have documented the range of related issues and are starting to have a sense of which customer issues are most common.

If you have the time and money use the qualitative research to guide the design of quantitative research that will help you understand the scope and extent of the various issues.

Use statistical analysis but use it carefully and remember that there is not a cliff at p< 0.05, also just because something is statistically significant doesn't mean it is of practical significance. Always ask the "So what?" question of any research findings.
It still may turn off investors though. Google wasn't immediately funded to the brim either.
Just a guess, but since the company in question (Dating Ring) relies on matchmakers to help make dating matches for people, I can't help but wonder if they didn't try to grow their employee count a little early. Looking at their homepage, they have four matchmakers on staff, and from listening to Startup, I know they have another two people (a COO and a CTO) on board. Guessing they probably have a few other folks on staff too, and since they're based in NYC, it seems to me that they likely have payroll expenses well beyond what they're pulling down monthly.

As I say - just a guess. But $25k/month serves 5 employees reasonably enough in NYC, but I wouldn't say more than that.

I really hope they pull through. I anticipate nothing like I anticipate the latest episode of Startup now that Season 2 is going.
> Comments are better at explaining things than cryptic variable names anyhow.

I'd pick

const DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE = 42;

// ... lots of code in the same file

var font = new Font(DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE)

over

// 42 is the default font size
var font = new Font(42);

any time.

Two reasons: version 2 encourages others to copy-paste out of laziness, and it does not resist refactoring very well.
MapMaker was great for selfish reasons, though. My postcode had the wrong bounding box and some new roads were missing from it, MapMaker made it possible for me to get deliveries much more easily.
What are you saying? Sweden doesn't have an independent judiciary?
I haven't, you are right I probably should.

But it wasn't hard to find something about standard methods and media types.

> REST enables intermediate processing by constraining messages to be self-descriptive: interaction is stateless between requests, standard methods and media types are used to indicate semantics and exchange information, and responses explicitly indicate cacheability.

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
maybe there should be a guarantee of military action in case he is extradited (i.e getting the SAS to retrieve him.)
Soundsystem techs commonly use a tool called SMART to calibrate a system to the room. It basically does impulse response measurement by blasting pink noise through a feedback loop and putting in various phase adjustments until the room has been cancelled out.

It's a very delicate technique though. When you're talking about phase-aligning soundwaves you're sensitive to sub-millimetre alignment of your transducers.
This is not sustainable, and not healthy. You're doing damage to your body that you won't have to deal with for some time but will come back to haunt you. This degree of work makes me wonder what your lack of concentration at times does in terms of code quality, security, ingenuity, etc... Working more does not translate into better work.
I am not a medical doctor, nor do I make any claims to be. I have simply found a few things that work in a specific case and am sharing them in hopes that others in similar situations might benefit.
Well, that makes a lot more sense.
Looking at the comments of this thread, I can't help but see the author's point, as most of the comments I see in response to this article fall into at least one of three categories:

1) "Fundraising is hard, suck it up you baby." (Some of which are just short of "man up!" - and how isn't that sexist?)

2) "Are you sure your product doesn't suck? Maybe you've bitten off more than you can chew." (Levels of condescension in those statements vary from none to overwhelming.)

3) "Yeah, you're right, I'm a female founder/startup employee and have seen the same sort of thing."

Hell, if anything, the reactions here just serve to clarify her point.
But don't they all beep/rotate the cone even when the button hasn't been pressed? The ones near me (in the UK) which are on a junction and operate cyclically (in conjunction with a couple of sets of traffic lights) certainly do. I've given up leaning over from my bike to push the button when I realised this!
Yes. Yes. Yes! Omg. Yes.

The worst I have seen was a team of several hundred people who, on $200 half-broken laptops, were running - in parallel - 500MB Excel files for hours every day, which basically did a few linear operations on about 30 variables, before joining the results in a superfile itself taking up to 20 minutes just to open on a gaming-specced desktop.

In another case, I broke down an Excel model with over 50 tabs and discovered that there were only 2 input variables. Unfortunately the CFO of that business decided to go for the ostrich strategy (after all the monster model impressed investors).

Every business I have ever worked in had some convoluted, cumbersome, buggy, opaque, human-dependent Excel processes. My co-founder and I finance our startup replacing these with tight scripts running on AWS (amongst other things) - it's low hanging fruit. We approach these things as a black box, figure out desired behaviour, and rebuild from scratch.

Excel wins all the time because it's a UI that managers are familiar with, and they are often either the consumers, or want to audit your data processes. It's got a LOT of tooling that lets non-technical users do things they shouldn't.

