skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusingly, every startup I've joined, I've joined effectively in the middle of it running headlong into the ground. In fact, these startups were either drastically misspending their remaining cash in the bank (and hiring me in the first place was part of that misspending), or they were hiring me because the original engineering lead had already seen the blood in the water and quit.

The annoying thing is that, because of this pattern (paycheques always evaporating, etc.), it's been really hard to get paid, so for the longest time I've had no savings, and was thus forced to stay at these jobs for the money... which they don't have. Kind of a vicious circle.
I can see both sides of this. Raymond is obviously an outstanding individual, especially when you consider some of the other things he's done: http://plancanada.ca/page.aspx?pid=6613

On the other hand I'm not convinced of the novelty of the use of fins to direct the flow of conditioned air, and I can assure you that there are multiple companies whose entire business is making better air filtration and circulation systems for aircraft, so I'm fairly unimpressed by the article's assertion that few people are working on it (few people in the industry are working on it relative to problems such as safety and propulsion, but I'm not entirely convinced that's a bad thing either)
I think number one reason of its success are themes and plugins.
Ask HN: What toys inspired you? What inspires your children?
I am interested in educational toys, games, books or general life experiences.
> expensive part of the buyout was calculated basically by #users<some price>

I bet this had nothing to do with user data, but with user acquisition cost.

if company spends $10 on marketing and $15 on R&D per new user every quarter, then paying #users$10 when buying a dying competitor is a bargain.
Rombertik destroys the MBR to prevent unauthorized use of the malware
Most points made here are quite valid, especially around the burritos and all the obnoxious pretender-preneurs.

I too live in the valley, and although it is a great place to live and excellent place to raise a family, the cost of living is so prohibitive, even with the high salaries. At the current growth rate of housing and related markets, with almost no end in sight, plan on your cost of living consistently going up 20-30% a year.

Sure it's hard to beat having one finger on the pulse of things, but it comes a high cost, which makes it hard to validate for many. If you do decide to make the jump, I'd make sure that your long game plan mostly sussed out. Most important, know what you expect out of moving anywhere, don't do it blindly like many, including myself have done. Though that said I don't regret it at all.

I vote telecommute for a company here and jet-setting in on demand.
If I ruled the world: "Oh you don't trust technology and aren't vaccinated? Fine, don't get in that metal tube and fly at 500 miles per hour."
I freelance, and I figure a lot more employer checking happens there: making sure they aren't going to outright scam you, run, try to ask you to do illegal things, etc.
The design is more energy efficient than a quadcopter.
Like how this week they interviewed a black man who when asked if his young daughter's nascent understanding of the history of racial relations in this country might alienate some of their white acquaintances and he replied "I don't really care about the emotions of the white man in this country; perhaps they should spend some time thinking about things they enjoy that no one else in this nation can."

That's not daring to present a viewpoint at which the show's white bread audience might bristle? What about the show that was generously interpreted as positing that perhaps certain individuals were on disability insurance because they had been left behind by the economy and this isn't a judgment of them but rather of our lack of any other option for those individuals? The not-generous interpretation was that it was shining a light on disability fraud, essentially punching down. I guess that wasn't a challenging issue for the listeners, either.

Or the whole debacle with Daisey. Yeah, they just glossed right over that.
It depends how social you are. The value of being here is being able to go to social and networking events, and hanging out with others in the industry, where you'll make serendipitous connections and discoveries.

If you're not into socializing, then you aren't missing out on anything.
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Never gave them a fucking scrap of data, in fact I actively gave them bad but valid enough looking information so they (and now whoever they sold it to) will waste time and money.
That's how bootstrapped startups work. Bootstrapped startups have wonderfully aligned incentives that way—there's only as much cash as there is traction, and it will run out the moment you do anything stupid.

VC startups, on the other hand, can chug along "on fumes" for years, neither gaining traction nor running out of money, every once in a while doing a new investment round or merging with some other zombie startup.
The pathological liars and self-promoters are usually not as common among developer communities.

Now, if you're a founder, you'll see many other founders and VCs whose actions align with those characteristics.
iOS WebSocket: Old Fashioned, New Style
Apple Watch: leave your iPhone in your pocket
Offhand, I'd be more worried about the interference. 1.5Tb/s is an large amount of bandwidth to have running in close proximity along adjacent connectors.
Thanks for the updated links! I totally committed the sin of linking to the first thing from google that looked approximately right.
I agree with your general idea, more than half an hour is not posible with the current technology. But I think this conversion is wrong:

> let's just round that to 10 m/s^2. 10 m/s^2 100g is 1 N, which means it requires 1 W of power to keep that battery aloft*

To transform some force into power, you need to multiply it by a speed (m/s). My favorite example is that a brick resting on a table can "hover" without spending any power (for a weird definition of "hovering").

