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So I'm a web developer. A few months ago I went through the job hunt process, and asked myself "What could be better about this?," and I came up with Hire Anonymously. (cool story; I know)

The basic idea is to help tech talent control their identity & ascertain critical job details like pay & location info before starting the interview process. So far basically just a signup to gauge interest.

Hoping to get feedback from the tech community on the concept, so I thought: "Why not Show HN?" (side note, I put this on Show HN and I'm pretty sure it's not appropriate as an email signup so I reposted).

Would really appreciate any thoughts you all have!
Ah, I had a look at goios, I can imagine that it is a lot of work, the integration looks quite complicated and far from being finished, good luck.

About sharing bandwidth, was thinking about only enabling when the user is on wifi, but I think I'll use torrent more as a distributed mirror network than a "real" P2P system, which is difficult in a mobile context. People can easily "donate" bandwidth by seeding the data files needed for the app (using a separate torrent client though, not the app itself).
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So-called 'technical analysis' is bullshit. News at eleven.
Ring is on my list for later this year; I look forward to trying it. I was going to go for Doorbot but the bad reviews had put me off. I don't see the same reviews for Ring. Best of luck :)
Would be quite interesting to have a Hacker news poll to see the distrubution of hners whose mother went to work!

I dont seem to have enough karma to create one unfortunately. Can someone else do it please ?
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Japaneese firms plan for north of 100 years strategy. Some of the oldest companies are japaneese[1] and that is success in itself. A 6+ years of loss is for capturing the market and getting a userbase which would raise the entry barrier for compititors. Considering initial 1 year is spent on validating the idea and coming up with a MVP, 6 years is a decent time span.
That said many companies these days are running after high valuations and not actual revenue. The world runs on debt.

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/japans-o...
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Not all acquisitions are created equal. It's really very situational.

To answer the larger question you seem to be asking, a company or technology needn't generate a profit to be valuable. This seems counter-intuitive, but it's true.

To a certain extent large companies outsource risk-taking and innovation to startups. That kind of thing is just incredibly difficult to produce within a large corporation. If a company solves a problem a big company has it may be acquired; regardless of its revenue the founders have created something of value in this scenario. The acquiring company will pay a premium for something that's successful, because that means they don't have to spend time and effort constantly building things that fail. Think of it as anti-portfolio theory. VCs invest in 10 companies knowing that the majority will fail, because one or two successes will make up for all of the failures. Big companies buy the one or two successes because that means they can avoid the eight or nine failed projects.

It's entirely possible that the companies being acquired never generated any revenue, but are very valuable to BigCo, and BigCo pays a corresponding price. That is a success.

However, acquisitions aren't all good (nor are they binary). There's a spectrum. On the low end is a terrible acquihire, in which the acquiring company basically buys the startup as a hiring bonus for the people it wants. When this happens, the numbers aren't great; usually investors will lose money or make little enough that it's negligible. Remember that VCs really need huge returns on a few companies (ideally one company returns the whole fund), so even a company that returns what the investors put in plus or minus 100k basically go into the same "failure" bucket in the mind of a VC. The founders become employees with a biggish signing bonus (selling the company), and the acquiring company basically calls the acquisition price recruiter fees. That, in my opinion, is a failure with a soft landing.

On the other end of the spectrum is an Instagram-type acquisition in which the company is extremely valuable but it makes more sense to team up. Of course, this doesn't have to be a consumer product, but Instagram is a great example. Instagram never made a dollar, but in retrospect it looks like $1B was a great price, because Facebook will be able to generate way more than that utilizing Instagram's users and platform.

There's an entire spectrum between these two. Without knowing the details of each deal it's difficult to say, and everyone will pretend like it was a huge success regardless of what's happening. So to answer the question: Yes, a startup can run at a loss, be acquired and be a success. It can also run at a loss, be acquired, and be a failure.
I never understood the idea that having mom (or dad) at home is the best thing for kids. When our daughter is at daycare, she's in a very stimulating environment staffed by energetic 22-year olds on 6 hour shifts. When she's at home with me my instinct is to bribe her with some ice cream and park her in front of her iPad. My wife has slightly more desire to engage with the kid, but no more energy for it--she's pretty spent after 2-3 hours.
To jsiminoff: do you guys still have the lockitron integration that you had planned for Doorbot? I can see that there's quite a few alternatives now like those by Schlage - any plans to offer the unified UI that you had planned or are you keeping things more split up this time around?
Using illegal methods is bad. Catching bad guys is good. Using illegal methods to catch bad guys? That's a much more complicated question than you make it out to be.
Regardless of how risk-tolerant a company is, no company would ever pretend to have a monopoly on successful innovation. The only scenario in which there would be zero acquisitions would be if the company could create everything that would be of value to it within the company. Of course, that will never happen.
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I was quite delighted that my mother worked - she was the part time librarian of our village library. So from about 10 or so she would let me take the key of the library and get books as often as I wanted - providing I stuck to the limits of the number of books I borrowed at one time and kept record of what books I had borrowed in the same way as everyone else.
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If you don't want to face charges, don't commit the crime in the first place.