If you thought Python Pandas was an improvement, try learning about the relational model and how to use a decent relational database (I recommend PostgreSQL, whose error messages will teach you a few things and which has a saner type system where you CAN compare two different integer types without getting NULL). You'd be amazed how far you can go with just SQL.

You should also do so from a UNIX OS, and from the command line (using pg, editing a file then running \f blah.sql). It will take you a few hours of pain but will be worth it in added productivity and transparency over any point and click alternatives.

What you're touching on is the power of abstraction, functional vs imperative programming, and particularly how proving programs can be enormously productive. SQL is powerful for this because it is declarative and very close to mathematics (Codd brought set theory to databases).

The next steps are category and type theory and then the Haskell/Mercury/Idris/Coq rabbit hole... an unpopular one because, as someone once told me, "businesses are resilient to application errors"...
What's the most productive time of the day
Wikipedia's policy is radically open as far as these things go, and only works because a) they're willing to tolerate vandalism being public for short (and, sometimes, long) periods of time, and b) they have an insanely large dedicated army of volunteers maintaining it.
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I must confess, i am an audio tragic and worked out some time ago that for speakers , pro audio was the way to go. ATC and PMC are excellent examples of market leaders in this area and I have listened to systems from 2k to 500k in value, with nothing but disappointment filling me when I have been in the presence of the (100k+) mega dollar setups.

After speakers the biggest gain to be had as correctly stated easily in this thread is in room treatments and that's why I have a dedicated room that's heavily treated.

Each to their own.

I spose I could drive a 20k car as well but I prefer my 200k car because its just better all round, just like my 30k studio monitors :)
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As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the ones with buttons (at least near me) that operate (at least part of the time) automatically don't require the button be pushed to trigger the beep/cone. These happen when the pedestrian light goes green, regardless of if the button is pushed or not.
Weird, I can't think of a single such placebo button that I press in my everyday life. Maybe this technique isn't as widespread here. For example, if I don't press the button on pedestrian crossings, it'll never go green. If I don't press the button of the train door, it won't open or the train will even skip the station if nobody presses the button.

That being said, I hate the new trend of 'touch' buttons. I really like a tactile feedback, telling me that the mechanism registered my interaction. It feels more solid and reliable.
Well the Warcraft Franchise is older IIRC
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Good to see Ghost moving forward.

Did you have a round of private funding? Basically being out of cash yet hiring two more FTEs must have been sketchy. Glad you managed to make it work.

Up front spending on hardware is not worth the risk today IMO, especially for a startup strapped on cash. It would make more sense to free up that capital and just get pay as you go with AWS. It might be more costly in the long run but much less headache and easier to get rid of in the event someone buys you out.
There was nothing in that article providing any substantial evidence that Sweden would extradite him.

The GCHQ employees were speculating. As am I, of course.
10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.
For the former, I always preferred Joe Armstrong's quote in Erlang and OTP in Action. “Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”

It's the same idea as the Knuth quote, but gives you guidance over what to optimize for (rather than just leaving you with the idea you shouldn't optimize for anything). Beautiful code will oftentimes include an elegant, efficient algorithm. Many times I've found that when I've had a performance bottleneck, the fix also made the code more correct (not just on a performance standard, but things like "Oh...yeah, we totally didn't need that there" or "tweaking that to be faster also meant we just fixed a possible, if unlikely, race condition"), or more beautiful ("oh, we just removed a duplication of effort...that when called this way was turning an O(N) operation into an O(N^2) operation"); had I just adhered more stringently to those two, I would have had the performance already.
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China launches ‘mystery object’ into space
The flip side is that some of us don't start from the hero-worshipping-conspiracy-theorist approach that public figures with right on political stances never have a dark side, and are familiar enough with the concept of Ockham's razor to understand that governments that want to lie and frame people tend not to do so in the most vague and convoluted manner possible[1]. I'd say that Assange - innocent or otherwise - is considerably more likely to have had a dispute over sexual relations with two former followers than be the victim of the world's most unnecessarily complex fit-up job.

[1]the only possible upside from a conspirator's point of view of having the allegation be so borderline the Swedish authorities showed reluctance to move forward with prosecution is that it seems to have provoked some of Assange's more outspoken supporters into endorsing embarrassingly misogynist sentiments.
This is an odd comment considering the entire point of this discussion is that a bad choice has been foisted on the project and criticism flatly rejected by the core team. Why do you believe a "better solution" would be accepted?
I am not saying anything about the Swedish judiciary since I am not in a position to judge, but others far more informed than me (such as the GCHQ) seem to think that it will be easier to get Julian to the USA out of Sweden than the UK.
Yes - I did: https://www.coinbee.io - lobby them to implement the API!
Probably leads/principals for the bread and butter products of their respective companies (like search and shit).
don't forget

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too
No. Bad hiring practices are endemic in our industry. That is as true of name brand companies as it is for companies you've never heard of (and in some ways worse).
> I would find it hard to believe someone goes to a fundraiser to ignore a genuinely great idea/product just because they feel a bit horny.