I think the correct calculation involves the density of the air, to estimate the speed of the air that must be pushed down.
No, genuine comment. Those are reasonable questions, and the answer "spend a weekend reading a book" isn't great.
My family and I just recently moved away from SF. We lived there for close to five years. I still consult remotely. My network is valuable.

Yes, it's worth spending some time there. Especially if you can find a company that is successful in an area that interests you.

Some companies have fantastic engineering processes but still die because they don't meet a market need. Some company's have hyper-growth but an atrocious engineering culture. Tons have neither and die horrible deaths. A very small few have positives on both sides.

If you're considering, be deliberate in your choice. Want to learn about growing a company, try to get on a company that's showing signs of fantastic growth (IFTTT, We Heart It). If you want to learn engineering processes, choose a company that's incredibly opinionated about their engineering processes and learn from them (Pivotal Labs, Carbon Five).

Please for the love of god, don't just choose whoever will take you.
They'll sell it to someone else for more.
Regarding this, does anyone have tips on how best to do curses layouts that support different window sizes? I'm working on a procedurally generated console game in my free time, using Python + curses, and this is an issue I run into as well.

I've been considering taking some time to try to write some sort of "fluid" or "dynamic" layout framework for curses (i.e. specify percents for width / height, and have it automatically expand). Seems like a giant pain though...
Everytime I visit California, as a Chicagoan, I'm a little put out by the really ugly displays of materialism and general ostentatious attitudes. To each his own I guess, but if someone grew up with that, I could see them not even noticing it.

For example, I find all the characters on HBO's Entourage to be insufferable and self-obsessed douchebags, but to some of the people I've talk to in the film business, they seem to love those characters and deeply relate with them.
Should have mentioned he was more of a friend-of-a-friend and he also mentioned to me that he does see acquaintances.
Awesome, I wasn't aware of "hacker houses". I've always wanted to visit (move to?) SF, but the rents are a huge turn-off.

I'll check them out right after graduation.
I'm not sure whether I'd consider it morbid and sad or helpful to constantly wear a bracelet reminding myself that I'm going to die and might at any point in time become hopelessly disabled.
I think of most of the development of drones as being what Chris Anderson calls "the peace dividend of the smartphone wars" [0]. Most of the components -- batteries, processors, radios, cameras -- have benefited enormously from the billion smartphones made every year. Unfortunately, of that list, batteries have improved the least.

[0] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/29/epiphanies-from-chris-an...
I like the content (idea) but I wonder if it was just me that didn't like the chosen words, there isn't any mention to the grieving process, making everything sound too cold and materialistic:

In 2009 my husband was killed in an accident. In the following hours, weeks, and months I was shocked by the number of things we had left disorganized or ignored.
>The culture in "silicon valley" is toxic. People are obnoxious and narcissistic; many are pathological liars and self-promoters.

This hasn't been my experience at all.
Wise business decision for wordpress.

Free ecommerce framework + lots of paid sub-plugins for years to come.

This will pay for itself.
maybe someone with unmet basic needs would make a better use of the Internet then the average Facebook user, but that's just a guess.
In Australia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526673
Congrulations! This is a great step forward for the community and for both parties involved.

As for WooThemes - will we start seeing proper documentation [1] when products are released? I've been bit in the past by something being released by WooThemes, and documentation taking another half year up to year to follow.

[1] http://www.omerkorner.com/2014/09/wheres-api-reference-wooco...
Of course, but it is in my opinion a consequence of the stable plugin/theme api wordpress has (point 3)
Self contained packages are not the problem, individualized libraries shipped along with those packages are.

How does PBI handle minor library version differences then? If one package provides and uses mylib-1.3.1 and another provides and uses mylib-1.3.5, how is that distinguished as the core library level (the plain .so file)? My understanding of what Clear Linux is attempting allows this level of granularity to ensure a package (really an amalgamation of individual packages in the sense of most current unixy distros) is functional and updated as a whole.
I think most people looking into deploying a production system using containers will find themselves interested in evaluating the "full package", and also find themselves interested in more than just the main selling points. That's where my comment is coming from. YMMV I suppose!
Books: Carl Sagan. Illustrated encyclopedias.