But more seriously, you will face charges anyway. And if you haven't said anything, that will only prolong the inevitable. Or is it your personal goal to get away with committing crimes?
yes it is. It triggered Windows 95/98 checks in some software.
This is also a good argument for providing free or heavily subsidized daycare to children whose parents are unemployed or outside the workforce.
“Was it really her mother working who did this, or was it her mother getting an education?”

I'd personally wager on the latter. We have plenty of studies on the topic of "being educated increases the average education level of your children."
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IMF 2014:

4	Germany	3,859,547
5	United Kingdom	3,056,499

That's about 25%

Besides, tens of millions aren't really a huge amount at a national level. Roughly £1 per working-person.

I'll happily testify that Her Maj. has provided at least 1GBP of entertainment value each year of my life so far -- so it's still a net gain in my eyes ;)
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This post is an attempt to apply rationality to a situation which is highly emotional and therefore irrational. The author's description of how he fires demonstrates a complete lack of empathy in a situation in which the person being fire needs it. It's like breaking up or getting a divorce, it's going to be ugly no matter what you do, the best thing you can do, even if you are firing, is to accept the situation is bad, and that you do need to try to connect with the person on some level.
Discussion: How much traffic should my website handle?
How much traffic should a small website be able to handle before experiencing degradation?

For larger websites a flat +100% above peaktime traffic (or something like that) might work, but if I'm getting 50 daily visitors it doesn't make much sense (because getting double that can happen fairly often and is easy to optimise for).

I guess this is a "What's the optimum level to scale for" question, any opinions?
slightly less Haskell :)

https://gist.github.com/Chronial/e091dc5deb9234a2a7a1
I always wondered who is using MorphOS and why does so. Also, how is it in a day to day usage, does somebody develop on that platform, how big is the community and so on.
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Please, tell us how those are obstacles. I am intrigued.
The bug is fixed now. ;) You can select the output format via command line.
If you could do iOS app, this would be very interesting.
Does your Android or iPhone show ads related to the OS (and not in Apps)?

I agree we should be careful, but it's not like you'll be flooded with ads.
... Obama [...] became the first president to write a line of code ...

Wasn't the Dictator of Singapore earlier with his Sudoku?

This is a ridiculous stunt, and it sets the wrong accents. Coding is being hyped while the people who actually keep us alive and in good condition work 3 jobs and can't afford health insurance.

Meantime, Obama destroys the Constitution and betrays the People of the U.S. to the NSA and their ilk like none did before. I think I'm getting sick.
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Curiously, I did not see a nod to Doug Lenat's Cyc project. Similar idea: encode a whole bunch of common sense semantic relations about the real world, and then you can explore the connections. There's an open source version still available.

http://opencyc.org

http://cyc.com
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I like:

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Are there any other examples of British whistleblowers who broke the Official Secrets Act and were pardoned?

I can't imagine that David Cameron is going to pardon this and 'make a mockery' of both the British Navy and the OSA.

This is not my opinion I hasten to add, but the British government tends to be pretty militant when it cones to this kind of thing. The OSA is treated as 'sacrosanct'.

The ex-MI5 officer David Shayler had a similar situation, when he released the information about the state sponsored assassination attempt on Libya's Gadaffi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shayler

At the trial Shayler represented himself, claiming that
the Official Secrets Act was incompatible with the Human
Rights Act and that it was not a crime to report a crime
although these arguments were dismissed by the court with
the latter being ruled irrelevant. Shayler's defence
attempted to argue that there were no other avenues to
pursue his concerns with the service and its performance.
The judge ruled that while this was true it was irrelevant.
The judge instructed the jury to return a guilty verdict
and that the House of Lords had ruled in another case that
a defendant could not argue that he had revealed information
in the public interest. After more than three hours of
deliberation the jury found him guilty.