How many times have I heard on these fora that it's the team that matters as much as the idea? That the VCs faith in the the founders' abilities that drives funding at least as much as the specifics of their nascent business model?

Perhaps the problem is that the "sexual aspect" seems to be interfering with these VCs founder-evaluation capabilities. And thus they're being judged solely on their current business model (which is bound to be wanting at this stage no matter who the founders are) rather than being given the benefit of intuition that male founders are.
It was done on Lisp Machines and currently in CCL.
Despite your hopeful anecdotes, there are plenty of stories that involve women in tech being overlooked and harassed. By these metrics, and those in the article's linked study, it's hard to deny that women have it much harder in this field.

There might be the successful female underdogs who will claim to follow your mantras of confidence and overcoming excuses, but overwhelmingly this is a problem with our culture. You absolutely cannot expect a woman in this field to bear the load of constant misogyny.
I don't think parent was excusing that behavior. If the author had written the post focusing on those aspects, it would have been a compelling article on the discrimination they faced while fundraising. And like you said, it needs to be dealt with harshly and exposed.

What has happened instead is that the tone seemed to suggest that it is easy for white men* to succeed. This is in a way dismissing the efforts of countless white nerds who have spent their entire youth fiddling with their computer projects. The internet is full of obscure projects that exist purely for the love of hacking. The author misses out the correlation between this and the relatively larger number of successful white men in the industry.

Discrimination is real. But we shouldn't rush to attribute success to being white and male, unless there is a study which tells us: (no of hours white men have spent/successful white men) vs (no of hours X group has spent/successful X group people)

To me, it seems that the way to fix it is to get kids to start programming early irrespective of gender and color.

* I am male, but not white.
Whoa, I'm reading through the entire blog. I'm in love with that guy. 😍
> 1) "Fundraising is hard, suck it up you baby." (Some of which are just short of "man up!" - and how isn't that sexist?)

Wouldn't it be non-sexist if "man up" is applied to both men and women? What would be sexist is to only say that men should "man up".
> Are there seriously investors that only back purely female teams? That seems ridiculously sexist and financially stupid to eliminate so many good startups that aren't all female.

That would neither be sexist nor would it necessarily be financially stupid.

As for the sexist part, reverse sexism is not a thing -- if the playing field is so imbalanced, then explicitly favoring the discriminated-against group is a fair measure to level the playing field. It's the same reason we have women's colleges and organizations devoted to advancement of women, and why similar institutions for men would be (generally speaking) incomprehensible.

As for the financial wisdom of investing purely in companies run by female co-founders, the whole point of investing is to find opportunities for investment that have been undervalued by the rest of the market. There are certainly some investors that have discovered that businesses run by women are undervalued in the market; maybe they have even calculated a rough figure for how undervalued they are, perhaps 15%. They may decide not to even look at male-led companies, as they would need to find 15% extra hidden value in order to match the hidden value -- unseen by the rest of the market -- they already know the female companies must (on average) have.
"No one" assumes a human. I'd use a COTS textural analyzer and social graph and process all your (and your associates) content in one fell swoop.

And then sell that to the highest bidder.
Sounds interesting - however, if they are successful in reconciliation, then seems logical that the next step will be addressing the transfer of wealth that happens after reconciliation (ie, clearing). I am not sure how much of a problem this truly is - ie, how much of counter party risk is attributed to how often the counter party agrees on the reconciliation but just does not have the capital to pay up at t+3.

Whatever it is, if you could instantaneously reconcile and clear, then some forms of trading could get a lot faster.
I don't expect my light switches to stop working if the parent company gets acquired or shuts down

That's the simple case, where you are only using devices from a single vendor. If you - god forbid - own devices from two different companies and try to connect them in any meaningful way, your setup might suddenly stop working as soon as one of the following happens:

- Company A shuts down.

- Company B shuts down.

- The hub service that you used to connect Product A and Product B shuts down.

- Any one of the involved companies have a dispute with any other of the involved companies and cease cooperation/demand that their products not be used together until contracts are re-negotiated.

- Any of the companies makes a breaking API change and the other's don't have the time/money/motivation to update their software accordingly.