Toys: Whatever I had would be dwarfed by any smartphone available today or even a Raspberry Pi.

Life Experiences: Doing my own (tiny kid-style) startup.
Thank you for posting this!

We've done similar performance analysis at Khan Academy by using the navigation timing API and throwing the data into graphite. The most interesting part of this post for me is seeing that the numbers (server side times, median client times) are roughly the same as ours (http://i.imgur.com/wKglMTc.png)

One thing that I see in both GitHub's data and our data is this daily-periodic increase in both server and client times. Is that just load? We had theories that the clientside spikes may be caused by users in less CDN covered areas, or an increase in mobile usage, but were never fully satisfied by those explanations.
Been using Linux since 1998. GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell have been my favorite DE since then.
Smart and stupid are not opposites. In fact, they happily co-exist in the same brain.

Thinking that you can avoid stupid people by only hiring smart people is naive, and misses this basic truth.
I think a deeper discussion of what it means to be a technology company and the focus of bay area companies would be a hijack here. But, very briefly, if you view Google and Facebook as "technology companies", we disagree. The closest analogue to Google in terms of business model is a company now called Dex but for decades known as R. H. Donnelley and Sons, which published telephone books and sold advertising in them in the form of the Yellow Pages. Facebook's best analogue is probably a reality television show production company. These companies and many of their brethren are not in the business of developing and marketing new technology. They are in the media business and any technology they happen to develop is a sideshow. It may be used internally and never shared or it may be made open source for any of a number of (usually sound) business reasons, but the development and marketing of that technology is neither the company's primary business nor a significant source of its revenue. If you don't believe me, read the 10-Ks. You are what your revenue says you are.

There are many, many other examples. If you look at a random sampling of promotional posts to HN, you will see a cross-section of the entire global economy: retailers (lots of 'em), restaurants, media, manufacturing, and yes, technology. It's fair to say that a lot of people in the bay area are interested in technology, but most of their employers are properly placed in other sectors based on their business models, revenue sources, and other objective metrics. The development of new technology for sale as a business model has been in decline for a long time and is far from dominant in the bay area today.

Note that this is not necessarily good or bad. It just is, and reflects a transition among a group of people from developing new technologies to exploiting that technology in more traditional business models.
Instead of elections, let's use lotteries
It's at least partially our fault. (And basically entirely so, really :) ) Gotta get on that rel=canonical at least. Old search results are a big problem :/
Maybe not as a developer, but as a founder, I imagine you will experience this culture.
Drupal has that added "benefit" of not being the least bit intuitive to use in any way shape or form unless your brain is wired a certain way. I've experienced this, and have met at least a dozen people of varied skills who feel the same.

So Drupal, like Oracle, is a consultant's dream. Your clients will have to keep coming back to you because the system is so damn complicated to do really basic things.
> It's an horrible peace of software, with horrible PHP code 4.x style, a db schema only a beginner could have come up with and an ecosystem with a lot of trash(not even talking about the admin which is hideous ). Yet it's a blazing success in the CMS space, because of 3 things that are insanely overlooked by other CMS developers

You've answered your own question :-D

When you say WordPress is horrible, what you mean is that it's horrible in terms of various things that matter to you -- things like a clean database schema and freedom from legacy code. But what's most important to you is not necessarily what's most important to everyone else, and it turns out that for lots of people ease of use and simple installation on cheap commodity hosting are much more important than what things look like under the hood.

We as developers tend to forget this a lot -- we look at popular products that are technically funky and think "how on earth can that be popular?" But the answer is usually just a reminder that we're not really representative of the market for software in general; we care about things that nobody else does, and are willing to put up with pain points nobody else would.
You're getting killed here, but you're right.
Well, what do you hope to gain by bringing the offer to your current company, other than to strong-arm them into a pay increase?

If you aren't intending to leave, don't bring them the offer.
Not the OP, but in the golden age of Valley tech, say when Hewlett and Packard were still building great O-scopes full time, the dominant business model was "let's build this really useful apparatus and then sell it."

Today, the dominant business model is "let's find a way to get a lot of people's attention and then sell the right to show them propaganda."

Obviously these models are not even approximately equivalent and will attract/create very different ecosystems.
This is a subject where it is often difficult to break through to people. Everyone fears death, and most of us live with a kind of denial about the fact that we will die.

There are different tactics that can be used to try to get past the denial. Stating things bluntly is a worthwhile tactic. Merely mentioning facts is another possible tactic, but you run into the problem that people would prefer to screen out any information about such a painful topic.