In November 2002 he was sentenced to 6 months in prison,
of which he served three weeks in Belmarsh prison and just
under five weeks in Ford Open Prison, with the four months
served on remand in France being taken into consideration.
If you said what language you're working in, it might be easier for me to understand why you wouldn't use inheritance.
This assumes that reasons exist to fire someone like "Attitude or Judgement failures" (whatever that exactly means). Last time I was fired because someone didn't like my visage. I guess many layoffs apart from economic crises fall into this category.
It probably isn't in every case but my wife is passionate about it and treats it as a full time job. She takes our daughters out to social groups, meetups, farms, gymnastics, swimming.. every day. There's nothing wrong with daycare (my eldest went half-time for a year for the social opportunities and because it's free in the UK ;-)) but a full-time parent can provide even more variety and social opportunities with the right resources and the right community around them.

One unexpected upside is my wife spends so much time in the community it has really extended our circle of friends. The biggest downside, however, is I still get to enjoy half the chores because my wife is rarely home in the daytime(!) ;-)
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It was an original, exciting, and ground breaking product in a market that had plenty of unoriginal, boring players.

See also MP3 Players and smartphones. Both markets looked boring and well-trodden until Apple blew fresh air into them.

The key to this kind of success is finding a segment that is currently niche but won't be for ever. Cloud storage, mobile internet messaging, portable MP3s, portable Internet -- all potential mass markets that were kept niche because the products in the market didn't have mass appeal.
Yes, of course. But that is not part of the rational model.

The rational model is much, much simpler, which is why it is inadequate. Which is the whole point of the article.

According to the rational model, the best you can ever hope to do is give your mother a gift of utility X, but most likely you will give her one of less than X. Your mother being rational can always choose to buy the thing with the most utility to her and therefore it is better to give her cash.

All the other things you are adding are part of what is called behavioural economics. That doesn't mean they are irrational, or even not rational.

But in economic theory, it is fairly new addition, and it is not incorporated throughout economic theory.

But the nomenclature stays.
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Logarithmic number systems could offer even greater improvement(100x over gpu), if you're willing to live with more errors and/or invest some time in fixing them:

http://www.gwern.net/docs/2010-bates.pdf
Thank you for the explanation. I didn't know about FC.

This should have been made very clear at the beginning of the article.
Ooo, I can do that in Perl 6 too.

#!/usr/bin/env perl6

sub MAIN(*@filename) {
for @filename -> $file {
my $bag = $file.IO.slurp.words.Bag;
say "$file: { [+] $bag.values } words";
CATCH { default { say "Unable to count words in $file"; } }
}
}
Strange alternatives at times... What was the real purpose of the experiment ?
Because CNN is awful news company.
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It's not about economics. It's about foresight.

If you are working on something that will grow big 10 years in the future (like AI), and it takes you only 6 to get there, why can't that be a success?
Or maybe technical tradings are no better than random ones.
Axact has given an official response. Read it here http://www.techjuice.pk/axacts-official-response-to-new-york...

According to the response this article is baseless and Axact has threatened to pursue this case through court.
Nobody will care for or about a child more than that child's mother (barring psychological abnormalities in the mother). Father a close second.

Even the best daycare is going to devote only a fraction of the instruction/attention to any individual child.

If your approach as a parent is to give "the kid" ice cream and electronic distractions, I think you should seriously reevaluate your priorities.
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I wrote out the 4 possible coin flips and expected to try to work it out more or less by brute force but once I looked at the possibilities the answer came to me and seemed obviously correct at once. Brains are weird. Just because I am one doesn't mean I have the faintest clue why or how it does things.
The speed is a serious downside.

Go on vacation for two weeks? You get to go on another vacation while you wait for your monorepo to update. Similarly, good luck ever trying to work from a coffee shop -- at the very least you probably have 50mb of updates because everyone in the company is committing code all the time.
I wonder how could you gather a huge _domain name_ list.

I guess using DNS, or by query some engine, like google, or archive.org

is there a service somewhere?
No, my Symbian Belle doesn't show any ads. And it doesn't call software "apps" :D

By modern smartphone dictionary, whatever the car shows in its HUD is also an "app", so I don't see a reason why it wouldn't show ads there, especially once they add (I think they did already) support for installing downloadable applications.

I just don't see the benefits outweighing the risks when it comes to massive corporations like car makers.
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I am curious why you think a 22 year old on near minimum wage cares more about engaging with your daughter than you and your wife?
I have three children aged 10, 9 and 6. I work and my wife stays home with the kids. I don't pretend to know what is right for everyone and their kids but I found your comment oddly disturbing.

When I'm home with my three kids, my instinct is to think of the skills that will aid them later in life and work on that through various levels of play. Often that's sports - practicing basketball, baseball or whatever sport they happen to be doing at the time. Other times that's academics where if I know they're having a problem with sight words or multiplication I will work on that with them. Sometimes it's just playing video games together.