This a subject where shock tactics can be justified, if they manage to get people to think about the fact that, yes, they will die someday.
I can comment based on my observation (lately shared by many) that most of the medical literature is bunk and my experience participating in more than 100 autopsies which tells me that 30% is absurdly high, 15% is too high and the range reported is bizarrely large. In those over 100 autopsies I recall only two surprises. Mostly we learned nothing the clinicians didn't know. Occasionally we found something unknown that wouldn't have altered treatment or course. My experience was that the autopsies were overwhelmingly uninformative.
Public radio is a mixed bag. It's better than most but I dislike the pretense of being better, because in my view they are only marginally better when presenting news.

One of the things I'm most disenchanted with is how on uncontroversial things they'll offer an opinion. "lack of oversight is bad". But on controversial issues they tend to appear neutral (offering no opinion) while at the same time couching the questions and loading their questions. So when it comes to controversial subjects they take a position, but they try to hide it, which, to me, is more perverse than the blatant left and blatant right, who at least aren't pretending to be objective. That's to say nor, while marginally better, comparatively, isn't all that good and show bias in their reporting and choice of news.

For example, the strife in some inner cities was cast as police vs population when in reality government is at greatest fault. They put the police there to mop up after their failed or non existent policies to better peoples desperate lives. So the police are their last desperate attempt at controlling a situation for which they fell asleep at the wheel then blast police for the situation.
It needs to be security-hole compatible.
FWIW: I have found the same in Chicago :)
These are all subjective things in practice, so ...
The buddhist in me (he's in there somewhere) tells me it could be quite liberating.
I LOVED Tonka trucks when I was a kid. I spent so much time out in a dirt box by myself playing for hours. I can't say how they inspired me, but for some reason when you ask for toys that inspired me that is what popped in my head immediately.
Working for a "major tech company" would insulate you from what Silicon Valley is like, I imagine. There's valley VC/startup culture, and then there's company culture, and they're quite different.
Should your startup team use Meteor? SWOT analysis.
I've always wondered why this type of information hasn't been attached to a driver's license much like organ donorship is in many states. Seems like a prime system to keep such a thing organized and available.
TRICKS CRIMINALS USE TO ROB
I am working a lot with wordpress lately and let me tell you, it blows my mind too when I see so many clients/businesses using it even though as developers, we see "shitty core with that db schema" as you called it. But then if you continue to think about it, the reason wordpress is so successful is not just because of the ease of installation etc, it is because of the eco-system it has created. I have looked at a few closed source CMS's and in fact been thinking of building my own from scratch, but I keep going back to WP for CMS. It just works and so many clients are already using it or at least "heard" of it.

You can literally setup a decent working website in a day with WP. Want to create pages in WYSIWYG ? Done. Want to manage users ? Done. Wnat to add your social icons ? Oh, there is a plugin for that which is rated by 1000s of other clients. Want to sell stuff ? Np. Add the famous "woocommerce" plugin and you are on your way.

Ok, I made it sound simpler than it can be for users but as developers, it is absolute pleasure when I can setup a client in hours using wordpress and they are on their way.
It looks like image stabilization will be difficult with this design. The camera seems to be at the bottom of a pendulum that swings as the drone moves about.

Perhaps that's why the promo video shows very little actual footage.
It's worse than that. They don't even use the strategy's common name: civil disobedience.
You're right. We could have done a better job at documenting the REST API. We've been slowly introducing and fixing issues with the the REST API since it's debut. We never fully announced it as it was still very much a work in progress. However in WC 2.3 I'm happy to announce we've significantly improved the REST API and documentation.

Without a doubt we're also going to have many more resources joining Automattic and their talented group.
I don't think that is a truthy assessment as I just got a recruiter email in my inbox at $140k for full stack node.js. I think you can easily find both ends of the spectrum. Average seems to be about around $80-115k for most devs in LA.
Christ. Then technically it's not a good assumption today.
Huh.

That's actually really interesting.

I have this vision of a large mother UAV with long loiter times that can laser target micro UAVs at much lower altitudes.
Tech Giants Urge Obama to Reject Policies That Weaken Encryption Technology
KitchIt marketing going a bit too far with parking ticket
Or just the right amount of notoriety.
True but UTF-16 captures really a very large share of actually used code points. UTF-32 captures all of them but wastes at least 11 bit per code point, more right now because most of the code points are unassigned. It seems a good tradeoff for a lot of use cases and as you mentioned once operating on code points is no longer good enough you will have to face the issue regardless of the encoding.