Looking back on being a father I think to the things that they do on a daily basis and remember, "My wife and I taught them to do that." All the time spent working with them on crawling, walking, talking and everything since then has created fantastic memories I wouldn't trade for anything.
And it's definitely not a good idea to run a bot from there.
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Looks very interesting in concept, as I see a lot of folks using dropcams for similar functions, this could be a clever upgrade -- though Amazon reviews are bad, that's probably going to keep me away.

Web site feedback -- there's a bit of a trend in startup/product websites to not share enough detail. Here's a few questions I had, since I see company folks replying, I'll just share here.

On the website, I'd consider addressing do doorbell notifications happen without the application open (i.e. can it send text messages?), I assume video is uploaded into s3, how can video be browsed and how is it retained, and how do replacement batteries work? What is the average cloud recording cost for a year? Is there a notification the battery needs tobe replaced?. I'd also be interested in what happens if ring goes out of business or if it depends on any cloud services - does the device still work, etc. With cars frequently driving in front of the camera, do those get recorded as new events (or worse, send events, or still worse, text alerts?), or can the "zone" be configured in the camera? Also, how is the device mounted? What does it do in the event WiFi blinks out (will it reconnect)? Can it do WPA?

EDIT: see some install instructions here: https://ring.com/installation
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rayiner might not be in a country that pays minimum wage for daycare. (Some countries don't even have a minimum wage, and some even pay their daycarers decent money.)
My first thought was...wait that looks like Forth. And sure enough your post uses Forth. I hadn't heard the term "concatenative programming" before so I guess I learned something new :)

Forth is certainly one of the languages that has wooed me (or more precisely it has wooed me what cool ideas were built with it). Pretty much every CCC used to have some nifty hardware+Forth project on display (I remember crazy pendulums)
"it is difficult to know whether a mother who worked caused her daughter to work, or whether other factors were more influential" - reminds me of the "An Eleanor is 100 times more likely to go to Oxford than a Jade" study from last year, i.e. the names themselves might not cause the difference but rather other factors which the names represent.
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You are violating DRY principle. Copied code, with minor variation, spread out through a codebase is, seriously, the root of all evil.
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As a counter-argument: I think that using a monorepo encourages a steady and careful movement of API deprecation, which is actually healthier than semver. In fact, I'll contend that semver is nothing more than an effort to bring monorepo-like bug fixes to environments that can't otherwise have monorepo-like management.

Here's the thing: if all the code is in a single repo, it's really easy for me to find all users of a given function. This means that, if I need to alter the behavior of a function, I can sanely pursue any of three options:

1. Know for a fact I can alter the behavior without impacting
anyone.
2. Refactor across the whole code base in one shot.
3. Deprecate the API and provide a replacement immediately,
then work with teams to get off the deprecated API.

In all three cases, I can trivially know exactly what I'm impacting and make a decision on how I want to impact it. As a bonus, not only can I much more directly control deprecation times, but it's dramatically less likely that one of my client programs keeps deploying with an outdated, insecure/buggy version of my library.

In my view, the whole point of semver is handling situations wherein I cannot do that. For example, if I publish a library on GitHub, it's simply not reasonable for me to know who's using my library and why. Thus, semver provides a contract between me and you: since I can't know what you're doing, I promise not to do certain things with my library so that you can use it with some confidence. But there is a cost here: it's harder for you to track upstream, it's harder for me to know who's still using what in the older library, and it's harder for me to figure out how I can help people upgrade.

I'm emphatically not saying semver is bad, but I am saying that it's deliberately compensating for source code federated across many repos. A properly managed monorepo keeps you from having to worry about it.
You see it not as problem, because user don't see you (your sites). As IPv4 are getting rare, many share the same IP. So it's really a bad practice to ban IP for a longer period.
"In a new study of 50,000 adults in 25 countries, daughters of working mothers completed more years of education, were more likely to be employed and in supervisory roles and earned higher incomes" - TLDR, children will imitate what you do, not what you tell them to do. This is good for certain values of good (depending on how you define a 'good' adult).

The title of the article (Mounting Evidence of Advantages for Children of Working Mothers) seems to define having a career as an advantage, but is it really?
Very generally ,both bus clock speed and bus power(per bit) are proportional to the parasitic capacitor that's formed between any two bus wires which is proportional to their length.

This is because every new bit on the bus needs to charge this parasitic capacitor and this takes time and power.
You mean the PM of Singapore? Anyway, they are obviously referring to POTUS's only. (You can bet eg Dr Angela Merkel wrote some code in her time as well.)
They ones I've seen have built-in driers.